Fábio Beckenkamp works in the IT field with experiences as an executive, entrepreneur and also as a professor and university researcher. He was a researcher at UFRGS and also teacher and researcher at PUCRS and the University of Konstanz in Germany. He founded companies such as Hycones IT, which created the first Brazilian system based on artificial intelligence for data mining, and Elefante Letrado, the first Brazilian digital platform for children's reading. He was CTO at NeoGrid where he was responsible for developing and operating a number of leading software products for supply chain, where he also led M&A processes, consolidating national and international IT operations. He is currently CTO and partner of SMark CRM. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and an MBA in Business Management.