| 8:00am – 9:00am |
Breakfast & Registration |
| 9:00am – 9:15am |
Welcome: Ricardo Vidal | PAPS President
Pedro Moitinho de Almeida | Portuguese Embassador in Canada |
| 9:15am – 10:00am |
Keynote Session: Claudio Sunkel | Director of IBMC, Porto
“More than a decade of Scientific Development in Portugal: past, present and an uncertain future” |
| 10:30am – 12:00pm |
First session: Innovation: Portuguese footsteps in a global world of Science, Engineering and Technology
Moderator: Vasco Trigo | Journalist, Radio e Televisão de Portugal (RTP), Lisbon
António Coutinho | Director of Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras
Claudio Sunkel | Director of IBMC, Porto
Miguel Soares | Principal Investigator at Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras
João Xavier | Principal Investigator at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York |
| 12:00pm – 1:30pm |
Lunch (with local Portuguese artists exhibition) |
| 1:30pm – 3:00pm |
Second session: Entrepreneurism and Leadership: Adapting to changing markets rising from disruptive technologies
Moderator: Ana Ochôa | Chief Representative Officer of Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Toronto
Tiago Forjaz | Founder of “Fundação Talento”, Lisbon
Nuno Guedes | Professor at Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon
João Maciel | Technology Development Director at EDP, Lisbon
Wilson Teixeira | President of Able Translations, Ontario |
| 3:00pm/3:30pm |
Coffee break |
| 3:30pm/5:00pm |
Third Session: Art, Culture and Communication: Growing Portuguese presence in the world’s cultural landscape
Clara Pinto Correia | Scientist, writer and specialist in History of Science
Pedro Gadanho | Contemporary Architecture & Curator at MoMa, New York
Manuel Lima | Senior UX Design Lead at Microsoft, New York |
| 5:00pm/6:00pm |
Keynote Session: António Coutinho | Director of Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras |
| 6:00pm/6:45pm |
Closing Remarks |
| 6:45pm/8:00pm |
Reception
Award Ceremony: PAPS-LBC Leadership Award 2011 – Torben Rankine, LBC |
