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🚀 The Algarve Blockchain Community (ABC) invites you to an epic Monthly Mixer & One-Year Anniversary Celebration! 🎉

​The ABC and the Algarve Evolution want you to join us in celebrating our One-Year Anniversary. We are excited to continue building off the success of last year by hosting an epic event where we will share our plans for the coming year and connect you with other blockchain enthusiasts and thought leaders.

​Enjoy an evening of learning from thought leaders, networking, great food, drinks and music.

​Spaces are limited, so register now to secure your spot. We can’t wait to see you there and make 2025 a year to remember for the ABC!

📅 SATURDAY Mar 15
📍 ARCM Associação Recreativa E Cultural De Músicos - Faro
⏰ 6pm

REGISTER HERE

## Schedule:

​6:00pm Doors Open- Welcome drink
​6:05pm Crypto 101 Class (30 minutes)
​6:35pm Welcome and Introduction by ABC & AE
​6:40pm Sui Presentation
​6:55pm BitGet Presentation
​7:10pm Panel Discussion "Building Web3 Environments and Innovative Communities"
​7:40pm Q&A & games
​8:00pm Networking, Food & drinks, Sunset DJ
​00:00pm Conclusion

## Featuring:

## ​🔹 SUI ⚡️

​🎙️Speaker: José Nogueira (Growth Lead, Interest Protocol)
​Sui Network ambassador, Interest Protocol growth lead and Sui Network PT lead, web3 OG and one of the most well regarded Sui community members.
​Twitter: @jay_p_sui | Website: Interest Protocol
​🔗 [https://sui.io/](https://sui.io/)
​A high-performance blockchain delivering fast, secure, and affordable transactions with unrivaled speed and low, predictable fees. The first immersive Web3 environment and a trustless data network that enhances blockchain exploration and interaction for the ultimate crypto experience.

## 🔹 BitGet 🌍

​🎙️**Speaker: Leo Goettinger, (**Business Development Manager)
​Leo drives the company’s growth by building collaborations with strategic partners and implementing data-driven marketing strategies to expand into regional markets.
​Twitter: https://x.com/goeleao
​👤 **Ram Shrestha (**Bitget builder and PT Community Manager)
​Ram is responsible for organizing events and building community in Portugal for BitGet.
​Twitter: https://x.com/Paidemundo
​🔗 [https://www.bitget.com/](https://www.bitget.com/)
​Bitget is a one-stop cryptocurrency exchange, backed by a monthly Proof of Reserves for added transparency. Additionally, the Bitget Protection Fund provides an extra layer of security against cybersecurity threats.

## 🔹 Nubees📚💶

​🎙️Speaker: Beatriz Inácio (Community Lead of Nubees)
​Twitter: https://x.com/BeaKnowsNada0
​🔗[bento.me/nubees](http://bento.me/nubees)
​Nubees is a community of people who want to learn and share in Portuguese.

## 🔶 FSL 👟🎮

​🎙️Speaker: Jorge Louro (FSL Ambassador for Portugal)
​Jorge Louro is the FSL Ambassador for Portugal, actively engaged with the entire FSL ecosystem for over two years. He is also a computer science teacher at Loulé High School and runs a guest house in Coimbra. Passionate about running, especially trail running and sky running, Jorge has participated in several marathons and ultra marathons in recent years.
​Twitter: https://x.com/lourotrail
​🔗 [https://fsl.com/](https://fsl.com/)
​Founded in 2021, FSL is a global gaming and development studio dedicated to bridging digital and physical worlds through Web3 innovation. Its flagship app, STEPN, redefined fitness with its move-and-earn model and has partnered with global brands like Adidas, ASICS, and Snoop Dogg. Alongside STEPN GO and FSL Game Hub, FSL powers MOOAR, a leading NFT marketplace, and Gas Hero, a collaborative Web3 game. By promoting healthy lifestyles, gamification, and sustainability, FSL continues to shape the future of Web3.

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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

REGISTER HERE

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.

About us

​​🌱 Get Started Meetup
Designed for aspiring and existing business owners facing strategic challenges.

​​🚀 Algarve Evolution

​​We nurture the ecosystem for startups and entrepreneurs to create global solutions from the Algarve.

🌐 Algarve STP
A non-profit organization that, through strategic partnerships in collaboration with the public sector, promotes scientific and technological development and the modernization of the regional business environment, contributing to strengthening the innovation ecosystem in the Algarve.

🔗 Algarve Tech Hub
A regional initiative founded and promoted collaboratively by Algarve Evolution, Algarve STP, and University of the Algarve, representing stakeholders from corporate, academia and public institutions, to advance the Algarve as a global, competitive and vibrant hub for companies, institutions, entrepreneurs, and investors.

​​Site: Algarve Evolution
​​Email: [info@algarveevolution.pt](mailto:info@algarveevolution.pt)
​​Twitter: [https://twitter.com/AlgarveEvo](https://twitter.com/AlgarveEvo)

See you there!
🌐 Algarve Evolution

Welcome to the February 2025 Edition of the Grow Algarve Meetup!

Join Algarve Evolution in Faro for an inspiring gathering to connect, exchange ideas, and kick off the year with energy, alongside our friends from Geek Sessions and LOFT Community.

Are you passionate about innovation, growth, and collaboration?
Come meet and engage with the local entrepreneurial community!

📅 Date: Thursday, February 27th, 2025
🕡 Time: 6 pm - 8:30 pm
📍 Location: Terrazzo - Brunch & Sunset, Faro
🍹Food/drinks: Available for purchase.

REGISTER HERE

See you there!

This is an initiative developed by Algarve Evolution for the Algarve Tech Hub

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🌱 Grow Algarve Meetup
Is our monthly gathering, spread across various municipalities in the Algarve. It's more than just a meetup; it's a dynamic platform to discuss business opportunities in a relaxed, social setting. Connect with like-minded entrepreneurs and professionals from diverse sectors and nationalities.

🚀 Algarve Evolution
We nurture the ecosystem for startups and entrepreneurs to create global solutions from the Algarve.

🔗 Algarve Tech Hub
A regional initiative, co-founded by Algarve Evolution, the University of Algarve, and Algarve STP, brings together businesses, academia, and public institutions. The goal is to advance the Algarve as an attractive hub for innovation, attracting companies, institutions, entrepreneurs, and investors.

Our guests this month include:

☀️ GeekSessions
GeekSessions organizes regular events with the goal of bringing local tech denizens together.

☀️ LOFT Community
Promotes and supports the remote work lifestyle by building and sustaining a dynamic, passionate and welcoming community in the Central-East Algarve.

Este workshop, conduzido por Carlos Justino, especialista em tecnologia e inovação, explora o impacto da Inteligência Artificial (IA) no processo de internacionalização de startups.

Durante a sessão, os participantes terão a oportunidade de aprender sobre:

• Introdução à IA e suas aplicações práticas;
• Uso da IA no apoio à tomada de decisão e análise de mercado;
• Estratégias para integrar IA no crescimento de startups;
• Casos práticos e ferramentas essenciais para enfrentar os desafios da gestão de IA.

Junte-se a nós e descubra como a IA pode ser uma aliada estratégica na expansão global do seu negócio.

📅 Data e Hora: 26 de fevereiro, das 16h às 19h
📍 Local: UAlg Tec Campus

Por favor, preenche o formulário abaixo com as informações necessárias para efetuar a tua inscrição. 

INSCRIÇÃO

Nesta sessão, conduzida por Alexandre Andrade, partner da Deloitte, vamos explorar o que é o fundo SIFIDE e como este incentivo fiscal pode potenciar o investimento em Investigação e Desenvolvimento (I&D).

Este será um espaço de conversa aberto e dinâmico, onde as empresas poderão expor as suas dúvidas, partilhar desafios e obter informações valiosas sobre como maximizar os benefícios. 

Informações:

📅 Data e Hora: 19 de fevereiro, das 16h às 17h30

📍 Local: UAlg Tec Campus
 

INSCRIÇÃO

Para confirmares a tua participação, preenche o formulário com os dados necessários.

Lugares limitados – a inscrição será considerada por ordem de submissão.

[The session will be held in English]

This talk is part of the Entrepreneurship Seminar Series, organized by Algarve Evolution for the Master’s in Management, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship at the Faculty of Economics, University of Algarve.

A specialized series of keynotes designed for Master’s students, focusing on advanced entrepreneurial concepts, and open to all the entrepreneurial community in the Algarve. These interactive sessions explore business fundamentals and market analysis, providing participants with the opportunity to develop their venture ideas under expert guidance.

For this session, our guest speaker is Pedro Esteves with the talk "From Ideas to Projects with No-Code Tools".

📅 Date: Tuesday, February 18th, 2025
🕡 Time: 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

ONLINE

🌐 Hybrid: [https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/83661812834?pwd=RzB6SWM3OCtIa3NpOXhSaHJlaVYyZz09](https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/83661812834?pwd=RzB6SWM3OCtIa3NpOXhSaHJlaVYyZz09)

LINK ONLINE

or

Room C3, at Faculty of Economics - University of Algarve, Gambelas Campus

See you either online or in person!

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🎙️ Pedro Esteves
Is a teacher specializing in entrepreneurship, business prototyping, and Generative AI, with a Master’s in SME Management from the University of Algarve. His expertise includes creating sentiment analysis tools for restaurant reviews using Large Language Models (LLMs) and leveraging No/Low Code and Generative AI for agile business validation.
Pedro also founded "Inteligência Artificial Hoje" a portal linking people and companies to AI advancements. His recent book, Generative Artificial Intelligence with Confidence, serves as a practical guide to understanding and applying Generative AI safely and effectively.

💡 Master on Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Click above to visit the official page.

🚀 Algarve Evolution
We nurture the ecosystem for startups and entrepreneurs to create global solutions from the Algarve.

🔗 Algarve Tech Hub
A regional initiative, co-founded by Algarve Evolution, the University of Algarve, and Algarve STP, brings together businesses, academia, and public institutions. The goal is to advance the Algarve as an attractive hub for innovation, attracting companies, institutions, entrepreneurs, and investors.

AIA - Artificial Intelligence Algarve

In this talk, Tom Murphy will presume you know nothing about AI, specifically Neural Networks (the tech behind most AI today). Without delving into the maths or tech behind them, he will explain in simple English how AI works.
We'll discuss the theory, the practise and the problems with AI.
By the end you should have a good understanding of Neural Networks and why they need so much power, data and how they are built, used and abused.

Equal parts entertaining and educational, this is AI for all.

Whether you're an AI expert, a tech enthusiast, or simply curious about the transformative potential of artificial intelligence, this event is the perfect opportunity to connect, collaborate, and learn.

📌 Location: UALG TEC CAMPUS, Faro
⏰ Time: 18h30 - 20h30
📅 Date: Tue, Feb 18, 2025

REGISTER HERE

ACCESS ONLINE HERE

Agenda
​​18h30: Intro
18h35: Talk "Sand and Tame Lightning: Inside an AI", with Tom Murphy
​​19h15: Q&A

​​19h30: Social Networking
20:00: Conclusion

Speaker
Tom Murphy founded Machine Learning Programs in 2018 and quickly built it into an award winning AI specialist company which was acquired by the UK's largest data broker OpenGI in 2019. He remained CEO for 2 years, stepping back to the CTO position for 2 more before finally retiring to the Algarve in 2023. Specialising in Neural Networks he has given talks across Europe on AI, its uses, implementation, ethics and bias.

About us
​​🧠 AIA - Artificial Intelligence Algarve
Founded by Algarve Evolution, AIA - Artificial Intelligence Algarve is a community dedicated to exploring and advancing the future of AI in the Algarve region.

​​🚀 Algarve Evolution

​​We nurture the ecosystem for startups and entrepreneurs to create global solutions from the Algarve.

🌐 Algarve STP
A non-profit organization that, through strategic partnerships in collaboration with the public sector, promotes scientific and technological development and the modernization of the regional business environment, contributing to strengthening the innovation ecosystem in the Algarve.

🔗 Algarve Tech Hub
A regional initiative founded and promoted collaboratively by Algarve Evolution, Algarve STP, and University of the Algarve, representing stakeholders from corporate, academia and public institutions, to advance the Algarve as a global, competitive and vibrant hub for companies, institutions, entrepreneurs, and investors.

​​Site: Algarve Evolution
​​Email: [info@algarveevolution.pt](mailto:info@algarveevolution.pt)
​​Twitter: [https://twitter.com/AlgarveEvo](https://twitter.com/AlgarveEvo)

See you there!
🌐 Algarve Evolution & AIA team

Capacitar Profissionais para a Era Digital

FARO:  14 de fevereiro de 2025, na Universidade do Algarve, Campus da Penha, a partir das 9h00. Em parceria com a Universidade do Algarve.

INSCRIÇÃO

O IMPULSO IA é uma iniciativa da APDC, em parceria com a Google, que visa capacitar profissionais de diversos setores para a utilização da Inteligência Artificial (IA) no seu dia a dia, aumentando a produtividade e facilitando a adaptação à era digital.

Com uma combinação de sessões presenciais e online, o IMPULSO IA oferece, gratuitamente, uma experiência acessível e inclusiva, sem necessidade de experiência prévia em IA. O objetivo é proporcionar as ferramentas necessárias para que os profissionais utilizem a IA de forma eficaz e estratégica no local de trabalho.

O IMPULSO IA decorrerá de outubro de 2024 a março de 2025, com sessões em várias localizações pelo país. Cada curso terá a duração de 2 horas e será ministrado por formadores especializados. Os participantes que frequentarem as sessões presenciais terão direito a um certificado de participação.

Neste encontro interativo, conduzido por Nuno Marques e Tiago Matos, vamos explorar as principais oportunidades de financiamento 2020-2030 e os incentivos disponíveis para as empresas. Mais do que uma apresentação, será um espaço aberto para a partilha de experiências, esclarecimento de dúvidas e troca de ideias sobre os desafios do setor empresarial.

Informações:

📅 Data e Hora: 12 de fevereiro, das 15h às 17h

📍 Local: UAlg Tec Campus
 

INSCRIÇÃO

Para confirmares a tua participação, preenche o formulário abaixo com os dados necessários.

Lugares limitados – a inscrição será considerada por ordem de submissão.

A sessão será realizada em português.