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inRes 2016 – Closing Session

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

inRes Teams inRes Closing Session December 6

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