Rio Innovation Week seeks to bring technology closer to the public

Rio de Janeiro, January 13 (EFE). Rio Innovation Week kicked off Thursday in that Brazilian city with more than 500 speakers, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, who will discuss for four days on the challenge of bringing the public closer to new technologies, including pokies online NZ. “Innovation does not necessarily need to cause disruption. Innovation is improving processes, developing standards, perfecting the product you already have, breaking away from the existing system, creating a more efficient and cheaper system,” said Fabio Queiroz, chair of the Regulatory Board. Brazil State News Agency. The so-called Rio Innovation Week, according to its organizer, should show that technology can be simpler and easier than thought, because “if you move a cup from where it stays all day on the table and if you put it on the other side, that’s really an innovation”. 1,200 startups and 190 exhibitors are participating in the event, as well as speakers such as Wozniak; Mayor of Miami (USA), Francis Suarez; The founder of the British group Virgin, Richard Branson, and the Brazilian Minister of Science and Technology, astronaut Marcos Pontes, among others. According to Queiroz, visitors to the meeting to be held at the Jockey Clube Brasileiro in Rio de Janeiro will be able to “touch and demystify technology if there is any bias in the face of the complexity of the matter” and the current coronavirus pandemic “has also brought a need for creativity, to transform and accelerate digitally”. In the framework of the exhibition, US Mayor Suarez and his host counterpart, Eduardo Paes, will take part in the “Rio-Miami Connection” roundtable, where both leaders will explain how the two cities are positioning themselves on the map of new technologies. EFE wgm/laa (photo)