The Nerdearla Argentina 2026 schedule is live, and you can browse the whole thing at nerdearla.com/argentina/schedule/. September 22 to 26: we kick off online on Tuesday the 22nd; Wednesday the 23rd is workshop day at the Santander office, and from Thursday to Saturday we meet at the Konex, all with streaming for everyone following from home.
There are talks on development, AI and data science, infrastructure, security, open source, UX, management, product, a maker/retro track, activities for kids, and the classic NERD track where science takes the stage. All free, as always.
Let's go through the names you can't miss
Legends who wrote the software you use every day
Open any app on your phone and you're certainly running something these people built.
D. Richard Hipp created SQLite, the most widely deployed database on the planet: it's in every phone, every browser and every airplane. He takes the stage on Friday the 25th at the Konex.
Rob Pike is co-creator of Go and UTF-8, and one of the historic figures of Unix and Bell Labs. His online interview opens Tuesday the 22nd.
Monty Widenius created MySQL and then MariaDB. Opening talk on Thursday the 24th, our first in-person day at the Konex.
Jean-Baptiste Kempf is the creator of VLC, the player installed on over three billion devices without ever showing an ad. Friday the 25th, in person.
Roger Dingledine created Tor, the anonymity network that protects journalists, activists and anyone who values their privacy. He opens Saturday the 26th.
AI from the inside, told by the people building it
Merve Noyan, machine learning engineer at Hugging Face, brings "Local AI Ecosystem": how to run open models without depending on anyone. Omar Sanseviero, lead of AI Developer Experience at Google DeepMind, gives his talk on Friday the 25th. His colleague Thor Schaeff, also from DeepMind, shows the latest in AI-generated audio. And Nate Barbettini (virtual) explains Model Context Protocol in plain English: what MCP is and why everyone is talking about it.
The people who keep open source running
Free software doesn't maintain itself, and this edition brings together several of the people holding it up from the inside. Robin Bender Ginn, executive director of the OpenJS Foundation. Madelyn Olson, Valkey maintainer. Anna Widenius, CEO of the MariaDB Foundation. David Nalley, Director of Developer Experience at AWS and former president of the Apache Software Foundation. Bruce Momjian, co-founder of the PostgreSQL project, with a talk on building open source teams. Peter Zaitsev, founder of Percona, on open source in the age of AI. René Cannaò, creator of ProxySQL. And Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, one of the journalists who covered the history of Linux and free software best, in a live interview.
Development, community and career
Kent C. Dodds, one of the most influential educators in the JavaScript world, presents "The Last Software Engineer". Utkarsh Sengar, CTO of Webflow, on code as the source of truth when AI agents write software too. Erick Wendel, Node.js core team member, shares the secret to processing terabytes of data in JavaScript. And Pablo Fredrikson, SRE and YouTuber, with a security-meets-AI story: what happens when your agent loses its patience. And of course, Miguel Ángel Durán (midudev) closes Friday at the Konex.
Science, hardware and nerd culture
Because Nerdearla was never just about software: Daniela Di Bella, CONICET researcher and lab director at Fundación Instituto Leloir, explains how cells decide what to become while a brain is under construction. Lucas Corsino analyzes data at 350 km/h: big data and telemetry in Formula 1. And Roni Bandini, maker counterculture referent, shows homemade devices to detect drones (and react).
September 22 to 26, online and at the Konex
This is just a sample: the full schedule has talks and workshops for every taste, in Spanish and English (with subtitles): nerdearla.com/argentina/schedule/.
Admission is 100% free, as it has been since 2014. Register at tickets.nerdearla.com and see you in September.