Javier Villamizar

Partner

Softbank

Enthusiastic, driven, bilingual/bicultural seasoned professional with a global perspective, entrepreneurial background and extensive C-Level professional network in Telecom and Technology. Team player, customer oriented, proven leader and problem solver, high-energy, dedicated thinker with diversified international work experience covering telecom, technology, software and hardware, supply chain, finance and venture capital with clear focus on creating sustainable value and bottom line growth. 20+ years of experience in Telecom & Technology, products and solutions sales, business and market development and venture capital and consultancy practice. International experience managing multi-billion 20+ regional operations. Key member of the management team of a corporation that grew from $1B to $15B over 10 years and was acquired by Softbank in 2015. Proven track record of sales and business development efforts in Telecom and Technology. Excellent "deal closing" abilities with high success ratio.

Chris Barton

Co-Founder

Shazam

Chris Barton is the co-founder and a board director of Shazam, the music discovery company, which started as an idea he conceived in late 1999. With three other co-founders, Chris led the creation of Shazam from concept through inventing a new pattern recognition technology to building and launching the world's first mobile music recognition service. Today Shazam has been downloaded more than 1 billion times around the world. Apple acquired Shazam for a speculated $400 million price tag in 2018. Chris previously worked at Dropbox where he led mobile operator partnerships and Google where he was head of North American Android partnerships. He has also worked at Microsoft, San Francisco Consulting Group, and LEK Consulting. Chris holds an MBA from UC Berkeley, a Master's degree in Finance from Cambridge University, and a BA from UC Berkeley. Chris is now working on his next startup focused on computer vision applications.

Jennifer Kanyamibwa

Senior Strategy & Operations Manager for Product Design

Twitter

Jennifer Kanyamibwa is Senior Strategy & Operations Manager for the Product Design Team at Twitter leading strategy and operations initiatives. Prior to Twitter, Jennifer was the Design Studio Manager at Slack where she was on the founding Brand Design team that expanded Slack internationally. With a career that spans across technology, government, finance, brand strategy, international events and non-profits — she has worked on many teams and is passionate about the power of collaboration.

Niall Ferguson

Professor

Harvard University

Niall Ferguson is one of our most influential commentators on Geopolitics and the Global Economy. The wide range of his expertise underscores his ongoing importance as a keynote speaker. A Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a senior fellow of the Center for European Studies, Harvard, where he served for twelve years as the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History. He is also a visiting professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing, and the Diller-von Furstenberg Family Foundation Distinguished Scholar at the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC. He has published fifteen books.His many prizes and awards include the GetAbstract International Book Award (2009), the Benjamin Franklin Prize for Public Service (2010), the Hayek Prize for Lifetime Achievement (2012), the Ludwig Erhard Prize for Economic Journalism (2013), the Estoril Global Issues Distinguished Book Prize (2013), and the Philip Merrill.

Carolina Brochado

Investor

Softbank Vision Fund

Carolina works on sourcing of global investments for Softbank Vision Fund and is based in London. Carolina focuses on fintech, digital health & wellness and marketplaces. Prior to joining Softbank, Carolina was a Partner at Atomico, where she sourced and collaborated with portfolio companies for almost five years. Some of her investments included Lendinvest, Gympass, Hinge Health, Ontruck and Rekki. Previously Carolina has worked as Head of Ops to a now defunct gifting e-commerce start-up, as an investor at Chicago-based private equity firm Madison Dearborn Partners and within Consumer/Retail Investment Banking at Merrill Lynch in New York. Carolina has a Bachelor of Science degree in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and an MBA from Columbia Business School. She is originally from Brazil.

Brendan Wallace

Co-founder & Managing Partner

Fifth Wall

Brendan Wallace is a co-founder and Managing Partner at Fifth Wall, where he guides the firm’s strategic vision. Prior to starting Fifth Wall, Brendan co-founded Identified, a workforce optimization data and analytics company that raised $33 million of venture funding and was acquired by Workday (NYSE: WKDY) in 2014. He also co-founded Cabify, the largest ridesharing service in Latin America, and has been an active investor, leading more than 60 angel investments including Bonobos, Dollar Shave Club, Lyft, SpaceX, Clutter, and Philz Coffee. Brendan started his career at Goldman Sachs in the real estate, hospitality, and gaming group before joining The Blackstone Group’s real estate private equity practice. Brendan is from New York City and currently lives in Venice. He graduated from Princeton University, where he received his BA in political science and economics. He received his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Ciaran Quilty

Vice President, EMEA

Facebook

Ciarán Quilty is Vice President, EMEA at Facebook An experienced executive who leads a multilingual team that serves large companies, scale ups & partners who use Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp and Messenger. With nearly 20 years’ experience in the global technology sector, Ciarán joined Facebook in 2010. Prior to Facebook, he spent 10 years as a consultant with Accenture in Financial Services. As well as delivering keynotes at conferences across Europe, Middle East & Africa, Ciarán is passionate about how technology can be used to create jobs and new business models.

Marvin Liao

Partner & Head of Accelerator

500 Startups

Marvin is a Partner at 500 Startups, a global Seed Venture Capital Firm & Startup Accelerator based in Silicon Valley. He invests in Digital Media, Enterprise SAAS, Marketplace, Fintech, Adtech, Digital Health, Internet of Things & Mobile startups across the globe. Formerly of Yahoo! Inc. (10.5 years), Marvin Liao has held executive management roles in the various departments of Sales, Business Development, Ad Operations and Marketing & ran online marketing at a venture capital funded ecommerce start-up prior to that. He also serves on the boards/advisory boards of several internet advertising and ad technology companies. In addition, he is a Mentor for several Startup Accelerator programs in Europe, Asia, Israel and the US, helping guide startup teams with their sales, marketing and partner development efforts.

Silvina Moschini

CEO & Founder

SheWorks!

Widely known by technology media as @Miss_Internet , Silvina Moschini is an award winning technology entrepreneur, CNN Español industry expert and an international speaker. Her focus on changing how the world works in the digital economy led her to create an ecosystem of innovative companies that leverage the power of the cloud to connect enterprises with on-demand talent and make remote workforce management simple, transparent and inclusive. As an entrepreneur, she took her passion for disruptive technologies to become the co-founder of TransparentBusiness - a web-based solution for building talent marketplaces and managing remote teams and freelancers. She later leveraged TransparentBusiness technology and became the Founder and CEO of SheWorks! and Yandiki , online platforms that help companies scale exponentially by accessing vetted talent on demand and helping them monitor, manage, rate and pay their virtual teams. CitiGroup selected her platform as a Top People Management Solution

Valentin Stalf

Founder & CEO

N26

Born in Vienna, Valentin is the Founder and CEO of NUMBER26 studied Accounting & Finance (M.A. HSG) at the University of St. Gallen, Sophia University in Tokyo and Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. During his studies he worked in a number of fields including Strategy Consulting and Investment Banking/Mergers & Acquisition. After graduating he joined the Internet Incubator Rocket Internet as Entrepreneur in Residence and was involved in building different companies including Payleven and Paymill.

Carlos Torres Vila

Group Executive Chairman

BBVA

Carlos graduated with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a B.S. in Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he later also earned a M.S. at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He also graduated in Law from UNED (Spain). He worked at McKinsey & Company for 12 years, and became a partner of the Firm in 1997. He joined Endesa in 2002 as Corporate Director of Strategy and member of its Executive Committee, and became company CFO in 2007. In September 2008 Carlos joined BBVA as Head of Strategy and Corporate Development, and member of the bank's Management Committee. In March 2014 he was appointed Head of Digital Banking, until May 2015 when he became Chief Executive Officer of the bank. Carlos was appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chairman of the BBVA Foundation in December 2018.

Juan de Antonio

Founder & CEO

Cabify - Spain

Juan de Antonio is Founder & CEO of Cabify. He majored in Telecommunication Engineering at Universidad Politécnica in Madrid. It was at University when he first got exposed to technology and entrepreneurship and learned how to overcome technical challenges. In the Bay Area he got exposed to the startup ecosystem and got interested in the mobility space, and put together with a classmate a bid for Italian manufacturer MV Augusta and then helped grow the international distribution network of Zero Motorcycles, the leading electric motorcycle manufacturer. In 2011 he founded Cabify

Adam Kostyál

Senior Vice President

NASDAQ

Adam Kostyál is Senior Vice President of Listing Services, Europe. In addition to Nasdaq Nordic Exchanges, where there are more than 800 companies listed, Adam is also responsible for the more than 120 European companies that are either primarily listed or dual listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market in the U.S. Adam has been with Nasdaq for the past 10 years. He started his career at OMX as a Sales Director, and then became Head of the Strategic Initiative Groups in 2006. Most recently, Adam was Vice President of Market Technology Sales responsible for sales, account management, and business development for the Eastern and Western Europe. Prior to Nasdaq, Adam held various positions with Enron, Cell Network and Bloomberg. He holds a BSc in Economics and Marketing from Vrije Universiteit de Bruxelles and speaks four languages including English, Swedish, Italian and French.

Jose María Álvarez-Pallete

Chairman & CEO

Telefónica

Mr. Álvarez-Pallete has a degree in Economics from the Complutense University of Madrid. He also studied Economics at the Université Libre of Brussels (Belgium), holds an International Management Programme (IMP) from IPADE Business School and an Advance Research Degree from the Complutense University of Madrid. In February 1999 he joined the Telefónica Group as Chief Financial Officer of Telefónica Internacional S.A.U., and in September of the same year he became Chief Financial Officer of Telefónica S.A. In July 2002, he was appointed Executive Chairman of Telefónica Internacional S.A.; in July 2006, General Manager of Telefónica Latinoamérica, and in March 2009 Chairman of Telefónica Latinoamérica. In September 2011 he was named Executive Chairman of Telefónica Europe. And in September 2012 he was appointed Chief Operating Officer of Telefónica S.A. Since April 8th 2016 he is Chairman & CEO of Telefónica S.A. and Member of the Board of Telefónica S.A., position he holds since July 2006.

Martin Varsavsky

Founder, Chairman, and CEO

Prelude Fertility

Martin is Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Prelude, who has founded seven companies in the USA and Europe in the past 25 years, all of which are based on new technologies that he identified in their infancy and helped grow. Varsavsky has applied this same approach in creating Prelude, a comprehensive fertility company focused on providing proactive fertility care to improve people’s chances of having healthy babies when they’re ready. The company was established to give men and women more reproductive choices and control over their biological clocks using The Prelude Method. In the 1990s, he built Viatel, which became the first pan-European fiber optic network, followed by Jazztel, which did in Spain what Viatel did throughout Europe. When Varsavsky exited Viatel the company was worth $1.2B and when he exited Jazztel it was worth $770M. In the early 2000s he built Ya.com, the second largest Spanish-language internet portal with an investment of $28M, which was sold to Deutsche Telekom for $650M.

Oskar Miel

Managing Partner & Investments Executive Officer

Rakuten

Oskar Mielczarek de la Miel is the Managing Partner in charge of Rakuten’s growth venture investments comprising a variety of rapidly expanding disruptive industries such as Fintech, Mobility, Digital Media, Healthcare and Telecommunications.At Rakuten Capital, Oskar has spearheaded a global investment strategy with a diversified portfolio of innovative start-ups in North America, Europe and Asia, in close cooperation with Rakuten’s various business units. Previously, Oskar acquired extensive investment, advisory and operational experience in the financial industry, including banking at JP Morgan and Merrill Lynch, private equity and retail financial services in North America and Europe.Oskar is responsible for Rakuten’s mobility and digital media investments, including Lyft in North America, and Careem, in the Middle East (exit IRRs of 30%+), as well as leading on-demand delivery leader Glovo.

Clara Durodié

Chair

Cognitive Finance Group

Clara is a technology strategist specializing in applied AI in financial services, with a focus on strategic AI adoption for business profitability within AI Ethics frameworks. Internationally recognized for her expertise, advising Boards of leading financial institutions, think-tanks, and governments, Clara also mentors AI startups on technology development, funding, and growth strategy. Named on global lists of leading women in Fintech, she is also the Chair of the Non-Executive Directors Board’s special committee on Best Practice for AI Adoption (UK). Clara advised World Economic Forum’s 4th Industrial Revolution Centre (US) on AI for the Boards, the UK's APPG AI(UK), the Ministry of Internal Affairs special commission on AI (Japan). In June 2018, Clara is invited as a member of the EU AI Alliance.

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.

Jorge Espinel

Chief Business Development Officer

Lemonade

Scarlett Sieber

Managing Director, Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer

CCG Catalyst

Respected leader, driving organizational change at startups and global enterprises alike. Adept at leading newly created business development and ecosystem initiatives, digital strategy and transformations for small and large financial service companies. Co-founder of data visualization tech startup, Infomous; clients include The London Olympics, Super Bowl XLVII, NFL Films, The Economist, Entertainment Weekly, The Guardian and USA TODAY. Contributor to the Huffington Post, Forbes, and WeWork. NYC Fellow of Startup Leadership Program.

Óscar Salazar

Co-Founder

Uber

Oscar Salazar is one of the most influential figures in the modern tech industry. Salazar is the Founding-CTO and Architect of Uber. He was responsible for the creation of the initial prototypes for Uber’s customer app, driver app and dispatch engine. Salazar is also the founder of Citivox, Pager and RIDE. Citivox is an international company designed to enable NGOs and individuals to report and monitor electoral fraud, crime and infrastructure problems. Pager is an Uber like concept designed to connect patients with high quality health care providers. RIDE is an application that enables co-workers to carpool to work. Salazar graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from the Universidad de Colima in Mexico. He later earned a M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Calgary in Canada and a Ph.D. in Telecommunications from Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications.

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

Tom Mendoza

Deal Partner

EQT Ventures

Tom started his career in the world of hedge funds at ING and PSAM, where he led and managed event-driven investments within the technology and financial services . Pulled in by the allure of entrepreneurship, Tom decided to start his own business, founding Tep, a mobile internet service for travellers, in 2010. Having built and bootstrapped the business from initial concept into a global and fast-growing profitable connectivity service, Tom then sold Tep to DHI in 2018. Prior to joining EQT Ventures, Tom was responsible for HotelTonight's international expansion across the UK and Ireland, the company's largest international market. As a Deal Partner at EQT Ventures, Tom focuses on the UK and Southern European markets. Tom was born in the UK, grew up in Venezuela, studied in Boston and has lived in London for the past 12 years. He loves electronic music (amateur DJ), football (Man Utd fan) and spending time in nature.

Gabrielle Thomas

VC Investment Manager

BlackFin Capital Partners

Gabrielle Thomas has been an Investment Manager at BlackFin since early 2018. She focuses on the Fintech, Insurtech and Regtech markets in Europe. She started her career as a strategy consultant at Suez (Lyonnaise des Eaux), where she had the opportunity to work directly with the CEO on several tech projects, turning them into strategic added value. In 2013, her career took then an international turn as she co-managed a startup competition/acceleration program based in both France and California (UC Berkeley). Back in France, she joined Alter Equity as a VC analyst, and contributed to the launch of the fund. In 2014, Gabrielle joined XAnge (Siparex group) as a VC Associate, where she supported 20 startups, including MicroDon, Docéa Power (sold to Intel), La Ruche Qui Dit Oui!, Digiteka (sold to Ouest France – Rossel), Roctool, Quadrille, Arcure, Scentys, and Elum, among others. A French national, Gabrielle is a graduate of ESSEC Business School and La Sorbonne Paris IV.

Yuval Avni

Venture Partner

Giza Venture Capital

Dr. Yuval Avni, has been with Giza since 2008. Focusing on investments in the life science and cleantech sectors. Yuval led or co-led investments in LifeBond, Takadu, VisionCare, Navotek, Aleees, Danen, CareDox and Solapoint, was on the boards of IceCure, Mitralign and Navotek and is currently on the boards of VisionCare and LifeBond. He is also a Venture Partner at Swanlaab, a Giza-sponsored Spanish-based early stage venture capital fund. Yuval is a trained medical doctor, with four years of clinical experience in general surgery and vascular surgery. Prior to his medical tuition, Dr. Avni served for 5 years in the IDF as an officer in an elite intelligence unit and is currently a consultant on new technologies to the IAF chief medical officer. Yuval is a visiting lecturer in entrepreneurship and fundraising at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and Tel Aviv University and is a consultant on entrepreneurship to ORT, Israel's leading technological school network.

Nabil Malouli

VP of Customer Solutions & Innovation

DHL

Nabil Malouli is the Vice President for DHL’s Customer Solutions & Innovation. Based out of Florida, Nabil leads the development of innovative logistics projects to support fortune 500 companies doing business globally. Jointly with his team, he is managing and growing relationships with these companies to develop high growth initiative related to E-commerce, digitalization, big data, drones, autonomous vehicles, automation & robotics. Nabil is specialized in the field of Ecommerce, Logistics & Strategic Account Management. Prior to his current position, he served as Director Latin America & Asia Pacific overseeing teams across the regions and around the world, developing customer commercial strategies to grow their business in the region. Nabil is passionate by innovation & entrepreneurship and also serves as advisor & board member of high growth startups. As a speaker & Consultant, Malouli has deep experience on topics related to E-commerce, Corporate Innovation, Omni-channel, Sales and Customer relation

Pablo Casado

President

Partido Popular

Pablo Casado Blanco born 1 February 1981 is a Spanish politician and leader of the People's Party (PP). He is a member of the Congress of Deputies in representation of Madrid, having previously represented Ávila between 2011 and 2019. From 2015 to 2018, he also served as vice secretary general of communication of the PP. Since July 2018, he has been the president of the PP.

Michael Lints

Partner

Golden Gate Ventures

Michael Lints graduated from The Hague University of Applied Science in Management and Information Science and worked briefly as a project manager at Nationale Nederlanden (a subsidiary of ING Group). Michael’s entrepreneurial spirit kicked in when he started an IT managed services startup with 2 friends. The startup got acquired by a data and telecom company in The Netherlands. After his entrepreneurial journey, Michael wanted to spend more time giving back to the community. He was asked to join the Economic Development Board Rotterdam as a vice chairman and chairman of the Young Economic Development Board. Apart from working with great young minds it also helped Michael build an extensive national and international political and corporate network. In 2013 Michael got acquainted with Golden Gate Ventures and moved his family to Singapore to join Golden Gate Ventures. Initially as a Venture Partner in 2013 to help with fundraising, strategic partnerships, mergers, and acquisitions.

Lina Chong

VC

Target Global

Lina joined Target Global in 2018 after having worked in product and monetization at ResearchGate, a company aiming to connect the world of science. Prior to ResearchGate, she was an investor at Hasso Plattner Ventures, a fund backed by the Chairman of SAP. Lina began her career as an entrepreneur operating two startups, one of which was acquired by Living Social.

Sophie Bruchou

VC Investment Manager

Idinvest Partners

Inés Oliveira

Head of TrenLab

Wayra

Proud Portuguese seduced by Spain. Working at Wayra since 2014, having started in the global team, passing through analysing global investments and generating business between startups and Telefonica. Since 2017 running the incubation program in Madrid and right now leading the TrenLab project.

Yasser Eissa

Vice President IBM Cloud Platform Europe

IBM

Starting January 2018 Yasser Eissa leads the IBM Cloud Platform business in Europe. Yasser’s primary mission is to drive client success around IBM’s cloud, AI and data solutions. These comprise platform, infrastructure, Watson, Blockchain, object storage and Watson Data Platform offerings. He leads Europe go-to-market activities, including client success, business development, technical support and ecosystem expansion. Previously Yasser Eissa held various Management positions in Sales and Service at IBM. As IBM Global Managing Director he ran the business with Deutsche Telekom AG as well as T-Systems. Prior to this he led the IBM Computer Services Sector in Germany. Furthermore, he operated in leading positions as Delivery Director IBM Germany, Austria and Switzerland and as Director of Business Operations for Germany, Austria, Switzerland as well as for Central and Eastern Europe. After beginning his career as Service Architect at IBM in 1997, Yasser Eissa held several leading positions.

Carissa Véliz

Research Fellow

University of Oxford

Dr Carissa Véliz is a Research Fellow at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities, and Christ Church, at the University of Oxford. She holds a PhD from the University of Oxford and specialises in ethics and political philosophy. She is the recipient of numerous academic distinctions and awards, including the British Spanish Society Prize granted by the Embassy of Spain in the United Kingdom, and the National Award for Excellent Academic Performance from the Spanish Ministry of Education. Her work has been featured in El País, the BBC, Publico.es, Slate, the Independent, and the New York Times, among other media. Carissa is currently finishing a book of privacy, and she is the editor of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Digital Ethics.

Richard Vaughan

Founder and Chairman

Vaughan Systems

Richard Vaughan is the founder and chairman of Vaughan Systems, the market leader in Spain in English-language training. In addition to a 30-minute daily English class on Spanish national television, his company also operates nine radio stations around the country, broadcasting 24 hours a day of English-learning content. In publishing, Vaughan is also the national leader, with more than one-hundred different titles currently in circulation in bookshops around the country. His impact on English learning in Spain, both at the individual and corporate level, is widely recognized throughout the country.

Almudena Arpón de Mendívil

Secretary General International

Bar Association

Head of the Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) Group within the Corporate Department. Her expertise is diverse, with an emphasis on corporate, M&A, joint ventures and the like. During her career she has been involved and continues participating in some of the most relevant and complex cross-border transactions. Secretary General of the International Bar Association for the period 2019-2020. The IBA is the leading worldwide association of the legal sector, with more than 80,000 individual members from top law firms worldwide, and 190 bars spanning across more than 170 jurisdictions. Member of the Board of Directors of the Spanish satellite company Hispasat; member of its executive commission and of its appointments and remunerations commission (2013–2018). Secretary General of Círculo Fortuny (the Association of Spanish Luxury Brands) and a member of the Executive Board of the European Cultural and Creative Industries Alliance.

Ignacio Tovar del Marmol

Head of Innovation and Digital Transformation

Iberia

Ignacio Tovar started his career in the aviation industry, a part of the logistic department at Airbus. For nine years he worked in the consulting firm Accenture, at the Strategic Consulting and Processes department, mainly in the Travel&Transportation Industry and focused in digital businesses. In 2015 he joined the Venture Capital Fund Samaipata Venture as a Principal, investing in e-commerce’s start-ups across Spain, Portugal, Italy, France and the UK. In 2017 he became part of Iberia’s team, looking after Digital Transformation. He holds a Bachelor in Industrial Engineering from University Carlos III of Madrid.

Markus Witte

CEO

Babbel

Markus Witte is CEO and founder of Babbel, the top-grossing language-learning app. He describes Babbel as a learning company inside and out: ìHeading a team in which each and every person, and the organization itself, is constantly learning new things is incredibly fulfilling.î Markus began his career at NYU, and later lectured at Humboldt University in Berlin, where he discovered his passion for teaching. Following his time as an academic, he led the development of online marketing and web infrastructure and managed the online and systems teams at music software company Native Instruments for 6 years. Coming back to learning and teaching, he founded Babbel with three others in 2007. He has taken an unusual route from academia to the tech industry and later entrepreneurship. Independent study, however, has been the constant theme uniting these disparate paths. Markusís passion for autonomous learning was sparked by teaching himself programming in 1984 on an Olivetti L1 M44 computer.

Jaime Gonzalo

Vice President, Mobile Services Europe

Huawei

Dr. Jaime Gonzalo is VP of Huawei and Honor Consumer Mobile Service in Europe, and is responsible for the Product & Business Strategy, Go-to-Market and Performance of all Mobile Services in the region. The main mission of this team is to grow the user´s value perception of Huawei devices though a series of high quality on-device services and best-in-class content, such as Apps, Games, Safe Cloud Storage, Movies, and Phone Customization. Prior to this position, Jaime worked at Google, as Head of Google Play Apps & Games in EMEA in 2015-2016, coordinating all Play Store activity for titles such as Clash Royale, Candy Crush and Hearthstone. From 2009-2015, he served as Director of Business Planning & Operations at Electronic Arts Mobile at a global level, participating in the launch of top successful games such as FIFA, Need for Speed or The Sims. From 2005-2009, he was Mobile Distribution Manager at Activision-Blizzard, working with top popular franchises such as World of Warcraft.

Kelly Palmer

Co-Founder and Chief Learning and Talent Officer

Degreed

KELLY PALMER is on a mission to change the way the world learns. A well-known thought leader on learning, business, and career development, she is currently on the executive team of Degreed and was formerly the chief learning officer of LinkedIn. Prior to LinkedIn, Kelly was vice president of learning at Yahoo! and held executive positions in learning, M&A, and product development at Sun Microsystems. She is the co-author of the book The Expertise Economy: How the smartest companies use learning to engage, compete, and succeed. She speaks regularly at companies and business conferences around the world, has been featured in Harvard Business Review, the Financial Times, Fast Company, Forbes, Entrepreneur, Inc., Barron’s, Chief Learning Officer (CLO), and on Bloomberg radio. Kelly has a Bachelor of Arts in English/communications and a Master of Science in adult learning and education technology. Kelly lives in San Francisco.

Anthony Salcito

Vice President of Worldwide Education

Microsoft

In his role leading the worldwide execution of Microsoft’s vision for education, Anthony Salcito works to help empower educators and inspire students to achieve more. He aims to transform the way we learn with the support of the best technology to help build critical skills for the modern, global workplace. Prior to taking this role in 2009, Salcito was general manager of education in the United States, supporting schools and universities across the country. During this time, he helped launch the company’s cornerstone education programs. He was also at the center of Microsoft’s involvement in the creation of the School of the Future – a pioneering partnership with the School District of Philadelphia and now the first of many Microsoft Showcase Schools around the world. Salcito spent his early years at Microsoft architecting high profile product launches for Windows NT and Windows 95.

Walter Jennings

CEO and Director

Asia Insight Circle

Corporate reputation expertise gained living and working in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Australia and the United States. Three years as VP, Global Corporate Communications at Huawei Technologies at world headquarters in Shenzhen, China. High profile corporate spokesperson leading influencer relations, CSR communications, agency management and business process re-engineering. Senior leadership roles at multinational agencies, including Managing Partner of Greater China at Kreab Gavin Anderson, and earlier leading Australia for Fleishman Hillard. Earlier roles in USA as VP, Global Communications at Ford Motor Credit Company. Flexible, adaptable professional with strong cross-cultural communications experience.

Santiago Íñiguez

President

IE University

Santiago Iñiguez de Onzoño is the President of IE University and a recognized influencer in global higher education. Iniguez has played a leading role in business education over the past two decades and actively contributes in different forums and networks to foster innovation and development in higher education. He was portrayed by the Financial Times as “one of the most significant figures in promoting European business schools internationally”. He is the past Chairman of AACSB and also serves on the boards of Renmin University Business School (China), Antai Business School (Jiao Tong University, China), LUISS Business School (Italy), Mazars University (France) and FGV-EASP Fundaçao Getulio Vargas (Brazil). He has also served as member on the Board of EFMD and the Awarding Body of EQUIS. Iniguez is also the Vice-Chairman of Financial Times/IE Business School Corporate Learning Alliance, a leading provider of custom education programs for companies worldwide.

Patricia Kuhl

Co-Director of the Institute for Brain and Learning Sciences

University of Washington

Andreas Schleisser

Director, Directorate for Education and Skills

OECD

Marcela Cubillos

Minister of Education

Government of Chile

Beatriz González

Founder & Managing Partner

Seaya Ventures - Spain

Beatriz González is the Founder and Managing Partner of Seaya Ventures. She serves as Board Member in Plenummedia, Cabify, Percentil, Miora, Hundredrooms, Spotahome and Glovo. She is also Chairman of the Venture Capital Committee of ASCRI (Spanish VC & PE Association). Beatriz has been working in the private equity industry since 2002 most recently heading the private equity program in Telefonica’s pension Fund for six years. During that time she was also a Board member of the Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA) from 2008-2011. Before that she worked at Darby Overseas Investments, a US based private equity firm where she was part of the Latin America mid-market growth fund. After that she joined Excel Partners a Spanish mid market growth fund. Before entering the private equity sector Beatriz González worked in the Equity Research Department at Morgan Stanley in London and also at Spain based Internet consultant company Qarana. Beatriz has a business degree from CUNEF University and an

Javier Imbroda

Regional Minister of Education

Government of Andalucía

Brian Caulfield

Partner

Draper Esprit

Partner at Draper Esprit After being CEO of Peregrine Systems for 7 years he became the CEO of Exceptis Technologies, after that, Brian spent 2 years being the VP of Product Management at Trintech. In 2001 he founded Similarity Systems, at the same time he was the Investment Director of Trinity Venture Capital and Non-executive Director of AePONA. In 2007 he became an Interim CEO at AePONA meanwhile being NON-executive Director of PUTPlace, after that, he became Non-executive director of ezetop and in 2012 the Non-executive Director of Imagine Broadband. Nowadays Brian is the director of Caliban Ventures, Non-executive Director of Clavis Insight, The Irish Times, Mobile Travel Technologies, Datahug, Movidus and RhodeCode and also he is a partner of Draper Espirit.

Luis Sanz

CEO

CARTO

Luis Sanz is CEO of CARTO. Luis has over 10 years of B2B SaaS experience in the technology startup space. He previously co-founded Olapic, where he served as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Technical Officer. His leadership helped advance the company’s growth strategy, scaling it from a start up to a market leader in the Marketing Tech industry. Olapic was acquired by Monotype in 2016. Sanz holds an MSEE from University of Zaragoza in Telecommunications and Data Processing, and an MBA from Columbia Business School in finance and entrepreneurship.

Guenia Gawendo

Director

Telefónica Innovation Ventures

Guenia Gawendo is Telefónica Innovation Ventures Director. In this role, her mission is to identify new business opportunities and foster strategic partnerships aligned with Telefónica´s global strategy by scouting and investing in technological startups directly or through a network of leading venture capital funds in key markets in which Telefónica Innovation Ventures participate as a limited partner. Currently, the portfolio of Telefónica Innovation Ventures is formed by 10 startups invested directly and more than 80 startups invested through 9 venture capital funds in key markets for Telefónica. In the last 3 years she has led Telefónica’s Silicon Valley presence in Menlo Park, California. Prior to this she worked as Business Manager to the Chief Commercial and Digital Officer and was responsible for the operations of the Advertising vertical in Telefónica Digital, where she led the expansion of Telefónica’s mobile advertising business from Europe to LATAM.

Pedro Muñoz Román

Head of Open Innovation

BBVA

Pedro is currently the responsible of the Open Innovation activity in Spain. Previously during his career at BBVA he was Head of Partnerships at Open Innovation, Business Development Manager of Retail and Corporate segment of 4 european regions, and Relationship Manager in Corporate and Business banking. He is a multilingual intrapreneur and innovation lover with an Executive MBA (IESE), Master in Corporate Finance and Investment Banking from IEB and Bachelor in Business Administration from CUNEF.

Darío Gil

Global Research Director

IBM Research

Dr. Dario Gil is the Director of IBM Research, one of the world’s largest and most influential corporate research labs. IBM Research is a global organization with over 3,000 researchers at 12 laboratories on six continents advancing the future of computing. Dr. Gil leads innovation efforts at IBM, directing research strategies in Quantum, AI, Hybrid Cloud, Security, Industry Solutions, and Semiconductors and Systems. Dr. Gil is the 12th Director in its 74-year history. Prior to his current appointment, Dr. Gil served as Chief Operating Officer of IBM Research and the Vice President of AI and Quantum Computing, areas in which he continues to have broad responsibilities across IBM. Under his leadership, IBM was the first company in the world to build programmable quantum computers and make them universally available through the cloud. An advocate of collaborative research models, he co-chairs the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, a pioneering industrial-academic laboratory with a portfolio of more than 50 projects.

José Marín

Managing Partner

FJ Labs

Jose is a successful serial entrepreneur and global investor. Currently he is the Co-Founder of FJ Labs with his business partner Fabrice Grinda. FJ invests and builds tech startups globally with main focus in Marketplaces and in the US. Previously he cofounded IG Expansion where he built several successful companies including Viajanet. He also self funded Serendipity Investments where he built a position of over 200 investments obtaining top tier returns Jose started his career as co-founder of DeRemate.com that sold to Mercado Libre and then went Public in Nasdaq. He is a Mechanical and Electrical Engineer and holds an MBA from Stanford. He is loves flying and extreme sports, plays the piano and tennis since he is 5, speaks 5 languages and has ran 6 marathons.

Lucía Figar

Chief Of Corporate Innovation and Ventures

IE University

Lucia has spent most of her life working in the public sector. After finishing her BA in Business Administration and Economics from CUNEF in 1998, she held positions in the Staff of the Presidency of the Government of Spain and the European Parliament in Brussels. In 2002, she was appointed Secretary for Social Affairs, with overall responsibility for the social services portfolio. Lucia has also been for more than 8 years the Regional Minister of Education in the Government of Madrid, responsible of a system comprised of 3.500 schools, 6 public universities, 1.3 million students and more than 100.000 teachers. As Chairwoman of IE ROCKETS, she leads several education and technology initiatives at IE Business School, where she obtained her Global Executive MBA in 2016. She is Member of the Board of Telefonica Foundation.

Antoine Nussenbaum

Founding member

Felix Capital

Antoine is a founding member of Felix Capital and part of its investment team and committee. Felix Capital has backed several digital brands and enabling technologies since its launched in 2015 including Farfetch, Goop, Mirakl, The Business of Fashion, La Ruche Qui Dit Oui, Olapic, Deliveroo, as well as Rad.co and Urban Massage where he sits on the boards. He previously was a Partner at Atlas Global, a private equity fund originally part of GLG Partners. Prior to the launch of Felix Capital he has worked closely with various early-stage digital start-ups including Mirakl, Pave, Reedsy, 31Dover and Jellynote. He has also been involved since inception with Huckletree, a fast growing co-working company dedicated to the digital community. Antoine originally moved to London in 2006 when he joined ABN AMRO as an M&A investment banker. Prior to this he was based in Paris and cofounded NT Valley, a software business. He is a graduate of ESCP European Business School and University Paris Dauphine.

Siva Kumari

Director General

The International Baccalaureate

HUI Chark Shum

Deputy Representative

Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in Brussels

Mr Hui joined the Administrative Service of the Hong Kong Government in 1996 and is currently at the directorate rank of the Administrative Officer Grade. He has taken up the position since September 2016 as the Deputy Representative of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in Brussels, which is the official representation of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government in the European Union, taking care of the bilateral relationship between Hong Kong and the European Union as well as that with a number of major EU Member States. The career of Mr Hui has spanned a wide range of ministries and departments of the Hong Kong government, involving duties in district administration, civil service management, transport policy, education reform, bilateral air services negotiations, and economic and trade matters. Before taking up his current position in Brussels, Mr Hui was responsible for implementing the new competition law in Hong Kong, and was the Deputy Representative in the World Trade Organisati

Alex Romero

Founder & CEO

Alto Data Analytics

Ann-Christine Roope

Founder & CEO

Ethan Partners

Ann-Christine is Founder and CEO of Ethan Partners a global executive search company focusing on high growth Internet companies. Ethan Partners has supported over 150 successful Internet companies and placed more than 3000 high profile candidates. Clients include among others Uber, Houzz, Naspers, Zomato, Ringier, Deliveroo, and Goldman Sachs. Previously Ann-Christine was Director of International Recruiting at Rocket Internet where she was responsible for Founder and Senior Executive recruiting for +75 portfolio companies in +45 countries, taking Rocket Internet from a few 1000 people European company to a +25.000 person global organization in 2 years. Before this Ann-Christine was Director of International Recruiting at Groupon as they entered +50 countries globally. Ann-Christine has also supported some of the largest VC’s and PE’s globally with talent acquisition. Ann-Christine holds a Master in Marketing and Business Communication from Copenhagen Business School.

Anne-Valérie Bach

Partner

CapAgro

Anne-Valérie has an in-depth experience in Venture Capital, investing in various IT sectors. Since joining Serena Capital in 2015, she invested in Icontainers an online booking platform for containers based in Barcelona, Coorpacademy an e-learning platform for corporates, Heuritech a deep learning company for automatic image recognition and tagging, Vekia a Machine learning software for inventory prediction and Quantilia a Financial data and quantitative analysis platform As a Partner with Banexi Ventures she was active in deal sourcing, hands-on portfolio management as board member and she realized several successful exits. She made 50M€ investment in 11 startups with an average internal rate of return of 30% on realized exits. She was lead investor in Inventel, the leading DSL access point designer, and sold it to Technicolor. She helped the creation and expansion of Coronis Systems, specialized in the RF protocol underlying wireless metering, and sold it to Elster, a German metering company.

Orlando Ayala

Advisor to the President of Colombia, former VP for Emerging Markets Microsoft

In his 35 years in the technology industry and 25-year history with Microsoft, Ayala served in many senior roles, joining the company in March 1991 as the senior director to create the Latin America region for the company. Ayala opened 33 worldwide subsidiaries as Senior Vice President of the Intercontinental Region (all southern hemisphere countries), before taking on the role of Executive Vice President of the Worldwide Sales Marketing and Services Group, with direct responsibilities managing 40 thousand people and 50+ Billion dollars in revenue, across 115 subsidiaries around the world. In this capacity he had the chance to work several years closely with Bill Gates as part of his most senior leadership team. Ayala also managed the WW Small and Midmarket Solutions and Partner group, during which time, he also took on the role of Chief Operating Officer of the then-nascent Microsoft Dynamics ERP and CRM businesses.

Adam Seldow

Head of Education Partnership

Facebook

I taught high school math in Boston Public Schools. It was an amazing experience. At the time, the World Wide Web as we know it was growing rapidly, but was fairly new to students and teachers. For the majority of my students, math was something that they "had to do," and not something that piqued their interest. I couldn't blame them. The challenges that they faced daily made me feel like I grew up in Eutopia. In reflecting upon their experiences, it was clear that I did. Despite this gap between school and home and the chasm between what they were being tested on and what they understood, when I integrated technology into class lessons something happened. Students who acted out focused; students whose heads were buried in their desks came up for air. It was clear that student engagement was the first step to making math matter.

Miguel Bernardeau

Actor

Miguel Bernardeau (Madrid, 1996) is a young Spanish actor who debuted in the Spanish series Cuéntame cómo pasó on TVE in 2016. He is currently part of the original Netflix series Élite cast. He will also appear soon in Telecinco’s series Caronte. In October 2018 he released the film Ola de crímenes, directed by Gracia Querejeta. This was his second film after his debut in 2017 with the comedy Es por tu bien, directed by Carlos Therón. Regarding television, he has participated in Inhibidos by Playz and TVE’s series Sabuesos. Since he was a teenager, he has been training in renowned acting schools such as Santa Mónica College and UCLA Extension (both in the US) and at Centro del Actor de Lorena García in Spain.

Pablo Navas

Rector of the University of Los Andes

Tal Ben-Shahar

Founder of Happiness Studies Academy

Lecturer at Harvard

Tal Ben-Shahar is an author and lecturer who taught the most popular course at Harvard University on "Positive Psychology," and the university's third most popular course on "The Psychology of Leadership"—with a total of more than 1,400 students. Ben-Shahar consults and lectures around the world to executives in multi-national corporations, the general public, and at-risk populations. Topics include leadership, ethics, happiness, self-esteem, resilience, goal setting, and mindfulness. His latest book is Short Cuts to Happiness: Life-Changing Lessons from My Barber. He is also the author of The Joy of Leadership: How Positive Psychology Can Maximize Your Impact (and Make You Happier) in a Challenging World, The New York Times bestseller Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment, and others. Ben-Shahar is a serial entrepreneur and is the co-founder and chief learning officer of the Happiness Studies Academy (HSA), Potentialife, Maytiv, and Happier.TV.

Pau Contreras

Vice President, Solutions Engineering

Salesforce

Pau is currently VP of Solution Engineering at Salesforce, where he is helping companies to transform and thrive in the 4th Industrial Revolution by using a Human Centered Design approach. Before joining Salesforce, he hold different leadership positions at Unidad Editorial and Oracle Corporation. He holds a BA in Social Anthropology (UB), a MS in Software Engineering (UPC), a PDG in Management (IESE Business School), a PhD with a thesis about Innovation and Organizational Design (UB), and an Executive Program in Entrepreneurship and Innovation (Stanford University). Pau is passionated about how Innovation and Technology can transform our world and make it a better place to live for all. He is a proud father of two daughters, and loves ocean sailing, hiking, cycling, rock balancing, and enjoying live with his family & friends.

Nina Jetter

Investment Manager

Project A Ventures

Nina Jetter is Investment Manager at the Berlin-based venture capital fund Project A, where she is responsible for all investments in Digital Health and FinTech. She also covers all of Project A's deal flow activities in Spain and Portugal. Prior to joining Project A in 2018, Nina worked >3.5 years in Consulting with Bain & Company, where she was part of the Private Equity division. Nina holds a Business degree from the University of Mannheim and spend time at the University de los Andes in Bogotá (Colombia).

Marcus Dantus

Founder & CEO

Startup Mexico - Mexico

Marcus is a recognized serial entrepreneur and angel investor with over 2 decades creating, managing, funding and mentoring startups both in Mexico and the US. He currently heads Startup Mexico, Mexico’s first group of entrepreneurial super hubs comprised of several campuses especially designed to foster collaboration and innovation and host aspiring entrepreneurs, startups, seed funds, corporations and a variety of services aimed at newly created companies. Marcus also teaches entrepreneurship and innovation at IPADE, Mexico’s top graduate business school and heads the startup creation module at ISDI’s Master in Internet Business program. Previously, he founded and headed Wayra Mexico, Telefónica ́s startup accelerator, focused primarily on IT and Communication high-impact businesses. He has been CEO and founder of several companies in the past, including Mexico.com, Simitel, Peerant and Abdeo Medical.

Leandro Sigman

Chairman

Chemo

Leandro Sigman is the Chairman at Insud Pharma, a multinational pharmaceutical company with presence in more than 40 countries across 4 continents. With more than 6000 professionals, 15 industrial plants, and 10 R&D centers around the world Insud Pharma has been committed to continuous improvement in health care for almost 40 years. The family business vision reflects Leandro´s passion for innovation and constant search for disruptive talent and revolutionizing the health sector to make people´s lives easier and better. Entrepreneur and founder of different startups related to e-health and technology, Leandro Sigman is now leading yet another initiative, ChemoStart in order to help startups with innovative projects in health turn their ideas into reality. Leandro holds an MBA in the IAE Business School, and is an active member of the board in different organizations supporting entrepreneurs such as Endeavor España and is the President of the Chamber of Commerce of Argentina in Spain - CEAES.

Cristina Fanjul

Managing Director

CEEI Asturias

Managing Director of CEEI Asturias, she leads initiatives of development of innovative technology-based entrepreneurship, including advice, acceleration programmes, investment readiness and access to finance. She is very involved in European projects and strategies and VicePresident of EBN- European association of centers of innovation- and also of ANCES national association of Business Innovation Centres. She is also expert evaluator of international SME Instrument (Horizon 2020).

Martha Thorne

Dean

IE School of Architecture and Design

Martha Thorne is Dean of IE School of Architecture and Design. Since 2005, she has served as the Executive Director of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, popularly known as the “Nobel Prize for Architecture”. Her interests have always focused on international contemporary architecture, cities in evolution and changes in the role of the architect. Prior to joining IE University she was Associate Curator of the Department of Architecture at The Art Institute of Chicago. During her tenure at the museum, her responsibilities involved curating many exhibitions, developing publications, and participating in the ground-breaking study on collecting, archiving, and exhibiting digitally created design materials. She is the co-author of the books Masterpieces of Chicago Architecture and Skyscrapers: The New Millennium, editor and author for The Pritzker Architecture Prize: The First Twenty Years, and author of numerous articles for architectural journals and encyclopedias.

Sylvie Lemaire

Vice President & Co-Founder

Women Angels 4 STEAM

As a business and leadership developer, Sylvie co-ordinates Learning Expeditions, promotes French and Spanish business exchange for Bretagne Commerce International, cultivates resilience in a VUCA world. She is also a lecturer at the Toulouse Business School -Campus Barcelona and has partnered with the technology company Klaxoon, to provide an innovative collaborative platform in Spain, that empowers team work, collective intelligence sharing and interactive engagement everywhere people work together. She is an active Member of SWAN (Women Angels Network). Her very first investments’ choice, advised by Seed & Click and The Crowd Angel, were for Spanish Companies linked to early learning and digital transformation, as: MyABCKit, a play-based educational app for kids; EVOLUfarma, expert in digital technological transformation of pharmacies.

Luis Saiz Gimeno

Head of Innovation in Security

BBVA

MSc Telecommunications Engineer (Master Thesis on Cryptographic Protocol s) 25 years of experience in multiple fields of security and fraud management. Last 19 years working in BBVA Bank involved in Privacy Compliance, Security Risk Assessment and Engineering in SDLC. Design of BBVA Group Security Str ategic Plans. Builder and Head of BBVA's Global Security Center (detection, analysis, response and investigation of fraud and security events, ethical hacking, vulnerability and threat management). Now BBVA Head of Innovation in Security.

Oscar Farrés

Head of Business Angel Investments

EIF

Oscar Farres is an Investment Manager at the European Investment Fund. He invests in and monitors Venture Capital funds across Europe with a focus on ICT. Prior to joining the EIF, Oscar Farres worked at Caixa Capital Risc and Debaeque where he invested in Internet and Software-as-a-Service start-ups. Further to his investment experience, Oscar co-founded Kineto Project, a technology start-up in the field of personal fitness devices. Oscar holds a business administration degree from IESE and MIT and an engineering degree from La Salle Engineering School.

Margarita Escobar

Congresswoman

El Salvador

Renaud Visage

Co-founder

Eventbrite

As Eventbrite's founding technical architect, Renaud manages the platform's technical roadmap. Trained as a civil engineer, Renaud joined the dot com world in 2009 as Director of Engineering at photo-sharing pioneer Zing networks. In 2014, Renaud was recognised in Wired UK's Top 100 digital influencers in Europe. He's an active angel investor and mentor on the European start-up scene, as well as an accomplished architectural and travel photographer. His work is represented by various stock photo agencies around the world.

María del Mar España Martí

Director at Spanish Agency for Data Protection

APED

With a law degree from the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas, Master in International Protection in Human Rights from the University of Alcalá and expert in non-profit management by the Luis Vives Foundation. She is a officer of the Superior Body of Civil Administrators of the State in the legal specialty since 1989. As for her academic activity, she has been a professor of the Master of International Protection of Human Rights of the University of Alcalá, professor of the Master of Political Action of the Bar Association and associate professor of Administrative Law at ICADE. Since July 2015, she has been director of the Spanish Agency for Data Protection.

María Benjumea

Chairman and Founder

Spain Startup - España

María Benjumea is the Chairman and Founder of Spain Startup, the company that promotes and organizes The South Summit; an unique initiative aimed to celebrate entrepreneurship and innovation, showcasing to the world the talent, technology and entrepreneurial character of the South. The South Summit brings together the most promising startups from Southern Europe, the Mediterranean and Latin America. Currently, María Benjumea is founding partner of Spain IWF (International Women Forum) and vice-president of Secot. In 2011 she was awarded the Premio Nacional a la Mujer Directiva in the "Business Innovation" category. She has also received the "Clara Campoamor 2009 Award" by the City of Madrid, Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2007 by ASEME and has been one of the women leaders in Top 100 Spain in recent editions. María Benjumea (Madrid, 1954) is married, has two children and three granddaughters.

José del Barrio

Founding Partner

Samaipata

José is a founding partner at Samaipata. Happy husband and proud father of three little girls. Helplessly curious. Previously a co-founder and CEO @LaNeveraRoja, sold to Rocket Internet (+$100m). In another life consultant at strategy group @pwc. An economist by education, entrepreneurship is his way of life.

Javier Tejedor Aguilera

Non-Technical Losses Detection

e-Distribution

Telecommunication Engineer by the University of Seville, he is currently in charge of Non-Technical Losses Detection and Lead Data Scientist of Non-Technical Losses Detection related projects at Endesa Distribución. He has a strong background in Machine Learning and since February 2016 he acquired the Kaggle Master tier. He is co-author of two NTL detection papers applying Machine Learning and Deep Learning published in IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid and on IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. He also currently works as Adjunct Professor in some Masters of Big Data and Business Analytics in Spain: Instituto de Empresa, Datahack and EsesaIMF. He co-organizes Kaggle Days Meetup Madrid and Kaggle Days Meetup Sevilla, through a non-profit organization with the aim of bringing the best international speakers in Machine Learning.

Ander Michelena

Co-Founder

Ticketbis & All Iron

Ander Michelena Llorente (Bilbao, 28 years): Graduated in Business Administration and Finance in the Universidad Pontifica de Comillas ICADE (Madrid). He started his career in Morgan Stanley London, where he specialized in merger, acquisitions and IPOs of European financial institutions. In 2009 he left the Bank to create Ticketbis.com, a market where fans can buy or sell tickets, with his partner Jon Uriarte. Now Ticketbis is leading secondary ticketing market in South Europe, Latam and Asia with presence in 40+ countries and over 400 employees in 14 offices around the word with revenues of Euro 84m in 2015.

Regina Llopis

Co-founder

WA4STEAM

Present corporate goal: leverage Group AIA IP Portfolio globally. Chairing Boards of Group AIA companies and startups, continue developing Business in Europe, Asia and North American markets will be the focus on the energy business, the Data Science and Machine Learning fast growth expansion. Present sustainable economy goal: Today cofounder and President of the initiative Women Angels 4 STEAM (STEM + Art & Architecture) launched to facilitate capital to women entrepreneurs in STEAM, and to create an environment to extract collective knowledge of exceptional women to build a valuable investment portfolio. The initiative will create jobs for women in Steam, and will allow innovating women to participate in the decisions that define the technology roadmap of the future. Aligned with UN sustainable goals (4,5,8,9 and 10).

Alexis Bonte

CEO/Partner

eRepublik Labs/Atomico

Alexis is a Venture Partner at Atomico advising on new investments in France, Spain & Portugal and Eastern Europe as well as sourcing and accelerating growth in the games, blockchain and travels vertical. He currently serves on the Bossa Studios board, Atomico's latest game investment. He is also interested in high impact purpose driven companies. A strong believer that "great companies can come from anywhere", Alexis is also the co-founder & ceo of games company eRepublik Labs (eRepublik.com, Age of Lords, World at War, War and Peace) a "free to play" pioneer with HQ in Ireland and studios in Bucharest and Madrid. Alexis sold eRepublik Labs in June of 2017 in a cash and shares deal to Stillfront Group (quoted on Nasdaq First North). Alexis remains as CEO of eRepublik Labs giving him a unique mix of investor as well as operational expertise.

María Eugenia Girón

Executive Director

Rising Tides

Eugenia serves at the Board of Directors of Corporacion Financiera Alba, Real Fábrica de Tapices and Oceana as well as being Chairman of Fundación Diversidad and Go Beyond Investing. Expert in global premium brands strategy, growth and sustainable business development, she is Executive Director of IE Premium & Prestige Business Observatory. She has 20 years of experience in the premium and luxury industry as head of Loewe International, as CEO of Carrera y Carrera after leading the MBI and as advisor to PE backed and family owned ventures. Active angel investor in tech start-ups, co-leads the Rising Tide movement to grow and strengthen the community of women investors. Committed to corporate governance, she serves as co- Chair of WCD (Women Corporate Directors) and member of the Board of ICA. She has an Industrial Engineer degree of ICAI and Harvard Business School MBA. Awarded as Best Women Executive of Spain in 2004 and Top 100 in 2017.

Miguel Montes

Chairman at InnoCells

COO at Banco Sabadell

Miguel Montes is General Manager at Banco Sabadell, where he is Chief Operating Officer and Corporate Development. He has extensive retail banking experience at Sabadell (the 4th largest Spanish retail banking group), where he has spent the last 14 years. Previously, Miguel held different executive positions at Deutsche Bank in Barcelona, Frankfurt, Milan and Paris; some of them include Global Head of Retail Banking Operations and CIO of International Retail Banking. Miguel is member of the Board of Directors of TSB, one of the largest challenger banks in the UK, and President of Solvia, the 4th Spanish Real Estate servicer. He holds a dual Global Executive MBA from ESADE and Georgetown University.

Elena Pisonero

President

Hispasat

Executive with a global perspective and broad experience in Advisory Boards and Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) roles having worked in the public and private sector in Spain and abroad (Hispasat, KPMG, OECD, Government of Spain). Always dealing with strategies and managing teams. Currently Chairman of Hispasat, Spanish satellite operator with strong positions in Latin America. She is also member of the Scientific Council of the prestigious think-tank Elcano Royal Institute (since 2002), Director of the Project for Medium Size Enterprises of Círculo de Empresarios, and member (since 2008) of ESADEGeo Group, a debate forum led by Mr. Javier Solana, ex NATO Secretary General.

Carina Szpilka

General Partner

K Fund

Convinced of the need to transform the way we manage businesses as key to draw the new economy. The digital revolution we are living forces us to rethink the business and the way we do things and develop new skills to build adaptable enterprises to the new environment. For all this the key is leadership: that organizations need leaders who bet on connect, share and care for their teams, customers and other stakeholders, as the basis for successful, sustainable and positive impact business in society.

Justyna Orlowska

GovTech Polska Director at the Chancellery of the Prime Minister in Poland

Poland

Committed to excellence, team player, interested in gaining an international experience. Holds MSc in Finance (University of New South Wales) and BSc in Quantitative Methods (Warsaw School of Economics).

Francisco Sierra

Head of European Markets

N26

Francisco has more than ten years experience in banking and financial services. Born in Madrid, he studied Industrial Engineering at ICAI School of Engineering of the U. Pontificia de Comillas and an MBA at IESE Business School. He started his career in investment banking at JP Morgan before moving on to venture capital at Active Venture Partners. More recently, prior to becoming General Manager Spain at N26, he held two senior positions at Funding Circle as Managing Director for Spain and as Head of Strategy and Business Operations for the US.

Zuweina Farah

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

id8 space

An avid entrepreneur and supporting early stage startups across Africa. 9 years of experience creating, managing, and mentoring startups. Co-founder and managing partner of id8 Space, Africa’s first social workspace and digital hub for entrepreneurs, innovation hubs, startup programs, aspiring founders. Designed to foster collaboration and innovation and hosting users and programs dedicated in growth of the ecosystem in Africa and beyond. Zuweina has mentored and worked with over 300 startups. She has co-created the flagship event Bits & Bytes Technology, an Innovation conference, now in its fifth year, serving social entrepreneurs with a platform to showcase their ideas and an avenue to connect with investors. Zuweina has served in an executive director role in her career, co-founded companies that work in business development advisory using data and analytics, and co-created several solutions presently in the market.

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.

Sofía Benjumea

Head of Madrid's Campus

Google for Startups

Sofia is the Head of Campus Madrid, creating a vibrant, transformative and collaborative community where entrepreneurs and tech startups can flourish and grow through meaningful connections, knowledge and unique opportunities. Before joining Google, she was the founding partner and CEO of Spain Startup, organizing what has become the leading startup conference in Southern Europe, The South Summit. She holds a BA in International Business Administration, an MA in journalism from El Pais and an MBA from IE Business School and UCLA's Anderson School of Business. Sofia is a passionate community builder, a tireless doer and creative thinker. Previously a journalist, she pivoted and returned to Spain with a desire to help build and rebuild by fostering a strong startup ecosystem.

Christoph Sollich

The Pitch Doctor

Christoph is better known as “The Pitch Doctor”. For the last 7 years, he's helped almost 2000 startups (and an ever-growing number of corporate intrapreneurs) improve the way they pitch to investors, partners, management boards etc. He's a coach for dozens of accelerators, corporate innovation labs and startup competitions around Europe, with clients such as Airbus Bizlab, Bayer Grants4Apps, hubraum (Deutsche Telekom), Daimler, Allianz, Roland Berger, etc. He is also the inventor of "Startup Comedy" and the world’s first, only, and best (!) “Startup Comedian”, doing funny pitches –e.g. the "Berlin Pitch" (why Berlin is the best city for startups) and "RydeMyPony" (the “Airbnb for Ponies”). He has been a speaker at conferences like SXSW, TOA, TechBBQ and Bits+Pretzels.

Enrique Belenguer Saborit

Behavioral Economics Global Leader

BBVA

Quique Belenguer is currently Behavioral Economics Global Leader at BBVA. He is in charge of BE methodology&research. He also works on several BE projects within the bank, such as Financial Health, Behavioral Sciences and Cybersecurity or BE and Diversity, and coordinates the BE discipline in USA and Turkey. He previously worked as a consultant in market research and behavioural economics.

Liz Fleming

Content Adviser

South Summit

A Venture Capital professional with 13 years experience in tech and entrepreneurship both as an investor and an ecosystem builder. Most recently a Principal at Adara Ventures Liz supported the Managing Partners in identifying, evaluating, and managing investments as well discovering new ways to attract new investments and adding value to the existing portfolio positioning Adara at the heart of the startup ecosystems it operates in. Previously Liz ran content and program development at South Summit, one of Europe’s largest startup events, including speaker and investor relations. Prior to joining the South Summit team, Liz ran a number of initiatives at IE Business School’s Centre for Entrepreneurship including Venture Lab, the school’s student startup accelerator, and the Spain Startup Co-investment Fund (SSCF), a co-investment program run by IE Business School and Enisa, Spain’s leading agency for startup financing.

Isaías Táboas Suárez

Chairman

Renfe

Born in Valencia on March 2, 1958, married and father of two, he has a degree in History and has obtained postgraduate in Management Function in Public Administration at ESADE and in Marketing Management at EADA. He has developed his professional career between the Public Administration and the private sector. In the public sector he has been Secretary of State for Transport (2010-2011; Ministry of Fomento, Government of Spain), General Secretary of the Presidency of the Generalitat de Catalunya (2006-2010) and Director of the Cabinet of the Minister of Industry (Government of Spain,2004-2006). Previously he was Director of Communications and Institutional Relations and Responsible of Patrimony and Urbanism in Catalonia and Aragon (1991-1996) at Renfe. In the private sphere, he has been linked to the Open University of Catalonia as director of Editorial UOC and Eureca Media SL (1996-2004) and as Project Director (2012-2013). He has been Chairman of the Editorial Board of the Observatory of Ideas.

Kike Sarasola

Founder

Room Mate Hotels

Born entrepreneur, Kike Sarasola is today one of the leading global hotel industry, thanks to being the founder and director of the innovative and successful chain Room Mate Hotels. This company, in full expansion and internationalization, has hotels in the USA (Miami, New York); Latin America (Buenos Aires, Mexico) and Europe. His entrepreneurship has earned him the Gold Medal for Tourist Merit 2014 in the category of Innovation.

Michael Geer

Co-founder

HUMANITY

As a kid, I wanted to make a positive change in the world. My first thought was to be an astronaut. I went to university for aerospace engineering (rocket science) to get closer to that dream, and then I got a bit sidetracked... I found myself in Moscow and learned the internet industry from the ground up while building Badoo in Moscow and London piece by piece scaling from 0 to 70 million users. Then moved on to build AnchorFree to the lead protector of the Internet with over 700 million users and hundreds of millions in yearly subscription revenue. Sold to Jeffrey Katzenberg last year and have now embarked on the mission of my life to provide the superpower of good health to everyone by co-founding Humanity with my close friend Peter Ward. Humanity will let you know exactly what actions you need to take on a daily basis to slow your aging and thus stay healthy longer.

Sebastian Barrios

CTO & VP of Technology

Cabify

Improving the world through technology. I am passionate about creating and scaling products. I founded two software companies, both focused on the mobile technology space. At Zebas Studios, we built over 25 applications for private companies, public companies and government institutions. I was awarded with the Global Student Entrepreneurship Award in 2012, after being judged by a large panel of respected industry leaders and entrepreneurs. At Yaxi we built one of the first real time taxi dispatch systems in the world. All hosted on an auto scaling cloud and structured as a distributed system. After founding and scaling Yaxi, I was recognized as the youngest Endeavor Entrepreneur in the prestigious organization's history. I truly believe technology is the best tool humanity has to overcome our hardest challenges.

Gil Dibner

Founder & General Partner

Angular Ventures

Gil has been an active venture investor focused on enterprise technology companies born in Europe & Israel since 2005. As a venture investor and angel, he has backed over 30 companies in Israel and across Europe. The majority of these companies have successfully relocated to the US, and many have been backed by leading global venture firms. His portfolio includes Aquant, BitSrc, Chorus.ai, Cloud66, Datos, Flok (acquired by Wix), Front, The Gifts Project (acquired by Ebay), Imubit, Innovid, James, JFrog, Moltin, MomentumWorks, Resin, Rollout, ServiceFriend, Siemplify, SiSense, Shoppimon, Snyk, Styla, Swiftshift, and Yedda (acquired by AOL). Prior to founding Angular Ventures, Gil was a Partner at DFJ Esprit in London, and a Principal at Index Ventures in London, where he helped manage Index’s pan-European seed portfolio. Previously, he was a VC in Israel at Gemini Israel Ventures and Genesis Partners, based in Tel Aviv. Gil grew up in Boston, is based in London, and calls Tel Aviv home.

Hristo Stoykov

Head of European Growth Capital & Innovation Finance

European investment Bank

In charge of EIB's direct equity and quasi-equity investments in innovative European corporates. Since 2015, our team has provided venture debt to 35 growth-stage innovative companies for a total of EUR 650m, we shared equity risk with some of Europe's leading corporates, and we co-invested alongside VC/PE and strategic investors. Our total corporate equity risk portfolio stands at close to EUR 1.0bn as of September 2017 and growing. Our Luxembourg-based team of 24 investment professionals covers the EU 28 countries with a specific focus on software/information technologies, biotech and life sciences and industrial innovation (e.g. 3D printing, new materials, automation and renewable energy).

Javier Ulecia

Partner

Bullnet Capital

Founder and Partner Bullnet Capital (Spanish VC investing in high-tech companies). Bullnet has been investing in Spanish early stage companies for the last 15 years, mainly in the SW, electronics and semiconductors space. Among our success stories are Netspira Networks (sold to Ericsson) and Anafocus (first spinoff from CSIC and sold to e2v). Currently member of the board of seven technology companies (OncoVision, Digital Legends, Visure, Codice, Zhilabs, KDPOF and UAV Navigation). Previous experience at Bain & Company in Paris, Munich and Madrid (strategic consulting) and Renault in Paris (R&D). Aeronautical Engineer (Politécnica Madrid) and MBA (HEC Paris). He was chairman of ASCRI from 2015-2017 (first time that a VC leads the organization since it was founded 30 years ago). Collaborates with several incubators or organizations related to entrepreneurship (South Summit, Wayra, StartupBootCamp…)

Paul Murphy

Partner

Northzone

Paul is a Partner at Northzone, the VC fund behind game-changing companies like Spotify, iZettle, Avito, Klarna and Trustpilot. Since 1996, Northzone has backed over 140 companies and raised 8 funds, with over €1 billion under management. The fund has offices in Stockholm, London, New York and Oslo. Paul is focused on consumer, entertainment, and enterprise applications. His portfolio includes TIER, Thirty Madison, Klang, and Bunch. Prior to Northzone, Paul founded and was CEO of mobile games company Dots in NYC, and built and invested in companies at betaworks, the startup studio behind companies such as Poncho and Giphy.

Diego del Alcázar Benjumea

Executive Vice President

IE University

Since 2014 I am Executive Vice President of IE Business School & IE University and I sit on its Board of Directors. I play a key role in the strategic vision and the general management of the institution, highly focused on promoting the innovation strategy and its execution, driving IE’s digital transformation and leading IE’s technological immersion. In late 2014, I joined the board of FT|IE Corporate Learning Alliance (FT|IE CLA), a joint venture created to design and implement customized education for companies. I am also the co-founder and member of the board of The South Summit, one of Europe’s leading startup and innovation conferences. I have also previous experience as consultant at Bain & Company and I co-founded Step Up Capital, a vehicle to identify, invest, and manage business opportunities. My areas expertise are Business Education, Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital, Digital Transformation, Advanced Technologies, Government of Change and Energy Efficiency, among others.

Nir Erez

CEO and Co-founder

Moovit

Nir Erez , a serial entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience leading technology startups , is the CEO and Co- Founder of Moovit . Before Moovit , Nir was also founder and CEO of ActionBase and Eyron Software Solutions. Nir is also co-owner and co-founder of Eyron Group invests in software companies at an early stage . Nir Mamram graduated from the Academy and holds a degree in physics. Prior to founding Moovit in 2011 , Nir led the investment arm of Eyron Group focused on early- stage software companies . I holds a B.Sc. in Physics .

Jordi Escruela

Innovation Manager

Correos

Innovation Manager at Correos, with cross-industry experience in multinational firms. CIO in Telepizza, Organization Manager at Grifols, Software Engineering Manager and Call Center Manager at eDreams, CIO at Petit Group, Manager of Deutsche Bank, Software Development Manager at Regal Insurance, Consultant Manager at Everis and Accenture . Chemical Engineer by the University of Barcelona and PDD by IESE.

Cristobal Viedma

Founder & CEO

Lingokids

Cultural broker and entrepreneur. I like creating new services that leverage on my global experience, entrepreneurial spirit and engineering skills. High five to cross-cultural communication and understanding. CMonkimun® is an award-winning company that makes Language Learning for Kids fun. We provide an adaptive learning platform for children aged 2-6 where learning happens naturally. Backed by international investors (Silicon Valley, Singapore, Japan) and 500 Startups-accelerated, Monkimun has been awarded multiple times, including best Android application in 2014 by Google.EO and Founder of Monkimun.

Sara Colnago

Co-founder and CEO

Swascan Cybersecurity Company

I am the CEO of the Business Competence srl, the consulting firm for the Corporate Governance. The contribution of Business Competence includes experience, methodologies and relevant expertise to analyze and identify the critical point / problems and find solutions, supporting the decision-making and the implementation.

Federico Flórez

Chief Information & Innovation Officer

Ferrovial

Chief Information and Innovation Officer, CIIO, and Global Purchasing chairman. Member of the Executive Committee of Ferrovial. Member of the Board Inversis Bank. Former Chairman Advisory Board Ametic, member of the advisory board in CIO Executive and President of Cionet. Naval Engineer, MBA and IT Management, PAD IESE, INSEAD Advanced Management Program, executive education from Harvard, MIT and Cranfield. He has worked at such companies as IBM, CIO in Alcatel, CIO Telefónica Data, and CIO of Banco de España, Member of the ITC European Central Bank, General Secretary of XBRL Spain. Author of several articles, and whitepapers, Interviews in TV, magazines and daily newspapers and Conferences in Europe, America and Asia in several Business Schools (MIT, IE, IESE, INSEAD...)

Chema Alonso

Chief Data Officer

Telefónica

Chema Alonso is currently the CDO at Telefónica. In this position he heads the company’s Big Data strategy, Advertising and the Fourth Platform. As part of the work to define the Fourth Platform, he also leads the Personal Data Bank team and is the main internal promoter of the Data Transparency Lab. He is also responsible for global cybersecurity and data security. He obtained doctorates in Computer Security at the King Juan Carlos University of Madrid, Computer Engineering and IT Systems Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Madrid. Since 2009 he has also directed the Master’s Degree in Information Security at the European University of Madrid. He is the author of several books and other works specializing in cybersecurity and a director representing Telefónica at Alise Devices, a company supported by Telefónica by means of its Wayra startups acceleration programme and a developer of anti-counterfeiting technology, chiefly made up of engineers from the Polytechnic University of Madrid.

Daniel Jones

Senior Manager in Client Solutions Advanced Analytics

BBVA

Data Scientist in BBVA Client Solutions Advanced Analytics & Open Innovation, holding a degree in Mathematics by the Universidad del País Vasco (Bilbao, Spain) and CFA® charterholder by the CFA Institute. He has worked for 11 years in Business Development and Client areas, focusing on transformation projects based on data.

Patricio Guitart

Founder

Guitart&Partners

Advisor of leading organizations in Latin America, USA and Spain on topics related to growth, innovation in the business model, implementation of strategies and organizational alignment. Founder of Guitart & Partners, a network of consultants and experts in management, innovation and organizational transformation. Patricio works closely with Dr. Robert Kaplan (Harvard Business School), Francis Ross (Michigan Business School) and Renée Mauborgne (INSEAD Business School) in the field of academic and consulting research in Latin America. He is a Professor at the Entrepreneurial Education Center of the University of San Andres, Visiting Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA and is a Visiting Professor at the INALDE Business School in Bogotá, Colombia. He is Coordinator of the Innovation Lab at the Entrepreneurial Education Center of the University of San Andrés, Mentor of the Endeavor Network and Member of the Board of Directors of Fundación Leer.

José Bogas

Chief Executive Officer

Endesa

Mr. Bogas joined Endesa in 1982, and he has held a number of positions within the Group, beginning in the Planning Department as Head of Market Studies. Two years later he was appointed Head of Commercial Relations, and between 1988 and 1997 he was Head ofEnergy Control and Management. He was General Manager and Head of Generation between 1997 and 1998, after which he was Head of Electricity Business until 2004. From 2004 until 2014 he held the position of Chief Operating Officer for Spain & Portugal.His previous experience includes being Technical and Economic Advisor to the Directorate General of Energy at the MIE, working as a systems analyst at ERIA (1981-1982) and as a systems engineer at DIMETRONIC’sEngineering Division (1980-1981).

James Downing

Director of Venture Capital Services

Silicon Valley Bank’s UK Branch

James Downing is a Director of Venture Capital Services at Silicon Valley Bank’s UK Branch. With over 15 years of banking experience, James has a strong background in financial services for technology businesses, having devoted much of his career to the innovation sector. In his role with Silicon Valley Bank, James is responsible for building relationships with institutional Venture Capital funds across Europe and the US, working with them on their portfolio companies and helping them to access SVB’s global platform. He also explores interesting new markets for the bank. Prior to joining SVB, James served as a director at Barclays Bank where he focused on portfolio management and debt origination for businesses in the technology, media and telecommunications sector. James is a keen cyclist, and spends many weekends whizzing around the English countryside. He's also a regular gym goer, a keen but very average golfer, and will try his hand at more or less any sport involving a ball or racquet.

Julian Vinue

Director in Barcelona

Wayra Barcelona

Telecommunications Engineer and MBA, I was leading the Entrepreneurship Area at La Salle Technova Barcelona until 2012, where I managed a community of 100+ startups looking for investment and gave them support in their business development. Then I went on to direct Wayra in Barcelona, the world's most global, connected and tech-driven Open Innovation Hub powered by Telefónica to support technology entrepreneurs with projects in Europe and Latin America. Wayra Barcelona investments have been a success, raising third parties investment rounds for the startups for a total of more than $30M and also executed 3 cash-outs with high returns for the company. I am observer in the board in all of the 27 companies we have in the Wayra Barcelona portfolio as of today. I am also speaker at entrepreneurship conferences and university, trying to communicate new entrepreneurs and degree students my experience with other startups.

Paloma Castellano

Director

Wayra

Director of Wayra Madrid. Wayra, powered by Telefónica, is one of the most potent business accelerators with presence worldwide. Paloma is Executive MBA by IE Business School and MSc in Computer Engineer by UCM. She started her profesional career in Microsoft, joining Telefónica afterwards as Product Manager. After several years launching and managing innovative products as mobile TV she moved to Telefónica China, where she worked with CNC Labs CEO in designing and implementing the strategic plan for this company. Back to Spain, she was in charge of Mobile Broadband business development. In 2011 she joined Wayra to collaborate in the global launch as part of the foundational team. She is currently the Director of Wayra Madrid. In Madrid only, Wayra has helped create and grow more than 50 startups.

David Labajo

General Manager for Digital de GE Healthcare

Telefonica

David Labajo is General Manager of the GE Healthcare Digital area for Southern Europe, and is one of the benchmarks of Digital Transformation in Health in Spain. David is a Senior Telecommunications Engineer and a master in ‘Corporate Management’, and in recent years he has been the International Director of Strategy and Digital Business at Roche Diabetes Care, and has previously directed the ‘Digital Health’ unit at Telefónica España. He is also a professor of Digital Transformation in business schools such as IE and Pharmaceutical Talent; and esMentor of different startups in the field of digital health. With more than 20 years of experience, David has developed his career mainly in Spain, the United Kingdom and Italy.

Paris de l'Etraz

Managing Director Venture Lab

IE University

Paris de l’Etraz has spent over 20 years in investment banking and venture capital, mainly at UBS Bank and ABN AMRO. In 1999, he received his first of two patents regarding contact networking. Since 2005, he has continued to be in the business of either raising funds, setting up new companies, selling or buying companies through his group Amazing Lab. He has a keen interest for what makes an entrepreneur and what he/she needs to succeed. In particular he has focused on seed capital, in digital marketing, sports management, video games, renewable energy and new technology industries.

Nicolas Cary

Co-Founder & Vice Chairman

Blockchain

Nicolas Cary is a serial entrepreneur and lifelong technologist. He holds degrees in Business with an emphasis in Leadership Studies and International Political Economy. He was a founding Partner at PipelineDeals where he focused on product development and management. In 2013 he Co-Founded Blockchain. More recently he Co-Founded YBUSA.org, the leading youth business accelerator. His company Blockchain is the world's leading Bitcoin software company. Blockchain has over 8 million users, they run the most widely trusted block explorer, and manage the most widely used developer platform in the Bitcoin eco-system. In 2014, Blockchain raised the largest first outside capital round in industry history announcing over $30.5 million closed from leading venture capital firms.His company Blockchain is the world's leading Bitcoin software company.

Tara Cemlyn-Jones

Fintech Expert / Advisor

TCJ Fintech Advisory - UNITED KINGDOM

Tara Cemlyn-Jones has over 20 years in consultancy, banking and technology - a combination of skills that led to TCJ Fintech Advisory, which focuses on digital and innovation strategies for large financial institutions and start-ups, including advice on acquisitions, joint-ventures, partnerships and IPO preparation, among other. Prior to this, Tara was at Espirito Santo Investment Bank as Head of Corporate Development and International Capital Markets responsible for its transformation into an international bank, via acquisition, and negotiated its sale to Haitong Securities (China); lastminute.com as Head of Corporate Development, and pivotal to the creation one of the first £1bn+ ecommerce businesses in Europe (16 acquisitions in less than 3 years); Schroders/Citigroup as Head of Iberian Capital Markets; and, Mars & Co Strategy Consultancy (BCG spin-off).

Román Orús

Ikerbasque Research Professor

DIPC

Prof. Román Orús is Ikerbasque research professor at the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) in San Sebastián, Spain, visiting professor at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, and co-founder and CSO of Multiverse Computing, one of the first startups worldwide providing quantum computing solutions to the financial industry. After obtaining his degree and PhD in Physics at the University of Barcelona in 2006, he worked as a research fellow at the University of Queensland, Australia, and the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Germany, as well as a junior professor at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität in Mainz, Germany. He was also visiting professor at the Universitè Paul Sabatier – CNRS, France, and at the DIPC. Dr Orús has achieved several awards for his work, including a Marie Curie Incoming International Fellowship, and the Early Career Prize (2014) by the European Physical Society. He has written around 70 scientific articles about quantum research cited more than 4000 times.

Jacky Abitbol

Cathay Innovation

Jacky brings more than 17 years of advisory and operational experience and has a proven expertise in consultancy, private equity, corporate and business development. Specialties include:  Deep knowledge of the telco and digital arena  Solid relationships with the VC community, leading mobile operators and digital groups  Extensive Strategy & BizDev experience  Corporate and M&A experience  Proven track record with start-up (IPO, merger & acquisition) Previously, he has worked as: - Venture Partner at Iris Capital - Managing Director at Fab Israel - Board Member at Orange Advertising Services - Board Observer at My things - Investment Director at Orange Capital - Business Development & Sales Director at SanDisk - Corporate & Business Development Director at GFI - Vice President at Fantine Group (now Aviv Venture Capital)

Enrique Lizaso

Founder and Managing Director

Multiverse Computing

Prof. Enrique Lizaso is Founder and Managing Director of Multiverse Computing. He holds a Degree in Mathematics from the University of Barcelona (majoring in Crypto and Mathematics of Financial Derivatives, and where he heard for the first time about Quantum Computing Algorithms), another Degree in Computer Engineering, and -not related to this field- another in Medicine from the University of Navarra. He also holds an MBA from the IESE Business School, and a PhD in Statistics from the University of Barcelona. Professor Lizaso has worked for more than 20 years in the Bancassurance Industry (first in Caixa Terrassa and Later in Unnim Banc where we became Deputy CEO). He has also set up successful ventures in the field of International Health insurance. He has also recently launched another in the field of Blockchain in Legaltech. Professor Lizaso has taught Finance in the International Master’s degrees at the Universitat Autónoma of Barcelona, EAE Business School and currently Statistics in Mechatronic Enginee

Diego del Álcazar

President

IE University

Diego del Alcázar y Silvela was born in Ávila. He studied Law, Political Science and Business Administration in Madrid and París. He founded ‘’Instituto de Empresa’’ in 1973, and he currently is the President of IE Business School, IE University and IE Foundation. Moreover, Diego del Alcázar y Silvela contributed to the adquisition and development of Aguas de Mondariz, Balneario de Mondariz, Publicidad Gisbert, Grupo Negocios, Thomil and Chocolates Eureka, among others. Moreover, he has been member of the Board of Directors for various communication groups, technological companies and consumption firms such as ONO and Recoletos. Currently, he is part of the Board of Directors of Balneario de Mondariz, Thomil and Chocolates Eureka. From 2007 to 2012, Mr. Alcázar was President of Grupo Vocento keeping his position as Management Director at ABC,S.L. He is Vice President of Fundación Arte Hispánico, and advisor of several foundations such as Fundación Zubiri.

Eneko Knörr

Founder

Onyze

Eneko Knorr is the co-founder of Onyze (crypto custodian) and founder of AngelClub (seed fund for startups), Ludei, and the Spanish top 5 hosting company Hostalia, which was acquired by Telefonica in 2007. He is also an angel investor (angel.co/eneko-knorr) in companies such as Cabify, Petcoach (acquired by Petco) Habitissimo (acquired by Homeserve), Ticketbis (acquired by eBay). Named best angel investor of the year in Spain in 2018 after having 3 exits within a year. Professor at IE Business School, teaching cryptocurrencies, blockchain and Entrepreneurship.

Itxaso Del Palacio Aguirre

Investment director

Notion Capital

Itxaso Del Palacio is an Investment Director at Notion. Prior to that, she was the Investment Partner for M12 (formerly Microsoft Ventures) in Europe and before that she was the VP of Investments at Lepe Capital owned by the merchant bank Lepe Partners. Itxaso started her career in venture capital as an early-stage investor in EC1 Capital. Some of the most recent investments led by Itxaso include Onfido, Unbabel and Beamery. On the academic side, Itxaso is a Senior Teaching Fellow in Entrepreneurship at UCL School of Management. For the past nine years, Itxaso has taught entrepreneurship at UCL, Imperial College and the Royal College of Arts in London. She is passionate about helping entrepreneurs at universities building their businesses. Itxaso holds a prestigious Kauffman Fellowship and is very well connected to the global network of fellow investors. By background, Itxaso is an engineer and has a PhD in entrepreneurship and venture capital.

Fernando de Pablo Martín

General Secretary of Digital Administration

Ministry of Territorial Policy Spain

I have worked in private and public sectors (telecommunications, urban traffic control systems, pollution control systems, tax management, e-government, public administrations reform plans, Tourism sector, Digital Transformation, Cibersecurity) to achieve innovative organizations through governance, cooperation and intensive use of ICT. Specialties: e-Government, Digital Transformation, information systems, tax management, urban traffic control systems, pollution control systems, telecommunications, information society, innovation and public administration reform strategy, Tourism Innovation and technology.

Ainhoa Miren Campo

Global Head of Open Innovation

BBVA

Ainhoa Campo is an expert in the areas of Open Innovation, fintech and digital transformation. With almost 20 years experience in banking related fields as diverse as capital markets, M&A, lending and venture creation. She has been chasing new business models for BBVA. In the last years, she has been very focus on lending area for both individuals and SME. She is a great believer of new risk algorithms as a new paradigm for understanding companies. Now her passion is to make things happen between fintechs startups and BBVA. Ainhoa has an Economic and Business Degree at the University of the Basque Country. Lately, a DigitalEntrepreneurship Accelerator Program at MIT. She is currently Global Head of Open Innovation at BBVA. Her mission to connect and collaborate with the fintech ecosystem to bring amazing to the hands of the customers. By designing and implementing the strategies to reach out both part of the equation: BBVA and the external ecosystem (entrepreneurs, developers and the fintech ecosystem).

Francisco Velázquez de Cuellar

CEO & Managing Partner

Axon Partners Group

Francisco has more than twenty years of experience in venture capital, investment banking and strategic consulting, having worked in more than 30 countries, with reputable private clients, governments and investors across the globe. He founded Axon Partners Group in 2006 and it has become one of the largest Spanish advisory companies, with more than sixty employees, international offices, and a very extensive list of clients and international investors. Within the venture capital division, Axon manages more than two hundred million euros. In additional to his role at Axon, Francisco is a Board Member of numerous companies such as nxtGen, Captronic , O4IT, Mercadoni, Finizens and NicePeopleAtWork. Previously, he was an investor and Board Member of numerous successful companies, including Akamon, Wuaki.tv and JustEat. Francisco is a member of YPO (Young Presidents Organization) since 2012, and holds degrees in aerospace engineering and an MBA from the Universi

Jan Farrell

CEO & Founder

Liberalia

Jan combines his career as an elite athlete with the world of business. When he is not skiing, you will find him in his office as CEOof Liberalia, the mobile phone insurance company he founded at the age of 18in 2002 which currently employs 50 people in Spain. He is the marketing and communications manager for Speed Ski at theInternational Ski Federation (FIS) and runs Jan Farrell Media, a production company specialised in winter sports and which also follows Jan's passion for cars.Jan is an adjunctprofessor ofentrepreneurshipatthe Instituto de Empresa (IE) Business School, where he is a mentor forMBA students for theirstart-ups. As an angel investor he is building a portfolioof Artificial Intelligence hardware.His non-conformism leads to a passion for creativity and development. He brings his will to win and competitive spirit into his entrepreneurial activity.

Heather Spratt

Brand Director

BBVA

Born and schooled in Northern Ireland, read Modern Languages at Cambridge University and moved to Spain for love and have now been living here for 30 years. All of my career has been working in branding, in various specialized agencies and almost 20 years at BBVA. Great outdoor lover and keen tennis player (without much skill!). My current goal is to become a consistent meditator. Nací y fui al colegio en Irlanda del Norte, estudie filología en la Universidad de Cambridge. Vine a vivir en España por amor y aquí sigo casi 30 años más tarde. He trabajado en marca durante toda mi carrera, en agencias especializadas y durante casi 20 años en BBVA. Me encanta la naturaleza y jugar al tenis (con poco talento). Mi objetivo actual es llegar a meditar de forma constante.

Escolástico Sánchez

Executive Director

BBVA

Escolástico Sánchez is currently Leader of Research & Development Discipline in New Digital Business of BBVA. He is a Fundamental mathematician, with 2 master degrees and 2 US patent filed, that began working in the Financial Sector in 1998 after passing several exams to become an Inspector of the public body National Securities Exchange Commission (CNMV -Spanish equivalent to FCA in UK or SEC in the US) where he worked for 6 years, and has an integrated view of the financial sector, adding up the quantitative and realistic point of view of a portfolio manager (because of his background and after being an equity portfolio manager in the front-office of BBVA Asset Management during more than 5 years), of a risk budget officer (3 years) and the so important nowadays Legal and Compliance side of the industry (6 years).

Davide Dattoli

Founder and CEO

Talent Garden

Davide Dattoli is the Founder and CEO of Talent Garden SPA, Europe's leading platform for the digital tech business communities. Talent Garden’s network provides skills education, coworking spaces and various innovation projects and activities in 23 campuses across 8 countries. Today Talent Garden is counting 3.500 members, training 3.000 professionals, helping 150 big corporations to innovate and hosting over 40.000 attendees at events every year. Davide is a selected member of a global Endeavor Entrepreneurs movement. He holds Forbes 30 Under 30 list as one of the most influential person in technology in Europe 2019 and has a WIRED nomination as one of the TOP 5 innovators in Italy. Davide is also a board member of Be, the leading listed pan-European consulting and ICT provider for companies within the financial service sector and Digital Magics, which is the largest Italian venture incubator.

Ralf Weigand

Regional Sales Director Spain & Portugal

Tradeshift

Ralf is the Regional Sales Director of Tradeshift for Spain and Portugal, helping large companies in their digital transformation process to be more efficient and meet the latest market demands. He has more than 23 years of experience in the technology sector working in different companies such as Oracle, SAP, EMC and leading startups in the market such as Cramer and MACH. His work experience began in 1985 in the banking sector with a 3-year apprenticeship program for Commerzbank. Ralf studied International Business in Germany, Spain and England and speaks 5 languages.

Daniel Soriano

Director of the Entrepreneurship & Innovation Center

IE University

Director of the Entrepreneurship & Innovation Center and Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship, IE Business School. Professor and Mentor of Corporate Innovation Projects in Multinationals at Financial Times | IE Business School Corporate Learning Alliance. Additionally, he is member of an Investment Committee for a micro venture capital instrument at Caixa Capital Risc. He is trainer in Design Thinking and Lean Startup methodologies as well as Pitch Coach for start-ups for international investor forums.

Ian Noel

Squad Ventures

Ian Noel has been active in the Spanish VC industry for over 13 years. He was Portfolio Manager in VCs like Bonsai Venture Capital (and participated in exits like Softonic, Wuaki or Toprural) or Simbiosis Venture Capital, and has now started a 50 MM€ VC called K Fund along with Iñaki Arrola and Carina Szpilka. K Fund is a VC based in Madrid that aims to change how we do VC in Spain. It targets entrepreneurs with proven track record and global ambition that tackle business models like marketplaces, SaaS and Mobile in Seed and Series A.

Anne Ravanona

Founder and CEO

Global Invest Her

Anne Ravanona is Founder and CEO of Global Invest Her a platform that aims to demystify the funding process and get early-stage women entrepreneurs investor-ready. A passionate women’s advocate with over 22 years experience in global business, she spoke at TEDx on “Investing In Women Entrepreneurs” and is a regular speaker on the topic at conferences worldwide to raise awareness and help change unconscious bias to break the ‘Funding Ceiling’ for women entrepreneurs. An entrepreneur herself, Anne has been active in the global startup world for the past 5 years, including as a judge at pitch competitions, mentor at StartupWeekend, C-suite advisor at Astia and advisor to several tech startups. Anne contributes regularly to theHuffington Post, showcasing great women leaders through her Trailblazing Women series and was recently named one of 26 Great People Spearheading Change in Tech Investment 2016 and 100 Women in Tech whose names you need to know 2016 by Silicon Republic.

Sam Hui

Deputy Representative Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in Brussels

InvestHK

Mr Hui joined the Administrative Service of the Hong Kong Government in 1996 and is currently at the directorate rank of the Administrative Officer Grade. In September 2016 he took the position as the Deputy Representative of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in Brussels, which is the official representation of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government in the European Union, taking care of the bilateral relationship between Hong Kong and the European Union as well as that with a number of major EU Member States. His career has spanned a wide range of ministries and departments of the Hong Kong government, involving various duties. Before taking up his current position in Brussels, Mr Hui was responsible for implementing the new competition law in Hong Kong (2013-16), and was the Deputy Representative representing Hong Kong in the World Trade Organisation (2009-13).

Hussein Kanji

Analyst

Hoxton Ventures

Hussein is a founding partner of Hoxton Ventures, a London-based early stage European venture capital firm. He currently represents Hoxton on the boards of bd4travel, Darktrace and TourRadar. Hussein is an angel investor in Bea's of Bloomsbury, GoCardless, Halo Neuroscience, Popxo, Signpost and Yieldify. He is an advisor to Tarmin, and was previously an advisor to the chairman of Eros International (NYSE:EROS). He has occasionally assisted the UK government with technology policy. He regularly appears on BBC, Bloomberg, CNN and Sky News. Formerly, Hussein was an associate at Accel Partners, where he focused on consumer internet, financial technology and software investments. He helped invest in OpenGamma, Playfish (acquired by EA) and Dapper (acquired by Yahoo). Hussein joined Accel from Microsoft Corporation where he was a platform planner, product manager and senior manager. Hussein holds an MBA from London Business School, and did his undergraduate studies in Symbolic Systems at Stanford University.

Carlos Pierre

CEO & Founder

Badi

I get unreasonably passionate about things or ideas. Particularly passionate about reshaping the Real Estate Market.

Jorge Bistué

Head of Energy Management Office

Endesa

He is an industrial engineer trained at ETSEIB School (Barcelona) with a degree in Renewable Energies for UPC University His main objective is the development and commercialization of new product and services in order to help Endesa’s customers to optimize their energy use by implementing both efficiency and self-generation solutions. He is now focused in the development of Demand Response solutions and Energy Management Systems applications. Previously, he was been the Head of The Product definition in Strategic Product and Services, focused on B2B & B2G Solutions. He has led various internal innovation projects aimed at developing the integration of flexible resources into the grid, photovoltaic self-consumptions plants, smart-buildings, storage systems and the commercial application of Energy Management Systems for industrial installations.

Juliet Bailin

Associate Partner

Mosaic Ventures

Juliet is an Associate Partner at Mosaic Ventures, an early stage fund based in London investing in ambitious founders across Europe. At Mosaic, Juliet invests across sectors including healthtech, fintech, and machine intelligence (e.g. applied ML, ML ops, and dev ops). Prior to joining Mosaic, Juliet was an investor at Insight Venture Partners, a growth tech fund in New York, where she focused on healthtech. She invested in companies such as Hinge Health in MSK and Parachute Health in durable medical equipment, and worked closely with their employee wellness portfolio company, Virgin Pulse. Recently, she has been curious about adaptive therapeutics, feature engineering, computer vision applied to manufacturing, and customer support.

José María Siota

Director

IESE Business School

Leading cutting-edge research on open innovation, corporate venturing and technology transfer - working around the world with successful chief innovation officers and top-tier academics Some accomplishments: - Selected as expert on corporate venturing by the European Commission - Coauthored 30 studies for Harvard Business Review, MIT Technology Review, European Commission, Oliver Wyman, PwC, Mobile World Capital, London School of Economics, IESE, and more - Coauthored 4 books for McGraw-Hill and Springer (one was top 0.7% best seller at Amazon) - Earned 100+ media mentions in Forbes, Business Insider, MarketWatch, Yahoo Finance, Reuters, Expansión, etc. - Coauthored the second most-read article of IESE Insight (2019, 2018) and Oliver Wyman Insights (2017) - Coled 125+ research and strategy projects, working in 30+ countries during the last 12 years

Carmen del Campo Elvira

Head of Innovation

Mutua Mardrileña

Carmen holds a Bachelor in Law and Business from University of Navarra. She started her career in 2008 as strategic consultant for the Public Sector at Deloitte aiming to increase efficiency and improve citizen experience. In 2014 she joined the Center of Excellence for Cities at Ferrovial Services where she fostered and put in place the Innovative Solutions Portfolio with more than 300 startups involved yearly. In 2019 she joined Mutua Madrileña where she leads the Innovation Area looking for projects that support the Digital Transformation and the insurance evolution to new customer relationship models.

Juan José Güemes

President of the Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation

IE University

Juan Jose Güemes joined IE Business School in March 2010, as President of the Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation. He had previously served in a broad range of government departments, including tourism, finance and employment, gender policies, and health care. Güemes began his career as an analyst at the Bank of Spain in 1991, before serving as Economic Policy Adviser to Spain’s Popular Party in the Spanish Parliament from 1993 to 1996. He later served as advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, who appointed him Deputy Director of his Cabinet in 1998. In the year 2000 Juan Jose Guemes was appointed General Secretary of Tourism, being responsible for the international promotion of Spain as a tourist destination. In 2003, he was appointed as Minister for Employment and Diversity. He developed the LiderA program, designed to help women gain access to senior management positions in companies. In January 2012 he was appointed VP of Economic Affairs at IE.

Manuel Lorenzo Hernández

Head of Technology & Innovation

Ericcson

Manuel Lorenzo is B.Eng Telecommunications by Universidad Politécnica de Madrid with specialization in Computer Networks. Since 1994 he has developed his professional career in Ericsson in several technology and business fields. He holds 8 granted patents and has published a number of articles in both technical fields and innovation management practices. Since 2006 Manuel is Head of Technology & Innovation at Ericsson Spain, leading initiatives all along the journey from early R&D in cooperation with technical Universities and start-ups to Co-Innovation with lead customers, business and technology partners. His main focus of innovation, currently, is on the opportunities arising at the intersection of 5G with Industries Digitalization, and through the approach of ecosystem-based innovation. Manuel represents Ericsson in a number of fora focused on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, is member of 5GPPP Technology Board, and coordinates Ericsson’s collaboration in innovation with partner Universities and Busines

Jorge López Mazuelas

Head of OPENMARKET

BBVA

Responsable de la estrategia y soluciones digital de ámbito OpenMarket para pequeñas, medianas y grandes empresas en BBVA, gestionando equipos expertos con el objetivo de alcanzar el incremento de la base de Clientes. Liderazgo en la definición, el desarrollo y el lanzamiento de soluciones en plataformas digitales así como la búsqueda de nuevas soluciones que ayuden a nuestros Clientes en su transformación digital. Ingeniero Informático de ICAI, BSC(Hons) Computer Science en Gales, IT Executive Master (IE Business School) y Master en Mercados financieros internacionales (UNED), perfil inquieto siempre en búsqueda de nuevos retos que enriquezcan el conocimiento. Amplia experiencia de IT y Desarrollo de Negocio en diferentes posiciones dentro de BBVA, desde Responsable de Servicios Bancarios hasta el Desarrollo de Negocio de Comercio Internacional, desarrollando soluciones innovadoras con pensamiento disruptivo que cubran las necesidades de nuestros Clientes.

Alberto Durán López

Vicepresidente ejecutivo

Fundación ONCE

Alberto Duran has the Law degree from the University of Navarra (Pamplona , 1994), and a full time Master’s degree in Economics and Management (MBA) from the IESE Business School, UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA, Barcelona. He subsequently made a Senior Management Program from IESE (PADE 2008 Madrid); and also highlight his training in the Course of National Defense in the CESEDEN, Spanish High Center of Studies on National Defense. (XXXII CESEDEN promotion). He is currently 1st Vice President of Institutional Coordination, Solidarity and External Relations of ONCE´s General Council; 1st Executive Vice -President of ONCE Foundation, President of ILUNION (ONCE´s Social enterprises Group ONCE) and President of the ONCE Foundation for Latin America (FOAL). He is also 1st Vice President of the Spanish Association of Foundations, Secretary General of the Spanish Committee of Representatives of People with Disabilities (CERMI ) and President of the Club of Excellence in Management.

Darren Westlake

CEO & CoFounder

Crowdcube

Named by Debrett’s as one of Britain’s 500 most influential people, Darren Westlake is co-founder and CEO of Crowdcube, the pioneer and leader of the equity crowdfunding industry. Inspired by his own experiences as an entrepreneur raising finance, Darren’s idea for Crowdcube was driven by an ambition to democratise investment and diversify the sources of funding available to businesses. Since launching Crowdcube in 2011 with co-founder Luke Lang, Darren has helped establish Crowdcube as a mainstream funding option for ambitious startups and growth-stage businesses, such as Monzo, BrewDog, Mr & Mrs Smith and Freetrade. To date, well over 900 businesses have successfully raised £690 million with Crowdcube. Today, Darren is leading the company’s vision to create a world full of wonder brands that are fuelled by Crowdcube.

Ángel Bonet

President

UnLtd Spain

Sergio Pérez Merino

Director of Venture Capital

Banco Sabadell

Sergio Pérez is an Investment Manager at the Venture Capital division of Banco Sabadell. Sabadell Venture Capital , is Banco Sabadell´s initiative to provide equity to early stage across Spain with a focus on ICT with a philosophy focused on supporting entrepreneurs. Prior to joining Banco Sabadell, Sergio Perez worked at Caixa Capital Risc where he collaborated in the expansion and consolidation of the division from more than 10 years. Further to his investment experience, Sergio was part of the initial team of Southwing , a technology start-up in the field of Bluetooth devices. He previously worked at Vodafone as an Engineer in the Integrated Solutions department. Sergio holds a degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) and a Master in Corporate Finance law, Mergers and Acquisitions and Business Financing in ESADE

Meinrad Spenger

Founder

MasMovil

Tras concluir el MBA en España, siendo el número 1 de su promoción, trabajó como consultor en McKinsey, en Viena, desde 2001 a 2006, con proyectos en Austria, Alemania, Italia y España. En España vio clara la oportunidad de negocio para una compañía de telefonía móvil alternativa que hiciera frente a las operadoras existentes con precios más bajos y un mejor servicio. Así es como decidió poner en marcha en 2006 la compañía Grupo MÁSMÓVIL junto a su socio Christian Nyborg. Eligieron el amarillo como color identificativo de una marca diferente y reconocible. En marzo de 2012, la compañía empezó a cotizar en el Mercado Alternativo Bursátil (MAB). En 2014 se unieron a Ibercom y fueron comprando pequeñas compañías como Neo, Quantum Telecom, Xtra Telecom, Embou y la operadora YouMobile. Meses más tarde, en 2016, se hizo con Yoigo y Pepephone, lo que convierte a la operadora de Spenger en el Grupo MASMOVIL y en el cuarto operador de telefonía de España. Desde 14 de Julio 2017 el Grupo cotiza en bolsa.

Julio Martínez

CEO

InnoCells by Banco Sabadell

Julio is Executive Director at Innocells, the hub of new digital ventures of Banco Sabadell. As its Corporate Venturing arm, InnoCells focuses on venture building, strategic venture capital and digital strategy. During more than 2 years, he has worked at Sabadell’s strategy consulting team concentrating on digital strategy, transformation and innovation. Previously, Julio was a Vice-President at Citi with a focus on Corporate Development and Investment Banking. Julio is father of three children, and has lived and worked in the US, UK, Switzerland, Brazil and India.

Fabio Tentori

Head of Innovation Hubs and Startup Initiative

Enel

Since 2017 Fabio is the Head of Enel Innovation Hubs. He manages all collaborations with startups within Enel Group and the presence in innovation ecosystems worldwide: Silicon Valley, Boston, Israel, Italy, Spain, Russia, Chile and Brazil. Since joining Enel in 2013, he has gained relevant experience in the energy innovation domain, covering several roles in the development of the residential energy services business in Italy. . Prior to Enel, Fabio was an Engagement Manager within the strategy and corporate finance function of McKinsey & Company, based in Milan and in London. Fabio holds a MBA degree with honors achieved in 2010 at INSEAD.

Ignacio Bachiller

CEO

Fever

Ignacio Bachiller is CEO of Fever, the leading data-driven experience discovery platform. Fever owns the virally successful Secret London social media channel, which is part of the Secret Media Network. Fever inspires over 12 million people each week to discover new experiences in their city, and has also begun to successfully co-produce experiences called Fever Originals, in which it leverages insights from the marketplace to predict demand for new concepts. These experiences range from music to theatre, fashion, restaurants, festivals and everything in-between. Ignacio, who is half Spanish, half German, is an MIT mechanical engineering graduate, having also attended the University of Cambridge. After graduating, Ignacio worked at McKinsey as an analyst, before co-founding Fever, and then becoming CEO in 2015.

Diego Rubio

Executive Director

IE Center for the Governance of Change

Diego Rubio is an applied historian and policy analyst, and the Executive Director of the IE Center for the Governance of Change, a newly created institution that seeks to enhance our ability to understand, anticipate, and manage technological innovation and its externalities in a variety of domains –political, economic, and societal. Diego has worked as Lecturer and Junior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford and has advised a number of organizations, including the United Nations, the European Commission, and the Ibero-American General Secretariat. He is also a member of the World Economic Forum’s Fourth Sector Development Initiative and an associate researcher of the British Academy of Higher Education. Diego holds a PhD from the University of Oxford and has been visiting scholar at Paris-IV Sorbonne and Columbia University.

Carmen Alfonso Rico

Investor

Samaipata VC

Carmen is a Partner leading the UK investments at Samaipata VC, a pre-seed/seed stage fund investing in marketplaces and platforms, with offices in London, Madrid and Paris. Passionate about empowering early-stage entrepreneurs, she is a mentor at Techstars and Huckletree and co-chairs LMS (the largest community of marketplace founders in the UK). Firm believer that diversity leads to better business decisions, she is also a founding member of the Fairer Funding Now campaign and a mentor at Backstage Capital Accelerator. Carmen was previously an investor at Felix Capital - a Series A and B thematic VC focused on digital lifestyle - after years as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley, where she co-founded TEDxMorganStanleyLondon, the first TEDx Conference ever sponsored by an Investment Bank. Carmen is also the co-founder of an online fashion brand for pregnant women selling into the UK & US market and right after school she launched a crowdsourcing journalism marketplace.

Hiroki Takeuchi

CEO

GoCardless

Hiroki Takeuchi is a British Entrepreneur and CEO of GoCardless. Hiroki is an alumni of Oxford University where he received his MMATH in Mathematics. He was the Vice president of Oxford Entrepreneurs where he cofounded Varsity Pitch, which was a business ideas competition between Oxford and Cambridge's top business ideas for a 10k pounds prize fund. In 2011, Hiroki founded GoCardLess as a way to create a new, global payment network for the internet. The aim of the company is to simplify the process of collecting direct debit payments. The company is backed by Y Combinator, Balderton Capital, and Accel Partners.

Ricardo Mesquita

Head of Immersive Learning

IE University

Head of Immersive Learning @ ie.edu. Former CEO of thelabmiami.com, Ricardo is a co-founder of Beta-i and ambassador of the accelerator lisbon-challenge.com, mentor at Startup Chile (2014/2015), and co-author of the book The Soul of Business​, a roadmap for entrepreneurs looking to set up shop in Portugal. Surfer aficionado and scuba diver, he´s passionate about the wilderness, cooking, building stuff, architecture, photography, music and vespa scooters.

Luis Maldonado

IE Business School

He has developed his entire career in the fields of economics and finance, where he has held senior positions both in the public sector, he was advisor to the Minister of Finance in Spain, and in the private sector. He has an extensive experience in consulting, he was Director of Strategic Consulting for the Financial Sector at PwC in Spain, as well as in the financial industry. He has also a long international experience. He worked for five years at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), in Washington DC, where he held different positions, as advisor to the Managing Director and in the Monetary and Financial Markets Department. More recently, he has been Managing Director of the PwC-IE Business School Financial Sector Center, where he did an extensive work of publishing and business development in Spain and Latin America in key strategic areas for the financial sector, with a special focus on FinTech. He was also founding partner of an IT firm specialized in Big Data & Analytics.

Spyro Korsanos

Founder & Managing Partner

Global Venture Partners

An award-winning corporate advisor, investor and dealmaker, Spyro Korsanos is the founder and Managing Partner of Global Venture Partners. Global Venture Partners invests in the consumer internet sector and provides strategic advice and corporate finance for technology ventures. Since 2014, Spyro has led over 40 e-commerce transactions, valued at $2bn, which have created more than €1bn in capital gain. As a global development advisor, Spyro has been instrumental in the impressive growth of Delivery Hero, foodpanda and various Rocket Internet-backed businesses. Global Venture Partners has recently invested in Kurly, the Korean online grocer, and pet tech platform Felcana, based in the UK. Spyro was awarded TMT Rising Star in 2017. Previously, he held corporate strategy and investment roles with Sky, Liberty Global and Cable & Wireless. Spyro started his career as a corporate lawyer at Gilbert & Tobin and holds an MBA from INSEAD.

Ignacio de la Torre

Chief Economist

Spanish Investment Bank Arcano

Ignacio de la Torre is Partner and Chief Economist at the Spanish Investment Bank, Arcano Partners. Ignacio was amongst the first to foresee the turnaround of the Spanish economy from 2012 on, a thesis that was published in a series of reports titled “The Case for Spain”. Ignacio counts over twenty years of experience in diverse fields of investment banking at Arcano, UBS and Deutsche Bank within the departments of Capital Markets. Since 2003 he has been a Professor of Economics and Finance at IE Business School and since 2007, he is also the Academic Director of IE’s Masters in Finance. For the past decade, he has been a regular columnist for the Spanish newspaper, El Confidencial, and since 2019, for Expansión. Ignacio has published five books, as well as several academic papers (on the financial activities of the Templar Knights) and cases (with INSEAD and IE). In 2019 he won the Asprima-Sima award granted by the Spanish real estate sector, and in 2009, the Everis literary award.

Didac Lee

Galdana Ventures

Today I am CEO of Inspirit Adviser, an accelerator for startups that also participates in technology companies clear innovative profile and operating in different sectors : Spamina , Fhios , Openshopen , Alpify , Hotelerum , Zyncro , and Intercomgi Argentina . The group today has 400 employees , 80 % of whom are engineers, and we are in Barcelona , Madrid, Buenos Aires , Brazil, Mexico , China and Silicon Valley, where they compete against big industry . I am Scubastore founder in 1998 of the current source Tradeinn group , the largest network of online stores specializing in selling sports equipment. I am a board member of Tradeinn , with the following online stores : Diveinn.com , Trekkinn.com , Bikeinn.com , Smashinn.com , Motardinn.com , Waveinn.com , Runnerinn.com , Goalinn , Outletinn and Snowinn.com . With over 300,000 customers , Tradeinn sold in more than 220 countries and employs more than 100 workers .

Javier Leiva

DSO Expert in Network Technology

e-Distribution

Industrial Engineer since 2010 from the University of Malaga and Master of Science in Electrical Energy Systems since 2013 by the University of Seville with the Best Dissertation Award. Since 2014, studies an Interuniversity PhD in Power Systems at the Universities of Málaga, Seville, the Basque Country and Polytechnic of Catalonia. He joined Endesa in 2010, where he works as a DSO Expert in the Network Technology Unit. He has a strong background in electric mobility and DER integration, in addition to grid automation. He currently develops Project Management functions in innovative smart grid initiatives in Smartcity Málaga Living Lab. Here, network digitalization and flexibility are core objectives, thanks to projects like MONICA, PASTORA and H2020 Coordinet, performed in close collaboration with consortiums formed by startups, technology providers, universities, research centers and public administrations.

Ignacio Cea Forniés

Executive Manager for Strategy and Technological Innovation

Bankia

Ignacio Cea is an industrial engineer specialized in electricity. Currently he is the Executive Manager for Strategy and Technological Innovation in Bankia. Prior to joining Bankia, Ignacio was CIO for Spain at Barclays Bank and previously he was Transformation Director for Western Europe. He has also worked as an Associate Partner at IBM Global Business Services and as Banesto Director of Architecture and Channel Development Director of the American Division at Santander Group.

Alexandra Mitjans

Director

Ashoka

Alexandra leads Strategic Partnerships in Ashoka. She is creating a network of companies and individuals who can be agents of change through partnerships with Ashoka. She has a degree in Business Management from ESADE and the Singapore Management University. She has developed her professional career between the private and the social sector. She started working at the Spanish Embassy in Delhi, India, and later moved to Bangkok, Thailand, as Coca-Cola brand manager in several Southeast Asian countries. After three years, Alex moved to Madrid as head of Aquarius brand in Spain and Portugal. A year later, she jumped to the third sector, supporting the launch of The Wellbeing Project, an initiative led by Ashoka Fellow Aaron Pereira that seeks to support the personal wellbeing of social leaders. Alex is passionate about making the most of life outside of her comfort zone and believes that dreaming big is a must. Her philosophy: to maintain a body - mind - spirit connection.

Sebastián Fernández-Medrano

Principal

Samaipata

Sebastián is a Principal at Samaipata leading investment in Spain, Portugal and Italy (Southern Europe). Samaipata’s proud first employee and former entrepreneur in the sourdough bread world, after first experiences in law firms and consulting. Studied law, politics and business between the UK, Brazil and Spain.

Joaquín Arenas

President

Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BofAML)

Joaquín Arenas es Presidente de Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BofAML) para España y Portugal. Además, es responsable de banca corporativa y de inversión para esos mismos mercados. Desde su puesto, Arenas se encarga de liderar e impulsar la franquicia de Bank of America Merrill Lynch con clientes españoles y portugueses, así como de promocionar la marca y el negocio de la firma en estos mercados. Antes de incorporarse a BofAML, Joaquín Arenas trabajó más de 20 años en Morgan Stanley, entidad en la que ocupaba, desde 2007, el cargo de Consejero Delegado y responsable de banca de inversión para España y Portugal. Anteriormente, había trabajado en las áreas de fusiones y adquisiciones y mercado de capitales en esa misma entidad, a la que se unió en 1991. Arenas es licenciado en Derecho y en Dirección y Administración de Empresas por la Universidad Pontificia de Comillas – ICADE (E-1) y MBA (“Master in Business Administration”) por la Universidad de Columbia en Nueva York.

Pablo Torralba

CEO

Edmond de Rothschild Spain

Bachelor of Science in Business University Center C.E.U, Pablo has appointed recently new CEO of Edmond de Rothschild in Spain, Pablo has been Deputy CEO of the branch since 2010. He began his professional career in 1998 in Morgan Stanley Dean Witter in the wealth management department and joined Edmond de Rothschild group in 2001 as senior banker.

Manuel Lencero

CEO and Co-Founder

UnLtd Spain

Karolina Korth

Chief Digital Officer and Head of Strategy

Siemens Mobility

Karolina Korth is a trained psychologist with passion for innovation and has over 10 years of experience in transformation in multinationals. She has a wealth of experience in corporate innovation and business development in healthcare and smart cities. Currently, she works as a Chief Digital Officer and Head of Strategy at Siemens Mobility in Spain where she defines and implements digital offerings on the cutting edge of mobility. Karolina is also a founder of Health 2.0 Kuala Lumpur and the FeMale Voice of Mobility – movement to empower women in male dominated industries. She speaks regularly at conferences targeting digital transformation and gives lectures at business schools and universities.

Glyn Baker

Venture Parnerships

Visa

An experienced and motivated executive with focus on sales, multi-channel marketing and proposition development. A track record of high performance in the execution of growth strategies and the delivery of innovative solutions based on an entrepreneurial but financially pragmatic approach across a spectrum of business challenges.

Natalia Martos Díaz

Founder & CEO

Legal Army

Natalia Martos is Founder & CEO at Legal Army, the first Spanish NewLaw. Natalia is currently leading the first NewLaw company in Spain, using Legaltech and exponential technologies for disrupting the legal services. Before founding Legal Army, she was partner at Andersen Tax & Legal and counsel at Pérez-Llorca. She was Digital General Counsel and Chief Privacy Officer of PRISA Group worldwide. Martos was also General Counsel & Chief Privacy Officer at Tuenti Technologies until its sale to Telefónica. Martos is listed in Best Lawyers 2018 at Technology Law category. She was included in The Legal500 General Counsel Powerlist for Iberia 2016 as one of the 70 best in-house Legal Directors in Spain. She was awarded with the Civil Merit Cross of Ministerio del Interior of Spain in 2011 for her collaboration in the protection of citizens privacy (Cybercrimes). Natalia has a master degree in Telecommunications Law and she is recently graduated by Singularity University.

Lupina Iturriaga

Founder and CEO

Fintonic

Previously listed as among the 500 most influential people in Spain, and among the 100 Most Creative people in Business by Forbes, Lupina is founder & CEO of Fintonic, a mobile-centric consumer banking platform that provides its users with insurance, targeted loans and helps them to have their finance under control and save. Experience: In banking, fintech and consulting sectors (Crédit Agricole, Banesto, Ideon) Second time entrepreneur.

Laura Tordera

Head of R&D

Ferrovial Agroman

I am a MSc Civil Engineer (Madrid Polytechnic University, UPM), specialized in Energy and Hydraulic areas. I have been also developing my knowledge through executive education programs at EOI (School of Industrial Organization) and IE (Instituto de Empresa) & Financial Times. I held the office of Secretary General of the European Network of Construction Companies for Research and Development (ENCORD) for 7 years (2012-2019). And I am currently starting my new role in the ECTP (European Technology Platform) as a member of the Steering Committee. I also expend my time as a member of the Executive Committee of the Spanish Civil Engineering Association and President of the Ethic and Transparency Committee. I am also a Professor of the Innovation Programmes at the Ferrovial University. I am the person in charge of new technologies, new materials, Big Data, data analytics, Innovation Programmes, R&D transport projects, Innovation Strategy at Ferrovial Agroman.

Christian Prada

Managing Director

Desafia San Francisco

Day in and day out Christian works with startups and entrepreneurs. Having worked for American and European hi-tech ventures for the past 15+ years, he has a deep understanding of Silicon Valley's Ecosystem and what it takes for a Spanish startup to be successful in this environment.

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.

Nicolás Rubio

Operations Director

Cintra

Nicolás Rubio is a Civil Engineer and joined Ferrovial in 1987. He has served as CEO of Cintra US since July 2009 and is currently the Operations Director of Cintra. Nicolás has more than two decades of experience as an executive in the construction and transport sector. In 2010 Nicolás Rubio was awarded the recognition of Entrepreneur of the Year by the American Association of Road and Transportation Builders.

Jesús Hernández Galán

Director of Universal Accessibility and Company Strategy

ONCE Foundation

Doctor of Forestry, Master in Business Management and Master in Environmental Management from the Open University. In addition, PDG by IESE, Leading Innovation from Stanford University and Global Management Certificate from the Thunderbird Global Management School. Currently, Director of Universal Accessibility and Company Strategy at ONCE Foundation, he has been the General Manager and CEO of Fundosa Accesibilidad S.A. from 2000 to 2003. He is also President of the eVIA Technology Platform and Vice President of the European Network for Accessible Tourism ENAT. He is also Chairman of the Technical Committee for Standardization AEN / CTN 170 - Universal Accessibility and Design for All of AENOR. He is Director of the Master of Accessibility and Design for All of the University of Jaén, Director of Master in Social Economy of the EOI and Director of the Universal Accessibility Course of the Official College of Architects Madrid and the Polytechnic University of Madrid.

Eyal Malinger

Investment Director

Beringea

I am a venture investor with Beringea, a UK and US based VC fund. We invest in fast-growing companies and will typically invest in Series A, B or C rounds. The companies we invest in will typically be generating at least £1m of run-rate revenues and will be looking for a £2-10m investment to grow R&D, sales and marketing or to expand into new geographies. I am particularly interested in: 1. Property and Real Estate related technology 2. B2B SaaS 3. VR and AR 4. Blockchain technology 5. Music related technology

Marion Chalumeau

Head of Digital & Innovation and part of the leadership Team

Novartis Oncology

Head of Digital & Innovation and part of the leadership Team at Novartis Oncology in Spain. Marion has more than 10 years of experience in strategic consulting in Pharma and 10 years working in biotech and Pharma companies. She is now leading the digital transformation Novartis has embarked upon to improve the way the Company uses data, engages with patients, doctors and other stakeholders and provides solutions to address the evolving needs of patients.

Parker Crockford

Director of Strategic Accounts and Policy

Onfido

Parker Crockford is Director of Strategic Accounts and Policy at Onfido. He is responsible for creating strategic alliances with key customers and advancing the new identity standard for the internet through policy analysis, coalition building, and community engagement. Parker has over 15 years’ experience in technology, finance and commerce, driving market adoption of technology that helps create a more meaningful, secure experience in a mobile first world. Parker was named a Top 2019 Influencer in Identity by One World Identity (OWI), is a founder member of the Better Identity Coalition and is a board member of the FIDO Alliance.

Isaac de la Peña

General Partner

Conexo Ventures

Isaac is a general Partner at Conexo Ventures, providing a direct growth path to Silicon Valley for Spanish and Portuguese talent. Conexo VC invest in exceptional individuals with passion for solving hard challenges and bringing disruptive innovation to high growth markets. Mr. de la Peña is a creative self-starter with more than 20 years of experience building successful scalable technology businesses both as executive and investor. I get things done. Specialties include: Innovation, P&L Management, Early Stage Ventures, Start-Ups, Venture Capital, Finance, Due Diligence, Negotiation, Data Science, Business Intelligence, Big Data, Program Management, Software Engineering, Agile Development, Mobile, Cloud, Python, Ruby on Rails, PHP, .NET, Java, Android, iOS.

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.

Tamaz Georgadze

Co Founder & CEO

Raisin

Tamaz is the co-founder and CEO of Raisin, the first and only European marketplace for deposit-insured savings products. As CEO he leads Raisin and takes in particular care of partner bank acquisition, business development, legal and regional expansion efforts. With 29 banks, the platform is the largest one-stop shop B2C solution for simple and secure savings products. Tamaz is a non-exec supervisor board member of Bank of Georgia Holdings PLC, UK holding company of the largest bank in Georgia, listed part of FTSE250 index. Prior to building and scaling Raisin, Tamaz has spent 10 years with McKinsey & Company, the last 3 years as Principal leading also McKinsey Savings and Investment products Service Line for EMEA countries. He served some of the very largest retail, universal and wholesale banks throughout Europe and in Asia. Core areas of expertise were performance management/ organization, deposit gathering, direct banking, branch transformation, SME strategy and regulation. Tamaz holds a PhD in agric

Antoinia Norman

CEO

Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship (Virgin UA) - South Africa

Harnessing the Virgin and Branson brand in the forefront of entrepreneurial enablement in South Africa, Antoinia has championed the message of changing business for good, and linking commercial to cause with the advocacy that entrepreneurship is a key driver on a global scale as an enabler to mitigate some of society’s issues like unemployment, poverty and economic instability. In addition to being the executive lead of Sir Richard Branson and the Virgin Group Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship South Africa, Antoinia is an agent for change entrepreneur and founder of Businesspros, a disruptive management consultancy that advocates a holacracy approach to management, whose vision is to build people for a lifetime whilst using disruptive initiatives to develop entrepreneur ecosystems globally. Antoinia’s background includes taking the lead on strategic work in building people and business whilst holding executive roles in Corporate Companies both in South Africa and Internationally.

Alberto Tornero Suárez

Director of High Growth Potential Companies Area

PWC

Alberto is currently Director of Business Area High Potential PwC function that combines with his work in the area of ​​Intellectual Property Assets Intangiblesy PwC. He has over 14 years experience in digital transformation processes, electronic commerce, technology procurement, software, privacy and content, advising large companies, institutions, public administrations and companies with high potential in these areas. MBA from ESADE and PDD by IESE, Alberto has a degree in Law and Master in Technology Law by ICADE. He is also a speaker and professor at several institutions (Instituto de Empresa, ESADE, ICADE, EOI), and author of several publications. In the past, he has been Director of Legal and HR companies in the industrial sector and ICTs. Currently, he is developing the area of ​​high potential firms PwC, PwC Spain strategic initiative, which aims to identify high-potential companies in any of its phases and accompany them in their growth.

Ciro Acedo Boria

Head of Open Innovation Ecosystem

Ferrovial

Currently boosting, improving and making stronger the ecosystem of innovation partners (start- ups, large corporations, VCs, accelerators, government agencies, etc.) at Ferrovial. Promoting and energizing the innovation process with an Open Innovation strategy, while ensuring the fit of new ideas with the priorities of the company. I also have experience as entrepreneur, being co-founder of www.waash.green. Recently become investor and advisory board member at http://www.theoxriders.com/. I hold a MSc Degree in Telecommunication Engineering from the Universidad de Sevilla, and an Executive MBA, with a concentration in Entrepreneurship, from the IE Business School.

Alonso Aznar

Head of Iberia & Mexico

Afiniti

lonso Aznar is the General Manager of Iberia and Mexico for Afiniti. In this role Alonso is responsible for driving growth, managing clients relationships and leading Afiniti teams, operations and strategy in these regions. Prior to joining Afiniti, Alonso was a senior associate at Rhône Capital, a leading global private equity firm investing in businesses with pan-European and trans-Atlantic presence, with $6+ billion of equity invested, based in London and New York. Alonso was previously with the investment banking division of Citigroup in London. Alonso holds a Bachelor degree in business administration with a specialty in finance from CUNEF University in Madrid.

Jaime Biel

Investment Director

Faraday Venture Partners

Xavier Capellades

CEO

Nomo Banking

Digital senior business executive with wide experience in innovation, digital transformation and launching new products and new business in big corporations & start-ups leading high performing teams. More than 15 years’ experience in identifying new business opportunities, from strategy to build and scale new digital products with a global and customer centric mindset. Advisor and private investor of early stage startups, with wide knowledge of the entrepreneurship's ecosystem, venture capital and corporate venturing. Board Member at Barcelona Tech City, Member of the Advisory Board at mVenturesBCN (Mobile World Capital), Member of Barcelona Global and Mentor at StartupBootCamp Internet of Things & Data Professor of "Digital Business Models" (Digital Business Global Master) at Zigurat Innovation Business School and Professor of "Innovation & Intellectual Property" (Innovation Management Master) at UOC

Oriol Juncosa

Co-Founder

Encomeda & White Peak Partners

Oriol Juncosa is a technology investor and advisor. He is Managing Partner at Encomenda Smart Capital, an early seed capital superangel fund, as well as a strategic and financial advisor to leading growth stage technology companies in Spain and in the UK. Over the last 18 months he has helped companies strategically and financially, so that they could raise over $50m. He has also invested in over 10 companies, both as a business angel and as a venture capital investor across SaaS, eLearning, marketplaces,…. Oriol was interim CFO of Carto, a leading SaaS location intelligence software company based in Madrid and New York from 2014-16. Prior to it, Oriol was Investment Director at Nauta Capital, the largest VC in Southern Europe with more than $200m AUM. Previously, he worked in London for 8 years, where he worked for Merrill Lynch and BNP Paribas in Investment Banking and in Principal Investments. Oriol holds a BBA from ESADE and an MBA in Entrepreneurship, Strategy and Finance from London Business School.

Pedro Fernández

Partner

Pérez-Llorca

Pedro Fernández is partner at Pérez-Llorca, voted by Chambers Europe Awards 2017 as the “Spain Law Firm of the Year”. He is also the director of the Master of Corporate Finance & Law at ESADE and professor of law in the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He also lectures in different master courses and at various institutions, such as the Madrid Bar Association and ICADE. He also advises many companies and has ample experience in capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, corporate law, corporate contracts and privatization processes. Pedro Fernández is one of the most renowned lawyers in the Venture Capital & Start-up sector in Spain. He began advising venture capital funds and start-ups over ten years ago on re-domestication processes, investment rounds and on general matters relating to the technology sector. He advises the majority of the players in the Spanish market and has extensive experience working with the US market (particularly in Silicon Valley, Miami and NY).

Adrián García-Aranyos

President

Endeavor

Adrián García-Aranyos is the President of Endeavor Global, a non-for-profit focused on scaling high-impact entrepreneurs. Prior to that role he was the Founding Managing Director at Endeavor Spain; Vice President of Media Relations for Latin America at J.P. Morgan Chase & Co; Americas Marketing Director and Latin America co-head for The Economist Newspaper Group; Foreign Trade Manager at the Spain-US Chamber of Commerce; and Foreign Exchange and Money Markets Broker at CM Capital Markets in Madrid. Since 2004, Mr. Garcia-Aranyos serves as board member at Thune Eureka, an industrial engineering firm specializing in capital goods and focused on deep-sea oil drilling components, paper industry parts and defense mechanisms. He obtained his BA in Political Science from Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2000); Banking and Finance Certificate at IEB - Madrid (2001); Masters in Trade & Commerce at CECO - Madrid (2003-04); Marketing Certificate at Kellogg - Chicago (2010); SEP at IESE - NY/Miami (2013-14)

Bernardo Hernández

Venture Partner

e.Ventures

Mr. Bernardo Hernández serves as Vice President of product management at Yahoo. He serves as Chief Executive Officer at Flickr. Mr. Hernández serves as Managing Director at Zagat. He is the Founder and President of StepOne. Through StepOne, he launched the first computer science talent exchange program between Spain and Silicon Valley, Jóvenes con Futuro. Mr. Hernández served as an Advisor at Google Ventures. He served as a Director of Product Management at Google Inc. He joined Google in 2005. He worked at Google for eight years. He served as the Global Director of Emerging Markets and Director of Product Management at Google Inc. He is a Spanish Tech Entrepreneur and business angel and co-founded Idealista.com, Tuenti Technologies S. L., 11870.com Informacion En General S.L., and FloresFrescas.com. He was an early investor in Tuenti, where he served as President of the Board until 2010. Mr. Hernández has a Master’s in Finance from Boston College and graduated from ICADE, Pontifical University of Comillas.

Natalia Bayona

Senior Expert on Innovation and Digital Transformation

UNWTO

Natalia Bayona is the leader of the Innovation and Digital Transformation Strategy of the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO). Natalia Bayona holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Government and International Relations from the Universidad Externado de Colombia and an Executive MBA from IE Business School. She is part of the World Economic Forum network as a European Digital Leader for IE Business School. In 2017, she served as the Vice President of International Development for the Spain Startup - South Summit. Natalia organized the first South Summit Pacific Alliance, connecting the main stakeholders of the entrepreneurship ecosystem of Colombia, Chile, Mexico and Peru. In 2016, she began her ten year tenure in ProColombia, during which she has lived in six countries where she has developed strategies that boost export, foreign investment and tourism for Colombia.

Julio Casal

Founder Alien Vault & 4iQ

4iQ

An expert in IT security, Julio has been on the front lines of the cyberwar for more than 15 years. He guided the development of OSSIM, which has become the most broadly deployed SIEM in the world. In 2007 Julio established AlienVault, and led the company as its CEO with Adara’s backing, towards international growth and establishment in Silicon Valley. AlienVault has since brought on a new management team, led by Barmak Meftah, and raised over $ 60 million in additional funding from investors such as Trident Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Intel Capital, GGV Capital, and Sigma, in addition to Adara. Julio has a BS in Physics from Complutense University of Madrid. He is widely recognized as a leading expert on security management and regularly presents on the topic in both commercial and government forums around the world.

Gonzalo Tradacete Gallart

CEO & Co-Founder

Faraday Venture Partners

Gonzalo Tradacete co-founded Faraday Venture Partners, a private investors club in technological startups. Faraday analyses and presents to its Partners a selection of what it considers the best investment opportunities, manages the investment process and negotiations on behalf of its Partners and represents their interests in their invested companies. Faraday represents today 192 Partners having invested over 10 million Euros in 23 startups. Previously, Gonzalo worked in KPMG’s M&A department, in a London based Hedge Fund / Private Equity, as technology consultant for alternative investment funds an as alternative investment companies’ auditor in PricewaterhouseCoopers Ltd. Gonzalo is a Chartered Financial Analyst charterholder, Master in Business Entrepreneurship by the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, MSc in International Finance by the Westminster University and holds a Licence in Economic Sciences by the Université Libre de Bruxelles.

Brian Farrell

Executive Creative Director

BBVA

Brian Farrell is the Executive Creative Director at BBVA where he is responsible for the strategy, development, design and execution of creative ideas across BBVA's global network. He leads the Payments design team, a multi-disciplinary group that is innovating and testing new experiences and technologies to make the payment journey seamless, user-centric and in some cases invisible. He was the creative lead on the 2019 global redesign of BBVA.

Rodrigo Mallo Leiva

Program Director

SOSV

Rodrigo is Partner & Program Director at SOSV, where he leads the European early-stage life sciences investment team, focused on the intersection of biology and engineering. He's passionate about how founders can engineer science to solve most of the world's biggest challenges. He sits on the boards of Algiknit, Visusnano,and Chronomics, and serves as a mentor for The Founder Institute, Techstars, and Startup Chile. Before his venture career, Rodrigo founded four LatAm companies in the food, gaming, and digital advertising industries. He is a regular speaker at Slush, Vivatech, Dublin Tech Summit, and Biofabricate, among others, and is an Ambassador for the MIT Technology Review in Europe. Rodrigo is a Kauffman Fellow.

Leonard Boord

Co-Founder

IntoTheBlock

Serial technology entrepreneur having started companies during multiple technology waves like the PC, the WWW, and now Blockchain. Co-Founder of Tokenmatch, Tokenizo and LydiansCapital, several board memberships and trustee of Florida International University, the 5th largest university in the US.

Javier Torremocha

Founding Partner

Kibo Ventures

Javier is a Founding Partner at Kibo Ventures, a Madrid-based early-stage VC with €120M in AuM. Javier serves on the board of companies like JobandTalent, Flywire, Captio, iContainers, Iguama or Odilo. Previous experience includes other Venture capital initiatives (Netjuice Capital, Social Leverage and business angel), investment banking (Lehman Brothers) and wealth management (UBS). Javier started investing in digital startups back in 1999. Javier has a dual degree in Law & Business Administration from ICADE University, an MBA from INSEAD and a degree in leadership & international politics from the University of California at San Diego.

Rosa Jiménez Cano

Chief Ecosystem Relations 

The Venture City

Rosa Jiménez Cano runs Ecosystem Relations at TheVentureCity, a VC fund and Tech Accelerator. Prior to this she was the Silicon Valley Correspondent for El País, where she is still a contributor. Rosa covers technology, business and cultural subjects.

Paula Pastor Castaño

Legal & Operations Manager

Point Nine Capital

Ernest Sánchez

Managing Partner

Nekko VC

GP and co-founder of Nekko Capital, a Venture Capital firm aimed at investing in scalable early-stage companies (series A/B mainly) led by outstanding teams focused on traditional sectors (e.g. Real Estate, Insurance, Banking, Mobility, Travel) where digitization remains incomplete (supply chain, consumer interactions, transactions…) Nekko investments are scouted and managed from 3 hubs (Barcelona, London, Paris). Senior Entrepreneur and Investor with 15 years’ experience in running startups and funds globally. Ernest has been board director of companies such as Glovo, Zapper and Shoppiday. Former Partner for EU @Entrée Capital, a London-Tel Aviv based fund with 50+ investments and 7 exits including IPO’s. BA in Business Administration and AvMP for Stanford and VC/PE for HBS.

Carlos Silva

Co-founder

Seedrs

Carlos is a co-founder of Seedrs, the leading equity crowdfunding platform in Europe, and Entrepreneur-in-Residency at Faber Ventures, as well as Innovation Lead at Accenture. He is a founding member of Beta-I, a Portuguese non-profit to promote entrepreneurship and innovation and a mentor at several acceleration programmes (Seedcamp, Lisbon Challenge, Founder Institute, etc.). Carlos also serves as an advisor and board member at multiple innovative start-ups. He has been distinguished with a Young Gun award in the UK, for the most promising individuals under 35, and has been distinguished as one of Portugal's 40 under 40. Carlos holds a Computer Engineering degree from Instituto Superior Técnico and an MBA from the University of Oxford.

Tomás Coca Stefaniak

Head of Project Selection & Evaluation Entrepreneurs Fund

Fundación Repsol 

Chemical Engineer from the University of Nottingham (UK), is the Responsible for the Selection and Evaluation process in the Fundación Repsol Entrepreneurs Fund, managing the process from the beginning of the selection to the start of the acceleration of the start-ups, where he participates as Coordinator since 2013, helping in the technical and economic development of the start-ups and promoting their growth and success. He has multidisciplinary experience in several companies managing projects and teams in different sectors such as water treatment, CO2 capture, refining and other processes.

Pablo Moro Casquete

Head of New Business

Telefónica Innovation Ventures

Pablo Moro is Head of New Business at Telefónica Innovation Ventures, corporate venture vehicle of Telefónica for scouting, investing and fostering strategic partnerships with startups in key markets for Telefónica. Currently, the portfolio of Telefónica Innovation Ventures is formed by 25 startups invested directly and more than 80 through a network of 9 Venture Capital Funds. Prior to that, he was Head of Innovation at Mutua Madrileña, responsible for defining and launching new products and services to the market. Mutua Madrileña is the 2nd largest non-life insurance Group in Spain, with 5+ Bn€ premiums. He was also member of the Board of Directors of Antai Venture Builder (1st Spanish Venture Builder with a portfolio of leading companies like Wallapop, Glovo among others…). Before, Pablo worked in Wayra for 4 years managing the portfolio of startups and strategic partnerships between them and Telefónica. Pablo started his career in Telefónica playing several positions related with product manageme

Suzanna Chiu

Head of Amadeus Ventures

Amadeus IT Group

Suzanna is the Head of Amadeus Ventures, the start-up investment program of Amadeus. Amadeus Ventures focuses on finding early stage start-ups sitting at the crossroad of technology and travel and provides them with funding, customer reach and industry expertise. She has successfully expanded the program from its infancy into an integral part of the business, driving strategic values both for the corporation and the portfolio companies. Suzanna came from the investment banking industry, worked in Corporate Finance / M&A advisory based out of London and Hong Kong before joining Amadeus. She also has prior experience in consulting. Suzanna holds an MBA degree from London Business School and likes travelling and photography.

Pedro Castillo

Founder & CTO

Devo

Pedro Castillo brings more than 15 years of experience in the IT sector to Devo. As CTO of one of the most innovative financial institutions in Spain, Pedro saw an opportunity to unify access to data for companies of any size and sector - and founded Logtrust, now Devo.

Javier Lázaro

Director of Digital Hub

Ferrovial

After more than 20 years working with Business and Technology; Javier is Director of Ferrovial’s DH. DH generates efficiency in current businesses and explores new business opportunities through the use of data, emerging technologies and user experience. Platforms such as Ferrovial’s Mobility Datalake and ventures such as Wondo are examples of the variety of products delivered by DH.

Harrie Vollaard

Head of Rabo Frontier Ventures

Rabobank

Harrie Vollaard is head of Rabo Frontier Ventures. Harrie has a tremendous background in innovation at Rabobank as he spurred innovation in his role as Innovation Manager and later as Head of Innovation. He co-founded WeHelpen which is a marketplace for informal care and Fundipal; a crowdfunding comparison site. In his current role as Head of Rabo Frontier Ventures Harrie established several partnerships with startups, manages the Fintech (e.g. we.trade, Facturis) and Agtech investments (e.g. JoinData, ProducePay) for the Rabobank, is involved in Fintech accelerator programs around the globe and created several spinoffs (e.g. Peaks, Tellow).

Unai Franco

Co-Founding Partner

White Peak Partners

Unai Franco is an advisor to and investor in technology companies, as co-founding partner of Whitepeak Partners. He specialises in Business Planning, Growth strategy, International expansion and Financial Management and Fundraising and is currently advising prominent software and marketplace players in enterprise and consumer sectors, among others. He is a former Investment Banker with 10 years of experience, primarily with small caps at Merrill Lynch in London. He holds an MBA from London Business School and a Masters in Engineering (Electronics & Automation) with five years of professional experience in R&D at Daimler in Germany. He speaks English, German, Italian and Spanish.

Ismael Valero

Project Manager

Lanzadera

He holds a Bachelor in Business Administration and Management from the Polytechnic University of Valencia and a MBA Junior by EDEM Business School. He has served as specialist in the Treasury and Capital Markets in financial institutions, as well as Investment Analyst in the Group Atitlan. As Project Manager, he brings to the “Programa Lanzadera” his experience in analysis and execution of opportunities and business modeling.

Laura González-Estéfani

Founder & CEO

The Venture City

Founder and Ceo of TheVentureCity, a new business and growth model that helps diverse founders achieve global impact. Prior to TheVentureCity, Laura has spent 8+ years at Facebook leading the international growth and business development. She was in charge of opening the way for Facebook in Spain when it was still a startup and became its first executive in southern Europe. Held different positions in Silicon Valley and Miami.  She has also spearheaded strategic initiatives such as the first Internet.org project in Latin America to connect Cuba to the rest of the world. In addition, she worked at eBay, Siemens and Ogilvy Group. She is co-founder of esplaya.com, the first digital platform for beach tourism in Spain. She is an active advocate for Woman in Tech, a mentor at Babson College WINLab. Entrepreneurs), mentor of Stanford's Latino Entrepreneurship Leadership Initiative, and board member, mentor and panelist at Endeavor. González-Estéfani has recently been appointed as member of the European Innovation

Patricia de Loro

Chief Product Officer

The Venture City

Previous to joining TheVentureCity Patricia was Digital Transformation Director at Vodafone Spain leading and executing the multi-year transformation plan across the whole company not only from the business point of view but also from the cultural and talent. Previous to that she was responsible for all the digital and social channels: ecommerce, self-service, mobile apps and social care.  Before Vodafone she was Head of Verticals Strategy and Product Management at eBay, driving strategic projects across the globe from London and San Francisco offices. After working in Consulting in a number of industries, she has a broad experience leading international teams and projects across multiple disciplines (technical, marketing and commercial)  On top of this, Patricia is also an Angel Investor, an Advisor for a number of startups and a Teacher in 2 of the most renowned digital schools in Madrid.

Andy Areitio

Investment Director

The Venture City

Andy has more than 10 years of experience in technology entrepreneurship, finance and strategy in Europe and Asia. He has founded and built two startups, one of which through venture capital. Previously, he had held various roles in strategic advice at Monitor / Deloitte and project finance at Abengoa. Before entering TheVentureCity, Andy graduated in business administration and management from INSEAD, with a grant from the Ramón Areces Foundation. During the race he specialized in data science, capital-irrigation, establishing a relationship with the main technological ecosystems of the world. After all these experiences have allowed him to develop a network of entrepreneurship, skills for finance and an undeniable experience in technology and operations.

Mercedes Storch

Head Of International Relations 

AXIS Participaciones Empresariales SGEIC SA

With more than 15 years linked to ICO/AXIS in different departments and a global point of view of ICO as development bank. Currently and for the last two years linked to AXIS as head of international relations promoting the venture capital in its activity as investor abroad. Previously in capital markets linked to the structuration of ICO´s first social bond as well as Councinl of Europe Development Bank´s first social bond during a secondment. Personally convinced that future will be only possible with a sustainable approach.

Katrina Logie

Public Relations and Public figure

Katrina Logie raised in London and now living in Barcelona. Katrina promotes people and projects through content creation on and off line, connecting them to their audience and communities particularly focused on innovation, future of, positive impact and technology. Katrina span her career in London working for Bain & Company management consultants, retail and a healthy food start up called Leon as well as private clients promoting projects through PR and events. You can find her interviewing startups on her podcast People on the grid or live on stage. www.katrinalogie.com

Pepe Borrel

Managing Director

CrowdCube

Crowdcube makes equity investments easy and rewarding for anyone, anywhere. Since 2011 we've helped +800 businesses to raise over 500M€. Key responsibilities include managing Barcelona team and office, adapting our value proposition for non-UK customers, representing Crowdcube in front of local institutions, regulators, partners and media, and spending time with startup founders and C-Level Executives raising over 1M€.

Nicolas Iordanov

Principal

Iris Capital

Nicolas joined Iris Capital in 2017 as Principal, responsible for late-stage investments in France and in Europe, with a key expertise in Software and B2C services. Before joining Iris Capital, Nicolas was Principal at the Digital Venture Fund of Bpifrance, the French state-owned investment bank, which he joined in 2013. There he invested mainly in French venture and growth stage companies with strong international traction. While at Bpifrance, he backed companies such as Synthesio, Launchmetrics, S4M, Teads, Netatmo, Meilleurs Agents and Evaneos. Previously, he has been an Associate for 4 years at Seventure Partners where he was focused on early stage investments in France and Germany. Nicolas holds an Engineering degree from Ecole Centrale Lyon (France) and a specialization in Finance at EM Lyon Business School (France).

Ricardo Sequerra

Partner

Point Nine Capital

Backing Europe's most ambitious founders at Point Nine Capital Previously Ricardo joined Cherry Ventures as a Senior Associate. He spent several years gaining experience as an operator as well as working closely with founders in the roles he held at Faber Ventures, Seedrs and Seedcamp. Born in Lisbon, he speaks five languages and has lived in Portugal, Argentina, Spain, the UK and now Germany. He studied Economics in Lisbon and holds an MSc. in Innovation & Entrepreneurship from ESADE Business School. Ricardo is especially passionate about businesses building competitive advantages through data and addictive products able to change people’s habits.

Borja Aranguren

CEO

Cobee

Borja has a masters degree in Industrial Engineering. His background as engineer started in Germany working for the automotive sector. After that he decided to move to the business side and started working as strategy consultant at McKinsey&Company. Once he worked with many different companies and sectors for over two years, he decides to move to the startup world, entering the (now) successful startup Ontruck when it was still maturing. There, he took the position of Head of Sales and Strategy and by mid 2018, with an strong idea and vision behind, he finally decided to launch his own venture: Cobee

Ion Cuervas-Mons

CEO

Wondo - Ferrovial

Ion is Business Designer, Architect and Entrepreneur. He is CEO and founder of Muno, a BBVA insurtech company that provides community based insurance products to protect freelancers (www.somosmuno.com). In his previous role at BBVA, he designed, prototyped and scaled new, high-growth Startups. He is founder and former CEO of Think Big Factory (www.thinkbig-factory.com), a technology company that creates products and services for the Internet of Things. During this period he worked with clients such as Telefonica, Megafon, Jardines Matheson, or Tesco. Expert in design thinking, innovation methodologies and internet of things he is also founder of the Openarch project and he has been speaker at conferences in the US (Harvard and MIT), Brazil, China, Chile, UK and Spain.

Javier González

CEO

VentureSpec

Javier E. Gonzalez brings a wealth of experience: startup founder (2), angel investor, build and lead data-driven marketplaces and SaaS ventures, build-up acquisitions, corporate development, product leader, international footprint, etc. Boutique advisory investment (Tech VC Funding and M&A) for growth stage ventures, mostly SaaS, Marketplace, SecTech, FinTech and PropTech. He sits on the Advisory Board of ICOs and is a Board Member for private companies. Active panelist/speaker on Tech VC funding, ICOs and Crypto, Javier is Co-founder of the Global Crypto Economy Club (INSEAD). Javier holds an MBA from INSEAD, a Telecommunications Engineer Masters from ENSEA and B.S. Systems Analysis at UofM.

Carlos Bernabeu

Co-founder & CEO

Micappital

Carlos- socio fundador de Micappital y CTO. Es ingeniero informático por ICAI y Master de Dirección Estratégica de Proyectos en el Instituto de Empresa. En su etapa anterior como emprendedor fundó Verteex (2012) y Fastísimo (2014), una app similar a Glovo. Luego ha trabajado como Tech lead en consultoría estratégica dentro de Deloitte, IBM y Ernst&Young antes de fundar Micappital. Carlos - Entrepreneur, project manager, mentor and software developer from Madrid, Spain. He studied Computer Engineering in Universidad Pontificia Comillas, ICAI - ICADE and finished a master’s in Project Management in IE Business School. Ex-IBM, Ex- Deloitte, Ex- E&Y and currently CTO and Co-founder of MiCappital.

Josep Salvatella

Founder & CEO

RocaSalvatella

Josep is the founder and CEO of RocaSalvatella. The company is a strategic consultancy specialised in digital transformation of businesses and organisations. With offices in Barcelone, Madrid and Bogotá, RocaSalvatella offers its services to companies from all sectors. He is also the founder and current partner of Optimist Capital. Seed stage capital firm providing capital and assitance to entrepreneurs building companies in the Digital Economy in areas of the Sharing Economy, Smart Devices, Education and useful Data applications.

Alvaro Salvat

General Manager

Lime

Passionate about building more liveable cities by combining a human-centred focus with operational efficiency through innovation, Álvaro has launched the market strategy and successfully led the expansion of Lime in Spain& Portugal. Before joining Lime, Álvaro has been working in management and conceptual development for top-notch retail, corporate, and tech clients as well as lecturing for over 10 years. Thanks to an Executive MBA at IESE and a strong international experience, he has been able to achieve a better understanding of both the human and the fact-based sides of the business, allowing him to transform complex information into an impactful language.

Michiel Kotting

Partner

Northzone

Michiel is a Partner at Northzone, the VC fund behind game-changing companies like Spotify, iZettle, Avito, Klarna and Trustpilot. Since 1996, Northzone has backed over 140 companies and raised 8 funds, with over €1 billion under management. The fund has offices in Stockholm, London, New York and Oslo. Michiel is focused on AI and Machine Learning, enterprise applications and data analytics, and healthcare. His portfolio includes Personio, Spacemaker, Freighthub, Catawiki, Kahoot and Aidence. Before joining Northzone, Michiel was an investor at Accel, and he previously founded and was CEO of AI company Digital Jones.

Enric Delgado

Distinguished Engineer

IBM

Enric has a 20+ year career in IT where he has mainly worked as Architect and Strategist, from Mainframes early in his career to Cloud and Quantum Computing nowadays. Having led the IBM Strategic Outsourcing Architecture team in Spain for many years, he has a deep understanding of Delivery, which combines with the experience in the last years supporting the roadmap and adoption of cloud computing in major customers in Spain. He currently holds the role of Cloud CTO for Spain, Portugal, Greece and Israel. In this role he is driving the IBM Cloud strategy in the region and helping customers understand how these new technologies can help them in become more agile and efficient. He is also one of the selected IBM Quantum Ambassadors for Europe, helping in this role to make customers understand the potential of quantum technologies and the possibilities to start using them nowadays.

María Echávarri

Principal

JME Ventures

Maria has devoted most of her professional career to Venture Capital, through JME Ventures. Over the years she has developed a profound knowledge of the ecosystem, having been involved with more than 3.000 startups and actively participated in the negotiation of +15 investment operations. In addition she is involved in providing advice and support to the companies in which she is a board member/observer, such as Smart Protection, Prontopiso, Playspace or Caravelo. María has a double degree in Law and Business Administration from the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas (E-3) and she has an executive MBA at IESE Business School.

Giovanni Nani

Investor

Frog Capital

Giovanni is an Principal at Frog Capital where he joined in 2017 focusing on deal origination, deal execution and portfolio company development. Previously, he worked in the London Investment Banking TMT teams at J.P. Morgan and Arma Partners. Giovanni graduated in finance and economics from ESADE Business School, Barcelona and from Universitá Cattolica of Milan.Giovanni is an Principal at Frog Capital where he joined in 2017 focusing on deal origination, deal execution and portfolio company development. Previously, he worked in the London Investment Banking TMT teams at J.P. Morgan and Arma Partners. Giovanni graduated in finance and economics from ESADE Business School, Barcelona and from Universitá Cattolica of Milan.

Idoia Ortiz de Artiñano

Managing Director

PublicTech Lab at IE University

Idoia Ortiz de Artiñano is the Managing Director of the PublicTech Lab at IE University and has more than 12 years of professional experience, working on government affairs, international development and public innovation. In 2017, she spent a year at MIT studying the relationship among entrepreneurial innovation, technology, and public service delivery, and the use of open innovation methodologies for the public sector. Previously, she worked as the principal advisor to the Secretary of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), supporting the Secretary on the relationship with the 48 shareholder countries and helping in the political and strategic decision-making process of the institution. Idoia has developed her professional career in countries such as Uruguay, Bolivia, Guatemala, Spain and the United States. She holds an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management, a Master’s degree in Foreign Service from Georgetown University, and a JD from the Universidad de Comillas (ICADE).

Sammy Rubin

Co-founder and CEO

Yulife

I have been building companies in the life insurance industry since I was 21. I started my first company, Policy Portfolio, from my family’s dining room table. It was a joint project between me and my father, and I am proud to say that four and a half years later we floated the company on the London Stock Exchange. At the time, I was the youngest director of a publicly-listed financial services company in the UK. I had material success, but to many people’s surprise, I felt miserable. There was a void in my life that working longer and harder wasn’t going to fill. When I eventually moved back to the UK, I had a fresh outlook. I became the founding CEO of PruProtect (now VitalityLife), the first life insurance company in the UK to reward healthy behaviour. Now I’m taking this one step further, as part of my latest and greatest project: yulife. It is the world’s first lifestyle insurance company, and it has personal wellbeing at its core.

Alex Barrera

Founder & CEO

The Aleph Report

CEO at The Aleph Report (thealeph.com) were I write about the strategic implications of cutting-edge technology and help companies understand how to survive the future. Through our consultancy side, I help 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 I 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. I'm a regular mentor at several accelerators worldwide, I closely work with a couple of international conferences helping run their startup competitions and pitching training. I'm also an international speaker in multiple conferences, including keynote speaker at several TEDx Events, The Economist Summits or Global Shaper by WEF.

Ben Marrel

Founding Partner

Breega Capital

Ben Marrel is an entrepreneur and co-founder of Breega Capital, a Paris- based venture capital firm managing over 150€ million in seed and Series A funding, dedicated to fueling start-ups across Europe in a variety of sectors, from fintech and martech to AI. Breega Capital is backed by blue chip executives and entrepreneurs, including the former CEO of Vodafone Europe and a member of the co-founding team of LinkedIn. Ben Marrel is co-founder of Breega Capital, a VC firm managing over 150€ million in funding, fueling start-ups across Europe. Breega Capital is backed by the former CEO of Vodafone Europe and a Linkedin co-founder among others.

Rika Christanto 

COO and Co-founder

Ontruck

Rika Christanto is the Chief Operating Officer and co-founder at Ontruck, where she leads Marketplace Operations, Finance and People. She was first acquainted to logistics when she led efforts to set up the national dairy supply chain in Uganda for a NGO. Prior to Ontruck, she was a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Co and a technology investment banker at Morgan Stanley. She has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a bachelor’s degree at Harvard University. She has triplets

Carlos Santiso

Director

CAF

Carlos Santiso currently heads the Digital Innovation in Government practice of the Development Bank of Latin America, based in Bogota, Colombia, since September 2018. He is enthusiastic about the potential of the data and digital revolutions to transform government, encourage innovation, cut red-tape and tackle corruption. A French and Spanish national, he has devoted his career to improving lives in emerging economies and fragile states in the Americas and Africa, promoting democracy, strengthening governance, and curbing corruption. He has worked in over two dozen countries in various capacities in multilateral development banks, government aid agencies, and policy think tanks. He has pioneered novel initiatives to advance good governance and curb corruption in developing countries, currently developing a suite of services to promote govtech ecosystems.

Max Oliva

Co-founder

Impact Hub

Chief of Board, Impact Hub Madrid Co-Founder Impact Hub Madrid, Impact Hub Network & TeamLabs Max is passionate about empowering ordinary people to do extraordinary things in teams. He started his first entrepreneurial adventure more than 20 years ago, connecting youth from across the world with Nobel peace prize laureates, scientists, social entrepreneurs and more than 200 Heads of State in order to find solutions to the global challenges of the XXI Century. Since then, his passion for exploring and engaging in glocal projects has taken him from learning journeys to Antarctica, together with young entrepreneurs and scientists in order to experience first hand and fight climate change; use design as a driver to transform talent in organizations; to co-found five social enterprises, amongst them the largest high impact entrepreneurship network in the world, Impact Hub.

Ross Strachan

Associate

Adara Ventures

Ross is an Associate at Adara Ventures, an early-stage deeptech VC firm and is based out of Madrid. Ross focuses on the origination and execution of new investment opportunities and supports the existing portfolio with corporate and strategy development. Prior to joining Adara in 2018, Ross was a Manager at WPP plc in their M&A team, completing 30+ investments in 15 countries for the group and its Venture arm, in businesses operating at the intersection of data, digital and media. An MBA graduate from IE Business School, he began his career in the TMT and Capital Markets groups at PwC in London, working on several international IPOs.

Borja Santos

Head of Spain & Latam

Stripe

Borja leads Stripe at Spain and Portugal, The mission is to increase the GDP of the internet Stripe is a technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet. Businesses of every size—from new startups to public companies—use our software to accept payments and manage their businesses online. Borja, hold a business degree and an EMBA from IESE Business School. He brings years of experience on e-commerce and industry payments, EMBA from IESE Business School.

Iván Martín Maseda

Chief Technology Officer at Binfluencer and Professor in Machine Learning

IE University

Iván Martín is the Chief Technology Officer of Binfluencer, a data-driven company leveraging the power of machine learning techniques to detect the most influential people in any sized market globally. Formerly a data scientist at McKinsey, he is a software engineer specialized in Artificial Intelligence and earned a Master’s degree in Business Analytics and Big Data at IE Business School. He is also an adjunct professor in Machine Learning at IE.

Carlos Trenchs Sainz de la Maza

Managing Director

Caixa Capital Risc

Carlos Trenchs Sainz de la Maza is the Director at dayOne, the banking division at CaixaBank focused on technological companies and its investors. He previously was the Managing Director of Caixa Capital Risc, the venture capital division of the “la Caixa” group. With a degree in Business Administration from the UB and an MBA from Esade and NYU, Carlos has developed his professional career with technological start-ups. First in the deregulation of the telecommunications market and later in collaboration with serial entrepreneur Didac Lee in the field of internet. At the end of 2004 he joined “la Caixa” to promote the area of entrepreneurs and seed capital. Since then, Caixa Capital Risc established itself as one of the leading investors in Spain in the early stages of innovative companies with more than € 160bn under management in the fields of Life Sciences, Industrial Technologies and Digital.

Rob Moffat

Partner

Balderton Capital

Principal at Balderton Capital in London. Formerly Google & Bain. I am always looking for new investments - typically European online/tech companies with $B potential requiring early stage financing of $0.5M to $15M. I am currently on the board of five of Balderton's portfolio companies: Carwow, Zego, Cleo, Mojiworks & Patients Know Best. Other investments I have been involved with at Balderton include Wooga, Prodigy Finance, Qubit, Rentify, Nutmeg, Citymapper, Credit Benchmark and Gocardless.

Luis Rossano

CEO & Chairman of Board

RPC Injection | Tooling Group

Ton Van't Noordende

CEO

01 Ventures

Ton is a deep tech investor at 01Ventures - European early and growth stage deep tech VC. Next to that, he's the Investor In Residence at StartupDelta working closely together with HRH Prince Constantijn of Oranje. Founder of Angel Island (first edition 2016) ~ Yearly unconference taking place on an island near Amsterdam where we bring together the world’s most original thinkers & founders and connect them to toptier VCs & ultra-high net worths from Europe & the US. Angel Island is co-organized with HRH Prince Constantijn of Oranje.

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.

Henri-François Martin

Group Innovation Director

Veepee (Vente-Privée)

Graduated from business school in 2011 and after a financial auditor experience, he set up his own start-up in 2012 (Booking marketplace for sports activities) before to sell it to its French competitor three years later. During this period he had been helped by references from the french entrepreneurial ecosystem (HEC incubator, network to undertake Paris, ...) He joined vente-privee in 2015 and had the mission to build the start-up accelerator program from zero. The purpose was to enable collaboration between high-potential start-up and vente-privee by helping them identify internal needs, defining the POC area, integrating technology and finally signing the commercial partnership if successful. After launching the accelerator he led the reorganization of Veepee's innovation initiatives becoming the innovation group director.

Shaul Eyal

Managing Director

Oppenheimer&CO

Shaul Eyal is Managing Director and Senior Analyst covering the Communications, Security, and Infrastructure Software sectors and is one of Wall Street’s leading experts in those spaces. He started his equity research career covering Israeli technology related equities for the firm. Shaul holds an M.B.A. from Fordham University and an LL.B with honors from Oxford Brookes University.

Gur Talpaz

Equity Research Analyst/Managing Director

Stifel Financial Corp.

Gur Talpaz is a Director within the Equity Research group at Stifel, an investment banking and asset management firm headquartered in St. Louis. Based in New York, Mr. Talpaz focuses on the cybersecurity industry, with primary coverage of nearly all public names within the group. Within his coverage, Mr. Talpaz focuses heavily on emerging themes within the sector and has written extensively on topics ranging from the changing endpoint market to the growing importance of identity within security as well as emerging trends such as IoT and ICS security. Mr. Talpaz has been quoted and referenced in a multitude of publications, including CNBC, the Financial Times, Barron’s, and Forbes. Mr. Talpaz graduated with honors from the University of Chicago.

Dustin Figge

Founder & Managing Director

The Homelike

Dustin Figge is the co-founder and CEO of Homelike, an online furnished apartment rental platform designed specifically for the needs of long term business travellers. Founded in 2015, the platform has 45,000 flats in its portfolio across more than 100 cities, and employs over 100 people in Europe. Previously, Dustin founded TalentsConnect and served as Executive Assistant to the CEO at arvato, where he travelled extensively and managed some of Arvato’s biggest tech clients.

Paul Morgenthaler

Partner

Commerz Ventures

Investor in Fintech start-ups across Europe. Interested in meeting entrepreneurs with the ambition to redefine financial services. Trying to help our companies wherever I can. Current investments include Bought By Many, Mambu, iwoca, GetSafe, Bankin', OmnyWay and Realbest.

Dr. Javier González-Soria

CEO & Founder

TopSeedLabs

My career began in 1992 in Mundicolor Iberia, the leading Tour Operator in Spain. In 2002 I was appointed as General Manager. Then I learned the insights of the traditional travel business. In 2006 I joined Google as Director of the Travel Vertical to help to convert a sales office in a subsidiary company, creating from scratch that Unit. 6 years later Spain was one of the 10 key global markets for Google and I generated aprox 45% of the revenue. I also developed Travel pan-regional projects and was member of the Global Travel Advisory Committee. In those years I learned the insights of the online travel business and the fundamentals of Digital Transformation. Since 2012 I provide consultancy services related to online travel and digital transformation, and 2018 I was assessing Facebook and create for them the "Valuable Touch Points Model", the most efficient way to “translate” the commercial strategy of a Travel Player into the language of Facebook.

Ignacio Lucea

Founder & CMO

BeWanted

Bewanted is the first Talent Discovery platform. We help our clients discover, identify, attract and hire the best young talent there is... faster, cheaper and with measurable quality. And by doing so, we also help our over 1MM candidates find the best professional opportunities and apply to them seamlessly. That's the beauty of profesional matchmaking. As a result, and using the insights of managing this unique information, we have learned how to become experts in building strong Employer Branding strategies and brands for our Fortune 500 clients as well as for the thousands of SMEs that work with us. BeWanted is a talent discovery platform that will help your company be in the top of mind of your best potential candidates, find them, attract them and convert them in your best hires. All this, while providing your with unparalleled market intelligence that cannot be found elsewhere. Discover, attract, hire and understand talent like you always wanted. Make your company be wanted.

Vincenzo Villamena

Founder & CEO

Global Expat Advisors

I am the founder of Online Taxman, specializing in International Accounting & Tax Services for Expats who want straightforward and transparent solutions. Online Taxman professional CPAs help you navigate the confusing world of Expat Taxes, ensuring you IRS compliance and maximized returns. If you're a Corporate Expat, International Startup Founder, Military Contractor, or just a US Expat living abroad, please go to OnlineTaxman.com to get a Free Consultation. Private Equity | CPA: I have served various roles in Financial Services and Private Equity. Starting out at PwC, I advised the firm's premier private equity and corporate clients on their complex accounting issues, where I was able to gain first hand experience in dealing with tax implications in M&A's and IPO's. My experiences at PwC prepped me for the playing an integral role in at Pegasus Blue Star Fund, where I helped close $300MM in funds for healthcare technology investments. Additionally, my focuses included investment due diligence

Borja Breña

Investment Manager

Nauta Capital

Borja has international experience in finance, technology, and innovation. He is a telecom engineer, and ICAEW’s Chartered Accountant with an MBA from London Business School. Borja is a proven safe pair of hands who enjoys the challenges of setting up and developing new projects.

Gregg Pasquarelli

Co-Founder

SHoP Architects

Gregg Pasquarelli co-founded the architectural firm SHoP Architects with Christopher Sharples, Coren Sharples, Kimberly Holden, and William Sharples in 1997 and has lectured, exhibited, and been published internationally. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Architecture at Columbia GSAPP. Pasquarelli received a Bachelor of Science from the School of Business at Villanova University and a Master of Architecture from Columbia GSAPP. SHoP’s work includes the Barclays Center at Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn; a two-mile esplanade and park along the East River Waterfront in New York; the Innovation Hub government complex in Botswana; the South Street Seaport redevelopment in New York; a new major league soccer stadium in New York; and projects for Google in Mountain View, California. Pasquarelli has taught at Yale, Columbia, the University of Virginia, and the University of Florida. He has lectured globally and his work has been reviewed and published in periodicals such as Architect, Architectural Record.

Jorge Alfonso Marcos

Head of Innovation and Project Development

Renfe

Jorge Marcos leads TrenLab, the innovation hub from Renfe that boosts the best startups and projects in mobility, transportation and logistics. From TrenLab, Jorge is launching open innovation projects through TrenLab calls for startups and its Internal Innovation Program. Jorge is an expert in innovation and management of technological products. Before Renfe, he has developed his professional career in big companies like Nokia, working in sales and marketing, and in tech startups leading the development and market launch of innovative products internationally.

Alexander Theis

Founder & CEO

Tink Referral as a Service

Alexander is German-Spanish entrepreneur who has launched several companies in 4 different countries. He currently lives in Chile and spends most of his time travelling in Latin America making sure that TINK continues on the path of growth. Next destination to set up TINK : His home country Spain.

María Ángeles León

Co-founder

Open Value Foundation

María Ángeles studied economics between Ireland and Spain, started her career in Marketing but quickly realized that sales was her natural drive. She is passionate about her work, and enjoys giving to, sharing and trusting people. She works for Telefónica S.A since more than 20 years, where she has led a "digital transformation" sales job. She currently combines this job with her work in the Family foundation. Her philanthropic experience of over 15 years, led to a change in Open Value’s model, from a pure philanthropic one, to a personal approach, that combines philanthropy, as seed capital, with private investment and business models, as tools for development and sustainability. Her experiences with Acumen and YSB founders have been of great inspiration for this vision. María Ángeles is co-founder of Open Value Foundation and the driving force of the new vision and model developed, that seeks for more efficient and sustainable ways to solve the social problems to achieve higher social impact.

Iván Burgos Murillo

Connected Car Manager

Porsche Iberica

Iván Burgos is Connected Car Manager, responsible for Porsche Ibérica's "Connected Car" project, which is integrated into the company's Smart Mobility strategy, which in turn relies on the Internet of Things technology and is driven by the "Porsche Smart Mobility Lab" initiative. In addition, Ivan leads the area of digitalization of the Porsche brand as part of the company's strategy of innovation and digital transformation, called "Strategy2025". Iván has extensive experience in the digital area of several multinationals, including Nokia, as head of the Southern Europe Mobile Application Development Ecosystem; Samsung, Navteq (currently Here Technologies), Nikon or Polaroid. His areas of expertise include: Coche Conectado & Autónomo, IoT, Blockchain, digital marketing, social network marketing, luxury industry marketing and UX. Iván joined Porsche Iberica in April 2015.

Pablo Gómez Fernandez-Quintanilla

Head of Innovation Labs

Bankia

Pablo Gomez heads the Innovation Lab at Bankia, where startups and Bankia teams can experiment emerging technologies and new business models. Pablo has held a variety of senior management positions for the last 15 years in Spain and abroad, detecting opportunities for growth on emerging and mature environments, including several startups as well as transformational roles at large established companies like Telefonica, Sanitas, Homeserve and now Bankia. Pablo holds a degree in Business Administration from Universidad Complutense de Madrid and a PDD from IESE Business School.

Ana Villanueva

Founder & CEO

Tiko

Ana is the founder and CEO of Tiko, the proptech that allows you to sell your house in just one week, providing not only speed but also certainty and convenience. Tiko operates in several cities of Spain and aims to become the leading iBuyer in Europe. Prior to Tiko, Ana launched Jobandtalent in Mexico, after studying an MBA at MIT and working in consulting for 6 years (US, Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, Germany).

Jeffrey Char

Founder & CEO

J-Seed Ventures, Inc - Japan

Jeffrey Char is a serial entrepreneur and investor focusing on distributed renewable energy. He is CEO at SOGO Energy, a global network of innovative energy companies servicing off-grid communities in emerging markets and Chairman at TRENDE, an online renewable energy retailer accelerating the widespread adoption of solar power in Japan. He is also founder and CEO at J-Seed Ventures. Jeff is also a professor teaching about entrepreneurship at Doshisha Business School in Japan and IE Business School in Spain.

Clara Pombo

Corporate Director of IP Strategy

ClarkeModet

Tom Hockaday

ex-CEO at Oxford University Innovation

Owner Technology Transfer Innovation

Tom Hockaday is a leading expert in university technology transfer leadership, management and operations. He led the technology transfer activities at the University of Oxford for ten years from 2006 to 2016, having started at Oxford in 2000. Tom has over 27 years experience in this field. Tom is now an independent private consultant, working with a number of clients in the university-business collaboration and technology transfer sectors around the world.

Juan Álvarez de Lara

Co-founder and Co-general Partner of Origen Ventures Fund

Founder and CEO of Seed&Click

Juan Alvarez de Lara holds a Diploma in Business Administration and Management (UB), a Master in Financial Consultancy (UB), a Diploma in Quantitative Finance (UPC), a Master of International Business (UPF) and has studied the Program for Management Development and Corporate Finance at ESADE. In 2007, he was hired as Deputy General Manager of Gescobro Group and General Manager of Gescobro Portugal. In 2004 he joined Banco Mare Nostrum as Director of Strategic Consulting and Project Development of the entity, highlighting the creation and launch of Private Banking, implementation of HR project for the entire entity and development of new online banking. Previously, he was responsible for strategic projects in the financial sector both internationally in Deutsche Bank (France, Italy, UK, Germany) and nationally in Banc Sabadell, Telefónica, Mapfre as outstanding. Currently, he combines his responsibility at Solvere Capital with that of CEO at Seed&Click.

Roger Casals

Co-Founder & CEO

Plazah

Entrepreneur with 20+ years of experience with StartUps and large corporations. Founder and CEO of several companies, with 5 successful exits, including the acquisition of PasswordBank by Symantec and PowerData by Informatica. Board Member, Advisor or Investor at: Blueliv, Uniks and Parlam, among others. Currently, co-Founder and CEO of Plazah, a One-on-One Sales Marketplace that will revolutionize the way people sell….and buy!

Nikol Wolpert

Head of Business Development LATAM

OrCam Technologies

Nikol Wolpert is in charge of business development for OrCam, an Israeli company that develops artificial vision and intelligence technology for people with visual impairment and blindness. As part of her experience, Nikol worked as COO and Marketing Director in one of the most recognized startup accelerators in Israel. An attorney by profession, she began her professional career as a marketer and business developer for clients of Shibolet & Co., one of the leading technology firms in Israel. Nikol is part of the founding committee of the Global Network of Mexican Professionals Israel chapter and has participated in several conferences and talks where she shares her experience on the values and factors that have led the State of Israel to become a world leader in Technology and Innovation.

Steven Mendel

CEO and Co-founder

Bought By Many

Steven has over 25 years’ experience as an actuary in financial services which has included leading Close Brothers Wealth Management during the launch of their non-advised offering; creating the world’s first art-focused wealth advice offering for Christie’s; working as part of the team that formed Barclays Wealth and heading the McKinsey UK Savings and Investment Group. Steven now runs Bought By Many which is disrupting the world of insurance through the innovative use of search and social media. (www.boughtbymany.com). In April 2019 Steven was included in the London Business School Review of 30 People Who Are Changing The World.

David Cierco

General Director

Red.es

Extensive career in senior management in both the public and private sphere, specializing in the field of information technology and the digital ecosystem. Distinguished in 2012 with the Plaque of the Civil Order of Merit of Telecommunications and the Information Society by the Avanza Plan.

Paula Almansa

CEO and Co-founder

LOOM

Isabel Cano

Director of Strategic Development

Indra

Director of Strategic Development of the Indra Transport Market, which offers end-to-end solutions and services to the mobility, transport and infrastructure sector. In Indra Transportes, responsible for the R&D department and the economic monitoring of the investment plan. With a report to the General Directorate of the Market, he leads the actions in terms of strategy, transformation plan, strategic marketing, competition monitoring and industry trends, global risks, communication, end-to-end development, inorganic growth, among others . Indra representative in the Digital Transport and Logistics Forum (DTLF) of the European Commission. Solid background in international transport and logistics consulting. Roads, Canals and Ports Engineer. Master in Infrastructure Management. Master in Logistics, Transportation and Mobility. Diploma in Foreign Trade and Maritime Business.

Carlos Fernández de la Pradilla

Partner

Polymath Ventures

Carlos is one of the founding partners of Polymath Ventures, a company builder located in Colombia, and with offices in Mexico and China, that focuses on building companies for the emerging middle class. Previously, Carlos was partner at N+1 Mercapital, a mid market spanish private equity firm where he spent 9 years and led its operations in the Andean Region. He holds a MBA from IE Business School, a Master in Corporate Finance from IEB and a degree in Law from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Carlos has been a founder and angel investor of several start-ups in Spain and Colombia

Javier Megias Terol

CEO and Co-founder

StartupXplore

Javier Megias is an entrepreneur and investor passionate about innovation and entrepreneurship. He is currently the CEO of STARTUPXPLORE (http://startupxplore.com), a global startup and investor community he founded with a mission: to disrupt the traditional approach to startup-investment growth. For the past 5 years he has been advising and acting as a board member on several organizations, ranging from startups and VC funds to institutions like the European Comission. He is also an active business angel investor, and is member of the Big BAN board, the largest independent angel investor network in Spain. Javier also writes on the blog http://javiermegias.com/blog, winner of the 2011 award to the best business Spanish-speaking blog of the world.

José Mínguez Matorras

Head of Innovation Market Iberia

Endesa

EMBA from IE, he is an electronic industrial engineer trained at ICAI School of Engineering. He has also studied at Stanford, Bocconi-Milán, IESE and ESADE. His main objective is the application of new technologies and market trends to the business. He is member of the ‘Blockchain Community and P2P Transaction Platforms’ of Enel and the ‘Blockchain Platform’ of Eurelectric (organization representing the electricity industry in 32 European countries). Previously, he was been the Head of Technology Projects at Endesa focused on B2B & B2C Innovation projects. He has led various consortia for the European Commission’s Horizon 2020, and has been responsible for various projects aimed at developing the integration of efficient distributed solar energy into the grid, smart-home, smart-buildings, storage systems and the commercial application of heat pumps for industrial installations.

Moisés Cohen

Co-founder & Director

The Floor

Moises is a respected thought leader in the Fintech Industry. Former Financial Services and Open Innovation Lead at Accenture Israel, Moises has an extensive banking and strategic consulting experience working with c-level decision makers from leading global corporates.

Marcia Maciel

Head of Strategic Partnerships

Telefonica Open Innovation

Head of Strategic Partnerships for Telefonica Open Innovation, the unit comprising all the acceleration programmes and VC tools of Telefonica Group. Leading commercial partnerships strategy, relationship with multinationals and market intelligence initiatives. Working with business development, strategic partnerships and marketing planning for multinationals for the past 6 years, both in Latin America and Europe. Masters in Marketing and Sales Management from EAE Business School.

Javier Ramírez

Technical Evangelist

Amazon Web Services

Software engineer (20+ years working in IT) with a strong focus on Cloud Architecture and Big Data (5+ years). Before that I developed web applications and distributed systems, mostly around the backend and data layer. I love data storage, big and small. I have extensive experience with different SQL, NoSQL, Graph, in-Memory, and BigData solutions. I like distributed, scalable, always-on systems. All along my career I have been a technical trainer on different subjects. I was also a part-time teacher at different universities on the topics of Software Engineering and Programming Languages (JAVA). I love tech conferences, and I have spoken at more than 60 events in about 15 countries about Cloud Platforms, Streaming analytics, Machine Learning, Analytical/Columnar Data Stores, Apache Beam, Message Queues, Redis, Hadoop and Spark, Distributed Databases, Ruby on Rails, API usability, REST web services, hypermedia APIs, agile development, SEO, analytics, CSS frameworks, game development, software engine

Steven Aitkenhead

Fundador y CEO

Lucas

Career in finance as a trader in capital markets and risk managment at INTL FC Stone in Miami and Kenmar Securities in New York. Angel investor in fintech, proptech, media, and other ventures and Co Founder of Cuatro Grados investment club.

Luz Rello

Founder

Change Dyslexia & IE University

Luz Rello has a degree in Linguistics and a PhD in Computer Science, Ashoka Fellow and a researcher at Carnegie Mellon University. In 2016 he founded the social company Change Dyslexia, from which he works together with an interdisciplinary team in the early detection and support for the treatment of dyslexia. Her research has received several awards, she was the first Spanish to receive the European Young Researcher Award 2013, Social Innovator of the Year by MIT Technology Review in 2014, the Princess of Girona Award in 2016 and was included in the Forbes 30 Under 30 list of 2017. She is currently an Assistant Professor in IE University.

Ben van Berkel

Founder

UNStudio

Ben van Berkel studied architecture at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and at the Architectural Association in London, receiving the AA Diploma with Honours in 1987. In 1988 he and Caroline Bos set up an architectural practice in Amsterdam, extending their theoretical and writing projects to the practice of architecture. UNStudio presents itself as a network of specialists in architecture, urban development and infrastructure. Current projects include the design for Doha's Integrated Metro Network in Qatar, ‘Four’ a large-scale mixed-use project in Frankfurt and the Wasl Tower in Dubai. With UNStudio he realised amongst others the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, Arnhem central Station in the Netherlands, the Raffles City mixed-use development in Hangzhou, the Canaletto Tower in London, a private villa up-state New York and the Singapore University of Technology and Design.

Miguel Camiña

CEO

Micappital

Miguel es fundador y CEO de Micappital, estudió Administración y Dirección de Empresas en CUNEF y ha trabajado en entidades líderes dentro del sector financiero: Deutsche Bank en Project finance, Diana Capital como analista de private equity, KPMG en consultoría de transacciones y Abante Asesores como banquero privado antes de fundar Micappital. Tiene el título EFPA como asesor financiero a nivel europeo.

Cristina López Pancorbo

Head of Digital and Member of Women in Tech Spain

El Corte Inglés

Cristina is Head of Digital for womenswear, lingerie and swimwear at El Corte Ingles. She started her career in 2006 at brick-and-mortar environment to pivot in 2011 to the digitalization process of Adolfo Dominguez. With more than 13 years of experience in multiple retail and fashion areas, from digital business development to transmedia strategies, she has specialized in transformation: shopping experience, brand-customer reslationships, data and insights. Omni-channel is the actual and natrual way of building a strong relationship with users and technology and companies cultural approach is the only way to achieve it.

Hunab Moreno

Country Manager - Spain

Mobike

Hunab is a versatile entrepreneur and an operations expert that has helped to create and grow disruptive projects and start-ups around the globe that create a positive impact on society. Throughout his professional career, Hunab has created innovative products such as bicycle powered concerts and has been a key role in shaping how the new gig-economy or on-demand delivery look like in several countries. At present, he is defying how current urban mobility looks like in Spain, introducing yet another concept: Mobike, a free-floating bike-sharing company that so far has reduced more than 4.4 million tons of CO2 in the world through the introduction of 9 million bicycles.

Iñaki Arrola

Partner

K Fund

Iñaki Arrola is founder and CEO of coches.com. His experience in Internet dates back to 2003, when he founded his previous project, Autodescuento, a specialist in new car sales site. With the same partners, and driven by a strong entrepreneurial spirit, he has launched concesionarios.com, all sites are characterized by constant innovation, improved content and services. In 2012 he founded Vitamin K VC investing in early stage technology companies. Previously, Iñaki worked in the financial sector and insurance companies such as Renta 4, Mapfre or Arco Madrid. He holds a Bachelor in Business Administration at the Universidad San Pablo CEU, completed his education with an MBA at IE Business School, where he now teaches. Iñaki is also a Business Angel, and has invested in Masterbranch, Bodaplay, Webphone and Sindelantal. He is now upping the game with new VC firm K Fund.

Diego Bestard

Founder & CEO

Urbanite

Licenciado en ADE e International Business por la Universidad Internacional de Florida, cuenta con más de 15 años de experiencia en el sector de la consultoría financiera. Ha desarrollado su carrera entre EEUU y España, ocupando cargos en empresas como Primerica Financial Services, Abante Asesores o Zurich Seguros. Su faceta como emprendedor le lleva a fundar GigZone (2008) y a cofundar Spotcap en el (2014), donde levantó más de 100 millones de euros en capital de distintos fondos de inversión (entre ellos, la alemana Rocket Internet). Desde 2019 es vicepresidente de la Asociación Española de Fintech e Insurtech. Seleccionado entre los 25 primeros expertos de la plataforma Los 100 de COTEC. En 2017 lanza Urbanitae, la primera plataforma de crowdfunding de grandes proyectos inmobiliarios.

Diego Rocha

Head of Strategy and Innovation

Sacyr - Spain

Diego Rocha is the Head of Strategy and Innovation at Sacyr. Currently, he focuses his efforts on the development of Sacyr’s international corporate strategy, and on the definition and implementation of a new innovation model for all the business divisions of Sacyr. Before joining Sacyr, he worked as a strategy consultant, leading strategic planning projects in different industries, such as infrastructure, transportation and pharma. Previously, he had worked as a financial analyst for an investment bank.

Fermin Bueno

Co-founder & Managing Partner

Finnovista

Innovator, entrepreneur and investor with a passion for technology, entrepreneurship and the digital transformation of traditional markets, including Telecoms, Venture Capital, Financial Services and Insurance. Electrical Engineer & Tech background, I started my career developing hardware and 3G technologies that later triggered the mobile Internet revolution. Since then, I am obsessed with how technology is re-structuring and transforming competitive landscapes in different traditional industries. After MBA, I co-founded three tech-startups and launched a 250M USD impact investment fund, always capitalizing on the creation of new business models and value propositions enabled by technology. I was also a management consultant specialized in technology-driven markets helping corporates deal with the transformative effects of digital & disruptive innovations. My latest creation is Finnovista, an impact organization that is transforming finance and insurance for the better.

Nacho Bautista

CEO

Fundeen

Civil and Environmental Engineer. Before deciding to found Fundeen, Nacho worked as an Asset Manager at Blue Tree AM and Vela Energy. In these companies he used to manage over 570 MW of photovoltaic and wind facilities, in addition to consulting activities and the evaluation of 20 MW for its acquisition.

Jorge Portillo

CEO

GreeMko

Jorge graduated in Environmental Science and has an EMBA by IESE Business School. His working experience includes starting his own business in China where he lived for 5 years, and working in the strategy department for a Spanish multinational company in the energy and environment sector. He speaks English and Chinese.