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After the August 10 earthquake, Pereira Tech Day 2026 is postponed indefinitely. We are pausing PTT activities. UTP campus is restricted; help via Corag.
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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.
2018 Planning Hackathon
In January 2018, Pereira Tech Talks and PereiraJS gathered to plan the year and code until dawn — unifying both communities and rebuilding the website.
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…