​Brazil's Only AI Hackathon for the Energy Transition.

​We believe the next great global cleantech company can be built in Rio.

​And on September 25, we want you in the room when we start building it.

​COPPE/UFRJ, Latin America’s largest engineering research center and home to one of Brazil’s most established tech incubators, and Made in Rio, Rio’s largest AI ecosystem and the team behind AI Salon Rio, are joining forces around one big ambition: to turn Rio into the AI capital of Latin America.

​Silicon Valley was built on a culture of hacking. We're bringing that hacker mindset to Rio.

​From a pool of 530+ applicants, only 60 will make it into the room for the final 3-day AI Hackathon COPPE/UFRJ × Made in Rio.

​On Opening Day, the 60 hackers will be joined by a carefully selected group of leaders from across Rio’s AI ecosystem.

​Companies. Investors. Academia. Government. Startups.

​Opening Day is invite-only.

​OPENING DAY AGENDA

​14:00 | Check-in & Networking (mostly for the 12 teams, but you're welcome to join us)

​15:00 | Hackathon Checkpoint (mostly for the 12 teams, but you're welcome to join us)

​16:00 | Why Hackathons Matter for COPPE (COPPE, Suzana Kahn, Diretora da Coppe)

​16:15 | Welcome to Brazil's Only AI Hackathon for the Energy Transition (COPPE, Marcos Chaves & Made in Rio, Luana Helsinger)

​16:30 | The Energy Transition, Explained (ONS)

​16:45 | Becoming AI-First: Who We’re Hiring for AI and Innovation (Taesa, Michel Moussatche & Grupo Guanabara, Felipe Moimaz)

​17:15 | Where AI Is Already Working in Energy (Visagio, Leonardo Machado)

​17:30 | How Rio is Betting on Innovation (Prefeitura do Rio, SEBRAE & Invest.Rio)

​18:00 |🔥🍸 Rio's AI Ecosystem Happy Hour

​20:00 | Party’s Over (so the teams can rest before coming back at 8am on Saturday)

​Co-Creators & Sponsors:

​Incubadora de Empresas COPPE/UFRJ · Made in Rio · Grupo Visagio · OceanPact · TAESA · Guanabara · FAPERJ · SEBRAE · Invest.Rio · Amazônia BR · AWS · NVIDIA · LNCC · Distrito · MCTI · ONS · WOW Aceleradora · Prefeitura do Rio (Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação) · Instituto 12 · ABStartups · Atmosmarine · COPPE/UFRJ · Parque Tecnológico UFRJ · NCE/UFRJ · UFRJ Analytica · Instituto de Inteligência Artificial

​Join AI Salon Rio Private Group on LinkedIn

​AI Salon Rio is not an event, it's a movement. Join our private group here. Need to live in Rio de Janeiro to be part of it!