IPDAL brings together experts and ambassadors to decode the unpredictability in the main markets of large Portuguese companies.

The 1st Business Intelligence Meeting was organized with the support of BBVA and focused on the countries that raise the most questions for large Portuguese and multinational investors operating in Portugal.

For this purpose, IPDAL brought together diplomatic representatives and main experts from Angola, Brazil, China, Spain, the United States and the United Kingdom. Economists, businesspeople, business consultants, journalists, government advisors, diplomats and internationalization experts were invited to the moments of analysis.

On April 11th, the risks and opportunities created by the periods of uncertainty that these markets are experiencing were explained to a restricted group of large companies. In a logic of point and counterpoint, the experts took the floor first, with this intervention then commented on by diplomats from the respective countries.

Topics such as the “Lourençista Spring” in Angola, Brazil’s predictable commitment to an economy open to private initiative, Chinese multilateralism and Portugal’s role in affirming that strategy within the EU, the absence of unforeseen economic events in Spain due to Catalan situation, the reduction in the budget of the State Department of the United States of America and the European Union’s reaction to this new reality, as well as the disinvestment in the Atlantic dimension of the United Kingdom, which Brexit may pose.