pyGrunn is the “Python and friends” developer conference with a local footprint and global mindset. Firmly rooted in the open source culture, it aims to provide the leaders in advanced internet technologies a platform to inform, inspire and impress their peers.
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schedule
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For pyGrunn 2026
Want to inform, impress, and inspire hundreds of enthusiastic Pythonistas? Fill out the RFP!
location
pyGrunn will take place on Friday May 8th, 2026 at Forum Groningen in Groningen.
Forum Groningen is a cultural living and working environment. A place where artists, creative people, entrepreneurs and enthusiasts can meet. A perfect spot for pyGrunn! It is a 10-minute walk from the central train station and in the heart of the city.
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Sponsoring
pyGrunn is made possible through the efforts of volunteers, speakers and participants, but also by the financial support of a growing number of sponsors. With your contribution pyGrunn has become the largest and most visited Python Conference in the Netherlands.
With more than 400 participants and international speakers, for
one entire day, Groningen can call itself the Python capital of the Netherlands. Your contribution would give pyGrunn a solid financial base in order to achieve everything
mentioned above.
With your contribution, we can:
- Keep the ticket prices low;
- Provide a decent location to host pyGrunn;
- Reimburse the travel and accommodation costs of our international speakers;
- Provide catering;
- Stream talks live for those at home;
- And of course print our extremely popular limited edition t-shirts!
Sponsor Packages
Bronze (€1.000)
Silver (€2.500)
Gold (€5.000)
Kryptonite (€8.000)
blast from the Past
2025
Daniele Procida – Keynote: Homo ludens, Python and play
Aivars Kalvans – QuerySet.explain(): make it make sense
Sven Vintges, Sietse van der Laan & Berco Beute – Python/pyGrunn & Friends AMA
Pascal Widdershoven – Staying relevant – impact of AI on software engineering
Theo Hupkens – Python and MicroPython in the classroom
Jochem Kleine – Roads: Building a serverless character profile creation pipeline using Python and AI
Artur Barseghyan – Quick prototyping in Python
Dima Baranetskyi – Simple Streaming in Python Ecosystem
Ard Timmerman & Jelle Klaver – Improve your code one loop at a time using LLMs
Teake Nutma – Forecasting Pension Cash Flows with NumPy
Tien Thai –Industrial-Strength Python:Engineering Production Systems for the Renewable Energy Sector
Kees Hink – Django Template LSP: Smarter Completions for Django Templates
Roald Nefs – Python on Wheels: Hacking Automotive Systems
Aivars Kalvans – How to solve a Python mystery
Natalia Ziemba-Jankowska – Traps of Pandas
Alex de Vries – Make LLMs Fun Again: MCP the usb-c for LLMs
Reinout van Rees – Simple prefect setup: data science taskrunner
Ansgar Grüne – Eiffel Tower – Paris + Groningen = ?
Ivor Bosloper – Cloud Native Geospatial formats for Field Boundaries
Bart Dorlandt – Repos are like children, parenting 101
Mark Boer – Keeping your Python in check
Peter Odding – Beating rsync using Python (pdiffcopy)
Marcel-Jan Krijgsman – Leveling up your teams with guilds
Wieneke Keller, Sebastian Lenartowicz – Python on a tractor
code of conduct
At pyGrunn, we expect everyone to behave with common decency and we expect that everyone is treated with equal respect. pyGrunn staff will take any measures necessary to uphold these golden rules of life.
For details see the complete code of conduct here.