{"id":72,"date":"2024-10-16T14:30:12","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T14:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/encontraste.pt\/site_20241610\/index.php\/about-the-owner-2\/"},"modified":"2024-10-16T16:50:02","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T16:50:02","slug":"about-the-owner-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/encontraste.pt\/site_20241610\/index.php\/about-the-owner-2\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Owner"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" style=\"\" >\n    \n    <section class=\"u-clearfix u-custom-color-3 u-section-2\" id=\"sec-7b5d\">\n      <div class=\"u-clearfix u-sheet u-sheet-1\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"u-align-left u-image u-image-default u-image-1\" src=\"https:\/\/encontraste.pt\/site_20241610\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/DSC02439-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-image-width=\"6000\" data-image-height=\"3376\">\n        <p class=\"u-custom-font u-font-open-sans u-text u-text-1\"><b><\/b><b><\/b>\n          <span style=\"font-weight: 700;\">Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dirk Elias <\/span>is co-owner of Encontraste Lda. He specializes in advising industry and organizations\non ICT and software R&amp;D, with a focus on the Cyber-Physical-Metaverse. From\nAugust 2024 appointed Chairman of the Eureka research cluster ITEA, he brings\nextensive experience from Industry and Academia to this role.\n&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>\n          <br>Previously, as Senior Vice\nPresident at Robert Bosch GmbH, Elias led the Corporate Research Division\n'Advanced Digital' from 2017 to 2023. This division focused on applied research\nin ICT, software development, systems engineering, and simulation. He also\noversaw the Bosch Research and Technology Center in India. Elias successfully\ntransitioned research findings from the Reliable Distributed Systems project to\nBosch's mobility sector.\n&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>\n          <br>After earning an EE degree at\nTU Munich he started his career at Fraunhofer Fokus in 1992. He obtained his PhD in\nComputer Science from TU Berlin in 1996. In 2000 he left Fraunhofer\nand founded IVISTAR AG. IVISTAR focused on IoT products for the organization of\nopen offices and provided later also development services for smart home\nproducts. In 2008 he left Berlin and started setting up the Fraunhofer Portugal\nResearch Center AICOS. He joined the Faculty of Engineering of the University\nof Porto (FEUP) as invited full professor in 2008.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>\n        <\/p>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dirk Elias is co-owner of Encontraste Lda. He specializes in advising industry and organizations on ICT and software R&amp;D, with a focus on the Cyber-Physical-Metaverse. From August 2024 appointed Chairman of the Eureka research cluster ITEA, he brings extensive experience from Industry and Academia to this role. &nbsp;&nbsp; Previously, as Senior Vice President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-72","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/encontraste.pt\/site_20241610\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/encontraste.pt\/site_20241610\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/encontraste.pt\/site_20241610\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/encontraste.pt\/site_20241610\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/encontraste.pt\/site_20241610\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/encontraste.pt\/site_20241610\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83,"href":"https:\/\/encontraste.pt\/site_20241610\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72\/revisions\/83"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/encontraste.pt\/site_20241610\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}