The CMU Portugal Program is one of the partners of the 5th edition of “Building The Future”, one of the main Portuguese Conferences on Digital Transformation, sponsored by Microsoft .
The event will take place on January 25th and 26th, 2023, bringing together nationally and internationally renowned speakers, business decision-makers, members from the technological community, startups, entrepreneurs, and government. The full list of speakers is available here.
“Building The Future” main mission is to empower people and companies through technology, always keeping an eye on the future. With this goal in mind, this year’s edition will revolve around the Chaos Theory. In a time profoundly affected by post-pandemic challenges, inflation, threats of economic recession, war, energy and climate crises, the event will focus on new opportunities that may arise, bringing the attention to the power of technology as a driving force for change.
More information on the event’s website.
Online participation is free through this registration link.
For further information: hello@buildingthefuture.pt
The CMU Portugal Conference is a privileged moment for discussing cutting-edge topics in ICT, related to the scope of the Program. This year, under the theme “New Frontiers in Tech”, the Summit will bring together on November 9 and 10 in Lisbon, at Factory Lisbon (Hub Criativo do Beato), experts from Portuguese universities, Carnegie Mellon University, and companies to present ICT research progress in areas as diverse as Health, Forests, Security, Artificial Intelligence, Language Technologies, Machine learning, among others.
This two-day meeting will be a platform to explore the many opportunities offered within the scope of the international partnership for research collaborations and training programs in ICT at top Portuguese Universities, companies, and across CMU departments.
Portuguese and CMU researchers and industry representatives will lead the conversations around exciting topics such as:
- Mobilizing agendas for business innovation;
- Improving machine learning and applications in healthcare;
- AI for extracting value from data;
- Understanding conversations to improve productivity;
- From the edge to the cloud.
The CMU Portugal Summit 2022 will have as one of its key moments a Ph.D. Student’s Poster Session that will take place on both days and enable students affiliated with the Dual Degree Ph.D. Programs, Affiliated Ph.D. Programs or CMU Portugal research projects to showcase their Ph.D. research to the Summit attendees. The submitted posters will be printed and displayed at the event, and will also be available on the event’s website.
More information including the preliminary agenda available on the Conference’s website.
The 31º Digital Business Congress of APDC – Associação Portuguesa para o Desenvolvimento das Comunicações (Portuguese Association for the Development of Communications) will take place in Lisbon between May 11 and 12 under the theme “Tech and Economics: The Way Forward” . On the afternoon of the 11th, CMU Portugal National Co-Director Inês Lynce will be part of the panel “Get Future Ready: Innovation Trends for Your Radar”.
The Conference will reflect on how economies can recover in the post-covid era and face the recent challenges placed by the war in Europe, fosusing on the impact of new technologies and their meaning for humanity.
The event will take place in a mixed format and will be live-streamed from the Amphitheater of the School of Dental Medicine from Universidade de Lisboa.
More at the APDC Conference website and lin to the registration form.
On May 20th will take place the first Bauhaus of the Seas co-design event, a Conference designed to offer the opportunity of learning more about and participate in the development of the New European Bauhaus initiative, while contributing to the Bauhaus of the Seas Vision. The event is being co-organized by the CMU Portugal Program, Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, Instituto Superior Técnico and MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology.
The “Bauhaus of the Seas” was the first thematic network proposed in the context of the co-creation phase of the New European Bauhaus. Also known as “marhaus” (literally “the sea as our home”) or “baumar” (“the sea as a space for creation and impact entrepreneurship”), the initiative aims to promote renewed ethical and aesthetic regenerative development from a widely diverse range of dimensions of our continued relationship with the sea. This network will involve fostering a school of interdisciplinary experimentation and entrepreneurship, bound to shape a generation of designers, architects, engineers, artists, managers, and scientists around sustainable design solutions for coastal regions and the sea.
The event will count on the participation of multi-disciplinary speakers including Government representatives, researchers, and policymakers from the European Commission and member countries.
More about the Bauhaus of the Seas initiative at and the full Program at https://bauhaus-seas.eu/.
Registration is free but mandatory until May 19th.
The CMU Portugal Program will host on November 4th the session “CMU Portugal – defining new frontiers in Technology within the health sector.”
In 2020, 12 new ICT projects are starting under the scope of the CMU Portugal Program. For the first time, 10 of these research projects are led by Portuguese companies and carried out in partnership between companies and non-corporate entities of the R&D System and research groups at Carnegie Mellon, also representing a very significant pubic and private financial commitment. Research topics span from Data Science and Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Design and Engineering applied to social problems, forest fire-prevention, data management, mobility, and language technologies.
In this session, we will focus our discussion on three (3) projects addressing health sectors’ issues, sharing the opportunities, challenges, and impacts on this field that brings together researchers from diverse fields of knowledge.
Preliminary Program
Opening
Rodrigo Rodrigues, CMU Portugal, National Director
Carnegie Mellon University Presentation
Carmel Majidi, Principal Investigator at Carnegie Mellon University
Project presentations
- IntelligentCare – Francisca Leite, Director general at Hospital da Luz Learning Health
- TAMI – Luís Rosado, Senior Scientist at Fraunhofer Portugal
- wow – Margarida Nery, Project Wow Manager
Final Discussion
“Encontro Ciência 2020” is a major Science Conference organized by the Portuguese Government through the Ministry of Science Technology and Higher Education (MCTES) and Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia(FCT). It is held annually in Lisbon to highlight the main achievements in science and technology in Portugal. This year, the event will have online and in-person participants.
More at: https://www.encontrociencia.pt/
This year’s edition of Encontro Ciência 2020 will be preceded by three Warm up Sessions starting in Lisbon on October 14th. This first session entitled “Rebuilding Portugal through knowledge, jobs and digital transformation” will take place at Pavilhão do Conhecimento with online streaming and will have CMU Portugal National Director Rodrigo Rodrigues as one of the speakers.
The two other Warm up sessions will take place on October 21 and 26 in Ponte de Sor and Porto. For more information about these sessions and this edition of Encontro Ciência please visit the Summit website.
Encontro Ciência 2020 , the main Science and Technology Summit in Portugal will take place on November 2nd, 3nd and 4rd at the Lisbon Congress Centre. This year main topic will be the importance and challenges of science, research and innovation in the recovery of Portugal in times of pandemic, making our country and Europe more resilient, more digital, greener, more social and more global.
For more information please visit: https://www.encontrociencia.pt
“Rebuilding Portugal through knowledge, jobs and digital transformation”
WARM UP AGENDA
Date: October
Time: 11am – 1pm (Lisbon time)
Location: Pavilhão do Conhecimento (Lisbon) and online streaming at Encontro de Ciência webpage
Opening:
- Manuel Heitor (Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education) – Videoconference
- José Paulo Esperança (Vice President, Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia)
Panel:
- Cátia Batista (Associate Professor at NOVA School of Business and Economics)
- Célia Reis (Altran CEO )
- Liliana Ferreira (Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS Executive Director)
- Rodrigo Rodrigues (CMU Portugal Program Director, Full Professor at IST and researcher at INESC-ID)
Moderators:
- Helena Canhão – Ciência 2020 Commissioner (NOVA Medical School)
- Pedro Oliveira – Ciência 2020 Commissioner (Copenhagen Business School and NOVA School of Business and Economics)
On January 24, the seminar “Computational Challenges for Climate Change Research” will be held at Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD) to present the main conclusions of the CMU Portugal Exploratory Project “expert Crowdsourcig for Semantic Annotation of Atmospheric Phenomena – eCSAAP” and discuss the potential exploitation of its results.
The seminar will be attended by Professor Jeffrey Bigham of the Human Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon and Professor Adriana Vivacqua of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
Entrance is free upon registration.
For more information please contact: Hugo Paredes – hparedes@utad.pt/ Margarida Liberato – mlr@utad.pt
