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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.

Global Entrepreneurship Week 2015
Date: November 16 – 22, 2015
url : http://www.sge.org.pt/

The Global Entrepreneurship Week is a celebration of the innovators and job creators who launch startups that bring ideas to life, drive economic growth and expand human welfare. During one week each November, GEW inspires people everywhere through local, national and global activities designed to help them explore their potential as self-starters and innovators. The event started in 2008, and currently it is celebrated in more than 160 countries, and involves 25k partners.

In Portugal, the event is organized by Associação Portuguesa de Business Angels (APBA) and Associação para o Desenvolvimento Económico e Social (SEDES), and the main theme is Industry. The events will take place all over the country:

• November 3rd :: Kickoff at Startup Braga
• November 16th :: Opening Session at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST)
• November 19th :: Women’s Entrepreneurship Day at Câmara de Comércio e Indústria Portuguesa
• November 19th :: Entrepreneurship Fair organized by ANJE
• November 20th :: Closing Session at Faculdade de Engenharia of the Universidade do Porto

“Science Today and The Future of Knowledge” – CNC’s International Conference
Date: November 20, 2015
Venue: Pavilhão do Conhecimento, Lisboa
url: http://www.cnc.pt/artigo/3457

The Centro Nacional de Cultura (National Culture Centre) is organizing an international conference under the theme “Science Today and The Future of Knowledge” to discuss the current state of science and the need to ensure knowledge for the future. This event will highlight, in particular, the coordination of international efforts to stimulate knowledge for worldwide development. This conference is the last of a cycle of events paying tribute to former Portuguese Minister of Science and Technology, José Mariano Gago and celebrates the 70 year-anniversary of the Centro Nacional de Cultura, under the theme “Science, Politics and Scientific Culture”.

For this conference, nearly 50 experts are expected to participate and among the names announced there can be found current and former government representatives, such as Ernie Moniz , U.S. Secretary of Energy; Carlos Moedas and Mario Campolargo , from the European Commission; Wang Weizhong and Liu Yanhua, Former Vice Ministers from People’s Republic of China; José Carvalho and Maria Teixeira, Science and Technology Ministers from Angola and Jorge Nhambiu, Science and Technology Minister of Moçambique.

Other representatives from worldwide organizations will be present, such as Deborah Roseveare and Andrew Wyckoff, Education and Science Directors from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); Jean-Jacques Dordain , General Director from the European Space Agency (ESA); Dava Newman , Vice President of U.S.’s National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA); Irina Bokova, Maciej Nalecz and Guillermo A. Lemarchand from United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and Sierd Clotingh , President of Academia Europea and Vice President of the European Research Council (ERC).

Experts from academia are also expected, the list includes Jared Cohon and Manuela Veloso from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Bruce Tidor , Phil Clay and Dan Roos from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Nuno Ferrand and Alexandre Quintanilha from Universidade do Porto (UP).

For more details on the events and the full list of expected lecturers in the conference, please visit CNC’s website.

Applications must be submitted online: https://si.flad.pt
Deadline for applications: November 15, 2015; 11:59 PM (Lisbon, Portugal time)

The Luso-American Foundation in collaboration with the National Science Foundation announces the Call for Proposals “2015 PORTUGAL – U.S. Research Networks Program”.

Researchers, Research teams and Laboratories in Portugal are invited to submit proposals for building joint research activities with partners in the United States. This program aims at promoting new or developing existing partnerships between Portuguese researchers and research institutions, and the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) funded counterparts in the US.

FLAD grants up to 15.000 Euros each will be awarded to selected candidates from Portuguese institutions, to support travel, lodging, conferences, workshops, or other expenses associated with the research partnerships.

This program is expected to complement grant support provided by NSF to the US selected counterparts. US partners should be advised to seek “supplements” to their existing grants for similar expenses from the National Science Foundation. NSF grantees should submit a supplemental request to the program that made their existing grant (see http://www.nsf.gov/oise for instructions). NSF grantees should also indicate to their program managers that the supplement request may be co-funded by NSF’s International Science and Engineering section (OIIA/ISE) contingent upon the availability of funds. The US researcher’s supplemental request must include funding to send a student to the Portuguese lab for at least a month.

Eligibility Requirements:
1. Projects must be in the following areas:
a. Materials Science
b. Nanotechnology
c. Information Technology
d. Biotechnology
e. Environmental Science

2. Candidates must be affiliated with Research Centers or Universities in Portugal;

3. Candidates must propose partnerships with U.S. institutions or researchers who have ongoing grants from the National Science Foundation. Information on NSF Grantees is available on www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/

source: FLAD

Instituto Superior Técnico Ph.D. OpenDays
Date: November 9 to 12, 2015
Venue: Salão Nobre, IST
Agenda: http://phdopendays.tecnico.ulisboa.pt

IST is launching the Ph.D. OpenDays initiative with the main goal of offering the opportunity to more than 500 Ph.D. students of socializing and sharing their research, skills and expertize not only with the rest of the academic community, but also with the several companies that will be attending this event. The four Ph.D. OpenDays will take place in a very familiar and cozy atmosphere, where the students will have the opportunity to showcase their work and directly contact and discuss their research, opportunities and careers with the attending companies representatives. At the end of each day, several thematic panels and special presentations will take place, and the Ph.D. movies will be screened.

Several students and alumni of the CMU Portugal will be involved:
November 11, 2015 :: David Henriques will make a pitch on “Security of Cyber-physical Systems”
November 12, 2015 :: André Martins (alumn), Unbabel, will talk about “Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing”

When: November 20, 2015 @ 18:30 (Friday)
Where: OutSystems – Rua Central Park – Linda-a-Velha (map)
Registration: form
Further information: please contact Ricardo Marques (ricardo.c.marques@gmail.com)

OutSystems and the CMU Alumni Portugal Chapter are organizing an event about the #1 Rapid Application Delivery Platform for the Enterprise. The goal is to learn a bit about the OutSystems history, the challenges OutSystems faces everyday, and to get to know some of the people that make all of this possible. All the students and alumni are invited to participate.

The speakers will be:
Lúcio Ferão , principal engineer and co-founder, will tell how OutSystems grew from a small garage company to leader in Gartner magic quadrant with a strong international presence;
João Rodrigues , UX expert and CMU alumni (MHCI’11) will tell you a little bit about the opportunities and challenges of Enterprise UX, while shedding some light on how his CMU background helps him on his daily tasks.
Ricardo Marques , software engineer, security expert and CMU alumni (MSIT-IS’08) will tell why a company like OutSystems needs a SWAT team, the kind of challenges that the team addresses and how the education received from CMU plays an important role in these tasks.

How to get there:
Public Transport – Carris: 748, 751 (both at 5-minute walk)
By car – A5, take the Linda-a-Velha exit (parking at Central Park is free for the first hour, and there are usually parking spaces in the neighbouring streets)

Agenda:
18:30 Reception and Networking
19:00 Outsystems Intro (Lúcio Ferrão)
19:20 Enterprise UX (João Rodrigues)
19:40 Live to SWAT, SWAT to win, and other amazing stories (Ricardo Marques)
19:55 Closing words
20:30 Students and Alumni dinner, venue to be announced

Orientation Day 2015 in Aveiro, Portugal
CMU Portugal Program:
“Innovation Strategies in Established Companies”
With the beginning of a new academic year, we usually organize an event to welcome the newly enrolled students and the students that are arriving in Portugal for the first time. This year it is not an exception, and we have the involvement of the Alumni Chapter. The Orientation Day is scheduled for October 17th, in Aveiro, which is known as “The Venice of Portugal.” PT Inovação will be the host of the workshop and the theme will be “CMU Portugal Program: Innovation Strategies in Established Companies.” (please register here)

We are currently a community of more than 600 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 ICT by means of cutting edge research, world-class graduate education and a close connection with the Portuguese industry, aiming at placing Portugal at the forefront of Science and Innovation. Please note that this event is also open to all the students and alumni that are in Portugal at the time.

October 17th, 2015 :: Aveiro
Preliminary Agenda
(transportation will be provided from Porto and Lisbon to and from Aveiro :: form)

10:00am Registration
Venue: Oficina do Doce, Aveiro

10:15am Student Reception
Welcome Words
Students & Alumni Introductions
Student Matters

10:45am Pastry Workshop & Boat Trip in Ria de Aveiro

1:00pm Networking Lunch
Venue: PT Inovação, Aveiro

Workshop: “CMU Portugal Program: Innovation Strategies in Established Companies”

2:20pm Welcome Words
Alcino Lavrador, CEO, PT Inovação

2:40pm CMU Portugal Program Insights
João Claro, National Director, CMU Portugal Program

3:00pm Lightning Talks
Filipe Condessa, Dual Degree Ph.D. Student in ECE, IST/CMU
Manuel Loureiro, Dual Degree Ph.D. Student in EPP, FEUP/CMU

3:30pm Keynote: Building Bridges with the Scientific System as Enabler of Innovation
Alcino Lavrador, CEO, PT Inovação

3:50pm Roundtable on “Innovation Strategies in Established Companies”
João Paulo Costeira, researcher and professor at ISR/IST and scientific director of the CMU Portugal Program (moderator)
Alcino Lavrador, CEO, PT Inovação
Ricardo Cabral, ECE alumnus (IST/CMU) and computer vision researcher
Ricardo Marques, MSIN alumnus (UA/CMU) and senior software engineer, OutSystems

5:20pm Closing Remarks
João Claro, National Director, CMU Portugal Program

(more information about the speakers will be provided as soon as possible)
Invitation

Global Technological Trends: A Better World?
Date: October 15, 2015 at 9:30pm
Venue: Serralves Foundation, Porto
url: http://www.serralves.pt/pt/actividades/tendencias-globais-2030-tendencias-tecnologicas-globais-um-mundo-melhor/

The Serralves Foundation will be hosting a conference titled “Tendências Tecnológicas Globais: Um Mundo Melhor?”(Global Technological Trends: A Better World?), a discussion on what changes the coming technological advances can bring for Portugal. This event is part of a cycle of conferences called “Tendências Globais 2030: Os Futuros de Portugal” (2030 Global Trends: Portugal’s Futures).

The conference will be hosted by António M. Cunha, Rector of the University of Minho, with the presence of guest speakers José M.F. de Moura, from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and director of the CMU Portugal Program at CMU, and Andrea Ricci, director of the Institute of Studies for the Integration of Systems in Rome.

Tickets can be purchased in the Serralves Foundation website.