DjangoCon US 2025
2025-09-08..2025-09-12
Chicago, IL, United States
[DjangoCon US 2008, DjangoCon US 2010, DjangoCon US 2014, DjangoCon US 2015, DjangoCon US 2016, DjangoCon US 2017, DjangoCon US 2018, DjangoCon US 2019, DjangoCon US 2021, DjangoCon US 2023, DjangoCon US 2024, DjangoCon US 2025]
as the organisers put it
DjangoCon US 2025 is a Python and Django focused web development conference in Chicago, Illinois.
who it's for
Django developers, backend engineers, site reliability engineers, devops engineers, Wagtail developers, open source maintainers, community organizers
topics
GeneratedField computed columns; Django migrations safety; Postgres concurrent index strategies; vector semantic search integration; Wagtail content modelling patterns; deployment automation with django-simple-deploy; GitOps and Kubernetes deployments; Django for machine learning model serving; free-threaded Django performance modes; Django governance and community building; AIVAF request-filtering middleware; Postgres development environments
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| The X’s and O’s of Open Source with ShotGeek with Kudzayi Bamhare | Kudzayi Bamhare | 25m |
A passion project becomes an open-source product in 2024 that combines Django with the NBA API to stop made-up stats, deploys a prototype, creates… | ||
| Building a Wagtail CMS Experience that Editors Love with Michael Trythall | Michael Trythall | 45m |
Shows concrete content modeling: use Wagtail pages models snippets, map nouns and relationships, and capture requirements in spreadsheets or diagrams. Enforce… | ||
| Django's GeneratedField | Paolo Melchiorre | 35m |
GeneratedField lands in Django 5.0 and computes column values in the database using SQL expressions, with concrete examples on SQLite and PostgreSQL: geometry… | ||
| Peaceful Django Migrations with Efe Öge | Efe Öge | 33m |
Explains two concrete causes of deployment outages: schema-version mismatch during rolling deploys (old servers writing rows the new code doesn’t expect) and… | ||
| Django Without Borders: A 10-Year Journey of Open... with Ngazetungue Muheue | Ngazetungue Muheue | 27m |
Ten years of building Django and Python communities in Namibia focuses on concrete outcomes: 5,000+ participants and 50% women, education day for high‑school… | ||
| Beyond Filters: Modern Search with Vectors in Django with Kumar Shivendu | Kumar Shivendu | 25m |
Claims a production-ready vector search pipeline that handles billion-scale search, shows an actual integration with Django via a Django semantic search… | ||
| Evolving Django: What We Learned | Jeffrey A. Clark | 24m |
Claim: Django is not a SQL framework. A production-ready Django MongoDB backend exists that hooks Django indirection points, runs the Django test suite… | ||
| Beyond Rate Limiting: Building an Active Learning Defense... with Aayush Gauba | Aayush Gauba | 32m |
An open source Django native firewall named AIVAF learns from real traffic and ships as middleware: header checks that stop 90% of bad bots, IP blacklists with… | ||
| Easy, Breezy, Beautiful... Django Unit Tests with Colleen Dunlap | Colleen Dunlap | 32m |
Concrete techniques and outcomes, not abstractions: unit tests use Django.test.TestCase and setupTestData to speed runs, Factory Boy and Django model factories… | ||
| Community Update: Django Software Foundation with Thibaud Colas | Thibaud Colas | 16m |
New DSF developments include a new fellow and working groups forming for social media events diversity inclusion and a proposed AI team plus board elections… | ||
| Keynote: Django Reimagined For The Age of AI with Marlene Mhangami | Marlene Mhangami | 45m |
AI is already a massive force — ChatGPT hits ~100 million users in under two months and ~5.2 billion monthly visits — and LLMs behave as statistical… | ||
| A(i) Modest Proposal with Mario Munoz | Mario Munoz | 25m |
A riff on Swift that actually proposes selling and eating junior devs as satire, backed by specific counts—120,000 developers produced yearly, 20,000 reserved… | ||
| Django as a Database Documentation Tool: The Hidden Power... with Ryan Cheley | Ryan Cheley | 24m |
Introduces Django 4.2 features that write model DB comment and DB table comment into Postgres via migrations so documentation lives in the schema; demonstrates… | ||
| Lightning Talks (Wednesday) with Andrew Mshar | Andrew Mshar | 38m |
A tiny Django app that shuffles agenda items and “pulls them out of a hat” actually exists and runs in production; it uses vanilla CSS, HTMX and Hyperscript… | ||
| What a Decade! with Timothy Allen | Timothy Allen | 44m |
A university runs a repeatable DevTap process with a 200-question audit and about 20 engineers prototyping three finalists in two weeks, and the result picks… | ||
| Hidden Dangers Of AI In Developer Workflows: Navigating... with Dwayne McDaniel | Dwayne McDaniel | 27m |
Shows a real supply-chain incident where an NX library contained a supply chain prompt injection that exfiltrated keys, cites GitGuardian research finding… | ||
| Panel Discussion: Two Decades of Django with Velda Kiara | Velda Kiara | 58m |
A twenty-year retrospective that actually helps: concrete numbers and projects, not platitudes. Notes that 52% install via DRF and that the deployment story is… | ||
| Closing Remarks with Keanya Phelps | Keanya Phelps | 11m |
Closing remarks focus on community outcomes not promises: lists of sponsors named down to Six Feet Up, Revs and MongoDB and Authentic JBS, Lincoln Loop… | ||
| Opening Remarks (Day 3) with Keanya Phelps | Keanya Phelps | 10m |
Land acknowledgement and a firm harassment‑free code of conduct with anonymized followup procedures set the tone; logistics specify lunch after lightning talks… | ||
| Opening Remarks (Day 2) with Peter Grandstaff | Peter Grandstaff | 11m |
Brief logistics and community specifics: the code of conduct includes an email for confidential reports (conductjangokon.us) and named contacts for followup; a… | ||
| Keynote: All The Ways To Use Django with Zags | Benjamin "Zags" Zagorsky | 45m |
Claims that Django is modular not monolithic and shows concrete patterns: use Django React components to embed built React components and pass Django template… | ||
| Opening Remarks (Day 1) with Keanya Phelps | Keanya Phelps | 14m |
Opening remarks cover logistics and community rules not abstract promises: a land acknowledgement for Chicago, a strict code of conduct with reporting… | ||
| Community Update: Django Events Foundation North America with Peter Grandstaff | Peter Grandstaff | 09m |
DEFNA handles conference logistics and liability, marks a 10-year milestone, and reports concrete needs: more volunteers, organizers, venue leads, and sponsors… | ||
| ow to Enjoy Debugging in Production with Karen Tracey | Karen Tracey | 26m |
Argues that debugging in production becomes manageable by design not mystique, citing concrete failures and fixes: XML invalidated by ASCII control chars and… | ||
| Level Up Your Django Frontend: Integrate Web Components into Django Templates with Vue | Mike Hoolehan | 44m |
A demo Django app that rolls tabletop dice shows concrete steps: add Vue single‑file components, cross‑compile them into Vue SFC → native web components with… | ||
| Community Update: Python Software Foundation with Dawn Wages | Dawn Michelle Wages | 17m |
Community update reports that the Python Software Foundation pauses its grant program for the coming year while still historically giving about $300,000/year… | ||
| Keynote: Lateral Thinking with Weathered Technology: How... with Carson Gross | Carson Gross | 45m |
Claim: apply Gunpei Yokoi’s lateral thinking with withered technology to web dev by sending HTML snippets not JSON. Tools: HTMX + Django, examples include… | ||
| Django Governance: Growing Sustainable... with Rachell Calhoun Tim Schilling | Rachell Calhoun | 26m |
Concrete governance moves are listed and proven: document an 8‑week mentor checklist, run decisions on weekly calls and record minutes, require 50% admin… | ||
| Orientation with Kojo Idrissa | Kojo Idrissa | 26m |
Orientation lays out concrete conference mechanics: two tracks run on separate floors (Senach and Wolfpoint) with mask‑only sections up front, a quiet room… | ||
| Lightning Talks (Monday) with Andrew Mshar | Andrew Mshar | 24m |
Quick bites that matter: a React demo called project 2029 proposes a tax cut for everyone under $235,000, a corporate minimum 10% tax, and an interactive… | ||
| Djangonaut Space: A Mentorship Program For Open Source with Lilian | Lilian | 24m |
An 8-week program pairs navigator/captain/janggonaut teams to onboard contributors, yields measurable output (session PR counts climb from near zero), spawns… | ||
| Lightning Talks (Tuesday) with Andrew Mshar | Andrew Mshar | 49m |
Three-minute bursts deliver concrete results: an AI experiment reports three teams using ChatGPT Claude Gemini, faster prototyping but looped debugging and the… | ||
| Deploy Django: GitOps & Kubernetes Made Easy with Calvin Hendryx-Parker | Calvin Hendryx-Parker | 44m |
A live demo runs end-to-end in about 25 minutes and actually creates a fresh GitHub repo, CI pipeline, K3S cluster, Route 53 DNS and a running Django + Next.js… | ||
| PostgreSQL: Tuning parameters or Tuning Queries? with Henrietta Dombrovskaya | Henrietta Dombrovskaya | 18m |
Claims that tuning Postgres parameters rarely beats fixing queries and indexes, demonstrated on the posgressier dataset from GitHub using actual timings: a… | ||
| Django for AI: Deploying Machine Learning Models with Django with Will Vincent | Will Vincent | 45m |
Shows a concrete pipeline: Iris dataset, SVM, scikit-learn, joblib (97% accuracy) trained in ~20 lines in a notebook, saved and loaded by Django views, forms… | ||
| The Source of Change: Bettering Online Open Source Communities... with Kattni | Kattni | 25m |
Recording presents a six‑year community experiment that built a safe welcoming supportive community and kept it that way with a strictly enforced code of… | ||
| Building maintainable Django projects: the difficult teenage years | Alex Henman | 21m |
Ten years of a single Django codebase yields concrete fixes not slogans: a custom-event pattern that injects Vue components via teleport/portals into legacy… | ||
| Beyond the ORM: from Postgres to OpenSearch with Andrew Mshar | Andrew Mshar | 35m |
Iris moves address data out of Postgres into Cosmos on OpenSearch with Greenhouse as the API layer and equipment followup in progress, cutting a worst case SQL… | ||
| What would the django of data pipelines look like? with Lisa Dusseault | Lisa Dusseault | 23m |
Proposal: a small framework called Phaser that applies Django ideas to pipelines and that is already used to prototype a messy HR ingest. It provides… | ||
| Python for Planet Earth: Climate Modeling and Sustainability.. with Drishti Jain | Drishti Jain | 28m |
Shows concrete pipelines and working code: loading netCDF temperature files to compute a 10‑year moving average of temperature anomalies, using netCDF4 and… | ||
| Entering the World of CMS with Wagtail with Michael Riley | Michael Riley | 40m |
Wagtail demands code-first models not UI hacks: pages and articles become Django models with foreign keys for images and authors, rich text fields and… | ||
| Cutting latency in half: What actually worked—and what didn’t | Timothy Mccurrach | 45m |
Argues that proactive profiling (not just reactive fixes) finds surprising wins: average server response falls from 395 ms to 218 ms by profiling P95… | ||
| Winemaking with Mutable Event Sourcing in Django with Chris Muthig | Chris Muthig | 46m |
A mutable event‑sourced system is built and running in production for wineries: events and aggregates live as Django models as event store backed by Postgres… | ||
| Reverse engineering the QR code generator and URL forwarder... with Mariatta | Mariatta | 32m |
Builds a local QR generator and URL forwarder using Python and the qrcode library, a one‑page Django app, Postgres for slugs, and static assets on… | ||
| Big Bad World of Postgres Dev Environments | Elizabeth Garrett Christensen | 25m |
Three concrete workflows and the exact tools to pick between them: Postgres.app for fast local dev, Docker images (custom images to include PostGIS or… | ||
| Free Threaded Django with Micah Lyle | Micah Lyle | 42m |
Demo runs show runserver (one thread per request) using a pure Python hasher cuts developer latency and records about 40% faster on a laptop, while Gunicorn… | ||
| Automating initial deployments with django-simple-deploy with Eric Matthes | Eric Matthes | 26m |
Claims a Django-centric deploy command that runs manage.py deploy and automates initial deployments across platforms, demonstrably succeeding on Fly with a… | ||
| High Performance Django at Ten: Old Tricks & New Picks | Peter Baumgartner | 47m |
Book released 2014 and crowdfunded on Kickstarter (about $13,000) with reported total sales ~$57,514.20; claims that Django scales when you apply specific… | ||
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