Talks

PyCon China 2026 welcomes speakers from various Python technology fields. Whether it's AI, agents, large models, embodied intelligence, physical AI, data science, web development, language features, engineering practices, cloud-native, automation, operations and maintenance testing, security, toolchains, quantitative trading, or more Python-based innovative practices and open source explorations, we look forward to you bringing real experiences, unique insights, and interesting stories to share with the community.

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Elasticsearch Semantic Search and AI Agent Development Keynote

A detailed introduction to semantic search in Elasticsearch and its latest developments. Concrete examples show how to use vector search (both sparse and dense vectors) for semantic search, how to easily create agents with Elastic AI Agent Builder, and how to integrate agents using the MCP and A2A protocols.

Speaker

Liu Xiaoguo - Elastic Chief Evangelist, China Community

Monitoring QEMU Guest State Using Python Keynote

This session introduces several mechanisms QEMU offers for communicating with the outside world, analyses the scenarios each one suits, and uses concrete Python script examples to demonstrate how to observe the state of a QEMU guest with Python.

Speaker

Yuchen Zheng - Practitioners in semiconductor-related industries

The Python Runtime as an Agent Interaction Interface Keynote

In this talk we will look at the kinds of Python capabilities agents need and their characteristics, at both traditional and emerging Python runtime implementations, at how these can be combined with existing agent frameworks, and at a comparison of how well the different combinations work.

Speaker

Hanyang Chen - Algorithm Engineer, AI Architect, Shanghai AMIGO Technology.

Code Agent Structure Analysis Keynote

This sharing will systematically guide everyone into the world of large model AI calling. It is suitable for friends who are interested in AI application development and want to understand the internal mechanisms of intelligent agents.

Speaker

Zhixiang Xu - A middle-aged fat man who can dive.

Getting More People Involved in CPython: Starting with Free-Threading Keynote

Drawing on my hands-on experience in the CPython Free-Threading community, this talk shows new contributors how to quickly set up a development environment, approach reading the codebase, find issues that suit them, and land a first high-quality pull request.

Speaker

Edward Xu - Senior Software Engineer, Citrix

A Python-Runtime-Based initramfs and Single-File Linux Implementation Keynote

An in-depth look at the design and implementation of the open source project mkinitramfs.

Speaker

Xinyi Shen - A Linux/Python user and student at Shanghai Jincai High School

NiceGUI for Office Automation: Achieving Work-Life Balance Lightning

Using NiceGUI to build an office automation system for our own kindergarten, empowering teachers and improving their efficiency.

Speaker

Wei Yue - Kindergarten technical support teacher

It's Time to Learn Rust — Starting with Making pip install Faster Lightning

This lightning talk is based on my real experience of teaching myself Rust as a Python developer. In 10 minutes I will cover three things: why it is worth learning, hands-on practice, and a one-month learning roadmap. No prior Rust knowledge is required.

Speaker

Zeyang Lin - Independent developer

Free-Threading Migration Guide Lightning

This talk discusses the issues involved in migrating existing applications to the free-threaded build: the code adaptations and thread safety work required, the expected performance gains and potential overhead, compatibility and upgrades of third-party libraries, and changes to the Python C API.

Speaker

Xiaowei Lu - Senior Software Engineer, Compiler Team, Alibaba Cloud