Windows on Companies - Feedzai Presentation to MPP Students

On the 25th of November, Nuno Sebastião, representing the company Feedzai (http://www.feedzai.com/),  was the first speaker featured in the MIT Portugal Program’s Windows on Companies (WoC) sessions.  Addressing MPP faculty and PhD students at the IST campus at Almaeda, he presented the view of a small company which has only two years of activity, but that is growing rapidly, thanks to an innovative approach to business and the high concentration of know-how of his employees, who have both a rich academic background and experience in the IT sector.  Feedzai specializes in high performance processing of large-scale, high-throughput data loads to produce intelligence in real time, and became well known througha project aimedat  heart patients in Portuguese hospitals . They have diversified their target markets to the banking sector, telecommunications, and production (manufacturing?)- but also to the energy sector, which was the main focus of the MPP presentation . Examples associated with electric grid monitoring, real time energy consumption in houses, and wind farm monitoring were shown to give students an overview of the company activities and the significant potential in the Portuguese energy sector.

The series will continue in December, when Eng. Luis Quaresma from Novabase (a major player in the Portuguese IT sector) will lead a similar session.  The Windows On Companies series is designed to engage MPP students in direct and constructive contact with the diverse challenges, opportunities, and personalities of Portuguese industry.