agenda
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: Alessandro Gropelli - 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