Sociedade Brasileira de Computação

What Sociedade Brasileira de Computação does

Sociedade Brasileira de Computação (SBC) is a Brazilian non-profit scientific society (associação científica sem fins lucrativos) founded in 1978, headquartered in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul. It functions as the official national professional society for computing, serving computing researchers, higher-education and basic-education professors, students, and practicing computing professionals across Brazil. SBC operates through member-elected boards and currently employs 11–50 staff while coordinating a much larger volunteer academic ecosystem through regional secretariats, special commissions, and interest groups. Its membership base, as proxied by the SBC-l discussion list, exceeds 8,000 professors, researchers, and professionals.

SBC runs an integrated portfolio of digital infrastructure (JEMS for journal and event submission, SOL open-access digital library, ECOS event registration, MOM membership management) and educational programs (PROFCOMP professional master's in computing teaching, POSCOMP national graduate entrance exam, OBI informatics olympiad, the Maratona de Programação programming marathon that feeds into ICPC). It publishes peer-reviewed journals (JBCS, RBIE, iSys, JIS) and magazines (Computação Brasil, SBC Horizontes), and hosts the annual CSBC congress — the largest computing event in Latin America, with 1,600+ participants and 33+ parallel activities in 2023 and 2024. The society holds formal recognition from MEC, CAPES, and MCTI, holds seats on CGI.br and the National Digital Government Strategy Advisory Committee, and represents Brazilian computing in ACM, IFIP, and IEEE.

Revenue is generated through seven streams: recurring annual membership dues (the primary model), event and congress registration fees (CSBC, satellite events), POSCOMP examination fees, the PROFCOMP professional services program, publication and journal sales, institutional partnership agreements with government bodies and RNP, and voluntary donations through the new Vitrine SBC platform. Pricing is not publicly disclosed; the society is funded by its members and partners rather than commercial product sales, and operates without external equity or venture ownership.

Name

Sociedade Brasileira de Computação

Legal name

Sociedade Brasileira de Computação

Website

https://sbc.org.br

Company type

Private

Founded year

1978

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Sociedade Brasileira de Computação (SBC) is Brazil's national non-profit scientific society for computing, founded in 1978, serving researchers, professors, students, and computing professionals through journals (JBCS, SOL library), the CSBC congress, programming competitions (OBI, Maratona), exams (POSCOMP), and the PROFCOMP professional master's program.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Professional Computing Society

NAICS

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services (541), Newspaper, Periodical, Book, and Directory Publishers (5131), Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities (541720)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600), Periodicals: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2721), Books: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2731)

akta.pro primary industry

Scholarly Societies & Conference Proceedings Publishing (MPAJABAK)

akta.pro secondary industries

Conference Proceedings & Research Reports Publishing (EDAGAFAL), Academic & Scientific Conferences (MPAGAGAD)

Keywords

• Professional computing society
• Computer science research
• Academic publications
• Programming competitions
• Professional membership

Headquarters

HQ city

Porto Alegre

HQ country

Brazil

HQ region

Latin America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Membership Dues: Annual membership fees providing benefits including Eduroam wireless access, discounts on SBC events, POSCOMP discounts, and access to SBC-l discussion list with 8,000+ members.
2. Event Revenue: Congress fees (CSBC), satellite events, programming competitions (Maratona de Programação, OBI), and regional schools generate revenue through registration fees.
3. POSCOMP Examination Fees: National Examination for Admission to Graduate Studies in Computing, a standardized exam generating revenue through registration fees.
4. PROFCOMP Graduate Program: Professional Master's in Computing Education coordinated by SBC, with CAPES-approved seats and approximately 30% of students receiving scholarships.
5. Publication Sales: Revenue from journals (Computação Brasil, SBC Horizontes, JBCS), books (Editora SBC), and institutional publications.
6. Institutional Partnerships: Cooperation agreements with institutions, government bodies, and international organizations for research and educational initiatives.
7. Vitrine SBC: Institutional support platform where community members can make voluntary contributions to support SBC initiatives and receive institutional items at events.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels7 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Sociedade Brasileira de Computação operates as Brazil's national scientific society for computing, providing individual and institutional membership, organizing flagship academic events such as the CSBC congress, coordinating national competitions including the Maratona SBC de Programação and OBI Olympiad in Informatics, administering the POSCOMP national graduate examination and PROFCOMP professional master's program, publishing academic journals and the Revista Computação Brasil magazine, and operating proprietary digital platforms (JEMS, SOL, ECOS, MOM) to support research, event registration, and publication management.

Product overview

Sociedade Brasileira de Computação (SBC) is Brazil's national scientific society for Computing, operating a portfolio of interconnected platforms and programs rather than commercial products. The core infrastructure includes JEMS (scientific article submission system), SOL (open access digital library), and ECOS (event registration system). SBC operates educational initiatives including PROFCOMP (professional master's in Computing teaching) and POSCOMP (national graduate entrance exam). The society organizes major events including the annual CSBC Congress, the Maratona de Programação (programming competition), and the OBI (Computing Olympiad). Additional offerings include the Selo de Inovação (innovation award), Vitrine SBC (institutional support platform), and publications including JBCS journal, Revista Computação Brasil, and SBC Horizontes magazine.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• SOL - SBC OpenLib: Open access digital library maintained by SBC for computer science publications
• JBCS - Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society
• PROFCOMP
• POSCOMP
• OBI - Olympic Brazilian Informatics
• JEMS
• CSBC

Products and services

• SBC Individual Membership

Quantifiable outcome

• 1,600+ congress participants with 33+ parallel activities
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

20 partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• FAPESP (Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 29 July 2026FAPESP provided institutional support for Prêmio Jabuti Acadêmico 2026, participating as a supporting institution alongside ABC and SBPC.
• Rede Brasileira de Reprodutibilidade (RBR)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 21 July 2026Partnership between SBC and RBR resulted in the I Fórum SOL de Ciência Aberta during CSBC 2026, promoting open science practices and reproducibility in Brazilian Computing research.
• SoftexcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 8 June 2026SBC Vice-President Professor Cristiano Maciel participated in the 86th Ordinary Meeting of the Softex Board of Directors, strengthening ties with the Brazilian software industry.
• ACM Regional Committee for Latin America and CaribbeancoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 3 June 2026Professor Altigran Soares da Silva, SBC Councilor, was appointed president of the ACM Regional Committee for Latin America and Caribbean.
• ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 2 June 2026SBC established a new partnership with ACM providing free membership and special discounts for SBC members. This partnership strengthens international ties and provides Brazilian computing professionals access to ACM resources, publications, and global networking opportunities.
• WRNP (Workshop RNP)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 June 2026SBC OpenLib (SOL) participated in the 27th Workshop RNP (WRNP 2026), strengthening open science agenda.
• ABTMS (Associação Brasileira de Telemedicina e Telessaúde)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 2 December 2025SBC signed a new technical cooperation agreement with ABTMS, marking collaboration in health informatics and telemedicine research.
• SBPC (Sociedade Brasileira para o Progresso da Ciência)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 28 November 2025SBC subscribed to the Manifesto da Ciência Brasileira published by SBPC regarding PL 2.159/2021. SBC and SBPC frequently collaborate on science policy advocacy.
• IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 29 October 2025Professor Ronaldo Ferreira (UFMS), SBC Director of Cooperation with Scientific Societies, was elected to the IFIP Council during the General Assembly in Geneva.
• ABC (Academia Brasileira de Ciências)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 24 October 2025ABC, SBC, and SBPC issued joint statements on digital and energy sovereignty, advocating that Brazil should produce its own cloud infrastructure rather than renting it.
• Comitê Consultivo da Estratégia Nacional de Governo Digital (CC-ENGD)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 9 September 2025SBC officially joined the Advisory Committee of the National Digital Government Strategy, an advisory body of the governance structure.
• MCTI (Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovações)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 8 September 2025SBC Director André Luís Santos was appointed to the IT Area Committee of MCTI, integrating SBC into national science and technology policy development.
• CGI.br (Comitê Gestor da Internet no Brasil)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 8 September 2025Professor Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville was elected as a full member of the CGI.br, representing SBC in the body that governs Internet in Brazil.
• Plano Nacional de Inclusão Digital (PNID)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 8 September 2025SBC was selected by the Interministerial Group of the National Digital Inclusion Plan to compose the Offer Chamber, contributing to digital inclusion policy.
• Anprotec (Associação Nacional de Entidades Promotoras de Empreendimentos Inovadores)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 14 July 2025SBC and Anprotec signed a Technical Cooperation Agreement to promote innovation and entrepreneurship in Computing.
• CAPES (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 8 June 2025SBC coordinated with CAPES to secure scholarships for approximately 30% of PROFCOMP students, enabling teacher participation in the professional master's program.
• MEC (Ministério da Educação)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 17 March 2025MEC approved PROFCOMP through Portaria 213, with prior CNE approval, enabling SBC to offer the professional master's in Computing education nationwide.
• RNP (Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 24 July 2024SBC and RNP signed a cooperation agreement to boost science and innovation in Computing in Brazil. The partnership includes joint initiatives in research infrastructure, science communication, and digital inclusion.
• ISOC Brasil (Internet Society Brasil)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 10 April 2024SBC and ISOC Brasil signed a cooperation agreement highlighting actions promoting free and beneficial use of the Internet in Brazil.
• SBL (Sociedade Brasileira de Lógica)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 11 October 2023SBC and SBL signed a Cooperation Agreement for joint actions in development and academic exchange.

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves14 records

Expansion highlights7 records

Direct peers

• IEEE Computer Society: Global computing organization within IEEE offering conferences, publications, standards, and member benefits. Comparable to SBC in mission and services, but with international scope and larger resources.
• International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP): Umbrella organization of national computing societies; SBC is a member and an SBC director was elected to its Council. Comparable as the international federation model for national computing societies.
• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM): Global computing professional society with conferences, publications (Digital Library), membership, special interest groups, and awards. Directly comparable as the international counterpart of SBC and now an active SBC partner.
• Sociedade Brasileira para o Progresso da Ciência (SBPC): Brazilian scientific society covering all disciplines; SBC has joint statements with SBPC and shares advocacy role on national science policy. Closely comparable in governance model and Brazil-focused mission, though broader than computing.
• Computing Research Association (CRA): North American association of computing research organizations (academia, industry, government). Comparable in its role enabling computing research policy, awards, and workforce initiatives.
• Sociedade Brasileira de Física (SBF): Brazilian national physics society with similar membership, events, publications, and educational policy advocacy. Closely comparable Brazilian scientific society in structure and operating model.

Regional players

• Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI): Germany's national computing society offering membership, conferences, publications, and curriculum input. Comparable structure and offerings to SBC within the German academic and professional computing community.
• British Computer Society (BCS): UK chartered professional society for computing, offering membership, certifications, publications, and events. Comparable in mission as a national professional body, but operating in the UK rather than Brazil.

Emerging players

• Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI): International AI scientific society with conferences, journals, and membership. Comparable as a computing sub-discipline society, but narrower in focus (AI) than SBC's broader computing scope.

Broad incumbents

• Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS): Large international scientific society (publisher of Science) with policy advocacy, awards, and membership benefits. Comparable in mission as the flagship computing-adjacent scientific society, though broader than SBC's computing focus.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Subsidiaries6 records

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