Author: Goncalo PAIS SIMOES

On the 6th of February at Restaurante Clara Jardim in Lisbon, we had nearly 40 alumni for lunch with António Carrapatoso. In his talk, António explained his professional life journey, highlighting his early involvement in the launch of what would be the second mobile communication company operating in Portugal, Telecel, later on acquired by Vodafone.…

Today we had lunch at Casa da Música in Porto. We celebrated Christmas and the INSEAD spirit with a merry table of 24 alumni. We said farewell with many requests for a soon to happen encore. We hope those that could not join this time can come next time! We wish everyone a Merry Christmas…

The 4th of November 2019 we had the presence of Prof. Jennifer Petriglieri in an afterwork event at Euronext Lisbon. Prof. Petriglieri had recently been featured in WSJ with an article on her new book, with the same title as her talk at Euronext: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-key-to-bliss-for-a-dual-career-couple-a-contract-11570186805 We had many alumni and their significant others attend the…

On the 10th of October, at Campo dos Mártires da Pátria in Lisboa, AAA INSEAD Portugal had a lunch with Professor Arlindo Oliveira, President of Instituto Superior Técnico (one of the most reputable engineering schools of Lisbon University). 30 alumni attended the get-together. Professor Oliveira, a specialist on Algorithms and Complexity, Machine Learning, Bioinformatics and…

The first INSEAD NAA Portugal Padel Tournament happened the 28th September, at the Padel courts of Quinta do Fojo, in Gaia, with the sponsorship of BEBÉVIDA and RODEL and the support of SuperbockGroup and Jornal Vida Económica. With a start by 9am, the player roster counted 9 male doubles, divided into 3 groups. The winners of…

The INSEAD Entrepreneurship Forum 2019 took place in Madrid, focused on the theme “Excellent Execution 2: Deeper”. It’s the INSEAD Forum to go if you are a startup or investor looking to expand your business and learn from outstanding speakers from all over the world. This edition again confirmed the diversity and range in the…

The 12th of September 2019 marks the 60th anniversary of INSEAD. For this year’s event, the Portuguese NAA visited the Museu do Oriente in a special opening, exploring the cultural connections between Europe, Middle East and Asia, a proper tribute for the school with its campi in these locations. Pedro da Cunha gave an update…

INSEAD Entrepreneurship and Private Equity Club event the 17th of June at VdA Vieira de Almeida. Thanks to our wonderful speakers: Pedro Mendes Leal sharing with us how he and his team built and then exited Empark Aparcamientos y Servicios S.A. Francisco Ferreira Pinto explaining the strategy behind Busy Angels.

In the weekend of May 24-25, our NAA Spain and NAA Portugal hosted their 3rd annual Iberian Event in Évora, a Unesco Heritage site in Portugal. Our alumni had a great together in one of the most beautiful places on earth. Professor Theodoros Evegeniou joined them for a special session on AI and Machine Learning.…

March 18th’s event on #corporategovernance in the #bankingindustry with INSEAD Professors Ludo VAN DER HEYDEN and Peter Nathanial and also Vitor Bento. Joined by a large audience who nearly filled the Deloitte hub, the panel discussed topics which ranged from opportunities of digitization in dramatic changes to the business model and to transparency, to what…