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2023 Annual Conference
Research that impacts society 
 
 

September 22

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2023 Annual Conference – Program

8.30 am

Registration & Welcome Coffee

9.00 am

Welcome Session

Pedro Arezes, National Director MIT Portugal Program
Doug Hart, Co-Director MIT Portugal Program, MIT
Madalena Alves, President of Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia – FCT

9.30 am

Transformer 4.0: Digital Revolution of Power Transformers

Helena Lopes, Efacec
Henrique Silva, INESC TEC
Catarina Costa, INEGI
Donna Rhodes, MIT
Moderator: Pedro Miguel Silva, Director of Technology Transformer Business Unit, Efacec

10.15 am

SNOB-5G: Scalable and Self-optimized Wireless Network Backhauling for 5G

Duarte Raposo, Instituto das Telecomunicações
Bruno Sousa, Universidade de Coimbra
Noé Godinho, Universidade Coimbra
Vipindev Adat Vasudevan, MIT
Moderator: Ricardo Vitorino, Head of Technical Communication, Ubiwhere

11.00 am

Networking Break

11.15 am

AEROS Constellation

Cadence Payne, MIT
Hélder Silva, Edisoft
Pedro Pinto, UMinho
Moderator: José Freitas, Director Aerospace and Security, Thales Edisoft Portugal

12.00 am

Operator: Digital Transformation in Industry with a Focus on the Operator 4.0

Miguel Carvalho, UMinho
Hugo Gamboa, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Mariana Dias, NOVA de Lisboa
Moderator: João Ferreira, Software Developer at Zenithwings

12.45 pm

Lunch

1.30 pm

Poster Session & Networking

2.30 pm

NewSat: Development of a Compact Integrated Sensor and Satellite for Earth Observation

Gustavo Dias, UMinho
Nuno Correia; INEGI
Luis Fernando Velasquez-Garcia, MIT
Moderator: Júlio Viana, Chief Technology Officer at Stratosphere

3.15 pm

C-Tech:Climate Driven Technologies for Low Carbon Cities 

Nuno Alpalhão, NOVA Cidade – Urban Analytics Lab at NOVA IMS
Ricardo Gomes, Técnico – Lisbon
Jessika Trancik, MIT
Moderator: Rui Ribeiro, Head of B2B Cloud & Datacenter Business Unit da NOS

4.00 pm

Networking Break

4.10 pm

K2D: Knowledge and Data from the Deep to Space

João Faria, Dstelecom
Laura Gonzalez, University of Azores
Doug Hart, MIT
Pierre Lermusiaux, MIT
Comandante Catarina Fradique, Portuguese Navy
Moderator: Eduardo Pereira, UMinho

5.00 pm

MIT Portugal Program Poster Award

5.10 pm

 

Lecture by

Pedro Cilínio, Portuguese Secretary of State for the Economy

5.30 pm 

Closing Session

Pedro Arezes, National Director MIT Portugal Program
R. John Hansman, Co-Director MIT Portugal Program, MIT

5.45 pm

Networking Reception

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