Our Sponsors

Google has long supported the Python language and its community, from core contributions to CPython to backing community programs like Google Summer of Code that bring new contributors into open source projects.

Many of the tools Python developers rely on day to day, from TensorFlow to gRPC to Google Cloud's Python client libraries, come out of Google's broader investment in developer tooling and open source.

We're grateful for Google's support of PyCon Africa 2026 as we grow the Python community across the continent.

Black Python Devs is a global community for Black software engineers and Python enthusiasts, built around mentorship, networking, and creating visible pathways into the Python ecosystem.

Through meetups, talks, and online spaces, the community connects developers across the diaspora, including a growing base of members here in Africa, and champions representation within Python events and open source projects.

We're glad to have Black Python Devs supporting PyCon Africa 2026 as we work together to grow a more inclusive Python community on the continent.

Africa's Talking is joining PyCon Africa 2026 as a Regional Silver sponsor. We're grateful for their support and look forward to sharing more about their work soon.

JetBrains builds intelligent developer tools used by software teams around the world, including IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, and a growing family of language-specific IDEs, alongside collaboration and productivity tools that help teams ship better software faster.

For Python developers, PyCharm has long been a go-to IDE, offering smart code completion, debugging, and testing support that makes working in Python more productive whether you're building a small script or a large-scale application.

JetBrains has a long history of supporting the Python community through free licenses for open source maintainers, students, and educators, and by sponsoring conferences and meetups across the globe. We're grateful to have them supporting PyCon Africa 2026 as we grow the Python community on the continent.

Posit builds open-source and professional tools for data science, including RStudio and Posit tools that support both R and Python workflows for analysis, visualisation, and reporting.

With products like Positron, Posit Connect, and Quarto, the company backs many of the data science tools that Python developers on the data and analytics side already rely on day to day.

We're thankful for Posit's support of PyCon Africa 2026, helping us bring more data science resources to our community.

The Django Software Foundation is the nonprofit organisation behind the Django web framework, responsible for stewarding the project, funding a Django Fellow to maintain the framework, and supporting the wider community through grants and sponsorships.

Django remains one of the most widely used Python web frameworks, and the Foundation's ongoing investment in the project and its community has helped Django developers around the world, including many here in Africa, build on a solid, well-supported foundation.

The Foundation is supporting PyCon Africa 2026 as both a Bronze and a Diversity sponsor, with the diversity contribution going directly towards making the conference reachable for attendees who would otherwise be unable to join us. We're grateful for their support as we grow the Python community across the continent.

DEFNA (Django Events Foundation North America) is a nonprofit that has supported the Django community since 2015, organising DjangoCon US and handing out grants to help local Django events happen around the world.

Beyond running its own conference, DEFNA puts real effort into diversity and financial aid, making sure the Django community stays open to newcomers wherever they are.

We're happy to have DEFNA on board as a Bronze sponsor of PyCon Africa 2026, supporting our shared goal of a more inclusive Python and Django community.

Kolaborate is joining PyCon Africa 2026 as a Regional Bronze sponsor and an Expo sponsor. We're grateful for their support and look forward to sharing more about their work soon.

Valkey is an open source, high-performance key/value datastore, continuing the Redis-compatible lineage under the stewardship of the Linux Foundation and a broad community of contributors.

Python developers reach for it as a cache, message broker, and session store, and it is supported by the client libraries many Python applications already depend on.

We're grateful to have Valkey supporting PyCon Africa 2026 as a Visibility sponsor.

O'Reilly has spent decades helping people learn the skills and ideas that shape the technology industry, first through its widely recognised technical books and now through an online learning platform offering live courses, books, videos, and interactive content covering everything from Python fundamentals to advanced data engineering.

Many Python developers got their start with an O'Reilly book on their desk, and that tradition of practical, in-depth technical learning continues today through the platform's expanding library of Python and data science content.

We're thankful for O'Reilly's in-kind support of PyCon Africa 2026, helping us equip attendees with resources to keep learning long after the conference ends.

Sunbird AI is a Kampala-based nonprofit building practical AI systems for social good, from local-language speech and translation tools to models that support public health and agriculture across the region.

We're glad to have Sunbird AI join us as a Regional Expo sponsor for PyCon Africa 2026.

Rift Research Labs is joining PyCon Africa 2026 as a Regional Expo sponsor. We're grateful for their support and look forward to sharing more about their work soon.

TwelveInks Company Limited is a technology and cloud solutions provider dedicated to delivering practical, accessible digital tools for businesses and developers across Africa.

Through products like TwelveInks Cloud, a platform for virtual servers, managed databases, private networks, application deployment, and cybersecurity, as well as TwelveInks WorkDrive, a secure cloud environment for file management and collaboration, TwelveInks provides developers with the core infrastructure needed to launch and scale applications reliably.

We're proud to have TwelveInks supporting PyCon Africa 2026 as we work together to grow the tech and open-source ecosystem across the continent.

AI Studio Uganda builds practical, sovereign AI systems for African institutions, working with businesses and public sector partners on AI solutions designed for local realities.

We're excited to have AI Studio Uganda join us as a Regional Expo sponsor for PyCon Africa 2026.

Kolaborate is joining PyCon Africa 2026 as a Regional Bronze sponsor and an Expo sponsor. We're grateful for their support and look forward to sharing more about their work soon.

AI Fest is joining PyCon Africa 2026 as a Regional Expo sponsor. We're grateful for their support and look forward to sharing more about their work soon.