The largest 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.
More than a decade making tech knowledge accessible to everyone
Nerdearla started in 2014 with 60 people in Buenos Aires. Today it brings together over 50,000 participants a year across its four editions — Argentina, Chile, Mexico and Spain — with free streaming reaching more than 50 countries. In 2025, across the Argentina and Spain editions, more than 12,000 people attended in person and 35,000 joined online. 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 more than 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. In 2025, more than 35,000 people joined online from over 50 countries across the Argentina and Spain editions, 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
Rob Pike
Co-creator of Go and UTF-8
Werner Vogels
VP and CTO of Amazon, architect of AWS infrastructure
D. Richard Hipp
Creator of SQLite
Monty Widenius
Creator of MySQL and MariaDB
Matt Mullenweg
Co-founder of WordPress and the Founder and CEO of Automattic
Jean-Baptiste Kempf
Creator of VLC
Bruce Momjian
Co-founder of PostgreSQL
Roger Dingledine
Creator of Tor
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
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
Shuah Khan
Linux kernel maintainer, Linux Foundation Fellow
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
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Technology journalist and analyst
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
Lead AI Developer Experience at Google DeepMind
Merve Noyan
Machine Learning Engineer at Hugging Face
Kent C. Dodds
Web development educator
Deb Goodkin
Executive Director of the FreeBSD Foundation
Robin Bender Ginn
Executive Director of the OpenJS Foundation
Anna Widenius
CEO of the MariaDB Foundation
Madelyn Olson
Valkey maintainer
David Nalley
Former president of the Apache Software Foundation
Peter Zaitsev
Founder of Percona
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
Thor Schaeff
Developer Experience at Google DeepMind
Megan Knight
Director of Software Communities at Arm
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
Chief Engineering Officer at Cloudflare
Utkarsh Sengar
CTO of Webflow
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
What they say about Nerdearla
The magic of brilliant minds coming together to create and innovate was truly in the air. The energy of the event was palpable, every attendee and volunteer could feel that contagious enthusiasm.
This conference is incredible, it truly has everything. The fact that it's completely free and designed for such an amazing community makes it even better. I highly recommend it.
A wonderful space, great food and lots of interesting speakers. If you have the chance to come to Buenos Aires — and I recommend it — come to this conference.
In my opinion, Nerdearla is one of the best conferences in the world. With a vibrant community, the event relies entirely on sponsors and tickets are 100% free, giving attendees the opportunity to learn from world-class speakers.
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