PAPS FORUM XII (2011)

Program

April 16, 2011

8:30 am Registration and Breakfast
9:00 am Welcoming Remarks
Rogério Candeias | PAPS President
Maria Amélia Paiva | Newark Portuguese General Consul
9:15 am Special Session 1
Ricardo Marvão | Beta-i Co-Founder, Evolve CEO & Co-Founder
The Beta-i Association 
9:30 am Special Session 2
Izabella Zandberg | Project Manager, EURAXESS Links USA
 “The EURAXESS Portal – A One-Stop Resource on Research Opportunities in Europe”
10:00 am Coffee Break
10:30 am Session 1 Portuguese Science: The Way Forward
Moderator: Pedro Conceição, Chief-Economist, Regional Bureau for Africa, UNDP
Rosália Vargas | President of Ciência Viva Centers
João Caraça | Director of the Science Department of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Aires Soares | Head Science Counselor at the EU Delegation in Washington, DC
Jonathan Davies | Research Associate at the LLE, University of Rochester 
12:30 pm Lunch
2:00 pm Session 2 Impact of the Diaspora on the Portuguese Economy
Moderator: Mário Crespo, SIC
António Simões | HSBC, Global Head of Strategy
António Câmara | YDreams, CEO
José Graça Medeiros | MCG – Mind for Metal, Executive Director
João Metelo | Horizon Wind Energy (EDP Renewables Group), CFO
4:00 pm Coffee Break
4:30 pm Session 3 Portugal: The Brand
Moderator: Onésimo T. de Almeida, Professor at Brown University
Rui Boavista Marques | AICEP New York Director
André da Loba | Illustrator
Carlos Coelho | Ivity Brand Corp Founder and CEO
6:30 pm Closing Session
Manuel Heitor | Secretary of State for Science, Technology and Higher Education
7:15 pm Closing Remarks
7:30 pm Cocktail NYU Langone Medical Center Smilow Lobby
8:00 pm Dinner NYU Langone Medical Center Faculty Dining Room
Keynote Speaker:  Maria João Valente Rosa | Pordata Director
Award Ceremony: PAPS-LBC Leadership Award 2010 by Torben Rankine, LBC

April 17, 2011

8:30am Breakfast and Travel Expenses Support processing [Lecture Hall F]
9:00am PAPS General Assembly Meeting / Election of the new PAPS Executive Committee, Presiding Board of the General Assembly and Audit Committee
11:00am Conclusion of the XII PAPS Forum

Details

Date
April 16-17, 2011

Title
Harvesting the Globalized Portuguese Talent

City
New York City, NY, USA

Venue
Schwartz Lecture Hall F at the NYU Langone Medical Centre, New York, NY, USA

Website
n/a

Editions

Sponsors

– Presidência da República Portuguesa
– Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
– Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos
– FCT, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
– MCTES, Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Ensino Superior
– EDP, Energias de Portugal
– Ciência Viva, Agência Nacional para a Cultura Científica e Tecnológica
– TAP Portugal
– MIT Portugal
– IPFN, Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear
– Multiwave
– Banco Espírito Santo
– NZYTech, Genes & Enzymes
– Vista Alegre