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Roney Lima do Nascimento

Generative AI in education, from someone who builds the systems and still teaches the classes.

Author of Generative AI for Teachers and Inteligência Artificial Generativa para Professores. Delivered his keynote online at ICAILY 2026 and also presented at DataMinitech. Mathematician and PhD candidate at IME-USP. Speaks and writes in English and Portuguese. Everything on this page may be reproduced without asking, including the photograph, for coverage and event materials.

Roney Lima do Nascimento

Talks currently on offer

AI in education: what generative AI already does today

Keynote, 40–60 minutes. Delivered online at ICAILY 2026.

The urgent conversation is no longer what artificial intelligence might one day do for education. It is what these systems are already doing in real classrooms, with real teachers and real institutional consequences: where the gains are genuine, where they remain unproven and what responsible adoption actually demands.

Scaling AI in schools without buying licences

Keynote or workshop, 45–90 minutes. Delivered as the Day 1 closing keynote at the Summit de Inteligência Artificial do Brasil 2026.

Schools do not scale artificial intelligence by distributing licences. They scale it when teachers have confidence, repertoire, criteria and autonomy. Built on training 50 teachers across institutions, and on what changed when the institutional stance changed.

Trustworthy AI agents in high-stakes operations

Talk or panel, 30–45 minutes. Past engagement: MiningTech South America 2026.

Tool permissions, data grounding, exception handling, audit trails and human supervision. How to tell an agent that works from one that only appears to, and what evidence to demand before an agent touches a production process.

Evaluating AI when the benchmark is lying to you

Technical talk, 30–45 minutes. Based on published research.

Hidden information channels inflate apparent performance. Drawing on a forensic study of answer leakage in agentic code repair, this talk covers restricted feedback, same-pool comparison and immutable provenance as practical controls for anyone buying or building AI systems.

Assessment after generative AI

Talk or staff training, 45–90 minutes. The argument behind the Folha de S.Paulo piece.

A detector can flag text; it cannot establish understanding, judgement, authorship or the ability to revise. What each discipline should count as evidence of learning, and how version histories, oral defence and commentary on errors make thinking visible again.

Who waits, and for how long

Policy talk, 30–45 minutes. The argument behind the GovInsider and EUobserver pieces.

When an AI service says a human reviews ambiguous cases, someone is queuing. Public institutions should measure who waits, how long and what happens meanwhile. Also covers multilingual evaluation: a system that works in English and fails in another language can still look compliant in aggregate.

Formats and practical details

Teacher development is the priority: learning how to check an AI response, judge whether it serves a lesson and make informed professional choices. Training gives teachers time to learn, support to try ideas and a voice in their school’s decisions about AI.

What I do

Conference keynotes. Panels and moderated discussions. Staff training days for schools and universities. Closed-door briefings for leadership teams on AI adoption, governance and evaluation. Advisory work on AI implementation.

How it works

Languages: English and Portuguese, either at native working level. Spanish audiences are served in English or Portuguese.

In person or live online, with a pre-recorded backup for international events where connectivity is a risk. Slides are written for the specific audience rather than reused. Based in São Paulo, Brazil, and available to travel.

Past speaking and teacher training

On 9 October 2026, Roney also celebrated the launch of Inteligência Artificial Generativa para Professores at Livraria da Vila.

  1. 1–2 Oct 2026MiningTech South America Conference & ExhibitionSão Paulo, Brazil. Invited speaker: individual presentation and panel discussion. Organiser: Spire Events
  2. 28–30 Sep 2026ICAILY 2026: The 2nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence & Generative AIOnline keynote delivered: AI in Education: What Generative AI Already Does Today
  3. 18–20 Jun 2026Summit de Inteligência Artificial do Brasil 2026Ágora Tech Park, Joinville, Brazil. Keynote closing Day 1, IA & Eu track: IA, Eu e Educação. Organisers: Q-Assist and Instituto NEXUS
  4. 2026Steve Barkley Ponders Out LoudPodcast interview: Building Teachers’ Trust for AI Adoption
  5. 2026Teacher training programmesFifty teachers trained in AI literacy across institutions, written up for Educational Leadership (ISTE+ASCD); four AI training sessions at Colégio São Luís in September and October 2026, with teachers from early years, primary and secondary education

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Roney Lima do Nascimento is the author of Generative AI for Teachers, a mathematician and PhD candidate at the University of São Paulo, and an independent AI solutions developer and consultant working on artificial intelligence in education and in companies.

Short bio

Roney Lima do Nascimento is the author of Generative AI for Teachers (Amazon, 2025) and Inteligência Artificial Generativa para Professores (Editora Dialética, 2026). A PhD candidate in Pure Mathematics at the University of São Paulo, he builds AI systems for companies and schools and trains teachers to use them. He delivered his keynote online at ICAILY 2026. His priority is teacher development and professional autonomy.

Full bio

Roney Lima do Nascimento is an author, mathematician, AI solutions developer and applied AI researcher. He wrote Generative AI for Teachers (Amazon, 2025) and Inteligência Artificial Generativa para Professores (Editora Dialética, 2026), and published 18 original press articles in 2026 as of 14 October, including contributions to ISTE+ASCD, HEPI, Folha de S.Paulo and The Fulcrum. Republications and language versions are counted separately.

He is a PhD candidate in Pure Mathematics at the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics of the University of São Paulo, supervised by Prof. Raul Antonio Ferraz and funded by CAPES, with research on flat ternary cyclotomic polynomials. He works as an independent AI solutions developer and consultant, building AI agents for companies and running AI training for schools and organisations, and teaches IB Diploma Programme Mathematics and an applied generative AI elective at Colégio São Luís in São Paulo. His AI platforms for education reach more than 15,000 educators every month. He delivered his keynote online at ICAILY 2026 and is a peer reviewer for Education and Information Technologies (Springer).

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Fact sheet

  • NameRoney Lima do Nascimento. Also published as Roney Nascimento.
  • TitlesAuthor. Mathematician. AI solutions developer and independent consultant. Applied AI researcher. PhD candidate, IME-USP.
  • AffiliationsIndependent AI consultancy, São Paulo (AI solutions development, AI agents for companies, AI training for schools and organisations). Colégio São Luís, São Paulo (IB Diploma Programme Mathematics teacher and applied generative AI elective). Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, University of São Paulo.
  • BooksGenerative AI for Teachers (Amazon, 2025, ISBN 9798288673320). Inteligência Artificial Generativa para Professores (Editora Dialética, 2026, ISBN 9786527097686), with the launch celebrated at Livraria da Vila on 9 October 2026.
  • Writing18 original press articles in 2026 as of 14 October; republications and language versions counted separately. Publication archive.
  • Teacher trainingFour AI training sessions at Colégio São Luís during September and October 2026, with teachers from early years, primary and secondary education.
  • CredentialsClaude Certified Architect (Anthropic). IBM Generative AI Engineering. Google Generative AI Leader. Applied Generative AI, Johns Hopkins. Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert 2026. MBA, Ibmec.
  • IdentifiersORCID 0009-0006-6230-6189 · Google Scholar · Wikidata Q141238341 · Lattes 5686761550102352
  • PhotographsFour studio headshots in the Photographs section: white background, black background, transparent cut-out and a square crop. Free to use in coverage and event materials.

Booking and press enquiries

Write to roney.nascimento@usp.br. For an invitation, the useful things to include are the date, the city or platform, the audience and its size, the slot length, whether a panel is involved, and the language you would prefer. Interview requests from journalists are answered in English or Portuguese, and quotations may be checked for accuracy on request.