How the Speaker School works (and what graduates do next)
A deep look at Pereira Tech Talks' Speaker School: why it exists, the curriculum, the mentor model, and the alumni trajectories that justify the bet.
Articles & Stories
Articles, meetup recaps, and tutorials from Pereira Tech Talks — bilingual community writing from Risaralda’s tech scene since 2014.
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10+ years of running a volunteer tech community: 5 lessons we learned the hard way
Twelve years and 84 meetups in, here are five operational lessons from Pereira Tech Talks — what we got right, what we got wrong, and what we would tell…
The bilingual library model: why we publish everything in Spanish AND English
Why Pereira Tech Talks deliberately publishes every blog post, slide deck, meetup recap, and speaker profile in both Spanish and English — and why this…
What is Pereira Tech Talks (and why it matters)
The definitive answer to what Pereira Tech Talks is, what we run, and why this bilingual tech community from Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia has grown into one…
Why Pereira: 12 years of building a tech community in Risaralda
Why a city of 470,000 people in Colombia's coffee region has produced one of the most consistent tech communities in the country — and what that means for…
We are moving to Luma
Starting in late 2025, all Pereira Tech Talks meetups are published and registered through Luma at luma.com/pertechtalks — replacing Meetup.com as our primary event platform.
PereiraJS joins Pereira Tech Talks
In 2024, the JavaScript-focused PereiraJS community merged into Pereira Tech Talks. PereiraJS organizer Santiago Bernal explains what changes — and what stays.
Quarantine Tech Talks: how the community went virtual in 2020
When in-person meetups stopped in 2020, Pereira Tech Talks ran a series of fully-virtual sessions — Quarantine Tech Talks — covering the state of…
Pereira Tech Talks events: 2019 in review
A month-by-month recap of every Pereira Tech Talks meetup in 2019 — from frontend modern React to serverless, OWASP security, NoSQL, Go and Kubernetes, plus…
My experience at Digital Product School (Munich)
A first-person account of Batch #5 at Digital Product School in Munich — applying, traveling, building a product in a multidisciplinary team, and surviving Alpine hikes.
How to apply for software engineering roles at Google
A community guide derived from Google materials shared at PereiraJS: tips for your résumé, transcript, online application, and interview preparation.
Pereira Tech Talks recognized at the 2018 ASE-UTP Convention
Pereira Tech Talks was named one of the standout collectives shaping innovation in the region during the XX ASE-UTP Convention in 2018.
We are on Telegram
Pereira Tech Talks opened public Telegram groups in 2018 — one for the broader community and one specific to PereiraJS — to keep the conversation alive between meetups.
Why competitive programming matters in your software engineering career
A community essay arguing that competitive programming sharpens problem-solving, code review, debugging, and interview skills that translate directly to software engineering work.
Happy New Year 2018, Pereira Tech Talks
A community thank-you note closing out 2017 — and an invitation to join the Telegram channel and apply to speak at meetups in 2018.
PereiraJS at JSConf Colombia 2017
A photo recap from JSConf Colombia 2017 — PereiraJS attended and brought back energy, ideas, and connections for the local JavaScript community.
NodeSchool International Day 2016 — Pereira
PereiraJS partnered with the JointDeveloper community at UTP to host the 2016 NodeSchool International Day. A short photo recap of the event.
NodeSchool International Day 2015 — Pereira
A day of workshops and talks learning JavaScript and Node.js, led by Daniel Aristizabal and Manuel Pineda. Includes the original event recording.
The first PereiraJS meetup
On a February evening in 2014, the PereiraJS community gathered for the first time. Daniel Aristizabal welcomed the group; Jhonber Jimenez and Manuel Pineda…