Press

Press

News, awards and milestones related to Carlos Diego C. P. and the organizations he is part of — CESAR, Valcann and EPI-USE.

Recognition & awards
2025MIT Sloan

Visiting Fellow at MIT Recognition

Selected as a Visiting Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, deepening research in cloud, data and trustworthy AI.

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2025Brazilian Times

From the Brazilian Northeast to the world’s most famous institute of technology In the media

A profile on Carlos Diego Cavalcanti’s journey — from Pernambuco to MIT.

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2021AWS

AWS Ambassador of the Year 2021 Award

Winner in Latin America and 2nd worldwide in the Amazon Web Services ambassador program.

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2013IT Leaders · Baguete

IT Leaders 2013 Award

Winner in the Manufacturing category and 4th in Brazil at the IT Leaders award.

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2012IT Leaders · IT Forum

IT Leaders 2012 — finalist Award

Among the finalists of the IT Leaders 2012 award.

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2020CESAR School

Honored Professor — Computer Science class of 2020.2

Tribute from the graduating Computer Science class at CESAR School.

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Valcann & EPI-USE
2025Valcann

Launch of Next GenAI

An end-to-end framework for enterprise generative-AI adoption, scientifically grounded in C2PF. “It was created to offer a concrete, scalable, results-oriented path,” said Carlos Diego, CTO & founder.

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Dec 2024PR Newswire · EPI-USE

AWS Collaboration Partner of the Year LATAM

Valcann is recognized at the AWS Partner Awards, independently audited by Canalys.

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2024Valcann

100 AWS certifications & GPTW Pernambuco

100 AWS certifications on the team and recognition as one of the Best Places to Work (GPTW) in Pernambuco — for the 4th consecutive year.

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Feb 2023Porto Digital · TI Inside

EPI-USE acquires Valcann

The Porto Digital cloud specialist (300+ clients, 500+ projects) joins EPI-USE, a Group Elephant business, gaining global reach.

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May 2022Ingram Micro

Ingram Cloud Reseller of the Year 2022

Valcann recognized at the Ingram Cloud Summit, in Miami.

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2021CESAR School · AWS

AWS Partner Rising Star of the Year (LATAM)

The company of the CESAR School professor is awarded by Amazon Web Services as partner rising star of the year in Latin America.

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Academia & research
2026CDX Publishing

Book: Arquitetura de Software Nativa na Nuvem

Published under the CDX Publishing imprint — from fundamentals to the practice of cloud-native architecture, in 11 chapters.

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Aug 2023CESAR School

1st Software Engineering doctoral defense in Brazil

Defense of the thesis “Capacity Planning of Cloud Computing Workloads” — a milestone for CESAR School and the field.

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2023CESAR

CESAR’s doctorate connects industry and research (Neurotech and Valcann)

A report on paths where entrepreneurship and research go hand in hand, with Carlos Diego (Valcann) among the highlights.

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Mar 2021CESAR School

Paper accepted at ICSE 2021

“A functional paradigm for Capacity Planning of Cloud Computing Workloads”, accepted at the world’s largest Software Engineering conference.

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Events & appearances
Nov 2025Washington, DC

Ingram Micro One Event

Appearance at Ingram Micro One, in Washington DC, on GenAI, Agentic AI and cloud.

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PodcastJon Myer Podcast

On the Jon Myer Podcast Podcast

A conversation on cloud, career and the journey from research to product.

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PodcastBuilt for This

On the Built for This podcast, by Carly Pepin Podcast

An episode on building systems and businesses on solid foundations.

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