Vision
Nestled within the lush, verdant expanse of Tijuca National Park in Rio de Janeiro, The DysruptUs Technology Campus emerges as a dynamic fusion of innovation, education, and sustainability. This innovative hub harnesses the power of technology, cutting-edge research, and environmental stewardship to drive positive change and inspire a new generation of leaders and problem-solvers.
Our Mission
Our mission is to create a thriving innovation ecosystem that helps Rio rapidly ascend the world’s most innovative cities ranking. The goal is to move from its current ranking of 107 to within the top 50 within 5 years and to enter the world’s top 100 science and technology cluster ranking.
Fueling this rapid rise up the rankings will be a powerful blend of political will, economic opportunism with a clear focus on the country’s natural resources, and the creation and development of a technology campus modeled after some of the world’s best.
Silicon Rainforest
“It’s my hope that the role that Stanford University has played in the growth and development of Silicon Valley, the DysruptUs Technology Campus will ultimately play in the growth and development of our nation’s Silicon Rainforest.”
Eduardo Paes
Mayor of Rio de Janeiro
Why Invest in Brazil
Brazil stands out as a rich backdrop for investors, due to its large and diverse economy, abundant natural resources, growing consumer market, infrastructure development, and skilled workforce. It is the second largest economy in the Western Hemisphere and the fifth largest destination for global foreign direct investment.
With $100 billion in FDI (2023), Brazil offers vast opportunities in natural resources, a booming consumer market, and a growing renewable energy sector. Supported by government incentives and strategic trade access, now is the time to capitalize on Brazil's economic growth.
Key Deliverables
The Campus will focus in four key deliverables:
Economic Development: Attract the inflow of national and international talent, capital and ideas. Build strong relationships with leading science and technology hubs from around the world to stimulate the bi-directional flow of knowledge, expertise and investment.
Reputational Capital: Help Rio augment its reputation both nationally and internationally as a city that encourages creativity, risk-taking, and the development of new ideas and technologies.
Harmonising with Nature: Design sustainable solutions that minimize environmental impact and work in harmony with the natural world.
Promoting Life-Long Learning: Empower individuals and corporations to expand their knowledge and skills adapting to the evolving needs of the 21st century.
Where the Future Lives
The Campus will house four independent yet intertwined organizations, each working in collaboration with private and public partners from around the world.
An Experiential Centre will create immersive experiences showcasing the most disruptive technologies of our time.
An Education & Research Centre will work with industry, government and the research community to turn science into solutions aimed at addressing Brazil’s greatest social and ecological challenges.
A Corporate Training Centre will provide a venue to host the tech community for conferences, executive programs, and academic workshops.
A Design Hotel that will immerse the guest in the heart of the world’s largest urban rainforest.
Experiential Centre
The campus’s intellectual nerve centre will be the 170,000 square foot Castelo – a 400-year-old structure that once fully renovated will provide a rich blend of Brazil’s majestic past with the most advanced construction materials and methods available today. The centre will provide (i) engaging exhibitions that deepen understanding while stimulating curiosity in the most important scientific achievements of our time and (ii) immersive experiences that will transport visitors into labs and onto expeditions to explore and marvel at the discoveries shaping the future of digital, manufacturing, medicine, agriculture and energy.
Education & Research Centre
The Education & Research Center will be a 150,000- square-foot facility focused on turning science into solutions in areas such as food security; sustainable energy; health and wellbeing; resilient and valuable environments; and future industries.
Housing a tech-transfer office, a comprehensive incubator program and an early-stage investment organization, the Center will work to commercialize start-ups with established companies in cutting-edge technologies and products.
By partnering with national and international universities, the center will house programs in areas such as sustainability, innovation, Ag Tech and Connective Media.
Corporate Training Centre
The 4,000-square-foot corporate training centre will provide a venue to host the business community for conferences, executive programs, and academic workshops. Rooted in the latest thinking in behavioural science, the centre will help organizations undergoing sustainability transformations to develop the capabilities and mindsets required enterprise- wide to fundamentally shift how they operate. Core topics will include climate change, emissions reduction, circularity and value chains, sustainable and equitable food systems, sustainable
development, and sustainability-related business opportunities and risks.
Castelo Rio Resort
The jungle experience doesn’t get much more immersive than the Castelo Rio Resort. The luxury lodge will prioritize the preservation of this exceptional ecosystem, in part by working with the local community through its Partnership Trust. This will be a place to soak in orchids, be serenaded by macaws and be pampered by all the amenities a luxury resort has to offer. Every room will have floor to ceiling windows, which when combined with the lodge’s open-air terrace, a canopy-skimming sky bike, and nature activities, means guests will never forget that they are enmeshed in the largest urban rainforest in the world.
Location
The DysruptUs Technology Campus will occupy an area of Rio that is of unique natural beauty and historical heritage. Located in the heart of the Tijuca National Park, which is the largest urban rainforest in the world, it will ultimately come to serve as the Brazilian catalyst for innovation and a global force in transforming imagination into reality – and as such, a source of national pride.
The Tijuca National Park is the most visited national park in Brazil, attracting more than 3 million visitors a year and is just minutes from Rio’s top destinations and airports.
