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Covilhã Innov Summit
Covilhã Innov Summit is an event focused on promoting entrepreneurship, technology, and innovation in the Covilhã region, featuring roundtables and competitions for startups.
Overview
What Covilhã Innov Summit does
What Covilhã Innov Summit is
Covilhã Innov Summit is an event focused on promoting entrepreneurship, technology, and innovation in the Covilhã region, featuring roundtables and competitions for startups.
How it participates in the startup ecosystem
The current public profile supports event host capabilities. Each capability below is shown separately so organization identity and role-specific information do not get conflated.
Operational profile
Organization status and context
Organization status describes the entity itself. Funding and program availability appear within the relevant capability profile.
- Operational status
- Active
- Organization type
- Event Organizer
- Structured capabilities
- Event host
- Last reviewed
- April 12, 2026
Official channels
Find Covilhã Innov Summit elsewhere
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Capability profile
Covilhã Innov Summit as an event host
Event focus
The Covilhã Innov Summit emphasizes the promotion of technologies, innovation, and entrepreneurship. It aims to foster synergies among participants and explore future economic trends, particularly in sectors such as artificial intelligence, health and biotechnology innovation, digital innovation, and green and digital transitions.
Format narrative
The summit features workshops, roundtables, talks, and a startup competition, providing a platform for networking and showcasing innovations.
Participant value
The Covilhã Innov Summit provides a unique opportunity for startups to present innovative ideas to investors and industry leaders, gain recognition, and potentially secure funding while fostering collaboration and networking among participants.
Format and cadence
- Event types
- summit
- Recurrence
- annual
- Modality
- in-person
- Startups can present
- Yes
Availability
- Registration state
- Accepting
- Next recorded event
- April 20, 2026
- Next event location
- Covilhã, Portugal
Audience and fit
- Stages
- Pre-seed · Seed · Series A
- Audience
- Founders · Investors · Corporate Innovators
- Regions
- Europe
Speakers and past editions
Speakers
Notable speakers include João Pacau, COO Global at Mecalbi; João Nuno Serra, CEO at Enforce & Enforcesco; João Mota, CEO at Void Software; Jhonny Ocampo, CEO at NomadeIngenuity; Jorge Freitas, President of the TOP Talks Association; Bernardo Moutinho, Head of Operations at Granter; Nuno Gonçalves, Vice-President of the IAPMEI Board of Directors; and Carla Tavares, Head of Renewables & Commercial Innovation Center at Galp.
Past editions
The first edition of the summit took place in March 2025, aiming to enhance the local business ecosystem by bringing together business leaders, startups, entrepreneurs, and investors from both national and international backgrounds.
Common questions
What to know about Covilhã Innov Summit
Upseed classifies Covilhã Innov Summit under the Event Organizer organization type. Its current public profile includes event host capabilities.
Source and update disclosure
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Source basis
Public organization and program material, official websites, and structured Upseed records.
Last reviewed
April 12, 2026
Known limits
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