Lightning Talks

Name: Lightning Talks
Start: 2026-01-31T18:30:00
End: 2026-01-31T18:30:00
Location: UA2.220 (Guillissen)

UA2.220 (Guillissen) | Day 1 | 18:30 - 19:00 | Speakers: Marc-André Lemburg

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Abstract

After the success of last year's impromptu lightning talks session, we will have an official one in the Python Devroom for 2026.

Please submit your talks using this form:

Lightning Talk Submission Form
The form will be opened for submissions at around 14:00 CET on Saturday, Jan 31, 2026.

Lightning Talks are at most 5 minutes and should be Python related.

Note: All presentations in this slot will be recorded and made available under a CC-BY license.

Thank you, Python Devroom Organizers

Speakers

Marc-André Lemburg

Marc-Andre is the CEO and founder of eGenix.com, a Python-focused boutique project and consulting company based in Germany, specializing in the data, finance and database space. He has a degree in mathematics from the University of Düsseldorf.

His work with and for Python started in 1994. He is a Python Core Developer, designed and implemented the Unicode support in Python, the editor of the Python DB-API and author of several open source libraries and tools (e.g. the mx Extensions mxDateTime and mxODBC).

Marc-Andre is a EuroPython Society (EPS) Fellow, a Python Software Foundation (PSF) founding Fellow and co-founded a local Python meeting in Düsseldorf (PyDDF). He served on the board of the PSF and EPS for many years and loves to contribute to the growth of Python wherever he can.

More information is available on https://malemburg.com/

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