Joana Paiva
Halitus, Co-Founder & Chief Data Officer
About the Speaker
Joana Paiva (PhD) is the inventor of 6 patents, a scientist with over 30 publications, an Assistant Auxiliar Professor in Physics at the University of Porto, and a Photonics and Biomedical Engineer specialising in Biophysics, Artificial Intelligence, and Software. She is also the inventor and founder of the technology and of the startup iLoF - intelligent Lab on Fiber, Limited, having raised approximately 8 M Eur. She is an award-winning AI enthusiast and a regular lecturer and presenter at photonics conferences in the US and Europe. She is currently co-founder and Chief Data Officer at Halitus GmbH and was nominated as a 30 Under 30 personality in Europe in the Science & Healthcare category by Forbes, as a Future Leader by LLYC, finalist of the Woman Leadership & Entrepreneurship Award by the European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) in 2020, winner of the 2021 Women Entrepreneurship Award by Católica Lisbon School of Business & Economics, and shortlisted for “CTO of the Year” and “Entrepreneur of the Year” in the “Women in IT Awards, UK edition 2022”.
