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Manuel Dias has a rather vast work experience. With a education background in Electronics and Computer Science at Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon.
Manuel Dias has worked at Efacec in software engineering for realtime embedded systems, then moved to Outsystems as a Manager of Business Solutions where he led the unit focused on solutions for integration with SAP ERP, solutions for Procurement and solutions for Utilities operating in liberalized markets, and later led also the Project Management Unit.
After this enriching experience throughout its career, Manuel joined Microsoft to work on solutions in Big Data, Analytics and Artificial Intelligence and works currently as Director Enterprise Technical Sales by providing clients with their Digital Transformation needs.
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Celso Martinho is a geek technologist, maker with an entrepreneurial soul and he will be with us in SYP 2018 Porto!
In 1995, he and his colleagues at the University of Aveiro created SAPO. It became the leading web portal in Portugal and a technology provider and innovation unit for the PT Portugal group, developing new products and services for the web, media, infosec and the telco industries.
In late 2015 he left SAPO and went to create Bright Pixel.
Since then, he has started and closed a number of startups, helped with management decisions in multiple companies and is the creator of many tech events, such as PixelsCamp, and Lisbon Maker Faire.
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Bev Bachmayer is a software consultant focusing on performance analysis and execution of the instruction stream through the hardware architecture. Through her 33 years working at Intel, she has held numerous software engineering, performance engineering and engineering management positions in the US and Europe.
She is a member of the ACM-W Europe executive committee, was a founding member of the IEEE WIE group in Germany, mentored University students at TU Munich and lead the Munich Women in Computing local meetups.
Additionally she developed and delivered coding workshops for kids from 2014 to 2017 with support from Intel Munich, including refugees attending the BerufsHochschule in Munich. She tirelessly works to increase the number of women who study STEM subjects and the number of women that stay in STEM fields. In an ideal world, she believes that someday equal numbers of women in technology roles will be the norm.
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Koen Bertels is the Head of the Quantum & Computer Engineering Department and head of the Quantum Computer Architecture Lab. at TU Delft. Koen currently focuses on Quantum Computing and more specifically on the overall system design and architecture aspects. In this respect, he is a principal investigator in Qutech where he collaborates with experimental physicists on building prototype quantum processors.
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