The biggest entrepreneurship and inovation event in Latin America attracts more than 800 people in Rio

The 27th Anprotec Conference, organized by the UFRJ Science Park, attracted 865 people from 24 different Brazilian states and from 9 different countries from October 23 to 26. The event offered several activities, among which minicourses, e-book releases, 5 plenary sessions, as well as a series of presentations of studies.

The event had its closing dinner at the Museum of Tomorrow and promoted technical visits to two important innovation environments in Rio de Janeiro: the UFRJ Science Park and the Gênesis Institute, from PUC-Rio. In the Park, more than 100 people visited the facilities of Ambev Research Center, LabOceano – COPPE Ocean Technology Laboratory – and the COPPE/UFRJ Business Incubator, which included a visit to the startups Biotecam and Lemobs.