Earlier this month I wrote about why we’re carving out a small “innovation room” inside a much bigger experiment at Montevideo Tech Summer Camp. In today’s live planning session, I sit down with JP Saibene, CEO of Qualabs and one of the organizers of the Montevideo tech community, to talk through what that actually looks like in practice.
Over thirty minutes we cover how Summer Camp grew from an internal retreat into a three-month open source program plus a week of talks, workshops, and cultural crossover in Uruguay, and why it has become a gathering point for people who like building real systems, not just slideware. We walk through this year’s flagship projects, including the AI co-pilot for multimedia archives with SMPTE and the new work around media over QUIC, and how the Innovation Track is meant to sit alongside them as a focused room for operators, engineers, founders, and product leads.
If you’re curious about two days in Punta del Este spent mapping the next layer of media tech together, this conversation is the best way to feel out the vibe. We talk late-night conference energy, mate culture, why provenance and discovery are still unsolved, and how a small group in a beach town can still have outsized impact on the stack. There are a handful of Innovation Track seats left, so if it sounds like your room, you can find details and apply via MontevideoTech.dev.
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