The largest conference connecting science and business in Latin America, SciBiz, took place between June 17th and 21st at CDI and InnovaUSP. This was the seventh edition and with the theme: “Innovation by Missions: Deep Tech and Neo Industrialization”, aligned with the Brasilian Federal Government Guidelines that foresee the allocation of over 300 billion reais in financing until 2026 in the ‘New Industry’ Program Brazil’, which seeks to reconcile greater productivity, job creation and lower environmental impact.
Since 2018, SciBiz has brought business and science closer together for the benefit of society, this being an initiative by AUSPIN, FEA-USP and INOVA USP, which took shape in academia and today affects the entire entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem in Brazil.
In this sense, RCGI was invited to participate in the strategic curation of SciBiz, and organised Friday’s program, which was as follows:
Opening – 9:00 am to 10:30 am – LOCATION: CDI Auditorium
Theme: “Breaking Sustainable Frontiers: Innovation Towards the Bioeconomy and Green Energy”
Moderator: Marcos Buckeridge – Director of the BECCS Program and advisor to USP rectory;
1) Daniela Godoy, Environmental Management Coordinator at the Superintendency of Technology and Environment of the ANP (National Agency for Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels;
2) Sergio Costa Oliveira – professor of immunology at ICB/USP and advisor to the scientific director of FAPESP;
3) Alexandre Breda – Low Carbon Technologies Manager at Shell;
4) Secretary José Renato Nalini, secretary of climate change at the City of
São Paulo;
5) Emilio Nelli Silva Deputy director of RCGI – USP;
6) Lygia da Veiga Pereira Carramaschi – Professor at USP and leader of the DNA project Brazil.
Panel 2 – 10:45 am to 12:00 pm – LOCATION: CDI Auditorium
Theme: “Establishing International Partnerships: The RCGI Office at the Shell Hub in Amsterdam and Pilot Plants at USP SP”
Moderators: Renato Picelli – Director of Innovation and Technology Transfer at
RCGI/ Ruy Rede – Innovation and Technology Transfer Manager at RCGI
1) Alexandre Breda – Low Carbon Technologies Manager at Shell;
2) Karen Louise Mascarenhas – Director of Human Resources and InstitutionalCommunications (Amsterdam ONLINE);
3) Gustavo Noronha – Technology Project Manager at Toyota;
4) Julio Romano Meneghini – Scientific Director of RCGI (Ultrech ONLINE).
DEMONSTRATION OF THE TOYOTA MIRAI POWERED BY HYDROGEN AND CELL ON FUEL – 12:15 pm to 12:45 pm
Demonstration of the hydrogen and fuel cell vehicle. The car was on the ground floor, outside, between the CDI and InovaUSP buildings.
Speaker: Gustavo Noronha – Technology Project Manager at Toyota
Panel 3 – 1:00 pm to 1:45 pm – LOCATION: CDI Auditorium
Theme: “Innovation and Bioeconomy: Pillars for Building a Sustainable Future”
Moderator: Lilian Sanchez Carrete – Professor from USP (confirmed)
1) Lygia da Veiga Pereira Carramaschi- Full Professor and Head of
National Embryonic Stem Cell Laboratory of the Department of
Genetics and Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Biosciences, USP. Creator and leader the Brazilian DNA project from the Ministry of Health; and founder and CEO of startup gen-t.
Panel 4 – 1:50 pm to 3:00 pm – LOCATION: CDI Auditorium
Theme: “From Sci to Biz: transforming science into business”
Presentation of the innovation process from the generation of the idea to the implementation of the business.
Moderator: Ruy Rede – Innovation Manager at RCGI;
1) Director of Technology Transfer and Innovation at RCGI: Renato Picelli;
2) RCGI Innovation Manager: Ruy Rede;
3) Carbonic: A Success Story: Maitê Gothe;
4) Multiscale Startup: Alexsandro Kirch;
5) Evolving startup: Thiago Lopes.
Panel 5 – 3:00 pm to 3:50 pm – LOCATION: CDI Auditorium
Theme: “Meeting customer needs: Science as a solution”.
Moderator: Ruy Rede – RCGI Innovation Manager;
1) CEO of SRI: José Roberto Martins;
2) The Bakery – Paulo Campos / BASF – Juliana Carvalho.
Panel 6 – 4:00 pm to 4:30 pm – LOCATION: CDI Auditorium
Theme: “The vision of investors looking for Deep Tech startups”
Moderator: Ruy Rede – RCGI Innovation Manager;
1) KPTL – fundraising fund for investments in Deep Tech
Renato Ramalho & Adriano Pitoli.
PARALLEL EVENTS – REVERSE PITCH
1:30 pm to 2:00 pm – SHELL Reverse Pitch
Presenter: Alexandre Breda – Low Carbon Technologies Manager
2:15 pm to 3:00 pm – BASF Group Reverse Pitch
Presenters: Ornella Nitardi – Head of Open Innovation at Onono; Xis Santos
– Bioeconomy and Insights Coordinator at Onono; and Gabriel Trama – Leader of Open Innovation at Suvinil.