Conextivity
Rui Alcobia is an experienced IT professional with a robust background in business relationship management and financial planning. Currently serving as IT Director of Business Relationship Management and Group IT Manager at Conextivity since September 2023, Rui previously co-founded PRAGMASOFT Portugal, where responsibilities included financial direction and analysis from October 2000 to August 2024. Prior roles include Group IT Infrastructure & ERP Manager at Fischer Connectors, IT Director and Project Manager at HOSPISISTEMAS, and North Delegation Manager and IT Director at IBERDATA. Rui's career also spans foundational roles at EFACEC - Automação e Robótica S.A. as a Systems Analyst and various positions at IBERDATA, consolidating a diverse skill set in IT management, project management, and operations. Rui holds an MBA in International Business Administration from Católica Porto Business School and a degree in Electronics and Computers from Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto.
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Conextivity
Conextivity Group is a global technology group offering high-performance connectivity solutions that manage power and data flows seamlessly from sensors and devices to the cloud and AI, enabling the emergence of new transverse and scalable ecosystems. With nearly 700 people worldwide, one Group R&D center located in Switzerland and supported by regional hubs, and six manufacturing sites, the Swiss-headquartered group serves as a full-service partner across the entire value chain of connectivity, leveraging the expertise, capabilities and technologies of two core businesses: Fischer Connectors (founded in 1954) and Wearin’ (created in 2019). The group aims at meeting the challenge posed by the rise of ubiquitous connected devices and sensors. These generate massive and exponential amounts of data and information to support decision making, especially in mission-critical applications as well as in the Internet of Things (IoT). The first technology challenge is to integrate end-to-end connectivity that not only establishes the physical connection between sensors and communication devices that need to be interoperable in increasingly demanding environments. In addition, there is the challenge of optimizing and harmonizing power and data flows at increasingly high performance and speed, and transmitting these data to the cloud infrastructures that enable them to be processed. This combination of requirements in terms of performance, reliability, robustness and interoperability applies in particular in the cross-functional and scalable ecosystems found in mission-critical industries such as defense and security, medical, high-precision test and measurement instrumentation, robotics, first responders and wearables for the connected human.