inRes 2016 – Closing Session
Date: December 6, 2016
Venue: UPTEC, Rua Alfredo Allen, Porto
Schedule: 2:00pm (registration) to 6:30pm
Venue: Auditorium, UPTEC, Porto
Registration: here
The Closing Session of the 2016 Edition of inRes will be an excellent opportunity to get to know the exploits and results of the participating teams in the entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem of the Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburgh.
It’s also an opportunity to find out more about this initiative that takes entrepreneurs on a journey of discovery across Portugal and the United States of America.
Guests
Paulo Magalhães, the founder and CEO of Tlantic, will deliver a keynote under the theme “Creating and growing an international IT company”. (bio)
Preliminary Agenda
2:00pm Registration
2:15pm Opening Session
João Claro, National Director, CMU Portugal Program
2:40pm inRes Teams 2015 – What’s new after one year?
Host: Reed McManigle, Senior Manager, CTTEC, CMU
Teams: AdaptTech, Playsketch, Sceelix, Scraim
3:10pm Project Olympus – Supporting very early stage entrepreneurs
Kit Needham, Associate Director, Project Olympus, CMU
3:50pm Coffee Break, Networking & Exhibition
4:30pm inRes Teams 2016 – Outcomes & Insights
Host: Reed McManigle, Senior Manager, CTTEC, CMU
Teams: All in Surf, Helppier, SoftBionics, TWEvo
5:00pm Keynote Address
Creating and growing an international IT company
Paulo Espregueira Magalhães, Founder and CEO, Tlantic
5:45pm Roundtable
Fátima São Simão, Development Director, UPTEC (moderator)
Paulo Espregueira Magalhães, Founder & CEO, Tlantic
Kit Needham, Associate Director, Project Olympus, CMU
Reed McManigle, Senior Manager, CTTEC, CMU
Ricardo Soares, Co-founder & COO, Addvolt
David Sobrinho, Business Development Director, Xhockware
6:30pm Closing Remarks
João Claro, National Director, Carnegie Mellon Portugal
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What is inRes?
inRes, short for “Entrepreneurship in Residence”, is a very early stage acceleration program for entrepreneurial teams working in ICT in Portugal. inRes provides entrepreneurial teams a training period in Portugal, followed by a six to seven week structured immersion period in the US. The participating teams benefit from the exposure to a highly dense environment of world-leading research groups, and market and industry specialists, in a variety of high-tech areas. inRes is organized by the CMU Portugal Program, funded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), in partnership with Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Pittsburgh Regional Alliance (PRA), and INESC TEC. inres@cmuportugal.org