Welcome to the Carnegie Mellon Portugal Summer Academy 2009!

The Carnegie Mellon Portugal Summer Academy is a unique event organized by ICTI involving several workshops and talks covering many breakthrough and practical issues on the area of information and communication technologies (ICT). Tailored for an industry audience with hands-on experience in key methods and techniques for service, software and game development, technology change and entrepreneurship. The workshops and talks will be offered by an international team of experts from the Carnegie Mellon faculty and also invited professors from world renown institutions in the ICT field.

The workshops will take place on June 23-25 according to the following timetable: June 23, from 9:00h to 18:00h June 24, from 14:00h to 18:00h June 25, from 9:00h to 18:00h Participants will have an opportunity to choose between the following 2,5 day workshops: W1 – Embodied Futures W2 – Interaction Design for non-Designers W3 – Agile Software Engineering (1 day – June 23) + (1 day – June 25) W4 – Service Modeling W5 – Innovation, Entrepreneurship and ICT Policy (June 23 afternoon) + (June 24 afternoon) W6 – Videogame Development DC – Doctoral Consortium (1 day – June 23) Participation is subject to registration, the fee includes all the material to be used in the workshops plus the meals and meetings presented in the timetable. The registration fees are as follows  (1 day / 2,5 days): General registration – 250€ / 500€ Industry affiliates - 150€ / 350€ Students – 100€ / 250€ Event location Hotel Ipanema Porto Social venues Welcome event – 22 June 2009 at Palácio da Bolsa (18.00h) Closing Dinner -  25 June 2009 at Taylor’s Port Wine Cellars (19.30h) Follow us on twitter and check out our blog! Newsletter of the Carnegie Mellon|Portugal Program (02 and 03)