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COTEC Organizes Sessions about the COHiTEC Program

COTEC Portugal is organizing several Presentation Sessions of COHiTEC 2014 – a training program in technology commercialization aimed at researchers who are willing to develop a business based on the technologies they have developed. The presentation sessions will take place between October and December in Aveiro, Braga, Caparica, Faro, Guimarães, Lisboa, Oeiras, Porto and Vila Real.

In 2014, the COHiTEC Program will take place between March and June, with two editions: one in Oporto (Porto Business School) and another in Lisbon (INDEG-IUL ISCTE Business School). Throughout the Program, researchers will have access to training in technology commercialization, support by management students from the two associated Business Schools and weekly mentoring by executives.
COHiTEC is held in partnership with the Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD) and the North Carolina State University.

Now in its 11th Edition, COHiTEC has supported 123 projects since its inception, proposed by 427 researchers, and gave rise to 23 technology-based companies with global focus.

The deadline for application to the COHiTEC Program is the 8th of January 2014 and the application form is available on www.cohitec.com.

For more information and registration in the Presentation Sessions, visit www.cohitec.com

Working Session: Supporting Technology Commercialization in International Partnerships Co-organized by UTEN Portugal and the CMU Portugal Program
Date: October 29, 2013
Venue: Room República, Alfândega do Porto
Registration: To attend please send an email to event@cmuportugal.org with your name and affiliation.

With the globalization of Science, international partnerships for Research, Development, and Innovation have become increasingly common, presenting new and significant challenges to the management of Intellectual Property (IP). In the first part of this working session we will share and discuss best practices and case studies of joint management of IP in the context of international collaborations.

These collaborations have also created new opportunities to expand the support that university ecosystems can provide to new high-tech ventures. The Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program will soon re-launch its Entrepreneurship in Residence initiative, aiming at supporting very early stage entrepreneurial teams through a combination of immersion in CMU’s highly dense and dynamic entrepreneurial ecosystem, with the support of Portuguese entrepreneurial ecosystems. In the second part of this working session we will present and open to discussion the key ideas for this initiative.
Agenda
14:10 – 14:20 Welcome Words
José Manuel Mendonça, Scientific Director, UTEN Portugal
João Claro, National Director, CMU Portugal
14:20 – 14:40 Tara Brandstad, Associate Director, Center for Technology Transfer and Enterprise Creation (CTTEC), Carnegie Mellon University
14:40 – 15:00 Jorge Figueira, Technology Transfer Office Director, Universidade de Coimbra
15:00 – 15:30 Q&A
15:30 – 16:00 Presentation and Discussion of the CMU Portugal Program’s
Entrepreneurship in Residence (EiR) Initiative

Tara Branstad, Associate Director of Carnegie Mellon’s Center for Technology Transfer and Enterprise Creation ( CTTEC ) Tara’s responsibilities at CTTEC include working with faculty in a variety of fields to facilitate partnering for commercialization, specifically through licensing and the creation of start-up companies. In addition, Tara is responsible for overseeing CTTEC’s Enterprise Creation and Gap Fund Programs. Tara came to CMU in October 2005. She began her professional career in technology transfer at the University of Pittsburgh’s Office of Technology Management in 1996. She subsequently worked for Innovation Works, a seed stage funding and technology-based economic development organization, and as an independent consultant to start-up companies, universities, economic development organizations, and private funding groups. Tara has presented lectures and seminars to students, faculty and professional associations including AUTM (Association for Technology Managers), NCET2 (National Council for Entrepreneurial Tech Transfer), UTEN (University Technology Enterprise Network – Portugal), USIMP (Turkey), and the U.S. Commerce Department (CLDP). Tara is married to a serial entrepreneur and has two young children. She received her BA in Biology from the University of Virginia, and an MBA in Marketing and MHA inHealth Policy and Administration from the University of Pittsburgh.

Jorge Figueira, TTO Director (DITS), Universidade de Coimbra Jorge Figueira graduated in 1997 in Chemical Engineering at the University of Coimbra, post-graduation in Business Sciences at UC. University of Coimbra Tech Transfer Office Director since 2003 and the executive coordinator of the regional Innovation Ecosystem, with responsibilities for pipeline management; Foreign Direct Investment; Catalysing and monitor the ecosystem; interface for innovation and knowledge transfer issues; update information about the production of new knowledge in the 150 R&D units; R&D results commercial potential assessment; University of Coimbra IP portfolio managing and licensing tasks; initiatives to foster entrepreneurial activities at the community.

If you have any questions, please send an email to event@cmuportugal.org .

CMU Portugal: Open Session for Faculty Members and Prospective Students
On October 19, 2013, the CMU Portugal Program will held an Open Session for faculty members, students, prospective students, and entrepreneurs. This event will provide insights on the CMU Portugal Program, share the story of the Google Glass achievement, as well as will present statements from dual degree doctoral students, alumni, researchers and entrepreneurs.

Date: October 19, 2013
Venue: INESC TEC, Auditorium

14:10 – 14:30 Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program Insights
João Claro, National Director, Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program

14:30 – 14:50 ICT Portugal Student Pitches

14:50 – 15:40 Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program 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
Moderator: João Claro, National Director, Carnegie Mellon 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, Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program

16:50 – 17:20 Networking Coffee with the Google Glass Demo

Acronyms
CMU – Carnegie Mellon University
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

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

Workshops on Communicating Science with the Media
Communication of science and research is increasingly more relevant to society, researchers and institutions. Funding bodies (including the European Union and FCT) are aware of the importance of communicating the outcomes of the public investment in science and technology. Equally relevant is the discussion around the implications that advances in science and technology have in citizen’s day-to-day life.

As one of the main actors in scientific research and in communication, scientists should engage in public discussion of their work, both through the media and through direct interactions with different audiences.

To contribute for a more effective communication of the researchers work near the media, the international partnership programs Carnegie Mellon Portugal, Harvard Medical School – Portugal Program, MIT Portugal, UT Austin-Portugal, and the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) are organizing a series of three one-day training workshops on media skills for researchers and Ph.D. students.

These workshops on communicating with the media aim to:

Raise awareness amongst participating scientists of the importance of communicating their research with non-specialized audience, via the media;

Enthuse and equip scientists with the basic skills and techniques for fruitful media interactions;

Raise awareness of how the media works, via interactions and discussion with working Portuguese science reporters.

Dates

Porto – October, 11th

Coimbra – November, 25 (new date)

Lisbon – December, 6th

Topics to be addressed

What should you do when a journalist calls?

How to identify a news story

How to write a press release

Practical guidance on interacting with the media

How to prepare for an interview (radio/press/ broadcast)

Target audience

The workshops are targeted at 3rd and 4th year PhD Students (closer to potential interactions with the media) and faculty members of the international partnerships. Each workshop shall take a maximum of 20 participants (5 per international partnership).

Application and selection process
Please apply via our Google form.
Applications are open for Porto until September 20th ; for Coimbra until October 18th; and for Lisbon until November 22nd. The registration should be complemented by an up-to-date C.V. This should be sent to the following e-mail: sciencecommunication.workshops@gmail.com . The heads of communication of the international partnerships and FCT will select five applications per partnership based on the motivation statement and CV.

Preliminary Program
Morning: Communicating Scientific Research – Why does it matter? (Ana Godinho); What Journalists are Looking For? / What makes it into the news? – Priorities, news values, deadlines, headlines (Sílvia Castro & Invited Reporter); Writing For the Media: The Press Release Aims, audience, structure, form (Ana Godinho)
Afternoon: Practical Activity – Writing a Press Release Group work activity with facilitated feedback (Ana Godinho & Sílvia Castro); Media Interviewing Different Types of Interviewers, Interview Tactics (Invited Reporter & Alexandra Carvalho Vieira); Practical Activity – ‘live’ Television/Radio Interviews (Group work with facilitated feedback) (Invited Reporter & Ana Godinho/Alexandra Carvalho Vieira/ Sílvia Castro)

Trainers’ biographies
Alexandra Carvalho Vieira is the Head of Communications and Events of the Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program (CMU Portugal), an international partnership in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), between Portuguese universities and research laboratories, Carnegie Mellon University, and companies. Before joining the Carnegie Mellon Portugal, Alexandra Carvalho Vieira was a journalist for more than ten years in different Portuguese newspapers and magazines, and was editor of a publication for two years. Alexandra holds an Executive Master in Marketing by the Católica Porto Business School, and a higher degree in Communication Sciences and Journalism from the Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa. Alexandra also has training in Multimedia Production and Photography. Contacts: Mail , LinkedIN

Ana Godinho is currently Head of Communications at Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT), the Portuguese national funding agency for science and research. In this role she coordinates, external affairs, government affairs, media and internal communication. Before joining FCT, Ana was head of Science Communication and Outreach at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC), a leading life-science research institute in Portugal, a position she took up after moving from the Institute for Stem Cell Research (ISCR), in Edinburgh, where she was Scientific Communication Officer. Ana has a PhD in Developmental Neurobiology from the University of London, and was a post-doctoral Research Fellow at the MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, King’s College London. She has an MSc in Science Communication from the Open University, UK, was a trainer on the FP7-funded ESCOnet trainers network, and coordinated the FP7 Researchers’ Night 2009 project in Portugal. Ana has presented her work at international science communication conferences, co-authored papers and a children’s book of science experiments and collaborated in outreach projects in Europe, Africa and Brazil. Contacts: Mail , LinkedIn

Sílvia Castro is the Communications Director at MIT Portugal Program (MPP) – an international collaboration involving MIT and government, academia, and industry in Portugal. Sílvia Castro graduated in Biochemistry at University of Porto (2001). She was accepted at the Graduate Program in Areas of Basic and Applied Biology (GABBA) in the same year and pursued a PhD in Developmental Neurosciences at University College London. It was at UCL that she developed a particular interest for Science Communication. She returned to Portugal in 2008 as post-doc fellow in Science Communication at the biomedical research institute, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC). She is mostly interested in studying how science is portrayed in the media and on the use of web-based platforms for communication and citizen participation in the fields of science and innovation. She also organizes and lectures training workshops that aim to provide scientists with tools for better to communicate with the media and the general public. Contacts: Mail , LinkedIN ; Twitter

Invited Speakers
Andréia Azevedo Soares – Invited Speaker for the Workshop in Porto. Andréia Azevedo Soares began her career as a journalist in 1996 back in Brazil working as a trainee for the daily newspaper Jornal do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, and then as a health correspondent for the national magazine Boa Forma, in Sao Paulo. She moved in 1999 to Portugal, where she has been working for the PÚBLICO news organization. Her interest in science communication comes also from presenting “4XCiência”, which was a weekly TV programme aired on the RTPN channel (part of the national Portuguese broadcasting company RTP), and was the first one dedicated exclusively to scientific topics in Portugal. Andréia has a BA (Hons) in Journalism (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, 1997), a MA in Brazilian and Portuguese Studies (University of Porto, 2002) and a PhD in Science Communication (Imperial College London, 2013).

(to be updated soon with invited Speakers bios for the Workshops in Coimbra and Lisbon)

UTEN Portugal – Annual Conference 2013
“Internationalization, Technology Commercialization and Knowledge Exchange”
Dates: October 28-29, 2013
Venue: Centro de Congressos da Alfândega do Porto (Porto, Portugal)

In conjunction with ALTEC 2013, XV Latin-Iberoamerican Congress on Technology Management
Agenda DAY 1 (Open to Public)
11:00 – OPENING SESSION

José Manuel Mendonça, UTEN Scientific Director, President of INESC Porto
José Marques dos Santos , Vice-President of the Council of Rectors of the Portuguese Universities
Mark Calhoun , Chairman of the Advisory Board, IC2 Institute, The University of Texas at Austin

11:30 – PANEL I: Technology Commercialization in Latin America

Moderator: João Claro , University of Porto, CMU|Portugal

11:35-12:15: Key-note speakers

Juan Pablo Ortega, Public Utility Company of Medellín (EPM), former Executive Director of Rutan, Medellín, Colombia
Carlos Ross, Director of the Center for Global Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CGIE), UT Austin, IC2 Institute, Monterey, Mexico

12:15-12:30: Round table discussion

Elsie Echeverri-Carroll, UT Austin, IC2 Institute
Maria Oliveira, University of Porto, UPIN

12:30-13:00: Q&A and dialogue with the audience

13:00 Lunch

14:00 – PANEL II: Internationalization of Startups to Global Markets

Moderator: Jorge Gonçalves, Vice-rector at University of Porto

14:05-14:30: Key-note speakers

Pedro Bizarro, co-Founder Feedzai, Portugal
Gregory Pogue, UT Austin, IC2 Institute

14:30-15:15: Round table discussion:

José Franca , Chairman and CEO Portugal Ventures*
Anders Haugland , Managing Director of TTO in Bergen
Tara Branstad, CTTEC Carnegie Mellon University

15:15-15:30: Q&A and dialogue with the audience

15:30 – Coffee-break

16:00 – PANEL III: New technology venture opportunities in the Oil & Gas industry

Moderator: Carlos Costa Pina, Member of Galp Energia’s Board of Directors and the Executive Committee*

16:05-16:45: Key-note speakers

Carlos Pina Teixeira, CEO Eneida, Portugal
Manuel Parente, CEO Abyssal, Portugal

14:30-15:00: Round table discussion:

Paulo Ferrão , Instituto Superior Técnico, MIT|Portugal
Paulo Santos , IPN incubator, University of Coimbra
Max Green, UT Austin, IC2 Institute

15:00-15:30: Q&A and dialogue with the audience

17:30 – CLOSING REMARKS

Aurora Teixeira, University of Porto: UTEN Survey on Technology Transfer and Spin-offs in Portugal
Marco Bravo , IC2 Institute, University of Texas at Austin, UT Austin-Portugal
José Manuel Mendonça, UTEN Scientific Director, President of INESC Porto
Miguel Seabra, President of the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology

*To be confirmed

18:00 – 20:00: SPECIAL EVENT (for selected companies for the Global Startup Program with UT Austin): Project Prioritization / Selection Tools
DAY 2 (By invitation only, location to be defined)
Training session for startup ventures current enrolled in the Global Startup initiative on business development, incubation, and acceleration under the UT Austin|Portugal Program

9:00–13:00: Session 1 (DEFINING VALUE)

Topic A: Figure of Merit Positioning and Valuation
Topic B: Market Articulation in the US
Project: Marriage of these two concepts in action

13:00 Lunch

14:30-17:30: Session 2 (WORKING SESSIONS)

Topic C: Build Company-focused Global Startup Project Strategies
Topic D: Establish Program Roadmaps with Priorities and Milestones

CMU Portugal Program: Opportunities and the Google Glass Achievement
Day: September 27, 2013
Venue: Salão Nobre, IST/UTL
Organization: IST/UL, ISR and CMU Portugal
Agenda
14:00 Welcome Session
Prof. Arlindo Oliveira, President of the IST

14:10 Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program: Results, Challenges and Opportunities
Prof. João Claro, National Director of the Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program

14:30 “Autonomous Robots in Human Environments”
Prof. Manuela Veloso, Carnegie Mellon University

15:15 “Google Glass@IST: A Collaborative Project to Develop Applications”
Prof. João Paulo Costeira, ISR/IST

15:45 “Startup Lisboa – From Product to Client”
João Vasconcelos, Executive Director of StartupLisboa

16:15 Closing Session
Prof. João Claro, National Director of the Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program

16:30 Open Session: Roundtable (company demonstrations and presentations)

17:30 Closing of the Open Session
COME AND EXPLORE IDEAS WITH GOOGLEGLASS@IST:
The ISR/IST will provide access to the “Google Glass” to students from any year or Degree, researchers and companies that are capable of identifying applications with high scientific and commercial potential. The goal is to create a common software repository over time (in a scheme to be defined in the future) so that any person can easily use it to test IDEAS. More information available here .

If you have questions, please send an email to event@cmuportugal.org.

CMU Portugal Public Sessions on the Call for Entrepreneurial Research Initiatives
We are organizing a new series of meetings in Portuguese universities to present and discuss the goals, structure, and financial support for the ERIs. As you know, the CMU Portugal Call for Entrepreneurial Research Initiatives will remain open until 5pm (GMT), of October 16, 2013. Funded by the Portuguese Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), the Entrepreneurial Research Initiatives (ERIs) are projects in science, engineering, management and policy that link both fundamental and applied research to technological innovation and economic development, explicitly focusing on important real world problems entailing significant scientific challenges. Approximately € 6 million, half in Portugal and half at CMU, are expected to be available to support four to seven ERIs, for up to 4 years. More information about the Entrepreneurial Research Initiatives (ERIs) is available at link.

The target audience for these meetings includes faculty members, researchers, doctoral students, senior staff of innovation and entrepreneurship support organizations, business executives, and startup managers. The director of the CMU Portugal Program will present the concept and goals for the ERIs, followed by a Q&A moment.

Calendar for these events:

September 13, 2013
16:00 – 17:30 Faculdade de Ciências of the Universidade do Porto (Amphitheatre 2, DCC Building)

September 19, 2013
09:30 – 10:30 Universidade do Minho (Amphitheatre A2, Informatics Department, Gualtar Campus, Braga)
15:00-16:30 Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Library Auditorium)

September 20, 2013
11:00-12:00 Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia of the Universidade de Coimbra (FCTUC)
15:00-16:30 Universidade de Aveiro (Amphitheater, IEETA)

September 24, 2013
15:00 – 16:30 Fundação of the Faculdade de Ciências of the Universidade de Lisboa (Amphitheatre)

September 26, 2013
09:30 – 11:00 Faculdade de Engenharia of the Universidade do Porto (tbd)

September 27, 2013
10:30 – 12:00 Católica-Lisbon School (3th floor, 536)
14:00 – 17:30 Instituto Superior Técnico of the Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (Salão Nobre)

In order to prepare the logistics for the event, please register at here .

Please forward this announcement to any interested parties, and feel free to contact us if you think that we can be of any help, using the email eris@cmuportugal.org .

Seminar at Porto Business School: Going From Technology Innovation to Sustainable Business Success
Date: September 17, 2013
Venue: Porto Business School

Speaker: Dr. Nikhil Balram, President and CEO, Ricoh Innovations Corporation, Menlo Park, CA
Nikhil Balram is President and CEO of Ricoh Innovations Corporation (ric.ricoh.com), a Silicon Valley company that develops innovative technologies and creates new businesses for Ricoh Company Ltd. With over 20 years of experience, Dr. Balram is widely hailed throughout the industry and academia as an expert and innovator in video and display technologies across multiple platforms and has been an officer of several publicly listed companies. He has won numerous awards including a 2012 Gold Stevie® Award for Executive of the Year in the Electronics category in The 9th Annual International Business Awards, a 2012 Fellow Award by the Society for Information Display (SID) and the 2011 Alumni Achievement Award by Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Balram is an adjunct professor of electrical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, visiting professor of vision science at the University of California, Berkeley, a guest professor of design and innovation at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Gandhinagar, India, and serves on the Industry Advisory Board (IAB) at the School of Engineering at Santa Clara University. He has over 50 US patents granted or pending and more than 30 technical publications. He received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

Abstract:
Technology innovation is usually a necessary foundation for success in high-tech industries. But it does not guarantee sustainable long-term commercial success. Going from technology innovation to sustainable business success is often a long and complex process with a low probability of success. The seminar will discuss this process and highlight strategies that have worked well and potential pitfalls that should be avoided. The presentation will be in the form of four case studies from the speaker’s own experiences. Two of these cases are in semiconductor and one of them is in consumer electronics. The fourth and most recent one is in mobile and cloud software and is a work in progress. For each of the cases, the presentation will explain the underlying technology innovations, the market and business situations at the time, the decisions that were made and the outcomes that resulted. The audience will be invited to discuss the wisdom and validity of the decisions that were made and what they might have done differently and why.
Free entrance. Please confirm your registration with cimagem@pbs.up.pt .