4^th Brazil -Sweden Innovation Week

Innovation and Sustainability

Please note that all sessions will be conducted exclusively in English, and there will be no interpreter services available.

6-10 November 2023,
Stockholm, Sweden

The Brazil-Sweden Innovation Week is a biannual event organized by the Embassy of Brazil in Stockholm. This initiative started in 2017 in the context of the strategic partnership in innovation between Brazil and Sweden, as a platform to exchange ideas and experiences, showcase cooperation and explore new opportunities for working together.

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

Monday, 6^th November

09:30-10:00	Registration and welcome coffee
10:00-11:00	Opening ceremony * Leonardo Onofre, Chargé d’Affaires, Embassy of Brazil in Stockholm * Luiz Henrique Pochyly da Costa – State Secretary, Minister of Defense, Brazil * Sara Modig, State Secretary, Minister of Climate and Enterprise, Sweden * Márcia Cristina Bernardes Barbosa, State Secretary for Policy and Strategic Programmes, MCTI, Brazil. * Carl Rosén, International coordinator, Innovation, Ministry of Climate and Enterprise, Sweden * Lt Brig Ar Maurício Augusto da Silveira Medeiros, Director, Department of Aerospace Science and Technology of the Air Force, DCTA, Brazil * Rèmy Kolessar, Head of International Cooperation, Vinnova	Auditorium
11:00-12:00	Mass timber in Brazil and Latin America Alan Dias, Founder of Timbau and Carpintaria Estruturas de Madeira	Santos-Dumont room
11:00-12:00	Curitiba: 10 years of Brazil-Sweden partnership for innovation and sustainability Keynote speech by Prof. Semida Silveira	Auditorium
	Made in Brazil: Research infrastructure and excellence in technology	Auditorium
13:00-15:30	13:00-13:05 – Opening 13:05-13:20 ATTO – Amazon Tall Tower Observatory – Antonia Maria Ramos Pereira, Director, National Institute of Amazonian Research (INPA) 13:20-13:35 – ELDORADO Institute – Brazilian Research and Technology Organizations: bridges for RD&I and business between Sweden and Brazil – Vinicius Pagano, Business Development, ELDORADO Institute 13:35-13:50 – Technology and Innovation Infrastructure at CERTI Foundation – Alexandre Reeberg De Mello, Coordinator of the Center for Digital and Mechatronics Convergence (CDM) at CERTI foundation 13:50-14:20 – Q&A 14:20-14:30 – Coffee-break 14:30-14:45 – Sirius: Accelerating the Future – Prof. José Roque da Silva, Director, Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM) 14:45-15:00 – WEG Industries – Pedro Miguel Ramos Azevedo Maia, Head of R&D 15:00-15:30 – Q&A
	BioEconomy round table – Challenges and Opportunities	Auditorium
15:30-17:00	15:30-15:40 – Opening session: Márcia Cristina Bernardes Barbosa, State Secretary for Policy and Strategic Programmes, MCTI, Brazil Carl Rosén, Ministry of Climate and Enterprise (Moderator) 15:40-16:00 – Swedish BioEconomy: Swedish Strategy and perspectives for Bioeconomy Magnus Hallberg – Senior VP, Bioeconomy and Health, RISE Henrik Bagewitz – VP Research & Business Development, RISE 16:00-16:20 – Brazilian BioEconomy: Brazilian Strategy and perspectives for Bioeconomy Márcia Cristina Bernardes Barbosa, State Secretary for Policy and Strategic Programmes, MCTI, Brazil Biomaterials Development from Brazilian biodiversity and residual biomass Eduardo Couto Director LNBR/CNPEM 16:20-16:30 – Q & A 16:30-16:50 – Funding opportunities: Brazilian Funding Programs for Innovation Willian Rospendowski – Head of Innovation, FINEP Swedish Funding Programs for Innovation Johan Rignér – Community development & international cooperation, Vinnova 16:50 – Q & A 17:00 – Closing session: Márcia Barbosa, SEPPE/MCTI Carl Rosén, Ministry of Climate and Enterprise

Tuesday, 7^th November

	EMBRAPII: Fostering Industrial Innovation by investing in the relationship between research centers and enterprises in Brazil	Auditorium
09:00-10:45	09:00-09:10 – Audience welcome & introduction 09:10–09:20 – Igor Nazareth, Planning and Institutional Relations Manager EMBRAPII 09:20–09:30 – Vinicius Pagano , Business Development, ELDORADO Institute 09:30–09:40 – Johan Rigner, Program Manager, Vinnova 09:40–09:50 – Edvaldo Santos , R&D Vice-President, Ericsson 09:50–10:00 – Bruno Monteiro Portela – Federal Attorney, Attorney General Office (AGU) 10:00-10:20 – Audience Q&A 10:20-10:25 – Closing 10:30-10:45 – Summary 10:45-11:00 – Coffee-Break
11:00-12:00	Building bridges in STI: Swedish Office of Science and Innovation in Brasília and Brazilian STI Office in Stockholm Rafael Leal – Head of the Science and Technology Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Brazil Jacob Paulsen – Counsellor of Science and Innovation, Swedish Embassy in Brasília	Auditorium
	12th Workshop in Aeronautics and 5th Workshop in AI & Autonomy
	Parallel seminars
Important Note:	These seminars require pre-registration and we kindly invite you to confirm your attendance no later than October 27th. Click here for the –> REGISTRATION FORM <<
12:00-14:50	12.00-13.00 – Lunch for registered participants ………………………..Joint opening session ………………………………. 13.00-13.10 – Welcome and admin remarks Mats Olofsson, Innovair and Fredrik Heintz, Linköping University 13.10-13.20 – Opening address by senior representatives from the Government Offices in Sweden and Brazil Carl Rosén, Swedish Ministry of Climate and Enterprise Osório Coelho, Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation 13.20-14.00 -Keynote presentations AI, Robotics and Semantics AI & Autonomy -package of joy for Air Traffic Management Amy Loutfi, Örebro University Billy Josefsson, LFV 14.00-14.30 – Presentation of WARA PS as a platform to demonstrate SE-BR project activities Jesper Tordenlid, Saab AB 14.30-15.00 – Coffee break and split into two tracks/rooms	Auditorium
15:00-15:40	Session 1 Aeronautics Use of generative AI for research and education in aeronautics – XR4MBSE and the impacts into Complex Systems Design Collaboration Petter Krus, Linköping University Christopher Cerqueira, ITA	Auditorium
15:00-15:40	Session 1 AI and Autonomy – Sweden – Brazil Community – High-speed drone navigation – AI and aircraft control Fredrik Heintz, LiU and Carlos H C Ribeiro, ITA Lidia Gianne Souza da Rocha, FSCAR Jorge Henrique Bidinotto, USP	Santos-Dummont room
15:40-16:20	Session 2 Aeronautics – Dual use of drones in forestry and defence – Effects from the CNPq-CISB-Saab program Krister Tham, Katam Technologies Alessandra Holmo, CISB 16.20-16.30 – Short break	Auditorium
15:40-16:20	Session 2 AI and Autonomy – AI and Telecom – AI for Drug Discovery and Development Aneta Vulgarakis, Ericsson Peder Blomgren, Astra Zeneca Short break	Santos-Dummont room
16:30-17:10	Session 3 Aeronautics – Air Domain Study – new project proposals – Report from a group of Brazilian master and PhD students about activities and experiences from their visit to Sweden Mats Knafve, Innovair and Col Vale, Emaer Four students from ITA, via video from Brazil, supervised by Christopher Cerqueira, ITA	Auditorium
16:20-17:00	Session 3 AI and Autonomy – Panel discussion moderated by Fredrik Heintz, LiU Carlos H C Ribeiro, ITA, Aneta Vulgarakis, Ericsson Peder Blomgren, Astra Zeneca	Santos-Dumont room
17.00-17.30	Summing up and way ahead Innovair and speakers	Auditorium
17.30-20.30	AW Reception for all registered participants

Wednesday, 8^th November

Intellectual Property and Innovation

Auditorium

09:00-12:00

09:00-9:10 – Opening – Osório Coelho, Director of Innovation Programs, MCTI

09:10-9:30 – IP and Innovation – Alexandre Ciancio, General Coordinator for Studies, Projects and Information, Brazilian National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI)

09:30-9:50 – Brazilian perspective on IP – Bernardo Bemvindo, Coordinator of Technology Transfer Contracts, INPI

09:50-10:10 – Swedish perspective on IP – Peter Hedin, Senior Advisor, Swedish Intellectual Property Office (PRV)

10:10–10:30 – Coffee break

10:30–10:50 – Technologic prospection of patents – Alexandre Ciancio, INPI

10:50–11:10 – Technology Transfer Contracts
Bernardo Bemvindo, Coordinator of Technology Transfer Contracts, INPI

11:10–11:40 – IP Management at Ericsson – Ícaro Leonardo da Silva, Director of Intellectual Property, Ericsson

11:40-12:00 – Q&A

15:00-17:00

9^th Meeting of the High Level Group on Aeronautics*

TBA

* Invitation-only events, at a different venue.

Thursday, 9^th November

11:00-13:00	30^th meeting of the Executive Committee on Aeronautics*	TBA
15:00-17:00	8th Steering Group on Innovative High Technological Industrial Cooperation *	TBA

*Invitation-only events, at a different venue (to be announced).

Friday, 10^th November

09:00-11:45

The Smart City Concepts – Impact and Opportunities
Moderator: Semida Silveira
Panelists:

Auditorium

09:00-09:45 Model of cooperation, achievements, and impacts of the Smart City Project

Panel:
Chair: Prof. Ricardo Lüders, UTFPR
Prof. Paolo Monti, Chalmers
Prof. Keiko Fonseca, UTFPR
Prof. Erik Jenelius, KTH
>Prof. Semida Silveira, Cornell University

09:45-10:30 From project to a sustainable bilateral program with broad impact

Panel:
Chair: Prof. Semida Silveira, Cornell University
Marcia Cristina Bernardes Barbosa, State Secretary for Policy and Strategic Programmes, MCTI
Maria Wedenby, Head of Public Affairs, Volvo buses
Francisco Malucelli, Trivector
Staffan Filipsson, IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-11:45 Challenges and opportunities – A new vision and how to make it happen

Panel:
Chair: Prof. Paolo Monti
William Rospenkowski, Head of Innovation, FINEP
Karin Rydén, Head of Department, VINNOVA
Eva Stattin, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden
Erik Josefsson, CEO of R-evolution / Hexagon

13:00-15:30	Space Seminar	Auditorium
	13:00-13:40 – Brazilian Space Agency (AEB) – Marco Chamon, President (AEB) 13:40-14:00 – Q&A 14:00-14:40 – Developing the Space Sector: INPE’s Project Portfolio, the New Satellite Family, and Applications – National Institute for Space Research (INPE) Clézio Nardim, Director (INPE) 14:40-15:00 – Q&A 15:15-15:30 – Signing of the MoU between the Brazilian Space Agency (AEB) and the Swedish National Space Agency (SNSA) on Cooperation in Space Activities for Peaceful Purposes
15:30-16:00	Reception for the Brazilian Diaspora	Lounge
16:00 –	Closing reception hosted by: * Leonardo Onofre, Chargé d’Affaires, Embassy of Brazil in Stockholm * Håkan Jevrell, State Secretary, Ministry for International Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade * Luiz Henrique Pochyly da Costa – State Secretary, Minister of Defense, Brazil	Lounge

This program is constantly updated, and additional sessions, as well as further information about them will be published in due time. An auditorium (150 people) and two meeting rooms will be in use (Bertha Lutz and Santos-Dumont) , so that different sessions can take place simultaneously.

In case you or your institution want to organize a session within the Innovation Week, please get in touch with the organizers at sectec.estocolmo@itamaraty.gov.br, as there are still slots available. Preference will be given to the Working Groups (WG) within the Innovation and Aeronautics partnerships.

Please note that all sessions will be conducted exclusively in English and there will be no interpreter services available.
(Todos os eventos serão em Inglês e não haverá intérpretes)

Venue: CONVENDUM Conference Center

Fleminggatan 18, Stockholm

The conference center is in a very central location, 5 minutes walking distance to the closest subway station – Rådhuset, and with good bus connections.

There are several hotels in the vicinity (contact the organizers for further information)