Monday, November 14, 2016

Fair in BH shows practical results for innovation and technology – the State of Minas


In the business rounds and exhibition, traditional markets have found innovative ways to appear and be managed, often by start-ups. Investors and developers of promising projects merged partnerships to leverage joint initiatives. Among the camp participants, called campuseiros, and the stages of lectures and workshops, students and beginners in the area of technology opened up the horizon for new areas of interest and a lot of people already out of job or internship guaranteed.Yesterday, on the day of dismantling of booths and balance of activities, which is heard both in the spaces of entrepreneurship and in the areas of learning and camps for thousand people from the Campus Party, was that the fo ur days of the International Fair of Business, Innovation and Technology (Finit), in the Expominas, became a landmark for the national market.

Organized by the State Secretariat of Science, Technology and Higher Education (Sectes), the fair occurred between last Wednesday and Saturday, leaving the day yesterday so that people feel more at ease for informal conversations while the booths were dismantled. According to the organization, the Finit is one of the biggest event of technology and innovation in the world, and the forecast was for a traffic of 10 thousand people per day. Within this structure occurred in the first Campus Party mining with activities 24 hours a day, gathering 4 thousand campuseiros and counting with camp for 700 tents.

"We are very happy with this first Campus Party in Minas Gerais, and we are already scheduling the second in September 2017. The participation was massive in all the stages, workshops and hackathons, which only confirmed the potential of entrepreneurship, innovation and technology of the state. We can consider the event an absolute success," said the director-general of the event, Tonico Novaes.

Startups

the junction of The activities previously linked only to traditional markets and conventional ways of acting with the speed and reach of new technologies has been one of the highlights of the rounds of negotiation that have occurred in the space of the Support Service to Micro and Small Enterprises (Sebrae) in Minas Gerais, according to the manager of access to the innovation and sustainability of the service, Anízio Vianna. "For us it was sign. We had several discussions. We had the Bio Startup Lab, which brings together biotechnology to the world of startups, with no other projects too caught up in the grandstands, and to the scientific part. We have developed projects where it takes you to the world of biotechnology this movement of the startups, which are nothing more than tools, more agile management and innovation," he said.

Studies made by the Sebrae to bringing innovation and the management of the 117 companies encubadas in Minas Gerais, also found investment opportunities for entrepreneurs interested. "We have seen that investors are already beginning to talk with these companies, make partnerships, and generate more business. For Sebrae, the most important thing is we have technology-based business. Our state needs to have a new economic basis, and I think that startups represent a new possibility", it was considered Vianna.

In the area of information technology (IT) for more than 20 years, the technical coordinator of the Colegio Cotemig, Leonardo Souza, claimed never to have seen a fair of this magnitude and with so many possibilities of interaction between the sectors. The institution was invited to bring his Tecnofeira to the space and the balance was positive. "Our students had the opportunity to talk directly with entrepreneurs, with investors, and show that they know how to make truth. In addition to showing the projects that they built, they were able to show all of the technical potential that they have," he said. "This event also showed how Minas Gerais is emerging in the area of technology and innovation."

Door open for new paths


While partnerships and business promising were formed, personal projects and manpower training, also found a space for mutual benefit. The student of electrical engineering from Cefet-MG Icarus Moura of the most High, of 20 years, for example, had a stage right on the first day of the Campus Party. "I talked with the representative of a new technology of biometrics. With a one-hour conversation about the project, just that he saw my interest and started asking questions about me. I didn’t know what he wanted and in the end he said he liked my questions and if I would be interested in an internship. Start to do the internship in the next semester," he says.

The student lives in Belo Horizonte, but as a thousand other participants made it a point to spend four days camped so as not to lose the 24 hours of the event. "Since the age of 12 and had the dream of going to a Campus Party and I was organizing to go in the coming year. I live here close by, on Avenida Amazonas. When it was announced that the event would be on the side of my house, I’ve spoken to who couldn’t miss the opportunity," he said.

In the workshop of robotics, in which you had the opportunity to assemble a robot, the student information systems of the Faculdade Pereira de Freitas, Jaipur, Thayrone Marques, 22-year-old discovered a new passion, and the possibility of a new area of operations. "It opened my mind to areas related, but new, and this gives a big cheer, the more gas the more. It is something that I put in the booklet of projects. Now, let’s study relationships, possibilities, and even to the growth of our region," says Thayrone. (MP)

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