Galpão IA: a place to build, ask and share
An AI community in Serra Gaúcha to explore new technologies, share practical knowledge and help people find a starting point.
Cover: an illustration of the community’s proposal, not a photograph of an event.
New models, tools and protocols keep arriving. Keeping up is one challenge; understanding what is useful, what to study next and where to start is another. Those are conversations worth having together.
I founded Galpão IA to create that space in Serra Gaúcha, Brazil. A community to discuss artificial intelligence, explore the technologies arriving every day, share practical experience and help more people find their way into the field.
Why a galpão?
The name comes from the shared working space of the gaúcho countryside. In our manifesto, the galpão stands for knowledge passed between people while they work and talk. That is the connection to software: experience becomes more useful when someone else can question it, try it and build on it.
New technologies, practical conversations
The Galpão makes room for both new developments and the work of understanding them. We want to discuss what has changed, compare experiences and work out where each technology can be useful. The conversation includes:
- Models, agents and new tools. Explore releases, share experiments and discuss what they change in the way we build software.
- RAG and fine-tuning. Bring questions, implementations and lessons from working with context, data and model adaptation.
- MCP and integrations. Exchange experiences with connecting AI to tools and existing systems, including the challenges that appear along the way.
- AI in e-commerce, UCP and ACP. Discuss the changes reaching digital commerce and explore what they mean for products, integrations and the people developing them.
These topics are starting points, not a closed list. As AI changes, the conversations change with it. A new question or an unfamiliar tool is a good reason to bring people together.
A place for people who are starting out
You do not need a finished project or a vocabulary full of acronyms to join. Helping newcomers is part of the purpose: making room for basic questions, explaining concepts through examples and sharing possible paths for learning.
If you are unsure what to study first or how to turn an idea into a first experiment, bring that question. If you already have experience, bring what helped you, what confused you and what you would do differently. That exchange can give someone else a clearer next step.
Vamo Proseá: the conversation has started
The community also has a live conversation series on YouTube: Vamo Proseá. The first episode aired on November 9, 2026, with Pablo Fonseca, tracing his path from Cambará to software engineering in London.
Official episode artwork. This conversation has already aired; the recording is available.
Meet Aru
Aru is the community’s maned-wolf mascot, complete with a guitar and a rock T-shirt. The visual identity gives the Galpão a recognizable face: local roots, curiosity and the energy of people making things together.
The Galpão is growing
Galpão IA is gaining traction quickly. The community is growing, and we are planning in-person events soon to bring these conversations, projects and connections into the same room. Follow the community’s website for announcements and ways to take part.