Featured project · Feb 2024

TechTón

Two days of online production, close to 1,000 people online, and CLP 4,775,251 raised for Bomberos de Chile.

Hours of streaming on Twitch: +20 h
Speakers across two days: 40+
CLP raised for Bomberos de Chile: $4.775.251

The event

TechTón ran on February 9 and 10, 2024, streamed on Twitch to raise funds for Bomberos de Chile after the forest fires in the V Región. It was built in less than a week, with national and international speakers, including well-known voices in programming, technology, STEM and science. The Saturday schedule closed with a Fortnite gaming stream, from 8:30 to 10:00 p.m. The amount raised was announced by JavaScript Chile on Instagram on February 17, 2024.

Behind the scenes

Production studio during TechTón with speakers joining from home and the Bomberos de Chile donation QR — The studio: speakers joining from home, produced in StreamYard.

Speakers and organizers on a video call during TechTón, one of them Leslie Herrera — Speakers and organizers on the first day of the event.

My role

Led production of a two-day online event, from the agenda and speakers to the live stream.
Coordinated the team of 15 developers, leading about 10 of them, and wrote part of the code.
Created the initial Figma design, which other designers later improved, and defined the site's information structure.
Cut and edited every talk, and published the YouTube previews and posts, now collected in one playlist.
Hosted the event and spoke in one of its talks.

Visit the TechTón site → View the repo → Talks playlist on YouTube → Fundraising announcement →