Seminary Technological Challenges and Space Management

Program

14:30 – 14:40 | Opening Session

• Welcome remarks, thematic framing and presentation of participants
• Speaker: Ana Brasão | Director of the School of Economic Sciences and Organisations.

• Presentation of the curricular unit Space Management
• Speaker: Pedro Marques-Quinteiro | Director of the Master’s Degree in Advanced Human Resources Management

14:40 – 15:10 | Keynote Speaker: Technologies in Space

• Technological Innovation and the Next Steps in Space Exploration

• Overview of emerging trends: AI, robotics, new propulsion systems and orbital infrastructures
• Speaker: Ricardo Conde | President of the Portuguese Space Agency

15:10 – 16:40 | Round Table: Challenges and Space Management

• Space Economy
• Speaker: Joan Alabart | Portuguese Space Agency
• Moderator: Paulo Fidalgo | Journalist

• Industrial Challenges in Space
• Speaker: João Neves | Thales Portugal
• Moderator: Paulo Fidalgo | Journalist

• Human Limitations in Space: Biomedical and psychological challenges
• Speaker: Lieutenant Colonel MED Sofia Vidigal e Almada | President of the Aeronautical Medicine College of the Portuguese Medical Association
• Moderator: Paulo Fidalgo | Journalist

• Human Resources Management in Space: Competency Profiles in the Space Sector
• Speaker: Carlos Maio | CEO of QSR Consulting
• Moderator: Paulo Fidalgo | Journalist

16:40 – 17:00 | Closing Session