Brazil is the world’s fifth-largest online market with over 75 million daily internet users who are increasingly accessing it through mobile. Don’t miss the San Jose Mercury News story on the mobile payment industry in Brazil, where several members of our BayBrazil community were mentioned: Eduardo Lins Henrique, Co-Founder of Movile & member of BayBrazil…
DetailsBayBrazil & partner organizations GABA, IEFF, JHTC, SiliconFrench, SiliconVikings & TEC present: Disruptive Innovation in Education Date: Nov 1st , 6pm-9pm Location: JCC at 3921 Fabian Way, Palo CA Education as we know it, has been around for centuries. Little has changed from the model we have all experienced: teachers and professors stand in front…
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The Global Mobile Internet Conference, Asia’s most influential mobile Internet conference, is coming to Silicon Valley. GMIC SV will be making mobile connections globally through keynote speeches, panels, and fireside chats on the Executive Main Stage. Date: Oct 19-20 Location: San Jose McEnery Convention Center, 150 West San Carlos St. , San Jose, CA 95110 Professionals in the BayBrazil network can…
DetailsBayBrazil & partner organizations GABA & SiliconFrench present: Social Media in the Corporate World Date: Oct 9, 2012, 6pm-9pm Location: SAP Palo Alto, 3410 Hillview Ave, Palo Alto, CA Details & Pre-registration Nowadays companies cannot ignore the immense marketing potential of social media. From small businesses to large corporations, everyone seems to be on Facebook, Twitter, run a blog…
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Date: Oct 1st 2012, 5:30pm-8:30pm Location: Kellogg Auditorium, Silicon Valley Bank, 3005 Tasman Drive, Santa Clara, CA 95054 Rio Grande do Sul is one of the strongest Brazilian economies and is at the center of market of US$ 2.1 trillion. Its ICT sector, technology parks, highly skilled workforce, significant field of research and development, top…
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During the month of September 2012 we focused our events entirely on Brazil, featuring the country’s entrepreneurial spirit, a pitch session by 19 Brazilian startups to Silicon Valley investors, a Brazilian evening for the attendees of TechCrunch Disrupt and a special reception with a group of Brazilian women executives representing various industry sectors. On Sep…
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Global Women’s Journey, featuring Brazilian leaders When: Sep 13, 6:00pm-9:00pm Location: Adobe Systems corporate headquarters at 345 Park Avenue, San Jose On Sep 13, we presented the fourth edition of our series Global Women’s Journey. This time we hosted a group of 19 prominent leaders from Brazil representing privately-owned companies as well as multinational corporations.…
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The Brazilian Pavilion at TC Disrupt this year was the largest among international groups. Over 90 Brazilian entrepreneurs represented 40 startups focused mostly on e-commerce, social and mobile technologies. To celebrate Brazil’s entrepreneurial spirit, BayBrazil organized a special event for over 150 people. Big thanks to Initial Capital, our partner in this event, and to…
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BayBrazil’s Sep 11 event An Evening with Brazilian startups is a collaboration with Initial Capital. Its Managing Partner Roi Carthy is also a contributor writer for TechCrunch and the mind behind the idea to create the Brazilian Pavilion at the TC Disrup 2012. BayBrazil: How did you come up with the idea of having a…
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On Aug 21st, BayBrazil chatted with Andy Tsao, Managing Director of Silicon Valley Bank, who had just returned from London. BayBrazil: During the Olympic Games you participated in the Rio Conferences at Casa Brasil in London. How is the climate for business in Rio? Andy: There was a lot of excitement in London during…
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Our community is as diverse as it can get. With that in mind, we created this section to get to know professionals from Brazil who work abroad and professionals from all over the world who have connections with Brazil, whether through business, education or culture. We like to call them BayBrazilians. On August 15, 2012,…
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BayBrazil, on behalf of Brazil IT, in partnership with Consulate General of Brazil in San Francisco’s trade promotion agency, presented: The High Tech Market in Brazil – Trends & Opportunities When: Friday, August 24, 1:00pm-4:00pm, in Palo Alto. Event designed for CIOs, CTO, IT managers. Brazil is the world’s 6th largest economy and the 5th…
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