Henrique Carreiro
Microsoft
Henrique Carreiro leads the Development Tools and Academic Initiatives within the Developer Platform & Evangelism Group at Microsoft Portugal. Previously, he led the Productivity Business and also the Specialist Team Unit. He joint Microsoft with the mission to develop the Internet Solutions and E-Commerce areas.
He drove the adoption of Microsoft platforms by leading Telcos, Media Companies and Application Service Providers, helping launch some of the largest Hosting and E-Commerce platforms in the country, based in MS technology, and helping the development of the local startup ecosystem.
He had a leading role in the launch of the first commercial Internet Service in Portugal (Telepac) and the creation of Netpac, the first “consumer ready” pack for Internet access in Europe. He has also published widely on technology subjects in the mainstream (such as Público newspaper) and technical press, and is co-author of several books on E-Commerce, Intellectual Property Law and Information Society., such as “Leis da Sociedade da Informação: Comércio Electrónico” (“Information Society Laws: E-Commerce”), Coimbra Editores, 2009).
