This topic is for discussion of how the PyCon AU 2026 conference relates to the RSE community.
The YouTube videos for the RSE Track:
“Your Research Code Works.. Until It Doesn’t: Rethinking Reproducibility” - Zara Hassan
“Things I don’t worry about as NumPy does them for me” - Kai Striega
“Optimizing Scientific Python with C++, CUDA, and Serverless Compute” - Alex Zinovev
“Why and How to Cite Software (and Get Your Software Cited Too)” - Stephanie Chong
Videos of other related talks:
“Why Australians don’t trust AI and what that means for all of us” - Cam Wilson
“Research Software Stories: Four Years of Lessons in Sustainable Science” - Paula Andrea Martinez
“Why should I write software well?” - Tennessee Leeuwenburg
“From Jupyter Notebook to Eruption: Getting Geohazard Research into Production” - Yannik Behr
“The 20-Year Port: from PhD project to polished professional Python packaging” - Paul Leopardi
A few more interesting talks:
30 to 70 PRs a day: How we managed to not wreck our systems - Liz Fong-Jones
Productivity: a dialogue - Benno Rice, Daisy Leigh Brenecki
Why should I write software well? - Tennessee Leeuwenburg
The Care of Software: Ethics and Ecosystems - Justin Warren
Thanks for sharing! I had to miss the session today but I’ll try to catch up with these videso!