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On April 27th, 2017, at Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo, occurred the first seminar from CEST (Society and Technology Study Center) on crowdsourcing, a collaborative business model used not only by large companies such as Google, Uber, Airbnb, and Netflix but also by Brazilian startups like Kickante and…

Lucas Lago, collaborator at CEST, comments on the results of a research from the beggining of 2017. The results show the main Soft Skills that companies want from employess on the beggining of their carrers in Information Technology. To read more about it, click here.

In this month´s bulletin published by CEST, the collaborator Vera Queiroz talks about Open Education, showing that this is another way of thinking about Education.

Click here to access the slides of the presentation given by Lucas Lago in the panel “Open Innovation, Blockchain and Public Policies” in the event “Disruptive Technologies and Public Policies” on November 10, 2017, organized by the Innovation Laboratory of PRODAM (LabProdam) and the Municipal Office of Technology and Innovation of…

Lucas Lago, researcher at CEST, was interviewed for the “Jornal da USP” about blockchain technologies. These technologies are the main theme on the next event organized by CEST. Click here to listen to the interview (in portuguese). Click here to know more about the event.

At October 18th 2017 the Scale-up Bootcamp was organized in FEA/USP, and important meeting between professionals, academic professors, researchers, entrepreneurs, leaders and governmental authorities, all directly linked to one of the most relevant aspects that have been mobilizing the national economy, Entrepreneurship and Startups. Professor Moacir de Miranda, of FEA’s…

The XXXVII ENEGEP, the largest event on Production Engineering in Brazil occurred from October 10th to 13th in the city of Joinville, Santa Catarina. About 1500 people participated in the event. It gathered students, researchers, academic professors and professionals from different Brazilian states, which presented works in the form of…

In this new bulletin, the collaborator Lucas Lago discusses the blockchain protocol and some applications being researched by companies and governments. To read the bulletin, click here.

People from different academic backgrounds discussed the implications of public policies involving blockchain technology