# Julia Greece goes to PyCon Greece 2025
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-greece-goes-to-pycon-greece-2025/128757
**Category:** Events
**Tags:** question, announcement
**Created:** [May 6, 2025, 1:22pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-greece-goes-to-pycon-greece-2025/128757 "2025-05-06T13:22:02Z")
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### Author:  [@xlxs4](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/xlxs4)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2025, 1:22pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-greece-goes-to-pycon-greece-2025/128757/1 "2025-05-06T13:22:02Z")
# Julia at PyCon Greece 2025 - Opportunity to Showcase Our Language
We’re excited to share that 2025 will mark the inaugural [PyCon Greece](https://2025.pycon.gr/en/) conference. The organizing team has done exceptional work establishing this event, including creating a [financial aid program](https://2025.pycon.gr/en/financial-aid-program/) to ensure broader participation.
After reaching out to the organizers, we’re pleased to report they’ve enthusiastically welcomed Julia’s presence at the conference by offering to:
- Allocate a dedicated 1-hour workshop slot where we can properly introduce Julia and highlight its capabilities to Python users
- Provide a community table throughout the venue for networking and demonstrations
The organizers expressed genuine interest in potential joint events in the future, creating a foundation for ongoing collaboration between our communities. We’ll share a formal announcement once all details are finalized.
## Request for Input
As we prepare for this opportunity, we would greatly appreciate your insights on:
- Which aspects of Julia would be most compelling to highlight for an audience of Python users?
- What practical examples or comparisons would effectively demonstrate Julia’s features?
- Ideas for interactive demonstrations that could work well in a 1-hour workshop format
- Suggestions for materials to distribute at our community table
- Further resources we could share with the audience
If you’ve participated in similar cross-language events (such as PyData 2024 or other Python conferences), we’d be particularly interested in hearing about your experiences and lessons learned.
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@juliohm](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/juliohm)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2025, 2:08pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-greece-goes-to-pycon-greece-2025/128757/2 "2025-05-06T14:08:41Z")
> [@xlxs4](#):
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> Which aspects of Julia would be most compelling to highlight for an audience of Python users?
Avoid the most common mistake to try to sell Julia for its speed. Python users don’t care about that. Instead, focus on state-of-the-art package ecosystems built in Julia and they might be interested in giving it a try. This gives concrete evidence of top-quality work enabled by the language.
**Here is a fact:** the amount of resources directed to Python and its community size are such that there will always be someone willing to pay for the development of low-level libraries in C++/Rust to be wrapped in Python.
> [@xlxs4](#):
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> Further resources we could share with the audience
> **[GitHub - Datseris/whyjulia-manifesto: Why Julia - A Manifesto.](https://github.com/Datseris/whyjulia-manifesto)**
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> Why Julia - A Manifesto.
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### Author:  [@Datseris](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Datseris)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2025, 3:39pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-greece-goes-to-pycon-greece-2025/128757/3 "2025-05-06T15:39:21Z")
I second that, and I would also say it is worth highlighting that the Julia-Python communication ecosystem is really good. Show that if the barrier of learning a new language is too high, `juliacall` is really simple to use. (or, it appears so, I am not a python user!)
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### Author:  [@Datseris](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Datseris)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2025, 3:43pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-greece-goes-to-pycon-greece-2025/128757/4 "2025-05-06T15:43:43Z")
> [@xlxs4](#):
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> Which aspects of Julia would be most compelling to highlight for an audience of Python users?
For me something truly unique and amazing is the composability it offers due to multiple dispatch. If you want a self-contained and runnable example that really proves the point in a meaningful real-world scenario, then the start of this notebook may be relevant: [Zero2Hero-JuliaWorkshop/2-MultipleDispatch.ipynb at main · Datseris/Zero2Hero-JuliaWorkshop · GitHub](https://github.com/Datseris/Zero2Hero-JuliaWorkshop/blob/main/2-MultipleDispatch.ipynb)
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### Author:  [@TheCedarPrince](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/TheCedarPrince)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2025, 8:54pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-greece-goes-to-pycon-greece-2025/128757/5 "2025-05-06T20:54:26Z")
Hey @xlxs4 ,
How exciting and congratulations! If there are any social posts about this on BlueSky, happy to reshare, etc.
Having presented once upon a time at PyData Global ([Presentation: A Visual Odyssey: Animations and Visualizations Made with Julia | PyData Global 2021](https://pydata.org/global2021/schedule/presentation/161/a-visual-odyssey-animations-and-visualizations-made-with-julia/)) the biggest point of feedback I heard was also to not worry so much with making sure everything is all about interop with Python. This was a bit surprising, but I heard that some folks just simply wanted to hear specifically about Julia and why using tools in Julia was so cool.
Just another data point but wanted to share what I had received as feedback! 😃
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### Author:  [@xiaoxi](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/xiaoxi)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2025, 9:24pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-greece-goes-to-pycon-greece-2025/128757/6 "2025-05-06T21:24:04Z")
> [@juliohm](#):
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> Avoid the most common mistake to try to sell Julia for its speed. Python users don’t care about that. Instead, focus on state-of-the-art package ecosystems built in Julia and they might be interested in giving it a try. This gives concrete evidence of top-quality work enabled by the language.
I wonder if the Julia community could come up with an easy example that shows the advantages of Julia over Python similar to this Rust and C++ example.
> **[Matt Godbolt sold me on Rust (by showing me C++)](https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2025/05/06/matt-godbolt-sold-me-on-rust-by-showing-me-c-plus-plus/)**
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> Looking at C++ from another angle can create new possibilities using Rust.
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### Author:  [@juliohm](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/juliohm)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2025, 10:57am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-greece-goes-to-pycon-greece-2025/128757/7 "2025-05-07T10:57:47Z")
Another resource:
> [@Comparison tables for various Julia packages](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/comparison-tables-for-various-julia-packages/128786):
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> Context Julia enthusiasts are always pitching the language to colleagues, and despite various technical arguments, we often fail to show how the language can concretely impact scientist’s productivity. Given this context, I am starting this thread to collect concrete evidence that the language enables state-of-the-art package ecosystems. Goal The ultimate goal is to collect comparison tables between Julia package ecosystems and alternatives written in other languages. These tables can be worth…
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### Author:  [@xlxs4](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/xlxs4)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2025, 11:46am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-greece-goes-to-pycon-greece-2025/128757/8 "2025-08-19T11:46:11Z")
Thank you all! The abstract is [live](https://pretalx.com/pycongr25/talk/review/ZTUH7VQZYJAFQJPXZRKXWE9SKVRTXYZA)