As the Sociedade Brasileira de Automática completed 25 years of existence during the CBA2000, the authors present a short resumé of its activities after 1986, since the previous ones have been dealt with in an article of the nr. 1 vol. 1 of this periodical; they also reproduce the speech pronounced by one of the authors at that congress banquet; in the last section, the future of SBA is discussed and 6 themes, with suggestions to consideration by the community.