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Hire nearshore developers? Attend tech events in Brazil!

Brazil is becoming one of the top nearshore outsourcing destination. Before hiring developers in Brazil, it may be interesting to attend tech events to become familiar with the local industry. Regardless of your job, position or even your workfield, networking is a key asset in your professional life. Besides and gaining knowledge on a particular subject, you can find new opportunities and develop your network. 

In the Tech and IT field, this is no different. Actually, it can benefit both Human Ressources managers looking to hire a nearshore developer and developers looking for a job. 

So, let’s take a look at the main tech events in Brazil: 

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Connecting people, looking to the future, seeking technological solutions, and networking are essential premises for anyone seeking to acquire more knowledge. 

It is with these perspectives in mind that the Gramado Summit – The Festival of the Future – will take place between April 6 and 8. This event will be held in Gramado, Rio Grande do Sul.

During the biggest brainstorming event in Latin America, more than 100 important speakers that act in areas such as national entrepreneurship, marketing, and communication will be gathered. Speakers and debates will take place simultaneously on three stages, in addition to the Main Plenary, which will debate important themes in the sectors.

The 2022 edition of the ERP Summit has confirmed the date. It will be on April 12 and 13, at the Blue Pavilion of Expo Center Norte in São Paulo. 

The ERP Summit 2022 congress is the largest software and management event in Latin America. This year, the central theme of the event will be « Software as an agent of human and business transformation ». The event will feature 165 speakers, more than 100 exhibitors, and 14 plenary sessions and panels. The edition should be the biggest so far in absolute numbers, with an estimated 9 thousand visitors.

FrontIn has gained influence over the 10 last years among all the tech events in Brazil. It was initially was created to promote networking and career-advancing for IT professionals working in the development and technology industries.

Today, they host different conferences, courses and lectures all over the year. It includes programming courses, a front-end seminary, lectures on full-stack development and UX design, software technology testing, and opportunities for networking.

The best part is that this Brazil tech event can be attended in-person, remotely, or in a hybrid format. Find some of the 2022 events below: 

  • Elas Programan: Exclusive event for women in technology which brings together more than 70,000 women.
  • Sampa: 11th edition of the traditional FRONTIN Sampa, a face-to-face event about the front-end universe that has been held since 2012 in São Paulo.
  • Perifa: Held in person on the outskirts of São Paulo. The lectures are exclusively for high school students from public schools in the region, given by devs from the periphery. 

Women in Tech is an international non-profit organization on a mission to close the gender gap and to help women embrace technology. Since 2018, the organization has held yearly summits and connected millions of tech leaders. The Summit will kick off in Paris for 3 days of content. Its aim is to inform, inspire and catalyze collective efforts to reduce the gender and digital gap.

WomenTech Global Conference will feature a wide variety of live events hosted from June 7 – 10, 2022 across various time zones including Americas, GMT & APAC. 

During the past 20 years, Campus Party has gained more and more space, and has become, as the TDC, one of the largest tech events in Brazil.

Their goal is to create an immersive and disruptive environment to discuss technology, creativity, innovation, and education.The event is supported by its strong community which brings together college students, startups, multinationals, and the government.

In addition, the event has dozens of lectures, workshops, hackathons, and several challenges to test one knowledge of technology.

Up to today, there were more than 80 editions spread around the world, bringing together a total of 3 million IT professionals to exchange ideas and experiences, demonstrate innovations and create new professional ties and friendships.

Tech events in Brazil

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Since its creation in 2008, The Developer’s Conference, or TDC, has become one of the largest software development event in Brazil.

Besides bringing companies, sponsors and speakers together for three days, TDC enables everyone to share its expertise through the Call4Papers process. The Call4Papers is the process by which people can submit their talk proposals to present at The Developer’s Conference.

The Developer’s Conference 2022 is hold on a digitalized and hybrid format. You can have access to 4 separate events, each focusing on a theme:

  • CONNECTIONS (from 03/22 to 03/24)
  • INNOVATION (from 06/01 to 06/03)
  • BUSINESS (from 08/22 to 08/24)
  • FUTURE (December)

Hack Town is a festival of innovation, creativity and technology. It will take place in Santa Rita do Sapucaí, also known as the « Brazilian Silicon Valley » because of its high concentration of technology companies and startups. 

The format is very different and dynamic (based on SxSW, which takes place in Austin, Texas). There will be over 100 lectures, debates and workshops on various themes, for all tastes and interests, as well as meetups and concerts with bands. All happening at the same time in bars, restaurants and unusual places in the central region of the city, one very close to the other. 

The Healthcare Innovation Show (HIS) discusses today’s main topics in healthcare innovation and technology. It is one of the main tech events in Brazil which focus on health.

About 200 renowned specialists from Brazil and abroad, including health professionals, managers,  and academics will attend. They will debate the most varied aspects of innovation and technology applied to health. 

The 8th edition of HIS – Healthcare Innovation Show, will take place from September 21 to 22. Over two days, the event will address different topics from the digitalization of health care to the impact of the pandemic on health care. They also will adress home care, and facilities to the latest market movements and news in management and leadership. 

Futurecom, the largest Technology, digital transformation and telecommunications event in Latin America, becomes a hybrid event. Indeed, it integrates the physical environment and its digital platform to expand its reach and enhancing the relationship possibilities.

The face-to-face event will be held at the São Paulo Expo from October 18 to 20, 2022, with an extension of content and networking in their online platform.

The last edition of the event had more than 250 exhibiting brands, gathered more than 30 thousand qualified visitors from all regions of Brazil and several countries. With a high level of content, it gathered about 4,800 congress participants and several attractions of lectures and free content, which added up to more than 240 hours of content.

Running for over 12 years, this multi year event was initially founded by the Global Startup Ecosystem. As a matter of fact, this international program is one of the biggest tech events in Brazil for developers and IT professionals. 

Indeed, Brazil Tech Summit is an international program featuring 100 global speakers and partners passionate about the future of Brazil. The central theme of the global summit is to “catalyze entrepreneurial and business ecosystems in emerging markets”. Thus, hundreds of entrepreneurs, investors, digital marketers and cretiveswill be brough together. They all going to focus on emerging technologies and international innovation.

Rio Innovation Week is an big tech event in Brazil. It transforms Rio de Janeiro in a real HUB of projects in the innovation sector that brings together businesses.Many will collaborate to develop companies, generate jobs, point paths, prepare the professionals of the future and increase business opportunities.

It will be a 40.000m2 event, with 12 simultaneous stages, more than 500 guest speakers, 1000 startups and incubators promoting business.

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