Campus Party Spain The Spanish edition of Campus Party has been held at the Colegio Miguel Hernández, Ceulaj, and the Municipal Sport Arena of Benalmádena in
Málaga,
Spain; and at both the Valencia County Fair and the
City of Arts and Sciences in
Valencia over the past 15 years.
2011 In July 2011 the 15th edition of Campus Party Spain will be held at the
City of Arts and Sciences in
Valencia. Over $350,000 will be awarded for competition winners during the week-long event.
Kevin Mitnick, David Calkins, Amira Al Hussaini, Carlos Schmukler, Gianluca Fratellini,
Jon "Maddog" Hall, David O'Reilly, Stuart Clark,
Julien Fourgeaud and
David Bravo are confirmed speakers at the event.
Expansion In 2008 the Campus Party crossed the Atlantic Ocean to be celebrated in the Americas, the first Latin American edition was held in
São Paulo in February, and the second in
Bogotá in June of the same year. Since 2008 the festival has been held annually in Brazil, Colombia and Mexico, with a special Ibero-America edition in El Salvador in October 2008. In 2011 Futura Networks announced they will be founding Campus Parties in Ecuador, Venezuela, and the United States.
Campus Party Brazil Campus Party's first edition in
São Paulo was held at the
São Paulo Art Biennial. From 2009 until 2011 it has taken place at the Centro de Exposições Imigrantes. The 2012 edition was relocated to Parque Anhembi, in order to better accommodate the ever-growing public.
2008 The first Latin American edition of Campus Party took place at the
São Paulo Art Biennial and drew 3,000 people to the event. The party was connected by a 5.5GB network, and featured 360 official activities including presentations, workshops, debates and competitions. Numerous government and educational institutions and
NGOs participated in the event. Major presenters included
Jon "Maddog" Hall, Mari Moon,
Marcos Pontes and
Steven Berlin Johnson.
2009 In January 2009 Campus Party
Brazil was held at the Center Exposições Imigrantes, and attended by 6,655 Campuseros. The event featured a 10GB connection, 11 different content areas and a total of 468 activities throughout the week. The event was headlined by
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the
World Wide Web, who spoke about the universality of the Internet and "web 3.0." Demi Getschko, who has been involved in the creation of the international networking since 1987 and was part of the team that created the first Internet connection in Brazil.
Gilberto Gil, Brazil's former culture minister, spoke about technology's role in government and brought his guitar along for a concert.
Jon "Maddog" Hall, challenged the campuseros to make their own creations multimedia music and video using only free software under the Creative Commons licensing policy. The public open exhibition zone was attended by 119,000 people, and 6,819 of the attendees attended the Digital Inclusion area where they had the opportunity to learn more about the world of computers, the web and information technology.
2010 Creative Commons unveiled Version 3.0 of the Creative Commons licenses at Campus Party 2010. The new license is translated and adapted to Brazilian Law, and introduced a range of improvements without changing the licenses' basic structure or function. The keynote was given by Creative Commons'
Lawrence Lessig and Brazil's Campus Party director, Ronaldo Lemos.
2011 Brazil's 4th Campus Party took place from January 17–23 at the Centro Imigrantes exposition hall. Over 6,800 Campuseros, primarily between the ages of 18 and 29, attended the event on a 10GB connection, over 1,000 times faster than a typical home connection, which was sponsored by
Telefonica, the Brazilian Federal Government, and São Paulo City Government. The content of the event was split into five main areas: science, creativity, innovation, digital entertainment, and the campus forum which includes open debates, and start-up competitions. Campus Party founder Paco Ragageles and José María Álvarez-Pallete, President of
Telefónica Latin America announced the Something Better initiative at the event, and
Al Gore and
Sir Tim Berners-Lee shared the stage to discuss the early days of the web and to discuss their visions for its future. Digital inclusion was a major topic at the event, as only a quarter of Brazilians have Internet access at home, and just over 40% of the population has a home computer. A panel including Brazilian Communications Minister Paulo Bernardo discussed the need to improve the infrastructure of mobile and web networks. The event sponsored 27 competitions from
FIFA championships to modeling and Astrophotography, with awards to future events and funding for technology related start-ups.
Steve Wozniak keynoted the event, speaking to the over 6,000 Campuseros about his history as a developer and the founding of the
Electronic Frontier Foundation. The first Startups Contest was organized that year, a joint action with TV Globo, having been awarded 5 finalists with the winning prize. More code, video, photos and blogs were uploaded than downloaded during the event, with network traffic peaking at 3 am each morning.
2012 Campus Party Brasil 5 took place from February 6–11 at Anhembi exposition hall. The bandwidth were upgraded to a 20Gb connection sponsored by
Telefonica, PRODESP, the Brazilian Federal Government, São Paulo State Government and São Paulo City Government.
2013 The sixth edition of the event took place from January 28 to February 3 at Anhembi exposition hall. With a 30Gb connection sponsored by
Telefonica and 500 hours of content, including keynotes by
Buzz Aldrin and
Nolan Bushnell, the event attracted 7,631 Campuseros. The official hashtag on Twitter was #cpbr6.
Campus Party Colombia Campus Party is held annually at the Bogotá Corferias Convention Center in
Bogotá.
2009 Campus Party Colombia 2009 took place from July 6 to 12, 2009, with 3,671 Campuseros attending the event, which featured over 300 hours of training, workshops and collaborative activities. Speakers and attendees included
Kevin Mitnick, famous hacker turned network security expert, Linux International Executive Director
Jon "Maddog" Hall, founding member of
Creative Commons Michael Carroll, and President of
Wikimedia Argentina,
Patricio Lorente, who led a conference about Wikipedia. The open public area, which included interactive zones, educational workshops and virtual reality and gaming expositions, was attended by over 90,000 visitors during the week. In a partnership with the Mayor of Bogotá and the Ministry of Economic Development, Campus Party trained 8,400 people through their Digital Baptism program. The program offers workshops and sessions where people become familiar with available software and applications to help innovate new forms of interaction and communication. In a joint effort with the Ministry of Education, 130 teachers from across Colombia came together to share their experiences and brainstorm access to knowledge and technological resources for use in the classroom.
Campus Party Ibero-America Campus Party
Ibero-America was sponsored by the Secretary General of Ibero-America as part of the official agenda of the 18th Ibero-America Summit of Heads of State and Government. The event took place from October 28 to November 1, 2008, in the Sports City Merlot in
San Salvador,
El Salvador, and brought together 600 Internet enthusiasts from 22 countries and 2,000 digital literacy visitors to share their expertise and interests to find solutions to close the technological gap and improving social conditions and development in their countries. Speakers included government representatives
Antonio Saca, President of El Salvador, Secretary General of the SEGIB, Enrique Iglesias, and Eugenio Ravinet, Secretary General of the Iberoamerican Youth Organization, whose talks focused on technology appropriation, or how people shape technology to make it their own. Astronaut
Marcos Pontes, Mexican director
Alfonso Cuaron, and Spanish video game developer Gonzo Suarez spoke at the event as well.
Campus Party México Campus Party's
Mexico City edition began in 2009, and has been held at the Expo Santa Fe Center.
2009 Mexico's first Campus Party took place on November 12–16 at the Bancomer Convention Center with 3,527 Campuseros, and 20,000 visitors to the public expo. Guests included
Tim Berners-Lee the inventor of the
World Wide Web,
Jon "maddog" Hall, president of Linux International, and
Rodolfo Neri Vela, the first Mexican to travel to space, among others. The event clocked in at over 250 hours of collaborative activities and workshops, supplied a 8Gb network, and hosted 1,500 campers.
2010 The second edition of the event was from August 9–15 and hosted almost double the number of attendees with 6,519 registered Campuseros.
Steve Wozniak, co-founder of
Apple,
Kevin Mitnick,
Akira Yamaoka,
Ben Hammersley and
Wikimedia Foundation's Head of Business Partnerships Kul Wadhwa spoke at the event. The event featured 27 competitions such as Iron Geek, whose winner received a three-month contract with
Telefónica in Spain, the PEMEX Energy Innovation Award, The Great Mind Challenge sponsored by
IBM, Mobile Modding and VoIP Hacker Challenges. And in honor of the
2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, a football match played my robots was held for two nights on the main stage.
European Union edition The Campus Party Europe was held April 14–18, 2010 at the
Caja Mágica in
Madrid,
Spain with 800 participants from each of the 27
European Union member states. Sponsored by the Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation and the
European Commission, the event was held in conjunction with the Spanish Presidency of the European Union and centered around three areas of knowledge: science, digital creativity and innovation. Costs for transportation and accommodations were covered by Futura Networks for all 800 participants. The world's biggest robot building society, Let's Make Robots, was invited to provide an international focus on robot building as a hobby. Students from northern
Portugal's Braga University built football playing robots to kick a ball around with
Cristiano Ronaldo and
Raúl González in celebration of the
2010 World Cup. The European Union event featured competitions that university students and industry professionals could enter, and showcased inventions from a computer-toaster hybrid to a video game to promote healthy eating habits in children. • MICINN Challenge: Winner: MobileDoc - a database of services and doctor expertises and application developed with graphics to be easily localized and isn't limited by illiteracy, that instantly finds nearby hospitals or medicine men in locations where emergency care is scarce, such as
Nigeria. • Imagine Cup - Sponsored by
Microsoft as the largest international student competition focusing on software technological innovation that leads to a better world. Microsoft created an honorary mention for Campus Party participants. The winners had the opportunity to present their creations at a European Union seminar to corporate representatives and Internet entrepreneurs. • FIRST Latam - A European Union funded project that aims to foster the development of Internet innovation in Latin America through international cooperation. FIRST holds competitions for individuals to present their proposals for future projects and then finds resources and funding for the projects. Due to the
volcanic eruption in Iceland, the party ended up with a massive challenge for the organisers, who had to arrange return trips the 800 stranded European participants, without any flights available.
Campus Party Europe in Berlin From August 21 to 26, 2012 Campus Party held its first edition in Germany at Berlin's
Tempelhof airport. The event, which is under patronage of the
European Commission is said to have drawn 10,000 participants from all 27 countries in the European Union. Among the main speakers:
Paulo Coelho,
Tim Berners-lee,
Don Tapscott, and
Neil Harbisson.
Criticism The event was criticized in advance for not being involved with the local hacker, gamer and policial activist scenes. Alcohol was banned on the venue, except in VIP areas.
Campus Party Europe in London From September 2 to 7 2013, the first Campus Party in the UK was held at
The O2 in
London.
Campus Party Italy The first edition of Campus Party Italy, the international festival that focuses on creativity and innovation, was held in Milan (Fiera Milano Congressi MiCo) in July 2017. The event included over 2,000 campuseros (participants in tent) and 400 hours of content featured on 7 stages: business, coding, creativity, entertainment, technology, science and Feel The Future, the main stage. Among the main speakers:
Federico Faggin, the physicist who invented the touchscreen, the touchpad and the first commercially produced microchip,
Neil Harbisson and
Moon Ribas, the first people in the world to be recognised as cyborgs,
Roberto Saviano, author of Gomorra and journalist
Enrico Mentana.
The second edition was hosted in Milan from 18 to 22 July 2018. Five days (and four nights) non-stop, 4,000 tents, 7 stages, 20,000 visitors expected, 350 speakers from all over the world, 450 hours of content, more than 130 partners including companies, institutions, communities and universities. Among the main speakers:
Guido Tonelli, physicist talking about the CMS project at CERN that discovered
the Higgs Boson;
Jon “Maddog” Hall, the board chair for the Linux Professional Institute;
Edward Frenkel, mathematics professor from the University of Berkeley in California and author of the bestseller Love and Math and
George Hotz, programmer and hacker from the US, the first to jailbreak the iPhone 3S and to hack the PlayStation 3. Amond the speakers of the thematic stages (science, entrepreneurship, coding, entertainment and creativity):
Víctor Pérez, film director who worked on the special effects of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story;
James Hughes, executive director of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies and author of Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human of the Future, and more.
The third edition was held in Milan from 24 to 27 July 2019. It was a four days and four nights non-stop event with 450 hours of content, 4,000 tents, 20,000 visitors, 250 speakers from all over the world and more of 180 partners among institutions, companies, universities and communities. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web, Campus Party invited
Sir Tim Berners-Lee as keynote speakers to talk about the future of the Internet. Concurrent with the announcement of the presence of the inventor of the
WWW, Campus Party launched a global call for ideas entitled "WORLD WIDE WE_", a study developed together with
Kantar that will involve the entire network of 650,000 young campuseros from 14 countries. Everyone was invited to share their ideas for a better web with Campus Party and the inventor of the www, like how to combat fake news and the phenomenon of hate speech, proposals for new methods of website maintenance and ideas for defending privacy. Four finalists presented their ideas directly to Sir Tim Berners-Lee in front of 4,000 young campuseros at the event, inspiring them to give even more in terms of ideas and projects, in the unique and distinctive manner of Campus Party.
Campus Party TechFest (Detroit, USA) The first USA edition of Campus Party was scheduled from 6 to 8 of November 2020 at
TCF Center in
Detroit, Michigan but due to the
COVID pandemic the event was postponed. The conference will include workshops, demonstrations, hackathons, gaming and other activities, as well as keynote speakers such as Daymond John of reality television show "Shark Tank". ==Campus Party editions==