Beatriz Riscado

In the years since 2009, Web Summit has grown from a 150-person conference in Dublin to a global event series gathering more than 140,000 attendees every year from all over the world. We build incredible things, from technology and stages to relationships and experiences. Since 2009, weve grown our team to more than 340 people. At our headquarters in Dublin, Ireland – and in Portugal, Canada, Qatar, Brazil and many more locations around the world – incredible engineers, developers, producers, designers, marketers and salespeople come together to create unique global events. In Europe, North America, South America, Asia and the Middle East, we are builders of world-class global technology festivals. Our events take on the flavour of their surroundings, while still retaining the successful framework weve fine-tuned over the years. Web Summit events have become unrivalled global meeting places for the worlds most disruptive technology companies, and for those interested in how that disruption can transform their businesses and their lives. Help us build great things: https://websummit.com/careers

BGI is a startup accelerator, born in 2010 from a partnership between MIT Portugal (MIT Portugal Entrepreneurship and Innovation Initiative) and ISCTE. Over the past decade, our flagship accelerator program, BGI Accelerator, has helped over 160 startups from 76 countries raise over €300 million. The accelerator is directed at aspiring entrepreneurs and innovators (startups under 5 years old), working on 4 market verticals: 1. Medical Devices & Health IT; 2. Smart cities & Industry 4.0 Solutions; 3. Enterprise IT & Smart Data; 4. Water Economy. Since 2016, BGI has also acted as the local partner of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), being responsible for delivering its acceleration, education and open innovation initiatives in Portugal aimed at different areas of innovation: Digital, Climate, Food, Health, Urban Mobility, Raw Materials and Manufacturing. Alongside this, BGI has also been working as an enabler, developing collaborative innovation and entrepreneurship projects with private companies. Currently, BGI is seeking to focus more and more on new sustainability and agrifood projects, putting innovation and technology at the service of current sustainability challenges. The motto "Sustainable Ventures" signs the shift we are making from pure tech to sustainable & agro tech. For more information visit: https://www.bgi.pt/