Latest news and stories about digital transformation in Portugal for expats and residents.
The SP+ PRR conference, promoted by eSPap, highlighted the structural role of shared services and public procurement in the digital transformation process of the Public Administration, establishing itself as a space for strategic reflection and accountability regarding the execution of investments financed by the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR).
The law firm Uría Menéndez marks its 25th anniversary in Portugal by focusing on digital transformation and technological innovation.
Joana Pinto has been a partner in Technology Transactions at Antas da Cunha Ecija for a year. She has been working in the technology sector for over 25 years, having worked for multinational tech companies at the forefront of digital transformation projects. She was Head of Legal at Accenture Portugal for 17 years, serving on its Executive Committee. She began...
Meta is developing a photorealistic digital clone of Mark Zuckerberg, powered by the Muse Spark model, to serve as an emotional and strategic bridge between the CEO and the company's 79,000 employees. The project, led by the Superintelligence Labs division, aims to flatten hierarchies and scale company culture, though it faces significant ethical and regulatory challenges compared to European approaches to AI in the workplace.
The Portugal Digital Awards highlight that digitisation alone is insufficient; companies must now demonstrate the tangible value generated by these processes.
Communication plays a central role in the future of society. Since digital technology became part of our daily lives, priority has been given to the mission of strongly stimulating accessibility and social participation, ensuring the promotion, development, and consolidation of new technologies as a central instrument for modernisation and improving people's quality of life. Digital technology is an integral part of our lives, but it also has a great opportunity to reinvent itself for the future. Building an information and knowledge society is a complex challenge that cuts across all actors and requires a collaborative commitment from everyone. With digital technology, our society has changed significantly, and the degree of freedom for people to participate has gained a dimension never before possible – information is now available at all times and serves as the basis for new strategic intelligence platforms, driving new collaboration networks and solutions for emerging problems. Despite the enormous progress made with digital technology, empirical signs show a less positive reading of the behaviour of many societies regarding the requirements that innovation and creativity imply. Consolidating a modern knowledge society requires, first and foremost, knowing how to answer the following questions: what path should digital technology take as a central instrument of an active public intervention policy as a transversal matrix for the renewal of our society? How can companies (particularly SMEs) become relevant actors in creating value and ensuring adequate standards of quality and social life in a scenario of increasing economic relocation? What is the effective role of Education as an essential framework for adapting social actors to the new challenges of the knowledge society? Are the knowledge actors we need so much 'educated' or 'trained'? What is the role of R&D as an area capable of making the necessary compromise between the urgency of science and the inevitability of its more than necessary practical applicability for the purposes of inducing a structured culture of innovation? What is the effective meaning of employability and social inclusion policies as instruments for promoting a global objective of social cohesion? What should be done for all those who, due to unemployment, feel increasingly marginalised by the system? The aim is to create the conditions for the 'networked' qualification of the different actors who drive a new society, providing a true agenda of modernity, participatory and committed to the new paradigm of competitiveness, essential for creating a national opportunity in the global economy. Knowledge thus gains a central status in changing the society's development paradigm, materialised in the commitment between social cohesion and competitiveness. In these uncertain and complex times, digital technology must reinvent itself. This is the time for information to assume itself once and for all as the basis of a new strategic intelligence that mobilises society for a new collective contract of trust, in which individual autonomy is assumed as the basis of a new difference. The future of digital technology is also very much the future of our society.
The Government published this Monday the decree creating the State Simplification and Technology Network, a new structure intended to strengthen coordination between public bodies and accelerate the digital transformation of the Public Administration. The State Simplification and Technology Network has the mission of supporting and proposing measures to the member of...
Artificial intelligence (AI) represents the biggest technological shift since the internet and is profoundly transforming enterprise software. Not because it will replace it, but because it depends on it. Advances in reasoning, code generation, and autonomous agents (digital assistants) are real and are already reshaping entire sectors. I observe this daily. AI is...
Beyond repetitive tasks, management decisions are now being made by software. Are managers on the verge of extinction? Is the machine a tool or a threat? Deepak Chopra, the guru, is the figure of the week.
EDP aims to position itself as one of the leading users of artificial intelligence (AI) in the energy sector, at a time when the technology has moved from the experimental phase to large-scale application. In the sixth episode of the .IA Podcast (which you can watch at the end of this article), Nelson Pinho, global head of digital & AI...
I notice a subtle difference in the adoption of AI compared to previous technologies: we have every incentive to use it (we end up working less and even better) without boasting about it (we want to keep our jobs). A column by João Pedro Pereira.
Portugal is the European Union country with the slowest adoption of artificial intelligence (AI), according to 2025 Eurostat data presented at the 'Artificial Intelligence at the Centre of Business' conference, organised this Thursday by ECO with the support of PwC. Nuno Loureiro, Data & AI Partner at PwC, noted that only 12%...
For Rui Neves, senior partner at McKinsey & Company, it is clear that in Portugal “insurers began developing AI models several years ago and have more recently started taking their first steps in Generative AI”, but he considers that, like their international counterparts, “Portuguese insurers face the challenge of cultural transformation and...”
McDonald’s Portugal has merged Marketing and Digital Transformation into a single department. João Pedro Machado, who has been the Digital Transformation director at McDonald’s Portugal since October 2024, assumes leadership of the new department. Sérgio Leal, who spent about 20 years at McDonald’s, the last seven as marketing and communications director, has left the company.
Some of these tools may be useful, but their adoption must follow pedagogical logic, not market logic. A column by Catarina Cerqueira.
What does AI allow us to stop doing – so that we can finally start doing what really matters?
Through a project developed in partnership with Link Consulting, Lusitania Seguros will modernise its data architecture. The goal is to create a foundation for advanced analytics and Artificial Intelligence, “strengthening the insurer's ability to innovate and make faster data-driven decisions,” they explained in a statement. Lusitania Seguros has implemented...
The excessive delay in processing citizenship, residency, and asylum applications can be overcome through political decision-making and the use of artificial intelligence. Portugal has everything to gain. Opinion by Hélio Doyle.
Statements from the key figures at the CEO AI Forum, organised by Accenture and for which Expresso joined as a media partner
Choosing an artificial intelligence (AI) model for use in organisations is rarely an easy task, especially in a context where there are various large-scale models with distinct capabilities, some open and others closed. At the “Artificial Intelligence at the Centre of Business” conference, which took place this Thursday at the ECO studio, Nuno Loureiro, Data and AI...
Pressure. The slow adoption of artificial intelligence is still limiting national growth and competitiveness. In more advanced countries, companies are more innovative, are increasing margins, and have already adapted their business models.
Artificial intelligence. There is a good side and a bad side — or a less good one — to this technological evolution. On one hand, work is made easier; on the other, there are jobs that may disappear. But there are ways to minimise this negative impact.
Essity, a Swedish multinational specialising in hygiene and health, is leveraging its Shared Services Centre in Lisbon and a focus on innovation and sustainability to drive growth in the Portuguese market. With a workforce of 400 professionals in Portugal, the company continues to expand its digital transformation strategy while developing bio-based solutions to reduce environmental impact.
The 2026 Logicalis Global CIO Report, based on the insights of over a thousand CIOs worldwide, highlights a shift that is no longer incremental. AI is no longer in a preparatory phase, now influencing strategic decisions, altering operational models, and redistributing responsibility within organisations. The question is no longer whether...
Statements from the protagonists of the second 'Future in action: learning from top performers' meeting, organised by NTT DATA, with Expresso as media partner.
Statements from the protagonists of the Epic AI Summit, a meeting organised by the Epic Talent Society, which Expresso joined as a media partner
The way Artificial Intelligence is changing the job market and the importance of people in this process was the theme of the Epic AI Summit, a meeting organised by the Epic Talent Society, which Expresso is associated with as a media partner.
Only a minority of organisations are turning AI into economic growth, but there are already national cases showing that maturity levels are beginning to scale. At the second 'Future in action: learning from top performers' meeting, organised by NTT DATA with Expresso as media partner, which took place this morning, the transformation of business processes was the theme of the conversation.
The academic and founder of Spark-X Augmented Intelligence explains how AI will change our relationship with time.
