Norberto Peporine Lopes
Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Innovation and Full Professor at the Department of Biomolecular Sciences at FCFRP-USP. He holds a degree in Pharmacy, a Master's (FCF-USP), a PhD in Chemistry (IQ-USP), and completed postdoctoral studies in Mass Spectrometry at the University of Cambridge (UK). He currently coordinates INCTNature and focuses his research on biodiversity valuation and chemical ecology. Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, Financial Director of ACIESP, Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. With over 500 scientific articles and 17,000 citations, he has received ten prestigious awards, including the USP Innovation Trajectory Award and the Jeremy Knowles
How Digital Innovation and AI Are Redefining Inclusion and Sustainable Development
This panel challenges the utilitarian view that digital transformation and Artificial Intelligence exist solely to improve corporate efficiency and maximize profits. Through the lens of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the WSA ecosystem, the discussion repositions technology and AI as tools for social empowerment, algorithmic justice, and the enhancement of human creativity. The central focus is to explore how we can move beyond the mere "digitalization of bureaucracy" toward meaningful innovation capable of addressing Brazil's long-standing challenges—such as hunger, productive exclusion, and educational gaps—without deepening existing inequalities.