Conferences Portugal Makes Sense
30 May
13h00 Energy Technological breakthroughs in Utilities
EDP Renováveis, Galp Energia, REN, Enercon
14h00 Tech Transfer Nuno Mendonça, Univ of Coimbra
14h20 Vocational Training José Novais da Fonseca, CENFIM
14h40 From Deep Sea to Space Tiago Rebelo, CeiiA
15h00 Innovative Textiles António Bráz Costa, CITEVE
15h30 Why Portugal & Germany: Bilateral investment cases in industry
Chairman & CEO, AICEP, Luís Castro Henriques
President, GTAI, Robert Hermann
Case 1: Schmitt, Sohn Elevators, Miguel Leichsenring Franco
Case 2: Omnidea, Nuno Fernandes
Case 3: Critical Manufacturing, Francisco Almada Lobo
Case 4: TeamViewer, Mike Eissele
Moderator: Hans-Joachim Böhmer, AHK Portugal
17h00 Tech centers for the industry, Produtech, Pedro Rocha
17h20 Sines Tech Innovation and Data Center Hub aicep Global Parques, Filipe Costa
31 May
09h00 Technological Partnerships for Success
Minister of the Economy and Maritime Affairs, A. Costa Silva + Executive Board Member of DIHK, Volker Treier
German Ambassador to Portugal, Martin Ney + Portuguese Ambassador to Germany, F. Ribeiro de Menezes
Case 1: Bosch, Carlos Ribas, Celoplás, João Cortez
Case 2: Siemens, Pedro Pires de Miranda, INTROSYS, Nuno Flores
Case 3: Rocket Factory Augsburg, Jörn Spurmann, CeiiA, Tiago Rebelo
Moderator: Carlos Pacheco, AICEP
11h00 Technological frontiers in renewables
Secretary of State for Environment and Energy, João Galamba
Univ. Porto, Photovoltaic Energy, Adélio Mendes, P.h.D
Case 1: EDP Renewables, Miguel Stilwell de Andrade
Case 2: GALP, José Veiga de Macedo
Case 3: Fusion Fuel, Nuno Filipe
Case 4: P2X-Europe, Christoph Weber
Moderator: Heiko Staubitz, GTAI
12h30 Digital Solutions Health Cluster Portugal, Patrícia Patrício
13h00 Automation & Robotics
Selmatron, Introsys
14h00 Engineered Parts and Solutions at the core of Portugal’s industrial DNA
Secretary of State for the Economy, João Neves
Executive Vice President for Innovation, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Alexander Kurz
President, AIMMAP, Vítor Neves
Managing Director, Fraunhofer Portugal, Liliana Ferreira
Case 1: ADIRA, Miguel Gil Mata
Case 2: Sonae Capital/Schmidt Light Metal, Patrícia Villas-Boas
Case 3: Leica Portugal, Pedro Oliveira
Moderator: Miguel Franco, AHK Portugal
15h30 Industry 4.0: meet Industry Innovators
General Manager, COTEC, Jorge Portugal
Cases: BRAMP, HFA, ISQ
17h00 Startup Portugal Smart Manufacturing Startup
Ecosystem in Portugal
1 June
09:30 Digital Ecosystems
Secretary of State for Digitalisation and Administrative
Modernisation, Mário Campolargo
Managing Director, Fraunhofer Portugal, Liliana Ferreira
Cases: INESC-TEC, Critical Manufacturing, Partnership
Siemens, Infraspeak, Neadvance
11:00 Smart City Startups in Portugal
12:00 Digital
Altice labs, Wavecom, Neadvance, Foodintech
13h00 Industrial equipments
ADIRA, Balanças Marques
13h30 Technical textiles
TMG
14:00 Mobility – New energy charging solutions
Minister for Science and Technology, Elvira Fortunato
Cases: REN, Efacec, PRF
15:30 Engineering & Tooling
Secretary of State for Internationalisation,
Bernardo Ivo Cruz
Cefamol, Manuel Oliveira, Centimfe, Rui Tocha
Cases: Iberomoldes, Celoplás, Soplast
17:00 Portuguese-German Journalism Award
18:30 Partner Country Night
2 June
09h30 Autonomous Driving and Connectivity
President, COMPETE 2020, Nuno Mangas
Cases: Bosch, CEiiA, Continental Engineering Solutions
11h00 Portugal as Digital Nation ANETIE
11h30 Portugal Bike Value ABIMOTA
12h00 Electrical products
Fisola
Metal products
ETMA
12h30 Electrical products
EXATRONIC
12h45 – 13h00
Technical Textiles
TMG
14h15 Industrial equipments
Balanças Marques
15h30 Role of SMEs in deglobalisation context
15:30 Role of SMEs in a deglobalisation context
Secretary of State for Internationalisation,
Bernardo Ivo Cruz
CEO IAPMEI, Francisco Sá
Director General of International Markets, BVMW,
Reinhold von Ungern-Sternberg
Cases: Soplast, Kegelmann Technik, Infinite Foundry, soft4 Automation GmbH
See the full programme of the fair on the HANNOVER MESSE website.