agenda
09:30 | OPENING SESSION
• Rogério Carapuça - APDC President
• Maria Manuel Mota - Congress Chairwoman
• TBA
10:00 | BUSINESS & SCIENCE WORKING TOGETHER
10:30 | BUSINESS & SCIENCE WORKING TOGETHER IN HEALTHCARE
KNS: Luís Portela - President of the Bial Foundation
DISCUSSION PANEL:
• TBA
11:20 | 7 MINUTES TO WOW
11:30 | NETWORKING MOMENT – COFFEE-BREAK
12:00 | BUSINESS & SCIENCE WORKING TOGETHER IN MANUFACTURING
KNS: TBA
DISCUSSION PANEL:
• TBA
12:50 | 7 MINUTES TO WOW
13:00 | NETWORKING MOMENT – LUNCH BREAK
14:30 | BUSINESS & SCIENCE WORKING TOGETHER IN UTILITIES
KNS: TBA
DISCUSSION PANEL:
• TBA
15:20 | 7 MINUTES TO WOW
15:30 | BUSINESS & SCIENCE WORKING TOGETHER IN DEFENSE
KNS: TBA
DISCUSSION PANEL:
• TBA
16:20 | 7 MINUTES TO WOW
16:30 | NETWORKING MOMENT – COFFEE-BREAK
17:00 | BUSINESS & SCIENCE WORKING TOGETHER IN EDUCATION
KNS: TBA
DISCUSSION PANEL:
• TBA
17:45 | AI-POWERED HIRING: UNLOCKING FAIRNESS, EFFICIENCY, AND BUSINESS GROWTH
KNS: Maya Huber - Co-Founder & CEO at TaTiO
18:00 | 1st DAY CLOSING SESSION
18:30 | AWARD CEREMONY CITIES AND TERRITORIES OF THE FUTURE
09:30 | 2ND DAY WELCOME
09:45 | WOMEN SHAPING TECH AWARD
• Sandra Fazenda Almeida - Executive Director of APDC
09:55 | EU TECH SOVEREIGNTY: URGENT ACTIONS FOR SECURING EUROPE'S DIGITAL FUTURE
KNS: Alessandro Gropelli - Director General of Connect Europe
10:15 | BUSINESS & SCIENCE WORKING TOGETHER IN FINANCIAL SERVICES
KNS: Manuela Veloso - head of JP Morgan Chase AI Research & Herbert A. Simon University Professor Emerita at Carnegie Mellon University
DISCUSSION PANEL:
• TBA
11:05 | 7 MINUTES TO WOW
11:15 | NETWORKING MOMENT – COFFEE-BREAK
11:45 | THE STATE OF THE NATION OF MEDIA
KNS: Telmo Gonçalves - Member of the Board, Portuguese Media Regulatory Authority (ERC)
DISCUSSION PANEL:
• Francisco Pedro Balsemão - CEO, Impresa
• Luís Santana - CEO, Medialivre
• Nicolau Santos - President, RTP
• Pedro Morais Leitão - CEO, Media Capital
12:45 | BEST THESIS AWARD CEREMONY - Best MSc Thesis in the fields of Telecommunications, Media and IT
13:00 | NETWORKING MOMENT – LUNCH BREAK
14:30 | BUSINESS & SCIENCE WORKING TOGETHER IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS
DISCUSSION PANEL:
• Nuno Nunes - Chief Sales Officer B2B at MEO
• Manuel Ramalho Eanes - Executive Board Member at NOS
• Henrique Fonseca - Executive Board Member at Vodafone
• TBA - Capgemini Engineering
15:30 | FIBERCOS & TOWERCOS' ROLE IN DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
DISCUSSION PANEL:
• Paolo Favaro - Managing Director, Vantage Towers
• Pedro Rocha - CEO, FastFiber
16:20 | NETWORKING MOMENT – COFFEE-BREAK
16:50 | TBA
DISCUSSION PANEL:
• Anne Applebaum - American Journalist and Historian, Pulitzer Prize Winner
• Pedro Faustino - Managing Director at Axians
17:10 | THE STATE OF THE NATION OF COMMUNICATIONS
KNS: Sandra Maximiano - President, Portuguese Communications Regulatory Authority (ANACOM)
DISCUSSION PANEL:
• Ana Figueiredo - CEO, MEO
• Luís Lopes - CEO, Vodafone Portugal
• Miguel Almeida - CEO, NOS SGPS
18:40 | CLOSING SESSION