Est. 2019 Dar es Salaam

Python,
grown in Tanzania.

From a handful of enthusiasts in Dar es Salaam to the team that brought DjangoCon Africa to the continent — twice. Python Tanzania runs the conferences, workshops, and meetups that grow the country's developers.

2026 — next

Sixth PyCon Tanzania

Details

The next national conference is in planning — bigger workshops, more students, wider reach.

Django Girls

Free one-day workshops that take women from zero to a deployed Django app, with a mentor beside them the whole way.

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Her first web app, mentored

PyCon Tanzania

The national Python conference — five days of talks, workshops and lightning talks. The sixth edition lands in 2026.

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The national Python stage

PyData Tanzania

Tutorials, talks and sprints across data, machine learning and the wider Python ecosystem — aimed at local problems.

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Data & ML on local problems

The journey

How Python took root

A real sequence — each year built on the one before it.

2019

First PyCon Tanzania

The inaugural national Python conference — grown out of grassroots meetups and Django Girls workshops, and backed by the Python and Django Software Foundations.

Held in Dar es Salaam, it brought the country's Python developers together for the first time across talks, hands-on labs and community meetups — with data science already in focus.

Where it all began
2020

PyCon Tanzania

Data science, ethical hacking, forensic investigation and cloud computing — with networking at the centre.

2022

PyCon Tanzania

The fourth edition — momentum that set the stage for hosting DjangoCon Africa.

Since 2023

Django Girls Tanzania

Free workshops alongside every PyCon — 30–60 women build and deploy their first web app each time.

2021

PyCon Tanzania

A strong data science and AI/ML track, plus the Fourth Industrial Revolution and cybersecurity.

2024

Fifth PyCon Tanzania

300+ attendees and 100+ students over five days.

2026 — new

PyData Tanzania

Data science joins the line-up — tutorials, talks and sprints across data, ML and the wider Python ecosystem.

On the continental stage

Tanzania hosted DjangoCon Africa — twice.

The first-ever DjangoCon Africa came to Zanzibar in 2023, and the second to Arusha in 2025 — organised by this community for developers from across the continent and beyond.

Zanzibar 2023 Arusha 2025
Ubuntu in Tanzania

UbuCon Africa came to Arusha.

In 2025 the community co-hosted UbuCon Africa alongside DjangoCon Africa in Arusha — held on Django's 20th anniversary, and bringing the Ubuntu and wider open-source community together with developers from across the continent.

Arusha 2025
The programme

The full five-day timetable

One conference, five days — 10–14 November 2026 in Dar es Salaam. Django Girls opens the week, PyData brings the workshops and talks, and PyCon closes it out. Each track also lives on its own site; this is the whole picture in one place.

5
days · 10–14 Nov 2026
45+
sessions across the week
3
tracks · Django Girls · PyData · PyCon
20+
workshop leaders & speakers
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Day 1 — Django Girls · Foundations

Tuesday 10 November · set-up, Python basics & the web

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Community

Three initiatives, one community

Each one opens a different door into Tanzania's Python ecosystem — from a first workshop to a national stage.

The first door in

Django Girls

A free one-day workshop that takes a beginner from an empty editor to a Django app running on the web — with a coach at her shoulder for every step of it. For most of the women in the photograph below, this was the first time they had written any code at all.

Attendees coding together around shared tables at PyCon Tanzania
PyCon Tanzania · sprint tables

PyCon Tanzania

The national stage — five days of talks, workshops and lightning talks that pull the whole country's Python community into one room. The sixth edition lands in 2026.

PyData Tanzania

Meetups and workshops for data science, machine learning and AI — the door for people who already write Python and want to point it at local problems.

The full cohort of attendees gathered at a Python Tanzania event
The whole room
Everyone who showed up
Django Girls Tanzania participants and coaches gathered together after a workshop
Django Girls
Workshop cohort
The people

The team behind every event

A small secretariat and a wider circle of volunteers — the people who plan, organise, and run Python Tanzania's conferences and workshops.

Noah Maina, Convener and Lead Organizer, Python Tanzania

Noah Maina

Convener & Lead Organizer
Lupyana, Secretariat, Python Tanzania

Lupyana

Julius, Secretariat, Python Tanzania

Julius

CatherineRose, Secretariat, Python Tanzania

CatherineRose

Fuad, Secretariat, Python Tanzania

Fuad

Mtuchi, Secretariat, Python Tanzania

Mtuchi

Hajra Honero, Secretariat, Python Tanzania

Hajra Honero

The lead

Convener & Lead

Coordinates the community's conferences, workshops, and partnerships — keeping every edition moving from first plan to final talk.

The standing team

Secretariat

The standing team between editions — programme and speakers, venues and logistics, sponsorship, community outreach, and the year-round work that turns a date on the calendar into an event.

Support

Support & Volunteers

The hands that make each event run on the day — registration and check-in, logistics, session support, AV and media, hospitality, and everything in between.

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Sponsors

The people who make it happen

Every edition since 2019 has been funded by organisations that believe in Tanzanian developers. Here is how to join them, how partnership works, and who they are.

Partners who support us

The organisations that back every edition

Who backs us

Backed since 2019

Every edition since 2019 has been funded by the organisations opposite. They span international funders, national innovation programmes, universities that host the events on their campuses, and the connectivity providers that keep the rooms online — a mix that has kept Python Tanzania running as a nationwide community rather than a single-city meetup.

Past sponsors
Python Software Foundation
UK Aid
Seedspace
Maisha Broadband
HDIF — Human Development Innovation Fund
Habari Node
Flashnet
TISPA
Beem
Wiacom
University of Dar es Salaam
Code for Africa
SUZA — State University of Zanzibar
K15
IAA
Tiers

Choose the level that fits your goals

★ Gold

Premium Partnership

Keynote slots, maximum visibility, dedicated booth and VIP networking access.

  • Keynote speaking slot
  • Premium booth space
  • Logo on all materials
  • VIP networking access
  • Social media takeover
Become a Gold partner
★ Silver

Growth Partnership

Workshop hosting, moderate visibility and community engagement.

Learn more
★ Bronze

Community Support

Logo placement, social mentions and community recognition.

Learn more

Custom Partnership

Have a unique idea? Let's build a tailored partnership that works for both sides.

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Get involved

Back the community

Where it goes

What your support funds

  • Tickets that stay affordable, so cost never decides who attends.
  • Travel and student grants that bring people in from across the country.
  • Free Django Girls workshops — every seat, mentor and meal covered.
Enquiries collaboration@python.tz

The organising team, Dar es Salaam. Tell us what you have in mind and we'll send the current prospectus.

PyCon sells its sponsorship packages through its own checkout; for PyData, talk to us directly:

PyCon packages Email us about PyData
Secretariat and Organisers

Who runs Python Tanzania

Primary Secretariat

Binary Labs

Binary Labs holds the secretariat for Python Tanzania — the standing office behind the events. It keeps the calendar, handles logistics, budgets and sponsor liaison, and carries the community's records from one edition to the next, so every Python event runs to the same standard whoever is hosting it.

Main Organisers
PYTHON TANZANIA
Binary Labs
Irabu
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