Announcing Our DjangoCon US 2026 Talks! | DjangoCon US 2026
Title: Announcing Our DjangoCon US 2026 Talks! | DjangoCon US 2026
URL Source: https://2026.djangocon.us/news/announcing-lineup/
Markdown Content: Skip to main contentJune 8, 2026
We are delighted to present our tutorial and talk lineup!
The final talk and tutorial schedule will be announced soon. If you haven't purchased your ticket yet, they're still on sale.
Congratulations to the presenters of the tutorials and talks below!
Talks (Monday, August 24 through Wednesday, August 26)
All talks will be available live for those with online-only tickets. They will be posted to YouTube after the conference for free.
- Abigail Afi Gbadago (website) - Polyglot Persistence with Django: When One Database Isn't Enough
- Andrew Selzer (website) - Enter the Ecosystem: Contributing to Django Open Source Projects
- Angufibo Lincoln (website) - Fail Your CI in Performance Regressions: Bringing Performance Testing to Django
- Barkha Jain - Scientists Meet Django: Building Bridges Between Research and Software
- Calvin Hendryx-Parker (mastodon, website) and Frank Wiles - Batteries vs. Speed: The Django/FastAPI Debate
- Chrissy Wainwright (website) - One URL to Rule Them All: Dynamic Landing Pages in Wagtail
- Dan Ryan (mastodon, website) - Good Conduct: How Django Modernized Its Code of Conduct
- Drishti Jain - GeoDjango at City Scale: Spatial Data for Urban Systems
- Eduardo Felipe Castegnaro - Keeping Pace with Django: Evolving Through 15 years of Updates
- Elizabeth Christensen (mastodon, website) - What's New in Postgres 18 & 19
- Jack Linke (mastodon, website) - Yes, we allow substitutions. No, we don't serve spaghetti.
- Jacob Walls - Auto-prefetching with model field fetch modes in Django 6.1
- James Stuckey Weber (mastodon, website) - But did you know the browser already does that?
- Josh Thomas (mastodon, website) - Agents All the Way Down: How AI Coding Agents Changed How I Write Django
- Karen Tracey (mastodon) - Django 6: The Most Exciting Release Ever
- Kasey Kelly - Taming Your Templates: Component-Based Frontends in Django
- Kumar Shivendu (website) - Beyond REST: Implementing the Model Context Protocol (MCP) in Django
- Leonardo Batista (website) - Scaling Django: Mastering Database Routers with AWS Aurora
- Matías Bordese - Teach Django Tasks to speak Celery: Building a Celery backend for Django Tasks
- Meagen Voss (mastodon, website) - Pragmatic AI: How to gain trust with user-centered AI adoption
- Mohammad Ahtasham ul Hassan - Breaking the Request Chain: Rethinking Service Communication in Django Systems
- Monica Oyugi (mastodon, website) - The Testing Pyramid in Practice for Django
- Natalia (mastodon) - Wishlist granted: HTMX without betraying your Django views
- Paolo Melchiorre (mastodon, website) - The Django UUID Story
- Sarah Abderemane (mastodon, website) - 50 shades of green - One contribution to the Django world
- Scott Cranfill (website) - Using Django to deliver public transit benefits securely and privately
- Tobias McNulty - Search-as-you-type for 54 Million Names: PostgreSQL + Django for Fuzzy Name Matching at Scale
- Will Vincent (mastodon, website) - Modern Django Deployments in 2026
Congratulations to all our speakers!
If you'd like to check out these talks and more, tickets are still on sale.
We hope to see you in Chicago!