As an OSS maintainer, I have the opportunity to speak at conferences and meetups about my work, and I’m always happy to do so. I’ve been organizing meetups for the Google Developer Groups (GDG) in Toledo, Spain, and I’ve been speaking at them multiple times as well.
Here are the talks I’ve given so far.
2025
- ContainerDays 2025: “Delightful Integration tests in Go”
- 🔗 URL: https://www.containerdays.io/containerdays-conference-2025/
- 🎥 Video: Not available yet
- Localstack Community Meetup: “Lambda in a box: Real Integration Tests with Localstack and Go”
- Jornadas de Ciberseguridad 2025: “OWASP Top 10 para desarrolladores de software”
- 🚫 Presented 2 talks to GoLab ‘25. Both rejected.
- 🚫 Presented 2 talks to Gophercon EU ‘25. Both rejected.
- 🚫 Presented 1 talk to Gophercon US ‘25. Rejected.
- Conf42 Golang 2025: “Delightful Integration tests in Go”
- Cloud-Native AI Day Singapore Jan ‘25: “Testing GenAI applications in Go”. https://www.meetup.com/es-ES/collabnix/events/304968647/
- Gophercon SG ‘25: “Testing GenAI applications in Go”, accepted for the conference.
- 🔗 URL: https://2025.gophercon.sg/
- 🎥 Video: Pending
- DevTools Day Bengaluru Jan ‘25: “Testing GenAI applications in Go”.
2024
- GoMAD: Madrid, ES - Nov 2024: “Delightful Integration tests in Go”
- 🚫 Gophercon US ‘24: Booth work presenting Testcontainers for Go to the attendees.
- Presented in London Gophers Meetup (March, 20th 2024): “Delightful Integration tests in Go”
- 🚫 Presented 2 talks to Gophercon EU ‘24. Both rejected.
- 🚫 Presented 1 talk to Gophercon US ‘24. Rejected.
- 🚫 Presented 1 talk to Gophercon EU Greece ‘24. Rejected.
2023
- GDG Go Berlin’s Devfest - November 2023: “Testcontainers for Go Workshop”
- 🎥 Video
- Cup o’ Go Interview - November 2023: “Interview with 📦 testcontainers maintainer Manuel de la Peña”
- 🎙️ PodCast
- Grafana Office Hours #20: “Realistic Tests with Testcontainers”
- 🎥 Video
- Mes de QA 2 - Madrid, ES - April 2023: “Integration testing: the way to Go”
- CommitConf 2023 - Madrid, ES - April 2023: “Integration testing: the way to Go”
- 🚫 Presented 3 talks and a lightning talk sharing experiences with testing in Go at Kubecon EU ‘23. None of them accepted.
- 🚫 Presented 3 talks and a lightning talk to the Go dev room at FOSDEM 23. None of them accepted.
- AtomicJar Interview: “Introducing Testcontainers for Go with Manu de la Peña”
- 🎥 Video
2022
- Continuous Delivery Conference (cdCon) - Austin, US - June 2022: “OpenTelemetry and your tests”. Presented how to get OTEL traces from the jUnit XML test report, reading it using mdelapenya/junit2otlp
- 🎥 Video
- Growth: el podcast the Product Hackers - Feb 2022: “Creación de entornos formativos y divulgativos”
2020
- Barcelona Elastic User Group - August 2020: “Seguimiento de Planes de Pruebas con Github y el Stack de Elastic”
- RO_Tech - April 2020: “Teletrabajo: Beneficios y cómo implantarlo”
- GDG Toledo - April 2020: “Introducción a BDD”
- Brasilia Elastic User Group - April 2020: “Tracking Test Plans with Github and the Elastic Stack!”
2019
- GDG Toledo - Toledo, Spain - Feb 2019: “Necesito una CLI, ¿la escribo en Node o en Go?”
- Slides (Spanish): https://www.meetup.com/es-ES/gdgtoledo_es/events/258727635/
2016
- Liferay Symposium Spain: “Modern Continuous Delivery with Docker and Liferay”
- Liferay DEVCON: “Modern Continuous Delivery with Docker and Liferay”
- 🎥 Video
2015
- Liferay Symposium Spain: “Testing Liferay projects, from Zero to Hero”
- Liferay DEVCON: “Testing Liferay projects, from Zero to Hero”
- 🎥 Video