Impact Days 2025

12–13 May 2025 | Vienna, Austria

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Hugo Furtado

CEO

Dreamwaves

Vienna, Austria

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Hugo is founder of Dreamwaves, a startup using AI, AR, and spatial audio to build inclusive navigation tech that makes indoor and outdoor spaces accessible.

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Dreamwaves

Dreamwaves

Startup

Vienna, Austria

Dreamwaves offers an indoor navigation solution designed for blind and visually impaired individuals, using spatial audio to guide users through complex spaces by simply following sounds. Our technology helps businesses enhance accessibility while reducing costs associated with staff training and support, aligning with accessibility requirements and improving overall customer experience.
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About me

Hugo Furtado holds a Masters degree in electrical engineering and a PhD in the field of Augmented Reality in Surgery. He has a strong technical background in engineering, programming, virtual and augmented reality, having worked both in the industry as well as in scientific organizations.

In the course of his PhD he developed a prototype for visualization of catheters inside the human body during minimally invasive cardiac surgery, using augmented reality, as part of the Marie Curie EC project ARIS*ER - Augmented Reality in Surgery.

He worked as a post-doc researcher at the Medical University of Vienna in the field of real-time tumor motion tracking using 2D/3D image registration and deformable image registration for adaptive radiotherapy planning.

Currently, Hugo is the CEO of Dreamwaves, a company developing an intuitive audio navigation application for blind and visually impaired people.

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Speaker sessions (1)

Tuesday, 13 May 2025

11:20 - 12:20

Every mind matters

Location:Rathaus - Pitching StageTrack:Start-up Pitching

From barriers to bridges in education and inclusivity