António Alberto Fernandes is responsible for Marketing and Public Relations at TotalMobility, a leading company in Portugal in the adaptation and transformation of vehicles for transport or autonomous driving for people with functional diversity.

He has extensive experience in the Assistive Technology market, both from his personal experience as a user (paraplegic since 1997) and from working in this area for over a decade.

He was a founding member of RODAR – Portuguese Association of Spinal Cord Injured People and was part of the organisation of the 1st National Meeting of Spinal Cord Injured People, held in Porto in 2002.

He was responsible for organising and managing the first edition of the “Árvore dos Desejos” (Wishing Tree) initiative, which involved the participation of hundreds of students from national educational institutions, in an action promoted by Quercus.

He is co-author of the book Mais que Acessibilidade, Valor (More than Accessibility, Value), published by Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa in December 2017. He was the face of the ‘Wheelchange Tours’ advertising campaign, produced by FCB Lisboa for TUR4all Portugal and Visit Portugal, an open source project that aims to empower people with reduced mobility to enter the labour market as tour guides. Since 2022, he has represented TotalMobility in the planning, organisation and management of accessibility operations at large-scale events, such as the Rock in Rio Lisboa, MEO Kalorama and MEO Marés Vivas music festivals.