2019 DjangoCon US Recap

The 2019 DjangoCon US Conference is a wrap! Thanks for another amazing year!

DjangoCon US 2019 was in San Diego for the second year and hosted 425 attendees from all over the world!

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From tutorials on APIs and testing to talks about burnout and async to hallway tracks where we made buttons and planned our sprint contributions, 2019 was DjangoCon US's best year ever!

This was an innovative year for DjangoCon US! Every year, DjangoCon US works hard to make our program better and more accessible, and this year we're super proud of the features we were able to add:

Deep Dive Day, a single-track conference day dedicated to talks that go into more detail on Django topics
Accessibility wins: In addition to subsidized child care and captioned conference videos, this year we had a dedicated lactation room and live captioning for all talks
Travel stipends for all speakers

Thanks to our generous sponsors, who helped make these conference dreams a reality.

Awesome Talks and Tutorials

We featured over 40 talks & tutorials this year. Here are some crowd favorites!

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Keynote: Building Community & Supporting Others

Matt Mitchell

Awesome Automated APIs with Automagic REST

Timothy Allen

Building effective Django queries with expressions

Vanessa Barreiros

Nothingness and identity in Python and Django

Daniele Procida

Roll Your Own Tech Job: Starting a Business or Side Hustle from Scratch

Erin Mullaney

Keynote: Burnout and Balance

Jessica Rose

Keynote: The Natural State of Computers

Amber Brown

Just Add Await: Retrofitting Async Into Django

Andrew Godwin

Using Django as a Micro-Framework: Hacking on the HTTP handlers and middleware (for fun and profit)

Carlton Gibson

WASM matter?

Russell Keith-Magee

Our Presenters are Amazing

Adolfo Fitoria

Amber Brown

Andrew Godwin

Andrew Knight

Blythe J Dunham

Cara Borenstein

Carlos Martinez

Carlton Gibson

Casey Faist

Chris Wilcox

Dan Taylor

Dane Hillard

Daniele Procida

Dustin Ingram

Eleanor Stribling

Erin Mullaney

Felipe Lee

Jacinda Shelly

James Bennett

Jeffrey Eliasen

Jessica Rose

Juan Saavedra

Karen Miller

Kojo Idrissa

Louise Grandjonc

Luan Fonseca

Luca Bezerra

Matt Mitchell

Melanie Crutchfield

Mike Hansen

Nicole Zuckerman

Nicolle Cysneiros

Nina Zakharenko

Noah Kantrowitz

Pablo García

Peter Baumgartner

Renato Oliveira

Russell Keith-Magee

Ryan Sullivan

Timothy Allen

Tom Dyson

Trey Hunner

Vanessa Barreiros

Veronica Hanus

William S. Vincent

Our Sponsors

Platinum

Gold

Lanyard

Silver

Bronze

Diversity & Inclusion

2019 By the Numbers

2019 was an amazing year for attendance, sponsorship, talks, food, really everything that goes into making a conference great.

The buzz we heard on Twitter was that it was a lot of people's favorite DjangoCon US ever!

What?	Tell me about it.
Attendees	425
Tutorials	6
Talks	38
Favorite food	Mac and cheese bar at the opening reception

Picture Perfect

We captured so many Kodak moments over the week! Thanks to Bartek Pawlik for being our official conference photographer and saving these memories for us.

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