João Pedro Ferreira has a Master's degree in Civil Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto and graduated in Project Management from Porto Business School.

With a professional career directed towards the area of innovation project management and strategic management for the construction sector, he currently works as Innovation Manager at Grupo ACA, having held, in the past, management positions in consulting and civil engineering companies. 

Fernando Frias is currently a member of the Executive Board of Grupo ACA.

Civil Engineer and senior member of the Order of Engineers he has a professional career with about 30 years of experience in the construction sector. Throughout his professional career he has held site management positions, Road and Infrastructure department direction, having also held senior management positions in national construction companies. 

Given the functions performed, he has a vast international experience related to the construction sector and to the management of large companies.

Diogo Felisberto is the Managing Director at Innovation by Kaizen, the innovation arm of the Kaizen Institute Consulting Group. He is graduated in Industrial Engineering and Management from Porto University and has an Executive Education Innovation degree from Insead.

He has close to 15 years of consulting experience across Western Europe, Middle East and the Asia-Pacific region. Diogo has deep experience supporting Retail, Healthcare and FMCG clients, with a broad functional skill set including corporate strategy deployment, corporate innovation, operational excellence, change management and large-scale transformation/turnaround.

Ana is the Executive Director of the Centre for Business Innovation at Porto Business School.

Throughout her career of over 20 years she has worked in the areas of innovation, management, knowledge valorization and digital transformation. She has a background in Engineering and Industrial Management, which she complemented with courses and training in various areas over the years, mainly in innovation and management.

With international experience, her background comes mainly from industrial companies, as well as from institutions of the Portuguese Scientific and Technological System, having worked in the areas of manufacturing, teaching, consulting, innovation management, digital transformation, technology transfer, entrepreneurship, development and management of digital platforms or communication and backoffice management. She worked for institutions such as INOVA+, COTEC Portugal, University of Aveiro, Vangest Group, INEGI or Philips.

At CBI Ana helps organizations who want to turn innovation, entrepreneurship, digital transformation and sustainability into business reality.

He is the Executive Director of the Innovation Ecosystem at NOVA SBE.

Expert, professor-of-practice and consultant in the areas of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. He is a member of the Berkeley Innovation Forum and an external expert of the European Commission and the OECD for the HEInnovate initiative. Rui is currently a strategic advisor to Sogrape and sits at the Advisory Board of Grow by José de Mello and the Investment Committee of Beta Capital.

He was Executive Director at Porto Business School, where he also founded and directed the Center for Business Innovation and was director of the Postgraduate Program in Business Innovation. He was the founder and coordinator of Porto Design Factory, at Politécnico do Porto, where he managed more than 100 innovation projects with some of the largest companies in the world. In this context, he has integrated several innovation ecosystems, namely the Design Factory Global Network and the Stanford University Global Alliance for Redesign.

Rui was also part of the group of founders of the ScaleUp Porto initiative and works, as a mentor, entrepreneur and consultant, in several entrepreneurship ecosystems and with several startups.