Scientific Committee
Mário Pereira Pinto
Health affairs advisor of the Republic Presidency
Pedro Pita Barros
Professor of Economics at NOVASBE
His research focuses on issues related to health economics, regulation and competition policy
Regina Rodrigues
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Anaesthesiologist
Training Coordinator for Resuscitation and Emergency
Member of the Board of the Portuguese Society of Simulation Applied to Health Sciences (SPSim)
Advisory board
Shomit Ghose
General partner at the Silicon Valley venture capital fund, ONSET Ventures
Start-up entrepreneur, with multiple successful exits via IPO and acquisition
Serves on multiple advisory boards in Europe and the USA
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Paula Carioca (Mentor)
Board advisory member in PASS (Predictive Analytics
Software Systems)
Consultant for IoT projects applied to the Health sector
Board advisory Member in Vodafone Portugal (2017-2020)
CEO of Unitel T+ in Cape Verde (2013-2017)
Derene Allen
Adjunct Professor in the Silicon Valley Immersion Program at the University of San Francisco
Instructor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the UC Berkeley Extension
International Diploma Program Mentor at the Global Social Benefits Institute, at Santa Clara University
Tim Vieira
Participating investor, in the first season of the television program SHARK TANK PORTUGAL
CEO of Bravegeneration (Europe)
Investor in STARTUPS
Hector Ara
President of SUANFARMA GROUP
Created CIDQO (Center for Research and Development of Organic Chemistry)
Founded FARMAPROJECTS SA, a company specialized in pharmaceutical consulting
Mentors board
Herberto Jesus
President of Board of Directors of Instituto de Administração da Saúde;
Coordinator in the Health and Well-being field – Regional Strategy of Smart Expertise;
Member of WHO Europe – Regions for Health Network
Paulo Lilaia
Managing Director of UNIK Investments
Former CEO / Administrator of GENERIS Farmacêutica
Former General Director of Ratiopharm Portugal
Vice President of APOGEN - Associação Portuguesa de
Medicamentos Genéricos e Biosimilares
Investor in STARTUPS
Kamakshi Bansal
MSc Data Science & Machine Learning from University College London;
Data Scientist at Moorfields Eye Hospital, London;
Free-lance mentoring for Data Science;
Six years experience working with digital technologies, mathematics, and programming (UK and India).
Sebastian Gensior
Senior Manager Global Market Access Policy at ABBOTT
Experience in leading and transforming market access divisions across the globe.In roles spanning London, Basel, and Warsaw, he has worked as market access executive, global market access change manager, global market access consultant and market access policy leader.
He has a passion for driving a culture of empowerment, inclusion, and accountability conducive to maximizing results in complex, global businesses. Mentoring start-ups is a personal passion of Sebastian and he helps them to scale and accelerate their launch by enhancing their healthcare market understanding.
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Nuno Pereira
Degree in product design
Involved in multiple design/engineering hardware and software projects;
CEO of of Holy Grail Inc
Gabriel Oliveira
General Surgeon in several Hospitals and clinics.
Instructor of the Physiotherapy course in Escola Superior de Saúde Egas Moniz
1st Medical Navy Lieutenant in Portuguese Navy
Ethics comittee
Bruna Gouveia
Deputy Regional Director for Health of Madeira
Vice President of Board of Directors of Instituto de Administração da Saúde
Researcher on the Interactive Technologies Institute – LARSys and on the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Gerontology and Vulnerability – University of Geneva