Sponsors

Agile Brazil 2010 is the Brazilian conference in agile development. The conference looks forward to hosting more than 450 participants from all over Brazil to Porto Alegre.

If you are interested in marketing your company, products and/or services to the most involved people with agile development in Brazil, become a sponsor for the event. We offer several sponsorship levels with excellent marketing benefits suitable for each category.

Obtain more details about our sponsorship levels on the sponsorship document and email patrocinio@agilebrazil.com to contact the sponsor liaison officer.

Diamond

  • Audare

    Audare

    AUDARE Software Engineering designs and configures solutions ofr your business and helps implement them to improve the process of your company. Since 1998, AUDARE aims to offer to the market the best solutions of applied governance to businesses.
    AUDARE is the only AITP (Authorized Independent Training Provider on Rational) of Paraná and Santa Catarina, being able to act on other regions of Brazil. AUDARE possesses a strong experience in all of the Life Cycle in Software Engineering and counts with trained professionals in several areas.
    AUDARE also has a Software Test Bureau and is an IBM Premier Partner and HVP (High Value Partner) in Lotus, Tivoli and Rational.

  • Microsoft

    Microsoft

    Founded in 1975 in the United States and with subsidiaries in 103 countries, Microsoft Corporation started its activities with the mission of putting a computer in each house and over each work desk.
    In over 30 years making technology and innovation accessible to millions of people in the whole world, Microsoft embraced the challenge to capacitate people and businesses to achieve their full potential, bringing potential as a fundamental element in its new coporative mission.
    To achieve this goal, the company acts with 3 main fronts: accomplishing people's potential, accomplishing companies and professionals' potential and accomplishing communities' potential. Together, they stimulate birth of new opportunities, encourage economic growth and support the community with innovating technologies.

  • Thoughtworks

    ThoughtWorks

    ThoughtWorks, Inc. is a global IT consultancy providing systems development, consulting, and transformation services to Global 1000 companies. The company's pioneering approach, which includes industry-acclaimed Agile and Lean best practices, helps CIOs maximize investment performance across a portfolio of complex, business critical applications, while reducing time and risk. ThoughtWorks' 1000 professionals serve clients from offices in Australia, Canada, China, India, the United Kingdom and the United States. ThoughtWorks Studios is the company's specialist product division, which develops the next generation of tools for custom software development, including Studios Mingle®, Cruise® and Twist®. For more information, visit us online: www.thoughtworks.com.

Gold

  • Adaptworks

    Adaptworks

    AdaptWorks acts, through Scrum and other agile methods training and coaching, in the process of cultural change of its clients who seek agility and better results in projects. With clients in the United Kingdom, Portugal and several states of Brazil, AdaptWorks offers the market an excelent combination of coaching and training that support the whole cultural transformation process required to achieve success with Scrum.

  • Aspercom / GoToAgile!

    Aspercom / GoToAgile!

    Aspercom is a Brazilian company with 11 years of experience in consulting. Aspercom's mission is to inovate IT in Brazil by training teams in agile software development practices with Scrum, XP and Kanban. Experienced in critical projects, Aspercom has trained over 150 teams in over 30 companies such as UOL, Sonda Procwork, Infraero, CEMIG and many others (check http://blog.aspercom.com.br/category/cases).
    GoToAgile! is a Brazilian company present all over the world. We have big clients in Brazil, Canada, France, Romania, Bulgary and China. We offer training and coaching services around the globe and in all kinds of companies.

  • DevJam

    DevJam

    DevJam is a group of collaborative agilists based in Minneapolis who teach, coach, and practice a pragmatic blend of processes and technologies that consistently deliver value to customers and clients around the world. Our clients cover a wide range: ING, Wells Fargo, Nokia, Best Buy, Target Corporation, Harley Davidson, Boston Scientific, Travelocity, Thomson-Reuters and more. By combining pragmatic agility and strong product and development skills, DevJam directly helps companies improve, innovate and improvise around the world. Polyglots to the end, we coach and code across languages, processes, industries and borders.
    Check out our website: www.devjam.com or email us david.hussman@devjam.com.

  • Globo.com

    Globo.com

    Globo.com is the Internet division of Globo Organizations, the largest midia group in Latin America, situated among the country largest portals, with almost 14 million unique visitors and over 1.2 billion page views per month. Its sites are absolute liders in their categories, including: G1 for News, globoesporte.com for Sports, GloboVídeos in Broadcast Media, Big Brother Brasil in Entertainment, Ego in Celebrities and others. Its two Datacenters support the largest traffics of Brazilian Internet, maintaining rate up to 25 Gb/s. Having adopted SCRUM as development methodology in 2007, Globo.com counts today with over 22 SCRUM teams, allowing quick adaptation to the market's requests.

  • Locaweb

    Locaweb

    Locaweb, founded in 1998, is pioneer and lider in IT hosting services in Brazil. The company has over 200.000 clients and 500.000 hosted domains, besides parternships with ver 14.000 developers. Locaweb's services fullfil the needs from both the common user to the big corporations, through three vertical business approaches:
    INTERNET, which offers website hosting services, domain registration, hosting resell, email services and marketing emails, e-commerce and audio and video streaming infra-structure;
    DATA CENTER, offering Cloud Computing corporate solutions, dedicated servers and safe rooms, beside specialized IT outsourcing services. The business counts over 3.500 clients, with companies of all sizes;
    COMMUNICATION, aimed to offer VoIP communication through the virtual PABX and virtual Call Center, currently with over 3.000 installed branches.

  • Version One

    Version One

    VersionOne is recognized by agile practitioners as the leader in agile development tools. By simplifying the process of planning and tracking agile software projects, we help development teams consistently deliver software faster. Since 2002, companies such as Adobe, Dow Chemical, Lockheed Martin, Motorola, Novell, Sony and Symantec have turned to VersionOne to help provide greater value to their customers. Today more than 30,000 teams in over 170 countries use VersionOne's agile management tool. Whether you're a small, single agile team just getting started with agile development or a multi-team, global enterprise, with VersionOne you'll get the best tools in the industry backed by pioneers in agile project management and planning. VersionOne. Start small. Scale smart. See for yourself at www.VersionOne.com.

Silver

  • Agile Alliance

    Agile Alliance

    Agile Alliance serves the global community. With more than 4500 members worldwide, Agile Alliance is driven by the values and principles of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. "We support those who explore and apply Agile principles and practices to make the software industry productive, humane, and sustainable."

  • Caelum

    Caelum

    Caelum Learning and Innovation has over six years of experience in training about the Java platform and its ramifications. Nowadays, the company is also specialized in Ruby and Agile, modalities that have been developed and perfected through trainings in loco, in company and consulting. Caelum is also responsible for InfoQ in Brazil and for GUJ, on of the largest Java portals in Brazil.

  • HOTWords

    HOTWords

    HOTWords is leader in text advertisement in countries of Portuguese and Spanish language. In-text advertising is a new but consolidated segmented media format that allows the announcer to talk to who really matters; how, where and when he decides. HOTWords provides several interaction formats and is present in thousands of sites and blogs, reaching millions of users from all classes and habits.

  • Scrum Alliance

    Scrum Alliance

    Providing over 50,000 members with certification in various levels of Scrum knowledge and practice, the Scrum Alliance is a non-profit organization focused on the promotion, education and development of the Scrum framework. Trainers certified by the Scrum Alliance provide Scrum courses throughout the world and offer onsite coaching and training. The Scrum Alliance also hosts yearly Gatherings, which provide unique opportunities for Scrum users of all experience levels to gather together to learn about and share Scrum experiences. Certification class schedules, Scrum Gathering details, Scrum resources and information are available at www.scrumalliance.org.

Bronze

  • Ci&T

    Ci&T

    Ci&T (http://www.ciandt.com), a CMMI5 company ─ considered a symbol of innovation in outsourcing by IAOP/ Fortune Magazine in 2010 ─ applies the concepts of Lean IT to generate value for its clients. It offers agile development and outsourcing of applications, BPM, SAP, BI, IT Governance and Value Engineering, with full expertise on a vast array of technologies. Besides being one of the 100 best companies to work for in Brazil, according to the Great Place to Work Institute and providing global services through its units in Sao Paulo, Campinas, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Vitoria, Philadelphia, London, Tokyo and Ningbo. This differentiated approach is confirmed by clients like Avon, Citibank, Coca-Cola, Google, Dow Jones, Abril Media Group, Embraer, Hospital Albert Einstein, IAC, Itau Bank, Janssen-Cilag, Johnson&Johnson, McNeil Healthcare, Metlife, Odebrecht, P&G, Petrobras, Globo Media Group, Rhodia, Saint-Gobain, Schindler, Vale, Yahoo! and many other innovative companies.

  • DBServer

    DBServer

    DBServer is specialized in mission critical corporative software projects. It helps its clientes to develop informa A DBServer é especializada em projetos de softwares corporativos de missão crítica. Auxilia seus clientes a desenvolver computerized solutions with high return of investment and direct engagement in the sucess of its organizations, employing the most advanced software development methodologies. The use of those methodologies has continously increased productivity and quality in the Information Tecnology area of its client, adding more value to customized solutions.

  • e-Core

    e-Core

    e-Core is a south Brazilian company that acts in the Information Technology business since 1999, é uma empresa gaúcha que atua no mercado de tecnologia da informação desde 1999, with clients of all sizes in Brazil and United States. Through its software factory hosted in Porto Alegre, application development and maintaince services, temporary technology professionals, software quality through tests, consulting and corporative training are offered.

  • Pitang

    Pitang

    Pitang is C.E.S.A.R's Software Factory, offering system development, consultng, software and tests factory, legacy migration and outsourcing services, always focusing on the market's demands in an innovating way, throught the development of exclusive projects that add great value to its clients; that embrace both national and international corporations, private and public, middle to big sized, in finances, energy, government, industry, security, services and retail. It is CMMi, MPS-BR and ISO 9001:2000 certified for its processes, and also outstands by its quick absortion of innovating technology in its projects, throught the natural connection and synergy with C.E.S.A.R, as well as with the strategic position on the Digital Port, considered one of the largest TIC clusters in Brazil, a natural attractor for talents.

Media

  • GUJ

    GUJ

    GUJ, Largest Java community in Brazil.

  • InfoQ

    InfoQ

    InfoQ/BR, Tracking change and innovation in corporative software development.

  • MundoJava

    MundoJava

    MundoJava is a publication specialized in Java and related technologies, distributed all over Brazil in magazine kiosks, bookstores and magazine subscription. Focused in Java technology, it features technical articles to help software development professionals. It also covers topics related such as development processes, patterns, SOA, BPM, etc.

  • Mundo.NET

    Mundo.NET

    Mundo.NET is a publication specialized in .NET and related technologies, distributed all over Brazil in magazine kiosks, bookstores and magazine subscription. Focused in .NET technology, it features technical articles to help software development professionals. It also covers related topics such as development processes and management.

  • Sucesu-RS

    Sucesu-RS

    With 41 years old, SUCESU-RS' mission is to "represent, qualify and congregate Information Technology and Communication areas of the companies and their professionals, contributing to transform them into an important advantage to the business". To reach such goal, it supports its actions through development and difusion of knowledge, through political representations and through promoting relationships between those who work on the sector.