2013 Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program Student Orientation Date: October 19, 2013
Place: Porto
Registration form: http://tinyurl.com/CMU-Portugal-OrientationDay
Every year we organize the Orientation Day in Portugal, to welcome the newly enrolled students and those that are arriving in Portugal for the first time. All the students are invited to actively participate in this event that seeks to provide a better understanding of the CMU Portugal Program, as well as to provide a moment of networking and sharing of life experiences.
As some of you may know, we are a community of more than 500 young and senior researchers from all over the world, that together contribute to the mission of the CMU Portugal Program, which is “to create new knowledge in key focused areas of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) by means of cutting edge research, world-class graduate education and a close connection with the Portuguese industry, thus placing Portugal at the forefront of Science and Innovation.”
The Orientation Day will be on October 19th, in Porto, and we invite you all to join us!
Preliminary Agenda
10:30 – 10:50 Minibus at the Vila Nova de Gaia Train Station
Transfer from the Train Station to Jardim do Morro, Vila Nova de Gaia
(provided to the students that will be traveling by train)
10:50 – 11:10 Meeting point at Jardim do Morro (Vila Nova de Gaia)
11:10 – 11:20 Cable Car to Cais de Gaia
11:30 – 12:20 Students Reception
Venue: Boat, Douro River
Welcome Words
João Claro, National Director, CMU Portugal Program
New Students Introductions
Student Matters
Sara Brandão, Executive Director, CMU Portugal Program
12:30 – 12:45 Minibus from Cais de Gaia to INESC TEC
12:45 – 14:00 Networking Lunch
Venue: INESC TEC
OPEN SESSION to FACULTY MEMBERS AND PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS
Venue: INESC TEC, Auditorium
14:00 – 14:20 Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program Insights
João Claro, National Director, CMU Portugal Program
14:20 – 14:50 ICT Portugal Student Pitches
14:50 – 15:40 CMUPortugal and Google Glass: How the Partnership Predicted an Unpredictable Event
João Paulo Costeira, Researcher, ISR/IST
Ricardo Cabral, Dual Degree Doctoral Student in the ECE Program (IST/UL and CMU)
João Martins, Master Student in ECE, IST/UL
15:40 – 16:40 CMU Portugal Community Building: Internships, Job Opportunities and Entrepreneurship Paths (roundtable)
Moderator: João Claro, National Director, CMU Portugal Program
Speakers:
Jerónimo Rodrigues, Dual Degree Doctoral Student in the ECE Program (IST/UL and CMU)
André Martins, LTI Alum and Researcher at Priberam
Inês Freitas Oliveira, MSIN Alumna and Management, Innovation and Knowledge Support at PT Inovação
Susana Sargento, Researcher at UA/IT and Co-founder of the startup Veniam’Works
16:40 – 16:50 Closing Remarks
João Claro, National Director, CMU Portugal Program
16:50 – 17:20 Networking Coffee Break with the Google Glass Demo
Acronyms
CMU – Carnegie Mellon University
CMU Portugal Program – Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program
ECE – Electrical and Computer Engineering
ISR/IST – Institute of Software and Robotics / Instituto Superior Técnico
IT – Instituto de Telecomunicações
LT – Language Technologies
MSIN – Master in Science of Information in Information Networking
UA – Universidade de Aveiro
TCE – Technological Change and Entrepreneurship
