agenda

1st july
2nd july

09:30 | OPENING SESSION

• Rogério Carapuça - APDC President
• Maria Manuel Mota - Congress Chairwoman
• TBA

10:00 | BUSINESS & SCIENCE WORKING TOGETHER

• TBA

10:30 | BUSINESS & SCIENCE WORKING TOGETHER IN LIFE SCIENCES

Keynote Speaker: Luís Portela - President of the Bial Foundation

DISCUSSION PANEL:

• Pedro Silva - Head of the Funding and Innovation Office
• TBA

11:20 | 7 MINUTES TO WOW (Axians)

11:30 | COFFEE-BREAK

12:00 | THE STATE OF THE NATION OF MEDIA

Keynote Speaker: Telmo Gonçalves - Member of the Board, Portuguese Media Media Regulatory Authority (ERC)

DISCUSSION PANEL:

• Francisco Pedro Balsemão - Impresa CEO
• Luís Santana - Medialivre CEO
• Nicolau Santos- RTP President
• Pedro Morais Leitão - Chief Executive Officer at Média Capital

13:15 | LUNCH BREAK - Please note: lunch is not provided

14:30 | BUSINESS & SCIENCE WORKING TOGETHER IN ENERGY

Keynote Speaker: João Peças Lopes Board Member of INESC TEC
DISCUSSION PANEL:

• Ana Casaca, Global Director of Innovation at Galp
• TBA

15:20 | 7 MINUTES TO WOW

Keynote Speaker: Luís Vaz de Carvalho - Partner, NTT DATA Portugal

15:30 | BUSINESS & SCIENCE WORKING TOGETHER IN DEFENSE

Keynote Speaker: José Neves - Director of Homeland Security and Defense at GMV & President at AED Cluster Portugal

DISCUSSION PANEL:

• Miguel Correia Pinto - Head Knowledge Valorization at idD Portugal Defense
• Ricardo Mendes - CEO, Tekever

16:20 | 7 MINUTES TO WOW

16:30 | COFFEE-BREAK

17:00 | BUSINESS & SCIENCE WORKING TOGETHER IN EDUCATION

Keynote Speaker: Paulo Dimas - VP of Product Innovation, Unbabel
DISCUSSION PANEL:

• Luísa Ribeiro Lopes - President at .PT
• Miguel Herdade - Director, The Access Project
• Maria João Horta - Deputy Director, Directorate-General for Education of the Portuguese Ministry of Education

18:00 | AI-POWERED HIRING: UNLOCKING FAIRNESS, EFFICIENCY, AND BUSINESS GROWTH

• Maya Huber - Co-Founder & CEO at TaTiO
• Miguel Luís - CMO, The Key Talent

18:15 | AWARD CEREMONY CITIES AND TERRITORIES OF THE FUTURE

09:30 | EU TECH SOVEREIGNTY: URGENT ACTIONS FOR SECURING EUROPE'S DIGITAL FUTURE

Keynote Speaker: - Director General, Connect Europe

09:45 | EUROPE’S TECH LEAP: FROM POTENTIAL TO POWER

Keynote Speaker: TBA

10:00 | 7 MINUTES TO WOW (Huawei)

10:10 | WOMEN SHAPING TECH AWARD

Keynote Speaker: Sandra Fazenda Almeida - Executive Director, APDC

10:20 | NETWORKING MOMENT – COFFEE-BREAK

10:50 | 7 MINUTES TO WOW (Salesforce)

11:00 | BUSINESS & SCIENCE WORKING TOGETHER IN TIMES OF POLITICAL INTERFERENCE

DISCUSSION PANEL:

• Francisco Veloso – Dean, INSEAD
• TBA

11:40 | 7 MINUTES TO WOW: SOVEREIGNTY AND RESILIENCE FOR THE EUROPE OF THE FUTURE
Keynote Speaker: Juan Olivera – Country Manager, Ericsson Portugal

11:50 | BUSINESS & SCIENCE WORKING TOGETHER IN FINANCIAL SERVICES

Keynote Speaker: Manuela Veloso - Head of JP Morgan Chase AI Research & Herbert A. Simon University Professor Emerita at Carnegie Mellon University
DISCUSSION PANEL

• Isabel Guerreiro - Executive Board Member at Banco Santander Portugal
• TBA

12:40 | BEST THESIS AWARD CEREMONY

• Nuno Pereira - Deputy Business Unit General Manager
• Carla Madeira - Business Unit General Manager, Axians Portugal
• Pedro Valente - Associate Executive, Axians Portugal

13:00 | LUNCH BREAK - Please note: lunch is not provided

14:30 | BUSINESS & SCIENCE WORKING TOGETHER IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS

DISCUSSION PANEL:

• Jorge Graça - Chief Technology and Information Officer, NOS
• José Pedro Nascimento - CTO, MEO
• Paulino Corrêa - Chief Network Officer, Vodafone Portugal
• Rodrigo Cordeiro - Country Head, Capgemini Engineering

15:15 | FIBERCOS & TOWERCOS' ROLE IN DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

DISCUSSION PANEL:

• João Osório Mora - Managing Director, Cellnex
• Paolo Favaro - Managing Director, Vantage Towers
• Pedro Rocha - CEO, FastFiber

16:00 | NETWORKING MOMENT – COFFEE-BREAK

16:30 | A CONVERSATION WITH...

DISCUSSION PANEL:

• Anne Applebaum - American Journalist and Historian, Pulitzer Prize Winner
• Pedro Faustino - Managing Director, Axians

17:00 | THE STATE OF THE NATION OF COMMUNICATIONS

Keynote Speaker: Sandra Maximiano - President, Portuguese Communications Regulatory Authority (ANACOM)
DISCUSSION PANEL:

• Ana Figueiredo - CEO, MEO
• Luís Lopes - CEO, Vodafone Portugal
• Miguel Almeida - CEO, NOS SGPS

18:30 | CLOSING SESSION

• Rogério Carapuça - President, APDC