Alex de Carvalho

Speaking

Speaker’s Bio (click on photo for high-res version):

Alex devel­ops social media ini­tia­tives and net­works from busi­ness plan­ning to launch. He co-founded and runs a world­wide com­mu­nity for physi­cians, VoxMed. He is the co-author of “Secur­ing The Clicks: Net­work Secu­rity in the Age of Social Media”. A Pro­fes­sor at the Uni­ver­sity of Miami, School of Com­mu­ni­ca­tions, Alex teaches a course on social media. Based in Miami, Florida, he orga­nizes The Startup Forum, Social Media Club, Bar­Camp, and Mobile Mon­day mee­tups and con­fer­ences for South Florida new media pro­fes­sion­als, and is a found­ing mem­ber of Refresh­Mi­ami. Alex obtained an MBA from INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France, and speaks Eng­lish, French, Por­tuguese, Span­ish and Finnish.

You may find Alex on Twit­ter (@alexdc), where he is par­tic­i­pat­ing most actively.

Speak­ing engagements.

  • ITEXPO East — Miami, FL — Feb­ru­ary 3, 2012 — “Does Your Busi­ness Have a Social Media Strategy?”
  • Social Media Con­fer­ence — Miami, FL — Jan­u­ary 25, 2012 — “Secur­ing the Clicks: Net­work Secu­rity in the Age of Social Media”
  • Pri­vate event — Miami, FL — Decem­ber 14, 2012 — “Cor­po­rate Social Media Best Practices”
  • Women’s Suc­cess Sum­mit IV — Miami, FL — Novem­ber 11, 2011 — “The Male Panel”
  • Online Mar­ket­ing Sum­mit — Miami, FL — August 9, 2011 — “Keynote Panel: Social Media Hotseat”
  • Whar­ton Club of South Florida — Miami, FL — August 2, 2011 — “Open for Busi­ness Online Ana­lyt­ics, Behav­ioral Tar­get­ing, Data Min­ing – The Great Equal­iz­ers of the Dig­i­tal Mar­ket Place”
  • Doc­tors 2.0 — Paris, France — June 22, 2011 — “Online Med­ical Communities”
  • SheCon’11 She­Blogs Con­fer­ence — Miami, FL — May 22, 2011 — “Build­ing Pas­sion­ate Communities”
  • PRSA — Miami, FL — April 20, 2011 — “Ethics in Jour­nal­ism and Social Media”
  • Uni­ver­sity of Miami Annual Career Sym­po­sium — Miami, FL — April 7, 2011 — “Jour­nal­ism & New Media”
  • Florida Inter­na­tional Uni­ver­sity — Miami, FL — March 23, 2011 — “Pur­ple Cows, Evil Plans, and Char­lie Sheen”
  • NetUp­NOW Con­fer­ence — Miami, FL — March 5, 2011 — “Pur­ple Cows, Evil Plans, and Char­lie Sheen”
  • PRSA — Miami, FL — Octo­ber 13, 2010 — “Jour­nal­ism and New Media”
  • INSEAD Health­care Alumni Sum­mit — Paris, France — Octo­ber 8, 2010 — “Inter­ac­tive & Healthcare”
  • EphMRA, Euro­pean Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal Mar­ket Research Asso­ci­a­tion — Berlin, Ger­many — June 23, 2010 — “Will Mar­ket Researchers be the Nean­derthals of Homo Marketingus?”
  • Nokia LatAm Blog­ger Con­fer­ence — Miami, FL — May 26, 2010 — “Brands and Social Media”
  • PBIRG, Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal Busi­ness Intel­li­gence Research Group Annual Gen­eral Meet­ing — May 17, 2010 — Naples, FL — “What We Can Learn From Word Of Mouth”
  • 1st Annual SFIMA Mar­ket­ing Sum­mit: Dri­ving ROI with Search and Social — Ft. Laud­erdale, FL — May 14, 2010
  • Sym­po­sium des Amériques — Miami, FL — May 7, 2010 — “Social Media for Business”
  • AIGA, Amer­i­can Insti­tute of Graphic Arts — Orlando, FL — April 24, 2010 — “Social Media Design Patterns”
  • Recruit­ment Sym­po­sium by jobing.com — Boca Raton, FL — April 6, 2010 — “Social Media for Recruitment”
  • TEDxBrick­ell — Miami, FL — March 19th, 2010 — “How Social Media is Trans­form­ing South Florida”
  • Eye­For­Pharma eMar­ket­ing Sum­mit 2010 — Berlin, Ger­many — March 4th, 2010 — “An Eye for Social Media: from Lab through­out Lifecycle”
  • FDMA — Ft. Laud­erdale, FL — Feb­ru­ary 18th, 2010 — “5 Keys to Social Media Implementation”
  • Bea­con Coun­cil, CCEF — Miami, FL — Sep­tem­ber 14th, 2009 — “Inno­va­tion and Com­mu­nity: How Social Media is Chang­ing Busi­ness — and South Florida”
  • Radio Actu­al­i­dad 1020 — Miami, FL — Novem­ber 17, 2009 — “Social Media Best Practices”
  • Coral Gables Cham­ber of Com­merce — Miami, FL — Octo­ber 22, 2009 — “Social Media Best Practices”
  • Biz­Conf — Amelia Island, FL — August 20 — 21, 2009 — “Social Media Frameworks””
  • Pulso Social — Miami, FL — August 5, 2009 (in Span­ish) — “Social Media Best Practices”
  • Andres Oppen­heimer Pre­senta (tele­vised) — Miami, FL — July 23, 2009 (in Span­ish) — “Social Media Best Practices”
  • Com­cast Media Day — Miami, FL — July 15, 2009 — “Do’s and Dont’s of Social Media”
  • Peace Sul­li­van / James Ansin Jour­nal­ism Work­shop — Miami, FL — July 6, 2009
  • AWC — Miami, FL — June 18, 2009
  • SFIMA — Ft. Laud­erdale, FL — June 13, 2009 — “The Glit­ter of Twitter”
  • FPRA — Stu­art, FL — June 12, 2009 — “Social media: chal­lenge or opportunity?”
  • Web­Conf Latino — Tegu­ci­galpa, Hon­duras — June 4, 2009 (in Span­ish) — “Social Media Best Practices”
  • CWC FPRA — Sara­sota, FL — May 21, 2009 — “Social media: chal­lenge or opportunity?”
  • PRACC — Naples, FL — May 11, 2009 — “Social media: chal­lenge or opportunity?”
  • Pri­vate event — Miami, FL — May 1, 2009 — Social Media Workshop
  • PRSA — Miami, FL — March 31, 2009 — Blogger’s Roundtable
  • SXSW — Austin, TX — March 16, 2009 — “Break­ing News at Break­neck Speeds”
  • Pri­vate event — Miami, FL, March 5, 2009 — Social Media Workshop
  • Comm Week, Uni­ver­sity of Miami — Miami, FL — Feb­ru­ary 18, 2009 — “Social Media: A Conversation”
  • Beyond Boot­camp Jour­nal­ism Work­shop — Miami, FL — Jan­u­ary 4, 2009 — “Social Media, Jour­nal­ism, and Community”
  • DMAF Dig­i­tal Media Work­force Sum­mit — Heathrow, FL — Novem­ber 14, 2008 — “Social Media 101″
  • MENG — Miami, FL — Oct­boer 8, 2008 — “Brand You, Online”
  • FIU Busi­ness Alumni Con­fer­ence — March 27, 2008 — “The Web 2.0: Social Net­work­ing and its Impact on Today’s Busi­ness World”