Thank You
As we reflect on EuroPython 2024 in Prague, we are filled with immense gratitude for the year-long journey marked by innovation, teamwork, and dedication. Our incredible team infused the event with their unique blend of enthusiasm, kindness, and creativity! We extend our heartfelt thanks to everyone who contributed to making EuroPython 2024 a memorable experience both in Prague and online.
Since 2002, EuroPython has thrived on the passion and hard work of volunteers. This year was no exception, with our devoted team investing countless hours and boundless energy into bringing EuroPython 2024 to life. Let us now celebrate the amazing individuals whose efforts made this event possible!
EuroPython Society Board
The annually elected EuroPython Society (EPS) Board manages the day-to-day operations of the EPS, the legal entity behind the EuroPython conference series. The EPS 2024 Board were responsible for most of the fiscal, legal and venue related work for the EuroPython 2024 conference, including venue & supplier selections and contract negotiations.
- Alexander Hendorf
- Anders Hammarquist (Treasurer)
- Artem Kislovskiy (Vice-Chair)
- Artur Czepiel (Chair)
- Laís Carvalho
- Sangarshanan Veera
- Sebastiaan Zeeff
- Theofanis Petkos
- Vaibhav (VB) Srivastav
Code of Conduct Committee
These humans are responsible for receiving & handling Code of Conduct reports and help the EuroPython community remain a safe and friendly place:
- Cheuk Ting Ho
- Jakub Vysoky
- Lumír Balhar
- Naomi Ceder
- Vicky Twomey-Lee
Communications & Design
As you browse the clear & witty content on our website, blog, newsletter, and social media, you’ll be enjoying the work of our talented wordsmiths and meme creators from the Communications team.
- Cyril Bitterich
- Daksh P. Jain
- Joana Owusu-Appiah
- Jodie Burchell
- Laís Carvalho
- Raquel Dou
- Sangarshanan Veera
- Sena Şahin
The small and big design stuff you saw including t-shirts, badges, banners, stickers and social cards were scrambled together with love by our Design team:
- Adriana Sanchéz
- Cristián Maureira-Fredes
- Cyril Bitterich
- Laís Carvalho
- Panagiotis Kyrillos
- Patrick Arminio
Shoutout to Panagiotis Kyrillos for all the video editing work we used heavily on Instagram and TikTok
Shoutout to Ege Akman and Patrick Arminio for all their work to create this website
The general aesthetics of EuroPython 2024 designs were originally created by the wonderful team from 2023
Financial Aid team
If you are one of the 233 applicants of EuroPython 2024 finaid programme then you have surely exchanged many emails with some of our Finaid team members. From spreadsheet wizardry, to responding to countless emails and processing all the receipts, here are our kind and organised humans behind the Finaid team:
- Alessia Marcolini
- Cheuk Ting Ho
- Marijka Romaniuk
- Naa Ashiorkor Nortey
- Vicky Twomey-Lee
Programme Team
The folks managing Call for Proposals (CFP), community voting and the entire programme selection & scheduling are:
- Artur Czepiel
- Cheuk Ting Ho
- Cristián Maureira-Fredes
- Cyril Bitterich
- Diego Russo
- Jan Pipek
- Javier Lim
- Jodie Burchell
- Karolina Surma
- Maria José Molina-Contreras
- Mia Bajić
- Niklas Mertsch
- Rodrigo Girao Serrao
- Theofanis Petkos
- Vaibhav (VB) Srivastav
- Valerio Maggio
- Yuliia Barabash
Reviewers
A big thank you to everyone who took part in our community voting, significantly influencing the direction of our program.
Alongside our fantastic community, the talk selection process was supported by our wonderful reviewers:
- Alena Osipova
- Artur Smęt
- Daniela
- Dilyan Grigorov
- Dmitry Osipov
- Doreen Peace Nangira Wanyama
- Emma Saroyan
- Emmanuel Akanji
- Foram
- Gajendraeshpande
- George Zisopoulos
- Goetz
- Harshit Gupta
- Hitesh Khandelwal
- Isaac Chung
- Jahanvi Gupta
- Jaz Allibhai
- Jiawei Wang
- Julian maurin
- Kalyan Prasad
- Kevin Romero
- Konstantin Ignatov
- Koti Vellanki
- Krystian
- Kshiteej
- Lajoie Batadiwa
- Leila Ben Othman
- Manav Mehra
- Mayank Khanduja
- Naa Ashiorkor Nortey
- Nancy Henrietta Addo
- Neeraj Pandey
- Oliver Thieke
- Osagie Eboigbe
- Padraic Calpin
- Patrick Arminio
- Pavel Bityukov
- Priya Basker
- Ria Bhatia
- Rodrigo Girão Serrão
- Roland Sztaho
- Sameer Shukla
- Sarah Abderemane
- Saurav Jain
- Saurav Pandey
- Sebastian M. Ernst
- Siddharth Gupta
- Simon Peteragbui
- Tim
- Tim Shchetilin
- Vamsi Krishna Kolli
- Vinícius Gubiani Ferreira
- Wachira Maina
- William
- kt zhao
- masamori0083
- Shekhar Koirala
Speaker Mentorship Programme
This team helped and supported potential speakers who want help preparing for their talk at EuroPython 2024.
- Marijka Romaniuk
- Naa Ashiorkor Nortey
- Theofanis Petkos
- Valery Calderón Briz
Mentors
Here are all the mentors who lent their time and expertise to new speakers.
- Alena Osipova
- Artur Smęt
- Ashmi Banerjee
- Bernice Waweru
- Bhagvan Kommadi
- Dilyan Grigorov
- Gajendra Deshpande
- Honza Kral
- Jean-Baptiste Braun
- Jiawei Wang
- Kalyan Prasad
- Kenni Konate
- Koti Vellanki
- Lina Marieth Hoyos
- Mario García
- Max Kahan
- Maxim Danilov
- Nabanita Roy
- Neeraj Pandey
- Neil Vaytet
- Priyanshu Krishnan
- Reuven Lerner
- Ria Bhatia
- Sameer Shukla
- Sebastian Witowski
- Siddharth Gupta
- Valery Calderón Briz
- Vinícius Gubiani Ferreira
- Yuliia Barabash
Operations Team
From managing recording & streaming, to liaising with our wonderful remote and on-site volunteers, the Operations team have all covered. If you ever received a reply from our helpdesk, chances are you interacted with someone from this team :)
- Anežka Müller
- Angel Ramboi
- Aris Nivorlis
- Artur Czepiel
- Cyril Bitterich
- Ege Akman
- George Zisopoulos
- Jakub Červinka
- Laís Carvalho
- Liberta Gani
- Martin Borus
- Niklas Mertsch
- Nicolás Demarchi
- Panagiotis Kyrillos
- Piotr Gnus
- Saurav Pandey
- Shekhar Koirala
- Theofanis Petkos
Discord Sub-Team
A big shoutout to Ege Akman and Niklas Mertsch for leading the efforts in setting up and managing our Discord server and the discord bot! Their work on maintaining and updating the discord bot can be found on the EuroPython discord bot repo.
The discord sub-team also included the following members:
- Aris Nivorlis
- Artur Czepiel
- Cyril Bitterich
- Ege Akman
- Niklas Mertsch
A/V Sub-Team
A huge shoutout to Panagiotis and Piotr for their amazing work with the digital screens and the communication with the venue and Gonzo for anything A/V related! Huge thanks to Lais and Panagiotis for setting up and managing the interview booth!
The following people helped with the A/V setup and coordination:
- Aris Nivorlis
- Nicolás Demarchi
- Panagiotis Kyrillos
- Piotr Gnus
Onsite Volunteers Sub-Team
Special thanks to the following people for leading the announcement and the selection of onsite volunteers:
- Anežka Müller
- Aris Nivorlis
- Liberta Gani
- Martin Borus
- Saurav Pandey
- Shekhar Koirala
Special thanks to the following people for leading the onboarding and the coordination of onsite volunteers:
- Anežka Müller
- Aris Nivorlis
- Cyril Bitterich
- Liberta Gani
- Shekhar Koirala
Sponsors Team
All the sponsorship contacts, logistics & the exhibits are managed by the small team:
- Angel Ramboi
- Artem Kislovskiy
- Artur Czepiel
- Konstantin Ignatov
- Laís Carvalho
- Naa Ashiorkor Nortey
Accessibility Team
This wonderful team worked on making EuroPython 2024 accessible for everyone by setting up Quiet Rooms, Low stimulation room, Childcare and having a Neurodiversity box amongst so many other things.
- Alan Dooley
- Cyril Bitterich
- Karolina Surma
- Konstantin Ignatov
- Laís Carvalho
- Mia Bajić
- Vaibhav (VB) Srivastav
Onsite & Remote Volunteers
As a community conference, the conference wouldn’t have been possible and certainly less fun without every single volunteer who chipped in both in Prague and remotely. Big thanks to every one of you!
Onsite Volunteers
Special thanks to Aris, Liberta and Shekhar for their fantastic work in coordinating the efforts of our onsite volunteers:
- Aeneas Christodoulou
- Alena Osipova
- Andrea Biskupová
- Aneta Popelová
- Aris Nivorlis
- Artur Czepiel
- Artur Smęt
- Barbora Hulova
- Barbora Profantová
- Beyza Zayim
- Björn Brandt
- Boris Kolda
- Çağıl Uluşahin Sönmez
- Cyril Bitterich
- Dmitry Osipov
- Dom Weldon
- Ege Akman
- Elise Hannah Kasai
- Ewa Barczykowska
- George Margaritis
- George Zisopoulos
- Haris Kupinić
- Hugo van Kemenade
- Iryna Kondrashchenko
- Iva Kleban
- Jakub Balas
- Jakub Červinka
- Joao futi muanda
- Kang An
- Katerina Vankova
- Kaye So Kua
- Laís Carvalho
- Liberta Gani
- Magdalena Jarošová
- Mahe Iram Khan
- Maksym Dzoban
- Marijka Romaniuk
- Mark Smith
- Markéta Machová
- Martha Teye
- Martin Borus
- Mike Smith
- Milan Oberkirch
- Naa Ashiorkor Nortey
- Nicolas Demarchi
- Nika S
- Niklas Mertsch
- Nina Belyavskaya
- Oleh Kostromin
- Panagiotis Kyrillos
- Paulina Boadiwaa Mensah
- Piotr Gnus
- Rahul Avaroth Bhaskaran
- Reuven Lerner
- Sangarshanan Veera
- Sarah Abderemane
- Sarita Pokhrel
- Saurav Jain
- Sebastiaan Zeeff
- Shekhar Koirala
- Simon Peter Dagbui
- Sofia Casadei
- Tatiana Kamyshanskaia
- Theofanis Petkos
- Thomas Fraunholz
- Tim Hobbs
- Tim van den Berg
- Toomas Ormisson
- Tymon Masiarek
- Vaibhav (VB) Srivastav
- Yicheng Zhang
Remote Volunteers
A big shoutout to Liberta and Shekhar for their exceptional work in effectively coordinating with remote speakers and in organizing remote volunteers:
- Ankur Gajurel
- Daksh P. Jain
- Evans Cheruiyot Langat
- Prabhash Kumar Jha
- Pujan Thapa
- Santosh Nepal
- Shiva Gaire
Events & Workshops Organisers
Django Girls
- Boris Kolda
- Honza Javorek
- Honza Král
- Ingrid Sena
- Jana Sloukova
- Karla Fejfarova
- Magdaléna Grassi Morong
- Marcela Karafizievová
- Mia Bajić
- Petr Lessner
Humble Data
- Cheuk Ting Ho
- Joana Owusu-Appiah
- Jodie Burchell
- Laís Carvalho
- Martin Borus
- Sena Şahin
PyLadies Events
- Anežka Müller
- Jodie Burchell
- Laís Carvalho
- Mia Bajić
- Naa Ashiorkor Nortey
Social (Thursday) Event
We had an amazing social events at the historic Gabriel Loci with Board Games and Music jams! Here are those who made it possible
- Bára Drbohlavová
- Jakub Červinka
- Marijka Romaniuk
- Piotr Gnus
- Sangarshanan Veera
- Sebastiaan Zeeff
- Vaibhav (VB) Srivastav
Many thanks to Mia Bajić for organising a fantastic Speakers dinner & to Rodrigo Girao Serrao for managing the Sprints weekend so effectively! We feel so grateful to work around such amazing people :)
Want to join us & have fun organising future EuroPython conferences?
Email us at volunteers@europython.eu.
Wanna know more about the EuroPython experience! watch our wonderful volunteers share theirs on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSgKPpaqALM
Acknowledgement
Gonzo - AV Team
Big thanks to our AV team Gonzo Design who have been streaming, recording & editing our talks, and more importantly, experimenting with us since 2017! Here are the folks who helped us with streaming and the smooth hybrid experience:
- Alessandro Arese Visconti
- Ambra Lorenzetti
- Consuelo Cipriani
- Laura Pantaleo
- Matteo Piccinini
- Matteo Vanni
- Raquel Dou
- Simone Giorgi
- Vincenzo Cicanese
Conference Photographer
The official EuroPython conference and social event photos (to be released) were taken by:
EuroPython Sprints photographs were taken by our wonderul volunteers
- George Zisopoulos
- Moisés Guimarães
Susie’s Babysitting
A massive shoutout and deep gratitude to Susie, the owner of our exceptional childcare provider, Susie’s babysitting. With sheer creativity and dedication, she turned our conference rooms into vibrant play havens over a dozen children of varying ages and languages. Many thanks helping us make our conference more accessible!