TL;DR:
- Cardano Foundation and SENAI São Paulo signed a multi-year strategic alliance to integrate blockchain into Brazilian industry.
- The first phase included two weeks of intensive technical training in São Paulo, with 130 R&D and education professionals onboarded.
- The roadmap includes certifications, industrial traceability pilots and Digital Product Passports for the manufacturing sector.
The Cardano Foundation, a non-profit organization, announced a multi-year strategic alliance with SENAI São Paulo, one of the largest technical training and industrial innovation networks in Brazil. The agreement combines Cardano’s blockchain infrastructure with SENAI’s educational and applied research capacity to develop concrete solutions in real industrial environments.
The first stage is already underway and consisted of a two-week technical immersion initiative in the state of São Paulo. A team of the Foundation specialists delivered intensive workshops on blockchain architecture, metadata standards, smart contracts and industrial use cases. The foundation academy’s CBCA certification was a prerequisite for participation. By the close of this initial phase, 130 professionals from SENAI’s R&D and education areas will have completed the onboarding process.
The Cardano Foundation is partnering with @SenaiSaoPaulo, one of Brazil's largest industrial education and technology networks, to advance blockchain education and enterprise applications across the Brazilian industry.
The people learning and building today will define what…
— Cardano Foundation (@Cardano_CF) June 25, 2026
Cardano Puts Blockchain at the Service of Brazil’s Industrial Infrastructure
The second workshop is aimed at SENAI’s research and development teams, with a focus on active solution architecture. The goal is to explore how Cardano’s infrastructure can support applications such as industrial traceability systems and Digital Product Passports, a disruptive tool for documenting the complete lifecycle of manufactured goods.
The roadmap spans two years and includes ongoing certification programs for SENAI collaborators, executive training for its leadership teams, specialized masterclasses and proof-of-concept pilot projects in real productive environments. The development of custom modules for the Cardano Academy is also planned, along with technical enablement packages that include SDKs and APIs.
“A professor who understands Cardano trains a researcher who applies it, who then trains an engineer to deploy it in real industrial R&D projects,” said Guilherme Pereira da Silva, ecosystem growth specialist for LATAM at the foundation. For his part, Emerson Costa, director of SENAI-SP’s Cyber and AI Unit, stressed that the alliance aims to ensure technological transformation translates into greater competitiveness for Brazil.
