Beta Talk Portimão will return on Saturday, 16th September, at 16 pm, and take advantage of the fact that it is still summer to promote a conversation by the river with entrepreneurs Ricardo Sobral and Manuel Brito. The restaurant A Faina, at the Portimão Museum, was the place chosen to present the Ricky Travel and Sun Concept projects and take assistance to «navigate through entrepreneurial paths in tourism».
This will be achieved in two ways. From the outset, through a conversation with Ricardo Sobral, founder of Ricky Travel, and Manuel Brito, founding partner and main investor at Sun Concept, «two entrepreneurs for whom innovation, new technologies and sustainability are the main compasses to achieve the success in new business in the area of tourism», according to Câmara de Portimão, the local organizer of the event.
On the other hand, there will be the real possibility of sailing, since everyone who signs up for this month's Beta Talk will have the opportunity to take a ride, in the late afternoon, on a solar boat.
Before heading to the river, participants will be able to learn about the professional experiences of two entrepreneurs from the Algarve, one from Portimonese and the other from Olhanese.
In 2011, Ricardo Sobral, born in Portimão, created Ricky Travel, a travel agency with an innovative concept «in which the customer had the opportunity to propose a price they wanted to spend on their vacation and interested hotels responded in real time» .
«This model would not meet expectations and after constant tests and reformulations, Rickytravel is today a national reference B2C that will reach the mark of 10 million euros in sales this year», according to the Câmara de Portimão.
Manuel Brito, born in Olhão, made a career in the financial area, as an auditor, financial and tax consultant (he is currently a member of the Supervisory Board of CGD), but decided to return to his hometown to invest in different businesses, including Sun Concept .
This company produces 100% electro-solar boats, technology that has gained supporters nationally and internationally and that has already earned Sun Concept the presence in the final of the Chivas The Venture international start-up competition.
Participation in Beta Talk in Portimão is free, but subject to mandatory registration. Interested parties should apply online.
The wine-break is up to whoever comes, so participants are invited to bring wine (or juice) and snacks to share.
Beta Talk is an initiative promoted by Beta-i – Association for the Promotion of Entrepreneurship and Innovation and is locally organized by the Municipality of Portimão, with the media partnership of “Sul Informação” and the collaboration of Escola Secundária Poeta António Aleixo, at the level of the Multimedia Course, which ensures photographic coverage.
Also the University of Algarve, through CRIA – Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer Division, ANJE – National Association of Young Entrepreneurs, NERA – Business Association of the Algarve Region, university radio RUA FM, APGICO – Portuguese Creativity Association and Innovation, GAIM – Academic Office for Research and Marketing, Inesting and the Algarve Emprego page (publication) support the event.
The September edition also has the special support of Algarve Sun Boat, which will provide a late-afternoon ride on the Arade River, Clube Naval de Portimão and the Faina restaurant.
About the guests:
Ricardo Sobral is born in Portimão, has always lived in Figueira, with which he has a huge connection. With a degree in Tourism, marketing branch from the University of Algarve, he completed a postgraduate degree in hotel management, having started professional functions as a management intern at Pestana Dom João II.
In 2005, he was invited to be the general director of the Hotel Santa Catarina in Praia da Rocha, having been responsible for its launch on the market and for its entire management, which, thanks to the team he had the pleasure of working with, quickly achieved very positive results. The increasing importance of the online market for tourism in the Algarve and the increased effort it had to put into marketing this accommodation unit without a pool, with traditional operators, led it to pay special attention to the online market and seek to specialize. get the most out of this commercial area.
Thus came the idea of creating an online travel agency and in 2011, “Rickytravel” was born with an innovative concept in which the customer had the opportunity to propose a price they wanted to spend on their vacation and interested hotels responded in real time. This model would not live up to expectations and after constant tests and reformulations, Rickytravel is today a national reference B2C that will reach the mark of 10 million euros in sales this year.
Manuel Brito he was born in Olhão and it was in Lisbon that he graduated in Business Management and has been making a career in the financial areas, as an auditor, financial and tax consultant, currently a member of the Supervisory Board of CGD, but still having the Algarve in his professional and personal horizon.
In addition to having an office in Faro, as a founding partner of DFK& Associados, it is also in the region that he decides to intervene and give life to projects of a socio-environmental and cultural content, as emerging interests that complement his career, namely through the creation of a regional publisher- " Sul, Sol e Sal”, with the aim of enhancing the culture of southern Europe, especially the Algarve.
In May 2015, a bar conversation that turned into a boat conversation, in the company of a biologist and a shipbuilder, came up with the idea of putting solar-powered boats on the water and developing the “Sun Concept” company that has in its DNA technological innovation, industrial design and sustainability. A pioneer in Portugal in electro-solar vessels and one of the first worldwide, it wants to sail far beyond the Portuguese coast, already counting on the recognition of customers and partners as well as first place in the national stage of the entrepreneurship award “ Chivas the Venture” which distinguishes social and environmental entrepreneurship startups from all over the world.
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