Speakers & Mentors

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  Francisco Banha
  Business Angels Club http://www.businessangels.pt
  President of the Business Angels Club
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  Rui Grilo
  Microsoft http://www.microsoft.com/pt-pt/default.aspx
  Education Lead - Microsoft Portugal
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  Diogo Teles
  Mobitto http://blog.mobitto.com/
  Passioned about mobile and user experience, Diogo has been developing mobile apps since 2007, with a couple of them sold to major telco and media players.
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  Miguel Santo Amaro
  Uniplaces http://www.uniplaces.pt/
  Founder of Uniplaces of the best startups in Portugal.
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  José da Silva
  GuestCentric Systems http://www.guestcentric.com/
  VP of Engineering @guestcentric and startup addict. Jose has more than 10 years experience in software development
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  Marcos Fernandes
  DNa Cascais
  Executive Manager at DNA Cascais
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  José Rui Soares
  Consultant and Expert in seed capital funding. Partner at Whatever SPGS
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  Sergio Lora
  Co-founder at BTEN
  BTEN – Business Talent Enterprise Network, consultant expert on business innovation and incubation. Partner Augusto Mateus & Associados.
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  Rui Ferreira
  ISCTE-IUL, Biz4U Corporate Advisory
  Teacher of Entrepreneurship and Corporate Finance at ISCTE-IUL, Partner at Biz4U Corporate Advisory, Corporate Finance Manager at Capital Criativo, Private Equity Investing Company
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  Luis Castro Fernandes
  EDP Inovacao
  Advisor to the Board of Directors at EDP Inovacao Previous Faculdade de Ciências Económicas e Empresariais, UCP, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Ministry for Economic Affairs and Labour
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  Luis Nazare
  Gestíssimo - Consultoria e Gestão Lda.
  Partner da Gestíssimo - Consultoria e Gestão Lda. Presidente não-executivo da Airplus TV Portugal. Presidente não-executivo do Comité de Estratéga dos CTT.
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  Joana Mendonça
  www.pockted.com
  CEO&Founder da Pockted, Vice-Presidente do NOVA Entrepreneurship Society: Clube de Empreendedores da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
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  João Vasconcelos
  http://startuplisboa.com/
  João founded and managed several companies, from design to real estate and tourism. He always had a strong involvement in community andassociations, particularly in ANJE where he was Vice President. He supports national entrepreneurship for many years and now adds to his business life the position of Executive Director of Startup Lisboa, Lisbon City incubator, a project sponsored by the Municipality of Lisboa, Montepio Bank, IAPMEI, Portugal Telecom, Microsoft, KPGM, SAGE and several universities.
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  Cristina Fonseca
  http://www.talkdesk.com/
  Cristina Fonseca is is a 24 year old Portuguese entrepreneur with a Masters Degree in Communications and Networks Engineering. As a student, she studied how routers and antenas work and conducted research in the field. She created her first business at the age of 21 and refused corporate jobs to become an entrepreneur. She has worked as a consultant and owned several companies. Despite some failures, she maintained her optimism and was persistent. She co-founded Talkdesk which allows any company to create a call center in less than 5 minutes without long term contracts or infrastructure costs. Talkdesk recently graduated from 500startups and launched publicly at TC Disrupt NYC.
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  Leonor Gomes
  http://www.cvfilm.eu/
  Ceo CVfilm
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  Miguel Gonçalves
  Spark Agency
  O Miguel Gonçalves é criativo com imaginação infantil que ao longo dos últimos anos 10 anos tem vindo a transformar ideias em projectos fora-do-cubo. É um psicólogo atípico, orador motivacional por excelência e trabalha a um ritmo indomitável. Na cabeça dele multiplicam-se ideias de negócio aguçadas com um apetite de viver indomitável.
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  Domingos Folque Guimarães
  CEO Live Content
  Diz que nasceu empreendedor. Estudou na Universidade de Londres, no IESE Nova Iorque e onde o deixaram aprender. Fundou uma editora de Livros (Cavalo de Ferro), Uma editora de dvds (Solaris Multimedia), um site de livestreaming de concertos (Central Musical) e uma agência de Social Media (Live Content) que internacionalizou para o Brasil e México. Viveu 10 anos em Londres, 2 em Madrid e um em Itália. É fluente em 5 línguas, acredita que a Web ainda está na idade das trevas e é a maior oportunidade da sua geração.