Overview
PyCascades is a regional PyCon in the Pacific Northwest, celebrating the west coast Python developer and user community. Our organizing team includes members of the Vancouver, Seattle, and Portland Python user groups. Started in 2018, PyCascades has previously been a two-day, single-track Python conference. The conference takes place on March 21 & 22, 2026 at SFU Harbour Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Schedule
29 events
Day 1 - Mar 21, 2026
Talk
4:00 pm to 4:30 pm
Opening Remarks
Talk
4:30 pm to 5:10 pm
Permacomputing and Python
Talk
5:15 pm to 5:40 pm
Climbing Out of Fixture Hell, Indirectly
Talk
5:45 pm to 6:30 pm
Coffee Break
Talk
6:30 pm to 6:55 pm
Graceful Deletes: Queues, Tasks and Distributed State Management in Python
Talk
7:00 pm to 7:25 pm
Testing the Contract: Keeping Unit Tests Honest
Talk
7:30 pm to 9:00 pm
Lunch
Talk
9:00 pm to 9:40 pm
No More Spreadsheets! Building PyLadiesCon Infrastructure with Python and Django
Talk
9:45 pm to 10:10 pm
The Future of Python: Evolution or Succession?
Talk
10:15 pm to 10:40 pm
Airflow Beyond the Cloud: Python Workflows at the Edge
Talk
10:45 pm to 11:15 pm
Snack
Talk
11:15 pm to 11:40 pm
To Notebook or Not to Notebook: Multilingual Workflows for Exploratory Data Analysis
Talk
11:45 am to 12:10 am
Getting Started with Open Source Contributions
Day 2 - Mar 22, 2026
Talk
12:15 am to 12:40 am
Variables and objects in Python: it's pointers all the way down
Talk
12:45 am to 1:15 am
Closing Remarks
Talk
4:00 pm to 4:30 pm
Opening Remarks
Talk
4:30 pm to 4:55 pm
Python Stings Your Ego: Finding Pride in Community, Not Just Code
Talk
5:00 pm to 5:25 pm
Am I ready to be a Senior Engineer?
Talk
5:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Coffee Break
Talk
6:00 pm to 6:40 pm
There and back again... but
Talk
6:45 pm to 7:10 pm
When the Baby App Crashed: Coding for Chaos (and Parenthood)
Talk
7:15 pm to 8:45 pm
Lunch
Talk
8:45 pm to 9:10 pm
More. Better.
Talk
9:15 pm to 9:40 pm
A bridge over (not) troubled waters: Collecting marine data from your couch
Talk
9:45 pm to 10:25 pm
Creating Music with Python!
Talk
10:30 pm to 11:00 pm
Snack Break
Talk
11:00 pm to 11:40 pm
Visual Unit Tests and Live Coding
Talk
11:45 am to 12:10 am
Introducing t-strings: f-strings with superpowers
Day 3 - Mar 23, 2026
Talk
12:15 am to 12:45 am
Closing Remarks
Session Details
Opening Remarks
4:00 pm to 4:30 pm