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Shanghai returns as destination for Portuguese executives to learn about AI applications

Jornal Económico28 August 2026 at 17:02

The organization Instinct is promoting a business mission dedicated to artificial intelligence to Shanghai, in China. This is the third time the company takes Portuguese executives and entrepreneurs to the Chinese city to learn firsthand about companies and technologies that are marking the development of AI. The initiative brings together a limited group of participants and lasts five days.

Participants will have contact with companies from different sectors, including automobile, digital services, robotics, industrial automation, and health. Among the planned companies are NIO, an electric vehicle company, Meituan of on-demand services, AgiBot focused on humanoid robotics, ABB Robotics of industrial automation, Tencent, and United Imaging of medical imaging technologies.

The mission includes visits and contacts with companies that are already applying AI technologies in commercial and industrial operations. In the mobility area, participants will learn about NIO, while Meituan will allow them to observe the use of robots and drones in deliveries. Tencent will showcase the digital ecosystem associated with the WeChat platform.

For Nuno Ribeiro, from Instinct, the goal is to provide business leaders with a direct experience that allows them to understand the technological transformation underway. "We are not selling a trip. We are selling a change of perspective," he stated, arguing that there is a difference between knowing information about AI and directly observing the companies that are developing and applying these technologies.

Shanghai volta a ser o destino escolhido pela Instinct para uma missão empresarial dedicada à inteligência artificial (IA), que reunirá um grupo restrito de executivos e empreendedores portugueses.

Esta será a terceira vez que a organização leva empresários nacionais à cidade chinesa para conhecer de perto empresas e tecnologias que estão a marcar o desenvolvimento da AI.

Ao longo de cinco dias, os participantes terão contacto com empresas de diferentes setores, incluindo automóvel, serviços digitais, robótica, automação industrial e saúde. Entre as empresas previstas estão a NIO, Meituan, AgiBot, ABB Robotics, Tencent e United Imaging.

A iniciativa pretende proporcionar aos participantes uma visão prática da utilização da IA na economia chinesa, através de visitas e contactos com empresas que já aplicam estas tecnologias em operações comerciais e industriais.

O programa da missão inclui diferentes aplicações da inteligência artificial. Na área da mobilidade, os participantes vão conhecer a NIO, empresa chinesa de veículos elétricos, enquanto a Meituan permitirá observar a evolução dos serviços on-demand e da utilização de robôs e drones nas entregas.

A AgiBot será outro dos pontos do programa, com foco na robótica humanoide, enquanto a ABB Robotics representa a aplicação da automação em ambientes industriais.

Já a Tencent permitirá conhecer o ecossistema digital associado ao WeChat, uma das principais plataformas digitais chinesas. Na área da saúde, a visita à United Imaging estará centrada nas tecnologias de imagiologia médica e nas aplicações de IA no setor.

Para Nuno Ribeiro, da Instinct, o objetivo da iniciativa passa por proporcionar aos líderes empresariais uma experiência direta que lhes permita compreender melhor a transformação tecnológica em curso.

“Não vendemos uma viagem. Vendemos uma mudança de perspetiva”, afirma, defendendo que existe uma diferença entre conhecer informação sobre inteligência artificial e observar diretamente as empresas que estão a desenvolver e aplicar essas tecnologias.

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