Nerdearla Chile 2026 is coming in strong. From April 16 to 18 at Centro GAM in Santiago, the third edition of the largest free tech event in the Spanish-speaking world brings three names that need no introduction - but we'll introduce them anyway :P
Chris Lattner / virtual speaker 💻
If you've written a line of code in the last 15 years, you've probably used something Chris Lattner built. He created LLVM, the compiler framework behind nearly all modern software. He created Swift, the language that replaced Objective-C and now powers millions of apps in the Apple ecosystem. He created MLIR, the compiler infrastructure used by Google, NVIDIA and most machine learning frameworks.
He is now co-founder and CEO of Modular AI, where he's building Mojo, a programming language designed to be Python's successor for artificial intelligence - with C's speed and Python's ease of use.
Grady Booch / virtual speaker 💻
If Lattner is the future, Grady Booch is the living history of software engineering. Co-creator of UML (Unified Modeling Language), founding member of the Agile Alliance, IBM Fellow, ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow, IEEE Computer Pioneer, Lovelace Medal winner. He delivered the Turing Lecture for the British Computer Society.
Booch has spent decades thinking about how we build software, how we design it and how we make it evolve. At a time when AI is redefining what it means to "program", his perspective on systems architecture and the role of the human engineer is more relevant than ever.
Booch was a trustee of the Computer History Museum and is one of the most respected voices in the debate on artificial intelligence, ethics and the future of the profession.
Jeff Barr / in-person speaker 🇨🇱
Jeff Barr is Vice President and Chief Evangelist at Amazon Web Services. His blog is required reading for anyone working in cloud - every new service, every feature, every major change goes through it.
Barr has been at AWS since the early days. He saw the birth of S3, EC2, Lambda and everything that came after.
At a time when AI infrastructure is generating a multi-billion dollar race among hyperscalers, having the person who communicates AWS's strategy at Nerdearla Chile is a huge opportunity to understand where the cloud is heading.
April 16-18, Centro GAM, Santiago
Three speakers, three perspectives: the one who understands the history of how we got here, the one building the tools of the future, and the one running the infrastructure everything runs on.
Admission is free. Register at tickets.nerdearla.com.