{"id":484,"date":"2019-01-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diasporaportuguesa.org\/diaspora-talks-portugal-is-going-to-be-a-center-of-talent-capture\/"},"modified":"2022-12-22T14:12:40","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T14:12:40","slug":"diaspora-talks-portugal-is-going-to-be-a-center-of-talent-capture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diasporaportuguesa.org\/en\/news\/diaspora-talks-portugal-is-going-to-be-a-center-of-talent-capture\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cPortugal is going to be a center of talent capture&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;\">\u00abInvesting and Risk Taking for Success<\/span><span style=\"color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;\">\u00bb was the theme of one of the Diaspora Talks that took place on December 20, in which participated the counselors Nuno Sebasti\u00e3o, CEO of Feedzai and John Melo, CEO of Amyris Biotechnologies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore companies will turn up in Portugal, but above all it will be a center of European and Latin-american\u00a0talent&#8221; &#8211; this is the conviction of the co-founder and CEO of the Portuguese fin-tech FeedZai,\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"\/?p=6391&amp;lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nuno Sebasti\u00e3o<\/a><\/span>, one of the Portuguese people that shared this Thursday their experiences outside the country, at LACS, in Lisbon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is the case of many Brazilians that want to work in Europe, have Portuguese passports and come here. I would say that we already have dozens of them in the company&#8221;, said on the second edition of the\u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"\/?p=6658&amp;lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Diaspora Talks<\/a><\/span>, the &#8220;warm-up&#8221; event for the Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Diaspora Council.<\/p>\n<p>On the same panel, \u201cInvesting and Risk Taking for Success\u201d,\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"\/?p=1433&amp;lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Melo<\/a><\/span>, CEO of Amyris Biotechnologies, jokes: \u201cIn Portugal, dreaming is a sin\u201d. Born in Azores, but living in the United States since 1973, John explains that &#8220;the country is better an, comparing with Europe, it is a good place to be an entrepreneur&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>John Melo recalls that, two years ago, the company of which he is the executive president (specialized on the development of alternative energies) established a partnership with Universidade Cat\u00f3lica Portuguesa to create a biotechnology hub in Porto. \u201cIt is an investment of around 50 million dollars and maybe it become an investment of more 80 or 100 millions&#8221;, he announced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPortugal is a good place to base a technology business&#8221;, states John Melo, highlighting that, &#8220;on the USA, specially in Silicon Valley, it is difficult to have access at the same time to the European&#8221;. But, it is peremptory: \u201cI&#8217;m not ready to invest in a company created and sold in Portugal&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The astrobiologist\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"\/?p=1377&amp;lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zita Martins<\/a><\/span>, that went to live abroad in 2002, compliments the gender opportunity equality in Portugal. \u201cAbout 50% of the graduated people in the field of sicences are women &#8211; a success case. The same doesn&#8217;t happen in other countries&#8221;, stated the scientist, engaged in a future space mission to detect the existence of life in Mars.<\/p>\n<p><em>Por Dinheiro Vivo, Dezembro de 2018<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00abInvesting and Risk Taking for Success\u00bb was the theme of one of the Diaspora Talks that took place on December 20, in which participated the counselors Nuno Sebasti\u00e3o, CEO of Feedzai and John Melo, CEO of Amyris Biotechnologies.","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[264,197,53,126,233,196,96],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>\u201cPortugal is going to be a center of talent capture&quot; - Conselho da Di\u00e1spora Portuguesa<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.diasporaportuguesa.org\/en\/news\/diaspora-talks-portugal-is-going-to-be-a-center-of-talent-capture\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u201cPortugal is going to be a center of talent capture&quot; - 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