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During the 24th, 25th and 26th of September, the biggest event in Uruguay of technological developments was developed. This annual conference organized by the Genexus company, in its 28th version (GX28), Acaparo the attention of many people from different countries who gathered at the Radisson Montevideo Hotel. Genexus is one of the world's leading intelligent software development platforms. The GX28 had in its three days more than 180 talks with topics such as FakeNews, multi-platform applications, social networks, digital transformation, ERP, CRM, marketing, Cloud, human resources, IIoT, Business Intelligence, Smart Cities, among others. Among the sponsors, companies such as IBM, Microsoft, Gartner Group, among others, were found. The event was attended by important Uruguayan and foreign exhibitors mainly from the world of technology and allowed to see and check where the evolution of technology is going. In the event, Genexus presented Genexus 16, the new version of its development system that now has a greater integration to adopt Artificial intelligence, IoT and Blockchain. It is important to mention integration with IA vendors such as IBM Watson, Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services and SAP Leonardo Machine Learning Foundation; In addition to popular payment platforms such as WeChat pay, Ali pay and stripe, plus Paypal and pay market. Amazon Machine Learning and Google Cloud AI will soon be included as well. GeneXus aims to simplify the development of systems, automating all the automatable created from a knowledge base that generates applications automatically, in multiple environments (servers, PCs and mobile devices and the cloud) and Languages (Ruby, Java, C#, Objective-C, Cobol, RPG, VisualFoxPro, among others). "The power of doing" was the motto that accompanied the three days of the GX28, where more than 4,500 people from 29 countries were able to know the latest trends for software development. Nicolás Screwl, CEO of Genexus, says about the motto that gives shape to the event this year: "One of the most distinctive features of Genexus and the Genexus community has always been its ability to build, create and implement unprecedented software solutions All over the world. That is our power, the one we obtain from what we have done and are doing. " "We move within an ecosystem," where it is not possible to deal with technology separately from people. "You have to talk about the two things," he emphasizes. At the end of the three days, Breogán Gonda, president of the Uruguayan company, gave an encouraging message to all those present. "In GeneXus we have, from our beginnings, the power of doing things. There are two components, aptitude and attitude. The latter is what characterizes and represents us. " and clarified that education in the field of software development is very important. "We must change the emphasis of teaching by learning; And we have the vocation to generate products that solve people's problems. " As a motivating action and demonstrating that software development, in addition to needing and complementing with new technologies, needs teamwork, GeneXus invited the stage to the orchestra of recycled instruments of Cateura, an artistic entity of Paraguay. "We have worked from doing and not from having," said Favio Hernán Chávez Morán, conductor of the orchestra, before giving a musical spectacle. As he counted, from the institution they educate the youngest, teach to play music and to make their own instruments with all kinds of recycled materials. Also, on-line to brought in team and effort, the firm led the GX28 to Miguel San Martín, an Argentinean who has been working for several years at NASA and was part of the project to send Curiosity, in 2012, to explore Mars.

Automatisms in the SXXI

Increase every day more automatisms, is becoming key in the development of all new products and in this regard the President of the company reflected: "… automate everything that is automated in the development and maintenance of systems. We believed in that, and maybe no one else believed it. And we had many difficulties, in general when you are going to do something new will find many difficulties closing the event did the CEO Nicolas screwl who reflect on the future and where we go with emphasis on the issue mobility: cars will be Electrical and more and more personalized, new organizations will appear that with the technology have a new form of collaboration and we go towards a new paradigm of programming. https://www.genexus.com/es/encuentros/encuentro2018