# Press kit — Pedro Thomaz

Bios, photos and facts for journalists, podcast hosts and event organisers. Contact: ola@pedrothomaz.pt

## Short bio

Pedro Thomaz is a Portuguese technologist based in Leiria. He is the founder and CTO of amplified creations and the CTO of RVer, immersive virtual reality registered as a Class I medical device and used in hospitals, clinics and care homes. He builds AI, VR and SaaS products, and still writes the code.

## Long bio

Pedro Thomaz (born 1987) is a Portuguese technologist and software architect based in Leiria, Portugal. He founded the digital studio amplified creations in 2014 and is its CTO, owning the architecture, the stack and the quality bar of platforms used in more than 70 countries. Since 2021 he has been the CTO of RVer, immersive virtual reality registered as a Class I medical device with INFARMED and EUDAMED and used in hospitals, clinics and care homes. He is also the CTO of VRBox.io, a platform for 3D and 360° virtual tours, and CTO & CCO of the bonbon brand Delicious Diamonds. In 2026 he shipped four products of his own: Coffee, Vitra, lateapex and Sill. He started as a photographer in 2007, shooting for Porsche, Mercedes-Benz and BMW, and writes regularly about medical VR, health technology and AI.

## Photos

- Portrait, white background (JPG · 1600 × 1600): https://pedrothomaz.pt/assets/img/pedro-thomaz-portrait.jpg
- Portrait, cut-out (PNG, transparent · 1600 × 1600): https://pedrothomaz.pt/assets/img/press/pedro-thomaz-cutout.png
- Head mark (logo) (SVG, vector): https://pedrothomaz.pt/favicon.svg

Photos are for editorial coverage of Pedro Thomaz. Credit: Pedro Thomaz. The white-background portrait is also on Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pedro_Thomaz,_technologist,_portrait.jpg

## Facts

- Name: Pedro Thomaz
- Title: Founder & CTO, amplified creations · CTO, RVer
- Based in: Leiria, Portugal
- Born: 1987, Coimbra
- Languages: Portuguese, English
- Writing: 250+ articles — https://pedrothomaz.pt/writing/

## Media

- 09 Nov 2026 · Podcast · Último a Decidir: EP 31 — Pedro Thomaz, CTO da RVer. FI Group Portugal's podcast on leadership, innovation and the big decisions. — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHxXWyXI5S0
- 05 Nov 2026 · Podcast · Digitalidade: Envelhecer em Portugal: a transformação digital dos lares — how VR and tech can improve life in care homes. — https://open.spotify.com/episode/09HaIubP91mivrDP806jGI
- 29 Oct 2026 · Podcast · Easy Medical Device: EP 413 — "We didn't know we needed to be a medical device": RVer's road to Class I CE marking under the MDR. — https://podcast.easymedicaldevice.com/413-2/
- 28 Oct 2026 · Stage · NEXXT Ideas Leiria: One of ten projects picked by the jury — RVer on stage at Teatro Miguel Franco, Social, Health & Environment panel. — https://rver.pt/blog/nexxt-ideas-leiria-2026/
- 27 Oct 2026 · Press · Sábado: A Inteligência Artificial (já) está a mudar a Saúde — RVer in the story on how AI is reshaping healthcare. — https://www.sabado.pt/ciencia---saude/detalhe/a-inteligencia-artificial-ja-esta-a-mudar-a-saude
- 15 Oct 2026 · Opinion · The Next Big Idea: Quinze dias, não trinta — why nobody should get more than 15 days to test a product. — https://thenextbigidea.pt/opinioes/quinze-dias-nao-trinta/
- 05 Oct 2026 · Press · Link to Leaders: Empresa de Leiria quer expandir o seu sistema de RV para uso clínico no mercado internacional. — https://linktoleaders.com/empresa-de-leiria-quer-expandir-o-seu-sistema-de-rv-para-uso-clinico-no-mercado-internacional/
- Sep 2026 · Talk · Univ. Leiria & Oeste: Teaching VR in rehabilitation — certified training at the School of Health.
- 07 Sep 2026 · Opinion · The Next Big Idea: Quem decidiu que isto não é um dispositivo médico? — on who gets to decide what counts as a medical device. — https://thenextbigidea.pt/opinioes/quem-decidiu-que-isto-nao-e-um-dispositivo-medico/
- 04 Jun 2026 · Interview · The CTO Club: CTO warns engineers: don't assume AI is secure — on AI as foundation, security and senior judgment. — https://thectoclub.com/career/pedro-thomaz/