Talk and Poster Presentation Instructions
Below is an overview on this year’s conference talk and poster tracks as well as instructions on submitting your Abstract and Description for a proposal
Highlighted Tracks
This year we are happy to announce two highlighted tracks that run in parallel with the general conference tracks: \
Spirit of SciPy (Featured)
25 years ago, the first SciPy conference convened scientists eager to work together to solve open problems with Python. As the community and conference have grown, the spirit of this first meeting remains central to SciPy. This highlighted track celebrates our ongoing commitment to open-source software and the ethos of collaborative learning, sharing and discovery. We invite submissions that showcase stories of ground-up collaborations, interdisciplinary uses or unconventional repurposing of domain-specific tools, and projects and organizations that trace their roots to SciPy itself.
Data-Driven Discovery, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (Featured)
This track aims to bring together the latest advances in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) and areas of data-driven insights that focus on advancing novel discovery across fields and applications in science and industry. This includes the development and application of new and existing open-source tools and techniques that have been influential in advancing scientific progress. We encourage submissions that include stories of applications and improvements to simulation and simulation-based inference.
Additional Conference Tracks
General
This track showcases tools and projects that highlight the broad applicability to use Python in science. This includes the development and application of open-source tools in the SciPy ecosystem. We also encourage submissions that don’t fit well into any of the existing domain-specific tracks, as well as interdisciplinary topics that would benefit a wider audience.
Physics and Astronomy
This track highlights the use of Python in physics, astronomy, and related fields. Topics include, but are not limited to, data analysis, simulation, and visualization in experimental and theoretical physics and astronomy. This year we are encouraging submissions related to quantum information science, including quantum computing, simulation, and control. We continue to welcome submissions demonstrating how Python advances discovery and innovation in understanding the physical universe.
Environmental, Earth, and Climate Sciences
This track welcomes submissions showcasing how Python is applied to understand, model, and solve scientific problems in the earth, environmental, and climate sciences, broadly construed. This includes the domains of earth, ocean, geo, ecological, environmental, climate, and atmospheric science and engineering.
Maintainers and Community
This track covers the unique work and challenges experienced by the maintainer community. . Topics include, but are not limited to, experience and lessons learned from building an organization, launching an important technical change, maintaining an open-source project, and growing communities of contributors or users. We encourage speakers to go beyond “project updates” and instead share stories that convey transferable lessons to others who are building or want to build open source projects and communities.
Biological and Medical Sciences
This track showcases the use of Python in medicine, biology, and the life sciences. Topics include, but are not limited to, computational biology, medical imaging, health data analysis, bioinformatics, and applications involving medical instruments and laboratory automation. We welcome submissions illustrating how Python advances research, discovery, and innovation in understanding living systems and improving human health.
Scientific Computing in Education
This track highlights the use of scientific computing in academia, both in teaching and research. Key topics include, but are not limited to, the use of scientific computing in the classroom, tools for teaching and learning, and academic research projects using the Python ecosystem. We particularly encourage submissions from student speakers on research or learning experiences.
Does your tool apply to a broad audience? Do you not see any other tracks that are thematically appropriate for your talk? Do you want to talk about lots of tools spanning many domains? Submit your proposal to the General track!
Planning for your proposal submission? Proposals must be submitted by February 25, 2026 AOE. Here's what you'll need for a submission:
Abstract
Your Abstract will appear in the online schedule and give attendees a sense of your talk. This should be around 100 words or less. The abstract will be what appears in the conference schedule.
Description
Your placement in the program will be based on reviews of your description. This should be a roughly 500-word outline of your presentation. This outline should concisely describe software of interest to the SciPy community, tools or techniques for more effective computing, or how scientific Python was applied to solve a research problem. A traditional background/motivation, methods, results, and conclusion structure is encouraged but not required. Links to project websites, source code repositories, figures, full papers, and evidence of public speaking ability are encouraged.
You must choose whether to submit as a talk, tutorial, or poster. Talks that are not selected will automatically be considered for a poster slot. Please note that a virtual-only poster is possible.
The form allows you to upload a paper. This is optional. You do not need to upload a paper in order to submit a talk or poster.