Talks about Pharo

Welcome to the Pharo talks galery. We want to maintain a list of talks to document Pharo, its ecosystem and their evolution. If you gave a talk about Pharo please let us know because we would love to see this page grow. Please do a Pull Request.

Consortium Activity Reports

Since 2020 we started to use presentations to report the consortium activities and we also improve our organisation. Writing a full report was too time consuming and writing just text reports was not working. We now found the way to report our activities.

Reports

April 2023 activity report (PDF)
February 2023 activity report (PDF)
December 2022 activity report (PDF)
September 2022 activity report (PDF)
June 2022 activity report (PDF)
February 2022 activity report (PDF)
December 2021 activity report (PDF)
September 2021 activity report (PDF)
May 2021 General Assembly (Pharo9 Activity Report / PharoX Possible Items)
April 2020 activity report (PDF)
July 2020 activity report (PDF)
September 2020 activity report (PDF)
December 2020 activity report (PDF)
November 2015 activity report (PDF)
January 2015 activity report (PDF)
June 2014 activity report (PDF)

UX Analysis

Santiago Viana a designer helped us analysing Pharo UX. Here are some analyses that we can share with you and that guided some work to enhance Pharo.

2024 - Developer UX analysis (PDF)
2025 - Spotter Poll PDF)

About Pharo

Summer schools

More info in the isLoop web page

In 2025 a summer school on 'Advanced object-oriented design with Pharo' at Gdansk, Poland.
In 2025 a summer school on 'Advanced object-oriented design with Pharo' at Fianarantsoa, Madagascar.
In 2024 a summer school on 'Advanced object-oriented design with Pharo' at Monptellier, France.
In September 2023, we run a super appreciated summer school on 'Advanced object-oriented design with Pharo' at Split Croatia.

ESUG 2025

Here you will find soon all the Pharo related talks from ESUG 2025.

Why Supporting Pharo is Important ( PDF) /

ESUG 2024

Soon

2024

Tools are developers' best friends -- Seminar at University of Novi Sad ( PDF / Video )
Immersive Pharo for Art and other -- Seminar at University of Novi Sad ( PDF / Video )

UK Smalltalk 2023

Pharo 11- 15 years and a shinning future (PDF)

ESUG 2023 - Core

Pharo 11 (PDF)
Code instrumentation in Pharo (PDF)
Code Desktop Applications in Pharo (PDF)
Memory Profiler in Pharo (PDF)
Native Modern Desktop Application in Pharo (PDF)
News from Bloc (PDF / VIDEO)
Roassal Updates (PDF)
Refactoring: a new architecture (PDF)
About new Mooc onAdvanced Object-Oriented Design (PDF)

ESUG 2023 - Applications

Seaside Hot Wired (PDF)
Agent-Based Modeling in Pharo using Cormas (PDF)
Agile AI (PDF)
Science and data manipulation in Pharo (PDF)
Bio Smalltalk (PDF)
Do you know your browser (PDF)
Data Science with Pharo (PDF)
Live Music with Pharo (PDF)
Phussing in Pharo (PDF)

ESUG 2022

August 2022 - Pharo 10 (Pharo 10 and beyond)
August 2022 - Microdown (Microdown)
August 2022 - Bloc (Bloc / VIDEO)
August 2022 - How to contribute to Pharo (Contribute)

PharoDays 2022

Here are the presentations of the Pharo Days conference held at Lille in March 2022.

2021

September 2021 - MPLR (Managed programming language runtimes International conference) - Testing the Pharo VM - G. Polito (PDF)
September 2021 - MPLR (Managed programming language runtimes International conference) - Profiling Code Cache Behaviour via Events - P. Tesone (PDF)
August 2021 - First Class Variables in Pharo - M. Denker (Slides).
April 2021 - Pharo 90 at UK - E. Lorenzano (Slides / Videos Part1 / Videos Part2).

2020

Around VM

Octobre 2020 - Compilers 101 - RMOD VM Seminar - G. Polito (Video)
Octobre 2020 - Introduction to JiT- RMOD VM Seminar - G. Polito (Video)
Septembre 2020 - Objects Layout - RMOD VM Seminar - C. Hernandez (Slides / Video)

Tools

December 2020 - Transforming code in Pharo using RewriteToolSet - S. Jordan (Video)
December 2020 - Transforming code using RewriteToolsSet - S. Jordan (Video)
November 2020 - Microdown - IWST - G. Polito/S. Ducasse (Slides / Video)

Presentations

September 2020 - Powerful tools for Live Developement with Pharo - Keynote at SCAM 2020 - S. Ducasse (Slides / Video)
September 2020 - ByteCode interprter - RMOD VM Seminar - T. Rogliano (Slides)
August 2020 - Master Class around Pharo for Inria Chile and Inria academy - S. Ducasse (Slides Empty / Empty)
July 2020 - Pharo for complex project - Invited presentation JDev 2020 conference - S. Ducasse (Slides / Video)

2019

2019 - Learning by doing - ESUG - S. Ducasse (Slides)
2019 - Dr Tests - ESUG - J. Delplanque (Slides)
2019 - Dr Tests -- PharoDays - J. Delplanque (Slides)
2019 - Meta Programming - RMOD internal seminars - J. Delplanque (Slides)
2019 - Pharo 10 years already -- Japanese User Group Keynote - S. Ducasse (Slides)
2019 - Pharo -- SRA corp. - S. Ducasse (Slides)

2018

2018 - Pharo For Startupers -- Station - F (Paris) - S. Ducasse (Slides)
2018 - Stateful Traits - ESUG - P. Tesone (Slides)

2014

2014 - Pharo Building an Ecosystem -- LAMRC (San Francisco) - S. Ducasse (Slides)

2009

2009 - I have a dream -- Smalltalk'09 Keynote (Buenos aires) - S. Ducasse (Slides)