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Andre Penha

Antiwire

Chairman
Andre Penha is the chairman of Antiwire, a Sao Paulo-based company that has developed and patented protocols, processes and circuits to transmit electricity wirelessly. Penha is also one of the founders and board member at QuintoAndar, one of the most prominent technology companies in Latin America, and he was CTO at QuintoAndar for 12 years. Before QuintoAndar, he worked for 9 years in the videogame industry. His academic background includes an undergrad in Computer Engineering (Unicamp, Brazil), an MSc in Computer Science (also at Unicamp), and a MBA from Stanford University (California). Penha is involved with the technology industry since the late 1990s, and is fascinated by how this industry has been shaping the human behavior and how it's going to change the world in the next decades.
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Arena Stage
Jun 5, 2026
10:20 AM10:40 AM

The Foundation of the Tech Shift

Andre Penha
Description
Every technological revolution has required a new infrastructure layer. The internet needed fiber. Mobile needed towers. The next era needs something more fundamental: the ability to move power without wires. This session explores how wireless electricity is becoming the invisible foundation of the tech shift, and what a world without cables, plugs, or grid dependency actually looks like.
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