2021 Annual Conference
Science and Technology as the Catalyst for
Tomorrow’s Living Spaces

September 20th

2021 Annual Conference – Program

9.00 am	Registration & Welcome Coffee
9.45 am	Welcome Session Pedro Arezes, Director MIT Portugal Program, Portugal John Hansman, Diretor MIT Portugal Program, MIT Manuel Heitor, Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education
10.15 am	Virtual Keynote Speaker – Using Data for a Public Good Sarah Williams, Director Civic Data Design Lab and Associate Professor Technology and Urban Planning at MIT School of Architecture and Planning Moderator: Paulo Ferrão, Professor at Técnico, Former Director of MIT Portugal Program
11.00 am	Coffee-Break
11.30 am	Free Zones for Technology (ZLT): The Next-Gen Of Platforms For Research Deployment Roundtable: José Pedro Rodrigues –Councilor for Civil Protection, Mobility and Transport of the Municipality of Matosinhos Catarina Selada – Head of Policy at CEiiA Manuel Ramalho Eanes – Executive Board Member, NOS Rui Costa – co-CEO, Ubiwhere Moderator: Joana Mendonça, President of the Agência Nacional de Inovação (ANI), the Portuguese Innovation Agency Speaker: André de Aragão Azevedo – Secretary of State for the Digital Transition,
12.45 pm	Lunch Poster Session & Networking
1.45 pm	VIPS meeting – Very Important PhD Students (This session is only for the MPP PhD Candidates selected in the call of 2020)
1.45 pm	CIIMAR Exclusive Tour
2.30 pm	Hybrid Keynote Speaker – The floor is lava: terrestrial analogs and the next steps in planetary exploration Shannon Kobs Nawotniak, Idaho State University Geology; Co-Lead on the NASA FINESSE project and Deputy PI on the NASA BASALT project Moderator: Miguel Bello, CEO AirCentre
3.15 pm	Hybrid International Cooperation: Cruising the Atlantic and Beyond Miguel Carvalho, CEO and co-founder of Watt-IS Joana Rafael, Chief Operations Officer and Co-Founder of Sensei Simão Soares, CEO -SilicoLife, Designing Nature* Daniela Couto, co-Founder of Cell2B and Partner at BioGeneration Ventures (BGV)* Michael Leskiw, Alliance Manager at the Office of Strategic Alliances & Technology Transfer OSATT* Moderator: Susana Costa, Industrial Liaison and Research Coordinator, MIT Portugal Program, Portugal *virtual
4.15 pm	Meet The Catalysts For Science And Technology with MPP PhD Students Ana Isabel Lopes Pais – FEUP José Carlos Ferraz Caetano – FCT-UNL Nazanin Fereidani– University of Coimbra Willian Weber de Melo – UMinho Rita Pombo – University of Aveiro Moderator: Ana Mena, Innovation & Education Coordinator MIT Portugal Program, Portugal
5.00 pm	Closing Session Doug Hart, Co-Director MIT Portugal Program, MIT Zita Martins, Co-Director MIT Portugal Program, Portugal José Paulo Esperança, Vice President of the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT)
5.30 pm	Reception – “Porto de Honra”