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Justyna Adamczyk
Nuño Lopez
Kei Shimada
Alejandro Barrera
CEO at The Aleph Report (thealeph.com) where he writes about the strategic implications of cutting-edge technology and helps companies understand how to survive the future. Through his consultancy side, he helps translate the innovation vision of the CEO into reality within the organization through innovation culture training, hands-on workshops, storytelling and Agile approaches.
Prior to this he cofounded two major startup accelerators, worked with business models, startup valuations, communication and message crafting, startup PR, lean startups methodologies, customer development and product design.
He is a regular mentor at several accelerators worldwide, he closely works with a couple of international conferences helping run their startup competitions and pitching training. He is also an international speaker in multiple conferences, including keynote speaker at several TEDx Events, The Economist Summits or Global Shaper by WEF.
Marc Oliveras
Marc Oliveras is CTO and VP Engineering at Tiendeo.
For more than 20 years involved in IT Sector, he founded his own software development company and helped several companies in their technological and organizational transformation around the world.
Agile & Lean practicioner and believer, Marc is teaching in different schools like ESADE, FIB, GeeksHubs…
He usually manages and builds up teams and areas of up to 200 people (currently at Tiendeo they grew from 25 to 80 people in the IT&Product Team in less than 2 years) using Agile, Lean and Management 3.0 principles and a strong customer-oriented strategy.
Carlos Buenosvinos
Jorge Oteo Garcia
Juan Pablo Costanzo
Andrés Pedreño
David Rey
Alberto G. Toribio
Javier Vélez
Ana Aldea
Miguel Andrés
Miguel Andres is an Argentinian IT Executive, Entrepreneur and Computer Science Researcher with more than 15 years of experience. Throughout his career, he has focused his talent and energy on improving people’s lives with technology. He started up his own company in 2004, PuntoAr, a company providing IT services. He is now part of the 5% of Google’s engineer force as a Software Engineer. Among his greatest contributions, was his lead on the Google Pay Transit product (the product has launched across the globe and today involves 100+ people) as well as the Google Pay Launch in Japan.
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Javier Vélez
Margarita Albors
The Founder & President of Social Nest Foundation, Margarita works- and make a change- at the place where business, investment, and impact collide.
She has been focusing on impact since 2009, first working at the NGO Women’s Initiative for Self Employment in California (USA) before founding Social Nest. Previously, Margarita worked for the multinational pharma GlaxoSmithKline in the UK and in the food company Bonduelle in Spain.
As an international speaker, she frequently participates in different forums talking about social entrepreneurship, impact investment and women in tech.
Margarita holds a Master in Management from Harvard University, a Strategic Management and Social Leadership Program from IESE Business School (with a scholarship from Fundacion Rafael del Pino) and a Masters in Science in Industrial Engineer from the Polytechnic University of Valencia
Lourenço Viana
Lourenço Viana is Service Design & Research Lead in Mango, where he works to give coherence to physical and digital experiences. He has also created the «Design Research Lab» of the company, with the purpose of bringing the equipment closer to real users. He is currently studying the Doctorate in Design at the Faculty of Architecture of Lisbon, investigating how Service Designers help contribute to the transformation of organizations.
Giulia Motteran
María José Millán
Bárbara Martínez
Data driven profesional who believes in measurement and data analysis as the main key to control, meet and optimize business objectives. Background in project management, online marketing and ecommerce management. Large experience in SEO, SEM, Online Mkt campaigns.
13 years of experience in leading and managing digital projects for national and international brands such as L’Oreal, Garnier, Diageo, Vodafone, MasterCard, Warner Home Video, General Motors, Coca-Cola, Movistar, Carrefour, Iberia Airlines…
Currently working as Global Head of UX/UI Design, Digital Analytics and Optimization.
I also work as freelance and professor on my free time.
Fernando Díaz
Elena Gonzalez-Blanco
General Manager of Europe at CoverWallet, Elena González-Blanco is an Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation expert with a special focus on language technologies and interdisciplinary international projects. She has been Head of Artificial Intelligence Product Development at Minsait by Indra, and she is also a renowned international researcher, as Principal Investigator of the H2020 European Research Council Excellence Project POSTDATA (1M€+).
Intra-entrepreneur within the Spanish university, she was the Director and Founder of LINHD (Digital Innovation Lab and IT solutions provider). Executive Committee/Advisory Board Member of key European digital research infrastructures and international associations (President of the Spanish Digital Humanities Association, Member of the Executive Commitee of the European Alliance for Digital Humanities, Secretary of the International Alliance for Digital Humanities Organization, and member of the Advisory Board of the CLARIN ERIC EU Research Infrastructure, among others). PhD in Spanish Philology and awarded 1st National MA Price in Spanish Studies and Classics has developed researching and teaching activities at Harvard University, King’s College, UNAM, Bonn and UNED. Fluent speaker of English, French, German and Italian. Recognized as one of the Top100 Female Leaders in Spain (2016, 2017, 2018) www.lastop100.com, and awarded with Julián Marías Prize 2017 for researchers under 40 years. She has been #1 in the Choiseul Ranking “100 Economic Leaders for the Future of Spain” 2018. Mother of 4 children.
Alejandro Escobar Díaz
Susana Juan
Samuel Fuentes
Samuel «Samu» Fuentes is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Ontruck, where he oversees all things technical as well as the data platform. Samuel has over 10 years of experience leading Engineering at technology-driven companies such as Delivery Hero (IPO in 2017) and ValkFleet, a last-mile delivery company. When he’s not developing platforms that power millions of shipments worldwide, he can be found analysing data, advocating for agile approaches to collaboration and problem-solving or playing strategy board games. Samu holds a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and wrote his Master Thesis at RWTH Aachen University in Germany.
Ronaldo Marciano
Nuño López
More than 12 years of experience in the IT sector. 10 of them working hard at coches.com as a partner, CMO and CPO. In addition, he is a mentor in Google Campus accelerator, director and professor of the MDBM of The Valley, investment fund consultant… He says he does not like to describe himself, that’s why we say that he is one of the greatest professionals in Spain, impossible not to learn massively from him.
Luis Peralta
Luis has held several engineering leadership roles across a variety of companies, including failed and successful startups but also big corporations (11870.com, Tuenti, Schibsted/Adevinta). He currently leads the logging and analysis team in Google Maps, in the beautiful and cold city of Zurich. Challenges that require driving change in the technical and human dimensions are what gets him excited.
María Pinto Martín
I studied Computer Engineering at Universidad Politécnica of Madrid with more than 8 years working inside technical teams. I have always been curious about why we did things in the tech team. So, I started managing projects and capturing requirements and giving some context to the development. Today I’m in the dark world of product as product manager, understanding users and thinking about solutions to their problems with the advantage of that vision and knowledge of technology.
What I like most about this job is teamwork. I like to create environments and work spaces where everyone feels comfortable, knows the objectives and is aligned with them. I believe in team culture and I think you can get more efficient and productive teams when the environment is based on trust and communication.
Sandro Mancuso
Software craftsman, author, and founder of the London Software Craftsmanship Community (LSCC). Sandro has been coding since a very young age but only started his professional career in 1996. He has worked for startups, software houses, product companies, international consultancy companies, and investment banks.
During his career Sandro had the opportunity to work in a good variety of projects, with different languages, technologies, and across many different industries. Sandro has a lot of experience in bringing the Software Craftsmanship ideology and Extreme Programming practices to organisations of all sizes. Sandro is internationally renowned by his work on evolving and spreading Software Craftsmanship and is frequently invited to speak in many conferences around the world. His professional aspiration is to raise the bar of the software industry by helping developers become better at and care more about their craft.
Andrés Jimenez
Miguel A. Juan is founder and CEO of S2 Grupo, a company specialized in cybersecurity based in Spain, with offices in Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Mexico, Colombia and Chile.
Miguel is MSc Electric Engineer by the Technical University of Valencia and conducted R&D studies in Information Systems and Computing at the same University.
He worked as Associate Professor of Software Engineering and Computer Graphics for 3 years, then entered IBM and was technical liaison in IBM Labs in Endicott and Poughkeepsie, NY, USA.
In 1999 he started his own company and in 2003 initiated a new business adventure with S2 Grupo, making it grow to a revenue of almost 20M€ and 300+ professionals.
His main interests include R&D, Internationalization, Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence and the impact of technology in society.
Member of the Board of ECSO, member of IEEE and ACM.
Miguel A. Juan
Miguel A. Juan is founder and CEO of S2 Grupo, a company specialized in cybersecurity based in Spain, with offices in Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Mexico, Colombia and Chile.
Miguel is MSc Electric Engineer by the Technical University of Valencia and conducted R&D studies in Information Systems and Computing at the same University.
He worked as Associate Professor of Software Engineering and Computer Graphics for 3 years, then entered IBM and was technical liaison in IBM Labs in Endicott and Poughkeepsie, NY, USA.
In 1999 he started his own company and in 2003 initiated a new business adventure with S2 Grupo, making it grow to a revenue of almost 20M€ and 300+ professionals.
His main interests include R&D, Internationalization, Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence and the impact of technology in society.
Member of the Board of ECSO, member of IEEE and ACM.
Adrián Lorenzo Alonso
Adrián Lorenzo (Palencia, 1991) is the co-founder and CTO of Jeff, the first super app of daily services that promotes the good good life.
Adrián leads the Engineering department developing all the processes to improve the product and services Jeff offers to its users and partners. He is also the responsible for the creation, coordination and supervision of the internal tools to increase the company efficiency and alignment.
In four years, Jeff is operating in more than 40 countries of Europe, Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa through more than 1780 hubs.
Before creating Jeff in 2015, Lorenzo together with the two co-founders Eloi Gómez and Rubén Muñoz set up two more startups: Ule 1979, a University clothing brand, and TheFoodPoint, an ecommerce to connect agri-food companies. Adrián was the CTO of this B2B platform.
Mikel Díez
Mikel is a thinker by nature always «thinking first then solving», and within the paradigm of «technology as THE DISRUPTOR».
He has a Computer Science bachelor (1993), and Master in Software Engineering (1995). University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain.
Mikel belongs to the SPGI CTO Team and performs a role of CTO for Cloud & Cognitive Industry Solutions for IBM Spain, Portugal, Greece and Israel, with focus in Cloud Adoption & Transformation and Artificial Intelligence. Also, he is an Enterprise Design Thinking Certified coach.
Mikel has published a book around Cognitive Customer eXperience. He is a regular speaker at events and lectures on Artificial Intelligence as well as professor in several Business Schools.
Elisenda Bou-Balust
Elisenda Bou-Balust is CoFounder and CTO of Vilynx -an AI company revolutionizing how machines understand and learn by themselves- and Associate Professor at UPC. In Vilynx, Elisenda leads a team of more than 40 PhDs and MsCs in Computer Vision, Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence, to build the first self-learning AI brain. Elisenda specializes in Artificial Intelligence, Satellites and Complex Distributed Systems. She has worked on Autonomous Satellite missions, in cooperation with University of Maryland, MIT, NASA and Google.
–I love to work with amazing people and try to push the boundaries of technology and science with them. I have always been passionate about crafting ideas and changing the world and I am lucky to call this my full-time occupation. Reach me to talk about Complex Systems, AI, Knowledge Graphs/Ontologies and Deep Learning. Especially if you are interested in Emergence and Reasoning!
Daniel González Vilalta
Joan Molinas
I’m a passionate about Mobile technologies. Creating mobile apps since iOS was not as fancy as right now, Steve jobs was alive and Swift has not a line of code. In the last 8 years I helped to grow up multiple startups and stay consolidate others, at the beginning as a freelance and right now with my Digital Agency. Always working remotely and pushing the mobile experience to the next level through code and design.
Sergio Furio
Born in Spain, Sergio Furio is the Founder & CEO of Creditas, the leading online secured lending platform in Brazil. With 700 employees, the company is one of the top fintech players in Latin America and a reference in both innovation and talent management. By using consumers’ properties, Creditas cuts the high interest rates that Brazilians pay for traditional consumer lending. Creditas has received US$85mn in funding from leading international VCs including Redpoint eVentures, Kaszek, QED, IFC (World Bank), Vostok Emerging Finance among others. Before founding Creditas in 2012, Sergio was a strategy consultant at The Boston Consulting Group and an investment banker at Deutsche Bank.
Francisco Fernández
Alejandro Escobar
Elisa Martín Garijo
Elisa Martin Garijo is Chief Technology Officer for IBM Spain, Portugal, Greece and Israel, a Distinguished Engineer, and a member of the Leadership team of the IBM Academy of Technology.
In her CTO role, Elisa leads technology and innovation in the country with the main objective of stimulating smart solutions in Spanish companies and institutions using technology and innovation as drivers. In this role her responsibility is to transmit innovative experiences and technology to enterprises and society and bringing value by connecting clients with IBM Research.
Jorge Gómez Sancha
With more than 15 years in leadership positions, Jorge is well known in the Startup ecosystem for his experience running Product and Development teams. His background is in Software Engineering, but pretty soon found himself managing teams of developers and designers and obsessing about how teams should work, how to best develop software and successful products and how to optimise for happiness as well as for productivity.
He is most proud of BeBanjo, the company he co-founded in 2008 and later sold to the TDF group, as well as of his time in CARTO, where he led Technology and Product for the last 3 years as Chief Dev. Officer. He recently co-founded Tinybird.co, a startup focused on making data teams more productive through simple and highly scalable real-time APIs. He also teaches at Instituto Tramontana, where he co-directs the Program for Product Direction.
Alex Puig
Alex Puig is the founder of Alastria, the world’s first regulated national network for Blockchain. He is Caelum Labs’ CTO and co-chairs Inatba’s Identity Working Group.
A software developer by trade, Alex links the coding and corporate worlds with innovative creativity and inspirational energy.
He advises governments, public administration agencies and supranational organisations in Self-Sovereign Identity and Blockchain.
Alex sees technology as a way to improve society, and advocates for a reshaping of the internet to make it more secure and empowering. This is why he is focused on improving the digital privacy of all citizens.
Nerea Luis
PhD in Artificial Intelligence and currently working as Artificial Intelligence Engineer at Sngular. She is an active and award-winning researcher and scientific communicator. In 2016, she won the Google Anita Borg scholarship for her technological initiatives carried out altruistically in parallel to her academic career. Among them is T3chFest, a free technology outreach event (2000 attendees) that also promotes and highlights the lack of diversity in that sector. In 2018 the COTEC Foundation selected her as an expert in Technology, Talent and Gender within its network «Los 100 de Cotec». That same year she was selected as a scientific advising technician, in the Science in Parliament initiative promoted by the Congress. Also in 2018, it has won the Innovative ICT recognition by the Cybervolunteers Foundation and the Business Insider has recognized her as one of the 23 talents under 35 for leading the technological revolution. Recently, she has been awarded by the Royal House with the award for the Civil Merit Order.
Björn Linder
Björn Linder is VP of Engineering at New Work SE / XING.com and has more than 16 years of experience in the development of mobile, web and data applications.
Currently he is responsible for 2 business units at New Work SE.
XING E-Recruiting and HalloFreelancer.com have more than 60 engineers and are located in Valencia and Barcelona.
In the 8,5 years with XING.com he built some major large-scale networking products (e.g. user profile and the activity stream) with modern technologies like React, GraphQL, Elixir and Scala.
As member of the CTO team he currently is responsible for IT strategy implementation.
Main projects are growing the tech organization (e.g. new development center in Valencia), Technology management as well as Cloud and DevOps transformation.
His main areas of expertise are the Lean product development, System dynamics, Digital transformation and Large-scale IT-applications.
Jordi Miró
Family CoFounder with Mariela. Father of Lucía (L1), León (L2) and Laia (L3).
The Hotels Network CTO. Helping the company scale the product and technology teams. Introducing agile methodologies and best technology practices.
20 years of experience in multiple countries and company sizes. Passionate about my work. Love technology, business and operations.
Lernin Games coFounder. Founded in 2017 and sold it in 2019.
Worked as CTO at wuaki.tv (acquired by Rakuten Group) since April 2011 for more than 5 years. Joined the company when it was about 10 people and lead the Engineering team until leaving the company. Helped the company to grow the business, technology and operations, and during the acquisition by Rakuten in summer 2012. Created Rakuten IT Procurement team with other IT Executives.
Several years in IT Consulting, focusing in banking and telecom. Started working in PwC Consulting (later acquired by IBM BCS), moved to DMR Consulting (actually Everis) and later to Venezuela and USA. Jordi was the co-founder of Mixsic LLC, a web technology company that built weall.tv (a content delivery network in Latin America) and Feedtrace, a real-time recommendation engine for digital content that was sold to Real Time Media in 2011.
Experience in developing businesses, leading teams in different project’s phases, building architectures and businesses solutions, managing client’s relationships, finding capital… Serial Internet Entrepreneur.
Susana Juan
As Cloud Product & Partners Business Manager at Arsys, Susana Juan coordinates the commercial launch of company’s solutions for professional and Channel clients. She also manages the company’s strategic relationships with its partners with the aim of consolidating Arsys’ leadership in the Internet professional services market.
Computer Engineer by the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and Master in Business Administration and Management by the Instituto Universitario de Administración de Empresas (IADE), Susana Juan has an extensive experience in hosting and Cloud solutions sales departments, consulting and technical support service. She joined Arsys in 2013 from Microsoft. Previously, She had developed his professional career in IT consulting, training and conferences areas in Soluciones NT and in the Escuela de Organización Internacional (EOI).
