The portuguese Centro Nacional de Cibersegurança (National Center of Cybersecurity), invited Nuno Neves to participate in a round table about ransomware in an event fully dedicated to the subject, that took place at CNCS headquarters at January 27th, 2017. The panel was composed by members from academia, corporate and specialized press.

Webpage of the event: https://www.cncs.gov.pt/atividades/cibertemas/ransomware/

The competitive IBM Faculty award, was granted to Alysson Bessani. This prize is awarded to Professors from the best Universities around the world, who are suggested by IBM Research investigators and then assessed internally at the company.

The 2nd LaSIGE Workshop will be held in January 18, 2017 and aims at reinforcing the connections among its members and the scientific community.
Various works of its members will be presented during the event, that also count with invited lectures by Prof. Patrick Olivier, founder and leader of the Open Lab research center, and Prof. Luís Caires director of the NOVA LINCS research center.

Carlos Duarte participated as invited speaker in the last edition of the NEM Summit, an international conference on Media and Content organised by the NEM Initiative, where he presented the talk with the title “Universal is not enough: going back to Personal”, at the first time in the history of the event that was hosted a session on media accessibility, named "Accessibility - Is it the greatest challenge in the media industry today?".