Join us to understand why Portugal is a leading destination for tech companies like Cloudflare, Google and Cisco, to connect with Portuguese entrepreneurs and influential leaders in the Bay Area and to learn about Portugal’s large and growing existing tech ecosystem, the high quality of the engineering talent pool, it's attractive immigration policy, welcoming environment and government support.
Agenda:
4:45pm - 5:00pm - Registration
5:00pm-5:30pm- Welcome & Portugal Business Opportunities
- Luis Castro Henriques - President and CEO at AICEP, the Portuguese Trade & Investment Agency
- Teresa Fernandes - Portuguese Trade and Investment Commissioner to the Western USA
Firechat panels:
5:30pm-6:00pm - How American companies are looking at Portugal
- Matthew Prince – Co-founder & CEO at Cloudflare
6:00pm-6:30pm - The investment opportunities between Silicon Valley and Portugal
- Sayan Gomel – Head of Corporate Development at Silicon Valley Bank
- Marvin Liao - Partner at 500 startups
- Nuno Goncalves Pedro - Founder and Managing Partner at Strive Capital
- Marco Fernandes - Managing Partner at 200M Fund
6:30pm-7:00pm Building large, successful global companies with distributing teams
- Bertrand Schmitt - Co-Founder, Chairman & Chief Strategist at App Annie
- Nuno Sebastiao - CEO at Feedzai
- Diogo Monica - President at Anchorage
7:00pm-8:00pm - Networking
Complimentary appetizers and soft drinks will be served.
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