Carlos Zorrinho @czorrinho at the opening of @TEDxEdges

We are really glad to have someone from the Portuguese government at TEDxEdges. Prof. Carlos Zorrinho is the National Coordinator of the Lisbon Strategy and the Technological Plan and is going to be at the opening session of TEDxEdges.

Ana Linhares Bio (Confirmed Speaker)

Ana Linhares, 28, born in Barcelos, Portugal. Graduated in sociology from Univ. Minho, she has been working in several local development projects between regional development and non-formal education, Co-founder of Alternativa (fair-trade association) and volunteer in other organizations of ecology and permaculture. Presently, Ana is in charge of a job office unit for 5 municipalities in Guarda District.
Her most recent social innovation work is related with urban exodus as she is co-founder of the "Novos Povoadores" initiative. This project aims to bring entrepreneurs and their family towards low-density areas, aiming to generate growing dynamics in local economy and provide better quality of life for the newcomers. It is a win-win situation as the entrepreneurs and their family benefit from better quality and lower costs of life, and regions gain from a more active and dynamic experience from urban people who can develop their business in a global economy.

Paulo Trezentes Bio (Confirmed Speaker)

TEDxEdges team is very happy to announce that Paulo Trezentos is going to give a talk at TEDxEdges.

Paulo Trezentos is lecturer at ISCTE-IUL (Lisbon University Institute) since 1999, teaching classes on "Operating Systems" and "Computer Architectures". In 2000, he has been granted the Prémio Milénio 2000 Expresso, for the Linux Caixa Mágica project, a national wide prize for young researchers that awards the most promising project. He is research director of Caixa Mágica where he leads the research team involved in FP7 project MANCOOSI. Paulo Trezentos graduated from ISCTE in 1999. He got a MSc in Computer Science Engineering in IST, Technical University of Lisbon. He is author and co-author of 4 books about Linux and Open Source as well as numerous technical and dissemination articles (http://paulotrezentos.polo-sul.org/books.html).

The Nokia Factor

The Advocate: Anssi Vanjoki nokia.com

Nokia (NOK) veteran Vanjoki is the most visible advocate for the Finnish handset maker's transition from hardware manufacturer to provider of mobile Internet services. As executive vice-president, markets, Vanjoki is responsible for convincing consumers as well as business partners that Nokia's devices are useful for much more than talking and occasionally snapping a photo. The "multimedia computers," as Vanjoki likes to call Nokia smartphones, are becoming gateways to the Internet and services such as social networking, music downloads or navigation. Nokia will need all the determination that the hard-driving Vanjoki, who hunts bear in his spare time, can muster. It's directly taking on Apple, Google, and Research in Motion.
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Carlos Oliveira Bio (Confirmed Speaker)

Carlos Oliveira is 32 years old and was born in Braga, Portugal. He is a graduate from Universidade do Minho in Eng. Sistemas e Informática in 2000. PAGETTI in Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Carlos is a Co-Founder of MobiComp in 2000 (when he was 22 years old) and has been MobiComp CEO since its inception till the acquisition by Microsoft. Carlos is currently Product Unit Manager at Microsoft and Vice-President of Associação Industrial do Minho. Carlos Oliveira was decorated by the President of Portugal Jorge Sampaio in 2006. Carlos mantains his Entrepreneur spirit alive. Carlos is an avid traveller (I can confirm this because I followed some of his twits).

The Secret of Yossi Vardi Success

Joseph (Yossi) Vardi is an Israeli high-tech entrepreneur. He has founded and helped to build over 50 high-tech companies in a variety of fields, among them software, energy, Internet, mobile phones, electro-optics and water technology.

TED Blog: From software exec to electric car revolutionary: Exclusive interview with Shai Agassi

TED Blog: From software exec to electric car revolutionary: Exclusive interview with Shai Agassi

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Álvaro Santos Pereira Bio (Confirmed Speaker)

Álvaro Santos Pereira is professor in the Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, Canada), where he teaches the disciplines of Economic Development and Economic Policy. He is a professor at the University of British Columbia, where he teaches macroeconomics. He already taught in the departments of Economics, University of York (2005-2007) and the University of British Columbia (2000-2004). Graduate in economics in 2003 from the Simon Fraser University. Licensed by the University of Coimbra. He has collaborated on a number of newspapers like PUBLICO. Since 2001, works in the Diário de Notícias and the Diário Económico, and has written for magazine Exame, and the newspaper Expresso. He was born in 1972 in Viseu. He is the author of the blog Desmitos .

Prof. Álvaro Santos Pereira is going to lead the open table discussion at the end of the TEDxEdges.

Neil Armstrong: "One Small Step..." HD video

You can watch the HD 720p digitally restaured movie of Neil Armstrong descending the lunar module ladder here (requires Quicktime).

TEDxEdges celebrates the 40 years of "Man on the Moon."

As a side curiosity, the "Man on the Moon" was only the 7th news entry of the portuguese state TV news 40 years ago... I wonder what was so important to be have been the first.

Great Smartphone UI review

This post of Matthew Miller on ZDNET, is a great Smartphone UI vs feature list.

Rui Campos, that will be at TEDxEdges as part of our interactive audience, suggested us this demo -- from Pattie Maes' lab at MIT, spearheaded by Pranav Mistry. We are also big fans of this video here at TEDxEdges. It's really great that we will be having Miguel Dias from Microsoft to give a talk on new human machine interfaces.

Paulo Ferreira dos Santos Bio (Confirmed Speaker)

Paulo has a Degree in Computer Sciences applied to Management from University Portucalense (Porto, Portugal) and a Master in Innovation and Technological Entrepreneurship from University of Porto (Portugal). He has started until now 5 different companies. Presently, he is the CEO of Tomorrow Options – Microelectronics a company based in Porto (Portugal) and Sheffield (UK) that develops innovative electronic medical devices.

Paulo is going to give a talk on “Improving health staff efficacy and patients welfare. Simple medical devices to solve big problems."

Stewart Brand proclaims 4 environmental 'heresies'

It's quite interesting that Stewart Brand pointed Portugal as one of the countries considering Nuclear power (as far as I know, Nuclear power might be discussed during this year's political campaign for general government elections). I would like to know the opinion of the leading candidates, but I'm afraid they will do their best to keep this topic out of their agendas. For our guest countries, Finland is adding some reactors and Israel is also considering nuclear power as an option to its electricity power mix.

Oy Vey! Israeli VCs Exceptionally Gloomy on 2009

Oy Vey! Israeli VCs Exceptionally Gloomy on 2009

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PW Singer on military robots and the future of war

I leave the comments on this video for you. Tell me if yould like us to invite P.W. Singer to TEDxEdges.

Dan Ariely on our buggy moral code

Dan Ariely has just seen his book "Predictably Irrational"
translated to Portuguese, with the title "Previsivelmente Irracional" by Estrela Polar Editora. Dan Ariely (born 1968) is an Israeli professor of behavioral economics. He teaches at Duke University and is head of the eRationality research group at the MIT Media Lab.

Barry Schwartz on the paradox of choice

A friend has shared this video about the excess of possibilities of choice, hope you like it. I'm considering this video as a candidate for being shown at TEDxEdges. Comment on this and tell me what you think about it.

Proudly wearing my TEDxEdges black pin today! and you can also get one.

Yesterday night, I had my first shipment of TEDxEdges black pins (limited edition) waiting for me at the mailbox :) Today, I'm proudly wearing my TEDxEdges pin. You can also get one (see previous post).

Luis Monteiro (a.k.a the Portuguese Human Penguin) is a Confirmed Speaker

Luis is a pionner in blogging and the creator of www.estounanet.com back in 2003 when blogging was not common at all. He started telling stories of his voyages around the World and new friendships. One day he got struck by Antarctica, the South continent.

Luis (aka the Portuguese Human Penguin) is going give us a talk on "Antarctica, blogging for a dream". He is going to explain us why we should vote for him at Blog your way to Antartica, and why we should do our best to preserve this wild but very fragile part of nature.

To vote for him, please follow: www.tinyurl.com/voteluis

To check out how he is having fun with all this: www.rumoantarctica.com

His personal blog: www.estounanet.com/blog

Tiago Forjaz from Jason Associates is a Confirmed Speaker

Tiago Forjaz from Jason Associates, is the daddy of the The Star Tracker social network, and he is going to be with us telling how we can use social networking to build a Portuguese lobby in Silicon Valley among other interesting stuff. He is a also a confirmed speaker.

Paulo Santos from Tomorrow Options is a Confirmed Speaker

Paulo Santos, the CEO of a Tomorrow-Options, a Start-Up focused on the development of advanced electronic devices in Portugal is going to be present at TEDxEdges. More on this soon...

Miguel Dias from Microsoft Portugal is a Confirmed Speaker

I have the great pleasure to announce that Prof. Miguel Dias, the director of Microsoft Development Center in Portugal is going to be present at TEDxEdges, he is going to talk about the future on human-machine interaction and why Portugal is a great place for an R&D center. More on this soon...

TEDxEdges Contents to be Distributed for Free under CC license.

TEDxEdges media content to be licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

TEDxEdges has an Official PIN.

Hi there TEDxEdges followers. Yes, TEDxEdges has an official pin and you can get one. It's a real cool pin, all black with the TEDxEdges logo in center.

So, you want one? Just drop a line to tedxedges@gmail.com, and we will reserve you as many pins as you want for €2/ each, and you will be helping us organising TEDxEdges and make it a memorable experience. Pre-order asap. We will be sending TEDxEdges pins by mail (min. 3 order) or giving them at the TEDxEdges reception at FLAD, on the 18th of September.

António Murta Bio (Confirmed Speaker)

António worked in retail for 15 years following a distinguished academic career. Early in his retail career, António was CIO of Sonae, the largest retailer in Portugal, where he led the development of systems and processes identified by Forrester as one of the best in Europe for a food retailer. Sonae was the first major food retailer in the world to deploy the Oracle Retail merchandising system, and António pioneered much of the early content of Oracle Retail's food functionality.

In 1997, he founded Enabler, a company dedicated to serving international retailers. António's strength is food retailing. He is interested in business and IS/IT architecture and the foundations for a scalable retailing engine. He considers innovation a key lever of productivity and competitiveness in today's market.

In 2006, Wipro (the Indian IS integrator/outsourcer) acquired Enabler and António became VP of Retail Services for Wipro.

During the last few years he has also invested (as a founding shareholder) in a number of other IT companies—Mobicomp, ITPeers, Profimetrics, and DHomeSphere. He is also a guest professor at EGP, the Porto Business School.

João Mendonça, the Country Manager for Comverse Portugal is a Confirmed Speaker

I have the great pleasure to announce that the Israeli company COMVERSE is going to be present at TEDxEdges, more on this soon...

Confirmed Speaker Bio (Francisco Veloso)

Francisco Veloso is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University and in the Business School at Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Francisco's scholarly work focuses on how firms and regions develop and leverage scientific and technical capabilities for economic growth. He has published in leading academic journals, including the Academy of Management Review, the Journal of Operation Management, or Research Policy and worked with a variety of international firms and organizations such as Alcoa Inc., Accenture, McKinsey & Co., the Asian Development Bank, or The Mexican and Portuguese Science and Technology Foundations. Francisco has won several international awards, including the Stan Hardy award for the best paper published in the field of Operations Management in 2008 and the Alfred P. Sloan Industry Studies Fellowship for 2008-2010. Francisco has a PhD in Technology, Management and Policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an M.S. in Technology Management from ISEG and a Diploma in Physics Engineering from IST, both part of the Technical University of Lisbon. For more information see www.veloso.net. 

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TEDxEdges Organizers Bios (Rui Ribeiro)

Rui Ribeiro is the Director of LISS - Lusofona Information Systems School and IT Director at "Estradas de Portugal", a public Portuguese company. Mr. Ribeiro was also responsible for 11 years for the area of Consulting Services at Sybase in Portugal. He is a Doctoral candidate at ISCTE, has an MBA from the Portuguese Catholic University and a Degree in Computer Science Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico.