Innovation Showcases and Student Triumph Highlight Regional Tech Advances in Brazil 2025
Regional events in Pato Branco and Guarapuava showcase Brazil's technology innovation through interactive exhibits and student achievements in 2025.
- • Expopato 2025 showcased interactive technology exhibits and smart city initiatives in Pato Branco.
- • Students from Unicentro won Ideathon 2025 with innovative precision livestock farming projects.
- • Pato Branco's Technological Park and incubated companies fostered community integration and networking.
- • The Ideathon victory included visits to innovation hubs in Curitiba, enhancing student learning and industry connections.
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In November 2025, Brazil witnessed significant regional advances in innovation and technology, marked notably by the Expopato 2025 in Pato Branco and the Ideathon victory by Guarapuava students from Unicentro. At Expopato, held from November 8 to 16, the Municipal Secretariat of Science, Technology, and Innovation of Pato Branco featured an interactive stand highlighting pioneering initiatives and public policies that position the city as a regional innovation hub. The exhibit included the Inventum panel to engage public participation, demonstrations of Smart City projects such as Pato 360 and Pato ID platforms, and interactive workshops involving 3D printing and robotic displays, including a dog robot and humanoid robot provided by PROC Group. This initiative also enabled networking within Pato Branco's technological community through its Technological Park and incubated companies (ID 147463).
Meanwhile, students from the Universidade Estadual do Centro-Oeste (Unicentro) won the Ideathon 2025 with innovative projects aimed at enhancing precision livestock farming and sustainability. Their solutions included a personalized consulting model for farmers and a livestock management system integrating automated scales and monitoring sensors. Following their victory, the team visited innovation hubs in Curitiba, such as Vale do Pinhão and Hotmilk, gaining exposure to emerging technologies and entrepreneurial insights that bolstered interdisciplinary learning and strengthened ties between theory and practical market challenges in agribusiness. Carolina de Almeida, coordinator of the Big Data course, emphasized the importance of such experiences for preparing skilled professionals (ID 147464).
This article was synthesized and translated from native language sources to provide English-speaking readers with local perspectives.