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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location
PyGrunn will take place on Friday May 16th, 2025 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 200 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
Sybren Stüvel – Blender & Python: The Joy & The Struggle (keynote)
Arjan Egges – When LLMs work and when they don’t
Edzo Botjes – Securing your team, solution and company to embrace chaos
Vito Minheere – Simplified Efficiency in Python Coding
Iulia Feroli – Harry Potter and the Elastic Python Clients
Erik-Jan Blanksma – Release the KrakenD
Reinout van Rees – Ansible for server automation
Hylke Donker – Mojo: Python 4?
Marijke Luttekes – My path to becoming a Django contributor
Jeroen Stoker – Unifying Django APIs through GraphQL
Andrii Mishkovskyi – Platform Engineering: Python Perspective
Dulaj Disanayaka – StekzVFS – A Distributed Versioning File System
Laurens Weijs – Making a benchmarking system for LLMs
Kees Hink & Coen van der Kamp – Testing Django applications
Bishwas Jha – Sustainable Python Coding: A Holistic Approach
Artur Barseghyan – Writing perfect, testable documentation Restructured Text and Sphinx
Dirk Nederveen – Next level testing
Guus Klinkenberg – Improving Developer Experience and Productivity with Science
Mirko Galimberti – Kivy: Cross-platform App development for Pythonistas
Alex Dijkstra – Descriptors: Decoding the Magic
Roald Nefs – An Introduction to Hardware Hacking using Python
Mike Huls – Args, kwargs, and All Other Ways to Design Your Function Parameters
Kristy Eley – To boldly go where no server has gone before
Klemen Voncina – Let the Bot do the Talking
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.