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31º Digital Business Congress by APDC with the participation of Inês Lynce

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.

 

Ciência 2021: CMU Portugal at the annual Science and Technology Summit in Portugal

The CMU Portugal Program will host on June 28th between 3:30pm and 5:00pm the session “The contribution of the CMU Portugal international partnership for the high-tech ecosystem in Portugal” in a mixed format with live broadcast. In this session, the discussion will focus on the contribution of the Program to the high tech ecosystem, by inviting representatives from Unicorn companies that have started as startups under the Program, that are currently Large Scale Collaborative projects promoters or/and Affiliated partners.

 

The session will start with a presentation by the CMU Portugal program Directors offering an overview of Industry participation under the Program since its beginning in 2006. In 2020, 12 new ICT projects started involving some of the major Portuguese ICT companies as promoters namely three Unicorn Companies: Farfetch, Outsystems and Feedzai. In addition, 2021 was also he year where CMU Portugal saw two of its startup companies, Feedzai and MAMBU, surpass the  $1 billion value mark. 

 Agenda

CMU Portugal Session: “The contribution of the CMU Portugal international partnership for the high-tech ecosystem in Portugal”

  • 5’ – Welcome: – Inês Lynce, CMU Portugal National Co-director (onsite)
  • 10’ – Launch of the new Video of the 12 CMU Portugal Large Scale Collaborative Projects 
  • 10’ – Overview of Industrial involvement and outcomes under the CMU Portugal Program throughout the years – José Fonseca de Moura, CMU Portugal Director at CMU
  • 50’ – Discussion panel: CMU Portugal Program contribution to the Portuguese Ecosystem
    Moderator: Inês Lynce and Nuno Nunes, CMU Portugal National Co-Directors (onsite)
  • Panel members:
    Farfetch – Luís Carvalho (remote)
    Feedzai – Pedro Bizarro (onsite)
    Mambu – Sofia Nunes (remote)
    Outsystems – João Abril de Abreu (onsite)
  • 10’– Final questions
  • 5’ – Closing remarks: Inês Lynce and Nuno Nunes, CMU Portugal National Co-Directors (onsite)
“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/

 

Bauhaus of the Seas – NEB Co-Design Event (New European Bauhaus)

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.

Ciência 2020: CMU Portugal at the annual Science and Technology Summit in Portugal

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/

Encontro Ciência 2020 “Warm up Session” with CMU Portugal Director Rodrigo Rodrigues

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)

 

Seminar “Computational Challenges for Climate Change Research” at UTAD

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.

Program

11:00 – OPENING SESSION
11:30 – Panel: INITIATIVES AND PARTNERSHIPS
12:30 – Lunch
14:30 – Panel: HUMAN COMPUTATION FOR CLIMATE CHANGE
eCSAAP Project results and exploitation
15:30 – Panel: CLIMATE CHANGE RESEARCH: WHAT’S NEXT?
16:30 – Porto de Honra and Networking

Entrance is free upon registration.

For more information please contact: Hugo Paredes – hparedes@utad.pt/ Margarida Liberato – mlr@utad.pt

Seminar: Why are we still talking about Gender Balance in STEM?

An event promoted by the Diversity and Gender Balance group at Instituto Superior Técnico in partnership with CMU Portugal Program.

Seminar Agenda:

10:00
Opening: Manuel Heitor, Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education

10:15 – 11:00
Invited Talk: Lenore Blum presentation focused on “CMU: a case study promoting Computer Science in underrepresented groups”

11:00 – 12:30
Round table: Women in STEM: Breaking the Glass Ceiling
Moderator: Catarina Carvalho, Executive Director of “Diário de Notícias”
Members:
– Teresa Fragoso, President of the Portuguese Commission for Gender Equality
– Mariana Araújo, Instituto Superior Técnico Alumni and PhD Student
– Isabel Sá Correia, Full Professor, Instituto Superior Técnico
– Pedro Lima, Full Professor, Instituto Superior Técnico
– Cristina Fonseca, founder of Talkdesk, Instituto Superior Técnico Alumni

12:30 – 14:00 (1h30m)
Lunch Break

14:00
Opening: Helena Geirinhas Ramos (GenderBalance@IST Working Group)

14:10 – 15:30
Round table: Gender equality Policies in Lisbon Universities
Moderator: Lígia Amâncio, Full Professor, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
Members:
– António Cruz Serra, Rector Universidade de Lisboa
– Maria das Dores Guerreiro, Vice-Rector Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
– Arlindo Oliveira, President of Instituto Superior Técnico

15:30
Closing Session: António Cruz Serra, Rector Universidade de Lisboa

Registration is free.

Location:
Instituto Superior Técnico
Auditorium, Congress center

*Lenore Blum (Ph.D., MIT) is Distinguished Career Professor of Computer Science, Emeritus, at Carnegie Mellon, where she was founding director of Project Olympus, faculty director of the Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship, and held the inaugural Deans’ Chair in Technology Entrepreneurship. Project Olympus is a good example of her determination to make a real difference in the academic community and the world beyond. Olympus has two main aims: to bridge the gap between cutting-edge university research/innovation and economy-promoting commercialization for the benefit of our communities and creating a climate, culture and community to enable talent and ideas to grow in the region.  Lenore is internationally recognized for her work in increasing the participation of girls and women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) fields. She was a founder of the Association for Women in Mathematics and the Expanding Your Horizons Network for middle and high school girls. At Carnegie Mellon she founded the Women@SCS program. In 2004 she received the U.S. Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring. In 2009 she received the Carnegie Science Catalyst Award recognizing her work with Project Olympus targeting high-tech talent to promote economic growth in the Pittsburgh region and for increasing the participation of women in computer science. Currently, women comprise 50% of the undergraduate computer science majors at Carnegie Mellon, more than twice the national average. Her research, founding a theory of computation and complexity over continuous domains, forms a theoretical basis for scientific computation. On the eve of Alan Turing’s 100th birthday in June 2012, she was plenary speaker at the Turing Centenary Celebration at the University of Cambridge, England. Her current research, on developing a computer architecture for a conscious AI inspired both by Alan Turing and recent developments in cognitive neuroscience, is joint with her husband Manuel Blum and son Avrim Blum.

VR2Market – Closing Seminar

VR2Market was developed within an Entrepreneurial Research Initiative (ERI) project, in the scope of the CMU Portugal Program, in partnership with Institute of Systems and Computer Engineering (INESC TEC), the Institute of Telecommunications (IT), the Institute of Electronic and Telematic Engineering of Aveiro (IEETA), the Portuguese company Biodevices and the Institute of Robotics of Carnegie Mellon University (USA).

The closing seminar will give an overview of the project, led in Portugal by João Paulo Cunha and at CMU by Fernado de la Torre and Bob Iannucci, and the results achieved.

The main goal of the project was to provide secure, reliable and effective systems for first responder professionals in critical emergency scenarios. To achieve this goal an interdisciplinary team, with expertise in areas such as wearable technology for vital signs, biomedical signal processing, sensor networks and RF Location/Intelligent buildings participated in this project resulting in the development of new technology, with new intellectual property and methodologies. Several field trials where performed with Firefighters, Police Officers and Air-traffic Controllers in Portugal and also with militaries in the United States of America. Based on the business and market analysis both in Europe and in the USA (Participation in inRes CMU Portugal Program), this is a needed solution for the user, and due to that an effort is still being made to take this idea to the market with the creation of a spin-off.

The session is open to the general community but registration is required.