9.00 am
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Registration & Welcome Coffee
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9.45 am
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Welcome Session
Pedro Arezes, Director MIT Portugal Program, Portugal
John Hansman, Diretor MIT Portugal Program, MIT
Manuel Heitor, Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education
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10.15 am
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Virtual
Keynote Speaker – Using Data for a Public Good
Sarah Williams, Director Civic Data Design Lab and Associate Professor Technology and Urban Planning at MIT School of Architecture and Planning
Moderator: Paulo Ferrão, Professor at Técnico, Former Director of MIT Portugal Program
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11.00 am
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Coffee-Break
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11.30 am
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Free Zones for Technology (ZLT): The Next-Gen Of Platforms For Research Deployment
Roundtable:
José Pedro Rodrigues –Councilor for Civil Protection, Mobility and Transport of the Municipality of Matosinhos
Catarina Selada – Head of Policy at CEiiA
Manuel Ramalho Eanes – Executive Board Member, NOS
Rui Costa – co-CEO, Ubiwhere
Moderator: Joana Mendonça, President of the Agência Nacional de Inovação (ANI), the Portuguese Innovation Agency
Speaker:
André de Aragão Azevedo – Secretary of State for the Digital Transition, Portugal
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12.45 pm
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Lunch
Poster Session & Networking
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1.45 pm
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VIPS meeting – Very Important PhD Students
(This session is only for the MPP PhD Candidates selected in the call of 2020)
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1.45 pm
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CIIMAR Exclusive Tour
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2.30 pm
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Hybrid
Keynote Speaker – The floor is lava: terrestrial analogs and the next steps in planetary exploration
Shannon Kobs Nawotniak, Idaho State University Geology; Co-Lead on the NASA FINESSE project and Deputy PI on the NASA BASALT project
Moderator: Miguel Bello, CEO AirCentre
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3.15 pm
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Hybrid
International Cooperation: Cruising the Atlantic and Beyond
Miguel Carvalho, CEO and co-founder of Watt-IS
Joana Rafael, Chief Operations Officer and Co-Founder of Sensei
Simão Soares*, CEO -SilicoLife, Designing Nature
Daniela Couto*, co-Founder of Cell2B and Partner at BioGeneration Ventures (BGV)
Michael Leskiw*, Alliance Manager at the Office of Strategic Alliances & Technology Transfer OSATT
Moderator: Susana Costa, Industrial Liaison and Research Coordinator, MIT Portugal Program, Portugal
*virtual
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4.15 pm
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Meet The Catalysts For Science And Technology
with MPP PhD Students
Ana Isabel Lopes Pais – FEUP
José Carlos Ferraz Caetano – FCT-UNL
Nazanin Fereidani– University of Coimbra
Willian Weber de Melo – UMinho
Rita Pombo – University of Aveiro
Moderator: Ana Mena, Innovation & Education Coordinator MIT Portugal Program, Portugal
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5.00 pm
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Closing Session
Doug Hart, Co-Director MIT Portugal Program, MIT
Zita Martins, Co-Director MIT Portugal Program, Portugal
José Paulo Esperança, Vice President of the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT)
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5.30 pm
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Reception – “Porto de Honra”
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