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The Voices Transforming the New Economy

Alba Ferre

Aerospace Systems Engineering Student

Alexandre Besenval

Founder and CEO

Neema Balolebwami Nelly

Artificial Intelligence Expert & CEO

Oriol Güell

Chief of Innovation and Digitalization

Anna Fernández

Institutional Relations Manager

Toni Forrellat

Business Development Manager

Isabel Comas

Coordinator of Career Guidance Services and Programs

Ana Moliner

Innovation Business Development Director

Susanna Visauta

CEO

Fernando García

Strategic Market Development Europe Director -Datacenters

Diego Perino

BSC AI Institute Director

David Martín

Chief Technology & Data Officer

Manuel Villa

CEO

José Ignacio Rodríguez Modroño

Managing Director

Jordi Candela

Corporate Director of Catalonia Airports

Eudald Casas

General Manager

Albert Salarich

Councilor of Enterprise, Innovation and Internationalization and Energy

Sergi Florensa

CEO

Mª Gabriela López

Founder & CEO

Marian Iglesias

Technical Responsible 3D Unit

Jaume Casadesús

Researcher

Miriam Corredor

CEO

Alejandro Sanchez

Industrial Laison Office Director

Jose Ramón Martín

BStartup Advisor

Alex Tortosa

Senior Manager

Jordi Barceló

CEO

Xiker Portillo

CFO

Eduard Obis

CEO

Joan Solé

CEO Founder

Sandra Prior

Partner & Consulting Leader of PwC Catalonia and Andorra

Lara Iglesia

CEO

Felip Miralles

Executive Director - Health Tecnologies

José Manuel Vílchez

Full Research Professor

Marc Fortuny

Ceo & founder

Uliana Torkunova

CEO

Isabel Pérez Ennes

Head IT Region Europe

Pol Gibert

General Secretary of the Department of Business and Employment

Catelijn Kerstens

Councilwoman responsible for Economic Development, Commerce, Tourism, and City Promotion

Jaume Rey

Founder and Director

Anna Carabús

CiPA Sectoral Coordinator

Josep Manel Rodeiro

CEO & Founder

Joana Sánchez

Deputy Mayor for Business and Tourism

Jorge Juan Fernández

Chief Innovation Manager

Albert Sampietro

VP Product Engineering

Joan Lluís Mas

Scientific Director, Digital Tech

Daniela Tost

CEO

Alberto Barriga

Energy Lawyer

Jesús Fernández Gómez

Drive Systems Business Unit Director

Álex Uhalde

Global Business Developer - Europe, South America & the Nordics

Lluís Blanch

Founding Partner of BETTER CARE and Coordinator of the PLATAFORMA ITEMAS-ISCIII

Óscar Pérez Albet

Chief Scientific Officer

Fatima Lopez-Fernández

Head of Technology Transfer

Josep Rodríguez

Head of Strategic Projects, Tourism Department

Mario Navarro

Innovation Technician in Digital Health

Angela Lalatta

Pau Pamplona

Ecosystema Manager

Joaquín Poley

Project Manager for Technological Innovation

David García

CEO

Daniel Marsol

DIRCOM-CMO

Josep Lluís Pelegrí

Research Professor

Marta Sainz

Founder & CEO

Antonio Berdiel

Founder & CEO

Diana Colom

Co-founder & Biologist specialized in genetics

Carla Rebés

Cluster Operations Manager

Jonne Ziengs

Head of Sales

Juan Castilla

Manager

Esteban Rodríguez Guisado

Head of Climate Division

Mar Mezcua

Staff Research / Scientific Deputy Director

Anna Estella

Deputy Director General for People and Nature

Ana García

President of Economics and Sustainability Committee

Montserrat Rigall

VerificaRTVE journalist specializing in AI

Ingrid Canal

Founder

Anna Majó

Director of Strategic Sectors and Innovation

Oriol Alcoba

Director of Innovation and Knowledge Transfer

Carmen Casals

CEO

Gema Guzmán

Talent Programs Director

Ahina Fulquet

Participant in the TFS26 Program (Sant Feliu de Llobregat team)

Barbara Eisele

DCA-IA Manager

Ainhoa López

Participant in the TFS26 Program (Viladecans team)

Carmen Ovejero

Head of AgriFood & Bioeconomy Unit

Vanessa Palmer

Business Development Director

José Luis Lajusticia

Culture, Engagement & Professional Development Head

Cathy Morghese

Integrative Nutritional Therapist

Bernat Monter

CEO

Paula Serra

Editorial Director & Agenda

Marga Torre

Research and Innovation. Technical Office

Cinta Daudé

Project Manager

Sergi Company

CEO

Albert Anglarill

Territorial and Projects Director Catalonia

Jorge Roca

Founder / Strategic Energy & Sustainability Advisor

Rosa Maria Meseguer

Manager DCA-Space

Cristina Padilla

Councilor for Economic Promotion, Commerce and Markets, Business and Industrial Estates, Occupation and Training

José María Gil

Director

Antonio Gil

Professor of Aviation Law - Former Head of Catalonia's Air Traffic Control Towers

Alvaro de Ramón

Chief of Customer Experience Division

Ivan Zaguirre

Head of Studio

Vicenç Polo

Coordinator European Projects

Xavier Hormigos

Head of the Service of the Transport Arbitration Board

Núria Salán

Deputy Director of Institutional Promotion

Javier Serrano

Electrical Business Engineer

Thomas Lemesle

Chief Operating Officer

Antonio Gamiz

Head of Innovation Merlin Properties & Loom

Eric García

CEO & Co-founder

Antoni Paz

Technical Secretary and Director of the Task Force, and Director of Fundación KIMbcn

Valera Vasylenko

Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer

Sergi Loras

Meteorologist

Josep-Francesc Valls

Distinguished Professor

Imma Haro

Chief Business Officer

Alexandre Llusera

Sales Manager

Pablo José Román

Head of Sales Iberia

Ivan Vaquero

Founder & CEO

Lluís Soldevila

Digital Leadership Professor

Aina Villalba

Technical Product Manager

Joan Puaté

Cluster Manager

Elisabeth Latorre

2n Deputy Mayor

Sandra Adrián

CEO

Esther Calbo

Professor and Chair of Medicine

Joan Francesc Bañó

Executive Director

Oscar Fonrodona

CEO

Núria Sicart

Finance and Corporate Services Director

Enrique Fernández Ambel

Brigadier General. Operations Division Chief, Air Staff

Marisol López Vicente

Director General for Innovation and Digital Culture

Evelyn Moreno

International Projects Deputy Director

Frederick Ayala

Marketing Data Scientist

Andrea Villena

Recruitment Headhunter Director

Oscar Garcia Pañella

Director

Eduard Sanz

Mayor

Àngel Josep García

Valorisation Manager

Alba Rosado

Strategic Growth Lead

Olga Escriu

Director of Business Solutions at Catalonia

Xavier Pérez

CEO

José Ramón Fernández

Head of Department Entrepreneurship & ICT ICEX

Fernando de Santos

IAON Coordinator

Manuel Járrega

President

Alex Viladomiu

Director Agency Office Leasing Barcelona

Oscar Pera

3D Printing Coordinator

Núria Gavaldà

Strategy Director & ATMP Platform Director

Jaume Sanpera

CEO

María Sánchez Leiva

Creative & Art Director

Sergio Otero

Business Development Manager – Flexible Production & SIMOVE

Sílvia Cufí

Medical Unit Director

Aleix Serrallonga

Coordinator of the Acelera Pyme Office

María Pilar González

Head of Institutional Promotion and Regional Cooperation

Laura García

Expansion and Energy Transition Director

Claudia Romeo

Founder & CEO

Santi Molins

CoFounder

Carla Salas

Data Scientist

Sandra Sieber

Professor in the Entrepreneurship Department

Daniel Casellas

Scientific Director

Pep Malagrava

Project Manager Levantino Balear Zone

Isaac Grau

COO & Co - Founder

Marc Vicens

Boss of the Soil Unit

Carol Benedí

Business development Manager. Food Industries

Alexander Phimister

Founder & CEO

Ignacio Rubio

President

Montse Barceló

Growth Strategy Advisor

Alexandra Olarte

Smart Factory & Cybersecurity Leader

Oriol Sentís

Participant in the TFS26 Program (Esplugues team)

David Ros

Deputy Director of Railway Tourism Services and Montserrat Manager

Laia Parellada

HR Manager Spain & Portugal

David Gómez

Academic Teacher

Raúl Enrique Orrego

General Manager

Ona Lázaro

Sant Boi team spokesperson

Alvar Gràcia

Senior Researcher

Ismael Colomina

CEO and Chief Scientist

Mariona Vidal

Director of Spain

Marcos González

CEO

Consuelo Rebolledo

Talent Manager

Marina Espin

Vice President, Business Development

Adrià Marín

Project Manager, Construction & Housing Polymers

Toni Ruiz

Senior Technology Entrepreneurship Consultant

Irene Quintero

Participant in the TFS26 Program (Gavà team)

Daniel Furlan

Vicepresident

Javier Peña

Co-Founder & CEO

Miguel Chillón

ICREA Researcher

Victoria Mejías

Founder & Instructional Designer

Yolanda Rey

Career Advisor

Cristina Arumí

Recognised Researcher

Sònia Callau-Berenguer

Head of Agrarian Spaces Directorate

Marta Gascón

Head of People Analytics & AI HR at NTTData Europe & LATAM

Alfonso Cossío

Country Leader - Applications Iberia

Tetiana Klymchuk

Co-Founder

Jan Samsó

Founder & CEO

Jaume Soler

Participant in the TFS26 Program (Cerdanyola team)

Fernando Casado

Cofounder & General Partner de Inclimo Climate Tech Fund

Joan Antoni López Martínez

Professor and Researcher

Iñaki Nieto

CEO

Joel Rojas

Student

Carme Plasencia

Chief Executive Officer

Jorge Blasco

Partner

Mara Dierssen

Group Leader

Jaume Ferre

CTO

Albert Aguado

CEO

Carolina Angelini

Director of Strategic Projects

Mónica Beatriz Della Pirriera

Photonic and Vision R&D Area manager

Joana Barbany

President

JangMi Baek

Co-founder

Jesús Subirana

Co-CEO

Gerard Valverde

Partner

Ferran Puntí

CEO

Mireia Sebastià

Enterpreneurship Manager

Alberto F. Ballesteros

Strategic Alliances Manager for Catalonia

Santiago Lopezbarrena

Sustainability and Regulatory Affairs Manager

Josep Samitier

Executive Director

Alfredo Sanz y Calabria

Chief Risk Officer

Carlos Martínez

Head of Studio

Miguel Silva

Founder

Alberto Bayo

CTO

Aïda Figuerola

Founder

Mª Carmen Noel

Human Resources and Wellness Executive, U.N. Store Management

José Antonio Domínguez Andreu

Commercial Manager – Agri-food Business

Ariadna Puig

CCO

Wulfran Martínez

CEO - Founder

Gabriela Musterova

Founder & CEO

Gemma Marfany

Full Professor of Genetics

Mike Blackman

Managing Director

Marc Balagué

Infrastructure Management Department Technician

Miguel Álvarez

Founder & CEO

Fernando Marzal

Founder & CEO

Xavier Roca

Director General of Industry

Ricardo Oliver

Head of AI Transformation Spain

Aymen Jemni

CEO

Jaime Vives

Past President

Fernando Fernández-Aranda

Head of Clinical Psychology Service Section, Full Professor of Psychology

José Antonio Pastor Cantarino

Commander of El Prat Air Base

Lourdes Borrell

Mayor

Gloria García-Cuadrado

President & Founder

Javier González Abad

Regional Tourism Councilor of Baix Llobregat

Laura Benítez

President

Pelayo García de Arquer

Professor and Group Leader

Joan Arnedo

Associate professor

Licia Verde

ICREA Professor

Miquel Salas

Scale-up and Access Director

Antoni Gilabert

Chief Innovation Officer

Eduardo Ferrer

CEO & Co-Founder

Karla Trejo

Head of Innovation - Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Group

Angie Granado

Project Manager

Abel Torrelles

CEO

Rodrigo Tofollo

Co-founder & Country Manager Spain

Albert Almajano

Regional IT Head Western Europe

Josep Maria Ribes

AI Observatory Director

Juan Carlos Ibáñez

Head of Applied AI

Tiago Santos

VP of Community and Growth

Joan Ribal

Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

Anna Golsa

CEO

David Comellas

CEO

Xavier Ribas

Director

Carla Meléndez

Talent Development Manager

Jose María Santos

Head of Institutional Business

Marta Princep

Senior Manager Innovation

Sandra Mingot

Head of EU and Defence Space Programs

Mercè Romero-Gómez

Associate Professor

Òscar Ribas

Regional Energy Manager Catalonia

Franz Bechtold

Sales Director Spain

Montserrat Puig

CEO

Nelson Atipo

CEO & Co-Founder

Vicent Altava

Technician at the Modelling and Applied Research Unit

Miguel Luis Lapeña

Deputy Director for City Promotion

Jaume Miralles Solé

Director General of Artificial Intelligence, Efficiency and Data in the Administration

Ernesto Fernández del Río

Retail Value Proposition Manager

Silvia Cabrera

Head of Promotion, Governance, and Operation of Digital Infrastructure - General Directorate of Digital Infrastructure, Secretariat of Telecommunications and Digital Transformation

Maurici Hervas

Energy Transition Manager

Beatriz Cardona

Partnerships Director

Jesús Prada

CEO

Gerard Moya

CEO

Conxi Pérez

CEO & Co-Founder

Brigitte Pérez

Career Services and Employment Director

Full list of speakers

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Barcelona New Economy Week – BNEW is a physical and digital B2B event that gathers unique events of the sectors of AGROFOOD, AI, AVIATION & SPACE, ENERGY, GAMING, HEALTH, SCIENCE and TALENT. They all share a common denominator: New Economy.

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