"Geek Happy Hour"

Vieira de Almeida & Associados (VdA)'s IT & Outsourcing area of practice organized an informal event at bbgourmet in Porto. This was the first such event in which IT companies were invited to discuss IT issues between geeks and experts.

"Geek Happy Hour" was organized under the theme "The amazing new world of IT: videogames" and it was attended by Fernando Resina da Silva and Isabel Gião de Andrade, both partners at VdA and responsible for the IT & Outsourcing area of practice and the Porto office, respectively and also Helena Correia Mendonça, also from VdA's IT & Outsourcing area of practice. They were joined by Tiago Ribeiro, from Biodroid, António Gonçalves and Filipe Roquette, both from Seed Studios who were invited as guest speakers.

From the academic world to Spin off, there were 22 companies represented at the event.

The new Geek Happy Hour will be taking place in September, in Lisbon.