Tech Talks for Universities - live-streamed from Matfyz in Prague, CZ - 2025/11/12
Talks for all university students, hosted at MFF UK (Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University) in Prague, CZ
- When: 11/12 Wed at 18:00-20:00 CET
- Where: N1 at Matfyz, Troja, Prague (capacity 250 for in-person attendees)
- Live-stream: Zoom link
- Recording will be available here few days after the event
- Please fill our survey to help us make the event better in future. Even if you watch just part of it or if you don’t like the talks. Thank you!
- Who:
- Stephen Toub - Architect of .NET Libraries. Focuses on performance and AI lately. Co-author of async.
- Kathleen Dollard - Worked as Program Manager on design of languages - C#, VB, F#. Author of blog articles and books.
- Kevin Gosse - Performance expert, works at JetBrains on ReSharper perf.
Organized by Pavel Jezek, Karel Zikmund, Martin Vejbora, Jan Jones, Vojta Svandelik
Talks
List of talks and their abstracts will be placed here the week of the event.
- 18:00-18:40 - Profiling for Fun and Profit by Stephen Toub (see Stephen’s bio at Update Conference)
- Abstract:
- You’ve all written code. You’ve all debugged code. How many of you have profiled code? Profiling is an essential tool in a professional dev’s tool belt yet very few dev’s realize how easy and beneficial it can be. In this casual discussion, we’ll examine a random library, find bottlenecks, and fix them.
- About speaker: Architect of .NET Libraries. Focuses on performance and AI lately. Co-author of async.
- Abstract:
- 18:40-19:20 - Clarity as a perspective by Kathleen Dollard (see Kathleen’s bio at Update Conference)
- Abstract:
- It’s wonderful being a programmer or other member of the tech community. Machines do not carry the emotional baggage of humans. We also help shape the code we work on and bring the context, intent, and purpose. Maximizing clarity becomes even more important as AI becomes part of the long term maintenance of our applications.
- About speaker: Worked as Program Manager on design of languages - C#, VB, F#. Author of blog articles and books.
- Abstract:
- 19:20-20:00 - Let’s talk about debugging by Kevin Gosse (see Kevin’s bio at Update Conference)
- Abstract:
- All developers spend a significant amount of time investigating and fixing bugs, Yet, we rarely talk about it, let alone teach it. What’s so special about debugging?
- About speaker: Performance expert, works at JetBrains on ReSharper perf.
- Abstract:
Resources and Notes
- History: Building on previous successful events:
- Tech Talks for Universities on 2025/4/19
- Tech Talks for Universities on 2022/11/10
- .NET Talks at Matfyz in Prague, CZ on 2019/11/14.
- All organization is community-driven, speakers are volunteers.
Call for action: Please help us reach more students and universities for future events – if you have contacts to those interested, please contact Karel Zikmund via Discord: zikicz, BlueSky, personal email, work email, LinkedIn.