Laurent Haug

Laurent is the organizer of the famous Lift Conference taking place every year in Geneva. Laurent is passionated about understanding how technological innovation is reshaping society and culture

Charles Spence

Prof. Charles Spence is interested in how people perceive the world around them. He is the head of the Crossmodal Research Laboratory at Oxford University.

Fred Oliveira

Fred is a thinker, designer and developer. In the past he worked at Techcrunch, sat on the advisory board for a few startups and founded the now extinct Web 2.0 Workgroup. Now works at WBS, his own company.

Stephanie Booth

Living in multilingual Switzerland, Stephanie Booth works as a freelance blogging consultant, and has a deep interest in anything that has to do with people and technology. Her favourite topics are teenagers on the WWW and use of languages on the Internet.

Frederico Lucas

Frederico Lucas is a Territorial Developer working on projects of regional e-business excellence. Manager of infoex.pt. Born in Lisbon, 1972. Developed since 1992 platforms for content management information and knowledge, especially for hardware planning.

Pedro Bizarro

Passionate for applied research, Pedro Bizarro works in real-time data processing as researcher and Assistant Professor at the University of Coimbra and as founder and Chief Scientist Officer of FeedZai, a start-up company.

Paulo Querido

Paulo Querido is a portuguese consultant and journalist. Paulo has a great experience in tech journalism. Being a early adopter Paulo has been advocating the use of social networks by portuguese media. Paulo also runs "Diario2", a portuguese collaborative journal.

Prof. Freitas-Magalhães

Portuguese psychologist working on the psychology of the human smile in the context of emotion and facial expression. Currently working at Univ. Fernando Pessoa.

Mónica Bettencourt Dias

Mónica is a research group leader at the IGC where she studies centriole and cilia biogenesis, function, and evolution. She's part of EMBO's most talented young researchers.

Celso Martinho

Co-founded Sapo.pt, the biggest portuguese portal where he is now the CTO. Loves open technology and seats in the board of PT Inovação

Luis Monteiro

Luis had a dream: going to Antarctida. And he found the most awesome way of doing so. He blogged his way to this part of the planet. Freshly returned he will tell you the whole story.

André Marquet

André Marquet, 29 years old, born in Lisboa. His interests are on technological product development, user interface design and innovation management.

Alexandre Lemos

His main occupation is as the Portuguese country manager of Bubok Publishing - a leading label for self-publishing based on digital technologies. In this position, not only management responsibilities at a local level are at stake, but also their coordination with the international strategy.

Ricardo Tomé

Works on brand development, web-design, cross-promotion, new concept for TV and Radio shows, Interactivity and also on the web market analysis in trends, UI and new market opportunities.

Frederico Figueiredo

Frederico works as an UX and Innovation Manager at Nokia Siemens Networks, in Portugal, where he focuses his energies in enhancing the user experience and promoting usability, innovation, and software engineering best practices across the organization – and beyond.

Hugo Almeida

Hugo de Almeida aka Halden Beaumont is Documentary and Machinima Filmmaker. He uses virtual worlds as a platform to create cultural and educational projects, and to make machinima movies.

José Fontainhas

Zé currently holds the "Outernationalist" position at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.comand other projects, where he aims to help those projects to become even more complete, elegant and coeherent international operations.

Hugo Pinto

Hugo, with a long experience in programming, runs two companies the R&D-driven Inovaworks, a pragmatic Trend IT & Lifestyle research laboratory, and KnowledgeWorks, a software consultancy.