Start Date:

March 18th, 2025 9:00

End Date:

1:00pm, 18th March 2025

Location:

Martinhal Lisbon Oriente, Praça Príncipe Perfeito, Lisboa, 1990-221, Portugal

Country:

Portugal

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The Ireland Portugal Business Network (IPBN) held its annual flagship Sustainability conference this year at IPBN member Martinhal Lisbon Oriente Tuesday March 18 from 0900 to 1pm, followed by a light lunch. You can see the complete gallery of images from the event here— 200 photos!

This was the moment where we celebrated St. Patrick’s Day with the presence of H.E. Alma Ní Choigligh Ambassador of Ireland to Portugal and the Minister of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Recovery & Reform Kevin Boxer Moran.

The theme of the conference this year “Connecting territories: the best of urban-rural cooperation” was debated in a series of captivating panel conversations with experts assembled from Ireland and Portugal to share their knowledge and experience in the following challenging area:

1. Community development and urban planning, creating local communities where people connect around technology, regeneration and togetherness
2. Vertical farming and its impact on traditional farming. As environmental consciousness grows, this talk will focus on reutilising and repurposing exisitng infrastructure within cities to develop local food security with urban communcities.
3. Data Centres with the SINES DC project, a 1.2GW data centre campus developed outside the large cities in Sines Portugal, creating Europe’s largest and most sustainable data ecosystem with market-leading global connectivity.

It was a great opportunity to meet and exchange ideas with key players in the sector, from both countries on an important topic “Urban vs Rural development”. The conference indeed fostered cross-border partnerships between Ireland and Portugal for a more sustainable future.

Engaging with key industry leaders, IPBN members, and executive partners, and enjoy networking opportunities over a light lunch was a pleasure, and we hope it drives impactful change!

Special thank you for their support to our Executive Partners and our offical partner of the conference Chitra Stern, Entrepreneur & Founder of the Martinhal Resorts and the United Lisbon International School & host of the conference.

And thank you to our sponsors and IPBN members GEOPALM Engineering Consultant, dedicated to the development of a diverse array of projects and consultancy services in Civil and Geomatic Engineering and Pine Hill International, consultancy company with a vision of progress, excellence and commitment to helping your project get off the ground.

Check the video of the conference here and on the IPBN Spotify channel you will fiind here, you will be able to listen to the different panel conversations and Chitra Stern's keynote statement. 

Programme

0830      Registration and Welcome coffee

0915      Welcome Statement – Geoffrey Graham, Chair of the IPBN Board 

0930      Opening statement – Alma Ní Choigligh, Ambassador of Ireland to Portugal & Irish Minister (to be confirmed closer to the day)

0945      Keynote Statement  - Chitra Stern, Entrepreneur & Founder of the Martinhal Resorts and the United Lisbon International School & host of the conference 

1000      Panel 1 - A conversation about Community Development and Urban Planning,creating local communities where people connect around technology, regeneration and togetherness with:

• From Ireland, Siobhán Finn, CEO at Community Enterprise Association Ireland, promoting business in rural Ireland 
• Laetitia Arrighi de Casanova, Director at B Lab Portugal | Sustainability Leader. Her focus is to accelerate the transition to a more inclusive, equitable, and regenerative economy 
• Moderated by IPBN Board Member Susan Cabeceiras 

1030    Panel 2 – An exclusive conversation about Vertical Farming Revolution and Farming Sustainability. This talk will focus on the VF opportunities within cities and what Farming Sustainability means with:

• John Paul Prior, Chair of the IPBN Porto and Director of Sales Strategy and Technical Development at Farmony 
• From Ireland, Patrick FitzGerald, Ceo & Founder Beotanics, a plant genetics and plant based food ingredient development company & Board Member of The Irish Food Board 

1100    Sponsors introduction Plus a chance to win two round-trip tickets to Dublin, courtesy of Aer Lingus.

1115     Coffee Break

1145     Panel 3 - A panel conversation about Sustainable AI-Scale Data Centres with Innovative Cooling and 100% Renewable Energy with:

• India Branquinho de Oliveira, Sustainability Manager at Start Campus | Delivering Al-Scale Data Centre
• Luis Adolfo, Director, Skanstec Engineering, IPBN Executive Partner 
• Moderated by IPBN member Kayleigh Ann Myles, ESG & Sustainability Lead @ Lawler Sustainability, winner of this year's IPBN Business Success Award

1230    Networking with light lunch

1330      End

 

 

Booking Closed