Cardano Foundation and SENAI São Paulo Forge Strategic Partnership to Bring Blockchain Technology to Brazilian Industry
A multi-year collaboration spanning blockchain education, industrial innovation, research, and enterprise applications
[Zug, Switzerland / São Paulo, Brazil, 25 June 2026] – The Cardano Foundation, the independent, Swiss-based not-for-profit organization dedicated to advancing Cardano as a public digital infrastructure, and SENAI São Paulo, one of Brazil's largest industrial training and technology networks, today announced a strategic multi-year partnership.
The partnership will combine SENAI São Paulo’s educational and technical expertise with the Cardano Foundation and the Cardano Academy’s critical experience in enterprise blockchain infrastructure and training to explore real-world industrial applications of blockchain technology. Activities will span educator and student certification programs, executive training, industrial traceability pilots, and the development of technical modules in collaboration with SENAI and the Cardano Foundation tailored to enterprise and industrial environments.
Building capabilities across education and industry
The first phase of the partnership began with a two-week technical immersion initiative across the state of São Paulo. A team of highly trained Cardano Foundation experts was onsite to deliver intensive, hands-on training focused on blockchain architecture and industrial applications to the attending SENAI's education and R&D specialists.
Cardano Academy CBCA completion was a pre-requisite for attending the event which took place this month. The first workshop covered blockchain fundamentals, metadata standards, smart contracts, and practical industrial use cases, equipping educators with the knowledge and tools they need to bring blockchain into SENAI's broader training ecosystem.
The next workshop provides SENAI's Research and Development teams with a deep dive into active solution architecture, exploring how Cardano's infrastructure can support industrial blockchain applications like traceability systems and Industrial Digital Product Passports. Upon completion of this initial phase, 130 professionals across the R&D and Education functions of Senai will be onboarded.
A two-year roadmap for collaboration
This technical training forms part of a broader two-year collaborative roadmap between the Cardano Foundation and SENAI São Paulo.
It includes ongoing certification and training programmes for SENAI collaborators and student blockchain training through the Cardano Academy. The program will also deliver executive blockchain training for SENAI leadership teams, to include the development of blockchain-focused masterclasses and enterprise enablement programmes, as well as deep dives into industrial proof-of-concept projects exploring blockchain's practical utility in real industrial environments.
Plans to further expand the partnership through co-developed blockchain innovation tracks and workshops with industry leaders and partner enablement packages including SDKs and APIs, are in progress. These will be supported with customised academy modules and technical masterclasses tailored to specific industrial applications.
“The engineers who will reshape Brazilian manufacturing are sitting in SENAI classrooms today, and we’re helping place Cardano at the heart of what they learn,” said Guilherme Pereira da Silva, Ecosystem Growth Specialist LATAM at Cardano Foundation. “But the pipeline does not stop at education. A professor who understands Cardano teaches a researcher who applies it, who then trains an engineer to deploy it on real-world industrial R&D projects with professional production environments behind them. That is the power of technology ceasing to be a trend and becoming infrastructure.”
“For decades, SENAI-SP has partnered with leading global technology companies to bring emerging technologies closer to industry. Our collaboration with the Cardano Foundation represents another important step in this journey, combining education, research, and innovation to prepare the professionals who will design, operate, and lead the industries of the future”, says Emerson Costa, director of the Cyber and AI Unit at SENAI-SP. “By connecting talent development with real-world industrial challenges, we help ensure that technological transformation translates into greater competitiveness for Brazil”.