Speaking at events

You can take a look at some of my previous public appearances to get an idea of my speaker skills and get a better overview of my work on stage.

What I DO offer

I am an experienced international keynoter. I can deliver talks both in English and Spanish.

Common (not restricted to) topics I talk about :

• Free and Open Source
• Java Development and State of the Art
• Good Development Practices

What I do like in events

If you are going to ask me to speak, consider this requirements:

The event MUST have:

• Code of Conduct
• Inclusivity and Diversity Policies

Also, I will not participate on events with manels.

What you have to offer me

I can make exceptions on this section for not for profit events, depending on how expensive it gets for me.

You have to cover my travel expenses and you have to pay for my time.

Topics

The following is a subset of talks I am prepared to deliver.

Wait, how did I got here?

On 2008 I got my first contact with the GeoSpatial community. Ten years later I was elected as President of the Open Source GeoSpatial Foundation (https://osgeo.org), first woman on that position.

The journey to leadership is always a hard one, specially when you are a young woman on an international environment. Here’s my story on how I evolved from a newly graduated engineer to have one of the most relevant positions in the community: the expected and unexpected problems and biases I had to overcome and how I survived to tell the story.

Free, Open and Libre

This is an introductory talk to explore the free and open source ecosystem and how it affects our daily life.

What are the differences between free and open source? Is it just a legal issue or does it have direct consequences? Does it really matter if a software is free or open? Which one is better for my use case? How does the difference affect us?

And how does it affect private companies and bussinesses? But, above all, what is “libre”? Why do we even need a third word on this subject? Will it really make a difference? What is openwashing and why is this a threat to future technologies?

The chaos incarnated: Micro-Quarkus Boot!

Here we are, creating a whole new project from scratch and no legacy hindering us. But wait, should I use Spring Boot, Quarkus, Micronaut,… What is happening in the Java ecosystem? What do I do?

On this talk we are going to create a (simple) app on those frameworks and compare pros and cons. We will build the native version, compare the source code and dependencies, and, probably, find out that the real treasure is the code we made along the way.