Andrea Mills

Andrea A. Mills

Speaker Chapter 3
4-5 May 2023, A Coruña, Spain
Speaker Chapter 1
3-4 June 2021, Granada, Spain

Andrea MillsChief Advisor, External R&D and Emerging Technologies for PMI Science and Innovation Ecosystems, Philip Morris International

Andrea Mills is a serial innovator, intrapreneur, technology senior advisor to C-Suite executives, and an experienced corporate venture capitalist. He is currently the Chief Advisor for External R&D and Emerging Technologies for Science and Innovation at Philip Morris International, and the Chief Ecosystems Orchestrator of BlueX, a global open innovation ecosystem for accelerated technology scouting, and for forging industry-research collaborations with top universities and applied-research labs around the world.

He is an internationally-recognized thought leader and trusted knowledge source for senior executives across multiple industries on many key aspects of open innovation, technology scouting and acquisitions, IP licensing deals, orchestrating of external R&D ecosystems, and building multi-disciplinary product innovation capabilities in deep-tech knowledge domains.

Andrea Mills 25+ C-Suite advisory track record and experience with top multinational clients span across multiple industries including pharma, biotech, aerospace, telecom, oil & gas, FMCG, and fintech.

Bernd Weiss

Bernd Weiss

Speaker Chapter 3
4-5 May 2023, A Coruña, Spain
Bernd WeissManaging Director at Astromerge & Researcher Creaternity at Luleå University of Technology

Bernd is managing partner at Astromerge, where he is developing concepts to implement circular material flows in the space industry. In addition he is developing a fully reusable spacecraft platform.

Bernd is currently also pursuing a doctoral degree in engineering at Luleå University of Technology. He conducts research on accelerating industry-scale transformation and best practices to enable Sustainable-Design-by-Default. He is co-founder at Creaternity Labs, an accelerator to foster university-industry collaboration and innovation based on the circular economy principles.

Bernd passionately advocates for universal access to technology and knowledge, believing that it has the power to transform lives and driving positive change in the world.

José Manuel Albares Bueno

José Manuel Albares Bueno

Speaker Chapter 3
4-5 May 2023, A Coruña, Spain
José Manuel Albares BuenoMinister of Foreign Affairs, Spain
José Manuel Albares Bueno (1972) has been the Minister for Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation of the Kingdom of Spain since 10 July 2021.
He has been the Spanish Ambassador to the French Republic and the Principality of Monaco and Secretary-General for International Affairs, European Union, G20 and Global Security at the Office of the President of the Government, acting as a sherpa to the President of the Government both before the European Union and the G20.
A career diplomat. He has been posted to Colombia, France and the Permanent Representation of Spain to the OECD. In his posting to the OECD, he was elected Vice-Chairman of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC).
He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Law from Deusto University, specialised in legal-economic matters with a Diploma in Business Science, a Diploma in National Defence from CESEDEN and a Diploma in Cultural Management Aboard from Carlos III University, in collaboration with the Diplomatic School. He founded and coordinated the Circle for International Reflection.
He has been awarded the Commander by Number of the Order of Isabella the Catholic and the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit for Distinguished Services in Peru, the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic and the Grand Cross of the Royal Order of the Pole Star of Sweden.
He has four children.​
Julián Cerviño Iglesia

Julián Cerviño Iglesia

Speaker Chapter 3
4-5 May 2023, A Coruña, Spain
Julián Cerviño IglesiaDirector, Agency for Technological Modernization of Galicia

Julián Cerviño Iglesia is the current Director of the Agency for Technological Modernization of Galicia (AMTEGA).

Between 1998 and 2022 he worked in the private sector, in the field of information systems consulting.

From 1998 to 2007, he held various positions at Soluziona (now Indra), initially as a systems analyst and later directing projects for the Galician Health Service as a senior consultant, where he participated in the design and implementation of the electronic medical record system (IANUS).

In 2007 he founded the company Queres, in which he held the positions of CTO and CFO, while participating in various projects for multiple public and private clients as a senior consultant. This professional stage ended with the sale of the company Queres to the consulting firm Izertis in 2020.

From 2020 to 2022 he was responsible for the Content Management Systems department at Izertis, at the same time as a senior consultant for the Infrastructure and Security Area of ​​Amtega.

He was born in 1974 in Santiago de Compostela (A Coruña). He has a degree in Physical Sciences, specializing in Electronics (1997, USC).

Carolina García Gómez

Carolina García Gómez

Speaker Chapter 3
4-5 May 2023, A Coruña, Spain
Carolin García GómezGlobal Head of New Business & Innovation, IKEA

In her role Carolina is responsible for leading New Business & Innovation as a new capability to explore, design, innovate and deploy new viable businesses, business models, services, and innovative solutions for Ingka (IKEA).

Carolina is Industrial Engineer with an MBA by IESE Business School and has been working at IKEA for last 17 years. Her journey started in IKEA Bilbao Store in Spain then moving to Sweden to work in the Global Sales Function. She returned to Spain as Store Manager in IKEA Malaga and opening of IKEA Valencia store and then Deputy Retail Manager for CZ/HU/SK region and IKEA Japan.

After leading IKEA Poland as Country Retail Manager and Chief Sustainability Officer she joined Group Digital as Digitalisation Manager to then start the global assignment as Head of New Business and Innovation with multi hub team based in Malmo, Amsterdam and Madrid.

Vinayak Godse

Vinayak Godse

Speaker Chapter 3
4-5 May 2023, A Coruña, Spain
Vinayak GodseCEO, Data Security Council of India

Vinayak Godse is the CEO of Data Security Council of India. He has over 27 years of experience in Information Security, IT Transformation, Intelligent Networking and Telecom Infrastructure.

Vinayak also leads the National Centre of Excellence (NCoE) for Cybersecurity Technology and Entrepreneurship, a joint initiative of DSCI and Ministry of Electronics & IT. NCoE is engaged in cybersecurity industry building, fostering security research and product engineering, and building an ecosystem for security entrepreneurship.

He has been deeply engaged with all initiatives of DSCI with government stakeholders and sectoral regulators. He was instrumental in developing DSCI Security Framework (DSF), DSCI Privacy Framework (DPF) and DSCI Certified Privacy Lead Assessor (DCPLA), DSCI Certified Privacy Professional (DCPP) certifications and conducted many of these training programs.

Prior to DSCI, he worked with the Global Consulting Practice of TCS in Information Risk Management and also worked as a Telecom Engineer at BSNL. He started his career as a lecturer in Electronics Engineering.

Omar Hatamleh

Omar Hatamleh

Speaker Chapter 3
4-5 May 2023, A Coruña, Spain
Speaker Chapter 2
2-3 June 2022, A Coruña, Spain
Speaker Chapter 1
3-4 June 2021, Granada, Spain

Omar HatamlehCo-author of BetweenBrains and Executive Chairman at Ecosystems 2030

Dr. Omar Hatamleh is co-author of BetweenBrains. A book that explores the impact of Artificial Intelligence on the future of jobs, ethics, technologies and economies. Omar is former Chief Innovation Officer, Engineering at NASA (2015 – March 2020) and Executive Director of the Space Studies Program at the International Space University (2016-2019). Omar has 25 years of aerospace industry experience and has published over 33 international journal articles; he has four engineering degrees, speaks four languages, and has been an invited keynote speaker to multiple national and international events.

Aysha Khan

Aysha Khan

Speaker Chapter 3
4-5 May 2023, A Coruña, Spain
Aysha KhanCISO & CIO, Treasure Data

Aysha Khan is the CISO and CIO at Treasure Data, a leading enterprise CDP with more than 450 global enterprise clients.

A cybersecurity leader with over 21 years of experience managing Information Technology & Security at Fortune 500 companies, Aysha is passionate about driving business results by aligning strategy with agile execution. She has a proven track record of building effective IT, Security, and Trust functions from the ground up.

In addition, Aysha has a strong passion for diversity and inclusion and is the Executive Sponsor of Treasure Data’s DEIB initiative. In her volunteer role, she is helping create a diverse pipeline of incoming talent that can benefit from productive career development and a fully inclusive culture.

Lenin Gali

Lenin Gali

Speaker Chapter 3
4-5 May 2023, A Coruña, Spain
Lenin GaliCIO & CISO, GIT1K

Lenin Gali is the Co-Founder, CIO & CISO advisor at Global IT 1000 (GIT1K), an executive and operator syndicate that specializes in funding and advising startups. Prior to founding GIT1K, Lenin was the CIO, CISO and SVP of Engineering at Quotient Technologies. Prior to Quotient, Lenin led cloud infrastructure, data engineering, security and privacy practices for over a decade in various roles at Ubisoft, ShareThis and at Home Shopping Network. Lenin is an author, speaker, investor, and advisor for startups where he has been actively involved for over a decade. He is also Founder, CEO and Board member of Leadership & Golf, a nonprofit, that brings current and future generations of leaders and golfers together to share, mentor, and learn about leadership and golf skills. He is based in San Francisco, California, U.S.A.

Onur Korucu

Onur Korucu

Speaker Chapter 3
4-5 May 2023, A Coruña, Spain
Onur KorucuVP, EMEA Consulting Practice, Privacy, TerzionDX

Onur Korucu has started and continued her professional life in multinational professional services companies such as KPMG, PwC and Grant Thornton. She had the opportunity to work as an experienced consultant and part of senior management in different world geographies. Recently she worked as a GRC, Cyber Security and Data Protection senior manager within Avanade UK & Ireland before moving into her new role; VP of Consulting Cyber Security and Data Protection at one of the Microsoft partners.

 

She is an information security, compliance, and privacy professional focused primarily on emerging technologies from information security and data protection perspectives. On top of her technical engineering degree and M.Sc degree, she obtained her LL.M in Information and Technology Law. She also completed a Business Analytics executive education program at the University of Cambridge.

She published a book about risk-based global approaches to improve data protection. She has also been publishing articles in prestigious magazines such as Harvard Business Review and Tomorrow Magazine about trending technology, cyber security and data privacy trends. She was one of the lecturers for the Cyber Security Masters programme at Sabanci University Istanbul. She is a Women in Tech world ambassador and IAPP Ireland Chapter Chair. She was nominated for the GRC Role Model of the Year 2022 and Cyber Women of the Year 2022 awards. She continues to appear in seminars, conferences around the world as a speaker. She has CISM, CDPSE, CRISC, ITIL-F, and ISO 27001 LA certifications.