Public Speaking | Mauro Morales

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

2026

DateEventLocationPresentation

MAR.26KubeCon EUAmsterdam, NLCloud Native at the Far(m) Edge: Running Kubernetes and AI on Tractors

FEB.04CfgMgmtCampGhent, BEFrom Zero to Immutable Kubernetes

FEB.02CfgMgmtCampGhent, BECloud Native at the Far(m) Edge: Running Kubernetes and AI on Tractors

JAN.31FOSDEMBrussels, BEWhat Image-Based Systems Taught Us About Linux Distributions

2025

DateEventLocationPresentation

DEC.18Cloud Native Compass PodcastOnlineNavigating Kairos: Immutable Operating Systems with a Cloud Native Twist

DEC.04Cloud Native PanamaOnlineMy Life Before Kairos: A Journey Through Programming, Open Source, and Migration

NOV.27CloudNative LATAM SummitOnlineVer, no tocar, mucho menos desconfigurar

NOV.10KubeCon NAAtlanta, GA, USAThe Immutable Lightness of an Edge Platform

NOV.03KCD PortoPorto, PTThe Immutable Lightness of an Edge Platform

OCT.21KCD UKEdinburgh, UKThe Immutable Lightness of an Edge Platform

OCT.10Fika Works DayAmsterdam, NLAutomatic Provisioning of Bare Metal Edge Systems for AI Inference

JUL.03Dutch Cloud Native DayUtrecht, NLPok8s

JUN.24Cloud Native Days ItalyBologna, ITPok8s

MAY.28Rawkode AcademyOnlineHands-On with Kairos

FEB.04CfgMgmtCampGhent, BECreating Immutable Infrastructures

2024

DateEventLocationPresentation

DEC.10Dutch Cloud Native DayAmsterdam, NLFort Kairos

OCT.19FikaWorksHaarlem, NLJourney to the Edge

SEP.28KCD PortoPorto, PTFort Kairos

SEP.25All Systems GoBerlin, DEFort Kairos

SEP.18Open-Source SummitVienna, ATFort Kairos

AUG.19DevOpsDaysBirmingham, AL, USCreating Immutable InfrastructuresYouTube

JUN.20Cloud Native Days ItalyBologna, ITFort Kairos

MAY.28KubeCon + CloudNativeConParis, FRSPOS PanelYouTube

JAN.31devs.gentGhent, BERethinking Deployment Strategies

2023

DateEventLocationPresentation

JUL.04DevConf CZBrno, CZMeet KairosYouTube

JUN.26HacktoberfestBrussels, BEContributing to Open-Source Software

FEB.05FOSDEMBrussels, BEHow we build and maintain KairosYouTube Slides

2016

DateEventLocationPresentation

JUN.24openSUSE ConferenceNuremberg, DEA Guided Tour of MachineryMedia CCC

JAN.31FOSDEMBrussels, BEThe Universal System DescriptionYouTube Slides

2015

DateEventLocationPresentation

OCT.11LinuxDaysPrague, CZMachinery - A System Management Toolkit for LinuxYouTube

OCT.06LinuxConDublin, IEDockerizing Your Infrastructure with Machinery

Media Kit

Short Bio

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.