Coppe / UFRJ director, Romildo Toledo, will participate in the panel "Innovation Ecosystems", next Thursday, August 20, at 6:20 pm, at Hacking Rio Talks. Also participating in the panel are the president of Furnas, Pedro Brito, the executive manager of Cenpes / Petrobras, Juliano Dantas, the CEO and founder of Hacking Rio, Lindália Junqueira, the partner at MSW Capital, Moises Sirwiski, the researcher at the Technological Innovation Laboratory (LabrInTOS) of Coppe, Hudson Mendonça, and the federal deputy, Paulo Ganime. The event will be broadcast on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wneS3sPNFb4.

Coppe, Furnas and Petrobras are partner institutions in the project that led Rio de Janeiro to be selected by the Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program (REAP) of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The project encourages the creation and development of startups focused on the energy and sustainability sectors. The proposal is to bring together actors from the region and implement the MIT REAP methodology, adapted to the local context, in order to make Rio de Janeiro an "Silicon Valley" of innovation in these areas. This is the first time that a Brazilian project has been selected, after seven biannual cycles of the program.

Coppe participates in the REAP / MIT program through its LabrInTOS laboratory, coordinated by Professor Vinícius Fonseca, from Coppe's Production Engineering Program. The project is led by researcher Hudson Mendonça.

Learn more about MIT REAP at Planeta Coppe Notícias.

About Rio Talks Hacking 

Hacking Rio Talks is part of the Hacking Rio program, the largest Hackathon in Latin America and a digital culture festival. The main theme of the 2020 edition is about the "Humanicity" concept and will address issues such as innovation, technology, entrepreneurship, solutions generated to combat the effects of the pandemic of the covid-19 and the current scenario of the New Economy. Hacking Rio Talks will bring together the International Forum on Technology and Information and the Rio Summit, with the participation of executives from more than 15 countries, from 17 to 21 August and will take place 100% online, from 2 pm to 9 pm, with registration that can be made through the website:https://hackingrio.com.