Alive and Kicking This presentation will discuss some successes stories around Smalltalk such AMD 64 bits, OOCL (http://www.oocl.com/), MediaGenix (www.mediagenix.tv), LAMRC (http://www.lamrc.com), netstyle.ch or yesplan.be. Then I will talk about Pharo and the recent advances in Pharo 20 and 30 alpha. More importantly I will give an overview of all the partners and shows that Pharo is composed of a really strong community of academic partners, research groups and companies. In addition I will stress that Pharo is YOUR open-source platform and that if you start to consider it as it then suddenly you realise that you want to improve it and that you can get an impact and influence Pharo's future and your future. I will finish by an key example showing the essence of object-oriented programming and prove to the audience that this is because of such example that Pharo is one of the best system to understand deeply object-oriented programming from its roots. Bio: Stephane leads the RMoD (http://rmod.lille.inria.fr) team. He is expert in two domains: object-oriented language design and reengineering. He worked on traits, composable groups of methods, and this work got some impact. Traits have been introduced in AmbiantTalk, and Squeak/Pharo, Perl, PHP and under a variant into Scala, Fortress of SUN Microsystems. He is one of the developer of Pharo http://www.pharo.org/ a new dynamic language used in industry and academia. He is also expert on software quality, program understanding, program visualizations, reengineering and metamodeling. He is one of the developer of Moose, an open-source software analysis platform http://www.moosetechnology.org/. He is working with http://www.synectique.eu/ a company building dedicated tools for advanced software analysis. He wrote several books: Pharo by Example and Deep into Pharo. He is president of ESUG http://www.esug.org Lecture: Prague Monday 9 December at The lecture starts at 4:15pm in the new Czech National Technical Library There will be a workshop wednesday / thursday afternoon Stef