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Almirall, Esteve
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Associated professor at Esade and director of the Center for Innovation in Cities. Lecturer in several universities, among them
University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), Purdue University, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). He has a mixed background both in artificial intelligence (AI) and management science, particularly innovation. However, he spent a previous life in the business IT sector with a career in consulting and banking where for many years, being the youngest chief technology officer (CTO) of the Spanish banking industry, the 1st in online transactions and the 2nd in online banking.
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Álvarez Torezano, Ramón
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Customer & Commerce Technology at Mango. Previously Head of CRM at Desigual, Vice-President at Capgemini, leading the Digital Customer Experience area. He has collaborated with companies and organizations from different sectors: Carrefour, Desigual, El Corte Inglés, DIA, Mercadona, Repsol, Telefónica, La Caixa, Naturgy, among others.
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Brieva, Erik
A Computer Engineer and the holder of a Master's degree in Computer Graphics. He was director of marketing at Red Hat and is currently CEO of Strands. A multiple entrepreneur and executive in innovative companies, he was the founder of Polymita (acquired by Red Hat), Enzyme (acquired by the Nexe Group), Intelligent Software Components S.A. (acquired by a Private Equity fund), Altea Consulting, iSOFACT and Wannay. Guest lecturer at IESE, Esade and the UPM.
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Castells Odena, Jordi
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Computer Engineer by the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). Management Development Program (PDD) by IESE Business School and Master in Business Management and Organization (MBA) by the School of Business Administration (EAE Business School). He has a long career in the ICT sector, in service companies (Price Waterhouse, CSC, KPMG) and software (Microstrategy). He was Chief Information Officer (CIO) of Miguel Torres, S.A. for twelve years and is currently corporate general manager at Happy Punt, SLU. He has been a member of the boards of directors of AUSAPE, the Council of CIOs of Catalonia and FIB Alumni. He has collaborated as a consultant for the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)'s Computer, Multimedia and Telecommunications Studies.
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Díaz Iriberri, José
Doctor in Computing from the UPC. He is currently engaged in research in the field of graphic computing, and is a lecturer at the University of Vic. He was a post-doctoral researcher on the European Commission's Marie Curie scholarship programme in the Visual Computing group of CRS4 (Italy). His research focuses on the visualisation of scientific data, parallel computing and programming GPUs, and the design of applications in virtual and augmented reality environments.
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Fonseca Casas, Pau
Doctor at Statistics and Operative Investigation for the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). Teacher of the UPC where imparts teaching at the area of Simulation, the treatment of data, the Operative Investigation and the Statistics. He¿s Responsible of the Area of Environmental Simulation of the inLab FIB leading projects of simulation linked predominately at industrial and environmental areas. He¿s member of the Commission 4.0 of the Industry of Engineers of Catalonia.
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Gibert Oliveras, Karina
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Ph.D. in Computer Science at UPC. Associate Professor at the Dep. Statistics and Operations Research (UPC), leading courses related with her research areas in Degree in Statistics, D. in Informatics Engineering, Master in Informatics Engineering, M. in Artificial Intelligence, M. in Sustainability, all at UPC, and its associated PhD programs. ViceDean for Big Data and Data Science of the Official Professional Chamber of Informatics Engineering of Catalonia. Subdirector of IDEAI Research center (UPC).
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Hernández Barjola, Salvi
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Computer Engineer by the UPC, in the direction of the Posgraduado Technologies, an MBA from UPC-EAE. Creation Companies by ESADE and General Management Program (PDG) by IESE. Managing Director of Sigma Consulting - Arek. Consulting and advisory expert and business consultancy in Financial's managing people, Information Systems, Management of Projects and processes. Coach, lecturer and lecturer at various universities, business schools and companies.
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Pera i Sanchez, Xavier
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Economist by the University of Barcelona (UB), expert in computer science and communications. He has studied in different universities and international institutions. Currently, he is the director of the Strategy and Technology Area at Fasolà SCCL, helping entrepreneurs and companies to make their projects viable. He has a lot of experience, of more than thirty years, in the areas of Organization and Systems in several multinational companies (Seidor, Fujitsu, Benteler, Sara Lee, Benckiser, Royal Brands, TRW, Nobel Industries ...), having directed international technology projects in different countries.
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Rojano Romero, Manuel
Telecommunications and Electronics Engineer from Ramon Llull University (URL). He has more than twenty years of experience as a business architect and Chief Technology Officer/Chief Information Officer (CTO/CIO), defining technology master plans, designing and developing technical and security architecture frameworks, and implementing IT governance models in multinational companies (Caixabank, Racc, Cegedim, Ancert, Nokia, Endesa, Gas Natural, Agbar, Zurich) in the finance and insurance, telecommunications, health, public administration and energy sectors.
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Sayol i Santamaria, Ignasi
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Electronic and telecommunications engineer. Master in Business Management and Organization (MBA) by La Salle University in Barcelona-New York, Management Development Program (PDD) by the Instituto Empresa in Madrid and General Management Program (PDG) by IESE Business School in Barcelona. Member of the PIMEC Executive Committee and president of the Logistics Cluster of Catalonia. He has been a senior international executive at multinational companies such as SITA, Bull and British Telecom, and a CEO and shareholder of CTC. He is an entrepreneur in the logistics and new technologies sector, and CEO of Improus, a company dedicated to designing technological solutions for temperature-controlled logistics. He also serves as an independent director of several companies.
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Xicota Adell, David
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Computer Engineer by the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). He is currently Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Simon Electric. He has been an entrepreneur since 2007, when he co-founded Edenic Games, a company dedicated to the video game sector. As Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of this company, he managed to close several rounds of both private and public financing, until it was finally acquired by GSN Games, an American subsidiary of Sony Entertainment and AT&T. Later, he run the Barcelona office, co-directing the one in London for GSN Games, and he is a business angel and mentor of several companies and entrepreneurs.