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Congress Agenda

09:00
OPENING CEREMONY
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa - President of the Republic of Portugal
09:10
ROLE OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION
KNS: Carlos Moedas - Mayor of Lisbon
09:30
TECH AND ECONOMICS – THE WAY FORWARD
Paulo Portas - Congress President
Rogério Carapuça - APDC President
10:00
GET FUTURE READY: INNOVATION TRENDS FOR YOUR RADAR
KNS: Shivvy Jervis - Futurist
DISCUSSION PANEL:
Bruno Casadinho – Managing Director, Capgemini Engineering
Inês Lynce - Co-Director of the CMU Portugal Program
10:40
NETWORKING MOMENT
11:00
WHY ECONOMICS NEEDS A MORAL DIMENSION
KNS: Pedro Faustino - Managing Director of AXIANS
11:10
DEMOCRACY IN THE DIGITAL ERA
KNS: Daniel Innerarity - Professor of Political and Social Philosophy
DISCUSSION PANEL:
Miguel Poiares Maduro - University Professor and Politician
Graça Fonseca - Sociologist and Politician
12:00
CYBERSECURITY AND DIGITAL SOVEREIGNTY
KNS: Sir Alex Younger - Former Chief of MI6
DISCUSSION PANEL:
António Gameiro Marques - Director-General of the National Security Office, CNCS
Pedro Barbosa – Head of SIBS CyberWatch and CEO of Multicert
12:45
DATA: ACCELERATING THE FUTURE OF IHEALTH
KNS: Filipa Mota e Costa - Managing Director at The Janssen Pharmaceutical
Companies of Johnson & Johnson
13:00
NETWORKING MOMENT - LUNCH BREAK
14:00
A METAVERSE RHAPSODY
KNS: Pedro Pombo - Managing Director, Accenture Song
14:15
METAVERSE & IMMERSIVE TECHNOLOGIES
KNS: Charlie Fink - Metaverse Consultant, Forbes Tech Columnist, Author, Adjunct Professor
DISCUSSION PANEL:
Luís Bravo Martins – President of the APDC Section of Augmented and Virtual Reality
Maria Margarida Azevedo - Responsible for EDP University at EDP People & Organizational Development Global Unit
15:00
THE FUTURE OF CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE
Pedro Gonçalves - CIO at Teleperformance
15:10
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
KNS: Michael Wade - Professor of Innovation and Strategy and Directs IMD's Global Center for Digital Business Transformation
DISCUSSION PANEL:
Philippe Bournhonesque - CTO at Devoteam Group
Paulo Cardoso do Amaral – Assistant Professor at CATÓLICA-LISBON
15:50
INNOVATING FOR A GREENER INTELLIGENT WORLD
KNS: Tony Li - CEO at Huawei Portugal
16:05
NETWORKING MOMENT
16:20
5G – THE NEXT GENERATION
KNS: Matthew Griffin - Fanatical Futurist
16:45
ENABLERS THAT ARE TURNING 5G INTO REALITY
Sérgio Catalão – Country Manager, Nokia
Sofia Vaz Pires – CEO, Ericsson Portugal
17:15
TELECOM INFRASTRUCTURES - COVERAGE SOLUTIONS
Nuno Carvalhosa – Managing Director, Cellnex Portugal
Paolo Favaro – Managing Director, Vantage Towers Portugal
17:45
5G GREAT TELCO CTO DEBATE
João Teixeira - Chief Technology Officer at Altice
Jorge Graça - Executive Board Member at NOS
Paulino Corrêa - Chief Network Officer at Vodafone Portugal
18:25
1st DAY CLOSING SESSION
Mário Campolargo - Secretary of State for Digitisation and Administrative Modernisation
18:40
AWARD CEREMONY CITIES AND TERRITORIES OF THE FUTURE
19:10
COCKTAIL
09:00
2nd DAY OPENING
António Costa Silva - Minister of Economy and Sea
09:20
THE POST-COVID ECONOMY
KNS: Sérgio Rebelo – Economist
DISCUSSION PANEL:
Patrícia Teixeira Lopes - Associate Dean at Porto Business School
Filipe Santos - Professor of Social Innovation and Dean of Católica Lisbon
10:10
RECOVERY AND RESILIENCE PLAN - DIGITAL IS 'THE WAY FORWARD' TOWARD NATION'S PROGRESS AND PROSPERITY
KNS: Vanda Jesus – Executive Director at Portugal Digital
DISCUSSION PANEL
António Saraiva - President of CIP
Daniel Traça – Dean Nova SBE
10:50
WHY ECONOMICS NEEDS A MORAL DIMENSION
KNS: Sir Paul Collier - Professor of Economics and Public Policy · Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford
DISCUSSION PANEL
Sir Paul Collier
Paulo Portas – Congress President
Pedro Faustino - Managing Director of Axians
11:40
NETWORKING MOMENT
12:10
TALENT MANAGEMENT IN THE DIGITAL AGE: COUPLING EDUCATION, TRAINING AND FOREIGN LABOUR
Charles Huguet - Managing Director at Airbus GBS
Francisco Cabral Matos, Partner of the Tax practice at VdA
Hugo Bernardes - Managing Partner at The Key Talent
Manuel Garcia - National Coordinator of the UPskill – Digital Skills & Jobs
Pedro Marcelino - Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at TreeTree2
13:00
NETWORKING MOMENT - LUNCH BREAK
14:00
BEST THESIS AWARD CEREMONY
Fernando Rodrigues - Managing Director of Axians Portugal
Nuno Caldeirinha - CFO of Axians Portugal & 3 Master’s student winners
14:15
NEW HONORARY MEMBERS SESSION
Maria Manuel Leitão Marques, Luís Marques Mendes - previous Presidents of the APDC Congress
14:30
JOURNALISM IN THE DIGITAL AGE
DISCUSSION PANEL
António Costa - Publisher do ECO, jornalista e 'web addicted’
Bernardo Correia – CEO of Google Portugal
Rita Figueiras – Associate Professor at Universidade Católica Portuguesa
15:10
THE STATE OF NATION OF MEDIA
KNS: Francisco Pedro Balsemão – Impresa CEO
Luís Cunha Velho – Media Capital Member of the Board
Nicolau Santos – RTP President
16:10
NETWORKING MOMENT
16:40
TALK
KNS: Pedro Nuno Santos - Minister for Infrastructure and Housing
17:00
THE STATE OF NATION OF COMMUNICATIONS
Ana Figueiredo - Altice Portugal CEO
Miguel Almeida – NOS SGPS CEO
Mário Vaz - Vodafone Portugal CEO
18:15
CONGRESS WRAP-UP
Rogério Carapuça - APDC President
18:30
CLOSING SESSION
António Costa - Prime Minister of Portugal

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