Global music festival operator spanning Brazil, Portugal, and Spain
Rock in Rio is a 30-year-old music and entertainment festival with a small, distributed team (11–50 employees) spanning Brazil and Portugal. The tech stack is enterprise Microsoft (365, Teams, SharePoint, Azure Entra ID, Power BI) — standard for event coordination at scale — but the hiring velocity and active project list signal operational expansion: six open roles, four posted in the last month, focused on engineering, data, and governance. Internal pain points around KPI governance and cross-department data consolidation suggest the organization is moving from event-to-event execution toward systematic measurement and planning.
Rock in Rio operates a portfolio of large-scale music festivals across multiple countries, with six editions held in Brazil, six in Portugal, three in Spain, and one in the United States across three decades. The brand has reached over 7.7 million attendees cumulatively and maintains a social-media presence exceeding 11 million followers. The upcoming 2026 Lisbon edition and related internet infrastructure buildout represent the current operational focus. The organization generates significant economic impact, having created over 148,000 jobs across host cities and invested more than US$23.2 million in social and environmental projects.
Rock in Rio has held 15 editions across four countries: five in Brazil (1985, 1991, 2001, 2011, 2013), six in Portugal (2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014), three in Spain (2008, 2010, 2012), and one in the United States (2015). The 2026 Lisbon edition is in active development.
The primary stack consists of Microsoft 365 suite (Teams, SharePoint, Exchange Online), Azure Entra ID for identity, Intune for device management, Power BI for analytics, and AutoCAD and Visio for design and planning work.
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