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| 9:00am<\/td>\n | Welcoming Remarks<\/strong> \nJohn Lie, Dean of International Area Studies , UC Berkeley \nElvira Callapez, West Coast Chapter Director, PAPS \nMichael Machado, State Senator, California \nTiago Fleming Outeiro, Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School, President of the Executive Committee, PAPS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n 9:30am\u00a0–\u00a011:00am<\/td>\n | Session 1 \u2013 Fostering S&T networks: challenges for Portugal | \n<\/strong>Which challenges and opportunities for science and knowledge networking? How far can thematic S&T networks complement existing disciplinary R&D and sustain new forms of knowledge production? \nJose Mariano Gago, Minister of Science, Technology and Superior Education, Portuguese Government \nFrancisco Veloso, Assistant Professor, Carnegie-Mellon University \nRodrigo Costa, Portugal Telecom \nModerator:<\/strong>\u00a0Fatima Campos Ferreira, RTP<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n 11:00am\u00a0–\u00a011:30am<\/td>\n | Coffee Break<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 11:30am\u00a0–\u00a01:00pm<\/td>\n | Session 2 \u2013 The role of S&T in entrepreneurship | \n<\/strong>Priority areas for R&D. How are Portuguese companies connecting with the US? What is missing? How can Portuguese companies get the most out of these networks? Case studies. Examples of emerging networks. \nAntonio Carrapatoso, President, Vodafone Portugal \nHelder Antunes, Cisco \nJoao Vicente Ribeiro, President, PME Investmentos \nSimon Mercer, Microsoft \nModerator<\/strong> \u2013 Telmo Valido, Project Leader, The Boston Consulting Group and Chairman, PAPS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n 1:00pm\u00a0–\u00a02:00pm<\/td>\n | Lunch<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 2:00pm\u00a0– 3:30pm<\/td>\n | Breakout Sessions: Creation and Development of Networks of S&T | \n Session 3a \u2013 Networks in the Life Sciences<\/strong> \nAlcino Silva, Professor of Neurobiology, UCLA \nAna Paula Amorim, Director, Department of Technology Transfer and Entrepreneurship, TecMinho \nAna Sebastiao, President, Portuguese Society for Neuroscience, Neuroscience Network Cynthia Kenyon, Professor, UCSF \nJose Carlos Principe, Director, Computational and Neuroengineering Laboratory , University of Florida \nPedro Pissarra, CEO, Biotecnol \nModerator:<\/strong>\u00a0Duarte Barral, Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School, Vice-President, PAPS \nSession 3b \u2013 Sustainable cities and the environment \n<\/strong>Arpad Horvath, Director, The Consortium on Green Design and Manufacturing, \nChris Hendrickson, Head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Director of the Steinbrenner Institute for Environmental Engineering and Research, and Co-Director of the Green Design Institute at Carnegie Mellon University \nFrancisco Nunes Correia, Minister of the Environment, Portuguese Government \nModerator:<\/strong>\u00a0Pedro Santos Vieira, Vice-President, PAPS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n 3:30pm\u00a0–\u00a04:00pm<\/td>\n | Coffee Break<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 4:00pm\u00a0–\u00a04:15pm<\/td>\n | Breakout session reports | \nThe moderator from each break-out session presents a brief summary and take-away points from the discussions<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n 4:15pm\u00a0–\u00a06:30pm<\/td>\n | Session 4 \u2013 Strategizing S&T across the Atlantic | \n<\/strong>How can S&T networks between Portugal and the US contribute for the scientific development in Portugal? Role for postgraduate students in the US and in Portugal. \nCarlos Zorrinho, National Coordinator of the Lisbon Strategy, Portuguese Government \nJoao Sentieiro, President, Foundation for Science and Technology, Portugal \nSydney Brenner*, Professor, Salk Institute for Biological Studies \nJaime Quesado, POSC \nModerator:\u00a0<\/strong>Tiago Outeiro, PAPS \n*Nobel Laureate<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n 7:00pm<\/td>\n | Dinner<\/strong> | \nKeynote Speaker:<\/strong> Leonor Beleza, President, Funda\u00e7\u00e3o Champalimaud<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n <\/div> <\/div> March 19, 2006<\/h2>\n\n
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