“NoIn a globalized world, entrepreneurship only prospers through the creation of networks, the exchange of knowledge and experiences. Nothing is done or happens outside a great team that is the globality of creative ecosystems”, said to Lusa the president of the Portuguese Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Rio de Janeiro, António Montenegro Fiúza, who organizes, on the same day, a pre-session -Web Summit to introduce the Portuguese delegation, in a session that will help Portuguese companies to do business in Brazil.
António Montenegro Fiúza believes that both Portugal and Brazil “need to invest in high value-added industries, strongly entering the world of digital economies”.
Especially because, he stressed, “in a society increasingly marked by instability and small economic cycles, security and stability comes from valuing the ability to undertake and innovate”.
“This is the mark of the new generations, the mark of creativity that combines with sustainability”, he said, adding that in an increasingly dematerialized economic environment, “services and ‘software’ are the definitive merchandise of the new times”.
Until Thursday, the 1st edition of the Web Summit Rio will gather more than 900 ‘startups’, 500 investors and more than 300 speakers. In total, more than 20,000 founders, investors, media, among others, from more than 100 countries, which sold out more than a month ago, will participate.
Portugal will be represented by 25 ‘startups’, linked to areas such as ‘software’, education or artificial intelligence.
BlockBee, Blue Insight Technologies, Deeploy.me, Dizconto, Enline, Frontfiles, Go Beesiness, Hoopers, IDE Social Hub, Infinite Foundry, ITERCARE, Knok Healthcare, LEADZAI, Mentorise, Modatta and Move, as well as My Data Manager, MyCareforce, ndBIM, Neroes, Sensei, SheerME, Swood, Vawlt Technologies and Wallstreeters will be the Portuguese representatives, who on the first day intend to meet with the local ‘stakeholders’ (interested parties), with several sessions scheduled on legal and tax processes and opportunities for business.
This session will be attended by the Secretary of State for Internationalization, Bernardo Ivo Cruz, the Portuguese Ambassador to Brazil, Luís Faro Ramos, the Consul General of Portugal in Rio de Janeiro, Gabriela Soares, the Secretary for Economic Development and Innovation of Rio de Janeiro, Francisco Bulhões, the mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Eduardo Pais, the president of the Portuguese Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Rio de Janeiro, António Fiúza, the executive director of Startup Portugal, António Dias Martins, as well as the director Municipal Directorate for Economy and Innovation of Lisbon City Council, Margarida Figueiredo.
Cape Verde will be another of the Portuguese-speaking countries represented with two ‘startups’, in a delegation led by the Prime Minister, Ulisses Correia e Silva, who will also, for the first time, be a speaker at the conference, where he will present the theme “Digital Transformation of a Nation “.
The technological event, which was born in 2010 in Ireland, started to be held in the Parque das Nações area, in Lisbon, in 2016 and will remain in the Portuguese capital until 2028.
The company recently announced its expansion into the Middle East, with the Web Summit Qatar scheduled for early 2024.
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