PyOhio 2026
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Schedule

Open Spaces rooms are available during the Sat & Sun talks. All times EDT.

Friday, July 24

Black Python Devs Leadership Summit
Co-hosted pre-conference summit for Python community leaders. Separate free registration.

Saturday, July 25

Start Ballroom D Ballroom C Ballroom B Ballroom A
8:00 AM Registration Opens
9:00 AM Saturday Welcome
9:15 AM Keynote
Dr. Juliana Novic
10:00 AM Break
10:15 AM What If Voyager Launched in 2026 — and Ran Python?
Cliff Jenkins
 Python and S3 Vector Store for Inexpensive Search
Michael James Robellard
 Your VLM Is Hallucinating Your Genes
Ethan Hill
 Don't Blame the Type Checker: Finding Who Is Right When Python Type Checkers Disagree
Benedek Kaibas, Gregory M. Kapfhammer
10:45 AM Break
11:00 AM 10 Dazzling, Joyful, Astounding, Nifty, Glorious, Outstanding features in Django
Tim Schilling
 Failed Experiments in Vibe Coding
Al Sweigart
 Narrow GPU Acceleration With Python​
Cole Sutyak
 The Missing Import: Building Data Models with dbt
Carrie Minerich
11:30 AM Break
11:45 AM Textual Healing: Building Real-World Terminal UIs with Python
Eddie Cosma
 “Oh, You’re Right” Is Not a Review: Orchestrating Agentic AI That Proves What It Checked
Calvin Hendryx-Parker
 My Model Works Locally. Why Is Production Lying to Me?
Dinky Mishra
 This Is Not the NaN You Are Looking For
Dan Shernicoff
12:15 PM Lunch Break
2:15 PM Lights! 2: Electric Boogaloo
Mike McCaffrey
 In Defense of Thoughtful Testing: Rethinking Quality in the Age of AI-Generated Code
Rodrigo Silva Ferreira
 Don’t Write Polars Code with a Pandas Accent
Joram Mutenge
2:45 PM Break
3:00 PM Djangonaut Space: Mentoring Contributors, Empowering Leaders
Tim Schilling, Rachell Calhoun
 Go Hybrid - Find the Results LIKE Can't
Jamal Hansen
 Atoms to AI: Building a Quantum Capacitor Surrogate with Python and GNNs
Terry Howald
3:30 PM Break
3:45 PM Keynote
Carol Willing
4:30 PM Lightning Talks
6:00 PM Conference Space Closes

Sunday, July 26

Start Ballroom D Ballroom C Ballroom B Ballroom A
11:30 AM Registration Opens
12:00 PM Sunday Welcome
12:15 PM Break
12:30 PM Root Access: Using Python to Keep My Garden Alive
Bianca Ploss
 The LangGraph Trap: Why Your Agentic Python App Will Fail in Production
Kamal Singh Bisht
 Beyond Vibe Coding: A Spec-Driven AI Workflow for Serious Development
Benjamin Patch
1:00 PM Break
1:15 PM Python on CubeSatSim: Real Spacecraft Telemetry with a Raspberry Pi
Cliff Jenkins
 Anonymous Functions (and Other Ways to Annoy Your Coworkers)
Joe Kaufeld
 Building AI Agents in Python: A Step-by-Step Guide with Strands Agents
Morgan Willis
1:45 PM Break
2:00 PM Speeding Up Clinical Trial Analysis with Python
James Austrow
 LLM Token Healing and Regex: Free Gains You Leave on the Table
Abraham Owodunni
 Your AI Pipeline Is Burning Money and You're Calling It ‟Good Enough”
Andrew Plassard
2:30 PM Break
2:45 PM Testing the Parts You Don’t See: Pseudo-Tested Native Code in Python Libraries
Issei Hasegawa, Gregory M. Kapfhammer
 Your Data Is Too Sensitive for an API: Fine-Tuning an Open-Source LLM for Production Document Parsing
Ross Katz
 Why Your AI Model Lies: Debugging Healthcare Predictions with SHAP and Python
Krishna Mridha
3:15 PM Break
3:30 PM Keynote
Christopher Neugebauer
4:15 PM Closing Remarks
4:30 PM Conference Space Closes