About Pereira Tech Talks

Pereira Tech Talks (PTT) is the technology community of Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia. The story starts in February 2014: eight developers in a UTP classroom for the first PereiraJS meetup. Twelve years on, that small circle is a four-program community — monthly meetups (84 and counting), the annual Pereira Tech Day conference (2024 archive; 2026 postponed indefinitely), the Speaker School, and the La Biblioteca del Mañana reading club. All volunteer-built. All open.

The work is sponsor-supported (DailyBot, GitHub, ASE-UTP, Gorilla Logic, Made for Germany, Source Meridian, and more) and open by default. The site you are reading is a catalog of meetups, talks, slides, speakers, contributors, and sponsors — available in Spanish and English — structured to be just as useful to AI agents as it is to humans.

We believe technology grows faster when we share what we learn — that is why every meetup recap is published the same week. We believe Pereira has world-class talent that deserves world-class stages — that is why the Speaker School exists and why community alumni now keynote in Bogotá, Medellín, Mexico City, and at YC-backed startups. And we believe a tech community should look like the city it lives in — open, warm, mixed, and unpretentious. That is why our events are free, our channels are public, and our content is published in Spanish and English.