Faster that the Future: Presenting the DFS book

Carme Artigas is a Spanish executive and entrepreneur as well as one of the most recognized expert in Big Data, IA and innovation in Spain. She was named Secretary of State for Digitalization and IA in 2020 and, since then, she has launched programmes aimed to the digitalization of SMEs, investment in high impact technologies, entrepreneurship and many more that are contributing to the digitalization transformation of Spain.

Ms Cristina Colom has developed her professional career in the fields of corporate communication, marketing, brand and reputation, media, and crisis management. She combines extensive experience in multilateral organisations such as the European Commission and the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), along with a long career in both the public administration (Generalitat de Catalunya) and large corporations such as the international energy company Shell. She holds a degree in Economics by the University of Barcelona, MA in European Affairs by the University of Exeter and a post-degree on Community Management and Social Media by the IL3-UB.
Cristina is currently leading Digital Future Society, an initiative from Mobile World Capital Barcelona supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation that seeks to build an inclusive, equitable and sustainable future in the digital era.

Professor of Ethics and Technology, Hertie School of Governance. Expert in both natural and Artificial Intelligence, Bryson publishes in both natural and social sciences, as well as ethics and technology policy. She advises governments, transnational agencies, and NGOs globally, particularly in AI policy. She holds two degrees each in psychology and AI (BA Chicago, MSc & MPhil Edinburgh, PhD MIT). Her work has appeared in venues ranging from reddit to the journal Science.

Jeremias Adams-Prassl is Professor of Law at Magdalen College, University of Oxford, and Deputy Director of the Law Faculty’s Institute of European and Comparative Law. He read law at Oxford, Paris, and Harvard Law School, and is particularly interested in the role of technology in shaping the future of work and innovation. He is the author of numerous articles and books, including The Concept of the Employer (OUP 2015) and Humans as a Service: the Promise and Perils of Work in the Gig Economy (OUP 2018). His work has been recognised by prizes for teaching, research, and public impact, including the Modern Law Review’s Wedderburn Prize, a British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award, and the 2019 St Petersburg Prize.

Director at Barcelona Supercomputing Center (Centro Nacional de Supercomputación). His research focuses on high performance architectures. Telecommunications Engineer Doctor. Since 1983, Mateo has been a professor at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. He has published more than 600 articles in the area of high-performance computer architecture. He has the tree most relevant international awards in Computer Architecture. Mateo is Honorary Doctorate by nine universities and member of nine academies.

A seasoned European technology journalist, analyst, keynote speaker and event curator, Robin Wauters is the co-founder and managing editor of Tech.eu, the premier technology information portal and market intelligence platform in Europe, Israel and Russia. Robin was formerly the European Editor of The Next Web, and before that a Senior Editor at TechCrunch. In addition, Robin is part of the World Economic Forum’s Digital Europe initiative, the ‘Digital Leaders of Europe’ community, and is a co-founder of BeCentral, the digital and social entrepreneurship campus in central Brussels.

Nadia Calviño holds degrees in Economics and Law and is member of the corps of State Economists and Trade Experts of the Spanish Administration, where she served from 1994 to 2006. Before joining the Spanish Government in 2018, she worked for the European Commission as Director General for Budget.

Industrial Engineer by the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) and PDD by IESE, Carlos Grau has a long career in the field of communication and information technologies, as well as in the development of digital business. After holding various sales and marketing management positions in companies in the ICT sector such as Hewlett-Packard, Accenture, Sun Microsystems or Telefonica, Grau joined Microsoft as general manager in Catalonia.

In recent years, Carlos Grau has focused his activity in the field of innovation, where he has led projects such as Biid, a startup focused on mobile identity, or Step One Ventures, a venture capital that invests in technology companies with high potential of growth. Grau has also been a mentor for entrepreneurs through Barcelona Activa or the Startupbootcamp IoT and Data acceleration program, promoted in collaboration with MWCapital.

In November 2017, Carlos Grau was appointed CEO of the Mobile World Capital Barcelona Foundation (MWCapital).