My experience at PyCon US 2026

A personal recap of PyCon US 2026 in Long Beach, California, written by a Microsoft developer advocate. Highlights include delivering a 3.5-hour tutorial on building MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers using FastMCP and Keycloak, two sessions at the Education Summit covering AI-powered presentation workflows, staffing the Microsoft sponsor booth, attending talks on topics like AI's impact on OSS maintainers and Pydantic's LLM tooling, organizing an improv open space, participating in the PyLadies charity auction that raised $60,000, and contributing to OSS sprints at the Pallets table.