PyCon Wroclaw

Meet Rimantas Zukaitis, a Lead System Architect at EIS Group with over 20 years of experience in business rules, model-driven development, and low-code tools.

At PyCon Wroclaw 2026, Rimantas will help us look beyond the usual AI optimisation tricks in his talk:
🔍 “LLM Context Profiling: what is eating up your tokens?”

AI coding agents can consume 20 to 50 times more input tokens than the output they generate. But what exactly fills their context windows? And how can we reduce token usage without sacrificing precision?

Rimantas will introduce a hands-on approach to understanding and profiling LLM context with a custom-built tool. Think of it as memory or CPU profiling, but for AI context! You’ll learn how to spot unnecessary, duplicated, and low-value information before it drives up costs, increases latency, or affects model performance.

Meet Amelia Walter-Dzikowska, a QA Team Lead and researcher with 9 years of experience in IT. With a background in human biology, she explores the intersection of psychology, management, and technology, focusing on cognitive load and digital learning environments. She’s also an advocate for neurodivergent people in tech and an experienced conference speaker and trainer.

At PyCon Wroclaw 2026, Amelia will tackle an important question in her talk:
🧠 “Managing teams in the age of AI: the hidden organisational costs”

AI tools can make our work faster, but what happens to trust, collaboration, and accountability when AI becomes part of everyday team communication? Drawing on recent research, Amelia will explore how AI-assisted work can affect team dynamics and share practical strategies for introducing AI without creating organisational chaos.

You’ll leave with a research-based checklist for building healthy AI practices, setting clear expectations, and keeping responsibility and ownership visible within your team.

Meet Adam Bobowski, a software engineer and the creator of Stario, a lightweight Python web framework. A backend developer for most of his career, Adam’s journey into full-stack development began when his wife asked him to build a web app for her. That project sparked a new passion for building frameworks, developer tools, and sharing ideas with the community.
At PyCon Wroclaw 2026, Adam will bring us both a talk and a hands-on workshop!
💡 Talk: “Building real-time collaborative applications in Python – simply, without React or WebSockets”
Discover how to build modern collaborative applications — from chats and shared editors to live dashboards — using just Python. Adam will introduce Stario and show how combining it with Datastar makes it easy to create reactive, multiplayer experiences while keeping application state on the server.
🛠 Workshop: “Server-owned realtime: building live UIs without the SPA stack”
Ready to get hands-on? In this workshop, you’ll build a working real-time collaborative UI using Stario and Datastar. You’ll explore server-owned state, HTML rendering, and Server-Sent Events (SSE), and learn when this simpler architecture is all you need — without reaching for a full SPA and WebSocket stack.
If you love Python, enjoy exploring alternative approaches to web development, or simply want to build things with less complexity, Adam’s sessions are definitely worth checking out!

Meet Aniruddha Adhikary, a Senior Software Engineer passionate about automation and workflow optimization, with open-source contributions across Mozilla, Android, and Linux.

At PyCon Wroclaw 2026, he’ll share insights from modernizing critical legacy systems in his talk:
🤖 “Your Agents (Probably) Shouldn’t Read Code”

Large codebases can overwhelm AI agents. So what if, instead of reading everything, they could zoom out to understand the architecture, explore dependency graphs, follow data flows, and dive into code only when needed?

Aniruddha will explore how to give AI agents different views of a software system, helping them tackle engineering tasks like architecture, refactoring, and documentation more effectively — with practical examples and tooling using Python.

If you’re curious about AI coding agents, software architecture, and the future of software engineering, this talk is for you!

Meet Mateusz Zaremba, Senior Application Architect at Ørsted with a background in Python, cloud technologies, and AI/ML, and Krzysztof Wilczyński, Senior DevOps Consultant specializing in Python, AWS.

Together, they’ll bring an interactive twist to PyCon Wroclaw 2026 with their talk:
🐍 “Would You Accept This PEP?”

You’ll become the language reviewers! The speakers will present real Python proposals without revealing their outcomes. You’ll hear the arguments, cast your vote – accept, reject, or request revisions – and then discover what happened next.

Expect surprising ideas, questionable syntax, clever solutions, and lively debates about what makes a good change to Python.

This isn’t about memorizing PEP numbers. It’s about exploring the trade-offs behind language design, compatibility, and the evolution of Python, and maybe reconsidering a few of your first impressions!