Organization Team

Ricardo Zimmermann | INESC TEC

Maria Rosário Moreira | Porto Business School

António J. Baptista | INESC TEC

Patrícia Teixeira Lopes | Porto Business School

Gustavo Dalmarco | INESC TEC

Rodrigo de Alvarenga | Porto Business School

António Lucas Soares | INESC TEC

Grasiela Almeida | INESC TEC

Ana Côrte-Real | Porto Business School

Marta Oliveira | INESC TEC

Ana Pichel | Porto Business School

Ana Neves | Porto Business School

Henrique Diogo Silva | INESC TEC

Ana Cristina Simões | INESC TEC

The Forum will be co-organized by INESC TEC and Porto Business School.

INESC TEC is a private non-profit research association, with Public Interest status, dedicated to scientific research and technological development, technology transfer, advanced consulting and training, and pre-incubation of new technology-based companies. As an institution operating at the interface of the academic and business worlds, bringing closer together academia, companies, public administration, and society, INESC TEC typically applies the knowledge and results generated as part of its research in technology transfer projects, seeking value creation and immediate social relevance.
INESC TEC is a leading Science and Technology Institution with International and Socially Relevant Science, with an Impact on Industry, Services and Exports It hosts over 800 integrated researchers (about 350 PhDs).

Porto Business School (PBS) is a private, non-profit institution that emerged from a collaboration between the University of Porto and large Portuguese companies. PBS’ mission is to improve the quality of management through advanced education at postgraduate level through MBAs, post-graduation programmes, custom programmes, and entrepreneurship programmes. PBS has a faculty with wide experience in teaching and researching, derived from the University of Porto, jointly with two other faculty categories: managers and staff with academic training and solid business career, and professors from foreign universities. Supported by 40 national and multinational organizations and the University of Porto, Porto Business School prepares its students to face the challenges of the global business world with cutting-edge skills and knowledge to be lifelong change agents. PBS is a leading European business school with a heritage of 35 years and a constant presence in the Financial Times rankings since 2011 and the school is part of an elite group of institutions whose MBAs hold international accreditations from AMBA, AACSB and EFMD.