International Speaker

Talks and
Presentations

Technical conferences, workshops, and academic papers on software engineering, architecture, and digital twins.

23 presentations
21 conferences
6 countries

Where I've spoken

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Spain

A Coruña, Barcelona, Granada, Madrid, Valencia, Vigo

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Italy

Salerno

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Argentina

Buenos Aires

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Portugal

Porto

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United States

Pittsburgh

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Austria

Viena

2026

2 presentations
The Selfish Senior: Why Your Career Dies If You Don't Teach Others
TalkT3chFest 2026 · Madrid

The Selfish Senior: Why Your Career Dies If You Don't Teach Others

True technical mastery requires explaining and transferring knowledge. Hoarding expertise isn't seniority — it's a form of hostage-taking. Mentoring strengthens your own engineering capabilities.

The National Blackout: Survival Architecture for When Even the Power Fails
TalkCodemotion 2026 · Madrid

The National Blackout: Survival Architecture for When Even the Power Fails

How to manage warehouses and logistics during a national blackout using Local-First architecture, Split-Brain strategies, and reconciliation of millions of transactions with zero data loss.

2025

10 presentations
The Price of Magic: Technical Debt When Everyone Is a 'Maker'
TalkAwakatech 2025 · Valencia

The Price of Magic: Technical Debt When Everyone Is a 'Maker'

The hidden costs of rapid development. How technical debt transforms when there are no barriers to creating logic and designing behaviors — shifting from code quality issues to product risks.

A Model-Driven Engineering Method for the Development of Digital Twins
Talk + PaperPROFES 2025 · Salerno, Italia

A Model-Driven Engineering Method for the Development of Digital Twins

26th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement. Published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer.

Technical Debt: How to See It, Understand It, and Put a Price on It
TalkNerdearla 2025 · Madrid

Technical Debt: How to See It, Understand It, and Put a Price on It

How to detect technical debt, prioritize it by real impact, and negotiate with your team and non-technical stakeholders to make better decisions about the future of your software.

Whose Turn Is It Now?! Understanding Event-Driven Systems Without Losing Your Mind
TalkSoftware Crafters Barcelona 2025 · Barcelona

Whose Turn Is It Now?! Understanding Event-Driven Systems Without Losing Your Mind

Event-driven systems explained in accessible language. Why events are used, their mechanics, and challenges like race conditions and asynchronous execution. With visual examples and real-world scenarios.

Designing for Change: How to Build Software That Stays 'Soft'
TalkNerdearla 2025 · Buenos Aires (Online)

Designing for Change: How to Build Software That Stays 'Soft'

How to design software that remains malleable and maintainable over time.

How FeatureOps Helps Mercadona Deliver Groceries...and Functionality...Faster
TalkUnleashCon 2025 · Online

How FeatureOps Helps Mercadona Deliver Groceries...and Functionality...Faster

Implementing FeatureOps practices for faster feature and product delivery at Mercadona. Co-presented with Sergio Revilla Velasco.

How to Turn Technical Debt into Market Value
TalkVLCTechFest 2025 · Valencia

How to Turn Technical Debt into Market Value

Identifying, prioritizing, and managing technical debt as an investment to improve agility, innovation, and long-term sustainability. Incremental refactoring techniques and communicating value to non-technical stakeholders.

Refactor to Compete: How to Turn Technical Debt into Market Value
TalkCodemotion 2025 · Madrid

Refactor to Compete: How to Turn Technical Debt into Market Value

Technical debt as an opportunity to generate strategic value. Incremental refactoring techniques, strategies for modernizing legacy systems without disrupting operations, and how to communicate the value of technical debt reduction to non-technical stakeholders.

Querying Digital Twin Models
Talk + PaperENASE 2025 · Porto, Portugal

Querying Digital Twin Models

20th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering. Proposal for using views over the ERDT model to define queries on digital twins and data access policies.

Digital Twins and Collaborative Disaster Response
TalkT3chFest 2025 · Madrid

Digital Twins and Collaborative Disaster Response

2024

3 presentations
Evolutionary Architecture: Introducing DDD and Hexagonal into Legacy Systems
TalkPulpoCon 2024 · Vigo

Evolutionary Architecture: Introducing DDD and Hexagonal into Legacy Systems

Practical strategies for gradually introducing DDD and Hexagonal Architecture into legacy teams and projects. References Chesterton's Fence principle.

Talk + PaperER 2024 · Pittsburgh, USA

Conceptual Modelling Method for Digital Twins

43rd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling. Proposal of the ERDT (Entity-Relationship Digital Twin) modeling method for industrial digital twins. Published in LNCS, Springer.

Practical Advice for Designing and Implementing Digital Twins
Talk + PaperCEDI / JISBD 2024 · A Coruña

Practical Advice for Designing and Implementing Digital Twins

Spanish Informatics Congress / Software Engineering and Database Conference. Presented at the ISGD session within SISTEDES 2024.

2023

4 presentations
TalkPoEM 2023 · Viena, Austria

PoEM 2023 - Working Conference on the Practice of Enterprise Modeling

16th Working Conference on the Practice of Enterprise Modeling.

Talk + PaperDTE 2023 · Viena, Austria

A Systematic Review of Methodologies for Developing Digital Twins: Insights and Recommendations for Effective Implementation

2nd International Workshop on Digital Twin Engineering. In addition to the talk, served as chair of the workshop's first session.

La Vertical 2023
HostLa Vertical 2023 · Valencia

La Vertical 2023

Product development conference bringing together engineering, product, and design. Born from Mercadona Tech's monthly Awakatech meetup, this first large-scale edition was held at Marina de Empresas (EDEM).

Digital Twins and the Industrial Metaverse
TalkT3chFest 2023 · Madrid

Digital Twins and the Industrial Metaverse

How the industrial metaverse is transforming the design, manufacturing, and interaction with physical entities. Digital twins as a key application and their future implications.

2022

4 presentations
TDD Applied to API Development
WorkshopPyConES 2022 · Granada

TDD Applied to API Development

Workshop focused on API development using the TDD process. Co-presented with Celia Gómez Sancho.

The Hack Behind the Curtain! Deploying a Multitenant Django Application to More Than 1600 Stores
TalkDjangoCon Europe 2022 · Porto, Portugal

The Hack Behind the Curtain! Deploying a Multitenant Django Application to More Than 1600 Stores

Data isolation strategies for managing tenant-dependent APIs across multiple stores. The solution evolved into an open-source library.

TDD Applied to Django API Development
WorkshopDjangoCon Europe 2022 · Porto, Portugal

TDD Applied to Django API Development

Hands-on workshop on TDD methodology for Django API projects.

Opinion Positivity Analysis
TalkPython Valencia Meetup 2022 · Valencia

Opinion Positivity Analysis

Theory behind modeling and prediction systems. Training a model to distinguish positive from negative opinions and extract insights for areas of improvement.

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Talks | Emilio Carrion