4th INESC TEC Autumn Forum

The INESC TEC Autumn Forum is an annual initiative of INESC TEC that aims to promote a forum for discussion of topics of major interest to Portugal, both from the point of view of the economy and public policies, particularly those that are strongly influenced by science and technology.

This year, the subject of the Forum will be, in general, on the digital transformation, but under two specific perspectives: one is related to companies that “create” and produce the digital software and all the new digital ecosystem, and the other is related to those companies that through the digital are forced to transform and reinvent themselves with new challenges.

PROGRAMME

10:30 AM– RECEPTION AND REGISTRATION OF PARTICIPANTS

11:00 AM – OPENING
José Manuel Mendonça (INESC TEC/FEUP)
Pedro Rodrigues (Vice-Rector of the University of Porto)
Manuel Heitor (Minister for Science, Technology and Higher Education)

11:30 AM - INTERVENTIONS FROM GUESTS
António Murta (Pathena)
Yike Guo (Imperial College Data Science Institute)

12:30 PM – LUNCH

2:30 PM – AFTERNOON SESSION 1:
The companies that create the digital
Keynote speech: João Barros (Veniam)
Panel led by Rui Oliveira (INESC TEC/UMinho)
Participants:
João Graça (Unbabel)
Pedro Faria (Feedzai)
Rui Barreira (Critical Software)

4:00 PM – COFFEE BREAK

4:30 PM – AFTERNOON SESSION 2:
The companies that are recreated by the digital
Keynote speech: Manuel Carvalho (Público)
Panel led by Aurora Teixeira (INESC TEC/FEP)
Participants:
Gonçalo Caseiro (INCM)

João Pedro Galveias (RTP)

Jorge Ferreira (IKEA Industry)
João Günther Amaral (SONAE MC)

6:00 PM – SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
Rita Marques (Portugal Ventures)

6:20 PM – CLOSING
Pedro Guedes de Oliveira (INESC TEC/FEUP)

João Claro (INESC TEC/FEUP)