Liliana Ferreira : Executive Director at Fraunhofer Portugal

Liliana Ferreira is the Director of the Fraunhofer Research Center for Assistive Information and Communication Solutions (AICOS) in Portugal and visiting Professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. Her research focuses mainly on the areas of Natural Language Processing, Medical Knowledge Representation, Information Extraction, and Health Informatics.
Liliana holds a degree in Applied Mathematics and Technology by the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto (2002), an MSc in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, University of Aveiro (2005), and a Ph.D. in Informatics (2011) also from the University of Aveiro, Portugal.
Liliana has developed her career in industry and research organizations as Philips Research Eindhoven (NL), IBM Research and Development Böblingen (DE), the Institute of Electronics and Telematics Engineering of Aveiro (PT), the Ubiquitous Knowledge Lab of the Technical University of Darmstadt (DE) and the University of Tübingen (DE).

Pedro Miguel Neves : R&D Altice Labs

Pedro Miguel Neves received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Aveiro, Portugal, in 2006 and 2012, respectively.
After graduation, he became a research fellow at the Telecommunications Institute, where he worked on European funded projects on broadband wireless access networks.
In June 2006 he joined PT Inovação, working on heterogeneous wireless environments in the context of European and Eurescom funded projects.
He participated in more than 10 international collaborative projects, is co-author of six international books, and has published more than 30 articles in journals and conference proceedings.