Pelourinho

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Theme: Smart City

Bahia, Brazil
September 22nd, 2012

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About this event

We will have talks about ideas to create a Smart City! Sustainable energies, new technologies, ong that is changing kids life are some of the issues we will cover!

Confirmed Speakers

  • Gabriel Gomes
    Gabriel Medeiros Gomes, 23, graduated from PUCRS in Advertising. Speaker and social entrepreneur, he is a former Art Director at DCS agencies and Competence. He is also Co-Founder of Shoot The Shit, collective that works in the city development and local engagement, and Managing Director of the Cosmonaut - office of planning and creating presentations. (Co). Author of webhits as LasFG.tumblr.com, kidiaba.tumblr.com, Male's Synonymous, and start-up founder of Job.me. He believes that an Intelligent City is democratic, offers protagonism opportunity to people, leads to local development, plans a sustainable ecosystem, and promotes self esteem to the population.
  • Debora Didone
    Debora Didone is a journalist and coordinator of Collective Flowerbeds , a citizen initiative that has a goal to recovery urban green areas of the city of Salvador. Enthusiastic social networks, launched the idea in a discussion forum on improvements in Salvador and realized that her dream was shared by many others: see the city flowerbeds without garbage and filled with plants. Deborah was born in San Angelo (RS), was established in Joinville (SC) and has lived in Florianopolis and Sao Paulo. She is a former Editora Abril reporter and wrote for numerous advertising media. Today she focuses her reporting on ideas that contribute to a healthy life in big cities.
  • Txai
    Txai is Electrical Engineer by training, Master and Ph.D. in Environment. But he is a bit more than that: Capoeirista, Aikido Master, Musician, Songwriter - in 2005 he launched the album "Where Brazil is more Brazil" - the first Carbon Free CD on the planet. He has been working for over 20 years with renewable energy and climate change, participating in the development of projects to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. He already has coordinated over 600 compensation emissions plans for forest restoration, made ​​possible the planting of more than 300,000 native trees, was a consultant to the World Bank and the UN. His intelligent city pays emissions.
  • Cezar Taurion
    "A smart city does not happen overnight. It takes a long journey. " Is what he believes Cezar Taurion. Director of New Technologies, is a professional and scholar of Information Technology since the late 70s. With diverse formal education in Economics, a Masters in Computer Science and MBA in Marketing Services, and a consultant with professional experience fashioned by working in sized companies worldwide, Taurion has actively participated in cases from different characteristics and complexities in Brazil and abroad. Constantly writes about information technology in specialized publications and websites, and presents lectures at events and conferences of repute and has six published books. He was professor of MBA in strategic management of IT FGV-RJ and Entrepreneurship Chair in Internet by NCE / UFRJ. In his spare time, when they appear ... make tracks .. studying history and threatens to play a guitar.
  • Victor Sorrentino
    The Gaucho Victor Sorrentino carries in his DNA the relationship with plastic surgery. Son of a plastic surgeonhas breathed this practice since his early years and followed his training specializing in Plastic Surgery in Rio de Janeiro. However the idealistic vein combined with the possibility of working regularly in several countries have made his way had crossed with a medical science called "The Future Medicine" and it was there that his ideals were passionately involved. Today he is a symbol of a scientific movement that aims to enable healthy Longevity through active prevention defiance paradigms of medicine hidden from people. His weapon: information.
  • Rodrigo Hurtado
    Designer and passionate about movie, music, technology and people. Works with interactive communication for more than 10 years, having developed interactive projects for companies such as Google, Honda, Samsung, Petrobras and Cencosud Group among others. He is a partner and creative director of interactive agency DMI. Lives guided by curiosity and seeking new ways to unite people through technology.
  • Pablo Florentino
    "A smart city is a city designed for people." This is how Pablo sees on the wider horizon the needed changes to the thoughts and ideas for contemporary cities. He chose the bicycle as his primary means of transportation and seeks to participate and stimulate discussions on mobility and the Right to the City. Through the collectives of which he takes part, participates takes part in simple interventions and actions on the public space that draw attention to the more human side, artistic and social. Among his walks and hikes, he realized that bike is a universal tool for increasing and improving accessibility to life, as a means of better understanding the dynamics of cities. In addition to cycling he likes walking through town: it was how he built his own geography of Salvador as a child, and as he did in Rio de Janeiro, the city that hosted him for nearly six years. He is a professor of higher education at the Federal Institute of Bahia, with Bachelor's and Master's degree in Computer Science, PhD in the area of ​​developing Urbanism, and Zabumba player in his spare time.
  • Leticia Lisboa
    Leticia Lisboa is Director of Digital Dossier, first enterprise social business in Bahia. Launched in 2007, Dossier is consolidating itself as a company of application development to the base of the pyramid. Its differential? Its technology allows youth who shares the same social reality to create these applications, along with the Dossier, commercialize through Brazil by its online shop. In each sell wins the young, and the entrepreneur who has the application which is cheap and customized to his needs, and Dossier also wins. Leticia is Master in Business Administration, specialized in Systems Analysis, Organizational Psychology and also has an MBA in Project Management, had worked in large companies deploying integrated solutions such as: Microsiga, Datasul, SAP. She uses this experience to assist small businesses. Come meet a little further about the project.
  • Ives Quaglia
    Teacher, art educator and visual artist - graduated in Design and Plastic Arts from the School of Fine Arts UFBA (1990). Made, born and raised in Itapuã, as he likes to point out, Ives has worked in multiple activities in the arts interacting artistic languages ​​in theater, circus, museums, music, art education, popular culture and more. In 1995, at Junior College Lomanto, located in the neighborhood of Itapuã, he created the project ROLE OF SCHOOL, developing diverse experience in the design, manufacture and production of artistic objects / functional / didactic, reusing many materials, mainly interactive paper, engaging other knowledge areas becoming a reference in this context. He also participates in the organization and coordination of community festivals from Itapuã, mainly the FEAST OF THE WHALE, for which he is responsible for overall coordination. He is currently deputy director of CEEP - State Center for Professional Education in Art and Design and coordinator of the Commission's environmental IRA - Itapuã Residents Association.
  • Juliana Ribeiro
    The singer Juliana Ribeiro is a native of Salvador. Since the beginning of his career, in 2001, she joins search for artistic creation. The artist, who is also a historian, was a student of the Faculty of Special Canto Popular UNICAMP and has technical training in classical singing from UFBA. In recognition of the great vocal range and striking timbragem, Juliana was nominated Caymmi Award 2007 in the Singer Revelation category. Recently acquired the title of Master by the Multidisciplinary Program in Culture and Society at the Faculty of Communication UFBA, with Essay 'When Brazil sings: an analysis of the urban carioca Samba on National Radio in 1950', which deals with the Samba history and construction as a modern national symbol In her work, brings the rhythmic variations in the repertoire of samba, such as Lundu, the Batuque, Jongos, Angolans Sembas, Gherkin, Samba-de-Umbigada, among other genres.

Venue and Details

Teatro Sesc Senac Pelourinho
Largo Terreira de Jesus
Pelourinho
Bahia,
Brazil

September 22nd, 2012
9:00am-6:00pm (GMT -3hrs)

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Leticia Janicsek
Salvador - Bahia, Brazil

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Alexandre San Galo
Salvador, Ba, Brazil

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