Speakers & Experts
Speakers & Experts include industry specialists from international research and academia as well as leading international business executives and investors and corporates, who will share their expertise in the various presentation and discussion sessions throughout the two day event.
Speakers, Moderators and Panellists:
Luis Arnaut
Researcher
University of Coimbra - Chemistry Department
(Portugal)
Carlos Eduardo Delgado Cerqueira
Innovation Coordinator
Instituto Pedro Nunes - Laboratory of Automatics and Systems
(Portugal)
Suzanne Dilly
CEO
Tangent Reprofiling Limited
(United Kingdom)
Carlos Encarnação
Mayor
Coimbra Municipality
(Portugal)
Richard Godfrey
Balter Medical AS
(Norway)
Fernando Guerra
Pro-Reitor
University of Coimbra
(Portugal)
Frank Heemskerk
CEO
Research & Innovation Management Services
(Belgium)
Joaquim Magalhães Da Cunha
CASO - Consultores Associados de Organizações e Informática, Lda
(Portugal)
Alfredo Marques
Centre of Portugal Regional Government - CCDRC
(Portugal)
Robert Meyer
Robert Meyer, Consultant
(United States)
Juan F Roman
NHS Innovations East
NHS Innovations East - Health Enterprise East
(United Kingdom)
Sandeep Shah
CEO
Tarilian Laser Technologies
(United Kingdom)
Ricardo Simoes
Researcher and Project Coordinator Institute for Polymers and Composites (IPC)
Universidade do Minho
(Portugal)
Jose Basilio Simões
President
VegaVentures
(Portugal)
Experts:
Jose Albuquerque Sousa
Invicta Angels
(Portugal)
Maria Clara Braga da Costa
InovCapital
(Portugal)
Anabela Carvalho
Clarke, Modet & Co
(Portugal)
Pedro Carvalho
LENA AMBIENTE SA
(Portugal)
Thierry Chignon
Matignon Investissement et Gestion
(France)
Teresa Cunha
Strategic Advisor
Europe Unlimited
(Belgium)
José Domingos da Silva Santos
Biosckin-Molecular and Cell Therapies, S.A.
(Portugal)
Carlos Eduardo Delgado Cerqueira
Innovation Coordinator
Instituto Pedro Nunes - Laboratory of Automatics and Systems
(Portugal)
Frederico Dinis
Selfenergy Innovation
(Portugal)
António dos Santos Queirós
Scientifc researcher and administrator
INVESVITA, Health Services, SA
(Portugal)
Jorge Miguel Figueira
Executive Coordinator
University of Coimbra
(Portugal)
Carlos Freire
Business Incubator Coordinator
Taguspark - Parque de Ciência e Tecnologia
(Portugal)
Jorge Gonçalves
Vice-Rector for R&D and Innovation
University of Porto
(Portugal)
Frank Heemskerk
CEO
Research & Innovation Management Services
(Belgium)
Filipa Hernandez
GPPQ - FP7 Promotion Office
GPPQ - Gabinete de Promoção do 7º Programa-Quadro de IDT
(Portugal)
James V. Janowiak
and President
TEKSA Innovations Corp
(United States)
Christodoulos Keratidis
Senior Consultant
Atlantis Consulting SA
(Greece)
Helena Maio
Agência de Inovação (Adi)
(Portugal)
Jose Luis Malaquias
Chief Innovation Officer
VegaVentures
(Portugal)
Pedro Maranha
Curia Tecnoparque
(Portugal)
Robert Meyer
Robert Meyer, Consultant
(United States)
Mary Pat Moyer
and Chief Science Officer
INCELL Corporation, LLC
(United States)
Ana Piedade
Researcher
University of Coimbra
(Portugal)
Carla Pinheiro
Clarke, Modet & Co
(Portugal)
José Manuel Pinto Paixão
of the Board of Directors
ICAT - Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa
(Portugal)
J. Norberto Pires
Professor and Researcher
University of Coimbra - Mechanical Engineering Department
(Portugal)
Juan F Roman
NHS Innovations East
NHS Innovations East - Health Enterprise East
(United Kingdom)
Paulo Santos
Genebox
(Portugal)
Paulo Santos
Instituto Pedro Nunes - Laboratory of Automatics and Systems
(Portugal)
Sergio Simoes
Bluepharma, Industria Farmaceutica SA
(Portugal)
Jose Basilio Simões
President
VegaVentures
(Portugal)
Isabel Sousa Coelho
Inter-Risco, SCR
(Portugal)
Birgit Steininger
Head of Unit Life Sciences
Bureau for International Research and Technology Cooperation
(Austria)
William Stevens
Founder & CEO
Europe Unlimited
(Belgium)
António Teixeira
BIOCANT Park
(Portugal)
Alexandre Ulisses
Portuguese Innovation Relay Center (IRC Portugal) Member
Agência de Inovação (Adi)
(Portugal)
Rebecca Weaver
Communications Manager
EuropaBio
(Belgium)
Cliff Zintgraff
Innology LLC
(United States)