
GATHERING GLOBAL TOURISM INNOVATORS
30th September, 2020
ONLINE EDITION

WHAT IS THE LISBON TOURISM SUMMIT?
The Lisbon Tourism Summit is now more relevant than ever.
Covid-19 pandemic has been impacting the tourism sector in an unforeseen way, calling for urgent adaptation and innovation. So, Lisbon Tourism Summit has reinvented itself, in an online format, bringing together international experts and tourism professionals to debate on the biggest trends of the sector.
Welcome to the annual event dedicated to the tourism industry and its latest innovations.
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PROGRAM
OUTLINE
What is impacting the tourism and travel industry nowadays?
The 2020 edition of the Lisbon Tourism Summit will focus on Sustainable Tourism and will cover the following topics:
Post Covid
Tourism Recovery
Circular Economy Models and Energy Efficiency
for Tourism
Mobility & Seamless Travel Experience
for travellers
Big Data & AI
transforming the Tourism Industry
HANDS ON
WORKSHOPS
Master your skills in the field of business innovation, circular economy models implementation and data science related to tourism, and find out initiatives for community engagement.
How to engage the local community and integrate inclusion practices
28Sep | 3pm
by Joana Paula Silva (CEO Founder of Varina Community-based Tourism Project)
VARINA is a community-based tourism initiative focused on the development of the fishing villages located in the south bay of the Tagus River – Trafaria and Costa da Caparica.
By walking or by bicycle, this social company is creating and implementing touristic experiences with a local social impact, based in a very strong collaboration with the community, involving them in every single activity. Empowering communities through tourism is its main purpose and topic of the workshop.
Adapting your business model to the new circular economy
28Sep | 6pm
by Meg Pagani (Founder at Impacton.org)
The journey towards sustainability and Circular Economy is about transition and adaptation. Join this workshop to explore how to transform your current business model to move towards a 100% circular and sustainable model
Data Science for Tourism Professionals
29Sep | 3pm
by Nuno Miguel da Conceicao Antonio (ITBASE/Wareguest CTO and Nova IMS Invited Assistant Professor)
Find out how some tourism organizations already use business analysis and data science to gain a competitive advantage and what resources tourism organizations need to extract insights from data and become data-driven organizations.
Business Innovation Tools
29Sep | 6pm
by Daniela Basilio (Senior Innovation Expert at Beta-i)
In today’s pandemic time, Tourism environment and tourists behavior and priorities are growingly changing. Travel experience might not be the same again, as new and old needs arise, being an opportunity for businesses to re-think while adapting, to the new normal. In this workshop we will share innovation tools that can be used to support our understanding of our shifting world.
WHO IS THE LISBON TOURISM SUMMIT FOR?
The Lisbon Tourism Summit is for tourism industry professionals, experts, entrepreneurs or students in the field of travel, hospitality, entertainment, leisure tourism activities, and travel tech startups seeking to meet and cooperate with leading organisations in the tourism sector .
SPEAKERS AND
PANNELISTS

Aaron Beeson
Director of Innovation at ANA Aeroportos

Anton Tumbev
Co-Founder & COO at Holler.live

Carlos Oliveira
Head of Product at Greenpact.eu

Chitra Stern
CEO Martinhal Resorts & United Lisbon International School

Cristina Siza Vieira
Executive president at AHP

Daniela Basílio
Innovation Expert Leader at Beta-i

David Pedro
Manager at YGroup Companies

Diogo Correia
Co founder & coo luggit

Dirk Glaesser
Director for Sustainable Development of Tourism UNWTO

Eduardo Santander
CEO/Executive Director at European Travel Commission

Felipe Ávila da Costa
Co-founder & CEO Infraspeak

Filipe Silva
Board Member at Turism of Portugal

Grant Waters
CEO of Tranquil City

Inês Saltão
Communications and Digital Manager at REDUNIQ

Joana Paula Silva
CEO Founder of Varina Community-based Tourism Project

Leyla Acaroglu
Founder UnSchools.co, DisruptDesign.co & COproject.co. Professional Sustainability Provocateur. 2016 UN Environment Champion of the Earth for science and innovation

Luís Araújo
President of Turismo de Portugal

Manuel Dias
Director Tech Sales & AI Ambassador at Microsoft

Manuel Tânger
Cofounder & Head of Innovation

Marek Maruszczak
CEO at Slavic Monsters

Mario Chessa
Executive Director. NOVA Hospitality & Tourism Platform

Meg Pagani
Founder at Impacton.org

Nuno António
ITBASE/Wareguest CTO and Nova IMS Invited Assistant Professor

Olga Plets
CEO at Cloud Guide

Patricia Milheiro
Ambassador for Disruptive and Sustainable Transformation 2030 Planetiers New Generation

Paulo Zacarias Gomes
Journalist Exame | Visão

Pedro Machado
President at Turismo Centro de Portugal

Pedro Rocha Vieira
Co-founder and CEO of Beta-i

Pedro São Simão
Member of the Board of Smart Waste Portugal and Coordinator of the Portuguese Plastics Pact

Pedro Teixeira
Quality, Environment and Safety Manager at Neya Hotels

Raquel Carvalho
B2B Analytics Team Lead at NOS

Rita Marques
Secretary of State for Tourism

Roberto Antunes
Executive Director at NEST

Saurabh Vyas
CEO at Yobny Technologies

Sergio Guerreiro
Senior Director at Turismo de Portugal & Executive Director, Westmont Institute of Tourism and Hospitality at Nova SBE

Tiago Araújo
CEO & Co-founder at HiJiffy

Tomás Caeiro
Founder & CEO at CityCheck and KuizTime

Vasco Mora
Advisor of Lisbon's Mobility Deputy Mayor
Preliminary
Agenda
Do you have an idea, a project or an established company? Come to our hands-on workshops to explore useful tools and discover new ways to make your business more sustainable and customer-centered.
Startup
Showcase
As in every edition, the Summit will host the Journey Demo Day! You will meet the finalists startups that were selected to develop pilot projects with the corporate partners.
Citycheck
Citycheck is a location-based game app that allows families to explore and play games while visiting a city or a specific place. This startup creates also opportunities for local entities to communicate with families through “intelligent and contextual ads”.
Cloudguide
CloudGuide offers a sightseeing app to guide and engage the visitors at tourist attractions. It unites all the tourist attractions in a single app with official content, creating a long-lasting experience for the visitor and boosting engagement with the site. The visitor uses CloudGuide before the visit to make it easier to plan, during the visit to enjoy it and after the visit to make it more memorable.
Geogames
Slavic Monsters is a geolocation, augmented reality mobile game (like Pokemon GO or Harry Potter Wizards Unite) only for tourism missions. Through the app, kids are playing, collecting information and visiting places in the city in a very fun way.

Holler
With a swipe of a finger, holler.live allows millions of people to express their opinion simultaneously, in a fun, easy and universally understandable way. The tourism sector’s revenue is more and more directly tied to the “star ratings” and reviews of the various intermediary platforms. Holler can enable any company in the Tourism sector to have its own real-time customer sentiment solution, covering the entire customer journey.
Luggit
LUGGit is a platform that through a mobile app allows everyone who travels to request a driver in real-time to collect the luggage and deliver it at the place and time the traveler chooses.
Q1
QueueOne is a virtual queue management system that businesses can use to provide virtual queuing solution to customers. The solution provides a SaaS platform where you can define and manage your queues. End-Users can also join the queue and be virtually positioned in the queue while they engage in some other activities.
Yourdata
Dataflow is a data analysis suite that enables predictive analytics with external databases and have automation features. It includes a data integration layer, in which data is normalised and serves as the basis for interaction with the best data mining, advanced statistics, machine learning techniques, and intuitive graphical representation.
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Contact
For any questions or media requests please contact: claudia.varandas@beta-i.com