Francisco Duarte holds a PhD on Software Engineering from the University of Minho.

He is the coordinator of Industry 4.0 for Bosch Car Multimedia division and for Bosch entities in Spain and Portugal. He is also a vice-president of Digital Transformation CoLab (DTx) and an invited professor at U. Minho.

In the past, he was the responsible manager for Customer Assistance, Warranty Lab, Audits, Information Systems, software development, and lean production at Bosch Car Multimedia Portugal.”