Talent Land — Guadalajara's Tech Talent Convention

Talent Land is a multi-day technology and innovation convention held in Guadalajara, Jalisco, organised by the private company Talent Network together with the non-profit Fundación Talent Land (established 2019), with the Jalisco state government and Universidad de Guadalajara as founding institutional partners; launched in April 2018 as a successor to the discontinued Campus Party México.

To connect tech talent with employers and investors through themed tracks combining hackathons, pitch competitions, job fairs, workshops and talks.

Structured around tracks including Business Land, Developer Land, AI Land, Investor Land and Gamer Land; job fairs offered vacancies through Mexico's federal labour secretariat (STPS).

Attendance grew from 33,018 at the first 2018 edition to roughly 40,000 in 2023 and 42,386 registered visitors from 17 countries in 2024. The 2022 edition combined 26,000 in-person attendees with 2.1 million online visits; job vacancies offered rose from 1,200 (2019) to 30,000 advertised (2022). The 2025 edition drew 30,000+ attendees from 32 Mexican states and 15 countries with 195-264 sponsors, with organisers projecting Mex$200-300 million in local economic spillover.

All figures are self-reported by organisers or government press offices; no independent economic-impact study, university evaluation or third-party audit of attendance, hiring outcomes or economic effects was found, and no data tracks whether attendees who found jobs actually remained working in Jalisco's tech sector. After a 2024 change in Jalisco's state administration reduced financial support, organisers announced the flagship 2026 edition would relocate to Mexico City, ending an eight-edition run in Guadalajara; scholarship-funded 'campista' attendance also fell sharply in 2025 due to the funding cuts.