The biggest free tech conference in the Spanish-speaking world
12 years connecting the tech community with the most influential names in the industry. Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Santiago, Madrid.
A decade making tech knowledge accessible to everyone
Nerdearla (Nerd · ear · la - Spanish for "nerd it up") started in 2014 with 60 people in Buenos Aires. Today, 15,000+ attendees a year meet in person across four countries and 30,000+ join online from 50+. Admission has been 100% free since day one, no paid tickets, no premium tiers, no paywalls. Every talk is published publicly, in a library of 1,300+ recorded sessions.
In 2023, Argentina's Ministry of Culture officially declared Nerdearla of Cultural Interest for its impact on democratizing access to technology knowledge.
The scale of the event
Who's actually in the room
Seniority
Mostly, 10+ years of experience
Trainee 8%, Junior 21%, Semi-Senior 15%, Senior 22%, Senior+ 34%. A mostly senior audience, sharp enough to engage with deep technical content.
Roles
Builders, not bystanders
Devs, SRE / DevOps, Data Science / AI, Product, UX, Management. 20% are decision-makers (lead, manager, founder).
English
70% intermediate or bilingual
Most of the audience consumes technical content in English daily. English talks land naturally, no language barrier.
Actively looking
80% are exploring new opportunities
The audience is watching, evaluating, comparing. If your company has a story to tell, this is the moment.
Live streaming
People from all over the world
Every talk and workshop is streamed live for free. 30,000+ people tune in online every year from 50+ countries, on top of the in-room crowd.
Gender
33% women and other identities
We know there's still a long way to go, but for the last five years at least a third of our speakers and audience have been women and other identities. The room you'll be presenting to reflects that.
The names that have shared the stage with us
A selection of the tech speakers who have presented at Nerdearla over the years.
Vint Cerf
Father of the Internet, co-creator of TCP/IP
Ken Thompson
Co-creator of UNIX
Donald Knuth
Computer scientist, author of The Art of Computer Programming
Alan Kay
Pioneer of OOP and UI
Martin Cooper
Inventor of the cell phone
Radia Perlman
Creator of Spanning Tree Protocol, networking pioneer
Brian Kernighan
Co-author of the book The C Programming Language
Doug McIlroy
Creator of Unix pipes, software engineering pioneer
Werner Vogels
VP and CTO of Amazon, architect of AWS infrastructure
Matt Mullenweg
Co-founder of WordPress and the Founder and CEO of Automattic
Sara Hooker
CEO of Adaption AI
Greg Kroah-Hartman
Maintainer of the Linux kernel
Håkon Wium Lie
Creator of CSS, former CTO of Opera Software
Chris Lattner
Creator of LLVM, Swift, MLIR and Mojo. CEO and co-founder of Modular AI
Shuah Khan
Linux kernel maintainer, Linux Foundation Fellow
Megan Smith
US CTO under President Barack Obama
Tony Fadell
Creator of the iPod and co-creator of the iPhone, founder of Nest
Andrew Tanenbaum
Computer scientist, creator of MINIX
Bjarne Stroustrup
Creator of the C++ programming language
John Romero
Video game designer
Brendan Burns
Co-creator of Kubernetes
Douglas Crockford
Creator of JSON, author of JavaScript: The Good Parts
Solomon Hykes
Creator of Docker
Grady Booch
UML co-creator, ACM Fellow, software engineering pioneer
Cory Doctorow
Writer and digital activist, free software advocate
Tara Hernandez
Software engineer and open source contributor
Jim Roskind
QUIC protocol pioneer, Chromium security architect, ex-Netscape
Bruce Schneier
Cryptographer, cybersecurity expert, author of Applied Cryptography
Omar Sanseviero
Engineering lead at Hugging Face, open source ML expert
Deb Goodkin
Executive Director of the FreeBSD Foundation
Daniel Stenberg
Creator of cURL
Jon 'maddog' Hall
Board Chair, Linux Professional Institute
VM Brasseur
Author and speaker, free and open source software advocate
Chen Goldberg
SVP of Engineering at CoreWeave, former VP of Engineering at Google Cloud
Dawn Chen
Kubernetes co-founder, former Distinguished Engineer at Google
Dorothy Gordon
Chair of UNESCO Information for All Programme
Dan'l Lewin
President & CEO, Computer History Museum
Marc Porat
Entrepreneur and author
Tim Hockin
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google
Eric Brewer
VP of infrastructure at Google
Patrick Debois
Father of the DevOps movement, founder of DevOpsDays
Allan Leinwand
CTO at Webflow, former SVP of Engineering at Slack
McCoy Smith
Attorney specializing in open source licensing
Bruce Lawson
Web standards and accessibility advocate, former Deputy CTO of Opera
Ken Shirriff
Computer historian, silicon reverse engineer
Jeff Barr
VP and Chief Evangelist at AWS, cloud technology blogger since 2004
Ali Spittel
Head of Developer Relations at AWS, Ladybug Podcast co-founder
Sebastian Stadil
OpenTofu Core Contributor
Kevin Hughes
Internet pioneer, inventor of the imagemap for the Web
Charlie Gerard
Developer advocate at Stripe, creative technologist, author of TensorFlow.js books
Kunal Kushwaha
Senior Developer Advocate at CAST AI, CNCF Ambassador, GitHub Star
Annie Talvasto
CNCF Ambassador, Microsoft MVP, cloud native community leader
Kevlin Henney
Independent consultant, author and speaker on software development, patterns and practices
benny Vasquez
Chair of the Board at AlmaLinux OS Foundation
Live the experience
What it feels like on the ground
Where we're meeting next
Want to take the stage at the next Nerdearla?
We're closing the line-up for the upcoming editions. If you have a topic worth sharing, submit your talk.
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