Bridging Innovation with China Greater Bay Area

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We’re back with the Get Started Talks, featuring another exciting international session!

Marco Duarte Rizzolio will introduce a startup competition designed to build bridges between China and Portuguese-speaking countries through sustainability-driven businesses. He’ll also share how your startup can be one of the three winning teams to receive a total of $30,000 USD in cash prizes and $4,000 USD in in-kind services from Alibaba Cloud.

📌 Location: UALG TEC CAMPUS, Faro
⏰ Time: 11h00 - 12h30
📅 Date: Fri, Feb 21, 2025

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Speaker
Marco Duarte Rizzolio
Entrepreneur, Co-Founder of 929 Challenge, and Director of Macau Spin Incubator (USJ University Incubator).
Marco has vast international business development experience across Europe, Latin America, and Asia. Lived in Portugal, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, France, Spain, Brazil, and Macau. Past experience includes Solutions sales in Financial Technology: Driven Data and Trading Platforms for Financial Analysis within Equities, Bonds, Foreign Exchange, Money Markets, Commodities & Energy, ESG. Before coming to Macau marco was Head of Sales and New Business in Thomson Reuters Brazil.
Since early 2016, moved from a corporate environment to the world of start-ups. Marco is an active member of the Macau Startup Ecosystem and a Startup founder. He is also a Guestlecturer at City University of Macau. Actual president of the Association for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Macau, China and Portuguese Speaking Countries. Work Interests in Innovation, Technology, Entrepreneurship, Intrapreneurship, Foresight, Business Development, and Sustainability, among others.

Guest Entity

929 Challenge
Focus on catalyze startup ideas that forge impactful connections between China and Portuguese-speaking countries.

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