Henrique Carreiro

Henrique Carreiro leads the Academic and Startups Area at Microsoft Portugal. Henrique has a Major in Electronic Engineering by IST and Post-Graduations in Computers and Telecommunications (IST) as well as Information Society Law (Faculdade de Direito UL). He has been a lecturer on Math and Computer Science at IST and other Universities and is a frequent speaker on Information Society trends in Conferences.

He had a leading role in the launch of the first commercial Internet Service in Portugal. Henrique joined Microsoft Portugal twelve years ago, and has been a participant and driver of some of the largest Hosting, E-Commerce and Portals projects based on Microsoft platform in Portugal. Henrique has published widely on technology subjects in the mainstream (such as Público newspaper) and technical press, and is author and co-author of several books on Information Society themes. Most recently, he co-authored the book “Leis da Sociedade da Informação: Comércio Electrónico” (“Information Society Laws: E-Commerce”), Coimbra Editores, 2009).