WELCOME TO THE PORTUGAL CHAPTER OF THE GLOBAL ASSOCIATION FOR VR AND AR

NEWS

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Virtually Social Reality

The world industry paradigm - Old school vs 4.0

EVENTS

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FEATURED MEMBERS 

FEATURED PARTNERS

THE TEAM

Chapter President: Luís Martins luis@thevrara.com

Luis heads the Marketing of IT People Group's NextReality since 2015, Portugal’s largest AR software provider. Prior to that, and since the early 00’s, Luis founded an internet company that later generated a second Internet business having won Launchpad Denmark Young Talents Award. Luis has been leading, advising and coaching Internet businesses since the early 00’s when he also worked for KPMG having provided training and advise in eCommerce to over 100 individuals within the Internet Industry. Luis published an How-to book on AR on Amazon, and has presented on AR at multiple conferences and workshops. Luis co-founded the Lisbon chapter of VRARA to help drive and steer the Portuguese AR Industry through the Augmented Internet Revolution, that he feels to be changing the World “one set of eyes at a time”.

Anesio Neto - Events Manager

I'm just a regular guy with a crush on Marketing, Retail and Technology! It ain't nothing better than this mix. But please shaken, not stirred. Constantly striving for personal equilibrium and evolution and always searching for the sunshine. Virtual and Augmented Reality are my new passions, just check it out! #VR #AR #XR

Chapter Advisors: 

Luciana Carvalho Se

Learner, maker, systems thinker, innovator and tech evangelist, Luciana is the co-founder & Chief Marketing Officer of MindCheck — an early stage mental health tech startup — as well as a XR specialist and startup mentor at NOVA Co-Innovation Lab.  A community catalyst, she sits on the board of Series Q (a non-profit for LGBTQ+ entrepreneurs) and is the Women in Immersive Tech Europe’s Ambassador for Portugal. Formerly Head of Innovation, D&I and Marketing at Beyond, Head of Partnerships REWIND, and previously spent 9+ years growing award-winning startups, her work has been recognised worldwide — she was elected a Founder of the Future, honoured as the Evening Standard’s Progress 1000 Most Influential People in Tech and named one of BIMA’s Top 100 Rising Stars and Code First Girls ‘25 Ones to Watch’.

Miguel Marques Paulo

Experienced IT Manager mainly in the infrastructure area with know-how in IT Strategy, Cloud, Service and delivery management. Working for Siemens since 2014 on international projects. Used to a fast-paced environment and helping IT overcoming digitalization challenges.

Pedro Rebordão

Over 10 years following startups and technological SMEs in LISPOLIS with the ultimate aim of helping them have a slightly higher probability of achieving success. Knows and likes: Customer service, Customer development and Raising money; Talking with entrepreneurs and understanding their pains; Learning and doing new things with unpredictable outcoming
Dislikes: Doing every day the same thing.

Tiago Loureiro

Currently Managing Director of Collide, Tiago is am experienced entrepreneur with a Computer Science background, specialized in Artificial Intelligence. With more than 20 years of experience in ICT, where the last 13 have been spent working on the video games industry, Tiago is a key figure in the Portuguese video games development scene, a member of the Nordic Educators Group and has been doing consultancy work for the games industry in the US and Europe. Tiago has also published games that now have more than 11M DAU, co-coordinates a BA degree in video games at Universidade Lusófona in Portugal and is a guest speaker in many industry related events.

Paulo Carvalho

Born in Lisbon, Paulo Soeiro de Carvalho is an expert in Foresight & Scenario Planning, Strategy and Innovation, with more than 20 years of experience in consulting, teaching and training projects in those fields. Paulo was for the past seven years the General Director for Economy and Innovation in the Lisbon City Council.