What happens when you mix 7,000+ developers in Buenos Aires, 81 hackathon teams coding for 24h straight, packed 650-seat auditoriums, and a Gemini assistant speaking fluent Argentine Spanish ("Che, Gemini...")? 🇦🇷🧉✨
You get
#Nerdearla 2026—the largest free tech conference in the Spanish-speaking world—and an unforgettable week at Konex showing up as "One Google" with Google Cloud, Google DeepMind, and our Google Developer Experts (GDEs).
A few highlights from a non-stop week of engineering and community:
🛠️ 81 Projects in 24 Hours (The Nerdearla Vibeathon):
We gave builders a real bottleneck: build an open-source, scalable live transcription and simultaneous translation engine for multi-track conferences. In 24h, 81 teams shipped working apps using Gemini 3.5 Live Audio, Gemini Flash-Lite, and local open-weight Gemma 4 / TranslateGemma (Ollama, llama.cpp, WebGPU):
• 1-to-N fan-out (SSE/WebSockets/Redis) streaming captions to 2,000+ phones for <$0.80/hr per stage.
• "Make-before-break" session rotation synced to voice activity (VAD) so 45-min talks never drop a syllable.
• AI agents extracting technical glossaries from speaker PDF slides, plus live voice dubbing, blind accessibility audio, and Argentine Sign Language (LSA) support.
🎤 Packed Houses & Community Power:
• Full houses in the 650-seat Gran Sala for
David McLaughlin,
Thor Schaeff ("What's New in Audio?"), and
Omar Sanseviero ("The Future of Building with AI"), plus a fun main-stage interview alongside
Naveen Nigam.
• 170+ builders at our evening Google DeepMind meetup at Area3.
• 760+ Google Cloud & AI Studio credit activations across the hackathon and full-day workshops led by GDEs
Jorge Cano,
Lesly Zerna,
Nicolás Bello Camilletti,
Juan Irungaray and
Andrés Villanueva on ADK, A2A, MCP, and Cloud Run.
• At the booth: ~30 devs per lightning demo, dozens of daily 1-on-1 architecture reviews, and non-stop lines for our Lego challenge, custom stickers, and Rioplatense Gemini assistant.
🔗 Dive into the code & start building:
• All 81 open-source Vibeathon projects:
https://lnkd.in/g4zB3cyY
• Test Gemini Live & audio in AI Studio:
https://lnkd.in/g7NujexW
• Agent Development Kit (ADK) docs:
https://g.dev/ai/adk-docs
• Google Developer Experts (GDE) program:
https://lnkd.in/g6FVDQjG
Huge gracias to
Ariel Jolo and the Nerdearla crew, our GDEs, and the dream team who worked tirelessly for months behind the scenes:
Karen Acosta Parra,
Alejandra Alvarado Castaño,
Marty Fortier,
Melina López and our friends across Google DeepMind and Cloud Marketing.
Were you at Konex or in the Vibeathon? Drop your favorite moment or repo below! 👇
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