Public Speaking

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I’ve spoken at major industry events, including LinuxCon, Open-Source Summit, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, FOSDEM, and more. My presentations primarily focus on open-source projects I’m involved in. Here’s a timeline of my public speaking engagements:

Events
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2026
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date	event	location	presentation
`MAR.26`	KubeCon EU	Amsterdam, NL	Cloud Native at the Far(m) Edge: Running Kubernetes and AI on Tractors
`FEB.04`	CfgMgmtCamp	Ghent, BE	From Zero to Immutable Kubernetes
`FEB.03`	CfgMgmtCamp	Ghent, BE	Cloud Native at the Far(m) Edge: Running Kubernetes and AI on Tractors
`JAN.31`	FOSDEM	Brussels, BE	What Image-Based Systems Taught Us About Linux Distributions

2025
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date	event	location	presentation
`DEC.18`	Cloud Native Compass Podcast	Online	Navigating Kairos: Immutable Operating Systems with a Cloud Native Twist
`DEC.04`	Cloud Native Panama	Online	My Life Before Kairos: A Journey Through Programming, Open Source, and Migration
`NOV.27`	CloudNative LATAM Summit	Online	Ver, no tocar, mucho menos desconfigurar
`NOV.10`	KubeCon NA	Atlanta, GA, USA	The Immutable Lightness of an Edge Platform
`NOV.03`	KCD Porto	Porto, PT	The Immutable Lightness of an Edge Platform
`OCT.21`	KCD UK	Edinburgh, UK	The Immutable Lightness of an Edge Platform
`OCT.10`	Fika Works Day	Amsterdam, NL	Automatic Provisioning of Bare Metal Edge Systems for AI Inference
`JUL.03`	Dutch Cloud Native Day	Utrecth, NL	Pok8s
`JUN.24`	Cloud Native Days Italy	Bologna, IT	Pok8s
`MAY.28`	Rawkode Academy	Online	Hands-On with Kairos
`FEB.04`	CfgMgmtCamp	Ghent, BE	Creating Immutable Infrastructures

2024
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date	event	location	presentation
`DEC.10`	Dutch Cloud Native Day	Amsterdam, NL	Fort Kairos
`OCT.19`	FikaWorks	Haarlem, NL	Journey to the Edge
`SEP.28`	KCD Porto	Porto, PT	Fort Kairos
`SEP.25`	All Systems Go	Berlin, DE	Fort Kairos
`SEP.18`	Open-Source Summit	Vienna, AT	Fort Kairos
`AUG.19`	DevOpsDays	Birmingham, AL, US	Creating Immutable Infrastructures
`JUN.20`	Cloud Native Days Italy	Bologna, IT	Fort Kairos
`MAY.28`	KubeCon + CloudNativeCon	Paris, FR	SPOS Panel
`JAN.31`	devs.gent	Ghent, BE	Rethinking Deployment Strategies

2023
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date	event	location	presentation
`JUN.26`	Hacktoberfest	Brussels, BE	Contributing to Open-Source Software
`JUL.04`	DevConf CZ	Brno, CZ	Meet Kairos
`FEB.05`	FOSDEM	Brussels, BE	How we build and maintain Kairos

2016
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date	event	location	presentation
`JUN.24`	openSUSE Conference	Nuremberg, DE	A Guided Tour of Machinery
`JAN.31`	FOSDEM	Brussels, BE	The Universal System Description

2015
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date	event	location	presentation
`OCT.11`	LinuxDays	Prague, CZ	Machinery - A System Management Toolkit for Linux
`OCT.06`	LinuxCon	Dublin, IE	Dockerizing Your Infrastructure with Machinery

Media Kit
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Short Bio
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Mauro Morales is a Guatemalan software developer and speaker. He’s currently a Staff Engineer at Spectro Cloud, where he’s part of the team building Kairos — an open-source Linux distribution for running Kubernetes at the edge. Mauro regularly speaks at conferences like KubeCon, FOSDEM, and the Open Source Summit, and co-hosts the Cloud Native Community Belgium.