The Festival is a major initiative to make Petrópolis a center of technology and innovation.

300 executives from the  Information Technology field, 30 lectures, 24 presentations and 5 debates, these were the highlights of the First Festival of Technology in Petrópolis (FTP). A pioneering initiative in the area of technology and innovation was held in Rio de Janeiro with a week of news and opportunities generated by entrepreneurs and people interested in IT. With an innovative proposal to stimulate technological change, FTP Brazilian intelligence gathered to dicuss new ideas to assist the modernization and popularization of technology.

"The FTP is an event unique in Brazil because it joins people interested in various forms of technology to speak freely about what may come around. No booth where you end up talking to manufacturers or asking questions like how many megs of memory is on your computer, nothing. The event is a place where people who dream of making IT innovative encourages free thinking, "said André Fonseca, president of Virtus.

During the festival various topics such as robotics, creative innovation, bioarte and mobile diversidade were presented, along with roundtable discussions with different themes every day.

Virtus participated on 6th August 2008 with a debate on successful stories of Brazilian entrepreneurs in the presence of André Fonseca.