diff --git a/src/components/sections/keynoters/keynoter.astro b/src/components/sections/keynoters/keynoter.astro
index e07a289b4..2586be20f 100644
--- a/src/components/sections/keynoters/keynoter.astro
+++ b/src/components/sections/keynoters/keynoter.astro
@@ -33,11 +33,7 @@ const Placeholder =
 ---
 
 <li class:list={["list-none rounded-2xl overflow-clip flex group", className]}>
-  <a
-    href={url || undefined}
-    class:list={["block w-full h-full relative", url ? "cursor-pointer" : "cursor-default"]}
-    aria-label={!placeholder ? `View ${name}'s keynote speaker page` : undefined}
-  >
+  <div class="block w-full h-full relative">
     <div class="relative aspect-[9/10] overflow-clip">
       {
         image ? (
@@ -61,9 +57,18 @@ const Placeholder =
           <p class="text-body-inverted">More keynoters coming soon</p>
         ) : (
           <>
-            <h2 class="text-[#17223A] font-bold">
-              <span class="text-2xl font-bold group-hover:underline">{name}</span>
-            </h2>
+            {url ? (
+              <h2 class="text-[#17223A] font-bold">
+                <a
+                  href={url}
+                  class="text-2xl font-bold hover:underline"
+                >
+                  {name}
+                </a>
+              </h2>
+            ) : (
+              <h2 class="text-2xl font-bold">{name}</h2>
+            )}
             {tagline && (
               <h3 class="text-secondary-hover text-lg italic">{tagline}</h3>
             )}
@@ -71,5 +76,5 @@ const Placeholder =
         )
       }
     </div>
-  </a>
+  </div>
 </li>
diff --git a/src/components/sections/keynoters/keynoters.astro b/src/components/sections/keynoters/keynoters.astro
index d802179e9..94f1eef78 100644
--- a/src/components/sections/keynoters/keynoters.astro
+++ b/src/components/sections/keynoters/keynoters.astro
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ const placeholders = Math.max(0, 5 - keynoters.length);
         .map((keynoter, _index) => (
           <Keynoter
             name={keynoter.data.name}
-            url={keynoter.data.url || `/keynoter/${keynoter.id}`}
+            url={keynoter.data.url || ""}
             tagline={keynoter.data.tagline}
             image={keynoter.data.image}
             placeholder={false}
diff --git a/src/content/config.ts b/src/content/config.ts
index b77a10c6e..0efd50279 100644
--- a/src/content/config.ts
+++ b/src/content/config.ts
@@ -47,12 +47,6 @@ const keynoters = defineCollection({
       tagline: z.string().optional(),
       image: image(),
       order: z.number(),
-      homepage: z.string().url().optional(),
-      mastodon_url: z.string().url().optional(),
-      bluesky_url: z.string().url().optional(),
-      twitter_url: z.string().url().optional(),
-      linkedin_url: z.string().url().optional(),
-      github_url: z.string().url().optional(),
     }),
 });
 
diff --git a/src/content/keynoters/guido.md b/src/content/keynoters/guido.md
index c81ca7ad2..60c55ffed 100644
--- a/src/content/keynoters/guido.md
+++ b/src/content/keynoters/guido.md
@@ -2,22 +2,8 @@
 name: Guido van Rossum
 image: ./guido.jpg
 tagline: Creator of Python
+bio:
+  "The creator of Python, now a CPython core developer at Microsoft. Continues
+  to contribute to the language he started in 1989 as a side project."
 order: 3
-twitter_url: https://x.com/gvanrossum
-github_url: https://github.com/gvanrossum
 ---
-
-Guido van Rossum is the creator of Python. He began working on the language in
-the late 1980s at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in the Netherlands,
-building upon his earlier work on the ABC programming language. Guido sought to
-ensure Python was simple, easy to read, and that it enhanced developer
-productivity.
-
-He served as Python's Benevolent Dictator For Life until 2019, guiding the
-language's design and evolution, and helping to shape one of the most
-influential open-source communities in the world.
-
-Guido has worked across academia and the private sector, including roles at
-Google, Dropbox, and Microsoft. He's been contributing to developer tools,
-large-scale systems, and the ongoing evolution of Python. He remains an active
-and highly influential voice in the Python community.
diff --git a/src/content/keynoters/imogen.jpg b/src/content/keynoters/imogen.jpg
deleted file mode 100644
index db64c430b..000000000
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diff --git a/src/content/keynoters/imogen.md b/src/content/keynoters/imogen.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f1615006c..000000000
--- a/src/content/keynoters/imogen.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
----
-name: Imogen Wright
-image: ./imogen.jpg
-tagline: Senior Engineer at Amazon EC2
-order: 7
-linkedin_url: https://linkedin.com/in/imogenwright
-twitter_url: https://x.com/imogenwright
----
-
-Imogen Wright (they/them) is a Senior Engineer at Amazon EC2, where they focus
-on making incredibly complex systems behave. Their career spans over two decades
-of solving high-stakes challenges across theoretical physics, HIV drug
-resistance, COVID genomics, cloud technologies, and even ad tech.
-
-Imogen co-founded Hyrax Biosciences, where their Exatype software helps track
-HIV drug resistance across Africa, and they led the team that assembled the very
-first Omicron variant SARS-CoV-2 genomes.
-
-Imogen's deep technical expertise is backed by an incredible academic foundation
-— they hold a PhD in bioinformatics and a master's in theoretical physics from
-the Perimeter Institute, where Stephen Hawking was the guest of honour at their
-graduation.
diff --git a/src/content/keynoters/leah.md b/src/content/keynoters/leah.md
index 92ef40d87..8dc6d8dcc 100644
--- a/src/content/keynoters/leah.md
+++ b/src/content/keynoters/leah.md
@@ -2,31 +2,9 @@
 name: Leah Wasser
 image: ./leah.png
 tagline: Executive Director & Founder of pyOpenSci
+bio:
+  "Executive Director and founder of pyOpenSci, building a community of 400+
+  researchers making scientific software development more accessible. Organizer
+  of the Maintainers Summit at PyCon US."
 order: 4
-linkedin_url: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leahawasser/
-mastodon_url: https://fosstodon.org/@leahawasser
-bluesky_url: https://bsky.app/profile/leahawasser.bsky.social
-github_url: https://github.com/lwasser
 ---
-
-Leah Wasser is the Executive Director and founder of pyOpenSci, a community of
-400+ researchers, engineers, and maintainers working to make developing and
-maintaining research software more accessible, sustainable, and human. Through
-open peer review — with 60+ packages reviewed to date — contributor mentorship,
-and accessible training, pyOpenSci helps scientists build better software and
-develop the technical skills to participate in open source.
-
-Leah's work sits at the intersection of open source, open science, and open
-education — with inclusion at the center. She organises the Maintainers Summit
-at PyCon US and believes the communities behind research software matter as much
-as the code itself.
-
-As GenAI reshapes how software gets built, Leah is focused on protecting the
-human networks and reciprocal relationships that make open source sustainable —
-not just technically, but socially.
-
-She has built nationally recognised programs at the National Ecological
-Observatory Network (NEON) and the University of Colorado Boulder. Leah holds a
-PhD in ecology and is an active open-source maintainer. In her free time, you
-can find Leah on the trails with her rescue pup or at the gym lifting weights
-and swinging around bars and rings.
diff --git a/src/content/keynoters/lukasz.md b/src/content/keynoters/lukasz.md
index dfcd0cec0..1c9fb04ac 100644
--- a/src/content/keynoters/lukasz.md
+++ b/src/content/keynoters/lukasz.md
@@ -1,12 +1,9 @@
 ---
 name: Łukasz Langa
 image: ./lukasz.webp
-tagline: CPython Core Developer & Creator of Black
+tagline: CPython Core Developer & PEP 703 (nogil) author
+bio:
+  "Python core developer, creator of PEP 703 (nogil), and the current Python
+  Release Manager. Driving performance and concurrency improvements in CPython."
 order: 2
-mastodon_url: https://mastodon.social/@ambv
-bluesky_url: https://bsky.app/profile/lukasz.langa.pl
 ---
-
-Łukasz is a failed comedian. Wannabe musician. Python guy at Meta. Co-host of
-the core.py podcast. Former CPython Developer in Residence at the Python
-Software Foundation. Former Python release manager. Creator of Black.
diff --git a/src/content/keynoters/marlene.jpg b/src/content/keynoters/marlene.jpg
deleted file mode 100644
index bcb9e55c8..000000000
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diff --git a/src/content/keynoters/marlene.md b/src/content/keynoters/marlene.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a494562d8..000000000
--- a/src/content/keynoters/marlene.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
----
-name: Marlene Mhangami
-image: ./marlene.jpg
-tagline: Senior Developer Advocate at Microsoft & GitHub
-order: 6
-linkedin_url: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marlenemhangami/
-mastodon_url: https://fosstodon.org/@Marlene
-bluesky_url: https://bsky.app/profile/marlene.bsky.social
-twitter_url: https://x.com/marlene_zw
----
-
-Marlene is a Senior Developer Advocate at Microsoft and GitHub, where she
-focuses on the cutting edge of Python and AI. As a computer scientist, keynote
-speaker, and explorer, she is a massive driving force behind community growth
-across the globe.
-
-Her impact on open-source leadership is legendary: she is the current co-chair
-of the ACM Practitioner Board, was the previous vice-chair of the Python
-Software Foundation (PSF), and was the lead organiser of the very first PyCon
-Africa.
-
-When she's not busy building the future of Python and AI, she is deeply
-passionate about empowering the next generation of developers, having co-founded
-ZimboPy to mentor and teach young girls in Zimbabwe how to code.
diff --git a/src/content/keynoters/pablo.md b/src/content/keynoters/pablo.md
index 422adad43..680fab7ad 100644
--- a/src/content/keynoters/pablo.md
+++ b/src/content/keynoters/pablo.md
@@ -2,15 +2,8 @@
 name: Pablo Galindo Salgado
 image: ./pablo.jpg
 tagline: CPython Core Developer & Steering Council member
+bio:
+  "Python core developer and Steering Council member. Maintainer of the parser,
+  designer of many language features, and a leading voice in Python's evolution."
 order: 1
-twitter_url: https://twitter.com/pyblogsal
-bluesky_url: https://bsky.app/profile/pablogsal.com
 ---
-
-Pablo Galindo Salgado works in the Python team at Hudson River Trading. He is a
-CPython core developer and a theoretical physicist specialising in general
-relativity and black hole physics.
-
-He serves on the Python Steering Council, having been re-elected for his 6th
-term in 2026, and was the release manager for Python 3.10 and 3.11. He also has
-a cat, though it does not code.
diff --git a/src/content/keynoters/paul.jpg b/src/content/keynoters/paul.jpg
deleted file mode 100644
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diff --git a/src/content/keynoters/paul.md b/src/content/keynoters/paul.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 03975e00e..000000000
--- a/src/content/keynoters/paul.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
----
-name: Paul Everitt
-image: ./paul.jpg
-tagline: Developer Advocate at JetBrains
-order: 8
-mastodon_url: https://fosstodon.org/@pauleveritt
-twitter_url: https://x.com/paulweveritt
-github_url: https://github.com/pauleveritt
----
-
-Paul is a Developer Advocate at JetBrains, focusing on Python and the Web.
-Before that, Paul was a co-founder of Zope Corporation, taking the first open
-source application server through $14M of funding.
-
-Paul has bootstrapped both the Python Software Foundation and the Plone
-Foundation. Prior to that, Paul was an officer in the US Navy, starting
-www.navy.mil in 1993.
diff --git a/src/content/keynoters/william.md b/src/content/keynoters/william.md
deleted file mode 100644
index d5e1e5ca8..000000000
--- a/src/content/keynoters/william.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
----
-name: William Woodruff
-image: ./william.png
-tagline: Member of Technical Staff at Astral
-order: 5
-homepage: https://yossarian.net
-mastodon_url: https://infosec.exchange/@yossarian
-bluesky_url: https://bsky.app/profile/yossarian.net
----
-
-William Woodruff is a Member of Technical Staff at Astral, where he works on
-high-performance, secure tooling for the Python ecosystem. Prior to that he was
-an Engineering Director at Trail of Bits, where he was responsible for
-high-impact security contributions to open-source ecosystems via the open-source
-ecosystem security group.
-
-Outside of work, William is the primary maintainer of zizmor, a maintainer of
-Homebrew, Sigstore, and pip-audit, and a long-term contributor to Python
-cryptography (PyCA) and packaging (PyPI, PyPA). He maintains a website at
-[yossarian.net](https://yossarian.net) and a blog at
-[blog.yossarian.net](https://blog.yossarian.net).
diff --git a/src/content/keynoters/william.png b/src/content/keynoters/william.png
deleted file mode 100644
index fce4d21f7..000000000
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diff --git a/src/pages/keynoter/[slug].astro b/src/pages/keynoter/[slug].astro
deleted file mode 100644
index 2646f074c..000000000
--- a/src/pages/keynoter/[slug].astro
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,198 +0,0 @@
----
-import { getCollection, render } from "astro:content";
-import Layout from "@layouts/Layout.astro";
-import { Image } from "astro:assets";
-import Prose from "@ui/Prose.astro";
-import Headline from "@ui/Headline.astro";
-import Section from "@ui/Section.astro";
-
-export async function getStaticPaths() {
-  const entries = await getCollection("keynoters");
-  return entries.map((entry) => ({
-    params: { slug: entry.id },
-    props: { entry },
-  }));
-}
-
-const { entry } = Astro.props;
-const {
-  name,
-  tagline,
-  image,
-  mastodon_url,
-  bluesky_url,
-  twitter_url,
-  linkedin_url,
-  github_url,
-  homepage,
-} = entry.data;
-
-const { Content } = await render(entry);
-
-function getMastodonUsername(url: string): string | null {
-  const match = url.match(/https?:\/\/([^\/]+)\/@([^\/]+)(\/|\?|$)/);
-  return match ? `@${match[2]}@${match[1]}` : null;
-}
-
-function getBlueskyUsername(url: string): string {
-  const username = url.split("/").pop()?.replace(/^@/, "");
-  return username ? `@${username}` : url;
-}
----
-
-<Layout
-  title={name}
-  description={tagline ?? `${name} — EuroPython 2026 Keynote Speaker`}
->
-  <Section>
-    <!-- Photo + name/tagline: side-by-side on md+, stacked on mobile -->
-    <div class="flex flex-col md:flex-row gap-8 md:gap-10 items-start mb-10">
-      {
-        image && (
-          <div class="shrink-0 border-4 border-white rounded-lg shadow-lg self-start">
-            <Image
-              src={image}
-              alt={`A photo of ${name}`}
-              height={400}
-              width={400}
-              class="w-full max-w-[280px] sm:max-w-[320px] md:max-w-[340px] object-cover rounded-md"
-            />
-          </div>
-        )
-      }
-      <div class="flex flex-col justify-center">
-        <Headline as="h1" id="speaker" title={name} />
-        {tagline && (
-          <p class="text-secondary-hover text-xl italic mt-2">{tagline}</p>
-        )}
-      </div>
-    </div>
-
-    <!-- Bio underneath, full width -->
-    <h2 class="relative font-title text-primary font-bold mb-[0.6em] [&>a]:border-0 [&>a]:text-inherit text-5xl">
-      Biography
-    </h2>
-    <Prose full>
-      <Content />
-    </Prose>
-
-    <!-- Social links -->
-    <Prose full>
-      {
-        (homepage ||
-          mastodon_url ||
-          bluesky_url ||
-          twitter_url ||
-          linkedin_url ||
-          github_url) && (
-          <div class="mb-4">
-            <h2 class="relative font-title text-primary font-bold mb-[0.6em] [&>a]:border-0 [&>a]:text-inherit text-5xl">
-              More about the speaker
-            </h2>
-            <dl>
-              {homepage && (
-                <>
-                  <dt class="font-bold">Website</dt>
-                  <dd>
-                    <a
-                      href={homepage}
-                      class="text-primary underline hover:text-primary-hover"
-                      target="_blank"
-                      rel="noopener noreferrer"
-                    >
-                      {homepage.replace(/^https?:\/\//, "")}
-                    </a>
-                  </dd>
-                </>
-              )}
-              {linkedin_url && (
-                <>
-                  <dt class="font-bold">LinkedIn</dt>
-                  <dd>
-                    <a
-                      href={linkedin_url}
-                      class="text-primary underline hover:text-primary-hover"
-                      target="_blank"
-                      rel="noopener noreferrer"
-                    >
-                      {linkedin_url}
-                    </a>
-                  </dd>
-                </>
-              )}
-              {mastodon_url && (
-                <>
-                  <dt class="font-bold">Mastodon</dt>
-                  <dd>
-                    <a
-                      href={mastodon_url}
-                      class="text-primary underline hover:text-primary-hover"
-                      target="_blank"
-                      rel="noopener noreferrer"
-                    >
-                      {getMastodonUsername(mastodon_url) ?? mastodon_url}
-                    </a>
-                  </dd>
-                </>
-              )}
-              {bluesky_url && (
-                <>
-                  <dt class="font-bold">Bluesky</dt>
-                  <dd>
-                    <a
-                      href={bluesky_url}
-                      class="text-primary underline hover:text-primary-hover"
-                      target="_blank"
-                      rel="noopener noreferrer"
-                    >
-                      {getBlueskyUsername(bluesky_url)}
-                    </a>
-                  </dd>
-                </>
-              )}
-              {twitter_url && (
-                <>
-                  <dt class="font-bold">Twitter / X</dt>
-                  <dd>
-                    <a
-                      href={twitter_url}
-                      class="text-primary underline hover:text-primary-hover"
-                      target="_blank"
-                      rel="noopener noreferrer"
-                    >
-                      @{twitter_url.split("/").pop()}
-                    </a>
-                  </dd>
-                </>
-              )}
-              {github_url && (
-                <>
-                  <dt class="font-bold">GitHub</dt>
-                  <dd>
-                    <a
-                      href={github_url}
-                      class="text-primary underline hover:text-primary-hover"
-                      target="_blank"
-                      rel="noopener noreferrer"
-                    >
-                      @{github_url.split("/").pop()}
-                    </a>
-                  </dd>
-                </>
-              )}
-            </dl>
-          </div>
-        )
-      }
-    </Prose>
-  </Section>
-</Layout>
-
-<style>
-  dl,
-  dd,
-  dt {
-    font-size: 1.25rem;
-    color: var(--color-text);
-  }
-</style>