2037 – The challenges for the next 15 years

Francisco Jaime Quesado, Economist and Manager, Specialist in the area of ​​Innovation and Competitiveness, has performed in the last 30 years Management functions in various entities in the Public and Private Sectors, coordinating numerous national and international projects focused on creating value from Competitive Intelligence and Open Innovation. He regularly collaborates in the national and international press and is a regular speaker at conferences promoted by reference entities. He is the author of 5 books, the last of which THE NEW WAY – The Competence Agenda for the Trust Society points out clues for the next challenges for our economy and society.

“Best Businesswoman in Europe” by the European Parliament in 2011 and “Best International Business Woman” by the USA in 2016 for all the innovation she created in the cork sector through Pelcor. She represented Portugal at the summit “A New Beginning: Entrepreneurship and Business Innovation” in 2013, created by President Obama to harness the creativity and innovation of the private sector to respond to the concerns of global challenges.

In February 2017, Sandra Isabel Correia created a new movement for Portugal – Women’s Club Portugal with an innovative concept in order to enhance Equal Opportunities through meritocracy and Gender Equality, always based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Mentor, entrepreneur, mental coach and motivational speaker, Sandra Isabel Correia created in 2018 her brand #oamorexiste and makes mentoring her main activity “only through sharing between people, we can be better human beings and boost the economy of each country, just because #oamorexiste <3″.

In partnership with Clube VII, she created the brand #Mind7 and develops the entire Mindfulness area in the club through this brand.

Since 2019, she has been part of the Planetiers team as an International Adviser for the Sustainable Innovation Summit with a seat in the ODS (Sustainable Development Goals) “Planetiers World Gathering” in Lisbon 2020 and 2022.

In 2020 she created the #oamorexiste Academy where, through mentoring and her activity as a mental coach, she leverages the entire business and human area of ​​each mind and through the peer to peer system. An innovative concept based on methods of learning through sharing.

In 2020, she co-authored and commented the TVI24 Planetiers Home Gathering program on Sustainable Innovation.

Samuel Soares, attended the Mechanical Engineering course at ISEP and held a Postgraduate Degree in Commercial Management and Sales at IPAM, author of the book “O Caminho do Sonhador”, co-author of the book AMA o Marketing, CEO and co-founder of Samsys, a company consultancy and IT solutions, with 24 years of experience and a team of 60 professionals, PME Excellence for 4 years, PME Líder for 12 years, recognized as one of the 25 best companies to work for in Portugal and 5 consecutive years in the group of the most happy in Portugal, 2nd place in the Excellence Index, a project that he started in 1997 with his brother in his room, is a practitioner of the old adage “a healthy body in a healthy mind”.

Determined, passionate about life, an inveterate athlete, whether in Trails, BTT or Crossfit, he is also an avid reader of everything that can help him to grow, namely, leadership, sales, management, strategy, body language, emotional intelligence, psychology or neuroscience.

Add to all this the willingness and ability to share your knowledge with anyone who wants to listen, be it a new acquaintance, an audience of strangers or the entire Samsys team.