Speaking

Talks, conference presentations, and podcast appearances by George Guimarães.

Microphone on stage

I've been speaking at conferences and meetups since 2008, covering Elixir, Ruby, AI, software engineering practices, and open source. Topics range from building full-stack AI systems on the BEAM to engineering metrics and team culture. Below is a collection of talks, conference presentations, and podcast appearances.

Talks

Apr 2026 Upcoming
Arcana: What If You Could Build Production-Ready RAG Entirely in Elixir?
ElixirConf EU 2026 · Málaga, Spain
Sep 2025 Talk
Full Stack AI with Elixir
GEM San Francisco Meetup · San Francisco, CA
Multiple chains, in-memory RAG without a vector database, MCP clients for team autonomy, and neural networks in your supervision tree.
Aug 2025 Talk
Full-Stack AI with Elixir: Simplicity and Scale to Millions of Customers
ElixirConf US 2025 · Orlando, FL
Building a full-stack AI system in Elixir: LLM-based chat, GPU-powered image moderation with Bumblebee, multi-agent orchestration, and LiveView dashboards, all in one codebase.
Aug 2024 Talk
Soothsayer: Using NeuralProphet, Nx and Livebook to Forecast Business Data in Elixir
ElixirConf US 2024 · Orlando, FL
Bringing NeuralProphet-style time-series forecasting to Elixir: explainable predictions built on Axon and Nx, with Livebook for interactive data exploration.
May 2018 Talk
Async Jobs in Phoenix
EMPEX NYC 2018 · New York, NY
How Elixir handles async jobs differently than Rails: no need for Sidekiq or Resque when you have GenServers and message passing.

Podcasts

Dec 2025 Podcast
Elixir Mentor: George Guimarães on Forecasting
Soothsayer (time series forecasting on the BEAM), AI agents, and why Elixir is quietly becoming the best runtime for agentic workloads.

Talks (Portuguese)

Dec 2020 Talk
Métricas de Desenvolvimento Para Equipes de Software
Development Metrics for Software Teams
Magrathea BBL
Productivity, code quality, collaboration, and delivery metrics for engineering teams: lead time, throughput, deployment frequency, and why metrics-as-targets backfire.
Nov 2017 Keynote
Lessons from a Journey in the Ruby Community
Aprendizados de uma Jornada na Comunidade Ruby
RubyConf BR 2017 · São Paulo
Oct 2016 Talk
Elixir
iMasters Intercon 2016 · São Paulo
Aug 2016 Talk
Elixir: Functional and Pragmatic Programming
Programação Funcional e Pragmática
2º Tech Day Curitiba · Curitiba
Jun 2016 Talk
Elixir: Functional and Pragmatic Programming
Programação Funcional e Pragmática
Encontro Locaweb 2016 · São Paulo
Jun 2015 Talk
Integração Discreta
Discrete Integration
GURU-SP #37 · São Paulo
Aug 2014 Keynote
Dogmatism and Software Development
Dogmatismo e Desenvolvimento de Software
RubyConf Brasil 2014 · São Paulo
Aug 2014 Talk
Discrete Integration
Integração Discreta
QCon SP 2014 · São Paulo
Aug 2012 Lightning Talk
Copyright, Open Source Licenses, and You!
Copyright, Licenças Open Source e Você!
RubyConf Brasil 2012 · São Paulo
Oct 2008 Talk
Scalability and Infrastructure
Scalability e Infraestrutura
Rails Summit Latin America 2008 · São Paulo

Podcasts (Portuguese)

Aug 2024 Podcast
Elixir in Focus
Elixir em Foco
Plataformatec, SourceLevel, and the Elixir ecosystem.
Sep 2023 Podcast
Produto Piloto Podcast #2.10: Value Creation, Technology, and Agility
Geração de Valor, Tecnologia e Agilidade
Nov 2020 Podcast
Impulso Talks: Elixir
2019 Podcast
ROI Hunters: Technology in Marketing
Tecnologia no Marketing
May 2019 Podcast
Castálio Podcast: Ep 141 — Code Review
Mar 2019 Podcast
The Velopers #32
iMasters

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