#Web Summit Rio

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After getting back from Brazil early Saturday morning, I’ve napped more than usual but have also spoken at an event in D.C., gotten in some gardening, and enjoyed a shorter-than-usual bike ride. 5/1/2023: Companies adopting AI need to move slowly and not break things, Fast Company I wrote about how two companies I’ve covered elsewhere recently–the satellite-imagery firm Planet and the…

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Web Summit Rio 2024 começa nesta segunda (15), com muita inovação e tecnologia

O Web Summit Rio 2024 promete ser um marco para a inovação e a tecnologia na América Latina. O evento, que acontecerá no Riocentro entre os dias 15 e 18 de abril, reunirá startups de tecnologia, líderes globais, investidores e curiosos em busca de oportunidades de negócios e conhecimento. Com mais de 600 palestrantes e mil startups participantes, o evento esgotou rapidamente seus ingressos,…

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Embraer-owned Eve already building its first "flying car"

Eve Air Mobility, a startup spun off Embraer’s innovation arm Embraer-X years ago, hopes to have the first full-size prototype of its aircraft ready by the end of this year and flying by the end of 2026. 

Daniel Moczydlower, Embraer-X’s president, said at Web Summit Rio that Eve’s electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) vehicle is being built in the city of Taubaté, in the state of São Paulo. The first flight tests should also take place later this year in the city of Gavião Peixoto, 330 kilometers from the capital of São Paulo, he told the press.

The company expects to have everything it needs (data on ground and flight tests, as well as wind tunnel data) to get the first green light from regulators by the end of 2024. Embraer’s Taubaté plant was announced in mid-2023, months after selecting the suppliers for the project.

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[simstorian]

This upscale gated community offers its residents all the warm, wild benefits of living in the desert along with the luxury of endless green grass.

Still working on my savefile here and there and I have had some real CAS inspiration lately, so here are the sims from my version of the Skyward Palms neighborhood in Oasis Springs! Head-canon lore and mini-rant about the Calientes below lol:

At Sulty Springside, we have the Caliente household. On the latest Behind the Sims summit, the Sims team tried to retcon the existence of Katrina as Nina's and Dina's mother instead of/besides Nighat as Katrina being a clone they made bc they wanted a mom that was like them? So many question marks about that and so many other pieces of lore that don't really make sense if that is the case, but ok... My headcanon mostly places Sims 4 after Sims 2 in the timeline, even though I know that it is just an alternate timeline. In my mind, things got too messy in Pleasantview for the twins and for Don so they both moved away. Being the slow-aging alien-blooded gurlies that they are they partied and romanced around for a while before creating Katrina as the family matriarch to make the family seem more normal in their new environment of Oasis Springs, Cullen family style if you will. Two Calientes to romance and have drama is bad enough so I imagine Katrina moved out for a while bc it got messy, started dating Don, moved back in and brought him with her to mixed reactions from Dina and Nina, and that is where the save starts. In my mind Dina is more focused on romance as a way to get wealth whereas Nina finds enjoyment in all kinds of intrigue and drama, even with her clone-mothers boy-toy lol. This reflects in Katrina's new jealous trait and Don, well he is just Don lol.

In the middle we have the resident of Rio Verde, Gino Delicioso. Gino is in a similar way to the BFF household and DJ Candy inspired by a MySims character of the same name. I actually plan on including quite a lot of MySims characters in the savefile! He does not have a lot of lore of his own, so I made some up for him! Gino Delicioso is a world-famous pizza chef who has started pizzerias all over Simnation. He has the wealth and the fame, but has yet to be as successful in the romance department. Settling down in Oasis Springs and with a clear focus on his local Gino's Pizza and Pitstop restaurant, will Gino find a true love to eat pizza with forever or get stuck in the web of the ladies across the street?

Last but not least, living at Granada Place is the Aspir family. The Aspir's are a family from Desiderata Valley in Sims 2 Freetime I used to interact with a lot when I played Sims 2 as a child! I added some extra lore, did a little time-jump and wanted some extra toddlers in town so I added the little brother Darius, named after one of his great-grandfathers just like Pauline seems to be named after a relative. The Aspir family seems like the perfect multi-generational family from the outside, but in reality, they are falling apart. Crumbled under the pressure of her husband and stepfather Elizabeth had another child with Victor just like he wanted, but Elizabeth still secretly dreams of leaving it all behind to pursue her dream of becoming a famous actress. Victor still wants a bigger family and can not for the life of him understand why his wife keeps drifting further away from him. In the mids of this the couple's oldest daughter Pauline feels lonely and eager to grow, good thing she now has a brother to keep her company, as well as Victor's eccentric gadget-making father, Luis.

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Rio mostra suas inovações no Web Summit Lisboa 2024 - PSD #ÚltimasNotícias #lisboa

Hot News 08 de novembro de 2024 · Eduardo Paes, Rio de Janeiro, Web Summit O Web Summit é um dos maiores e mais influentes eventos de tecnologia do mundo Edição Scriptum com Prefeitura do Rio A gestão do prefeito reeleito do Rio de Janeiro, Eduardo Paes (PSD), estará presente, entre os dias 11 e 14 de novembro, no Web Summit Lisboa 2024, um dos maiores e mais influentes eventos de tecnologia…

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Web Summit a Rio, uno dei maggiori eventi di tecnologia al mondo

Inizia oggi a Rio de Janeiro il Web Summit Rio 2024, uno dei più grandi eventi di tecnologia e innovazione al mondo. I circa 30mila partecipanti attesi a questa edizione avranno l’opportunità di ascoltare più di 600 relatori, tra cui alcuni big dell’informatica come Justina Nixon-Saintil , vicepresidente di Ibm. Tutti gli ingressi sono già esauriti.     La manifestazione presenta 18 i percorsi…

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O réveillon de 2024 deve injetar R$ 3 bilhões na economia da cidade do Rio de Janeiro, o que equivale a um aumento de 15% em relação à virada de 2023, quando o movimento foi de R$ 2,6 bilhões. As estimativas são da Prefeitura do Rio de Janeiro e estão sendo divulgadas junto ao estudo Réveillon em Dados, que traz um retrato da segunda festa mais importante para a cidade, atrás apenas do carnaval. Para o secretário municipal de Desenvolvimento Urbano e Econômico, Chicão Bulhões, o resultado consolida o bom ano para a economia da cidade. “A economia do Rio manteve-se bem aquecida o ano todo. Nós tivemos o maior carnaval dos últimos tempos, trouxemos o Web Summit para a cidade e recebemos dezenas de shows internacionais e eventos de negócios. Tudo isso anima o carioca a gastar mais com serviços e atrai turistas nacionais e internacionais, que também aproveitam tudo o que a cidade tem a oferecer”, avaliou Chicão Bulhões. Na festa da virada, serão ao todo 12 palcos espalhados por 11 pontos da cidade, com mais de 4 milhões de pessoas participando, sendo 2 milhões somente nas areias da Praia de Copacabana. O estudo foi realizado pela Secretaria Municipal de Desenvolvimento Urbano e Econômico, em parceria com o Instituto Fundação João Goulart e a Empresa de Turismo do Município do Rio de Janeiro (Riotur). Segundo o presidente da Riotur, Ronnie Costa, o Rio de Janeiro comemora a retomada da credibilidade com os maiores produtores de eventos do mundo. “Voltamos a sediar os grandes eventos e já estamos com o calendário de 2024 repleto. O Rio de Janeiro tem uma vocação natural para o turismo e para a realização das maiores festas do planeta. Com isso, aumentamos o fluxo turístico na cidade e movimentamos a economia”, destacou Ronnie Costa. Esta é a primeira edição do Réveillon em Dados, pesquisa da Prefeitura do Rio de Janeiro sobre a festa da virada de ano, assim como já tiveram duas edições do Carnaval de Dados, estudo sobre a folia carioca. No réveillon passado, estiveram em Copacabana 2 milhões de pessoas. Nas festas e eventos privados, a expectativa para o réveillon 2024 é que participem mais de 50 mil pessoas, com a venda de R$ 20 milhões em ingressos. Os dados têm como base informações da Coordenadoria Especial de Promoção de Eventos, do gabinete do prefeito. Serão, no total, 38 eventos e festas privadas de réveillon 2024, sendo 42% na zona sul e 42% na Barra da Tijuca. Em média, cada festa privada deve ter 1,4 mil pessoas, com a maior parte das pessoas (63%) em festas na zona sul carioca. Segundo dados da Riotur, 98% dos turistas estrangeiros, 89% dos turistas nacionais e 88% de cariocas e moradores da região metropolitana do Rio deram nota acima de 8 para a virada de 2022 para 2023 em Copacabana. A publicação também mostra que o público na Praia de Copacabana é composto por 85% de cariocas e moradores da região metropolitana do Rio, 12% de turistas nacionais e 3% de turistas estrangeiros. Dentre os cariocas, 54% de homens e 46% de mulheres, com 62% até 40 anos de idade.  A Argentina é o país que traz mais turistas estrangeiros, e São Paulo e Minas Gerais são os estados com mais turistas nacionais, sendo que aproximadamente 60% dos turistas ficam 5 dias ou mais na cidade. Sobre a parte operacional da prefeitura para as festas da virada do ano, o Réveillon em Dados mostra que 13 órgãos estão envolvidos com o réveillon, com 11,8 mil servidores públicos municipais trabalhando nos eventos, sendo quase metade (46,2%, 5,5 mil) de funcionários da Companhia Municipal de Limpeza Urbana (Comlurb). A publicação Réveillon em Dados está disponível no site do Observatório Econômico do Rio. Com informações da Agência Brasil

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Temas do Web Summit Rio estarão em discussão amanhã em São Paulo

A forma como a tecnologia vai guiar os rumos da vida e dos negócios nos próximos anos estará em discussão nesta terça-feira (13) em São Paulo, no Download Web Summit Rio. O evento vai trazer alguns dos principais temas e tendências levantados na maior conferência global de tecnologia do mundo, que recebeu mais de 20 mil pessoas no mês passado no Riocentro, e apontará caminhos para a nova edição,…

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Swisstech Pavilion at the WebSummit Rio 2023

Take a look in a little bit at what happened during the four days of the first Web Summit in Rio de Janeiro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urQ2DZ0-vwI (Source of the original content)

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Weekly output: Mark Vena podcast, nearshoring meets remote coding, Eve air taxis

Between late last Sunday night and very early Saturday morning, I clocked more than 10,000 miles in the air to cover Web Summit Rio, conduct an onstage interview at that conference, and see very little of the city outside my conference bubble. Is that why I’m feeling tired tonight? No, the gardening work I put in yesterday and today had much more to do with that. 4/15/2024: Ep 98 SmartTechCheck…

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KondZilla, the entrepreneur of Brazilian favela funk

RIO DE JANEIRO

They say everything he touches turns to gold: KondZilla, the man behind the most popular YouTube channel in Latin America, has revolutionized Brazilian funk music, taking favela beats to a massive online audience.

The 34-year-old entrepreneur, who grew up in the slums himself, launched his "KondZilla Channel" in 2012. At the time, the music industry had barely taken notice of Brazilian funk, a Rio de Janeiro-born hip-hop style known as the fuel for all-night-and-into-the-next-day parties in the favelas.

Today, KondZilla -- whose real name is Konrad Dantas -- has more than 66.5 million subscribers on YouTube, and favela funk is mainstream music in Brazil.

"The big multinational record labels were ignoring that segment of the market," Dantas told AFP in an interview.

"The only way to get this content out there was YouTube," he said after giving a talk this week at the Rio edition of Web Summit, the world's biggest annual technology conference.

Dantas grew up in a favela in Guaruja, a seaside city in the southeastern state of Sao Paulo.

He got his start directing music videos for "ostentation funk" artists, a sex-and-bling-heavy subgenre that emerged in Sao Paulo in the 2000s.

"I like telling stories and connecting with young people from the hood," he says.

His audience soon exploded.

His 2015 video "Baile de Favela," for funk artist MC Joao, racked up more than 100 million views.

It hit the height of mainstream success when Olympic medallist Rebeca Andrade, Brazil's most famous gymnast, used it in the soundtrack for her floor routine at the Tokyo Games in 2021.

Forbes Brasil named KondZilla to its list of the country's most influential people under 30 in 2017.

Today, he runs a business empire that includes a record label, TV and film production company, music news site, and an institute to train talented young artists.

His TV series "Sintonia" is the most widely watched Brazilian show on Netflix, and his most-watched music videos each have more than a billion views.

Despite his stage name -- a reference to movie monster Godzilla -- Dantas is a small, laid-back man with a gleaming smile.

At the Web Summit conference, he patiently signed autographs, posed for pictures and took time to speak with fans seeking his advice.

He says one of the keys to his success has been the democratization of technology, which has allowed people in Brazil's impoverished favelas to consume and produce whatever content they want on their cell phones.

"When we have the chance to choose what we consume, we don't pick the story of the firefighter in New York. We pick stories that look like ours, that we can identify with," he said.

Dantas is known for his savvy at reading the market, and adapting as it changes.

"One minute, you're on top. The next, you fall. Everything changes fast, and you have to adapt," he said.

One of his key transitions was launching "light" versions of songs, replacing the "indecent" language that permeates the genre with safe-for-work lyrics, he said.

He credits that with expanding his subscriber numbers from six million in 2016 to 22 million in 2017.

Dantas says he was always interested in music and visual media.

He got his professional start at 18, after his mother died. He received some money from her pension and life-insurance policy, which he thought about using to buy an apartment and get out of the favela, he said.

Instead, he took a risk: he used the money to pay for production equipment and professional training.

He turned out to have a flair for directing irresistible, visually seductive music videos -- and discovering new talent.

To help promote the next generation of "KondZillas," Dantas launched a "Creators School" last year to train video and music artists from his hometown favelas.

But in business terms, he sees people over 50 as his next growth market, he said -- an unusual statement at a tech conference, especially from someone in an industry obsessed with youth, TikTok and trends.

"They say the first generation that will live past 100 has already been born," Dantas said in his talk. "I'm aiming at them."

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To save the Amazon, indigenous activist pleads: "Come talk to us!"

“How are you going to protect something that you don’t know?” the 26-year-old indigenous activist Txai Suruí asked during a Q&A session at Web Summit Rio on Tuesday morning, urging attendees to visit the Amazon and learn about the traditional ways of indigenous communities. “The most powerful technology is ancestral knowledge,” she added.

Ms. Suruí spoke alongside Ricardo Lima, the Web Summit’s head of startups and investors, after participating in the summit’s opening ceremony on Monday night, where she shared the main stage with famous Brazilian TV host Luciano Huck.

A member of the Suruí Paiter indigenous community, hailing from the Sete de Setembro protected land in the northern Brazilian state of Rondônia, Txai Suruí is one of the leading voices in defense of the country’s indigenous communities. In 2021, she made history when she became the first indigenous person to speak at the opening ceremony of a climate conference, issuing the opening address at COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland.

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Cabo Verde pretende receber o evento Web Summit

O Primeiro-Ministro de Cabo Verde reuniu-se com o co-fundador da Web Summit, Paddy Cosgrave, durante a Web Summit Rio com o objetivo de discutir o potencial para a organização de uma Web Summit de menor escala em Cabo Verde. Como parte do programa “GoGlobal”, duas startups de Cabo Verde marcaram presença na cimeira desta semana. […]

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Uma semana incrível! De muito trabalho, conexões, negócios, aprendizado! Web Summit Rio @websummitrio ! 🚀 o Maior evento tech do mundo na cidade maravilhosa com participação da nossa Startup Neurosenses @dna.hub.

Agradecimento especial à prefeitura do Rio @prefeitura_rio e ao nosso prefeito @eduardopaes por trazer esse evento de inovação de suma importância e incentivo na cidade.

Simbora! Pra cima! Que venham os próximos 💥😍

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