Sessão de Encerramento


Silicon Valley Come to Lisbon

Day 2 – 18th Novembro

Venue: Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Edif. C3

 9h – 9h30     Official Opening – Welcome

Sofia Pessanha – setting the mood (Beta-i)

 Director da Faculdade de Ciência da UL

João Salgueiro (Semana Global do Empreendedorismo)

Carlos Nuno Oliveira (Secretário de Estado do Empreendedorismo)*

 

9h30 – 10h30     Debate: The Road to Start-up Portugal

Carlos Nuno Oliveira (Secretário de Estado do Empreendedorismo)*

Paul Kedrosky (Kaufman Foundation)

Jean Boudeguer (Startup Chile)*

Peter Cohan

John Harthorne

Pedro Rocha Vieira

Moderator/Presenter: Mário Crespo*

 

10h30 – 11h   Coffee Break

 

11h – 12h     Break-out sessions

 

  • Learning from Failure

Patrick Vlaskovits

“Learning from failure: How I founded, crashed and burned 2 start-ups, and what I learned in the process.”

 Other Speakers to be confirmed

Luis Perez-Breva*

António Câmara*

 

  • Academia meets the Real World – Phd and Entrepreneur’s debate

Sean Amirati (mSpoke sold to Linkedin)

Católica/CMU Phd Students

Moderator/Presenter: Francisco Veloso

 

  • Raising Capital Strategies for Start-ups

The real meaning of seed and venture capital

Peter Cohan (Babson College)

Reshma Sohoni (Index Ventures / SeedCamp)*

Representante do Plug&Play Tech Center*

António Nogueira Leite (CGD)*

 Moderator/Presenter: Raymond Nasr

          

12h00 – 13h00      Break-out sessions

 

  • Debate: Start-up acceleration programs

How they work, methods, value and results

John Harthorne (Mass Challenge)

Sean Ammirati (AlphaLab)

Jean Boudeguer (Startup Chile)*

Representante do Plug&Play*

 Moderator/Presenter: Pedro Rocha Vieira

 Participantes estratégicos:

- Patrick Vlaskovits (Lean Start-up Movement)

 

  • University Spin-Offs

Universities as the root of innovation and start-up creation

Nuno Sebastião (Feedzai) – Universidade de Coimbra

Nuno Arantes de Oliveira (Alfama)*

Moderator/Presenter:

 

  • Spinning out of corporate life

Using past experience to start an entrepreneurial career

André Ribeirinho (Adegga – ex. SAPO)

Nuno Machado (YDigital – ex. TIMw.e.)

António Murta (Enabler – ex. SONAE)

Tony Fernandes (StudioUE – ex. Netscape and Apple)

 Moderator/Presenter:

 

   13h00 – 14h30    Lunch

 

14h30 – 15h30      Break-out sessions

 

  • Finding your management style

Philip Rosendale (founder Second-life)

“Managing with Style – finding your way in leadership”

 Tony Fernandes (StudioUE)

“The Portugueseness in Me – Where Culture and Business Collide”

 Peter Cohan (Babson College)  

“The Hungry Start-Up – Creating the world you want to live in and turning it into a business”

Moderator/Presenter: Sofia Pessanha

 

  • Success Stories – IPO’s and Internationalization

Ricardo Carvalho (TIMw.e.)*

Carlos Quintas (Altitude Software)*

Pavão Martins (SISCOG)*

Rogério Carapuça (Novabase)*

 Moderator/Presenter: Carlos Brazão (Cisco)

 

  • Teaching Entrepreneurship

Soumodip Sarkar (Universidade de Évora)

“Entresutra aka just do it, and the urgent need to create companies in Portugal”

 William Burnet (Standford University)

“Design Thinking Innovation based on a Design Culture”

 Moderator/Presenter:

 

15h30 – 16h30      Parallel session

 

  • Start-up Basics

Find your customer, create a unique user experience, and communicate it!

Tony Fernandes

Patrick Vlaskovits

Raymond Nasr (ex-VP Communication Google)

 Moderator/Presenter: Sofia Pessanha

  

  • Activating our Diaspora

The impact of Portuguese living around the world in promoting and supporting entrepreneurship in Portugal

Tony Fernandes (StudioUE)

Jorge Fernandes (Mobibucks),

Remote participation of Portuguese entrepreneurs living in Silicon Valley

 Moderator/Presenter:

 

  • Success stories – Acquisition Exits

Sean Amirati (mSpoke – sold to Linkedin)

Ricardo Marvão (Evolve – sold to Novabase)

Epifanio da Franca (Chipidea – sold to MIPS Technology)

 Moderator/Presenter:

 

16h30 – 17h00      Coffee Break

 

17h00 – 17h30       Closing Remarks

Pedro Rocha Vieira (Beta-i)

João Trigo da Roza (Semana Global do Empreendedorismo)

Sua Excelência O Presidente da República (20’)

 

*To be confirmed