PyCon Sweden 2026

Inessa Pawson is an open source maintainer, educator, and community builder. She contributes across the Python ecosystem, most notably to NumPy, PyOpenSci, the Scientific Python project, and helps organize the SciPy conference and the Maintainer Summit at PyCon US. In her role as Director of the Open Source Program Office at OpenTeams, Inessa leads initiatives that support the human infrastructure of open source, broaden pathways to participation, and lay the foundations for an open, distributed AI economy. As AI transforms how software is produced, her work in open source increasingly focuses on how we build technological systems that preserve autonomy, respect privacy, and enable individuals and organizations to retain meaningful ownership and control of their data, knowledge, and creative work. Inessa is perpetually fascinated by collaborative intelligence, incentive design, and jazz.