GOLD

Founded in 2007, Veeva NYSE (VEEV), is a leading global provider of cloud-based software solutions for vertical industries. At 2,600 employees and growing, Veeva was named among the top fastest growing public technology companies on Forbes’ annual Fast Tech 25 list. We help our customers eliminate inefficiencies so they can bring innovative, high quality products to market faster without compromising compliance. Veeva is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, with offices throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Veeva was the gold sponsor of the EOQ in Paris in 2018 and an active board member of the AFQP (France Quality) and Kwinta (Belgium Quality).

SILVER

The world today has a new view on energy, focused on the transition to a low-carbon economy through the promotion of more sustainable energy sources. Galp assumes that the structural transformation in energy demand will imply the creation of innovative and increasingly sustainable solutions on both economic, environmental and social terms.
As a global player, Galp is committed to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. We take on the responsibility of following the energy transition path, by training our people and actively participating in the research and development of the most innovative technological solutions and in the value chains that best respond to market needs without compromising the future of the planet.
Because we also have a new perspective on energy, reflected in a new movement that inspires us: Energective.

NAV Portugal has as mission the provision of air navigation services in airspace under the responsibility of Portugal, divided into two flight information Regions: Lisboa FIR, comprising the entire area on Mainland Portugal and Madeira and Santa Maria FIR comprising the archipelago of the Azores and a wide area of the North Atlantic Ocean. Has an air traffic control center in Lisboa, an air traffic control oceanic center in Santa Maria, and the control towers at the airports of Lisboa, Porto, Faro, Funchal, Porto Santo, Santa Maria, Ponta Delgada, Horta, Flores and Cascais aerodrome. It also has infrastructure and air navigation support systems throughout the country, controlling more than half a million flights per year. Has a team of about 1,000 highly qualified technicians, ensuring the safety of passengers and aircraft 24 hours a day, throughout the year.
NAV Portugal management system is certified accordingly to the ISO 9001, since 2003, and ISO 14001, since 2010.

BRONZE

ACP Assistência, a company 100% owned by Automóvel Club de Portugal, provides a single and global travel assistance service, available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, to accompany, assist and advise our Members and Clients in any circumstances, in Portugal or abroad.
ACP Assistência seeks to provide a service with high quality standards, in particular through its team of coordinators, drivers and mechanics of breakdown, highly specialized and with specific training in automotive technology, aiming at road repair in the first place.
Our Quality System is one of the motors of the company and it is a precious tool on which we support our continuous internal operation and, consequently, the quality of the services we provide.

ANA is responsible for managing 10 airports in mainland Portugal (Lisbon, Oporto, Faro and Beja Civilian Terminal), in the Azores (Ponta Delgada, Horta, Santa Maria and Flores) and in Madeira (Madeira e Porto Santo).
Focused on innovation and efficiency, we work on a daily basis to provide our visitors with a unique experience and the best services.
ANA, SA holds a concession to run public airport service supporting civil aviation in Portugal. The group’s business activities also include the operation of commercial and advertising spaces at the airports, real estate (linked to airport operations, commercial buildings and hotels), car parks and car rental services (known collectively as our non-aviation business).

APCER is a global entity that provides certification, auditing and training services. Our activity is based on four values that we consider essential: competence, integrity, agility and commitment.
Our mission is to build trust between people and organizations, improving management practices and contributing for a sustainable society. Our vision is to be a global partner to promote trust.
Besides Portugal we are present in country´s like Brazil, Chile, China, Ecuador, Peru, Spain and portuguese speaking african countries.
Our credibility is ensured by rigorous accreditation processes and international recognition.
We care for the sustainability of people’s lifes.
APCER, you can trust!

From industry to industry
CATIM, is the Portuguese Technological center for the metal working industry is a non-profit private institution of public utility, that resulted from the association of interests, industries, and associations with public companies. Its mission is to contribute to innovation and competitiveness of national metal industries and similar or complementary sectors.
CATIM aims to support the technical and technological development of the industry by service rendering, providing their knowledge and skills for initiatives in order to promote innovation and industrial competitiveness, and execution of the tasks inherent to the responsibilities assumed under the National Systems and European Standards, Qualification, Metrology and CE Marking.

CERTIF – Associação para a Certificação is a national certification body, with the status of a private, nonprofit association of 27 Associates, between business associations and laboratories, representing several sectors of activity, among which the Social Organs of the Association are elected.
CERTIF’s principles are independence, technical rigor and credibility as a means of safeguarding the impartiality and integrity of its work in the contact with the various entities with which it is related and ensuring the management of possible conflicts of interest.

JMP has been a part of SAS since the first version of JMP statistical discovery software was launched in 1989, bringing interactive data visualization and analysis to the desktop. SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Through innovative solutions, SAS helps customers at more than 60,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. Since 1976 SAS has been giving customers around the world THE POWER TO KNOW^®.

Juran gives every organization the opportunity to achieve its full potential by focusing on its people. When organizations are operating at the highest level every day, it improves the lives of the people they serve, therefore improving society as a whole. Whether you represent a hospital, insurance provider, or any type of company, we recognize the importance of your work, and we exist to make it better. We achieve this by providing long-term solutions, so once you’ve been equipped with our proven strategies, you will have the necessary skills to face any problem and prevent it from occurring again. Begin by finding the right opportunity for your organization.

“People do what you inspect, not what you expect.” – Keith Mobley 3rd law
QAPP- Quality Appraisal is the innovative software solution provided by Quidgest to drastically increase efficiency when conducting audits, in particular audits simultaneously evaluating several quality standards.
Quidgest has been a pioneer in the area of Artificial Intelligence applied to Digital Transformation for the past 30 years. Quidgest is a proud sponsor of the 63^rd European Congress of Quality 2019 in Lisbon.
We are looking forward to meet you there.

REN – Redes Energéticas Nacionais operates in two major business areas:
– As a result of the country’s commitment to renewable energy, the Portuguese government granted REN the concession to operate a pilot area for generating electricity from sea waves to Enondas – Energia das Ondas. S.A., which is 100% owned by REN.
– REN also operates in the telecommunications business via RENTELECOM, which includes a range of services, such as infrastructure, managed services and consultancy.
The internationalisation of REN’s operations is a business that is taking its first steps, and received a new impulse with the entry of strategic international partners (State Grid and Oman Oil) in to the company capital. In February of 2017, REN acquired a 42.5% stake in Electrogas, a Chilean company that owns a pipeline of great relevance in central Chile. In order to reinforce its commitment to its operation in Portugal, REN – Redes Energéticas Nacionais acquired REN Portgás, which focuses its activity on the development and exploitation of the natural gas distribution network in the north coast of Portugal. Under a concession agreement with the Portuguese State until 2048, this is the second largest natural gas distribution network in Portugal, with about 4,760 kilometers.
REN meets all the required quality and safety criteria and seeks to be one of the most efficient European energy transmission system operators, while creating value for its shareholders within a framework of sustainable development.

Rodoviária do Oeste (RDO) is a Portuguese private bus company covering the municipalities of Caldas da Rainha, Nazaré, Peniche, Alcobaça, Bombarral, Cadaval and Lourinhã. Besides the regular service for the community, RDO also provides custom services of rental of buses with drivers for enterprises, organized groups, schools, events, touristic actions and activities, whenever travelling is required. Professionalism, safety, comfort and sympathy are fundamental factors in the high quality service that defines us.
Rodoviária do Oeste – present at all memorable moments of your life.

Sandholm Associates was founded in Stockholm 1971 and supports companies and organizations worldwide to develop within quality management and continual improvements, with the purpose to achieve excellence. We do this through education, training, management mentorship and supervision. We are also deeply involved in research and longtime development of the knowledge area of quality. Sandholm Excellence Center is our local training center recently started in Ponte de Lima in Portugal.

Siemens is a global powerhouse focusing on the areas of electrification, automation and digitalization. One of the world’s largest producers of energy-efficient, resource-saving technologies, Siemens is a leading supplier of systems for power generation and transmission as well as medical diagnosis. In infrastructure and industry solutions the company plays a pioneering role.

SGS is the world’s leading inspection, verification, testing and certification company. We are recognized as the global benchmark for quality and integrity. With more than 97,000 employees, we operate a network of more than 2,600 offices and laboratories around the world.
More info: https://www.sgs.com/en/our-company/about-sgs/sgs-in-brief

ThinkOpen Solutions is a high tech company specialized in Odoo Technology, focused on delivering excellent solutions to our customers and high-performance results. Since 2010, ThinkOpen Solutions delivered hundreds of successful projects using Odoo Technology and the best resources in the market, in business sectors such as Construction, Education, Entertainment, Finance/Insurance, Food, Health, Communication, Manufacturing, Public Administration, Real Estate, Transportation, Wholesale/Retail and others. Odoo is a worldwide Open Source technology, 100% web-based, user-friendly and accessible from any internet browser (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari). Odoo satisfies the business needs of all-sized companies because it offers a base of 40 modules, more than 20.000 apps ready to choose and use, and a capacity of customized development.

Since 1872, TÜV Rheinland has stood for the safety and quality of people, the environment and technology. Today, TÜV Rheinland a leading international service provision group acting in 69 countries on all continents. The group has a workforce more than 20.000 people, who generate revenue of more than €2 billion a year. In markets undergoing changes, TÜV Rheinland acts with profits at its heart and continuously works to increase its appeal to customers, partners and employees.
Services for Quality Management
We have a global reputation for our certification services and industry experience. We are at your side to improve your company’s quality and profitability by helping you standardize and optimize your quality management system.
TÜV Rheinland Portugal was founded within the scope of Quality Management Systems Certification and Products Certification and operates in systems certification business with German accreditation by Deutsche Akkreditierungsstelle (DakkS) and local accreditation by Instituto Português de Acreditação (IPAC), Portuguese Institute for Accreditation.

SUPPORTS

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Why should you sponsor?

A presence at the Congress is your organisation’s opportunity to leverage two days of unparallel access to a wide potential client base, to inform them about your products and services and build long-term relationships.
Exhibiting is a proven tactic for marketing your brand: it combines the reach of magazine advertising with the power of direct mail and persuasion of face-to-face meetings.
Congress participants are keen to improve their knowledge. Aligning your organization with this powerful educational experience demonstrates your commitment to assisting their development at a deeply personal level.
Your organization will benefit significantly from exposure to an interested, relevant and influential audience in an informal yet informative environment away from the competition of everyday distractions.
The Congress will assist you in achieving strategic goals by providing you with direct exposure to your target market.
Be informed and identify the marketing strategies being implemented by your competition.

Key benefits to early commitment

Aligning your company early will ensure:

Maximum exposure for your company and increased opportunities to access not only the registered delegates but anyone receiving Congress printed or electronic marketing information.
First choice of sponsorship opportunity to ensure alignment with your marketing aims.

Sponsoring Levels

Sponsors have a very important role to play in this international conference. Sponsors receive the acknowledgements specified below according to the corresponding levels of commitment.
Please review the opportunities for sponsorship.
Be sure to sign up as soon as possible so that your sponsorship can be announced on our website, in subsequent circulars, and in communications to a large community.

Sponsorship Opportunities

Your company can also participate in and sponsor various aspects/events of the vast programme that is being prepared for the participants of the EOQ Congress 2019.

For more information, download here the full SPONSORSHIP MANUAL.