Women In Agrifood Stories 2024

4 Dec 2024 | Lisbon , Portugal

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Goncalo Amorim

Founder and CEO

BGI

Portugal

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About me

Gonçalo Amorim is the Founder and CEO of BGI and a non-executive director of CoLAB Food4Sustainability. Gonçalo has over 20 years of experience in venture capital, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Started off his career in England back in 1997 designing scientific experiments at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in Oxfordshire (UK), joining in 2000 Hewlett Packard Semiconductor division (UK), where he filed a dozen of international patents (US, Europe & Japan). In Portugal since 2005, Gonçalo held several managerial roles in some of the most dynamic and successful Portuguese multinationals listed in the Portuguese Stock exchange, PSI20. In the past 10 years, Gonçalo has mentored over 200 tech-based founders, entrepreneurial teams and technology start-ups & spinoffs through various structured programs. Gonçalo has been actively involved as an advisor & board member in a number of emerging technology-intense start-ups.

My organisation

BGI

BGI is a lead accelerator of deeptech sustainable ventures, #25 in the Startup hub ranking of the Financial Times. BGI has accelerated the go-to-market of + 250 deeptech projects that collectively raised over € 660M, including the establishment of two unicorns. Emerging in 2013 as a spin-out from MIT Portugal’s Entrepreneurship and Innovation Initiative, BGI excels in project management across various sectors including R&D, technology transfer, and education.  As a recognized leader within the EIT KIC network, since 2016 BGI has expanded its operational excellence across multiple domains including Agri-food, Smart Cities & Urban Mobility, and Digital. Leveraging a vast network of over 20,000 stakeholders, BGI drives innovative projects toward sustainable and impactful outcomes.

Speaker sessions (1)

Wednesday, 4 December 2024

15:50 - 16:30

Building Powerful Alliances in Female Entrepreneurship

Format:Video conferencing

Onsite at La Distillerie - Lisbon