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  We take a look at an independent conference that checks the state of software engineering,  education and industry culture amidst the rapid rise of artificial intelligence. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/99-professional/19170-what-happened-at-software-should-work-2026-conference.html

  PyCon US is the largest and longest running annual gathering of the Python community. We provide an overview of this year's event. PyCon US is produced and underwritten by the non profit Python    Software Foundation (PSF), brining together a diverse attendee base, ranging from absolute beginners to core CPython developers, open source maintainers,    data scientists, researchers and community organizers. This year it took place at the Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center in Long Beach, California during May 13-19. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/216-python/19155-what-happened-at-pycon-us-2026.html

  PGConf.dev (PostgreSQL Development Conference) is a highly technical developer focused conference primarily designed for the people who build, maintain and extend the database system itself. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/99-professional/19126-what-happened-at-pgconfdev-2026.html

  AI-fokus, a spin off of Jfokus, is a conference focusing  on the evolution of agentic AI and its practical implementation in software development. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/18981-what-happened-at-ai-fokus-2026.html

  JNation Conference is a software development event held annually in Coimbra, Portugal, that covers various topics relevant to the software development industry. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/80-java/18966-what-happened-at-jnation-2026-.html

  This year's premier Spring developer community conference, Spring I/O, ran in Barcelona on 13-15 April; 3 days packed with 60 talks and 9 workshops, 80 speakers and 1200+ attendees. Its sessions are now available online. We pick out some highlights. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/80-java/18901-spring-io-2026-sessions-now-available-online.html

  Jfokus is a large and well-established Java developer conference, held in Stockholm, Sweden, since 2007. We check this year's highlights. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/80-java/18809-jfokus-2026-the-highlights.html

  The Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR), is a gathering for researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry to discuss the latest visionary ideas in the database field. We look into what this year's conference was about. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/84-database/18761-cidr-conference-2026-looks-at-future-of-databases.html

  This year, the annual event ran between 31 January & 1 February 2026, attracting a lot of interest. We provide an overview of the content presented and assorted highlights. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/99-professional/18729-what-happened-at-fosdem-2026.html

  The 15th annual PostgreSQL Conference Europe ran on October 22–24, 2025 in Riga, Latvia, attracting a lot of interest.We provide an overview of the content and assorted highlights. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/84-database/18678-what-happened-at-the-postgresql-conference-europe-2025.html

  The OpenSSL Conference is the premier event for cryptography and secure communications professionals. In 2025, it ran between October 7-9 in Prague. We check the highlights. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/99-professional/18630-what-happened-at-the-openssl-conference-2025.html

  PostGIS Day is a chance to learn how others are making use of PostGIS and exchange ideas to make the best out of it. PostGIS of course is the extension that adds to PostgreSQL support for storing, indexing, and querying geospatial data. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/80-java/18564-what-happened-at-postgis-day-2025-.html

  NODES is the biggest graph community gathering dedicated to applications, data intelligence, knowledge graphs, and AI.  Let's find out what happened this year. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/99-professional/18536-the-gist-of-the-nodes-2025-dev-conference.html

  Two great PostgreSQL conferences, PGConf.dev and Posette, took place during May and June this year. We take a look at the key talks of each of them. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/84-database/18298-postgresql-conferences-in-2025.html

  Java conferences seems to go on for ever! Previously we've covered Spring I/O, KotlinConf, Devoxx, JavaOne and Voxxed. However, the series wouldn't be complete without JCON EUROPE 2025, which took place between May 12–15 in Cologne. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/80-java/18222-2025-java-conferences-galore-part-5.html

  MCP has taken the industry by storm just one year after its appearance. And now we have an MCP Summit, run by the trend setters themselves! https://www.i-programmer.info/news/99-professional/18170-mcp-developers-summit-the-talks.html

  A virtual conference packed with sessions on the intersection of software engineering and AI. Let's take a look at this year's conference. AI Native DevCon is the conference subdivision of the AI Native Dev organization. It is an organization that aims to foster innovation by helping developers to adopt AI effectively in their engineering work; from speeding up coding and debugging to automating repetitive tasks. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/169-robotics/18107-ai-native-devcon-2025-the-talks.html

  Continuing the series highlighting conferences you may have missed we come right up to date with Spring I/O and KotlinConf, both of which took place during May 2025. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/99-professional/18074-2025-java-conferences-galore-part-4.html

  We continue the lowdown on Java conferences. Having looked initally at sessions from three Voxxed events, last week we explored two Devoxx events and JavaOne. This week it's the turn of JChampions and JDConf. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/80-java/18060-early-2025-java-conferences-galore-part-3.html

  We continue the lowdown of Java conferences that took place in the first half of 2025. Last week we explored three Voxxed sessions, this week it's Devoxx Greece, Devoxx UK and JavaOne. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/80-java/18042-early-2025-java-conferences-galore-part-2.html