Leandro Nunes de Castro is an Electrical Engineer, holds an M.Sc and Ph.D in Computer Engineering and an MBA in Strategic Business Management. He has over 240 papers published in journals and conferences, and has written 4 books. He founded and leads the Natural Computing and Machine Learning Laboratory (LCoN) of the Graduate Program in Electrical Engineering and Computing of the Mackenzie Presbyterian University. In the last 13 years, he founded and participated in the structuring of four technology start-ups and has broad technology transfer experience. He is currently the Chief Development and Innovation Officer at the Mackenzie Presbyterian University, being responsible for the whole Innovation and Entrepreneurship Ecosystem at the university.