Arc is Hitting the Road — Introducing the Arc Roadshow 2026
We're taking Arc on the road.
Starting May 6 in San José, Costa Rica, we're launching two parallel communities for data engineers — one in Spanish, one in English — and bringing technical meetups to cities that actually deserve them.
No massive conference floors. No booths wedged between Oracle and AWS. No badge scanner at the door measuring ROI. Just a room, a live demo, food and drinks, and honest conversations about data infrastructure.
What Each Stop Looks Like
Simple by design:
- 20–40 engineers in a room
- A live Arc demo — real data, real queries, real performance
- A slot for someone from the local community to talk about data
- Networking and drinks sponsored by Arc
No sales pitches. No keynotes. No vendor theater.
The community speaker slot matters to us. Every city has engineers doing interesting things with data. We want to hear from them, not just talk about ourselves.
Two Communities, Two Languages
Data Engineering LatAm — for Spanish-speaking cities across Latin America and Spain. Technical meetups in Spanish, focused on the growing data engineering community in the region.
Data Engineering NA — for English-speaking cities across North America and eventually Europe. Same format, same philosophy, different language.
The First Three Stops
🇨🇷 San José, Costa Rica — May 6, 2026
Data Engineering LatAm #1. The first data engineering meetup in Costa Rica. 6:30 PM. Free.
🇦🇷 Buenos Aires, Argentina — June 3, 2026
Data Engineering LatAm #2. Back to Río de la Plata. 6:30 PM. Free.
🇺🇸 Miami, FL — June 25, 2026
Data Engineering NA #1. Two talks: Arc + Fledge OT collector writing to Arc. 6:30 PM. Free.
The Demo Rig
Every stop gets the same live demo: a Raspberry Pi 4 with CO2 and temperature sensors ingesting real-time data into Arc Cloud, queried live with SQL, displayed on a 7" screen.
No slides pretending to be a demo. No "imagine this was running at scale." Just Arc working in front of you. If it's fast, you'll see it. If something breaks, you'll see that too.
Why We're Doing This
Arc is built by a small team, bootstrapped, no VC. We shipped the first Go commit six months ago. Today we have 567 GitHub stars, 301 production deployments, and Arc Cloud running on dedicated physical servers in Miami.
We've grown entirely through word of mouth, GitHub, and building in public. The roadshow is the next step — getting in a room with engineers who actually care about data infrastructure and showing them what Arc can do.
If Arc works, they'll know. If it doesn't, they'll tell us. Either way we learn something.
Want Arc in Your City?
If you're in a city we're not visiting and want to host or co-organize a Data Engineering meetup sponsored by Arc — reach out at ignacio[at]basekick[dot]net. We'll bring the demo. You bring the engineers.
Want to Speak at a Stop?
Each event has a community speaker slot. Working on something interesting with data — a tool, a war story, a benchmark, a migration? Send a one-paragraph pitch to ignacio[at]basekick[dot]net.
Register for the next stop near you:
- 🇨🇷 San José, May 6 → luma.com/data-engineering-latam
- 🇺🇸 Miami, June 25 → luma.com/zwwpv4kk
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