--- title: "My experience at PyCon US 2026" url: https://daily.dev/posts/my-experience-at-pycon-us-2026-mr0aslxou source_url: https://blog.pamelafox.org/2026/05/pycon-2026-reflections.html type: article source: "Pamela Fox" published: 2026-05-20T05:42:53.358Z updated: 2026-05-20T05:43:39.511Z tags: ["python", "open-source", "ai-agents", "mcp"] reading_time: 8 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # My experience at PyCon US 2026 **[Pamela Fox](https://daily.dev/sources/pamelafox)** · 8 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A personal recap of PyCon US 2026 in Long Beach, California, written by a Microsoft developer advocate. Highlights include delivering a 3.5-hour tutorial on building MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers using FastMCP and Keycloak, two sessions at the Education Summit covering AI-powered presentation workflows, staffing the Microsoft sponsor booth, attending talks on topics like AI's impact on OSS maintainers and Pydantic's LLM tooling, organizing an improv open space, participating in the PyLadies charity auction that raised $60,000, and contributing to OSS sprints at the Pallets table. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Join us at PyCon US 2026 in Long Beach—we have new AI and security tracks this year](https://daily.dev/posts/join-us-at-pycon-us-2026-in-long-beach-we-have-new-ai-and-security-tracks-this-year-he2c5ik8b) · Simon Willison · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#python](https://daily.dev/tags/python), [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#mcp](https://daily.dev/tags/mcp) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/my-experience-at-pycon-us-2026-mr0aslxou)