The Brazilian Society of Automatics,
Sociedade Brasileira de Automatica
(SBA) in Portuguese, celebrated its 45th anniversary during the XXIII
Congresso Brasileiro de Automática
(CBA) in a virtual platform due to the global pandemic of coronavirus COVID-19. In this paper, the authors have summarized its activities since 2002. The previous activities before 2002 were presented in
Revista Controle & Automação da SBA
. This magazine became Journal of Control, Automation and Electrical Systems after 2012 published by Springer.