Lindália Junqueira Reis currently serves as CEO of Ions and Hacking.Rio, leading large-scale innovation and entrepreneurship initiatives with national and international impact. She is an Editorial Board Member of MIT Technology Review, Vice-President of the Board of CTSMART – Centro de Tecnologias de Cidades Inteligentes, and a member of the Women’s Council of Firjan, as well as of the CEEF – Conselho Estadual de Empreendedorismo Feminino and Abstartups – Associação Brasileira de Startups.

She holds a degree in Production Engineering and in Music, in addition to a Master Business Executive qualification in Third Sector Management and Social Responsibility. In 2010, she became the first Brazilian woman selected by the NASA Research Center to attend the Singularity University program in the United States. She serves as a Women in Tech Global Ambassador and has received the IBC Innovation Award (2012) and the Spark Awards (2015) as Best Startup Accelerator in Brazil. She was also recognized by Bloomberg as the Woman of Greatest Impact in Latin America.

She created Brazil’s first Open Innovation Program at Rede Globo, the country’s first Startup Pre-Accelerator, and Hacking.Rio — considered the largest hackathon in Latin America. She is also a partner of the Government of the State of Rio de Janeiro in the BLUERIO initiative, the first collaborative open innovation program focused on the Blue Economy in Latin America.

An investor, researcher, speaker, and author, she is a Coordinator and Professor at FGV – Fundação Getulio Vargas in Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Smart Cities. A business owner of the Mr. Chan food chain and a global executive with over 35 years of experience, she has built a distinguished career across oil & gas, energy, finance, communications, IT, and food industries, and previously served as Vice-President of Caerj – Câmara de Comércio Exterior do Rio de Janeiro.

Lindália Reis has been a member of the Portuguese Diaspora Council since february 2026.