Daniela Gomes is Partner and CEO of Octopux Consulting and has overall responsibility in the firm for business and client development. She has extensive knowledge of the European Commission and expertise with funding programmes such as FP7, Horizon 2020, CIP, COSME, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme, LIFE+, PROGRESS, etc. She is a public speaker and trainer in EU funding, proposal writing, lobbying and youth entrepreneurship. As a native Portuguese and English speaker, she speaks fluently French, Chinese and Spanish, and has a basic knowledge of Dutch.