--- title: "Welcome Back, NVIDIA: Visionary Sponsor of PyCon US 2026" url: https://daily.dev/posts/welcome-back-nvidia-visionary-sponsor-of-pycon-us-2026-ba8fr2o1w source_url: https://pycon.blogspot.com/2026/05/welcome-back-nvidia-visionary-sponsor.html type: article source: "Planet Python" published: 2026-05-16T19:48:48.446Z updated: 2026-05-16T19:49:05.858Z tags: ["python", "nvidia"] reading_time: 2 upvotes: 1 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. # Welcome Back, NVIDIA: Visionary Sponsor of PyCon US 2026 **[Planet Python](https://daily.dev/sources/planetpython)** · 2 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary NVIDIA is returning as a Visionary Sponsor of PyCon US 2026 and sponsoring the Future of AI with Python Conference Track. The announcement highlights NVIDIA's deep investment in the Python ecosystem, including the general availability of CUDA Python 1.0, contributions to Python packaging standards (wheel variants, Packaging Council), work on free-threaded CPython, early exploratory adoption of Rust for CPython, Python performance benchmarking, and enhancements for Python 3.14 and 3.15 including built-in Zstandard support. ## 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 - [PyTorch Conference North America 2026 Keynote Speaker Sessions Announced – PyTorch](https://daily.dev/posts/pytorch-conference-north-america-2026-keynote-speaker-sessions-announced-pytorch-prxtaccnc) · PyTorch · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [PyTorch Conference North America Announces 2026 Keynotes – PyTorch](https://daily.dev/posts/pytorch-conference-north-america-announces-2026-keynotes-pytorch-ad67khby0) · PyTorch · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#python](https://daily.dev/tags/python), [#nvidia](https://daily.dev/tags/nvidia) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/welcome-back-nvidia-visionary-sponsor-of-pycon-us-2026-ba8fr2o1w)