Won bounty for Original Smart Contract at ETHLisbon Kusama Smart Contracts Hackathon

Won challenge for Building a Canister Backend with Gmail Login & NFID Integration for ICP Wallet Authentication at ICP AI Hackerhouse Hackathon

Participated in the European Innovation Academy's entrepreneurship-focused program. Worked in a diverse environment with 500+ entrepreneurs and mentors from over 50 countries. Part of the AnkleWise team that won the Nixon Peabody LLP Patent Innovation Award and was selected for the CityXperiment program.

Helios — Peer-to-peer Electricity Trading with Blockchain Technology. Aiming to democratize access to renewable energy, we designed a system that enables peer-to-peer solar energy trading. Through a shared economy model, solar energy producers can recover their initial investment by selling excess production to their neighbors, while consumers gain access to solar energy at a much lower price than from the grid. Currently, solar producers sell excess energy at about 4 cents/kWh, while consumers buy electricity from the grid at around 12 cents/kWh (excluding taxes). Given this large gap and recent legislation favoring energy communities (Decree-Law No. 15/2022), this is a unique market opportunity to implement our solution. We believe that with growing public concern about climate change, more legislation will be published to benefit such projects. Our solution consists of a system made up of a building's (already existing) private network, smart meters that measure electricity production and consumption and facilitate the exchange, a platform where consumers can choose to buy solar energy, and a (private) blockchain where tokens are exchanged according to the electricity to be purchased. There are already similar solutions worldwide (e.g., Brooklyn Microgrid, Centrica plc), so we can guarantee the technology exists (see also this report). In Portugal, we would be the first mover to apply blockchain technology to direct solar energy trading systems. In recent months, after the publication of Decree-Law No. 15/2022, we have already seen this market evolve in Portugal, with news that GreenVolt will have the largest energy community in Europe in Comporta. It is our vision that such initiatives will become increasingly common.

Our team proposed a winning solution to the problem at BioTech On The Road'21, organized by Sociedade Portuguesa da Biotecnologia (SPBT), NEBM-IST, and Organização da VI SBE 2021.

SignTour. Developed the mobile app SignTour for Android and iPhone, along with a pitch and a business model canvas. The app is for people with hearing loss and it has a database of various monuments and museums from various cities in Portugal and short videos talking about their history in Portuguese Sign Language. The hackathon TecStorm 2020 had the support of Worten, SIBS, OutSystems, Noesis and KPMG.

2nd place, Best Robot In Division Prize (High School Division, Unique) at the Fire Fighting Home Robot Contest 2017, Trinity College Robot Competition. Team: ADoT — Associação Desenvolver o Talento. See more: https://ointerior.pt/arquivo/equipa-da-adot-vence-mundial-do-robot-bombeiro/