Programme · 14–16 Nov 2026

Three days, three tracks

Tutorials to start, talks to grow, sprints to build. Sessions run in parallel across PyData, PyCon and DjangoGirls — pick your path or mix it up.

* Full session details are confirmed as speakers are announced.

Days

3 14–16 Nov 2026

Sessions

40+ talks & keynotes

Tutorials

8 hands-on labs

Tracks

3 parallel rooms
Tracks PyData PyCon DjangoGirls Keynote / Plenary
09:00

Doors open & registration

Grab your badge and coffee

Foyer
Plenary
09:30

Welcome & opening remarks

PyData Tanzania organisers

Main Hall
Plenary
10:00

Tutorial: Data wrangling with pandas & Polars

Hands-on, bring a laptop

Room A
PyData
10:00

DjangoGirls: Your first web app

Free beginner workshop (full day)

Room C
DjangoGirls
12:30

Lunch & networking

Catered lunch

Terrace
Plenary
13:30

Tutorial: Practical machine learning with scikit-learn

Model building end to end

Room A
PyData
13:30

Tutorial: Testing & packaging Python projects

Ship code with confidence

Room B
PyCon
16:00

Tutorial: Intro to deep learning with PyTorch

From tensors to training

Room A
PyData
18:00

Day 1 social

Meet fellow attendees

Rooftop
Plenary
09:00

Keynote: Data science for African problems

Speaker to be announced

Main Hall
Plenary
10:00

Building data pipelines that don't break

Orchestration & reliability

Room A
PyData
10:00

FastAPI in production

Async APIs at scale

Room B
PyCon
10:45

From notebook to dashboard with Streamlit

Ship a data app

Room C
DjangoGirls
11:30

Geospatial analysis with Python

Mapping Tanzania's data

Room A
PyData
12:15

Lunch & lightning talks

5-minute talks, sign up on the day

Terrace
Plenary
14:00

LLMs & GenAI: what actually works

Practical patterns

Room A
PyData
14:00

Django at scale

Lessons from production

Room B
PyCon
15:30

MLOps: deploying & monitoring models

Reliable model delivery

Room A
PyData
16:30

Panel: growing the data community in East Africa

Community leaders

Main Hall
Plenary
09:30

Keynote: The open-source data stack

Speaker to be announced

Main Hall
Plenary
10:15

DuckDB & Apache Arrow: fast local analytics

Modern in-process analytics

Room A
PyData
10:15

Securing Python web apps

Practical app security

Room B
PyCon
11:00

Reproducible research with Jupyter

Notebooks done right

Room A
PyData
11:45

Data visualisation that tells a story

From charts to narrative

Room C
DjangoGirls
12:30

Lunch

Catered lunch

Terrace
Plenary
13:30

Open-source sprints

Contribute alongside maintainers

Room A
PyData
13:30

Sprints: web & tooling

Pair up and build

Room B
PyCon
16:00

Closing keynote & awards

Wrap-up & celebration

Main Hall
Plenary
17:00

Farewell & group photo

See you next year

Foyer
Plenary

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Tickets include all three tracks, lunches and the socials.

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