MIT and Portugal in the challenges for the Planet and the Society

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1 2018 GoPortugal Global Science and Technology Partnerships Portugal symposium MIT and Portugal in the challenges for the Planet and the Society 16th February Engineering School, University of Minho Auditorium 0.20 (Building 2), Guimarães

2 09:15-09:20 Welcome Address 09:20-09:40 Opening Session 09:40-11:10 Round Table I Space, Sea, Climate & Data Science: a contribution to Atlantic International Research Center 11:10-11:30 Coffe break 11:30-13:00 Round Table II Smart Industry: from new industrial concepts to the digital transformation 13:00-14:30 Lunch 14:30-16:00 Round Table III Cities as Sustainable Systems 16:00-16:30 Wrap up and Final Remarks 16:30-17:00 Closing Session Manuel Heitor, Minister of Science, Technology and High Education Rui Vieira de Castro, Rector of the University of Minho Paulo Ferrão, President of Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT)

3 09:15-09:20 Welcome Address 09:20-09:40 Opening Session - A path towards a new partnership Ten years after initiating an institutional joint venture between Portugal and MIT, it is clearly evident that the MIT Portugal Program (MPP) has been successful. A new program of research, education, and innovation for was planned and it will be briefly presented, exploring the main drivers, the priorities and the new challenges from all the program stakeholders. António Cunha, MIT Portugal Program - Program Governing Board

4 09:40-11:10 Round Table I Space, Sea, Climate & Data Science: a contribution to Atlantic International Research Center (co-organized by the AIR Centre) Keynote: An Earth Operating Manual Through a cognitive platform that curates the quintillion bytes of daily data from ocean, climate, air, and near-space satellites for breakthrough gains in knowledge and solutions to heal Spaceship Earth in one decade. Incorporating AI, machine learning, and natural language tools to curate open data from NASA, NOAA, ESA, and other relevant databases, and synthesize it for the public, policy makers, consumers, and businesses will be, definitely, a bold challenge for research. Dava Newman, MIT AeroAstro Moderator: José Moutinho, AIR Centre Marcos Martins, UMinho Frederico Ferreira, IST - U Lisboa João Crespo, U Nova Lisboa Eugénio Ferreira, UMinho David Otero, U Porto Ricardo Mendes, TEKEVER Sérgio Barbedo, EDISOFT 11:10-11:30 Coffee break

5 11:30-13:00 Round Table II Smart Industry: from new industrial concepts to the digital transformation (co-organized by DTx: Digital Transformation CoLab) Keynote: Interacting with Personal Fabrication Machines In anticipation of 3D printers reaching millions of users, how to allow future users to interact with the new hardware? This keynote will be focused on a series of interactive software + hardware systems created to answer this question. They are characterized by two main properties. First, they produce physical output quickly, allowing users not only to see their results, but also to touch and test their mechanical properties as users work towards a solution. Second, the systems allow users to interact directly with the workpiece. Stefanie Mueller, MIT CSAIL/HCI Moderator: Ricardo Machado, UMinho/DTx: Digital Transformation CoLab Paulo Cruz, UMinho Jorge Belinha, IP Porto Elsa Henriques, IST - U Lisboa Paulo Flores, UMinho Américo Azevedo, U Porto Francisco Duarte, Bosch Car Multimédia Ângelo Ramalho, EFACEC 13:00-14:30 Lunch

6 14:30-16:00 Round Table III Cities as Sustainable Systems Keynote: Cities and Sustainability: the Atlantic Ocean-City Interface Data and computation bring an understanding of the metabolism of cities within our grasp just as the world's population has become primarily urban. From extraction of resources through manufacture and consumption of products and services, infrastructure that advances resource efficiency and resilience is critical to our urban future. In particular, the interfaces between human settlements and earth systems - for example the sea-land interface at the location of major cities along the multi-continental edge of the Atlantic Ocean - are becoming sites for solutions that address climate change and a wide range of environmental challenges. John Fernandez, MIT Moderator: Richard Neufville, MIT Daniel Aelenei, U Nova Lisboa Carla Rodrigues, U Coimbra Anabela Ribeiro, U Coimbra António Couto, U Porto A. Gomes Martins, U Coimbra Jorge Pinho de Sousa, U Porto Luís Picado dos Santos, IST - U Lisboa Xavier Martin, DSTelecom Pedro Grilo, Lisboa City Council 16:00-16:30 Wrap up and Final Remarks Pedro Arezes, MIT Portugal Program 16:30-17:00 Closing Session Manuel Heitor, Minister of Science, Technology and High Education Rui Vieira de Castro, Rector of the University of Minho Paulo Ferrão, President of Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT)

7 Dava Newman Dava is a former Deputy Administrator of NASA and the Apollo Program Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Harvard MIT Health, Sciences, and Technology faculty member in Cambridge, MA. She is also a MacVicar Faculty Fellow (awarded for contributions to undergraduate education), former Director of the Technology and Policy Program at MIT ( ), and former Director of the MIT Portugal Program ( ). As the Director of MIT s Technology and Policy Program (TPP), she led the Institute s largest multidisciplinary graduate research program, with over 1,200 alumni. She has been a faculty member in her home department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and MIT s School of Engineering since Stefanie Mueller Stefanie is an assistant professor in the MIT EECS department, joint with MIT MechE, and a member of MIT CSAIL. In her research, she develops novel hardware and software systems that advance personal fabrication technologies. Stefanie s work has been published at the premier venues for Human-Computer Interaction ACM CHI and ACM UIST and has received several Best Paper and Honorable Mention Awards. Stefanie is also serving on the ACM CHI and UIST program committees as an associate chair. In addition, Stefanie has been an invited speaker at universities and research labs, such as MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, Harvard, CMU, Cornell, UW, ETH, Microsoft Research, Disney Research, and Adobe Research. She s also a Forbes 30 under 30 in Science and a recipient of the ACM SIGCHI Best Dissertation Award.

8 John E. Fernández Director of the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative. John E. Fernández is a professor of building technology in the Department of Architecture and a practicing architect. Fernández founded and directs the MIT Urban Metabolism Group, a highly multidisciplinary research group focused on the resource intensity of cities and design and technology pathways for future urbanization. Fernández served as Director of the Building Technology Program in the Department of Architecture from 2010 to 2015 and as the Director of the International Design Center at MIT from 2012 to Fernández has participated in the launch of two startup companies in the past 5 years. With his partner and wife, Malvina Lampietti, Fernández has been designer of more than 2.5 million square feet of new construction in Washington D.C., New York City, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Honolulu, Jakarta, Tokyo, Shanghai, and other locations.

9 MPP Industrial Affiliates Bosch Car Multimedia CEiiA Continental-Mabor DTx: Digital Transformation CoLab DST Group Edisoft EDP Efacec GMV Iber-Ollef NOS Tekever TMG Automotive