Dear friends, we are delighted to get to announce to you the opening of the Kiwi PyCon 2025 call for proposals.

Kiwi PyCon 2025 is the fourteenth New Zealand Python programming language and community conference. It will be held in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, from the 21st to the 23rd of November.

Kiwi PyCon is a three-day, two-track conference. Saturday and Sunday are populated by 30-minute and 45-minute presentations on all ranges of topics and skill levels. Our conference is attended by people with a wide range of interests and experiences, including experienced professional programmers, people who use Python to support their work in other fields, students, hobbyists, researchers, and academics.

Today we are opening the call for proposals for presentations and for the “poster session”.

By speaking at Kiwi PyCon, you are shaping the future of the community in New Zealand and beyond. Speaking at a conference is an amazingly rewarding experience, and Kiwi PyCon cannot be what it is without the contributions of our speakers, new and experienced.

This year, for the first time, we’re also offering an additional optional Academic Track option for your proposal. The abstracts for the Academic Track presentations will be peer reviewed and published on Zenodo after the conference. The talks will still be in the same venue to the same audience – but you’ll get to have a peer-reviewed publication afterwards.

The CFP for presentations will close on the 21st of August (“anywhere on earth“). The final day for poster submissions is October 15th.

Head to the submitting a talk page for the full details, and to submit your proposal. By the way: you can edit your proposal right up until the deadline, so you can open it now, and improve it over time.

Other pages with information you’ll want to read include our tips for presenters page, our health and safety policy, and our code of conduct.

We are so glad to once again be able to host you all here in Wellington. We can’t wait to see you, and learn from you!