João ALMEIDA

Working on citizen centric ubiquous mobility and virtual ticketing services, based on contactless, smartphone and embedded technologies.

Founder and CEO at YouMove and Managing Director at Card4B, towards the provision of Integrated and Interoperable Mobility solutions and City-Services, integrating smartphones, Point-of-Sales, NFC, EMV contactless.

In the past, founder and Director of the SmartCITIES Business Unit, at INESC and Link Consulting, providing Contactless Ticketing and Operation Management systems for Public Transportation and Mobility.

MsC by the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) in Computer and Electrical Engineering, Business Administration by UNL and Project Management by APOGEP/IPMA.

Teached in several institutions for nearly 20 years, including Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) and Universidade Independente (UNI), FUNDETEC, RUMOS, EMPTEL.

Coordinator of graduation thesis for IST/LEEC and LEIC, FC-UL and FCT-UNL students.