Innovation Week 2021
The Innovation Week, which had “Dare to Transform” as its motto, successfully held its seventh edition.
The event aims to encourage the discussion of ideas, the exchange of experiences and a more disruptive mentality in Public Administration. Furthermore, it favors and disseminates the culture of innovation amongst public agents and presents trends and possibilities for transforming organizations. Therefore, the realization of the Innovation Week, under such complex scenarios as the ones posed by the Covid-19 pandemic, is essential for the debate on the role innovation and the transformation of the public sector play in overcoming society's challenges…
Speakers 2021
Jimmy Wales
Futurist, Technology Leader, and Founder of Wikipedia
Mariana Mazzucato
She has won several international awards and appears in important lists as one of the leading names in innovation and thinkers about the future of capitalism.
Steven Pinker
One of today's most important thinkers, his books (finalists for the Pulitzer Prize) “How the Mind Works” and “The Blank Slate” are bestsellers.
Anne Applebaum
One of today's most influential journalists, Pulitzer Prize winner, included in the Prospect list of the 50 Greatest Thinkers of the Covid-19 Era.
Pamela Pavliscak
Founder of Subjective, a creative studio for emotion technology
Deirdre McCloskey
Professor Emeritus of Economics, History, English, and Communication at the University of Illinois. Resignified Coase's theorem
Madeleine Bunting
Award-winning Columnist and Author of Five Nonfiction Books and Two Novels
Carlota Perez
Consultant, Researcher, Lecturer, and Author of the book Revolutions of Technology and Financial Capital.
Erick Brimen
Member of the Society for International Development, Washington.
Paula Berman
Digital Identity Researcher, Civic Technology Practitioner, and COO of RadicalxChange
Bruno Maçães
Senior Advisor at the Consulting Firm Flint Global and Senior Research Fellow at the Wilfried Martens Center for European Studies.