Arquivo para October 4th, 2016
Brasilia (DF) receives IT Congress
04
Oct
South America gets for the first time, the WCIT Brazil in 2016 
(World Congress of Information Technology), considered mega event in the IT field, the last was in Mexico (photo).
The 20th edition of the mega event, which takes place in Brasilia, started on Monday (3/10) and runs until tomorrow Wednesday, day 5.
The event this year’s theme is: will Promises of the digital age: challenges and opportunities, discussing technological advances and how society should prepare for the appropriate use of these new tools.
According to Humberto Bueno, director of Memora company and creator of the award WITSA Emerging Digital Solutions (Weds): “We are extremely excited to receive in Brasilia what we consider our Olympiad sector, discussing public and private policies that impact the digital world and the society”.
Brazilian society is not enthusiastic about the technology, so there is the obsolescence of technologies such as misuse of tools that could help the society in crisis.
The eento will be attended by entrepreneurs and academics in the industry from more than 80 countries, and connected global association World Information Technology and Services Alliance (WITSA) and organized by the Federation of Brazilian Information Technology Companies (National Assespro).
Co-creator of the technology essential to the functioning of the Internet (TCP), the mathematician Vinton Gray Cerf, will attend the event, and will speak on “unlimited Business: Internet in the XXI century” and the “Future of Work”.
The last edition of the event generated about $ U $ 95 million in business, is expected to arrive in Brazil to $ 100 million dollars, about R $ 340 million brazilian’s real.
