T3chFest 2023
2023-03-02..2023-03-03
Leganés, Spain
T3chFest ·
[T3chFest 2016, T3chFest 2017, T3chFest 2018, T3chFest 2023]
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Aftermovie | 02m | |
A fast montage documents T3chFest 2023 on the Universidad Carlos III campus, held 2–3 March as the first edition after the pandemic pause, cutting between… | ||
| Goodbye USB, hello DNA | María Gómez Romero | 48m |
The talk explains using DNA as a high-density data storage medium, describing DNA’s capacity and advantages for storing large amounts of data (like photos). It… | ||
| Let’s talk about the future of AI… 🧠 | Carlos Santana | 54m |
Overview of recent mainstream AI tools like ChatGPT, DALL·E 2, Codex and Stable Diffusion and how they made AI part of everyday life. Examines realistic media… | ||
| Make your own sex toy 🍑 🍆 | Jimena Bermúdez | 53m |
A hands-on introductory talk about hobby electronics using MicroPython to build a custom vibrating dildo. It explains motors, motor drivers and microcontroller… | ||
| Hacking the fear of transparency | Jaime Gómez-Obregón | 43m |
Jaime Gómez-Obregón explains how programmers can use technical skills to obtain public data that administrations legally should provide but often withhold… | ||
| How to hack your professional career | David Bonilla Fuertes | 54m |
Practical guidance on actively planning and advancing a technical career by understanding how the tech industry and hiring processes work. Covers concrete… | ||
| The freelancer’s path | Brais Moure | 51m |
Brais Moure recounts his transition from employed engineer to freelancer and entrepreneur, describing eight years as an autonomous developer: building over 100… | ||
| Digital twins and the industrial metaverse | Emilio Carrión Peñalba | 34m |
Digital twins and the industrial metaverse: explains how digital twin technology is already changing design, manufacturing and interaction with physical assets… | ||
| Observability with OpenTelemetry or how to say goodbye to Vendor Lock-in | Alberto Martínez Ballesteros | 53m |
OpenTelemetry is presented as an emerging standard for observability that changes how logs, traces and metrics are captured and processed. The talk explains… | ||
| Lights, camera, programming! | Miriam Gonzalez | 50m |
Míriam González explains how she combines work as a software engineer with creating content for social media, describing daily routines, organizational… | ||
| Boost your JavaScript with Web Assembly | Fernando Blanco Dosil | 46m |
An overview of using WebAssembly to enhance JavaScript web apps, covering current capabilities and limitations of frontend development and how WebAssembly can… | ||
| A walk through the evolution of the Frontend | Carlos Azaustre | 52m |
A chronological overview of how frontend development has changed from several years ago to today, focusing on the tools that have appeared to improve the… | ||
| Data Mesh: the new paradigm for data management | Alberto Rodriguez de Lema | 50m |
Data Mesh as an alternative to centralized data architectures: it presents Data Mesh as a new paradigm for organizing, managing and governing enterprise data… | ||
| Post‑Quantum Cryptography for dummies. Challenges and opportunities | Alfonso Muñoz Muñoz | 50m |
An introduction to post-quantum cryptography motivated by NIST’s 2016 standards contest and its work since 2012; explains the practical threats quantum… | ||
| No bro culture, paradise exists: a heterofriendly talk on management | Mario López Martínez | 48m |
A literature-based talk comparing stereotypical decisive leadership with research-backed traits of good judgment (citing Kahneman and Tetlock), and drawing on… | ||
| AsyncAPI: from personal project to industry standard | Fran Méndez | 51m |
Fran Méndez recounts the history of AsyncAPI, explaining how it originated as a personal project and evolved into an industry standard. The talk covers efforts… | ||
| Welcome Opening | Alicia Población, Paloma Álvarez, Raquel Sánchez, Manuela Sánchez | 21m |
An opening welcome from T3chFest introduces the event and features a performance of “Forms String Quartet” by Playmodes Studio, played by a string quartet of… | ||
| In coders... we trust? | Irene M Morgado | 42m |
A talk about trust and ethics in software careers, covering whether lying on CVs or in interviews is ever acceptable, how to spot dishonest behavior from a… | ||
| Development and design: all together like Fuenteovejuna | Carmen Ansio, María Barrios | 56m |
The talk addresses the persistent gap between design and front-end development, naming the problem that developers often receive a finished, client-approved… | ||
| The poop cake: recipes to drive a conversational AI mad | Juan Alonso Moreno, Eduardo Noeda López | 49m |
A talk about bypassing safety controls in conversational AI like ChatGPT, showing concrete prompt techniques that can elicit harmful or silly outputs (examples… | ||
| Real IIoT | Diego Zapico Ferreiro, Alberto Díaz Martín | 46m |
A presentation demonstrating an industrial robot arm integrated with a digital twin in the metaverse: they capture the robot’s real-world motions into the… | ||
| Don’t throw away food! AI and Data to reduce food waste | Santiago Salgado, Javier R. Azpeitia | 49m |
IKEA implemented an AI-based imaging tool since 2017 that captures photos, measures and logs food waste across its restaurants, bistros and food markets in… | ||
| Finding our niche in the world of videogames | Valeria Castro | 16m |
Examines how to find a niche within the video game industry, discussing practical ways to identify personal strengths and market opportunities. Covers career… | ||
| How has and will technology change the music industry? | Sara Gozalo Macias | 29m |
A software engineer who worked at BBC Music (2012–2016) and later as Head of Music Label Operations at YouTube Music explains how technology and data have… | ||
| NFTs without the smoke: ownership in the digital world | Lucía Muñoz Martínez, Maritere Nieto Galán | 45m |
Explains what non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are and why they matter for digital ownership, clarifying misconceptions such as scams versus legitimate uses… | ||
| Serverless and Its Condiments | Oscar Cortes Bracho | 42m |
Examines practical lessons from implementing serverless and event-driven architectures since 2014, focusing on real-world limitations in flexibility, cost, and… | ||
| The New Era of Cinema and CGI | Hector Gallego Fernandez | 51m |
Overview of contemporary CGI applications, covering visual effects (VFX) for film, the use of virtual production techniques on set, and the emerging role of… | ||
| No, AI Is Not Going to Replace the Journalist (But It Will Make Their Life Easier) | Teresa Mondría Terol | 38m |
The talk surveys how artificial intelligence is already used in newsrooms, focusing on concrete Spanish and European media examples. It contrasts automatic… | ||
| Swinging the Engineer/Manager Pendulum | Ramón Medrano Llamas | 47m |
Engineers swing between IC and manager roles because the work genuinely differs: running 185 microservices across 20 data centers for tens of billions of… | ||
| Designing Cancer Vaccines with Python | Helena Gómez Pozo, Marina Moro López | 53m |
An introduction to cancer physiology and basic genetics followed by a practical demonstration of cancer-vaccine design using Python. The presenters explain… | ||
| Recommender Systems: What They Are and Where to Find Them | Sara San Luís Rodríguez, Christian Carballo Lozano | 50m |
Explanation of what recommendation systems are and where they are used, with concrete examples like Netflix, Amazon and Instagram. The presenters build a… | ||
| The Art of Well-Told Data: From Raw Data to Effective Visualization | Paula López Casado | 35m |
Paula López Casado explains how to turn raw data into effective visualizations by selecting relevant variables, choosing the right chart type for a given… | ||
| Decidim: Participatory, Free and Open Source Democracy | Andrés Pereira de Lucena | 48m |
Decidim is an open-source, collaboratively developed web framework built in Ruby on Rails for participatory democracy. It lets governments, NGOs, universities… | ||
| How Not to Sell the Same Ticket to Two Different People | José Muñoz | 55m |
An examination of why a ticketing app can sell the same cinema seat multiple times or oversell seats, despite a polished UI and deployment. It reviews real… | ||
| Home Automation: What I Have vs What I Want | José Manuel García García | 48m |
Overview of home automation (domótica), examining whether it is truly widespread and accessible or still tied to closed commercial solutions. Discusses DIY and… | ||
| Don’t Buy It, Print It: Miniaturized Biosensors via 3D Printing | Juan Francisco Hernádez Rodríguez, José Daniel Rojas Tizón | 54m |
The talk examines using 3D printing (additive manufacturing) to fabricate miniaturized electrochemical biosensors, moving fabrication out of centralized… | ||
| A Color Map of Earth at Night to Monitor Light Pollution | Alejandro Sánchez de Miguel | 48m |
Describes creating the first color map of Earth at night to monitor light pollution, using astronaut photographs from the International Space Station because… | ||
| Next Stop: Metro de Madrid | José Miguel Moreno | 45m |
An exploration of the Metro de Madrid’s ticketing and station technology using open data and official technical docs from CRTM. It describes the services that… | ||
| Trolls in the Service of the State? The Digital Dirty War of Authoritarianism 3.0 | Iago Moreno | 57m |
Examines how authoritarian states (examples: Turkey, Russia, India, Philippines) recruit, train and mobilize coordinated "state-sponsored trolling" networks… | ||
| Innovation and New Narratives in Media: RTVE Lab | César Peña | 50m |
RTVE's Audiovisual Innovation Lab (El Lab) presents how it uses digital tools to reach new audiences by developing interactive, gamified and mixed-reality… | ||
| Testing Without Dogma: An Agnostic Edition | Sergio Arbeo Rodríguez | 52m |
Explains automated testing dogmas and questions common assumptions by starting from production-tested axioms and reasoning through various testing techniques… | ||
| Always in Green | Vicenç García Altés | 46m |
A live-coding session on refactoring JavaScript/TypeScript (implied by T3chFest audience) that demonstrates how to improve hard-to-understand code without… | ||
| Sorry Developer, Your API Just Became a Product | Benjamín Granados | 39m |
Explains how APIs have shifted from integration components to treated products, and what that means for engineering teams. Covers APIs-as-a-Product as a… | ||
| Humans as the Weakest Link | Marina Francisco Veintimilla | 44m |
Examines how cybercrime targets humans as the weakest link, citing breaches at companies like Orange and Iberdrola and public ministries. Describes attackers… | ||
| Accessibility at the Core of the Product: An Edition for Startups | Alena Nikolaeva | 53m |
Discusses building accessibility into products from the foundation in startups and small teams, arguing the web should work for everyone and that product… | ||
| I’m Old, Not Stupid: The Digital Divide and Keys to Inclusive Design | Marcela Luz, Jose González | 01h 00m |
Explains how digital exclusion affects older adults and offers concrete inclusive design strategies for technology products. Names user experience and product… | ||
| Defense Against the Dark Arts and Potions: AI Models Can Be Easily Poisoned | Javier Carnerero Cano | 42m |
AI models suffer training‑time poisoning where injected samples either raise overall error (availability/error‑generic) or target specific classes… | ||
| We ♥️ legacy | Yodra López | 50m |
The talk discusses working with legacy code and reframes it as a common, manageable part of software work rather than something shameful. It covers practical… | ||
| Closing | 27m | |
Presentation of awards and the closing of the T3chFest edition, with prizes handed out and the event formally concluded. The programme is available on the… | ||
| XP-Files Season 1: Normal and Paranormal Experiences with eXtreme Programming | María Berenguer | 49m |
A talk about eXtreme Programming (XP) that recounts real-world failures and successes applying XP values, principles and practices in software teams. It… | ||
| Why Build It If It Already Exists? Cloud, Low Code and What You Don’t Want to Program | Sofía Prósper Díaz-Mor | 38m |
Discusses choosing technologies for new projects and argues against rebuilding existing solutions from scratch. Covers using cloud services plus No Code and… | ||
| How Space Invaders Can Teach You to Build Cloud-Native Applications | Christian Meléndez | 48m |
A presentation demonstrates a Space Invaders remake running on a Kubernetes cluster to teach how to build cloud-native apps: each destroyed enemy corresponds… | ||
| Fuzzy Humanity Put into Production | Ana de Prado Navarrete, Colleen McMillon | 47m |
Shows how the presenters trained Stable Diffusion on photos of 60 employees and deployed a real-time system that lets coworkers send prompts in Slack, receive… | ||
| Design Fashion with AI | Beatriz Gómez, Alicia Pérez Jiménez | 53m |
Describes using text-to-image models (examples: DALL·E 2, MidJourney, Stable Diffusion) within a product company that combines AI and fashion. Explains how the… | ||
| Hacking the senses: body-transforming experiences with wearables | Ana Tajadura Jiménez, Elena Márquez Segura, Judith G. Ley Flores, Joaquín R. Díaz Durán | 45m |
Researchers present wearable sensory technologies (projects Magic outFit and BODYinTRANSIT) that deliberately alter bodily perception to change movement… | ||
| Exploring and managing risks in cloud: a practical journey to cloud security | Rubén Eguiluz Fernández, Javier Prieto Cepeda | 45m |
Explains cloud security risks from a software engineer/DevOps perspective, covering the shared responsibility model and why teams must detect and remediate… | ||
| How does Nature code? | Alex Fernandez | 51m |
Compares biological evolution to software development by examining how nature records and filters changes, performs error correction, and handles failing… | ||
| Smart materials to control biological cells | Daniel García González, Clara Gómez Cruz, Jorge González-Rico Iriarte | 49m |
Researchers present magneto-active smart materials designed to apply controllable mechanical forces to cells, aiming to modulate cell behavior by changing… | ||
| Do you know where you are? How satellites keep us from getting lost | Carlos Moreno Jódar | 50m |
A clear overview of satellite navigation systems (GPS, Galileo, GLONASS, BeiDou) explaining how they developed, how satellite orbits and onboard clocks work… | ||
| Multimodal interfaces: don't shout at me, I can't see you | Carmel Hassan Montero | 51m |
The talk examines multimodal interfaces—conversational (voice/chat), graphical, and touch—across multiple devices and simultaneous channels. It explains the… | ||
| 3D Digital Avatars with Machine Learning | Dan Casas | 47m |
Presents concrete systems: a pipeline that recovers a 3D garment and SMPL body parameters from a single phone image and runs about 10 frames per second, using… | ||
| Vocal biomarkers for disease detection | Ascensión Gallardo Antolín | 01h 01m |
Explains using voice as a medical biomarker by applying artificial intelligence—specifically machine learning—to analyze how diseases change speech. Describes… | ||
| Going nowhere is pointless: make your talks and events more accessible | Ramón Corominas | 57m |
Practical guidance on making tech talks and events accessible: identifies common accessibility issues for people with visual, hearing or mobility impairments… | ||
| Stellar bars: exploiting data from the TNG50 cosmological simulation | Carmen Misa Moreira | 43m |
Uses the cosmological magnetohydrodynamical simulation IllustrisTNG50 to study disc-dominated galaxies from redshift z=4 to z=0, classifying them as strongly… | ||
| Why are you still managing users? Identity has a cloud version | Pablo Castro Valiño | 40m |
Examines why teams still build user authentication from scratch and argues for using cloud identity providers to offload password storage, 2FA and social… | ||
| Dynamic narrative in virtual reality driven by biofeedback | Laura Raya | 52m |
Using heart rate, galvanic skin response and temperature biofeedback, the talk presents adapting a VR environment and virtual avatars in real time to match the… | ||
| Discover how your generic data makes you unique among millions of users | Ángel Merino Hernández, José González Cabañas | 51m |
Explains research showing how combining generic profile attributes—interests, skills, and similar metadata—can uniquely identify users among millions on… | ||
| Building in the cloud for sustainability | Juan Manuel Gomez | 56m |
Explains how to design and run cloud workloads to reduce energy use and carbon impact by applying efficiency-focused optimizations and sustainability-minded… | ||
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