For practically four decades Alcino Lavrador has dedicated his energy to the Altice group and built a flourishing career acknowledged within the sector, and also by his colleagues and friends who made a point of honouring him. Until the end of October, he was the director-general of Altice Labs, a company within the group dedicated to researching and developing new solutions for the market. Ana Figueiredo: \u201cI am delighted and proud to announce the Alcino Lavrador Recognition Award to be launched from 2024, which aims to reward the best Master\u2019s and PhD students.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Altice Portugal\u2019s CEO sees this award as the best way of marking the \u201cunparalleled\u201d path of the person who for the last 15 years headed up the group\u2019s innovation company and who always sought out excellence within the academy as fuel to disrupt the sector. She recalled the vital role played by Lavrador \u201cin bringing the company closer to the academy and to industry,\u201d having promoted \u201cseveral protocols aimed at recognising merit and the academic, corporate community and attracting talent.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/div>
The finalists in this category include technological solutions in the field of medicine.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
Alcino Lavrador kicked off his career at CET \u2013 Centro de Estudos de Telecomunica\u00e7\u00f5es, in 1985, as the engineer responsible for developing network protocols, and it went from strength to strength. In 1998, he took up a post at PT Inova\u00e7\u00e3o as team leader and later, in 2002, he became its director. He also joined the management of PT Inova\u00e7\u00e3o Brasil, \u201cwhere he headed up various projects which significantly transformed the telecommunications sector,\u201d until he took up the post of director-general of Altice Labs. Ana Figueiredo further highlighted \u201cThis also allowed MEO to have the leadership we have today in terms of telecommunications in Portugal.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The vacated post has been filled by Paulo Firmeza, to whom Alcino Lavrador wished \u201call the best\u201d in this new challenge. Now a consultant, he took the stage and gave thanks \u201cfor the recognition by the teams and by the people\u201d with whom he worked over the course of so many years. He continued, \u201cI feel privileged to have had fantastic colleagues, to have had people who always believed in challenges and in doing the impossible and that\u2019s how we manage to do things and make them possible.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The Altice International Innovation Award (AIIA) is also part of the legacy left by the former head. Right from its first edition it has included a range of jury members responsible for evaluating the projects submitted and selecting the winning ideas, as was the case in this seventh edition of the awards. Alcino Lavrador was one of the members of the jury panel who spent the afternoon hearing the pitches by the nine finalists in the three categories \u2013 Startup, Inclui and Academy.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The entrepreneurs were allowed individual five-minute sessions to present their ideas to a panel of demanding judges, after which they were grilled for 45 minutes. For the candidates, this was their last chance to convince the jury that they deserved to win their category. Once all the finalists had been heard, the panel of experts decided who would scoop this year\u2019s three main prizes.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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