EuroPython 2025

Rust Summit

  • 2025-07-15 , Club C
  • 2025-07-15 , Club C

All times in Europe/Prague

The Rust Summit aims to bring together various stakeholders of Python’s Rust ecosystem to discuss its current state, address challenges, and align on ongoing work.

  • When: Tuesday morning, July 15th 9:30 - 12:45
  • Where: Prague Congress Centre (PCC), Room Club C
  • Who can join: Anyone with a valid in-person EuroPython 2025 ticket

Meet the Community

The main goal of this summit is for various stakeholders of Python’s Rust ecosystem to meet, learn, and discuss about the Rust ecosystem in Python, how Python can benefit from Rust, and anything related to the adaptation of thread-free Python.

We are particularly looking for contributors and maintainers of:

  • Rust libraries / frameworks that have Python API interface (e.g. polars)
  • Tools in the Python ecosystem that are built with Rust (e.g. ruff, uv etc)
  • Python libraries that are migrating all or part of their source code to Rust code
  • New Python libraries that are written in Rust
  • Other Python projects that can benefit from using Rust

Presentations

If there is a topic you would like to present, please indicate it in the form and fill it in early.

Sparkling presentations are brief, and intended to get everyone on the same page and start a discussion. Time slots are of 30 min at most (10 min of presentation + 20 min for questions/discussion).

Deep dive presentations are 45 mins in total (35 mins presentation and 10 mins Q\&A). They can have more details and be a bit more informative, they should provide educational value to the participants.

We are also open to suggestions for unconference-style activities.

Tentative Agenda (subject to change)

  • 9:00 AM Welcome: Meet and greet - self introduction
  • 10:00 AM Sparkling Presentation - The Rust Foundation and Why Rust and Python cooperation is important for the future of both languages (by Ernest Kissiedu)
  • 10:30 AM Deep Dive Presentation - How to build Python+Rust packages with pixi (by Julian Hofer)
  • 11:15 AM Sparkling Presentation - Johnnycanencrypt and related desktop applications which allow people to use OpenPGP on YubiKey. (by Kushal Das)
  • 11:45 AM Deep Dive Presentation - Introducing Pyrefly: A faster python type checker written in Rust (by Meggie Moss)
  • 12:30 AM Wrap up of the summit

Registration

To be part of the Rust summit register your interest now! 👈

Please register early. If you are not yet sure if you can come, note it on your registration. You can change your answer later.

You need to have a valid EuroPython in-person ticket to participate. If this is an issue for you, say so on the form and we’ll try to figure something out.

If you can, plan to stay for the whole conference, to have plenty of time to follow up on discussions and new friendships.

The event is limited to [TBA] participants. If more sign up, there will be a selection process.

We will contact you with confirmations and more details closer to the event.


Expected audience expertise:

Intermediate

After having a career as a Data Scientist and Developer Advocate, Cheuk dedicated her work to the open-source community. Currently, she is working as AI developer advocate for JetBrains. She has co-founded Humble Data, a beginner Python workshop that has been happening around the world. She has served the EuroPython Society board for two years and is now a fellow and director of the Python Software Foundation.

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Velda Kiara is a passionate software developer and technical writer with a love for crafting Python code, particularly for Django. She actively contributes to open-source projects, sharing her knowledge and enhancing both code and documentation.
Beyond her technical contributions, she contributes to Djangonaut Space by writing Django News Updates and maintains the Django Debug Toolbar among other projects.
She equally serves as a Django Events Foundation North America director, the organization that organizes DjangoCon US which she also volunteers for. Her dedication and technical contributions to Python and Django communities have earned her recognition as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for Python and Web technologies.

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