17TH COTEC
innovation
summit
1 e 2 de Outubro

from 4.O
to industrial
renaisSANCE

the next steps
for a post covid era

O evento de inovação do ano

agora 100% digital

Uma crise pandémica global cujos efeitos sem precedentes serão prolongados no tempo. O desconfinamento global está em curso e assim o “restart” económico, mas a incerteza sobre a duração do processo influenciará os níveis de confiança de consumidores, empresários e investidores.

Esta conferência 100% digital, orientada para uma audiência de líderes empresariais, decisores políticos, académicos e estudantes, antecipará e debaterá a possibilidade do conceito ainda difuso de “Renascimento Industrial” da Europa como um processo de mudança acelerada cujas forças assentam na geopolítica e globalização, tecnologias da 4.a revolução industrial, metas políticas ambiciosas de transição ecológica, e que tem o sector industrial como o núcleo essencial numa economia competitiva e ecológica. Os efeitos do processo de Renascimento Industrial da Europa transcendem os sectores da indústria transformadora, esta mesma em profunda transformação, e estendem-se por toda a economia e sociedade.

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Temas e questões

Temas e questões Política Industrial Europeia: crescimento orientado para o futuro ou novos rótulos para velhas prioridades?

O Futuro da Europa é “Industrial”?: Tecnologias do futuro e “Campeões Mundiais” made in Europe.

O crescimento de uma PME inovadora: pode a Europa ser uma ponte para o Mundo?

China 2025, America First. Quo vadis Europa?

Preparados para a próxima crise global?: perspectivas, riscos e lições da Pandemia

Próximos passos para a Inovação: sectores, investimento e conhecimento

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Afonso Lobato de Faria

Afonso Lobato de Faria é o CEO da ETSA, Grupo Semapa, onde se dedica a investimentos na área do Ambiente. Antes de entrar na ETSA foi Presidente do Grupo Águas de Portugal entre 2012 e 2016.

É licenciado em Engenharia Civil pelo Instituto Superior Técnico, detém um mestrado em Engenharia Ambiental pelo Imperial College de Londres e um MBA pela Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

Iniciou o seu percurso profissional em empresas de consultoria ambiental, foi Diretor do Instituto Soldadura e Qualidade, Diretor na Efacec Ambiente e Administrador da Parceria Portuguesa para a Água (PPA).

Foi docente na Universidade Católica Portuguesa e é atualmente mentor na Techstars em parceria com a Semapa Next, onde apoia a formação de start-ups tecnológicas.

Alessandro Ancarani

He is the head of the Managerial Engineering Research Group at University of Catania. He is Editor in chief of the Journal of Public Procurement. He was Editor in chief of the Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management from 2010 to 2015. He was President of IPSERA in the period 2009-2012 and founder member of EDSI in 2010.

His research interests are in public procurement, analysis of intangibles in public service organizations, suppliers’ performances evaluation, behavioural operations

He has published in leading journals as British Journal of Management, International Journal of Production Economics, International Journal of Production & Operations Management, Social Science & Medicine, European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of World Business.

André Morgado

Professor Morgado has authored several prize winning case studies, while continuing his research studies in the field of industrial marketing and regular work with companies in sales, business development and training projects.

André has published in prestigious publications and scientific journals and he is also the author of the book titled “B2B Marketing: Uma abordagem prática em mercados industriais”.

Professor Morgado combines his teaching profile with an extensive professional and business background of more than 10 years dedicated to the fast pace telecommunications industry.

During his professional life André had the chance to occupy highly visible roles such as Strategic Marketing Manager working on a global scale at Nokia Siemens Networks.

André holds a Ph.D in Management awarded by the University of Lisbon. He is a recognized active influencer by bridging and maintaining regular contact between the Industry and academia.

Ângelo Ramalho

Ângelo Ramalho é licenciado em Engenharia Mecânica pela Universidade do Porto e concluiu o Programa de Alta Direção de Empresas da AESE Business School.

Com uma sólida experiência nos setores da energia e da mobilidade, passou por empresas como a Shell Portugal (1991-95), a Gás de Portugal (1999-2005) ou a Galp Energia (2005-06).

Entre outras funções, foi Administrador Delegado das empresas de distribuição de Gás Natural, Lusitaniagás e Lisboagás, Administrador Executivo da Galp Power e Diretor Geral do GPL da Galp Energia. Desempenhou ainda funções de Administrativo não-executivo da Portgás, Setgás, Galp Açores e Galp Madeira.

Em dezembro de 2006, assumiu as funções de Presidente do Conselho de Administração e CEO da Alstom Portugal. Desde novembro de 2015 que é CEO da Efacec, uma empresa portuguesa dedicada às áreas de energia, ambiente e mobilidade e cujo propósito é desenvolver, diariamente, soluções inteligentes para uma vida melhor.

A sua motivação nasce com as pessoas. Desenvolver projetos e soluções com boas pessoas e para as pessoas.

Anna Thum-Thysen

Anna Thum-Thysen is an Economist at the Economics Department of the European Commission (DG ECFIN). She works on issues related to human capital, innovation, productivity, labour, mark-ups and business cycle dynamics. She holds a Phd in economics from the European University Institute (EUI) and in the past she held positions at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the European Centre for Advanced Research on Economics and Statistics (ECARES) at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and the New Zealand Institute for Economic Research (NZIER). Her work is published in peer-reviewed journals and combines in-depth analysis with policy relevance.

António Campinos

António Campinos became President of the EPO in July 2018. He was previously Executive Director of the EUIPO (2010–2018). This followed roles at the Portuguese National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI), where he started as Trademark Director in 2000 and was elected President in 2005. António has headed Portuguese delegations to the Administrative Board of the EUIPO, the Administrative Council of the EPO and WIPO general assemblies.

Further previous roles include Chairman of the Working Group on Industrial Property at the Council of the European Union and Chairman of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Legal Development of the Madrid System for the International Registration of Marks.He also served a five-year term as President of the Administrative Council of the Centre d’Études Internationales de la Propiété Intellectuelle (CEIPI) at the University of Strasbourg. In 2017, he was awarded the title of Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Alicante, Spain.

Arno Meerman

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Arno Meerman is the founder and CEO of the University Industry Innovation Network, a leading network that conducts research, provides events and training, and consults government, universities and industry on university-industry interaction. For close to a decade Arno has been actively working with the European Commission, European Institute for Innovation and Technology, and other government bodies towards professionalisation of university-industry relationships, entrepreneurial universities and partnerships. He has led a number of UIINs research and development projects on innovation alliances, entrepreneurial education, and university-business cooperation. Some of Arno’s recent publications are around the State of University-Business Cooperation in Europe and the Future of Universities Thoughtbook, the Global, Australian and North American edition.

Diogo Espregueira

Diogo Espregueira é engenheiro de processo na Cork Supply, responsável pela transformação digital da empresa e pelo desenvolvimento, implementação e acompanhamento de melhorias nas diversas áreas produtivas. Orientado a resultados tem como áreas de interesse a estatística, análise de dados e tecnologia.

Passou pelo mundo do retalho tendo nesse âmbito realizado funções de reengenharia de processos, procurement de soluções e elaboração de relatórios analíticos. É formado em Engenharia Industrial e Gestão pela Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto e pós graduado em Lean Six Sigma Black Belt.

George Chryssolouris

George Chryssolouris is Professor and was the Chairman, between 2003 and 2007, of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics / Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems and Automation (LMS) / University of Patras / Greece.

He was, for 2006-2007, the President of CIRP, the Paris based leading International Academy for Production Engineering.

He is a member of the High Level Group of the European Technology Platform on Manufacturing (Manufuture) and founder / honorary member of the BoD of the European Factories of the Future Research Association (EFFRA).

He is the coordinator of the newly (2018) established Innovation community EIT Manufacturing.

Professor Chryssolouris was Chief Executive Officer of OTE, the national Greek telecom operator, and member of its board of directors (1996-1999).

Professor Chryssolouris worked at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) in the USA between 1980 and 1993. He led a research group for the development of information systems and automation for industrial applications. He taught at MIT undergraduate and graduate level subjects related to manufacturing, systems, design and automation.

He worked (1976-1980) as a research associate at the Institute of Manufacturing Technology and Machine Tools at the University of Hannover in Germany.

Professor Chryssolouris has more than 400 publications in international scientific journals and refereed conferences. He is the author of two books published by Springer Verlag.

He was granted the Frederick W. Taylor Research Medal by SME (2001) for his outstanding contributions to manufacturing research. He was also the recipient of SME/s Young Outstanding Manufacturing Engineer Award (1986).

Iris Plöger

Iris Plöger is a member of the board of directors at the Federation of German Industries (BDI), where she is responsible for digitalisation, innovation, healthcare, law, competition and consumer policy. Until 2017, she headed the department for digitalisation, innovation and healthcare at BDI.

Beforehand, she worked as an expert for industrial property rights, data protection, competition and state aid law in BDI’s law department. Iris Plöger started her career in an international corporate law firm.

Throughout the years, she acquired a broad international working experience e. g. in Hong Kong, New York, Los Angeles, Sydney and Brussels.

Isabel Furtado

Isabel Maria Gonçalves Folhadela de Oliveira Mendes Furtado nasceu em Famalicão a 25 de Julho de 1961. É casada e tem 3 filhos.

Desde muito jovem estudou fora de Portugal – concluiu o ensino básico em Toronto, Canadá, e o secundário em Tunbridge Wells, Inglaterra.

Licenciou-se em Economia pela Universidade de Manchester, Inglaterra.

Membro da 3ªgeração da família Gonçalves é administradora das empresas do Grupo TMG e Casa Agricola de Compostela.

É desde 2008 a CEO de TMG Automotive, empresa do grupo TMG  que  fornece globalmente as mais prestigiadas marcas automóveis.

Actualmente, tem os cargos:

Vice presidente da ATP

Membro do Conselho da Administração do CEIIA,

Membro do Conselho Curadores da Universidade do Minho,

Membro  do Governing Committee do MIT Portugal

Desde 2018 Presidente da COTEC Portugal

Em 2014, foi agraciada pelo Presidente da República com o grau de Comendador da Ordem de Mérito Industrial.

Em Julho 2019 recebeu o Prémio Dona Antónia, Consagração de carreira

J. Scott Marcus

J. Scott Marcus is a Senior Fellow at Bruegel, a Brussels-based economics think tank, and also works as an independent consultant dealing with policy and regulatory policy regarding electronic communications. His work is interdisciplinary and entails economics, political science / public administration, policy analysis, and engineering.

From 2005 to 2015, he served as a Director for WIK-Consult GmbH (the consulting arm of the WIK, a German research institute in regulatory economics for network industries). From 2001 to 2005, he served as Senior Advisor for Internet Technology for the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC), as a peer to the Chief Economist and Chief Technologist. In 2004, the FCC seconded Mr. Marcus to the European Commission (to what was then DG INFSO) under a grant from the German Marshall Fund of the United States. Prior to working for the FCC, he was the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Genuity, Inc. (GTE Internetworking), one of the world’s largest backbone internet service providers.

Mr. Marcus is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Communications and Media program at the Florence School of Regulation (FSR), a unit of the European University Institute (EUI). He is also a Fellow of GLOCOM (the Center for Global Communications, a research institute of the International University of Japan). He is a Senior Member of the IEEE; has served as co-editor for public policy and regulation for IEEE Communications Magazine; served on the Meetings and Conference Board of the IEEE Communications Society from 2001 through 2005; and was Vice Chair and then Acting Chair of IEEE CNOM. He served on the board of the American Registry of Internet Numbers (ARIN) from 2000 to 2002.

Marcus is the author of numerous papers, a book on data network design. He either led or served as first author for numerous studies for the European Parliament, the European Commission, and national governments and regulatory authorities around the world.

Marcus holds a B.A. in Political Science (Public Administration) from the City College of New York (CCNY), and an M.S. from the School of Engineering, Columbia University.

Jacques Kruse Brandao

Jacques Kruse Brandao is Global Head of Advocacy at SGS Digital Trust Services. Jacques is in the identification industry for more than 18y. Today Jacques advocates our partners on how to generate trust into products and services in the hyper-connected world explaining the related needs for Security and Privacy and available solutions to test, validate and certify products, services and systems. Before Jacques was in charge of Business Development and Advocacy for Emerging businesses in the field of Cyber Security in the Internet of Things focusing on ‘Connected Systems’ like Smart Grid, Smart Buildings, Smart Home, Industry 4.0, Smart Mobility incl. UAV from a secure semiconductor perspective. <br><br>Jacques is continuously contributing in several cybersecurity initiatives and associations like ECSO, Charter of Trust, TIC-Council, AIOTI, EUROSMART, a.o.. His patience is to generate trust for a smarter connected world.

Janos Schmied

Janos Schmied has been working since 2007 at the European Commission. He worked on different projects such as the Enterprise Europe Network, the Your Europe portal. He managed three structural funds programs in Germany for five years and since 2017 he has been working on the innovation related services of the Enterprise Europe Network.

Joana Ogando Campello

Desenvolveu a sua atividade profissional em Indústria Farmacêutica, acumulando mais de 15 anos de experiência, tendo obtido a especialidade em Indústria Farmacêutica, pela Ordem dos Farmacêuticos, em 2009.

Complementou a sua formação com diversas formações das quais se destaca o MBA da AESE/IESE em 2013.

Trabalhou com Business Development Director na Bene Farmacêutica e como Directora Executiva de Relação com Indústria na Alliance-Healthcare, com a responsabilidade de trazer valor acrescentado e diferenciação aos parceiros de Indústria Farmacêutica, num mercado muito competitivo.

É desde 2014 Teaching Fellow na área de Operações, Tecnologia e Inovação na AESE, e desde 2017 Professora convidada no Mestrado em Regulação e Avaliação de Medicamentos e Produtos de Saúde, da F. Farmácia da UL, na cadeira de Organização Industrial de Patentes.

Joel Willers

At PatentSight since 2016, first as Consultant, later in the Sales & Business Development Team.

John Gapper

John Gapper is a Financial Times columnist, contribuitng columns, features and editorials on business, finance, technology and management.

During 2020, he has been on secondment in Tokyo as editor at large of Nikkei Asian Review. His awards include the Harold Wincott prize for financial journalism and the Gerald Loeb award for business commentary.

He is author of All That Glitters, about the collapse of Barings bank, and two novels: A Fatal Debt and The Ghost Shift.

Before the FT, he worked for papers including the Daily Mirror, Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph. He studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Exeter College, Oxford and was a Harkness fellow at the Wharton School.

John Hurley

John Hurley is a senior research manager in the Employment unit at Eurofound.

He took up the role of research manager in February 2012, having previously worked in various capacities in research and in information and communication.

He is responsible for the European Restructuring Monitor (ERM) events database, contributes to a number of other research projects including the European Jobs Monitor and has authored or co-authored over 20 reports during his time at Eurofound.

His main research interests are in the areas of comparative labour market analysis, restructuring and the changing world of work.

Jorge Barrero

General Director of the Cotec Foundation. He holds a degree in Biochemistry from the University of Salamanca and a Master’s degree in Science, Technology and Society Studies from the same University.

He has also completed postgraduate studies in Pharmaceutical Industry Management and Leadership in Public Management at IE and IESE Business Schools.

From 2008 to 2012 he held the position of General Director of the Cabinet of the Minister of Science and Innovation, Cristina Garmendia, exercising functions in the general coordination of the Ministry’s political action, and supervising the public agenda, parliamentary activity and relations with the media.

Then, he returned as assistant to the presidency of ASEBIO, where he was Secretary General from 2006 to 2008.

Previously, he developed his career in the field of strategic consulting in the biotechnology sector and in the public R&D system.

Barrero regularly collaborates with numerous media outlets and has taught at various universities and business.

José Carvalho

José Manuel Martins de Carvalho é natural do Porto e licenciou-se em Eng.-ª Metalúrgica, tem o Curso Geral de Gestão da PBS e várias formações em variadíssimos temas ao longo das 4 décadas da sua carreira profissional.

A experiência sempre em ambientes industriais engloba o planeamento de produção, a Eng.ª de processo, as áreas fabris de fundições de ferrosos e não ferrosos, metalomecânicas do setor automóvel e a consultadoria.

Desde 2004 trabalha na Biosafe exercendo funções de gestor industrial e de diretor executivo.

Em 2019 a Biosafe é adquirida pela dinamarquesa Genan Holding A / S, a maior recicladora de pneus e líder de mercado do mundo, tornando-se na Genan SA.

É atualmente o diretor de inovação do negócio do grupo.

Laima Kaušpadienė

Laima Kauspadiene, Ph.D., is the CEO of the Sunrise Valley Science and Technology Park (STP), Lithuania, Board member at the European Institute of Innovations and Technology, Managing Director and a Board Member of the Vilnius Valleys Association.

She is the initiator and co-founder of the CleanTech Cluster Lithuania as well as the Sunrise Valley Digital Innovation Hub.

Laima is experienced in innovation ecosystem building, entrepreneurship, knowledge and technology transfer, Startup and spin-off creation, and growth.

She is leading Vilnius business incubation center o of CERN technologies as well as other business creation and growth initiatives, such as sustainability business pre-accelerator, etc.

Sunrise Valley is the Baltics’ biggest and most prominent knowledge triangle, where meets business, research, and education. Series of success stories of startups and innovations were born here.

Leire Bilbao Elguezabal

Leire Bilbao Elguezabal is the CEO at Innobasque-Basque Innovation Agency, a public-private association for innovation with nearly 1000 partners of the quadruple hélix (Enterprises, Science, Technology, and innovation agents; Social/Civil society agents and Public Institutions) in the Basque Country.

She is a Computer Engineer from Deusto University (Bilbao-Basque Country), has also completed the Senior Management Executive program at IE Business School and IESE Business School, (Navarra University).

Leire is more than 15 years of Innovation Management experience in different private and public companies, and into others, Leire held the position of Strategy and Research, Development and Innovation Manager in the Basque Government in the period between 2013-2017.

Among others, she is Member of the Board at: BCBL (Basque Centre on Cognition brain and language, BCAM Basque Centre of Applied Mathematics, and Euskalit- Advance Management.

Luisa Santos

Ms Santos is Deputy Director General at BusinessEurope, responsible for international relations and Chair of BusinessEurope’s EU-UK Task Force. She was a member of the TTIP Advisory Group and is now a member of the Expert Group on EU trade agreements of the European Commission.

Her principal experience is in trade and the textiles sector, having acted first as the chief representative for the Portuguese textile industry in Brussels, later as Trade and Industry Manager for Euratex – the European Apparel and Textile Confederation.

She was also the manager responsible for international partnerships – including a joint venture in India – for a leading Portuguese textile company. Her academic background is law and management.

Marco Siebert

Marco Siebert has been working for Deutsche Messe AG in the field of international marketing and public affairs since 2007. As Director of International Relations, Marco has been spearheading key Deutsche Messe globalization projects for well over 13 years now.

Marco is responsible for political as well as economic developments with leading manufacturing countries, including leading the bilateral Partner Country Program of the Hannover Messe together with governments from the United States, India, China, Russia, Japan, Korea, Mexico, ASEAN, Europe and Latin America.

In Washington, D.C., Marco founded and manages the company’s pivotal U.S. political representation. In 2014, he implemented a strategic partnership together with the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) for initiatives in emerging und less developed countries. Strategic marketing encompassing influential associations and institutions as well as pathing the way for networking between industry & politics remain a focal point for Marco in bridging technologies and cultures from all corners of our world.

Marco has furthermore developed strategies, communication plans and tactical implementation instruments for campaigns, as well as being the driver behind such initiatives, throughout the America’s, Asia and Europe. Marco Siebert started his career as a Key Account Manager of a large German Insurance Company.

Here his responsibilities focused on technical and mechanical insurance management. In consequent years, Marco headed a wide array of international sales and marketing projects for such companies as ITT Flygt International, Thyssen Krupp and Firestone.

For these companies his focus was on industrial expansion in European markets.

Marco has also served as a Senior Consultant for financial projects, marketing and communication for the German Association of Saving Banks before he became Vice President Marketing of the Saving Bank Hameln, Germany.

Marco served as Member of the Board of the German American Chamber of Commerce in the United States (GACC). He is actually Member of the BCCG Government Relations Committee and Member of the Foreign Trade Council at the German Chamber of Industry and Commerce (IHK). He also supports the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) since 2012 as a Patron Member in Germany.

He was born in 1971 in Hannover, Germany, is married, and has two children.

Martin Brassell

Martin Brassell’s specialist area of expertise is in the use of intellectual property in finance, and the identification, scoring and valuation processes needed to facilitate it.

He has worked extensively with banks, investors and policy makers across the UK, Europe and Asia to develop new approaches that recognise the importance of this asset class for business growth.

Martin is best known as co-founder of Inngot Limited (www.inngot.com), established with Professor Iwan Davies (now Vice-Chancellor of Bangor University) in 2007.

Inngot offers innovative online tools that ‘unlock’ IP value by enabling companies to identify, explain, value and manage their intangible assets and intellectual property.

These are currently optimised for use in 14 countries, and have identified over $1bn in value to date, mostly for small and medium-sized businesses.

Martin has written and co-authored a number of influential publications on IP utilisation.

These include the 2013 Banking on IP? report and the 2017 Hidden Value report on IP valuation markets, both for the UK Intellectual Property Office.

Most recently, in 2019, OECD published his latest paper, Fostering the use of intangibles to strengthen SME access to finance. Martin has also led two investigations into company intangible asset investment for ACCA (Innovation, Intangibles and Integrated Reporting and Accounting for Intangibles), and co-authored a book for Oxford University Press, Economic Approaches to Intellectual Property, with Dr Nicola Searle.

Martin is a member of the Commercialisation Committee of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys and a Fellow of the RSA.

Maurizio Gattiglio

Maurizio Gattiglio is Executive Vice-President of Prima Electro S.p.A., parent company of Prima Industrie S.p.A. a leading engineering corporation operating worldwide in the field of industrial lasers, sheet metal machinery and electronics.

He is also Board Director and Past-Chairman of EFFRA European Factories of the Future Research Association, Board Director of EPIC European Photonics Industry Consortium and Chairman of MANUFUTURE EuropeanTechnology Platform High Level Group. He has worked within the Prima Group since 1986 where he has occupied a number of different positions in R&D&I, customer support, manufacturing and management.

He holds a number of patents of invention in the area of high power laser technology. Maurizio Gattiglio obtained a degree in mechanical engineering in 1984 from the Polytechnic of Turin.

Miguel Pinto

Miguel Pinto is Managing Director of Continental Advanced Antenna Portugal (formerly Kathrein Automotive Portugal), one of the world’s leading specialists and manufacturers of vehicle antennas, located in Vila Real. His professional activity has been linked to several multinationals in sectors such as renewable energy and automotive industry, with positions of Quality Management and Industrial Management.

Miguel Pinto has a Degree in Engineering and Industrial Management from the Lusíada University of Porto. With various academic backgrounds, including an MBA from Catholic University and Executive Education at Harvard, Warton School, and Kellog School of Management, Miguel Pinto is also a Visiting Professor at UTAD – the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro.

Óscar Gaspar

Oscar Gaspar. Vagos, 21.5.1969

Licenciado em Economia (FEP)

Trabalhou no MillenniumBCP. Administrador da Metro-Mondego.  Assessor Económico do PM (2005-2009). Secretário de Estado da Saúde (2009-11). Foi assessor económico do SG PS. Diretor da MSD.

É Presidente da Associação Portuguesa de Hospitalização Privada.

Vice Presidente Comissão Executiva da CIP. Vice Presidente do Conselho Estratégico Nac Saúde da CIP e board da UEHP. Membro dos Conselhos Nac de Saúde e Saúde Pública, dos Conselhos Consultivos da Fac Farmácia da UL e do IHMT.

Oscar Gaspar is a 51-year-old economist.

He has a Degree in Economics and a Postgraduate Degree in Public Management. He began his professional activity in investment and commercial banking.
Mr. Gaspar served as Economic Adviser to the Prime Minister from 2005 to 2009 and Secretary of State for Health from 2009 to 2011. For two years and until August 2016, he was External Affairs Director of Merck Sharp & Dohme – Portugal.

Oscar Gaspar is now the President of the Portuguese Association of Private Hospitals (APHP) and member of the board of UEHP – European Union of Private Hospitals.

He is member of the board of CIP – Confederation of Portuguese Industry.

He is member of the Public Health National Council, of the Advisory Council of the Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and of the Pharmacy Faculty of Lisbon Strategic Council.

Paolo di Bartolomei

Mr. Paolo Di Bartolomei ,58, is Director General of Fondazione COTEC ITALIA . He is also Responsible for Relations with National Institutions of TIM-Telecom Italia Group, the first telecommunication italian company.

In his professional career he has held positions in various business areas, including Public Affairs, External Relations and Strategic Planning. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of several Foundation as, inter alia: Ugo Bordoni Foundation (FUB), Elettra Foundation 2000, and ETNO, the European Association of National Telecommunications.

Mr. Paolo Di Bartolomei is a Graduate in Political Science (LUISS University, Rome 1986); Postgraduate in Science and Technique of Legislation (ISLE – Legislative Studies Italian Institute, 1988); Executive graduated in “Infrastructure in a Market Economy” (Executive Education – Harvard University – JFK School of Government) – July 2008. He is married with two children.

Patrick Meinhardt

Patrick Meinhardt, born in Baden-Baden in 1966. Since 2014 Patrick Meinhardt has been working in BVMW and has had different positions here.

He has started his journey in the Association as a Federal Director of Politics. Currently he is a Director of European Politics, Chairman of the BVMW – Foundation for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, Vice-President of European Entrepreneurs CEA PME and Secretary General of the Bildungsallianz des Mittelstands (Education Alliance of the German Mittelstand).

Patrick Meinhardt was from 2005 to 2013 a member of the FDP faction in the German Bundestag.

He was a member of the group’s executive committee, educational spokesman and chairman of the working group Innovation, Society and Culture. In addition, he headed the parliamentary group East Africa and was Deputy Chairman of the Central Asian Parliamentary Group.

Pedro Araújo

Pedro Araujo was born in 1959 and grew up in a small town named Vale de Cambra in Portugal.

Soon in his youth he became passionate for the world of two wheels, riding a bike.

At the age of 19, whilst a law student, he founded Polisport, a company ready to compete in the two wheeled plastic components market.

His perseverance has since been the engine to drive Polisport into the limelights of sports and leisure.

Now, as CEO & President of a group of eight companies in an accelerated, demanding and challenging world, and 40 years after, Pedro, carries on energizing and motivating his teams to innovate, adapt and move further into new markets and frontiers.

Pierre Herben

Pierre Herben (56) is an experienced leader from the chemical industry with 28 years in Shell, Lyondell Basell Industries (leader in Polyolefins) and Yara (leader in ammonia and fertiliser production).

He was executive vice president in Yara International, in charge of R&D and Innovation; He launched several strategic Innovation platforms leading e.g. to defossilisation of Ammonia using green Hydrogen or circular economy.

Since end 2018, he acts as chairman for the SPIRE IRIAG community, to deliver the roadmap for a climate neutral and zero waste European Process industry.

Pierre also acts as R&D and strategy senior advisor for the Norwegian Bellona foundation.

Richa Hallundbæk Misri

Richa is Robotics Business Consultant and Cofounder of REInvest Robotics. The company partners with executives and entrepreneurs to grow their robotics companies through business technology, strategy development, and direct investment.

Clients come from manufacturing, robotic hubs, universities, government, and investors. Richa focuses on the commercialization of technology and bringing innovative ideas to market.

Previously, Richa spent more than a decade in Marketing and Communications for multi-million-dollar industrial brands incl Universal Robots (UR) and the Hager Group.

Richa is an active Board member and investor in new and growing robotics companies.

She is the Board Chair of Farmdroid as well as a Board member of Blue Atlas Robotics and Tutobo Robotics.

She is also a Cofounder of Lifeline Robotics- WORLD’S FIRST AUTOMATIC SWAB ROBOT for Covid-19 pandemic. Richa has been recognized by Invest in Denmark & Kata Foundation with achievement and cash grant awards.

Rossana Merola

Rossana Merola is an economist in the Research Department of the International Labour Organization (ILO) since 2014. Before joining the ILO, Rossana has worked at the ESRI in Dublin, the Economic Department of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris and the European Central Bank in Frankfurt

Rossana holds a PhD in Economics from the Université Catholique de Louvain and the University of Rome Tor Vergata. Her research interests cover labour markets, inequality, fiscal policy and artificial intelligence.

Rui Lopes Ferreira

CEO of Super Bock Group since 2015 and was previously Vice President between 2013 and 2015, and CFO between 2006 and 2015. Member of the Executive Committee of Vista Alegre Atlantis between 2004 and 2006, responsible for the administrative-financial area.

In this context, he was responsible for negotiating the restructuring of the group’s debt with the banking system.

Formerly a BPI employee since 1986, where he worked in several areas, namely Corporate Finance, Corporate Banking and Venture Capital where he led Inter-Risco, Venture Capital Society for 6 years.

Rui Lopes Ferreira has a degree in Economics from the Faculty of Economics of the University of Porto.

He attended the Advanced Managers Program at INSEAD, as well as the Senior Executive Leadership Program at Harvard Business School.

Shira Fano

Researcher at Fondazione Nord Est. Her main research interests are econometrics and quantitative methods applied to labor economics and education, big data and social network analysis.

She obtained a PhD in Economics and Finance at Bocconi University in 2016.

She has worked at research projects on the determinants of firm competitiveness at the European Central Bank in Frankfurt and the INPS (Italian National Social Security) in Rome.

Shiva Dustdar

Shiva Dustdar has over 25 years of experience in the financial industry working for large private and public institutions in New York, London and Luxembourg.

Since joining EIB in 2003, she has worked in risk management, lending and investing in innovative companies and currently heads the Innovation Finance Advisory (IFA) Division in the EIB which she was tasked to set up in 2013. IFA has 2 units covering project advisory and thematic finance providing access to finance advice to public and private entities, performing market studies and developing new financial products to meet the financing needs across the innovation spectrum to support smart, green and healthy growth.

(https://www.eib.org/en/products/advising/innovfin-advisory) Shiva started her career in 1993 at J.P. Morgan Investment Banking in New York working in M&A, Project Finance and Emerging Markets before joining Fitch Rating Agency in 1999 to set up its European High Yield rating business.

Shiva holds a BA in Economics from Columbia University and an Executive MBA from London Business School (LBS). Shiva co-founded the European High Yield Association (EHYA), which is now part of the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) and was nominated to Top 50 Women in Credit by Credit Magazine in 2006. She is a regular speaker on innovation and impact financing, gender smart investing, digital and green financing and actively engaged in networks that promote sustainable and mission oriented financing.

Victoria Galan-Muros

Dr. Victoria Galan-Muros is a leading consultant and policy advisor who has worked in the interface between universities, business and policy makers for over a decade in 30+ countries and co-authored 50+ consulting reports for the European Commission, the OECD, governments and universities.

Victoria is also a recognised researcher in higher education management, collaborative innovation and university-business cooperation, with over 40 publications and a PhD in University-Business Cooperation at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Victoria has been invited to lecture at 12 universities and to deliver professional workshops internationally.

Previously a policy analyst at the OECD, a senior consultant at Technopolis Group and the research director at the Global Institute on Innovation Districts; Victoria is currently the co-founder and CEO of the Innovative Futures Institute and the Director for Policy Affairs at the University-Industry Innovation Network.

Yves Paindaveine

Yves has been working in the policy fields to foster the uptake of digital technologies since the Digital Agenda for Europe in 2010 and is now driving the Digitising European Industry initiative as Head of Sector for its governance, in DG CONNECT (European Commission).

An engineer graduated in microelectronics and in computer science from the Polytechnic School of Louvain, he joined the European Commission as a scientific officer for R&I projects dealing with health informatics, later with network security and dependability.

Prior to this, he led, among others, distributed systems and security projects at the Open Software Foundation Research Institute

Alexandra Leitão

Alexandra Leitão is Assistant Professor at Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Católica Porto Business School.

MSc Business Economics Director at Católica Porto Business School. PhD in Environmental Economics from Nova School of Business and Economics.

Master degree in Finance from Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto.

Degree in Economics from Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto.

Alexandra has research interests and publications in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, Sustainability and Circular Economy.

António Manuel Vaz

Degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Beira Interior and Executive MBA AESE / IESE.

Several training courses in the areas of Marketing, Strategy, e-commerce, Leadership and Innovation. Started his career in management consulting at Accenture.

From 1998 to 2003 participated in multiple projects in different sectors of activity, in the areas of strategy and operations, supply chain management, business transformation and enterprise performance management.

In 2003, joined CTT – Correios de Portugal and performed several Management functions, namely Director of procurement and Logistics, Executive Board member at Mailtec Comunicação, Mailtec Consultoria, CTT Expresso and Tourline Express in Spain.

In 2015 joined Rangel Group as Country Manager of the national express transport business unit. He is Teaching Fellow at AESE in the area of Operations, Technology and Innovation.

Author of several case studies in the fields of Innovation Management, Digital Transformation and Industry 4.0.

Gonçalo Salazar Leite

COTEC Board member; Vicechairperson at Secil, previously CEO; Lecturer at Catolica Lisbon School of Business and Economics; Previously with Unilever, McKinsey&Co and Semapa.

President of the Cement Association

Jorge Portugal

Jorge Portugal é Diretor-Geral da COTEC Portugal – Associação Empresarial para a Inovação.

Foi consultor do Presidente da República para a inovação e do Governo de Portugal para a área da modernização dos serviços públicos.

Tem experiência nos sectores das tecnologias de informação e comunicação, Distribuição e Banca.

Concluiu a licenciatura, mestrado e Doutoramento em engenharia mecânica, no Instituto Superior Técnico.

Tem um MBA pela faculdade de economia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

Jose Carlos Caldeira

Jose Carlos Caldeira is member of the Board of INESC TEC.

He is also member of the Board of PRODUTECH – Production Technologies Cluster. He is member of the MANUFUTURE High Level Group and Chairman of its Implementation Support Group. He is member of the Board of EFFRA – European Factories of the Future Research Association.

He is invited associated professor at Porto Faculty of Economics, on Innovation Policies. Between October 2014 and January 2018, he was the President of ANI – Agência Nacional de Inovação – the Portuguese National Innovation Agency.

Paulo Ferraz

He is the head of the Managerial Engineering Research Group at University of Catania. He is Editor in chief of the Journal of Public Procurement. He was Editor in chief of the Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management from 2010 to 2015. He was President of IPSERA in the period 2009-2012 and founder member of EDSI in 2010. His research interests are in public procurement, analysis of intangibles in public service organizations, suppliers’ performances evaluation, behavioural operations. He has published in leading journals as British Journal of Management, International Journal of Production Economics, International Journal of Production & Operations Management, Social Science & Medicine, European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of World Business.

Stefan Moritz

Stefan Moritz has a long-lasting experience as advisor for economic development, involving international partner networks all over Europe.

After his studies in Sociology he moved to Italy where he founded 1999 together with other 4 partners the Consulting Firm AREA EUROPA scrl, with seats in Bologna and – since 2013 – in Bruxelles.

He lead this company from 1999 until 2013, and manages since then the Bruxelles office.He is an experienced Project Manager for regional and sectoral economic development, European network manager and workshop facilitator.

Since Oct. 2013 he collaborated with European Entrepreneurs CEA-PME, since August 2014 he is the General Representative of the German SME Association BVMW in Brussels and since Sept. 2014 he also lead as Managing Director the European Confederation of SME Associations ‘European Entrepreneurs CEA-PME’.