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)