With decades of experience working in the intersection of entrepreneurship, technology, science and design, Cecilia is currently founder and principal of Futurity Systems, providing futures-as-a-service to help companies and organizations to build better futures faster, together.

Cecilia Tham is a Harvard-trained designer, formerly a Social Technologist at Alpha Telefonica, Europe’s first moonshot factory, and a serial entrepreneur, founded multiple companies such as Makers of Barcelona, FabCafe and allWomen.tech. She serves as advisor to UN World Food Program X, SXSW, National Museum of Catalonia (MNAC) as well as other private companies.

Abby Seneor is a serial entrepreneur, technology expert, change-making altruist, and one of the world’s leading minds in artificial intelligence, focusing on Ethical AI. Abby believes that the only way to build intelligent machines and achieve AGI is by collaboration across all disciplines to better understand nature and the human brain.

Abby was recognized as top 10 women in AI in 2020, and by Sifted as one of Europe’s significant female CTOs. She was chosen out of nearly 70,000 nominations and 195 finalists from 27 countries as the winner of the “Global Awards – Women that Build Edition” in the “Tech Entrepreneur” category in 2021. Abby was also awarded “Top 10 Woman in AI” in 2020, issued by Women in AI, a nonprofit gender-inclusive AI initiative.

Telecommunication Engineer by the University of Vigo and PDD by IESE Business School. Partner of the Technology Unit at NTT DATA, he is currently responsible for the Data & Intelligence area for EMEAL and the Artificial Intelligence Center of Excellence of the NTT Data group worldwide. He collaborates as an external professor in Digital Business Schools such as ISDI and for the MBA program of IESE Business School, where he gives lectures related to Digital Transformation and Artificial Intelligence.

Starting 2020, David is a Founding Editorial Board Member of the Springer Nature AI & Ethics journal, and a Member of the Advisory Board for the AI Ethics Observatory of Catalonia.

Journalist (La Vanguardia) & Corporate Comms (LLYC) Author of "Barcelona Startup", the history of Barcelona's digital ecosystem (Libros de Cabecera, 2020) Journalist in the Economy section of La Vanguardia 1992-2018. Specialized in information on companies, businessmen and entrepreneurs. Innovation. Technology and consumption trends. Co-author of "El Timo de la Superwoman" Editorial Planeta (2010). Author of "Adventures of entrepreneurs. 57 stories of creativity and courage in the company." Ed. Bedside Books (2011)

Arnault Gombert is a senior data scientist and head of the data sciences department at Citibeats. He is in charge of the operational research at Citibeats focusing mainly on Natural Language Processing algorithms applied to social networks data.

He works at the border between Machine Learning investigation and applications: developing solutions for start-up that are inspired from state-of-the-art research. One main concern is making machine learning useful for all and not restricting it to a small part of the population. The second main concern is about bringing an environmental impact perspective in the data science field in order not to judge only by performance metrics.

Alex is the co-founder & CEO of Giskard, a quality testing platform for AI models. Before founding Giskard, he worked as a software engineer & data scientist, designing critical AI systems, focusing on reliability, safety & fairness.

Ryan is a lawyer by training, having spent years at some of the world’s best law firms in London advising on technology regulation. Excited by the potential of AI, but also concerned about the risks that it poses, he founded the company alongside experienced software engineer Jack Carlisle. The company’s first product, an AI governance platform, has recently launched with a number of early partners. Enzai is a company that helps manage AI risk through documentation and governance controls.

Master in Industrial Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. Irene has extensive experience as Product and Project Manager in innovation projects always with an analytical and data science approach. Currently Head of Product at Citibeats, leading the execution of our social analytics platform to bring humanity back into decision-making.

Marcos has 20 years of professional experience in entrepreneurship creating successful B2C and B2B companies. He bootstrapped his first company Acquamedia -the top-selling digital music leader in Europe and Latam— in 2003 when he was only 28, toping €7M ARR in 14 countries after only 12 months of starting operation.

Marcos’ skills set include product definition and go-to-market strategy. He is obsessed with embedding the marketing and revenue strategy into the product by design.

His passion today is in leveraging design thinking and innovation to address societal challenges and build products and strategies that help decision-makers to create and prioritize public policies and investments.

Since joining Citibeats in 2021 Marcos has led the Product team in the transition from a Tailor-Made Solution towards a Product oriented company. Marcos has a degree in Computer Science from the Politechnical University of Catalonia.

ICT professional with more than 20 years of experience in the digital and new technologies world in both the public and private sectors.

She is an expert in defining key digital strategies for the business sector, and has led public policies to promote society and technological innovation, through the roll-out of Smart Cities and the education, training and empowerment of numerous stakeholders.

Joana works towards achieving equal opportunities and reducing the digital gap, especially focused on increasing the participation of women in the technology and digital sector. She is an ambassador for the Women in tech network, a member of EJE&CON and EWOB (European Women on Boards), as well as a mentor in Women in Tech and Technovation association.

In the public sector, from 2018 to 2022 Joana was General Director for Digital Society in the Government of Catalonia. 

Currently she is an advisor, consultant and expert on the impacts of

Technology and ESG on society, business and economy.

Paula is fascinated by the power of language to shape our lives and imagine a different world and she is interested in the intersection of technology, politics and humanities. For the past decade, her professional career has been mainly focused on journalism, corporate communications and project management. She joined Tech Barcelona almost two years ago and since then, she's been leading the working groups program: a sectorial platform to anticipate and identify tech solutions for future challenges.

Paula has a degree in journalism and a specialization in International Relations by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). Recently, she has taken the Global Economic History summer course at the London School of Political Science and Economics (LSE).

Nardine Osman is a senior researcher at the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, of the Spanish National Research Council. In 2008, she received her PhD in informatics from the University of Edinburgh in the UK. She has coordinated and participated in numerous research projects in Spain and internationally. In the last 5 years she has been the PI of a national project (CIMBVAL) on imbuing hybrid systems with human values and a RecerCaixa funded project on understanding the role of values in AI development.

Today, she is leading a 1.8M Spanish project (VAE) on value engineering, she is participating in an EU funded project (VALAWAI) on value awareness in AI, and she is also leading IIIA in an EU funded project (WeNet) on leveraging diversity in our online interactions. Her areas of expertise include Artificial Intelligence, Multiagent Systems, Formal Verification, Normative Systems, as well as Trust and Reputation. Though her recent interests lie in the development of value-aligned systems, that is, systems that understand our human values, reason about them, and ensure behaviour is aligned with those values.