Sunday, June 15 – Optional Walking Tour of Historic Porto
15:00 – 19:30
Guided visit including the Porto Cathedral, Church of Santa Clara, Ribeira Square, Avenida dos Aliados, and Clérigos Church. Ends with an informal drink nearby.
Starting point - 3:00 PM at Church of Santa Clara (Igreja de Santa Clara) - https://santaclaraporto.pt/en/
End of tour gathering will be at 7:00 PM at Cervejaria Clérigos - https://linktr.ee/cervejariaclerigos
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Monday, June 16 – Consortium Day 1
Venue: Auditorium A, INESC TEC
08:30 – 09:00 | Welcome coffee & registration
09:00 – 09:30 | Opening remarks
Session 1 – Energy Modelling and Decarbonisation Pathways
Moderator: Frank R. Field (MIT)
09:30 – 10:30
Mariana Januário (IST) – A Multi-Sectorial Energy Model to Assess the Cost-Effectiveness of Mitigation Measures and to Evaluate Decarbonization Plans and Future Scenarios
Marcos Tenente (U. Coimbra) – Integrating multiple impacts and lifecycle assessment in the evaluation of energy efficiency funding programs
Diana Vieira Fernandes (IST & CMU) – Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Electricity Markets for Low Voltage Networks
10:30 – 10:45 | Coffee break
Session 2 – Energy Justice, Access and Intermediaries
Moderator: Joana Mendonça (IST)
10:45 – 11:45
Brissa Acevedo (FEUP & CMU) – Community Preferences in Energy Justice: Perspectives on Solar Farm Projects
Bianca Bănică (FEUP) – Can Energy Transition Intermediaries Truly Transform? Insights from Romania’s Energy Poverty Struggles
Akua McLeod (CMU) – Disaggregating Outages and Disconnections in Smart Meter Data: A Comparative Evaluation of Machine Learning Algorithms
Flash Talk Session
Moderator: José Coelho Rodrigues (INESC TEC & FEUP)
11:45 – 12:30
Carissma McGee (MIT) – Mass and Distance Estimation Simulations for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Using PyLIMASS: A Case Study on Intellectual Property Frameworks in Space Collaborations
Vahid Rasouli (INESCC, U. of Coimbra) – The Importance of Demand-side Energy Resources Modeling in Policy Design
Sónia Teixeira (INESC TEC & FEUP) – The Artificial Intelligence Vulnerabilities Prioritization
Rui Almeida (FEUP) – Evidence Without Complexity: Mapping Propagation Axes and Extinction Patterns for Smarter Wildfire Management Policies
Ellie Baker (MIT) – Clarifying Data Production Processes
12:30 – 14:00 | Buffet lunch at INEGI (on campus)
Session 3 – Batteries, Supply Chains and Electrified Mobility
Moderator: Christine Ortiz (MIT)
14:00 – 15:00
Hannah Morin (CMU) – Quantifying the Degradation Cost of Frequent Fast Charging Across Multiple Electric Vehicle Battery Chemistries
John Paul Pieper (CMU) – Design and Manufacturing Flexibility for Battery Materials Supply Chain Resilience
Anthony Cheng (CMU) – Economic and environmental impacts of U.S. place-based policies promote EV battery supply chain security
15:00 – 15:15 | Coffee break
Session 4 – Digital Futures: AI, Workforce and Telecom Infrastructure
Moderator: Lia Patrício (INESC TEC & FEUP)
15:15 – 16:15
Jongmin Han (FEUP) – Evaluating Generative AI for Scenario Planning: Comparing Prompt Strategies, Analysis Quality, and Narrative Generation Against Human Benchmarks
Wilson Martinez Diaz (CMU) – A Framework for Tracking Occupational Insights: Rapidly Generating Preliminary Quantitative Attribute Vectors for Emerging Occup
Amitava Datta (IST) – National Culture and Investment in Mobile-Communication Generations
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Consortium Dinner
19:30 – 21:30 | Ponte de Ferro Restaurant
R. do Casino da Ponte 1, 4430-999 Vila Nova de Gaia
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Tuesday, June 17 – Consortium Day 2
Venue: Auditorium A, INESC TEC
08:30 – 09:00 | Welcome coffee
Session 5 – Risk Communication, Wildfire and Water Quality Governance
Moderator: Baruch Fischhoff (CMU)
09:00 – 10:00
Mayara Souza (FEUP) – Developing risk communications strategies: a mental model approach applied to the Portuguese traditional burning context
Fábio Silva (FEUP) – Leisure activities and wildfire ignitions: gaps and misconceptions in public risk perception
Sinan Abi Farraj (Stanford) – Valuing Regional Permitting to Regulate Nutrient Discharge
Session 6 – Organisational Strategies and Societal Impact
Moderator: Erica Fuchs (CMU)
10:00 – 11:00
Kathryn Gilligan (George Washington U.) – Organizational Information Management in Humanitarian Response
Larissa Cool (TU Eindhoven) – How Researchers Consider and Understand Societal Impact in Early-Stage Technology Development: A Case Study in Integrated Photonics
Abigail Bowering (MIT) – Evaluating Network Metrics of System Interventions Toward Sustainability in Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining in Madre de Dios, Peru
11:00 – 11:15 | Coffee break
11:15 – 12:15 | Career Panel
12:15 – 13:00 | Wrap-up and participant feedback
13:00 – 14:00 | Buffet lunch at INEGI
14:00 – 15:00 | Faculty coordination meeting