Warsaw Python Pizza 2026 is coming to Poland for the first time

On May 9, 2026, the auditorium in Building A at 86 Koszykowa Street became the epicenter of the Polish Python community. As the three organizers—Dorota Ostrowska (a PJAIT graduate), Piotr Grędowski, andNatalia Traczewska from the PJAIT Data Science Club PJAIT had the great pleasure of organizing Warsaw Python Pizza 2026, the first Polish edition of the international micro-conference, which since 2017 has traveled through Naples, Berlin, Hamburg, Prague, Brno, and Ostrava. This time, Warsaw appeared on the Python Pizza map, andPJAIT on a triple role: host, sponsor, and co-organizer.

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The format that makes a difference

Python Pizza is a conference organized entirely by volunteers from the open-source community. Its hallmark is the 10-minute talks—short, concise presentations in which developers share their experiences from real-world projects. The result? 23 talks, a lightning talks session, and a keynote all in one day, from registration at 9:30 AM until the event closes at 6:30 PM. The keynote was delivered by Dr. Estera Kot, who presented “The Python Dilemma on Microsoft Fabric: Data Wrangler, Pandas, or PySpark?”

The event participants are seated in red armchairs in the PJAIT auditorium. Some of them are looking at the camera, and one of them is working on a laptop.

How We Brought Python Pizza to Warsaw

Organizing the first Polish edition required coordinating three things at once: discussions with the international Python Pizza community, finding a venue worthy of a conference of this caliber, and putting together a program that would match the quality of previous European editions. PJAIT to be a partner that provided all the essentials—the venue and organizational support.

Initially, the PJAIT Data Science Club was PJAIT one speaking slot in the program. Ultimately, however, the proposals submitted by the club’s members proved so strong that they secured four different slots in the program —alongside speakers from companies and the open-source community.

In addition to representatives from DSC, other PJAIT students also served as speakers, and Marta Mulik-Walczyna from the PJAIT Academic Career Office PJAIT presentation PJAIT the most common mistakes made by IT candidates in their resumes. Among the most memorable presentations, participants mentioned, among others, Dorota Ostrowska’s talk—“I vibecoded my wedding.”

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The numbers speak for themselves

The conference attracted 108 paying participants. In the evaluation survey, participants rated:

Overall impression of the conference —8.3/10 (median 9),
10-minute lightning talks format —8.6/10 (median 9),
Content and quality of the lecture —7.4/10.

What does this mean for PJAIT for us?

Warsaw Python Pizza 2026 has put PJAIT the map of local and international Python event partners—alongside organizations such as the EuroPython Society and Netcompany, which also supported the conference as main sponsors. Positive feedback is also coming from the industry: Netcompany consultants described the sessions as “highly valuable, covering a wide range of skill levels, and presented in an extremely accessible manner.”

For us, as organizers, this edition proved that student and community initiatives can stand shoulder to shoulder with the professional IT scene—and that the PJAIT campus PJAIT a great place for events that matter to the entire Polish Python community. We’re already thinking about our next steps.