ABES Software Conference 2013 will be on August 21 in São Paulo

ABES will hold on the 21st of August, at the Hotel Ceaser Business, in São Paulo, the ABES Software Conference 2013, from 8 am to 1:30 pm. The event will have as its theme “Innovation: Opportunities and Challenges for Brazilian IT”, and will consist of three debate panels: Challenges for Innovation, Opportunities with Funds and Sources of Promotion and the presentation, at first hand, of the research results ABES/IDC on the evolution of the Brazilian Software and Services Market in 2012.
 
The meeting is intended for technology professionals, businessmen, journalists, representatives of public authorities and sector entities to discuss the challenges and the future of the Brazilian software market. Invited speakers from MCTI, Finep and BNDES are expected, as well as entrepreneurs, who will tell their success stories in innovation.
 
Free, the conference has limited spaces. Applications can be made until August 12 by phone: (11) 3266-2450 or e-mail: abes@comarteventos.com.br.
 
 
Service:
ABES Software Conference
August 21st of 2013
From 8 am to 12:30 pm
Hotel Ceaser Busines – Av. Paulista, 2181, Sao Paulo (SP)
Registration: until August 12, (11) 3266-2450 or e-mail: abes@comarteventos.com.br
 
 
Schedule (subject to change)
 
8 am: Accreditation and Welcome Coffee
 
9 am: Opening – Jorge Sukarie, president of ABES
 
9:15 am: Panel I – Challenges for Innovation
Guilherme Bernard (Reason) – Finep Innovation Award 2011
Virgílio Almeira, (MCTI Department of Information Technology Policy) – Public Policies
Eduardo Costa (UFSC, Ágora Lab, Smart Cities) – Smart Cities and Innovation
 
10:15 am: coffee break
 
10:30 am: Paine II – Opportunities with Funds and Fostering Sources
Irecê Fraga Kauss Loureiro (BNDES) – Innovation Incentive
Anré Nunes (Finep) – Opportunities and Challenges in ICTs
Alexandre Vilela (Intel Capital) – Investment in Companies in the Sector
Roberto Ribeiro da Cruz (Pixeon) – Invested Company Experience
 
12:15: Panel III – Brazilian Software and Services Market – Jorge Sukarie (President of ABES)
 
12:30 pm: Closing
 
12:45: Lunch