2025-07-18 –, Forum Hall
Join us for a keynote Q&A panel featuring some of the foundational names in Python, as they discuss how the language went from a side project in Amsterdam to powering AI at the world’s biggest companies.
Alongside the panel, we’ll be showing a special 20 minute excerpt from the long anticipated “Python: The Documentary”. Featuring Guido van Rossum, Travis Oliphant, Barry Warsaw, and many more, this upcoming full-length documentary traces Python’s slow-but-steady rise, its community-driven evolution, and the language’s impact on... well… everything. This documentary excerpt has been specifically created for EuroPython by CultRepo.
See the trailer of the documentary here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqBqdNIPrbo
Beginner
Brett Cannon has been a core developer since 2003, letting him touch much of Python's code base in some way. Thanks to that amount of time and a penchant for writing too much, it has allowed him to become the 5th most prolific PEP (co-)author. He served on the Python steering council for 5 consecutive years, starting with the inaugural council. Probably the biggest things Brett is known for are importlib, trying to make the 2->3 transition easier, pyproject.toml, and his blog at https://snarky.ca . Basically Brett has been around long enough you can thank/blame him for a bunch of stuff.
A big proponent of the Python community, Brett's known for his quote, "I came for the language, but I stayed for the community", which still holds true for him today. He served on the PSF board a number of times and received the Frank Willison Award in 2016.
Brett lives in Vancouver, Canada with his wife and child (who just became a toddler, hence the current lack of hobbies).
Paul is the Head of Developer Advocacy at JetBrains, focusing on Python and the Web. Before that, Paul was a co-founder of Zope Corporation, taking the first open source application server through $14M of funding. Paul has bootstrapped both the Python Software Foundation and the Plone Foundation. Prior to that, Paul was an officer in the US Navy, starting www.navy.mil in 1993.
Armin is Sentry’s VP of Platform.
He is the creator of the Flask Python framework and a frequent speaker at international conferences. Armin is a significant contributor to a number of Open Source projects across Rust, Python and other languages, as well as Sentry’s core platform.
Based in Vienna, Armin - when not 3d printing - enjoys spending time with his family and children.