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Feedzai, one of the startups created in the scope of the CMU Portugal Program, is one of the participants

West to West Quarterly Event Series | “Big Rounds. Bigger Founders” Date: April 19, 2016

Venue: Fairmont San Francisco Hotel – 950 Mason Street, San Francisco, CA 94108

Registration: online registration

West to West invites you to join for another groundbreaking event in the Bay Area featuring leading tech startups which “happen” to have Portuguese Founders, on April 19 at the Fairmont.

Under the theme “Big Rounds. Bigger Founders” this event is part of West to West Quarterly Event Series and will be the first bringing together, on stage, some of the hottest startups in the Valley: Talkdesk, ThousandEyes, Unbabel, and Feedzai , one of the startups created in the scope of the CMU Portugal Program.

With tens of millions raised in just the last few months, these companies are great examples of high quality tech coming out of Portugal. These founders will be on stage, in an unscripted fireside chat, talking about their journey as tech immigrants. Come learn from them about how to build very successful startups with cross-Atlantic operations.

The session will also have more speakers, including Marvin Liao (500 Startups) and Rohit Sharma (Veniam, another spent-off created on the scope of CMU Portugal, and True Ventures), the Chaiman of AICEP, Miguel Frasquilho, talking about how Portugal will host a leading tech conference for at least the next 3 years and the Executive Board Member of Caixa Capital, Stephan Morais, talking about the Portuguese and European tech scene from the perspective of the largest Portuguese private investor.

Please register TODAY to secure a spot and share this with your networks.

Co-organized with, and sponsored by, AICEP (Portuguese Trade and Investment Agency), this event will also include a reception with food and wine , and plenty time to network with Silicon Valley leaders including investors, corporate partners, service providers and other members of the entrepreneurial community.

About the Event

Venue: Fairmont San Francisco Hotel

Date: April 19, 2016

Time: 5-8pm

Attire: No rules? It’s the Bay Area!

Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/portuguesetech-tickets-23840033181

About West to West

West to West was launched recently in Silicon Valley to create and support a thriving environment for Portuguese entrepreneurship. It’s network expands wide and deep building on over a century of Portuguese History in California and a very strong tech immigration wave in the last decade. West to West offers landing support, mentorship, networking, and funding opportunities in Silicon Valley.

Webinar Series Startup Life | West to West | “Silicon Valley: Truth and Myth”
Topic: “Silicon Valley: Truth and Myth”

Thursday, March 31 2016

Time: 11am PDT (19h GMT+1)

The speaker will be Kevin Holmes , Founder and CEO of the Founders Network. The Founders Network is a peer mentorship network with 600+ members, who collectively raised $250M last year. Kevin’s experience working with hundreds of entrepreneurs, many of them immigrants in Silicon Valley, gives him one of the best perspectives on this topic.

Abstract:

The first West to West webinar of the Startup Life series covers the topic “Silicon Valley: Truth and Myth”. It will be an overview of work culture and processes in Silicon Valley. The session will separate facts from fiction to help founders who want to grow a venture in the Valley.

Webinar Info

Registration URL:

https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4727030659227973121

Webinar ID: 117-511-731

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About the Webinar Series

This initiative will run monthly and each webinar will cover one topic relevant to startup life: from ideation to exit, through fundraising, product development, and others. The webinars will be presented by Silicon Valley experts and will always have time reserved to discuss the necessary adjustment to the Portuguese reality.

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About West to West

West to West was launched recently in Silicon Valley to create and support a thriving environment for Portuguese entrepreneurship. It’s network expands wide and deep building on over a century of Portuguese History in California and a very strong tech immigration wave in the last decade. West to West offers landing support, mentorship, networking and funding opportunities in Silicon Valley.

PhyCS 2016 – 3rd Internacional Conference on Physiological Computing Systems
Call for papers

Dates :

Regular Paper Submission: February 16, 2016
Regular Paper Authors Notification: May 5, 2016
Regular Paper Camera Ready and Registration: May 19, 2016

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

url: http://www.phycs.org/

Physiological data in its different dimensions, either bioelectrical, biomechanical, biochemical or biophysical, and collected through specialized biomedical devices, video and image capture or other sources, is opening new boundaries in the field of human-computer interaction into what can be defined as Physiological Computing. PhyCS is the annual meeting of the physiological interaction and computing community, and serves as the main international forum for engineers, computer scientists and health professionals, interested in outstanding research and development that bridges the gap between physiological data handling and human-computer interaction.

Conference Areas

• Devices
• Methodologies and Methods
• Human Factors
• Applications

Keynote Lectures

• Kevin Warwick, Coventry University, United Kingdom
• Tanja Schultz, Cognitive Systems Lab (CSL), University of Bremen, Germany

Caixa Capital Organizes International Event
Caixa Empreender Award 2016

Date: February 3, 2016
Venue: Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal
Agenda: here
Registration: Online registration

This year, the CMU Portugal Program and its inRes teams from the 2015 edition will be deeply involved on the Caixa Empreender Award. In the scope of the partnership established with Caixa Capital the four inRes teams – AdaptTech, PlaySktech, Sceelix, and Scraim – will be invited to participate in different moments.

Caixa Empreender Award will bring together numerous national and international investors, startups, incubators, research centers, and universities to reward the most promising startup of 2015. 46 startups presenting, including 7 startups already invested by Caixa Capital and competing for an additional 100k. The winner will be selected from Portugal’s major acceleration programs: Act by COTEC, BGI by ISCTE/MIT Portugal, inRes by CMU Portugal Program, Lisbon Challenge by Beta-i, Startup Braga, and Startup Lisboa Boost by Caixa Capital. The day will also feature companies from the Startup Next Lisbon by the Techstars program.

Agenda:

09:00 – Registration

09:30 – Welcome by Stephan Morais (Caixa Capital)

09:40 – Startup Next Lisbon by Techstars: BonMignom, Cuckuu, Dropbyke, Facestore, Knok, TeamOutLoud, and, Wine with a View

10:30 – Startup presentations (last year’s edition): Biomimetx, doDOC, Exogenous Therapeutics, Magnifinance, and Nu-Rise

11:10 – Coffee break

11:30 – 2 paralell events (A or B)

11:30 (A) – Startup presentations (33 startups, 4 rooms) 1): Health (7 startups), Clean & Industrial Tech (7), Enterprise IT (9), and Digital (10)

Room Health: Adapttech (11:30-11:45), B2S (11:45-12:00), ExtremoChem (12:00-12:15), MDID Lab (12:15-12:30), SOUL (12:30-12:45), Sword Health (12:45-13:00), and Vitacontrol (13:00-13:15)

Room Clean & Industrial Tech: bOptimum (11:30-11:45), CrossOver (11:45-12:00), D-Orbit (12:00-12:15), InovCarbon (12:15-12:30), MicroTec (12:30-12:45), Profifox (12:45-13:00), and WineGrid (13:00-13:15)

Room Enterprise IT: Clickly (11:30-11:40), Connect Robotic (11:40-11:50), Hype (11:50-12:00), Ignidata (12:00-12:10), Issho (12:10-12:20), Loqr (12:20-12:30), Performetric (12:30-12:40), Sceelix (12:40-12:50), and Tap2.com (12:50-13:00)

Room Digital: Brain Answer (11:30-11:40), Doinn (11:40-11:50), iFarmacias (11:50-12:00), Jesbee (12:00-12:10), Phonenear (12:10-12:20), Playsketch (12:20-12:30), Rewind Cities (12:30-12:40), Sensefinity (12:40-12:50), Speak (12:50-13:00), and Tripaya (13:00-13:10)

11:30 (B) – Workshops (main auditorium):

· 11:30-11:45 Caixa Capital: TTA’s term-sheet

· 11:45-12:00 Beta-i: How Culture Can Define The Success Of Your Startup

· 12:00-12:15 BGI: Movvo’s case study

· 12:30-12:45 COTEC: Thelial’s “war story”

· 12:45-13:00 CMU Portugal: Entrepreneurial Immersion in the US

· 13:00-13:20: Startup Braga & Startup Lisboa: Traction and Growth – Why Retention Matters

13:20 – Lucheon

14:30 – Welcome by José de Matos (CGD) and by TBA

14:40 – 2016’s finalists (competing for additional 100k)

· 14:40-14:50 Attentive

· 14:50-15:00 Charge2Change

· 15:00-15:10 Fibersail

· 15:10-15:20 PermeAbility

· 15:30-15:40 Prodsmart

· 15:40-15:50 Scraim

· 15:50-16:00 Seatwish

16:00 – Round-table: International VC’s

· 16:00-16:30 Feedback to 2016’s finalists

· 16:30-17:15 Trends in European VC

17:15 – Coffee Break

17:45 – Keynote speaker by TBA

18:15 – Winner and wrap-up

4th VISion Understanding and Machine intelligence (visum) summer school
Date: July 7 – 14, 2016
Venue: ATMOSFERA M, Rua Júlio Dinis, nº 158/160, Porto, Portugal

Registration: here

Call for participation

The organization invites everyone with interests in computer vision to attend the 4th VISion Understanding and Machine intelligence summer school, at ATMOSFERA M in Porto, Portugal.

At visum you can find an expert multicultural environment, aiming to foster junior researchers’ awareness of computer vision topics, as well as to enhance all attendees’ knowledge regarding the state of the art, provided by leading international experts on the field. Being an area of great potential in industrial applications with a strong increase in the number of researchers in these last years, visum summer school will be an incredible opportunity.

Important Dates

Application Deadline- March 6, 2016

Decision – March 13, 2016

Early Registration – April 8, 2016

Late Registration – May 8, 2016

Summer School – July 7-14, 2016

visum will comprise three main tracks

1. Fundamental subjects

2. Examples of computer vision applications

3. Industrial session

Each one with extensive practical “hands-on” sessions.

Topics

Biometrics, Julian Fierrez (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, ES)

Structure From Motion, João Paulo Costeira (Instituto Superior Técnico, PT)

Document Image Analysis, Alicia Fornes (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, ES)

Human Activity, Hayley Hung (Technical University of Delft, NL)

Deep Learning, Dan Ciresan (Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence, SW)

Modelling and Simulation, Mauricio Reyes (University of Bern, SW)

Industry Track

EyeSee

Follow Inspiration

Movvo

Location

visum will take place in Porto, Portugal’s second-largest city, European Best Destination 2012 and Lonely Planet’s top 10 for 2013. Here, you can find famous baroque style monuments, the worldwide known Port Wine cellars, always having the World Heritage Douro River as the background of this youthful, active and charming city. visum’s program includes social activities.

To know more about this event, please visit the following websites:

visum website

Facebook

Google+

Twitter

ERI: VR2Market: Towards a Mobile Wearable Health Surveillance Monitoring Product for First Response and other Hazardous Professions
Vital Responder Symposium
Date: January 15, 2016
Venue: Auditorium A, INESC TEC, Porto, Portugal Schedule: 14h30 (9h30@CMU)
Registration: here

The Vital Responder (VR) system has been developed under the CMU Portugal Program between 2009 and 2012. It explores the synergies between innovative wearable technologies, scattered sensor networks and precise localization to provide secure, reliable and effective first-response information services in emergency scenarios’ management. With this technology based on wearable vital signs and ambient parameter sensing, one can monitor different factors (temperature, carbon monoxide, etc.) that teams of professionals are exposed and relate them to inner-body physiological responses, such as electrocardiogram (ECG) parameters, body energy expenditure, body temperature or skin sweat level (among others). For example, one can monitor the amount of exposure to high temperature, carbon-monoxide levels, etc. of fire-fighter (FF) teams and relate them to heart rate variability (HRV) changes, inner-body temperature or other physiological alterations usually associated to stress and fatigue in humans.

“The VR2Market ERI will be the consolidation of an already long and successful line of R&D and will foster the possibility to bring to the international market new results from 5+ years of this consortium joint research,” explain João Paulo Cunha and Fernando De La Torre, the ERI PIs in Portugal and at CMU, respectively. The VR2Market is carried out in the auspices of the CMU Portugal Program, funded by FCT, and involves several institutions, namely: INESC TEC; IT; UA; CMU; Biodevices; Hospital de Gaia, Petratex, Future Cities – UPorto.

Agenda

14h30 (9h30@CMU) – Welcome, coffee and cookies
14h45 (9h45@CMU) – Incident-Aid System for Firefighting – Sean Lanthier (CVO of IAS, Palo Alto, CA, USA)
15h45 (10h30@CMU) – Vital Responder – current status and future perspectives – João Paulo Cunha (INESCTEC / FEUP)
16h45 (11h15@CMU) – Discussion
17h15 (12h15@CMU) – Wrap-up and closing

The organization will have this meeting over Skype and/or other streaming platform(s) for their members away from Porto.

Date: December 17, 2015 at 2:30 p.m.
Venue: Colégio dos Jesuítas, Auditório Poente, Funchal, Madeira (Rua dos Ferreiros 9000-082)
url: http://www.m-iti.org/

Next Thursday, December 17th, the dual degree professional master students in Human-Computer Interaction will present their Capstone Projects at the Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute (M-ITI). These presentations are the result of months of work in collaboration with international companies. Students were given a problem and they will now be presenting the solution. This is an important event as it will allow students to present their work as well as give you an opportunity to learn more about what M-ITI does best.

Agenda

14h30 Opening Speeches

Nuno Jardim Nunes – M-iti’s President of the Board
José Carmo – Rector of University of Madeira *
Jorge Carvalho – Regional Secretary of Education *

14h50 ‘2 minutes madness’

WavesFM . Push

15h00 MHCI Capstone Project Presentation

TEAM WavesFM + RootIO (Uganda)
Team WavesFM is working with RootIO (Uganda). Their goal is to research the diversity of the Ugandan diaspora in order to determine how Ugandans abroad can use technology to contribute to their homeland in ways other than personal financial support (remittances).
RootIO aims to rebuild radio in the era of wifi and peer production, for and with rural communities in the global south. We start with “microstations” powered only by small, inexpensive FM transmitters and Android smart phones. For the 90% of the world’s population that doesn’t live in a handful of rich countries, radio is how most people get their news and information. While the economic and technical structure of radio has changed little over the last 100+ years.

WavesFM team: Katie Ramp, Jennifer Baranoff, Nalena Santiago, Juan Corzo

15h30 MHCI Capstone Project Presentation

TEAM PUSH + PLAY (Poland)
Team Push is working for PLAY (Poland) looking to understand how families with primary school age children interact and communicate in order to design an engaging service that facilitates family relationships.
PLAY is a mobile network operator based in Poland. PLAY’s key competitive advantages have been based so far on best on the market value for money B2C voice and data offer for individual customers.

Push team: Letícia Patrício, Israel Gonzales, Michael Richardson

16h00 Demo Sessions (at Galaria Ale Poente Sul)

16h30 Madeira D’Honra (at Jardim)

* To be confirmed

inRes Closing Session
“Crossing Borders in Technology Entrepreneurship”
Date: December 3 rd , 2015
Schedule: 1:30pm (registration) to 6:30pm
Venue: Room 2, Culturgest, Lisboa
Registration: here
Newsletter: here

The Closing Session of the 2015 Edition of inRes, will bring together researchers, entrepreneurs, business executives, and investors, among others, under the topic “Crossing Borders in Technology Entrepreneurship”.

This will be an excellent opportunity to get to know more about this pioneering initiative that enables entrepreneurs to embrace an enriching journey shared between Portugal and the United States! In 2015, the teams have had the opportunity to be exposed to the entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystems of Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburgh, and the Silicon Valley!

Caixa Capital will host this year’s event, and the program will include a keynote speech, presentations from the teams, and a roundtable.

Preliminary Agenda

1:30pm	Registration
2:00pm	Opening Session
	Welcome Words
	Stephan Morais, Executive Director, Caixa Capital Emir Sirage, Coordinator of the Technology Office, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
	I nnovation and Entrepreneurship in ICT in Portugal Rogério Carapuça, Chairman, Novabase / Board of Directors, CMU Portugal Program
	inRes: A “Soft Take-off” Program for ICT Entrepreneurs João Claro, National Director, CMU Portugal Program
3:00pm	inRes Teams: Outcomes and Insights
	inRes 2015 AdaptTech – Frederico Carpinteiro Playsketch – Pedro Santa Sceelix – Francisco Rebello de Andrade Scraim – Pedro Castro Henriques inRes 2014 AddVolt – Bruno Azevedo Displr – Rui José Followprice – Gonçalo Mendes Xhockware – David Sobrinho
4:10pm	Coffee, Networking & Exhibition
4:40pm	Keynote Address
	Nuno Miller, Head of Digital Channels, SONAE | European CIO of the year 2014, by CIONET
5:20pm	Roundtable
	João Claro, National Director, CMU Portugal Program (moderator) Nuno Miller, Head of Digital Channels, SONAE Kit Needham, Associate Director, Project Olympus, CMU Reed McManigle, Senior Manager, CTTEC, CMU Stephan Morais, Executive Director, Caixa Capital
6:30pm	Closing Remarks
	João Claro, National Director, CMU Portugal Program

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inRes 2015
Launched in 2014 by the CMU Portugal Program, funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portuguese funding agency), inRes is a very early stage acceleration program for Portuguese entrepreneurial teams working in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) that push them past their comfort zones, and requires them to work at a steep pace, cope with high levels of uncertainty, and constantly reach out for contacts to further build and validate their business projects. inRes is based on the Lean LaunchPad method. inRes provides a training period in Portugal, followed by a seven-week structured immersion period in Pittsburgh, in the U.S., anchored at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). inRes is organized by the CMU Portugal Program, in cooperation with Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Caixa Capital, Pittsburgh Regional Alliance (PRA), UTEN Portugal, and INESC TEC. inres@cmuportugal.org

Portuguese Association for the Development of Communications (APDC) Organizes
Business Trends: 25th Communications Congress
Date: November 25 – 26, 2015
Venue: CCB – Fundação Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisboa
url : http://www.apdc.pt/congresso2015/

João Claro, national director of the CMU Portugal Program, was invited to be a speaker at the 25th Communications Congress, organized by the Portuguese Association for the Development of Communications (APDC).This event, which this year is led by António Vitorino, is organized on an annual basis.

João Claro will talk at the “Nextgen: Education-to-Employment Challenges” panel, along with Luís Paulo Salvado from Novabase, with the moderation of Paulo Simões, from Egon Zehnder. On this panel, the speakers will discuss the match between what are the expectations of the companies, and the human resources available, as well as the challenges that ICT is bringing to this 4th industrial revolution.