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Latest updates

Djangonauts from in and around Denmark are meeting up for the 6th edition of Django Day Copenhagen, to be held on October 2nd. It will be a full day of talks, either to be experienced online -or- at our venue.

Come and meet your local and excellent community and share with them. Tell us about your idea and your contribution to make this a great day.

⚡ 2026-09-09: Lightning Talks! See how to submit
🪱 2026-08-23: Early bird discount ends
💥 2026-08-19: Program ready!
☕ 2026-07-22: First talks announced
🎟️️ 2026-04-20: Ticket sales open
🔜️ 2026-04-03: Getting ready for another Django Day Copenhagen

We’ve finally launched the website! We’re eager to make this another great day, and we would love your help. You can for instance submit a talk, help us out with the organizing, encourage others to submit talks, or convince your employer to get a corporate supporter ticket.

Program

Django Day is a full day of talks, all connected to modern issues faced by Django developers of all experiences. It’s a single-track event, meaning that you won’t have to miss anything. The day will end with a round of lightning talks, which can be submitted on the day of the event, and be drawn during the day.

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09:00 Check-in and breakfast 🥐

This is a good time to arrive - register and have time to chat and grab breakfast

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09:30 Opening words 📢

Everyone take a seat! We’re beginning!

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09:45 DjangoMaxxing: Serving Thousands of OTLP Requests per Second in One Process

Paris Kasidiaris - venue talk 🎤

We pushed Django to its limits. We built a OpenTelemetry server with Django 6.1 and Python 3.14. It accepts OpenTelemetry traces and logs, including exception events, serving thousands of requests per …

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10:20 How to create admin model views and stand-alone pages without third-party libraries

Marijke Luttekes - venue talk 🎤

Django Admin is a powerful tool for displaying your models, but sometimes you need more than the default views offer.

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10:55 Keeping secrets secret in Django

Efe Öge - venue talk 🎤

Secrets are part of every Django application, from SECRET_KEY to API keys, database credentials, and service tokens. But they are often handled inconsistently: hardcoded in settings, scattered across …

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11:30 The Time Paradox: Building Timezone-Safe Python/Django Applications

Denny Biasiolli - venue talk 🎤

Let’s unravel the paradox of time in Python and Django: How something so universal can be so tricky to get right. You’ll learn how Django handles datetime objects and best practices for …

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12:05 Lunch 🥪

Lunch is served by Send Flere Krydderier

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13:00 When a Django Website Becomes a Platform

Lien Nguyen - venue talk 🎤

I only wanted to build my personal website.

It started as a fairly ordinary Django application for projects, articles and professional offerings. But as real requirements arrived, the architecture …

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13:35 Building Maintainable CRUD in Django

Dennis Stritzke - venue talk 🎤

Most Django apps contain a lot of CRUD and most developers either drown in boilerplate or let LLMs generate it. Both paths lead to unmaintainable code. This talk shows a better way: understand the …

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14:10 Water break

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14:20 Climbing Mount Production: Django's Missing Deployment Story

Jan Raasch - venue talk 🎤

After finishing Django’s official tutorial, you have a working app on your computer… and nothing else. Just DEBUG = True and a lone security warning. This talk follows my own path from …

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14:55 Stop relying on discipline: Pre-commit hooks that catch Django problems early

Mohammad Abu Khashabeh - venue talk 🎤

Has a manage.py check failure ever reached your staging environment? Or a migration that was written but never applied? Pre-commit hooks turn these from “we’ll catch it in CI” into …

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15:30 Cake 🍰

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16:45 AI That Plays Nice: Building a Privacy-First Grant Review Tool in Django

Lionel Jouvet - venue talk 🎤

How do you actually bring LLM-powered analysis into a Django app without giving up control, privacy, or trust? We built a real production tool for university research administrators, and this talk …

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17:20 Water break

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17:30 ⚡ Lightning Talks ⚡

Live from Venue

⚡⚡⚡ Announcing 5 minute lightning talks at Django Day Copenhagen ⚡⚡⚡

Lightning talks:

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18:00 Closing words 🌇

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19:30 Party 🎉

We’ll be ending the evening at the venue with plenty of time to hang out, dance, chill and have fun!

Before the party, join a group of people and find some food in the many options on Nørrebro, …

Supporters

Corporate Supporters will be announced here. We thank everyone for their support here, which is indispensable to make Django Day take place.

Who are we?

Django Day is brought to you by Django Denmark, an association formed in 2018 with the aim of creating and supporting education and networking activities in relation to The Django Web Framework.

We can use your help

If you want to help us with Django Day, please send us an email to info@django-denmark.org.

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