PITCH DAY

PITCH DAY
2018

ORGANIZERS
 INTRODUCTION

Portugal is a country of dreamers and conquerors, proud of being the birthplace of the first
world explorers. This spirit of unsettling desire for growth and development lives until today
through the search for innovation and it has led Portugal to be recognized as a major
entrepreneurial ecosystem.

On the other hand, Portugal is currently facing significant challenges that deserve our
attention and, above all, our ideas. We believe that we have the talent, drive, dedication and
opportunity to create the change we need and to solve global grand challenges in: energy,
food, shelter, space, water, disaster resilience, health, prosperity, governance learning,
environment and security.

SingularityU Portugal Global Impact Challenge is a program to foster moonshot

innovations and startups that positively impact the lives of people living in Portugal, with an
ability to scale and impact a billion people worldwide in 10 years.

SingularityU Portugal Global Impact Challenge 2018 Pitch Event is a gathering of

innovators, entrepreneurs, academia, authorities and the Singularity community in
Portugal and a moment to showcase the innovative ideas to humanity’s biggest challenges
from the SingularityU GIC 2018 application. The winning project will receive a seat at the
SU Ventures Incubator Program a 10 week program that fosters the development of viable
start-ups (for profit or not-for profit).

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AGENDA

14:15 - 14:45 Registration

14:45 - 15:00 Welcome from GIC Partners

Ricardo Marvão - Co-founder & Chief Education Officer - Beta-i
Marco Espinheira - Head of Future - Cascais City Council
João Castro - Head of Center for Digital Business - NOVA SBE

15:00 - 15:30 Keynote: Cultivating Exponential Leadership

Thomas Kriese - VP of Community Development & Engagement
- Singularity University

15:30 - 16:00 GIC Finalist Pitches

Pitch 1: Pedro Queiró - Dreamshapers
Pitch 2: Ekaterina Stambolieva - Firefly Global
Pitch 3: Bernardo Gonçalves - myPolis

16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 - 17:30 GIC Finalist Pitches

Pitch 4: Luís Quintella - Biti
Pitch 5 Sofia Couto da Rocha - SkinSoul
Pitch 6: Francisco Fonseca - Prodto
Pitch 7: Pedro Silva - mov.e
Pitch 8: Joel Curado - Transprnt

17:30 Cocktail Reception

18:00 Announcement of SingularityU Portugal

Global Impact Challenge Winner 2018
Ricardo Marvão - Chief Education Officer - Beta-i
Daniel Traça - Dean - Nova SBE
Marco Espinheira - Head of Future - Cascais City Council

19:00 End

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SPEAKERS

THOMAS KRIESE
VP of Community Development & Engagement | Singularity University

Thomas Kriese has been designing and managing the way people interact
online for close to 20 years, from the early years of modem-accessed bulletin
board systems to today’s platforms that link, tweet, pin and like. After cutting
his online teeth in early-90s San Francisco, he went to work for America Online
in 1996 designing content programming models before launching AOL
Hometown, the member-created homepages community. Thomas joined the
AOL Time Warner Foundation in 2000 to help grantees incorporate
technology and online communities into their work, and then came back west
to the Bay Area to work as executive producer for Omidyar Network running
its experimental online community. Since 2009, he has been helping his
consulting clients harness the problem-solving power within their online
communities and networks.

MARCO ESPINHEIRA
Head of Future | Cascais City Council

Born in Porto in 1972. Degree in management by Católica University in 95 and

master in New Ventures by California State University in 99, Marco Espinheira
is a serial entrepreneur and creative explorer. He founded several companies in
the communication, advertisement, technology and cultural sectors. His main
areas of intervention are business development, strategic and innovation
management. Since 2014 he has been Head of Future at the Cascais City Hall,
in charge of communication, innovation, information technology, culture,
heritage, citizenship, talent, youth, sports, strategic planning and smart cities.

RICARDO MARVÃO
Co-founder & Chief Education Officer | Beta-i

Ricardo has a MSc in Computer Science Engineering from Universidade de

Lisboa and an Aerospace MBA from the Toulouse Business School. He was the
CEO and co-founder of Evolve Space Solutions, one of the first Portuguese
start-ups providing software products and services for the major European
space agencies and companies, that was later acquired by Novabase. Ricardo is
now a Beta-i co-founder, responsible for leading the education initiatives. As
Head of Education he is responsible for managing and coordinating all
education projects such as European Innovation Academy, Kids Summer
Camps and all of the initiatives around Singularity University.

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 JOÃO CASTRO
Head of Center for Digital Business | Nova SBE

João holds a Ph.D from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has
served extensively in industry, leading and managing innovative technology
projects. After concluding his Ph.D in Engineering Systems at MIT, he spent a
short time at Stanford University as a post-doc with the Center for Design
Research and later was the director of disruptive innovation for a leading
FMCG beverage company in charge of digital transformation, new business
models and products, and promoting a culture of innovation within the
organization. João Castro is now Head of the Center for Digital Business and
Technology and is associate professor at Nova School of Business and
Economics, where he teaches in master and executive programs. He is also a
partner in a seed capital firm and sits on the board of public and private
companies, contributing with his expertise in new technologies and innovation
management.

DANIEL TRAÇA
Dean | Nova SBE

Daniel Traça has graduated in Economics at NOVA School of Business and

Economics, in Lisbon, in 1990 and obtained his PhD from Columbia
University in New York. He has worked as a consultant for the World Bank
and the European Commission. Since 2015, taking the position of Dean. He
teaches at INSEAD, Solvay Business School, and Nova School of Business and
Economics, both to Bachelor students and to management executives. He has
worked for the World Bank and the European Commission, been published in
leading academic journals and contributed to policy studies.

GLOBAL IMPACT CHALLENGE FINALISTS

DREAMSHAPERS FIREFLY GLOBAL

Education
Platform that allows any teacher to implement
project based learning in a easy way.
TEAM: André Borges, João Borges, Miguel
Queimado, Pedro Queiró and André
Gonçalves
Environment
Satellite imagery to know where to send teams
to clean fire surface fuel and trees, which in
term prevents wildfire disasters and mitigates
damage.
TEAM: Ekaterina Stambolieva, Isabella
Simão and Miguel Almeida

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MYPOLIS BITI
Governance Education
Mobile platform to connect politicians/citizens, First step to the digital world in a safe and
a tool for civic engagement and participatory healthy way. It's a contents platform accessible
budgeting. by a hardware (our kids' first safe device).

TEAM: Bernardo Gonçalves, Ângela Coelho Team: Luís Quintella and Eduardo Pinheiro
and David Seco

SKINSOUL PRODTO
Health Food
AI app that aims to reduce the time to the skin Food delivery and advice service connecting
cancer diagnose. food producers, specialists, and consumers to
create a more sustainable and convenient way to
TEAM: Sofia Couto da Rocha and Pedro shop and eat.
Mendes Basto
TEAM: Francisco Fonseca, João Cavaco, Jay
Wong, Bernardo Macedo, Francisco Loureiro
and Carlota Léchaud

MOV.E
Energy
Electricity Contract digital transformation to
access anytime, anywhere, with security and
privacy at competitive cost, due to blockchain
technology.
TRANSPRNT
Governance
Platform that manages transactions between
Donors & Social Projects in a safe, decentralised
and open environment to monitor real time
funding needs.

TEAM: Pedro Silva, Pedro Garcia and José TEAM: Joel Curado, Anna Stavniichuk, Daisy
Toscano Donald, David Luengo, Diego Garay and
Ivan Cordon

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JURY SINGUALRITYU PORTUGAL
GLOBAL IMPACT CHALLENGE 2018

MARCO ESPINHEIRA ANA CASACA THOMAS KRIESE

Head of Future Head of Innovation VP of Community
Cascais City Council José de Mello Group Singularity University

ASSUNÇÃO LOUREIRO JOÃO CASTRO CARLA PIMENTA

CoFounder & COO Head of Center for Head of
Beta-i Digital Business Entrepreneurship and
Nova SBE Business Incubation
EDP Innovation

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