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PyCon HK 2026

Was, Is, Will Be: Python History, Software Engineering, And AI Our Way

Keynote · Paul Everitt

About this session

Python is in a moment. Our entire profession is in a moment. But Python has more power than we think we do: us. In this talk we cover how "us" came to be, what the age of agentic coding has done to our profession and community, and close with what we can do about it: a Python AI project from us, for us.

About the speaker

Paul Everitt

Paul Everitt

Paul is a Developer Advocate 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.

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