Carlos Paulino

Carlos Paulino is Managing Director for Portugal and joined Equinix in 2017 following the acquisition of the Itconic data center business. Carlos joined Itconic in 2000 during which time he was heavily involved in the firm’s business development, led several functions, and became a member of the board in 2010. Through his stewardship the Portugal facility is one of the best interconnected data centers on the West Coast of Europe.

Carlos has over 25 years’ experience in the telecoms and technology sector. He held leadership roles in the telecoms firm Maxitel in both Product Development, where he introduced cutting edge products to the market, and in Customer Services, where led the Customer Support Center to achieving top scores and industry recognition. Earlier in his career Carlos was CTO of Madem, a Telecoms startup, which delivered voice and data services to Madeira.

Carlos holds a M.B.A from IESE/AESE Business School, a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Lisbon Institute of engineering, a B.S. in Information management and a PHD in IT management from Nova.. Lisbon University.

Diogo Lopes

Professional experience in tech, consulting, public sector and FMCG companies. Worked in several geographies and led multiple teams in implementing IT projects. More recent roles include leading and transforming IT for major portuguese companies.

Filipe Lucas

Filipe Lucas é o Diretor de Arquiteturas de TI no Grupo EDP.

Liderou durante os últimos 6 anos a Direção de Serviço e Infra-estruturas de TI do Grupo EDP em todas as geografias, criando condições para o crescimento geográfico e de Negócio do Grupo EDP pela automatação, virtualização e adopção de modelos Cloud.

Liderou o Programa Lean IT no Grupo EDP.

Possui 15 anos de experiência em gestão de contratos de Outsourcing de TI, na perspetiva de fornecedor, na Edinfor e IT-LOG, e enquanto cliente, no Grupo EDP.

Licenciado em Engenharia Informática pelo Instituto Superior Técnico. MBA da Universidade Católica|Nova.

Frederico Muñoz

Frederico Muñoz é Chief Architect na IBM Portugal com uma experiência variada em diversos campos das TI, como programação, engenharia de sistemas, desenvolvimento aplicacional e arquitetura empresarial. Nos últimos anos, tem desenvolvido projetos-chave em áreas de crescimento em destaque na IBM, como a Internet of Things (IoT), Data Science e soluções de orquestração assentes em Kubernetes; neste âmbito tem participado no desenho e implementação de soluções de transformação e adopção de novas abordagens em contextos onde a articulação da tecnologia existente com a futura é fundamental

É membro do IBM Technical Expert Council para Espanha, Portugal, Grécia e Israel e certificado Master Architect pelo The Open Group.
Frederico Muñoz nasceu em 1977 e é licenciado em Arqueologia pela Universidade de Lisboa, onde também estudou Física.

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).

Gonçalo Faria Abreu

João Moro

José Carlos Subtil

Responsável de área de API&Integration na DXC Technology Portugal, com vasta experiência na área de projetos relacionados com a automação de processos e integrações de aplicações. Formado em Computer Engineering com 20 anos de carreira em projetos de consultoria de IT relacionados com diversos setores, com especial foco em Energy and Utilities.

Manuel Domingues

Director,  responsável pela Direção de Gestão e Exploração de Infraestruturas de IT do NOVO BANCO. 

Experiência profissional  superior a 25 anos nas áreas de Sistemas de Informação e Telecomunicações. 

Formação Académica em Engenharia Eletrónica e Telecomunicações com Pós-graduação em Banca, Seguros e Mercados Financeiros e Pós-graduação em Gestão para Executivos (PAGE). 

Pascal Huijbers

Pascal is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Western Europe where he drives the Fujitsu portfolio , competences, innovations and thoughtleadership. He also drives our Financial Services approach as CTO FS EMEIA. He defines digital business innovation and digital business transformation together with our customers. He has a background in IT strategy, Enterprise Architecture and Innovation and worked for many governments, inter-organizational projects, insurance companies and banks. Pascal has a Master in Business Administration, a bs in IT and he joined a management programme on Oxford University.

Besides his strategic business focus and his knowledge of multiple business domains like marketing, online and entrepreneurship he has a very strong background in IT with in-depth knowledge of many IT topics . Pascal is the former Group CTO of the Deltalloyd group – Forbes Global 1300 . Besides his corporate background he founded two startups and his own consulting and training label. Now he focuses on driving Innovation for large organisations.

What describes me best: Think Big, Act Small , Realize Fast. Training for Ironman.

Specialties: IT Strategy, CIO, CITO, CTO, Digital Innovator, Entrepreneur, Keynote speaker, Intrapreneur, Manager, Coach, Enterprise Architecture, Strategist, E-government, Financial Services, Startups, Cloud, Office of the CIO, Security & Risk, IT Management, Marketing, Online , Digital Transformation, Information technology.

Fujitsu is the leading Japanese information and communication technology (ICT) company, offering a full range of technology platforms, business digital transformation capabilities, cloud (broker) and migration capabilities, products, solutions, and services. Approximately 160,000 Fujitsu people support customers in more than 100 countries.

Paulo Nunes

Com mais de vinte e dois anos de experiência em Tecnologias de Informação, e mais de dezanove anos em Gestão de TI, desenvolveu a sua atividade profissional nos últimos quatro anos como Chief Information Officer da EMEL – Empresa Pública Municipal de Mobilidade e Estacionamento de Lisboa,depois de ter sido CIO nas Clínicas Vital Dent (Grupo Medinfotec), e depois de doze anos no sector Financeiro e Automóvel respetivamente na GE Money e no Interbanco.

Em 2017 recebeu o prémio de CIO of The Year, tendo sido um dos 20 finalistas a nível europeu pela transformação digital da EMEL e pela implementação da APP de estacionamento ePark.

Fui também vencedor em 2017 do prémio Portugal Digital Awards, pela conceção e implementação da Plataforma de Mobilidade EMEL associada à APP de pagamento de estacionamento ePark.

Pedro Enes

Responsible for the Technological Architecture area (infrastructures), holds position on the IT regulator department of EDP Holding that operates, control and manage the Outsourcing Services of the different IT providers.

Specialties: Outsourcing services and contracts
Managed Services
Solutions Architect
Server Architect
Systems infraestruture design
Enterprise Application Integration 

Pedro Rebelo

With +7 years of demonstrated experience in Business Development, Team Leadership and Solution Selling in B2B markets such as Retail, Financial Services, Government, Health and Manufacturing, Pedro holds a degree in International Relations from Universidade Nova de Lisboa, having completed postgraduate studies in Business Management and Information Warfare at ISEG and the Military Academy, respectively.

Throughout his professional career, Pedro has been working with ICT companies to transform the way they look to the future and apply new trends to their current offerings, raising the quality of services provided to customers.

Specialities: Business and Digital Transformation, Change Management, Enterprise Services and GTM Strategy.

Rui Ribeiro

• Visionary and goal-oriented. Business, Digital Transformation and Information Systems Executive with several industries know-how (Telco, Finance, Government, Utilities, among others), and demonstrated experience in planning, developing and implementing cutting edge information solutions to address business opportunities, throughout the strong experience for delivering Business deployments with Information Systems Architectures;
• Value-added of having the experience of 11 years in Software and Consultancy Services and more than 12 years of experience at an Enterprise and Government organizations, meaning the ability to deliver proactive and innovative project solutions with the overall view of end-to-end business, strategic and cultural processes within a company;
• Conception and development of Strategic Plans, either business or information systems for enterprises, with the competitive advantage of implementing that strategy across several areas: client services, product development support, sales, innovation, and quality assurance.
• Human resource leader and public speaking capabilities: experience of managing teams with +200 persons and has been a speaker in several events, conferences, and training.
• Roles across the organizations: General Manager, Sales, and Customer Director, Information Systems Director, Professional Services Director;
• Ph.D. and MBA degrees, supported by an IT Engineering graduation

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Business Strategy
• Information Systems
• Digital Transformation
• Product Development
• Sales and Marketing
• Leadership
• Team Building
• Innovation
• Consultancy

Specialties: Telcos, Utilities, Finance, Mobile Solutions, Digital Transformation

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. 

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.

Timoteo Figueiro

Timóteo Figueiró has more than 20 years’ experience in the Portuguese ICT market. Has joined IDC in 2010. Prior to this he worked as journalist in different newspapers, like Diário Económico (main portuguese financial newspaper) and Computerworld. He has a degree in History from the FCSH-UNL. As Research and Consulting Manager, Timóteo Figueiró develops local market research and consulting. In this role, his main objective is to gather information that helps CIO, IT managers and other senior executives to make decisions about the investment on information technologies and communications.

In conjunction with his research activities, Timóteo Figueiró also contributes to consulting engagements in the form of customized strategic market planning and go-to-market solutions.

Vitor Baptista

Over 28 years of IT experiences as Teacher/Trainer, SysAdmin/DBA, System Engineer and Pre-sales. Individual Contributor and Manager (local and international positions).

Storage/Backup, Servers, Networks, Services and DBs knowledge.

Great presales and presentation skills and experience. Great training and enablement skills and experience (internal and partners – build, plan and deliver).

Storage technologies Published Book Author, IT magazines regular contributor, EMC Public Speaker, CTO Ambassador and Social Networks contributor, Multiple Over-Achievement awards.