Miguel Arias

Global Entrepreneurship Director

Telefónica

Miguel Arias, proud dad, entrepreneur, and angel investor, has over 15 years of experience in building technology-based startups with global reach. As Global Entrepreneurship Director at Telefonica, he leads the Company´s efforts to develop digital-technological talent and entrepreneurship. He is responsible for leading the new stage in Telefónica's open innovation strategy through Wayra Open Innovation Hubs in 10 countries and 50 Open Future_ partnerships around the globe. As the most global, connected and tech-driven open innovation hub, Wayra is committed to seeking out and developing technological solutions to complement internal R&D while creating an improved connection with key entrepreneurial ecosystems. Previously as COO at CARTO, he led the sales, financial, and operational efforts from its Madrid, NY, DC, London and Tartu offices, directing the company's growth and scaling-up. CARTO raised over $40M by lead investors like Accel Venture Partners, Salesforce Ventures and others.

Paul Misener

VP, Global Innovation Policy and Communications

Amazon

Paul Misener is Vice President for Global Innovation Policy and Communications. An Amazon veteran of 18 years, Paul is an engineer, attorney, and inventor named in three patents. Prior to his current role, in which he explains and advocates Amazon’s culture and methods of customer-obsessed innovation, Paul founded Amazon’s public policy operations and served as the company’s Vice President for Global Public Policy from February 2000 to May 2016. On behalf of Amazon and its customers, he has testified before the US Congress over 30 times, and many times before policymaking bodies around the world. In 2013, Paul chaired the technical subcommittee of the FAA’s advisory committee that recommended allowing airline passengers to use electronic devices during taxi, takeoff, and landing. Prior to joining Amazon, he was a partner in the law firm of Wiley, Rein & Fielding; for Intel Corporation he led the computer industry’s Internet Access Coalition; he was centrally involved in the development of digital televis

Erika Escolar Eguia

Co-founder & CEO

BioEnGas-Enagás

Erika, owns an Industrial Engineer degree from ICAI and accounts with an MBA from the ICADE Business School. After finishing her studies she has dedicated herself to the energy world, first in Repsol, then in Enagás, where she has worked in the areas of Business Development and Strategy and Market Analysis. She is currently the CEO of Bioengas, a start- up born within the intrapreneurship program powered by Enagás Emprende and which she has set up with her teammates David Beran and Sergio Rodríguez. Bioengas aims to develop and promote biogas and biomethane projects, participating in the entire value chain and implementing disruptive technologies.

Fernando Impuesto Nogueras

General Manager

Enagas

Fernando was born in 1969 in Madrid, has a degree in Economics and Industrial Organization from the Madrid Autonomous University, obtained a Master in Business Administration in 1996 from ESADE-Wharton and completed the Esade-Wharton Advanced Management Program in 2010. With more than 15 years of experience in the Gas sector; he has been Commercial & Logistics Director at Enagás responsible for commercialization, marketing and logistics operations of infrastructures as well as technical services in the areas of LNG plants, gas transportation and underground storage, he is also coordinator of the “Core LNGas HIVE” Project. Fernando was recently appointed as General Director of Open Innovation and Corporate Entrepreneurship at Enagás, as a result of the incorporation of new competences for the future of Enagás through entrepreneurship and open innovation which focus on the development of natural gas markets (small scale, commercial transport models, etc.), as well as the study of new energies.

Joe Haslam

Executive Director, Owners Scaleup Program

IE University

Professor Joe Haslam is the Executive Director of the Owners Scaleup Program at IE Business School in Madrid, Spain. This is a program specially designed for small and medium sized companies that want to scale. He is also the presenter of the High Impact Online Program "Scaleup! How to Successfully Manage Growth" and the Academic Director of the Global Scaleup Program, a joint course offered by IE with the American University of Beirut. In the International MBA, he teaches an award winning elective called "Scaling Up Your Startup". In 1998, Prof Haslam was on the founding Team of Marrakech, a Dublin based e-procurement company that raised over $75m in Venture Capital and scaled to over 250 people. He is the co-founder and Chairman of Hot Hotels, the first company from Spain to be accelerated by the Techstars program in the USA (Boston, Summer 2015). He was born in Ireland and has an MBA from IE Business School. He has lived in Madrid for the past 15 years.

Rob Brown

Global CMO

BBVA

Rob Brown is currently BBVA’s Global CMO responsible for Digital Sales and Marketing, Design, Behavioral Economics and Responsible Business. Rob was initially brought on board in September 2016 to lead the Global Design Team, a team of 240 highly skilled designers in 11 countries. He was then tasked with merging Marketing and Responsible Business (BBVA’s citizenship agenda) into Design to create a new combined team in November 2016. With the team in place and a significant growth plan, Rob now leads the design strategy of the Global BBVA brand across all platforms and business units, drawing on his 20 years of expertise in building internationally recognized teams. His team has received Foresters top spot two years running in their European Mobile Banking Benchmark with BBVA’s mobile app, receiving the highest ever overall score. Prior to BBVA, Rob was the Global Head of Design for Barclays where he established and developed its award-winning design team.

Inmaculada Puig Santos

External psychology consultant

Barcelona FC

Psychologist of the F.C. Barcelona from the season 2003-2004 until 2018, acting on the section of football and basketball in all the levels of competition, with special dedication to the first teams and also in the development of the educational and personal project of the residents of the Masía. Tennis player at national competition level from 1968 to 1981. For 35 years she has been working as a psychologist for numerous national and foreign tennis players who take part in the professional circuit of the ATP and the WTA as well as the DAVIS Cup. She has also worked with athletes from other sports, all of them first figures in their activity such as skiing, golf and professional horseback riding. As a trained clinical psychologist, she works by applying the Balint group technique, from medicine, to sports environments, innovating the way of managing people and teams in the field of professional sport, with very positive results.

Smriti Vicari

Head of FinTech

Visa

Smriti Vicari is the Head of Fintech at Visa Europe. She oversees Fintech engagement, strategy and delivery activities, ensuring that Visa remains partner-of-choice for Fintechs, platforms and intermediaries. Smriti joined Visa in 2011, initially working in the Strategy team and then forming and leading the CEO Office. Prior to Visa, Smriti held a variety of roles in the US and UK financial services sectors. She began her career as an analyst in a US-based private equity fund-of-funds, where she analysed and recommended investments to multi-billion dollar pension funds, representing some of the largest institutional investors in the country. She then went onto lead a team of analysts at Moody's Investors Service, assessing credit and investment risk within the Structured Finance group. Smriti held strategy and executive office roles at State Street Bank in London before joining Visa. Smriti holds a Bachelor's degree in Business from the University of Southern Ca

Gabriel Perdiguero

Chief Transformation Officer

Iberia

He joined Iberia in 2014 as Management Control Officer, in March 2016 He headed Iberia's transformation plan. Gabriel is the Chief Customer & Business Transformation Officer since August, 2017. Mr.Perdiguero has extensive experience as Project Manager in different companies. Before starting his career in Iberia, Gabriel was Senior Manager at Accenture, for the air transport sector since 2005. He has contributed being part of the implementation of the Finance Business Partnering and Business transformation model. Under his leadership, 2 phases of the Iberia's transformation plan have been launched, key to consolidate Iberia Transformation together with the necessary Digital Revolution and improving Iberia’s customer experience. He took a degree in Computing and also has an Executive MBA from Idem-Cesem Madrid and a PDEM.

Javier Valencia

Member of the Steering Committee

Vice President IBM Cloud for Spain

Javier Valencia is currently VP IBM Cloud for Spain, Portugal, Greece and Israel and Member of the Steering Committee of IBM Spain. In his more than 20 years of experience in IBM he has assumed various high ranking positions both in Spain and in Europe: Sales Director of IBM Systems in Spain, from 2008 to 2011, in 2012 he assumes responsibility for sales of IBM Systems for Europe, in 2013 he is appointed Vice President of IBM Systems in Spain, Portugal, Greece and Israel, and in 2015 assumes responsibility for sales of IBM Software for Southern Europe. During his professional career with more than 18 years as head of senior sales in the Information Technology sector he has led transformation projects for multiple companies and in all sectors. Javier holds a degree in Computer Science from the Polytechnic University of Madrid.

Pablo Carlier

Partner Sales Engineer (EMEA)

Google Cloud

Pablo is responsible of engineering services for EMEA's partners in Google Cloud. UPM's Telecommunications Engineer, has more than 13 years working with technological companies such as HP and Cisco, before joining Google in 2017 with important business and public sector clients. He likes to read about business strategy and economics, taking outdoor family time and spend some time playing electric guitar.

Manuel Martínez

Open Innovation Manager

Ferrovial

Manuel Martínez is the Head of Open Innovation at Ferrovial with responsibility on managing the innovation ecosystem and promoting a culture of innovation since he joined the company in 2008. He is co-founder of the CI3 and has been an advocate for employee ideation programs (Zuritanken), startup scouting programs (Build Up!), urban labs and mobility startup hub (Madrid Smart Lab, Madrid in Motion) and the corporate venture initiatives of the company. He holds a M.Sc. in Engineering Sciences from the ICAI, Comillas Pontifical University in Madrid, and has been a student at SGMI, IESE and MIT.

Javier Perea

CEO and Co-Founder

Smart Protection

Javier combines extensive experience of + 25 years in technological innovation, as an entrepreneur and as a senior executive in important information technology multinationals. He was a pioneer in cybersecurity, founding by 1990 Anyware Seguridad Informática, which was the first Spanish company in this field and leader of the national market until 1998, when Anyware merged with McAfee, the world leader in cybersecurity and one of the first and most successful exits of the Spanish technology sector. Already at McAfee Javier held various international executive positions as Program Director for all of EMEA and in a final phase as Managing Director for Spain and Portugal. In 2010 McAfee joined Intel and Javier continues his successful professional career where he was until 2016 as Vice President of Intel Security for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He has a degree in Business Administration from the Autonomous University of Madrid, an Educational Cooperation Program and an Executive MBA in eBusiness

Javier Iglesias

Senior Director Solution Engineering Scale Growth Markets

Salesforce EMEA.

Javier is an Executive focus on innovation and product. His career has led him to major technology companies such as Oracle or IBM. Since 2008 he works in Salesforce and has lead different executive positions.

Lorenzo García Tamarit

CEO & CoFounder

TheLogicValue

B.A. in Economics - MBA IE Business School. Executive with 20 years of experience in Morgan Stanley, Banco Santander, IberCaja and Popular Banca Privada. University lecturer in Financial Maths and Economics at Ceu San Pablo University and EDEM Escuala de Empresarios en Valencia.

Nicolás Gatica

Chief Alliance Officer

Increasecard

Nicolas was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has a degree in business administration and completed post-graduate studies in digital business. He worked 4 years in MercadoLibre, and now serves as Chief Alliance Officer of INCREASE, the company that empowers and connects Latin American businesses by improving and simplifying the control and management of their income.

Yaniv Levi

Founder & CEO

Change Labz

I invest my experience, intellect, precious time and money on tech projects that can impact people's lives around the world. After founding three successful tech companies, my mission with Change Labs is very much related to my personal history. At the end of the day, I'm a business person motivated to generate extraordinary returns on investment.

Guillon Laporte

Chief Executive Officer

Destygo

Guillaume co-founded Destygo in September 2016 and is the Chief Executive Officer of this fast-growing startup. He has strong strategic and entrepreneurial expertise, having previously worked at Expedia, focusing on Spanish market development. He is passionate about technology, always chasing the latest innovations. Guillaume has graduated from the Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne, a well-known hospitality university and HEC the most prestigious French business school.

Patricia Pastor Garrido

Director

GoHub

Entrepreneur Currently working in the sector of innovation, technology and entrepreneurship in the first water and technology hub of Europe GoHub of Global Omnium. In addition, he works together with the main actors in the city in positioning Valencia as an international hub for innovation, talent attraction and strategic R&D development. He created the first public Startup Community in Spain in the Valencia City Council with 5000 members, VIT emprendre.

Oscar Sala

Director of the The Collider programme

Mobile World Capital

He graduated in Computer Engineering from UPC (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) and completed his MBA at ESADE Business School. During his professional career he has assumed different roles in the fields of innovation and digital transformation. He stands out for his time at CaixaBank, where he worked for more than 15 years, leading projects in digital strategy, business innovation and technology transfer. He has developed his career in different sectors such as fintech, e-commerce, venture building, e-health and mobility, among others, creating up to five companies. Currently, in addition to being President of the Quantum World Association and Financial Manager of Entanglement Partners, he is a member of the Board of Directors of Mobey Forum, a non-profit association dedicated to empowering banks to lead in the field of digital financial services

Carlos Moran

Human Resources Manager

Experienced Human Resources Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the oil & energy industry. Strong human resources professional skilled in Negotiation, HR Consulting, Compensation and Benefits, Executive Coaching, and Technical Recruiting.

Sandra Barneda

Journalist

Periodista, presentadora de escritora, intrépida, curiosa, investigadora, mucha información para procesar y por comunicar. Actualmente escribo una columna semanal en La Vanguardia, un post quincenal en el Blog Yo Confieso de La Vanguardia y un artículo quincenal para The Luxonomist. Acabo de publicar mi última novela Las Hijas del Agua

Josep Rafols

Team Leader

ITNow

Josep Ràfols is team leader at ITNow responsible to develop simple but effective solutions focused on the automation of users actions over mobile devices (iOS & Android) and Desktop. He represents "Prometeo project", a multidisciplinary team with 3 IT profiles, 1 firefighter and 1 PhD Nurse. Prometeo is an end-to-end platform where sensors from firefighters' uniforms collect data and send it to a machine learning service that is going to be able not only to monitor their state of health in real time but also, with the trending analysis directed by medical staff, forecast the health of our heroes.

Federico Larsen

CTO & Founder

Copado

Passionate Cloud enthusiast with focus on the Salesforce ecosystem since 2005. I have a Startup mentality and Cloud enthusiast with focus on the Salesforce ecosystem since 2005. I have a Startup mentality and love new challenges. After delivering hundreds of Salesforce implementations, in 2013 I bootstrapped Copado as CTO, which now is #1 Native DevOps for Salesforce