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Allan Boardman

André Pitkowski

Ângelo Alves

Antoine Larmanjat

Antoine Larmanjat is a Technical Director in the Office of the CTO at Google Cloud.

Prior to Google, Antoine was the Group CIO of Euler Hermes, the worldwide leader in Credit Insurance where he led a major transformation of its IT landscape and architecture and notably by refactoring legacy applications using the Cloud. Antoine was also instrumental in changing the IT culture of Euler Hermer to an engineering culture and laid the foundation of new IT principles around micro-services, APIs, Cloud, Reliability and real-time data warehousing.

Prior to Euler Hermes, Antoine founded Payconiq (ING Bank spinoff), a mobile payments FinTech for in-store, online or peer-to-peer payments. Payconiq uses the new European PSD2 legislation and resorts massively to cloud solutions.

Prior to Payconiq, Antoine was Head of ING Direct France IT; his team introduced a number of innovations, notably one of the first mobile banking apps.

Antoine also had a number of IT positions at LVMH (Wines and Spirits) and HP (Internal IT).

Antoine holds a computer science degree of UTC (Université de Technologie de Compiègne) in Computer Science and a Master’s degree in Computer Science from NC State on Parallel Computing on Cray computers.

Outside of work, Antoine is an avid reader and gardener.

António Pinho

Arnulfo Espinosa

Axel G. Heyenga

As Industry Strategy Director in Retail & Automotive, Axel G. Heyenga is driving and leading the EMEA Retail as well as the global Automotive Strategy & GTM at Adobe, helping Customers, Partners and our Field to excel in their work. Working with all of the best Brands in Retail & Automotive, Axel has the opportunity to see and actively help Executives to get the latest on how to build outstanding and differentiating Experiences for their Customers. On behalf of Adobe, Axel is building industry thought leadership & primary research for Customers and Partners. He is also enjoying speaking at some of the most influential Digital Marketing Events in US & EMEA.

Bárbara Campos Faria

Bruno Horta Soares

Experiência profissional na indústria de serviços profissionais de assessoria, consultoria e auditoria, com especial relevância em projetos nos domínios da Transformação Digital Governance, Gestão, Risco e Segurança de Sistemas de Informação, tendo colaborado com os principais players de mercado em Portugal, Angola e Moçambique.

Iniciou a sua carreira profissional na Deloitte Consulting, tendo passado posteriormente pela área de Information Risk Management da KPMG e integrado em 2006 a divisão de Enterprise Risk Services da Deloitte. Em 2012 deixou a Deloitte para fundar a GOVaaS – Governance Advisors as-a-service, onde é atualmente Senior Advisor, e para se dedicar de forma entusiasta às atividades de ensino, formação e promoção das áreas relacionadas com a governança e gestão dos sistemas de informação. Atualmente colabora ativamente com um ecossistema de parceiros locais e internacionais, entre os quais a IDC Portugal onde é desde 2015 Leading Executive Advisor para as áreas de Digital Transformation, IT Strategy, Governance e Security.

É licenciado em Informática e Gestão de Empresas pelo ISCTE e pós-graduado em Gestão de Projetos pelo ISLA. Adicionalmente, tem as certificações profissionais: Project Management Professional (PMP^®), do Project Management Institute (PMI); Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA^®), Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT (CGEIT^®) e Certified in Risk, Information Systems Control (CRISC^TM) e COBIT^® 5 Foundation do ISACA^®; LEGO^® Serious Play^®, ISO 27001 Lead Auditor; ITIL® v 3 Foundation.

No contexto académico é professor convidado na Coimbra Business School, Católica Lisbon School of Business & Economics, Porto Business School, ISEG- Lisbon School of Economics & Management, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade Europeia, NOVA IMS, NOVA SBE, INDEG-ISCTE Executive Education e IPAM.

É Presidente fundador do ISACA Lisbon, Portugal Chapter, colaborador em várias associações profissionais e orador em diversas conferências e seminários locais e internacionais. Em 2019 recebeu o ISACA Global Achievement John Kuyers Award para Best Speaker.

Bruno Queiros

Bruno Trigo

Cátia Santana

Fernando Miranda

Fernando Miranda desempenhou, durante oito anos, as funções de Enterprise Account Manager e Sales Manager na EMC Portugal no setor de grandes contas. Fernando Miranda passou também pela Compaq/HP, durante 11 anos, na qualidade de Enterprise Account Manager, Sales Specialist e Pre Sales Consultant para o mercado financeiro. A liderança da unidade de negócio de servidores standard x86 foi a sua função de maior destaque e duração nesta companhia.
Antes de ingressar na Compaq, em 2000, Fernando Miranda trabalhou durante 11 anos em vários integradores de sistemas do mercado nacional, desempenhando funções de serviços, gestão de projetos e coordenação de equipas técnicas.
Fernando Miranda estudou Engenharia Informática e especializou-se nas vertentes de Industry Standard Servers e em Storage Area Networks, onde detém várias certificações, além da experiência desenvolvida na área financeira.
No início de 2019, a Huawei Portugal reforçou a sua Direção Comercial através da contratação de Fernando Miranda, que assumiu as áreas de Utilities & Finantial Services da Huawei Enterprise Business Group. Esta contratação da Huawei surgiu com o objetivo de dinamizar e potenciar o crescimento do vasto portfólio de soluções e serviços integrados da Huawei na área corporate. Actualmente, Fernando Miranda é Director of Major Accounts no Enterprise Business Group da Huawei Portugal.

Filipe Mealha

Francesco Costigliola

Gabriel Coimbra

Com 20 anos de experiência no mercado de TIC, Gabriel Coimbra é Group Vice President da IDC e responsável pelas operações da IDC em Portugal, a empresa líder mundial na área de market intelligence, serviços de advisory e organização de eventos para os mercados das Tecnologias de Informação, Telecomunicações e Eletrónica de Consumo. Para além das atividades de gestão, Gabriel Coimbra está directamente envolvido na conceção e coordenação dos vários estudos e serviços de advisory que a IDC desenvolve em Portugal, contribui também em diversos projetos de consultoria e advisory da IDC em Portugal. Ao nível de EMEA faz parte da equipa que está a desenvolver novas práticas de consultoria e advisory na IDC. No contexto académico, colabora com algumas das principais instituições de ensino superior em Portugal, como é o caso da Católica Lisbon School of Business & Economics, NOVA IMS e Porto Business School, em programas de pós-graduação em Sistemas de Informação e Transformação Digital. A sua opinião é regularmente citada na imprensa especializada e económica, como é o caso do Semanário Expresso, Diário Económico, Revista Exame, Jornal de Negócios entre outras. Gabriel Coimbra é Mestre em Estatística e Gestão da Informação pela NOVA IMS e pós-graduado em Gestão Avançada pela Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP).

Gisela Garcia

Giulia Besana

Gonçalo Lobo Xavier

Guy Pearce

Helder Rodrigues

Jan Alexa

João Brito

João Figueiredo

João Leite

João Mota Lopes

João Rodrigues

João Rodrigues é formado em Automação e Eletrónica Industrial e desenvolve a sua carreira profissional na Schneider Electric há mais de 19 anos, sendo o Country Manager de Portugal desde 2017. Começou na agência comercial de Lisboa, chegando a liderá-la, e foi também responsável pela divisão de Field Services. Para além de outros cargos, foi ainda responsável pelo desenvolvimento estratégico da filial portuguesa, onde tinha sob sua responsabilidade as ofertas para aplicação em energias renováveis e as soluções de gestão técnica de edifícios. Foi também vice-presidente do negócio no sector energético da operação portuguesa. Antes de ingressar na Schneider Electric, desenvolveu competências e funções na mesma área

João Xará

Joaquim de Matos

Joaquim Nogueira

Jorge Portugal

Jorge Sá Couto

José Couto

José Galamba de Oliveira

José Galamba de Oliveira tem 60 anos, é licenciado em Engenharia Mecânica, pela Universidade de Manchester (UK), frequentou ainda alguns cursos de pós-graduação na Universidade Católica e no INSEAD, e tem uma vasta experiência de mais de 30 anos na área de consultoria de gestão e tecnologia em diversos sectores, com especial enfase no sector financeiro (banca, seguros e mercado de capitais), em instituições nacionais e internacionais.
Desde setembro de 2016 é o Presidente do Conselho de Direção da Associação Portuguesa de Seguradores.
Tem liderado seminários, escrito artigos de opinião, participado em conferências, e ministrado aulas e programas de pós-graduação em tópicos relacionados com temáticas relativas aos desafios do sector financeiro ou da gestão em geral.

José Nunes

José Nunes, 50 anos, é membro executivo do conselho de administração da Asseco PST, empresa de Tecnologias de Informação especializada no desenvolvimento de software bancário, desde Novembro de 2011. É licenciado em Engenharia Mecânica pelo Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra (ISEC), tendo concluído o curso em 1991, e pós-graduado no Programa Avançado em Gestão para Executivos do Sector Financeiro, pela Universidade Católica Portuguesa, em 2000.

Adicionalmente, fez formação em Negociação e Compras pelo Instituto Norte-Americano e formação em Negociação pela Universidade LaSalle. Realizou igualmente vários cursos nos centros de formação profissional da Accenture, em Chicago (EUA) e Veldhoven (Holanda), e no Instituto de Formação Bancária.

Começou a sua carreira profissional como consultor, em 1992, na Accenture, onde permaneceu até 2007, sendo na altura Senior Executive. Durante os 15 anos que esteve na companhia teve oportunidade de dirigir vários projectos de planificação de negócio, desenho e implementação de sistemas de informação em entidades financeiras. De 2008 a 2009 foi membro do conselho de administração da Audaxys, com responsabilidade directa sobre toda a vertente operacional e estratégica. Daqui transitou para a Capgemini, onde exerceu o cargo de vice-presidente entre Fevereiro de 2009 e Julho de 2011.

Na Asseco PST, acompanhou por dentro a integração plena da empresa no Grupo Asseco, um dos maiores especialistas europeus no desenvolvimento de software, e a mudança de identidade corporativa, concretizada em setembro de 2018, com a assunção da nova marca. Na empresa, alia a sua formação técnica à experiência em coordenação de equipas e coordenação das áreas de desenvolvimento de produtos próprios, suporte a clientes, certificação de qualidade, entrega de soluções customizadas na banca e soluções de informação de gestão, entre outras.

Joseph Mayo

Leonard Ong

Linda Chandler

As research director of Government Insights Europe, Linda Chandler leads a research team focused on government, smart cities, and education. In her role she offers strategic advice and guidance to both vendors and end-user clients. Her specialist areas are Smart Cities & Communities, Future of Work in Government and Smart Campus.

Chandler is an experienced technology leader with over 25 years’ experience of digital transformation focused on the public sector. Prior to IDC she was an independent smart cities advisor following 10 years at Microsoft leading on smart cities in the U.K. and Asia. Before Microsoft, she was a CIO in regional government for a body of the Mayor of London.

She holds a first-class honors degree and masters in computing from the London School of Economics and also an MBA from the Open University.

Luís Fonseca

Luís Goes Pinheiro

Luís Gonçalves

Luís Graça

Maggie Slowik

Maggie Slowik is a senior research analyst for IDC Manufacturing Insights EMEA. In this role, Maggie is responsible for executing research addressing supply chain planning & execution, innovation strategies, operations technology, and IT strategies, along with providing support to consulting projects for both vendors and manufacturers.

Manoj Pastel

Marco Brito

Mark Fenech

Mark Steel

Mark Steel is the Director of Retail & Consumer for EMEA at Google Cloud. Mark is responsible for creating and executing Google Cloud’s EMEA product, partner, and go-to-market strategy in the Retail industry – helping Retail & Consumer businesses unlock the power of the Cloud to drive value for their business and improve customer experiences. Previous to Google, Mark has a broad range of experience in the retail sector most recently as Digital Director for Sainsbury’s Argos in the UK, responsible for ecommerce, digital transformation, and product development efforts.

Mark Thomas

Massimiliano Claps

Massimiliano (Max) Claps is the research director in European IDC Government Insights team. His research will empower technology suppliers and professionals to embrace disruptive technologies including artificial intelligence, edge computing, and augmented and virtual reality, to realize the benefits of strategic initiatives such as smart cities and citizen-centric government services.

Max Claps has almost 18 years of public sector experience. After starting his career as a management consultant, he joined IDC in 2002 as the lead analyst for the government, healthcare, and education industries in Europe. He then held various analyst and management roles at both Gartner and IDC. In those roles he advised technology suppliers and professionals in the public sector globally. Over the past two years, Max was the global lead for the SAP Future Cities program.

Claps holds a degree in international business from Bocconi University in Italy.

Miguel Lagarto

Nuno Gama

Nuno Gonçalves

Nuno Oliveira

Ornella Urso

Ornella Urso is a research analyst for IDC Retail Insights Europe. She contributes to the Worldwide Customer Experience and Commerce strategies program and to European retail Dx research. Her research activity focuses on retail customer experience personalization, retail commerce platforms and European retail Dx strategies across segments and countries.

Paulo Cortes Rosa

After experiencing several international companies, working at IT departments, developing industrial, financial and HR applications, moved to consultancy, as Technical Manager and Consulting Services Manager at Infor. 

Started by developing business in Portugal, and supporting teams in Europe and South America, mainly in automotive arena. Since 2010 in sales area, first as Client Partner supporting new projects, and after as responsible for the Portuguese market at Infor.  

Now responsible for all customers in Portugal, including direct and partners, working with all Infor organization to develop the market. 

Paulo Rodrigues da Silva

Pedro Coelho

Com mais de 20 anos de experiência no mundo das tecnologias, é responsável na HP Portugal pela gestão do portfolio de Computação Pessoal e pela respetiva estratégia de negócio.
Tem acompanhado vários projetos de adoção de tecnologia em sala de aula ou ensino à distância, tanto no Ensino Público como no Ensino Privado, e participou em estudos transversais aos diferentes ciclos de escolaridade sobre o desenvolvimento de competências digitais e o contributo das tecnologias de informação e comunicação no reinventar de metodologias de ensino e aprendizagem.
Licenciado em Engenharia Informática pela Universidade de Coimbra, realizou ainda uma Pós- Graduação em Gestão de Empresas pela Universidade Católica de Lisboa, e é Mestre em Marketing pelo ISCTE/INDEG Business School.

Pedro Pires Fernandes

Pedro Santa Clara

Pedro Santa-Clara is the founder and Director of the 42 Lisboa. He is also a Professor Finance at the Nova School of Business and Economics since 2007, currently on leave. Before this, he was Professor of Finance at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management from 1996 to 2009. Pedro has an undergraduate degree in Economics from Nova SBE and a Ph.D. in Finance from INSEAD.

Pedro has published more than 30 papers in top academic journals of Finance and Economics. He was a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a research fellow of the Center for Economic Policy Research and has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, and Management Science.

In 2013, Pedro’s career took a radical turn, and, over the subsequent six years, he led the construction of a new campus in Carcavelos for Nova SBE and the €52 million campaign that funded it. In this context, Pedro led the creation of Fundação Alfredo de Sousa, which he presided between 2015 and 2018.

In the beginning of 2019, Pedro started Shaken Not Stirred a company that promotes and manages education projects, with a group of talented and committed partners who want to empower future generations.

Pedro is a partner of Atrium Portofolio Managers, an asset management firm created in 1999.

Pedro is married to Ana Conduto and has three wonderful kids, André, Tiago, Tomás, and a dog, Zuma. In his spare time – what spare time? – Pedro enjoys running, crossfit, reading, and, most of all, spending time with friends and family.

Rita Lourenço

Roberta Bigliani

Roberta Bigliani is vice president of IDC Energy Insights, IDC Financial Insights, IDC Government Insights, IDC Health Insights, IDC Manufacturing Insights, and IDC Retail Insights in Europe. In her role she offers strategic direction and advice to both vendors and end-user clients. She joined IDC in 2007 to create the European Energy business unit, and is now responsible for research-based advisory and consulting services across all industries. In 2017 she created the IDC Future of Work practice, for which she remains the executive sponsor for Europe. Her main areas of expertise include business and IT issues relevant to utilities and oil and gas companies, as well as digital transformation, the future of work, customer experience, and IT and operational technology integration. She is based in the IDC Italy office in Milan.

Rodrigo Vilariño

Rogério Cristo

Rui Coutinho

Firestarter. Agent Provocateur.
Strategist, innovation and science manager, professor, researcher, mentor and entrepreneur.

At Porto Business School I am the Executive Director for Innovation and Growth, where I coordinate in-company executive education, innovation, entrepreneurship, consultancy and intelligence activities and programs that try to look at the future to anticipate and understand what’s next for businesses and individuals.

I am the co-Director of the Executive MBI and professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Executive MBA and Magellan MBA (full time, international program).

Sara Carrasqueiro

Sérgio Órfão

Sérgio Quintas Vieira da Silva Magalhães

Sergio Trindade

Throughout my professional career I have been developing technical and management roles in Information Technology area (programmer, project manager, services manager and technical director, country IT manager, Iberian IT manager and CIO IT Director). Over all these years I had the opportunity to work in an with different countries and different multinational and Public sector companies.

My professional experience crosses the four IT quadrants; Strategy, Service Delivery, Business Partnering and Innovation, while managing complex IT business related projects and medium and large IT organizations. Standout results in the areas of operational reorganization, design of visions and attainment of these, design and implementation of central systems, innovative ways of communication with stakeholders, business scorecard, business intelligence, automation, etc.

Possesses a leadership profile, with a great capacity for creative innovation and communication. Focused on the creation of competitive work and the effective management of resources, making the things happen. Ability to build a positive and cohesive working environment geared towards key objectives. Promoter of simplification and the increase of efficiency in the constant search for new ways of thinking and fresh challenges. Energized for IT Transformation processes in complex organizations.

Specialties: IT Strategy, International & Distributed Team Leader, Innovation Trends, Budget and Team Management, Business Value Creation, Productivity Solutions, Business Intelligence Analysis and Scorecard, Supplier Negotiation, Outsourcing Management, Mobility Strategies, Information Systems.

Knowledge in: IT Strategy, Performance Monitoring, OPEX/CAPEX, ITIL, COBIT, ISO27001, International Project Management, Process Reengineering, Development, Innovation, Microsoft Cloud, AWS Cloud, Google Cloud, SAP FI, SAP MM, SAP PS, SAP AM, BI Cognos, BI QlikView, SQL, Oracle, Cisco, Microsoft Engineering, Consumer goods Pharma. 

Sílvia Mak

Thomas Zink

Thomas Zink is Research Director for IDC Financial Insights and leads IDC’s European financial services research. Thomas core research coverage includes digital transformation in banking, retail payments, global transaction banking and wealth management. His key focus for the next year is on Open Banking and the emergence of an interconnected, collaborative, and accelerated ecosystem. This spans dealing with new regulations such as PSD2, readying legacy infrastructure and systems for the open API challenge, identifying and managing third party risks, new operating models such as banking as a platform, the super backoffice, etc. Another key focus will be around the rise of machine intelligence and its impact on workflow automation, contact centre and web chat automation, robo advisory, and business intelligence.

Tiago Aguiar

Tiago Joanaz de Melo

Tiago Soares

Tiago Teixeira Pinto

Currently Portugal’s Technical Leader with core responsibilities in leading the design of solution recommendations for clients leveraging IBM technologies, architectures and services offerings to solve the client’s business challenges’ and deliver value. Additionally, leads the Cloud Acceleration Team for Portugal which aims to promote the adoption of IBM Cloud and Cloud Services.
Started is career as a consultant in Price Waterhouse delivering international Core Banking implementations. Joined IBM in 2003 as a Financial Services Business consultant and since become a Client Technical Architect for banking customer’s working tightly with the technical teams in the design and implementation of IBM solutions.

Tito Carlos Soares Vieira

Tomás Rebelo Pessoa e Costa

Vilius Benetis