---
title: "Pixeltable Selected for PyCon US 2026 Startup Row"
date: "2026-03-05"
author: "Pierre Brunelle"
tags:
  - PyCon
  - Conference
  - Startup Row
  - Open Source
  - Python
  - Community
  - Pixeltable
description: "We're thrilled to announce that Pixeltable has been selected for Startup Row at PyCon US 2026 in Long Beach, California. Find us at our booth Thursday through Saturday, May 14–16, and see how declarative multimodal AI infrastructure works in practice."
url: "https://pixeltable.com/blog/pycon-us-2026-startup-row"
---

# Pixeltable Selected for PyCon US 2026 Startup Row

**We're heading to PyCon US 2026.** Pixeltable has been selected for [Startup Row](https://us.pycon.org/2026/attend/startup-row/), PyCon's curated showcase of early-stage companies building with Python. We'll be at the Long Beach Convention Center **May 13–19, 2026**, with our booth on Startup Row **Thursday through Saturday, May 14–16**. We'd love to meet you there.

 
## What Is Startup Row?

 
[Startup Row](https://us.pycon.org/2026/attend/startup-row/) is PyCon US's program for early-stage companies to showcase what they're building with Python. Since 2011, over 150 companies have participated: alumni include Coalition (now valued at $1B+), Chainguard (also $1B+), and companies acquired by Snowflake, Databricks, and Confluent.

 
We're proud to join that lineage and represent the open-source multimodal AI infrastructure community at the largest Python conference in the world.

 
## Why We're Excited

 
Pixeltable is **built in Python, for Python developers**. Everything about it (the declarative table API, the computed column system, the UDF framework, the embedding indexes) is designed so that Python is the only language you need to build production multimodal AI applications.

 
PyCon is where we belong. The Python community has shaped how we think about developer experience, and Startup Row is the perfect place to show what's possible when you stop stitching together seven services and start writing ten lines of Python instead:

 
```python
import pixeltable as pxt
import pixeltable.functions as pxtf

# One table, one view: vision caption + CLIP embedding index, a complete video pipeline
videos = pxt.create_table('demo.videos', {'video': pxt.Video, 'title': pxt.String})
frames = pxt.create_view('demo.frames', videos,
 iterator=pxtf.video.frame_iterator(video=videos.video, fps=1))

frames.add_computed_column(description=pxtf.openai.chat_completions(
 messages=[{
 'role': 'user',
 'content': [
 {'type': 'text', 'text': "Describe this frame."},
 {'type': 'image_url', 'image_url': {'url': frames.frame}},
 ],
 }],
 model='gpt-4o-mini',
 ).choices[0].message.content)
frames.add_embedding_index('frame', embedding=pxtf.huggingface.clip.using(
 model_id='openai/clip-vit-base-patch32'))

# Insert a video: everything runs automatically
videos.insert([{'video': 'demo.mp4', 'title': 'PyCon Demo'}])
```

 
## Where to Find Us

 
We'll be at the **Long Beach Convention Center** in Long Beach, California. Come find the Pixeltable team on **Startup Row** in the expo hall:

 
| Date | Find us | Where |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Thu, May 14, 2026 | Opening Reception: Startup Row booth | Expo Hall |
| Fri, May 15, 2026 | Main conference: Startup Row booth | Expo Hall |
| Sat, May 16, 2026 | Main conference: Startup Row booth | Expo Hall |

 
Stop by for live demos, questions, stickers, and conversation with the team building Pixeltable. For tutorials, keynotes, sprints, and the rest of the week, see the [full PyCon US 2026 conference schedule](https://us.pycon.org/2026/schedule/).

 
## Team at PyCon

 
Come say hello to:

 

 - **Alison Hill**, Product: [GitHub](https://github.com/apreshill) · [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/apreshill/)

 - **Marcel Kornacker**, Creator, Co-Founder, & CTO: [GitHub](https://github.com/mkornacker) · [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcelkornacker/)

 

 
Whether you're working on video intelligence, RAG pipelines, AI agents, or multimodal search, we want to hear what you're building and how we can help.

 
## What We'll Be Showing

 

 - **Live demos**: Video intelligence pipelines, multimodal RAG, and the [Starter Kit](https://github.com/pixeltable/pixeltable-starter-kit) running end-to-end

 - **The declarative approach**: How `pxt.create_table`, computed columns, and embedding indexes replace S3 + Pinecone + Airflow + custom glue

 - **AI agent infrastructure**: [Pixelagent](/blog/pixelagent-launch) for stateful agents with persistent memory and tool use, powered by Pixeltable's storage layer

 - **Developer tools**: [MCP Server](/blog/pixeltable-mcp-developer-edition-launch) for interactive Pixeltable exploration, [Claude Code Skill](/agent-skill), and [llms.txt](https://docs.pixeltable.com/llms.txt) for AI-assisted development

 - **Multimodal data products**: Browse and query public datasets at [pixeltable.com/data-products](/data-products)

 

 
## Open Source, Python-Native

 
Pixeltable is [fully open source](https://github.com/pixeltable/pixeltable) under Apache 2.0. No vendor lock-in, no proprietary query language, no separate infrastructure to manage. It's a `pip install` and you're running.

 
If you're at PyCon, come say hello. If you can't make it, you can always:

 

 - [Star us on GitHub](https://github.com/pixeltable/pixeltable)

 - [Try the 10-Minute Tour](https://docs.pixeltable.com/overview/ten-minute-tour)

 - [Subscribe on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@PixeltableHQ): walkthroughs, demos, and release highlights

 - [Join our Discord](https://discord.gg/QPyqFYx2UN)

 

 
*See you in Long Beach. 🏖️*

 
## Event Details

 

 - **What:** [PyCon US 2026](https://us.pycon.org/2026/)

 - **When:** May 13–19, 2026

 - **Startup Row booth:** Thu–Sat, May 14–16, 2026, Expo Hall

 - **Where:** Long Beach Convention Center, Long Beach, California

 - **Startup Row:** [PyCon Startup Row](https://us.pycon.org/2026/attend/startup-row/)

 - **Registration:** [Register for PyCon US 2026](https://us.pycon.org/2026/)

 - **YouTube:** [@PixeltableHQ](https://www.youtube.com/@PixeltableHQ)