The biggest Python conference in Europe was held last week in Basel, Switzerland. The EuroPython conference is a great place to meet Pythonistas and learn new things. Check out my list of 20 best talks from the conference. You can watch all of them on YouTube.

With over 120 talks and 6 parallel tracks, its not possible to see all the best talks. The conference app allows attendees to rate each talk and I compiled these ratings to make a list of the 20 talks which were best received at the conference.

	Talk	Speaker	Watch
1.	Become a command line wizard	Sven-Hendrik Haase	YouTube
2.	Machine learning on non curated data	Gael Varoquaux	YouTube
3.	Don’t do this at work	Tiago Montes	YouTube
4.	Optimizing Docker builds for Python applications	Dmitry Figol	YouTube
5.	Exceptional Exceptions	Mario Corchero	YouTube
6.	Practical decorators	Reuven Lerner	YouTube
7.	import bacon 🥓	Ivana Kellyerova	YouTube
8.	Publish a (Perfect) Python Package on PyPI	Mark Smith	YouTube
9.	Software patterns for productive teams	Radoslav Georgiev	YouTube
10.	Python 1994	Paul Everitt	YouTube
11.	Wait, IPython can do that?!	Sebastian Witowski	YouTube
12.	Auditing hooks and security transparency for CPython	Christian Heimes, Steve Dower	YouTube
13.	From Python script to Open Source Project	Michał Karzyński	YouTube
14.	The soul of the beast	Pablo Salgado	YouTube
15.	Modern Data Science with Vaex: A new approach to DataFrames and pipelines	Jovan Veljanoski	YouTube
16.	Downloading a Billion Files in Python	James Saryerwinnie	YouTube
17.	Advanced asyncio: Solving Real-world Production Problems	Lynn Root	YouTube
18.	A Day Has Only 24±1 Hours	Miroslav Šedivý	YouTube
19.	Build your Python Extensions with Rust!	Paul Ganssle	YouTube
20.	How to ship a Python app to a hundred million desktops	Max Bélanger	YouTube

It’s impossible to pick the great talks from EuroPython without leaving some cool talks out. The list above includes the top-rated talks, which had at least 15 ratings in the conference app. Unfortunately this means that some great, but less attended talks did not make the list.

Honourable mentions

If you would like to watch more, here are a few other highly-rated talks in no particular order.

Talk	Speaker	Watch
Zen of Python Dependency Management	Justin Mayer	YouTube
How Thinking in Python Made Me a Better Software Engineer	Johnny Dude	YouTube
Python Performance: Past, Present and Future	Victor Stinner	YouTube
Getting Your Data Joie De Vivre Back!	Lynn Cherny	YouTube
Why You Should Pursue Public Speaking and How to Get There	Yenny Cheung	YouTube
Python’s Parallel Programming Possibilities – 4 levels of concurrency	Samuel Colvin	YouTube
Static typing: beyond the basics of def foo(x: int) –> str:	Vita Smid	YouTube
AI in Contemporary Art	Luba Elliott	YouTube
Is it me, or the GIL?	Christoph Heer	YouTube
How to write a JIT compiler in 30 minutes	Antonio Cuni	YouTube

Which talk did you like best? Leave a note in the comments below.