Learner, maker, systems thinker, innovator and tech evangelist, Luciana is the co-
founder & Chief Marketing Officer of MindCheck — a new B2C/B2B digital mental

health platform — as well as a XR/VR specialist and startup mentor at NOVA
University’s Co-Innovation Lab. She is Lisbon’s European Digital
Society ambassador, sits on the Disruptive Council of Portugal Agora and the
Advisory Board of VRAR Association Portugal.
A community catalyst, she remains a Non-Exec Director and Chief Evangelist
at Realities Centre London (a B2B VR/AR incubator and academy in London), is a
certified #IamRemarkable facilitator, sits on the Board of Series Q (a non-profit for
LGBTQ+ entrepreneurs), co-chairs Lean In Women in Tech Lisbon, and is the
Women in Immersive Tech Europe’s Ambassador for Portugal.
She is an international keynote speaker and workshop leader — featured in TEDx,
SXSW, Cannes Lions, LWT Summits, WonderWomenTech, Oslo Innovation Week,
among others — on the intersection of human tech, mental health & the power of
VR/XR. Passionate about tech for good, she carries ongoing research on the
possibilities and challenges immersive tech presents to neuroscience, unconscious
bias and underrepresented voices' empowerment.
Formerly Head of Innovation, D&I and Marketing at Beyond, Head of

Partnerships REWIND, and having previously spent 9+ years growing award-
winning startups, her work has been recognised worldwide — namely, she was

Evening Standard’s Progress 1000 Most Influential People in Tech in 2019, was
honoured into the BIMA100 Rising Stars in 2018, elected a Founders of the Future
and named Code First Girls’ ‘25 Ones to Watch’ in 2016.