Aalok Y Shukla
Founder and CEO at MIA Making Intelligence Accessible & Implement AI
Dr. Aalok Y Shukla combining technological and clinical skills is a pioneer in applying exponential technologies to real world scenarios across business and health including AI, 3D printing and Robotic manufacturing. He has worked with AI since 2018 and was in the AI accelerator at Founders Factory. He is the co-founder of Implement AI alongside Former UK Dragons' Den (Shark Tank) Investor Piers Linney which is focused on enabling SME's to unlock the power of AI and MIA Making Intelligence Accessible which provides AI training for children and schools.
André Melo
Chief Data Officer at Acceleration Portugal
André Melo is presently the Chief Data Officer for Acceleration Portugal. His mission, in the current role, is to advise and support companies with their marketing digital transformation initiatives. His passion, for more than 20 years, has been to combine data, technology, AI and marketing knowledge to help co-create data-driven solutions with real business impact. His professional experience has been an enriching combination of two distinct but complementary paths; one in the business world working for Millenniumbcp, SAS Institute, GroupM and Acceleration in roles related to Datamining, AI, Marketing, Media and CRM; the other in the academic world as student and later as a teacher focused on areas such as Probability and Statistics, Information Management and Datamining.
Anne Geubelle
CEO at Prologica Healthcare
With more than 25 years of management experience in multicultural and international environment, with a successful track record in acquisition and fusion operations, I decided in 2015 to use my experience in technology, health and management to create a new business unit at Prologica focused exclusively on developing solutions that allow the use of health data for real time clinical and management support decisions.
Today, Prologica’s core business is centered at Healthcare and with a strong and committed team with the same vision, we unlock the power of data in hospitals and related healthcare organizations in order to accelerate the necessary digital transformation of the healthcare sector around the world!
Since 2018, Value-Based Healthcare has also become part of my path, focus and expertise.
After getting the VBHC certified Green Belt and successfully completed the program Train the Trainer – VBHC Green Belt Track, I was invited by Dr. Fred van Eenennaam and VBHC Center Europe to be a VBHC Center Europe Ambassador on the topic Data & IT.
As an Ambassador of VBHC, I am convinced that the adoption of VBHC methodologies at a larger scale is highly depending on the implementation of flexible and user-friendly information system designed to better evaluate patient outcomes, costs (TDABC), and, as a consequence, empower better decision making!
Carlos Gomes
Chief Operations Officer at Magma Studio
Carlos Gomes is the Chief Operations Officer at Magma Studio and a certified expert in Scrum (A-CSM®️ and A-CSPO®️). Carlos holds a Bachelor's degree in Human Resources Management and a Postgraduate degree in People and Talent Management. With a career spanning over a decade, he has sharpened his skills in project management, client relations and talent development. He dedicated the last 4 years to implementing agile methodologies and fostering a culture of continuous improvement, while leading over 30 projects for high-profile clients, including Huawei, SIBS, Fidelidade, Banco BPI, among others. Passionate about professional growth and social impact, Carlos is also an active community volunteer.
Cátia Silva Santos
Data Science Manager at Feedzai
Following the conclusion of her PhD in Condensed Matter Physics and Nanomaterials, Cátia Santos started working in consulting, delivering projects in AI and Data Science in multiple areas, such as banking, industry, insurance, retail and even healthcare. She's currently working as a DS Manager, for a company dedicated to fraud prevention, with clients from European and Latin American markets.
Cátia Pesquita
Associate Professor at Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa
Cátia Pesquita is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, where she coordinates the Masters in Data Science. Her research work is dedicated to artificial intelligence, data science, and knowledge engineering, particularly in the biomedical and clinical domains, supported by her multidisciplinary background. She also leads the Research Line of Excellence in Health and Biomedical Informatics at the LASIGE Computer Science and Engineering Research Centre.
She has made significant contributions in data analytics and integration with ontologies and knowledge graphs, with over 50 peer-reviewed publications in high-impact journals and conferences. She has been an invited international keynote speaker multiple times and has collaborated in several national and international research projects with academia, healthcare institutions, and industry.
Daniel Custódio
Senior Manager at Deloitte
Natural de Santa Maria da Feira, formado em Economia na
Universidade de Coimbra. 10 anos de carreira, 5 dos quais na Deloitte para a
qual entrou para fundar a área de Tax IT. O Tax IT foca-se em projetos de
inovação, transformação digital e desenvolvimento de produto nas temáticas
de contabilidade, fiscalidade e incentivos. Nos tempos livres dedica-se à
leitura, cinema e séries de televisão.
Daniel Duarte
Senior Manager at Deloitte
Natural de Arouca, formado em Engenharia Eletrónica e Telecomunicações na Universidade de Aveiro. 10 anos de carreira na Deloitte na área de serviços financeiros com foco inicialmente em projetos de transformação digital e implementação de sistemas core, tendo mais tarde transitado para a vertente de Analytics. Nos tempos livres pratica natação e tem como hobby fazer magia com cartas.
Diogo Queiroz Almeida
DSPA Playbook & Gen AI Certified
Educação principal: Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Industrial e Gestão pela FEUP. Mestrado Integrado em Medicina no ICBAS-UP. Os três níveis do programa CFA concluídos. A terminar o Doutoramento em Saúde Pública.
Outra educação: Curso de Medicina do Viajante, Pós-Graduação em Gestão na Saúde, Pós-Graduação de Managing with Analytics, Certificação DSPA em Data Science Foundational, Data Analyst Intermédio e Generative AI.
Experiência Profissional: Cofundador do Consultório de Investigação em Saúde (negócio focado em análise de dados para estudantes e profissionais de saúde). Docente da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto. Experiência prévia a trabalhar como médico generalista em Chaves, a trabalhar como médico de saúde pública em Matosinhos.
Outras valências e interesses: Curso de Guitarra pelo Conservatório de Música do Porto. Cinto negro, 3º Dan, de Karaté Goju-Ryo. Bibliófilo inveterado."
Fernando Matos
President at DSPA
Entrepreneur.Creative.Complexity Challenger
Main focus today: using Intelligence (Data & AI) to solve unsolved complex business challenges, making our client lives easier.
25+ years of experience in consulting and 15+ of entrepreneurship.
Member of the board of Closer and Red Zebra Analytics. President of DSPA (Data Science Portuguese Association).
Led several dozens of consulting projects: data science, AI, business intelligence, dashboarding, customer service (firts project in 1998 @Telecel, back-office optimization, scripting, agents performance, staff monitoring, capacity planning, voice of the customer), forecasting, optimization, digital signage, cloud, mobile and internet of things. Mainly in Financial Industry, Telecoms and Contact Center Providers.
Main clients: Activobank; ALD Automotive; Alcatel; Atento; Banco Mello; Banco Postal; Banco Privado Português; Banco Santander Negócios de Portugal; Banif; Barclays Bank Portugal e Londres; BES e BES Investimento; BNC; BPI; BPI Factor; BPI Leasing; BPI Rent; BPN; Caixa Geral de Depósitos; Caixa Leasing e Factoring; Carrefour; CMVM; Deutsche Bank; Esegur; Fidelidade Mundial; Finibanco; Heller Factoring; Imovest; Jaguar Land Rover; Liq (Brasil); Media Capital; Mello Valores; Millenium BCP; Movicel (Angola); NCO Dealer; NOS; Sogrupo SA; Swiss Mobiliar; Tranquilidade; ZON Multimedia; Valorsul; Vodafone.
Speaker in several conferences and seminars: data science, advanced analytics, business intelligence, dashboarding, customer service, digital signage and internet of things.
Member of the board of Social Responsibility Association (Voar para o Sucesso). Member of the board of a football academy (Escola de Futebol Benfica Almada). Was president of a sports club (Almada Atlético Clube).
Sports lover. Married and father of three boys.
Filipe Santos
Dean at Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics
Filipe Santos é Professor de Empreendedorismo Social e Diretor (Dean) da CATÓLICA-LISBON, sendo titular da Cátedra Alfredo da Silva em Empreendedorismo e da Chair Girl Move Academy for Social Entrepreneurship. Desempenhou funções como Diretor-Adjunto para a Faculty antes da sua nomeação como Diretor em Fevereiro de 2019. É também Professor Visitante no INSEAD, escola onde foi professor de carreira durante 12 anos entre 2003 e 2014. No INSEAD, Filipe Santos dirigiu o Centro de Empreendedorismo entre 2009 e 2013 e fundou e dirigiu a Iniciativa em Empreendedorismo Social de 2007 a 2014. Tem licenciatura em Economia e Mestrado em Gestão e Estratégia. É Doutorado em Ciências da Gestão e Engenharia pela Universidade de Stanford, com foco em Empreendedorismo. Recebeu da Universidade de Stanford o prémio Lieberman por contribuições extraordinárias para a Universidade ao servir como Chair of the Graduate Student Council of Stanford University dos 8000 Alunos Graduados.
A investigação do Professor Filipe Santos tem sido publicada nas revistas científicas mais prestigiadas em Gestão e foi citada mais de 7500 vezes (Google Scholar). A sua investigação encontra-se na interseção entre a estratégia, teoria das organizações e empreendedorismo, com um foco no setor emergente do empreendedorismo social e inovação social. Outros temas de investigação são a inovação em modelos de negócio, o investimento de impacto, empreendedorismo corporativo e negócios familiares. É co-autor do “Manual para Transformar o Mundo” o primeiro guia para empreendedores sociais editado em Português em 2013 e com a 2ª edição (em Português e Inglês) publicada em 2016. Como educador, o Professor Filipe Santos ganhou vários prémios de excelência de ensino no INSEAD, em programas executivos e de MBA. Também recebeu o prémio EFMD 2012 para o melhor caso de estudo na categoria de África com a série de casos Nuru Energy. Na CATÓLICA-LISBON, ensina cursos de empreendedorismo social, investimento de impacto e empreendedorismo corporativo. É orador regular em eventos nacionais e internacionais sobre empreendedorismo e inovação social. Faz mentoria a empreendedores e investidores sociais.
Como empreendedor social, o Professor Filipe Santos foi co-fundador e presidente do IES-Social Business School em 2009 e do Laboratório de Investimento Social em 2013, designado de Maze-Decoding Impact. Em 2015 fundou e foi o primeiro presidente da iniciativa pública Portugal Inovação Social, a qual lançou uma inovadora política de promoção e financiamento da inovação social em Portugal, considerada uma melhor prática pela OCDE e Comissão Europeia. O Professor Filipe Santos é Presidente da European Venture Philanthropy Association (EVPA) e membro do comité de investimento do Fundo para a Inovação Social, e júri de várias iniciativas e prémios de inovação social na Europa. Ele procura contribuir para o desenvolvimento de um sistema económico alinhado com a geração de bem-estar e prosperidade, assente na energia empreendedora dos cidadãos que procuram um propósito e geram impacto social. Por fim, em setembro de 2019 recebeu o prémio Social Innovation Thought Leader da Schwab Foundation, uma das organizações do The World Economic Forum.
Ernesto Pedrosa
CEO at Automaise
Ernesto possesses over 20 years of extensive international experience in technical, product, and management roles across diverse sectors, encompassing cloud computing, artificial intelligence, automation, and user experience. His professional journey has seen him contribute his skills and knowledge to companies such as Automaise, Microsoft, CardMobilli, and MobiComp.
Guilherme Ramos Pereira
Executive Director at DSPA
Isabel Horta
Head of Customer Intelligence & Data Science at Universo Sonae
Isabel Horta é Head of Customer Intelligence & Data Science na Universo Sonae e Docente convidada na FEUP - Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, na PBS - Porto Business School e na CPBS - Católica Porto Business School.
É doutorada em Engenharia Industrial e Gestão pela FEUP & LUMS - Lancaster University Management School. Tem um Post-Doc na área de Data Science pela FEUP & Imperial College London.
João Blümel
Mind-Reader
João Blümel is a Portuguese Mind-Reader and internationally acclaimed entertainer who captivates audiences on stage, television, and corporate events. With his original blend of psychology, magic, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, body language, and intuition, he astounds audiences by delving into their minds.
For more than 15 years, João has created and performed seven unique public Mind-Reading shows worldwide, captivating audiences in Portugal, Brazil, the USA, England, Switzerland, and even at Expo 2020 Dubai.
Combining the art of mind-reading with cutting-edge technology, João has spent the past five years developing a ground-breaking form of entertainment. His latest show, 'The True Influencer,' offers a modern and deeply immersive mind-reading experience that seamlessly integrates Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), Mixed Reality (MR), tech gadgets, and social networks.
Passionate about innovation, João continuously pushes the boundaries of traditional entertainment. Currently, he is exploring the incorporation of ChatGPT and Generative AI into his shows, creating a new layer of interactivity between him and his audience.
João Pires da Cruz
Co-Founder and Partner at Closer
Started at a research lab that nobody wants to remember for one year. Worked in an industry that nobody wanted to work in for three years until he got into an investment bank as a consultant and discovered the passion of his professional life: the physics of everyday life. With that, he co-created at Closer 18 years ago, the job nobody had at the time working with data, math, physics, programming and all the cool subjects that together made the Closer motto “To Challenge Complexity” that holds until today. Consultant as a profession, Entrepreneur as a need, Researcher as addiction and Professor as an enjoyment; his 57 with an offspring of 3.
Holds a PhD in Physics and a MSc in Enginneering Physics
Jorge Loupa
Tableau Portugal Account Executive at Salesforce
Currently leads the Analytics area in Portugal at Salesforce. Has 20+ years of experience in Cloud, Data, Artificial Intelligence and Business Analytics areas and a solid business consultancy background, acting as Area Manager and Engagement Manager in several projects in Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Passionate and dedicated father, loves outdoor activities in family, namely skiing and biking.
Luís Bettencourt Moniz
Co.Founder FoxP2.
Docente Cnvidado na UCP, IPAM, IADE e ESCS.
Foi director de marketing do SAS.
Mestre em Gestão de Informação pela NOVA IMS
Autor de livros sobre performance e métricas.
Mestre em Gestão de Informação pela NOVA IMS.
João Andrade Costa
Founder at FoxP2
Miguel Godinho Matos
Professor at Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics
Miguel Godinho de Matos é Professor Catedrático de Sistemas de Informação e Gestão na Católica Lisbon School of Business & Economics. Também tem uma afiliação de investigador convidado na Heinz College da Carnegie Mellon University.
Miguel recebeu o seu doutoramento e M.Sc em Engenharia e Políticas Públicas da Carnegie Mellon University, e um M.Sc e Licenciatura em Engenharia Informática da Universidade Técnica de Lisboa.
Os interesses de investigação de Miguel Godinho de Matos focam-se na forma como a digitalização altera o comportamento dos consumidores e as estratégias de distribuição de produto das empresas. Em particular, Miguel estudou o impacto da digitalização nos resultados das empresas criativas e tem vários artigos científicos sobre a análise de redes sociais e da influência dos pares no comportamento do consumidor. O seu trabalho já foi publicado em revistas científicas como a Management Science, Management Information Systems Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Marketing Science, e no Journal of Management Information Systems.
Miguel é Editor Associado da Management Information Systems Quarterly desde janeiro de 2020.
Em 2019, Miguel venceu duas distinções de early career award, da Informations Systems Society e da Association of Information Systems.
Luís Metelo
Head of Information Systems and Security at Recuperar Portugal
EMRP - Estrutura de Missão Recuperar Portugal
Diretor - Unidade de Serviços Informáticos e Processos Digitais
2022 -
AMT – Autoridade da Mobilidade e dos Transportes
Diretor – Direção da Segurança e Sistema e Tecnologias da Informação e Comunicações
de 2016 -2022
Inspecção-Geral de Finanças
Inspetor de Finanças, CdE (Chefe de Equipa)
de 1996 – 2016
Docente
Mestrado Economia e Políticas Públicas (MEPP)
Disciplina - Economia e Tecnologias de Informação na Gestão Pública (ETIGP)
ISEG – Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão
2012 –
Licenciatura, Pós-Graduação e Mestrado
Mestrado em Sistemas de Gestão da Informação
Tese em Sistemas de Suporte à Decisão (Análise de Investimentos em SI/TIC em organismos públicos)
Pós-Graduação em Sistemas de Informação para as Organizações
ISEG – Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão
Marco Pinheiro
Head of Data & AI CC at Digital Global Unit - EDP
Responsible for EDP’s global Data & AI governance and strategy.
Worked ten years at EDP Innovation as Senior Data & AI Engineer and Head of the Data & AI team.
Computer Science Engineer, PhD in Data & AI subject matter.
Francisco Maria Santos
Head of Generative AI CC at Digital Global Unit - EDP
Responsible for the Generative AI implementation strategy at EDP.
Worked seven years as a Data & AI Engineer and Innovation Project Manager at EDP Innovation.
MSc in Biomedical Engineering.
Ricardo Chaves
Executive Director at BPI AI Center of Excellence
O percurso profissional de Ricardo Chaves tem vindo a ser diversificado, destacando-se a passagem, numa fase inicial, pela área financeira (Banif Investimento, Ministério das Finanças), seguida de uma passagem pela McKinsey & Company como Associate. Posteriormente, durante cinco anos, assumiu a área de Business Development numa empresa nacional de relevo, de cariz familiar, tendo tido como principal desafio criar e dirigir uma startup de aluguer de equipamentos (MACHrent), que se tornou uma das Top 5 no seu setor. Em 2011 regressa à McKinsey & Company como Associate Principal participando em vários projetos em Portugal, Espanha, Brasil e Angola, desenvolvidos nas áreas da Banca e Telecomunicações, sempre com um foco em Marketing & Vendas (estratégia, pricing, product development, estratégia de distribuição, digital transformation) e a integração na equipa de liderança de um hub mundial especializado em Advanced Analytics e Machine Learning, integrado no universo McKinsey Solutions. Ricardo Chaves tem uma licenciatura em Direito pela Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa e um Mini-MBA organizado pela McKinsey, com o INSEAD, Kellog e Harvard. After over 4 years as SIBS’s Chief Commercial Officer, Ricardo is now the Executive Director of BPI’s AI Center of Excellence.
Ricardo Galante
Principal Analytics & Artificial Intelligence Advisor at SAS
Ricardo Gonçalves
Head of Center for Artificial Intelligence & Analytics at Fidelidade
O Ricardo é Licenciado em Engenharia Eletrotécnica e de Computadores, pelo Instituto Superior Técnico, da Universidade de Lisboa.
É o Diretor do Centro de Inteligência Artificial & Analítica da Fidelidade, onde desde 2016 se encontra a implementar um programa inovador e ambicioso de orientação da Seguradora às melhores práticas de Data Science e Inteligência Artificial existentes no mercado internacional.
É Board Member da FID – I&D, que consiste na empresa de Inovação e Desenvolvimento do Grupo Fidelidade.
Dispõe duma vasta experiência de mais de 20 anos em Data Science e AI, tendo iniciado a sua carreia profissional na Dun & Bradstreet Portugal, passando vários anos no Grupo Portugal Telecom, onde assumiu variadas responsabilidade sempre associadas às diversas áreas de Analytics.
Ricardo Ferreira Reis
Director at CEA (Applied Research) and CESOP - Catolica Sondagens (Polling and Public Opinion) Centers
PhD in Applied Economics and Business Science from the University of Pennsylvania, at The Wharton School in Philadelphia, PA, USA. Degree of Economics (Licenciatura) from the Universidade of Porto, at the Faculty of Economics in Porto, Portugal. Ricardo (ou Prof. Reis ou Dr. Reis...) has been on the faculty of Catolica Lisbon since 2004. He is regularly a visiting professor at many business schools. As the Director of CESOP, Ricardo is responsible for all political and social polls of the Center, including those done around the main elections in Portugal. The Center is also engaged in numerous studies on social issues, in particular the impact of public policies at local levels, through sustainability assessments.
Pedro Brandão
Head of the Center of Excellence for Advanced Analytics and Artificial Intelligence & Market and Customer Intelligence Director at NOS Comunicações
Inês Pacheco
Connectivity Pre-Sales Lead at Capgemini Engineering
Started my career as a Radio Access Network Engineer in the Wireless Professional Services team of Alcatel-Lucent, focusing on network planning and optimization. Then, I moved on to energy and utilities industry, to integrate a B2C IoT solution development team, in the migration project from an on-prem to a cloud-native and serverless approach.
Since 2022, I'm leading the Connectivity offer and pre-sales team at Capgemini ER&D Portugal, having joined in 2019 the Telecom & Media pre-sales team.
Mayuri Tendulkar
Director in Software and Digital Innovation Team at Capgemini Engineering
Mayuri Tendulkar is the Director in Software and Digital Innovation group in Capgemini Engineering based out India.
She is leading the product management for innovative ‘Intelligent Network Assets’ to bring innovative solutions in Telco industry.
Het assets portfolio includes Project Bose- AI enabled Telco energy saving, NetAnticipate- Network AIOps, NWDAF, Non-RT RIC in 5G and beyond domains.
She has presented the innovation work in international events like Mobile World Congress, Big 5G, AWS Mars etc and leading the innovation pre-sales in this area.
She has more than 2 decades of experience in Telecommunication domain, with expertise in edge computing, data science, cloud-native, statistical modelling, software engineering and embedded Systems. She holds Masters in Signal Processing and Communication from University of Maryland, USA.
Pedro Corista
Technical Authority for the Energy Industry | Senior Data & AI Engineer at Capgemini Engineering
Technical autority responsible for the Energy industry at Capgemini Engineering focused in Data & AI. Specialized in Analytics at scale with Big Data technologies (Spark, Hadoop, ElasticSearch…) to develop AI initiatives such as Smart Capex, Network Dimensioning and Forecasting, Predictive Maintenance, among others. Currently involved in GenAI initiatives to provide a new layer of advanced analytics to integrate customer and service experience and perception, translated to business insights to leverage new sources of data.
Luis Doutor Simões
Tech lead for Data & AI initiatives at Capgemini Engineering
Data Scientist specialized on the Telecom industry at Capgemini Engineering. Currently Tech lead of a Smart Capex initiative for the dimensioning of the mobile and fixed network of an international telecom operator and developed other AI initiatives such as monetizing telecom data through Geospatial Analytics and Anomaly Detection for the energy department.