Session moderated by ACCIÓ with the participation of three Catalan companies that have promoted successful innovation projects using AI thanks to the collaboration with the technological partners of the European initiative Digital Innovation Hub of Catalonia. In a dynamic debate format, we will discover how these proofs of concept have translated into real impact for their business models, improving competitiveness, efficiency and value for the customer. In addition, attendees will be able to learn first-hand how to access services and connect with the digital innovation ecosystem that is transforming the Catalan business fabric.

Moderates:

• Sandra Pérez, Industry 4.0 Team Leader, Innovation and Technological Transformation, ACCIÓ

Participate:

ACCIÓ | LinkedIN

Sandra holds a degree in Industrial Engineering and a degree in Chemical Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. She holds a master’s degree in Business Consulting and Advisory Services and a postgraduate degree in Innovation Management. She has more than 15 years of experience in the field of innovation and advanced technologies. Before joining ACCIÓ, she worked at Price Waterhose Coopers, in the business and technology consulting area, and at Bourbon Offshore (United Arab Emirates), where she led the innovation and technology projects team.
She currently leads ACCIÓ’s Advanced Digital Technologies team in the Innovation and Technology Transfer Unit.

www.vrain-medical.com | LinkedIN

I am the CEO of VRAIn, a Startup working to solve the greatest challenges of the 3D bioimaging visualisation and analysis using VIRTUAL REALITY (VR) and ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI).

Before that I was holding a Marie Curie Postdoctoral fellowship (co-funded with the Catalan Government) on Virtual Reality (VR) fused with nano-analytical tools (Super-resolution nanoscopy) between the UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE and Visyon (VR Company).

I am also a member of the Trinity College Postdoctoral Society of the University of Cambridge.

emelcat.cat | LinkedIN

Industrial engineering and phd in electronics from UPC, she has dedicated more than 30 years to the development and promotion of renewable energies, first from the university where she still teaches, where she was project manager in Innovation, working on power electronics with batteries, algorithms for the integration of wind turbines into the grid, and as a technical representative to international, European and state regulatory committees. Since 2014, she has been president and technician director at Emelcat, a cooperative with the aim of making the electricity system more sustainable, both socially and environmentally by integrating storage to achive manager of renewable generation.

lafoneria.com | LinkedIN

Gerard Corbella holds a degree in History (UB), a postgraduate diploma in Audiovisual Anthropology (UB), and is a PhD candidate in the program Information and Knowledge Society (UOC) with the thesis Human Rights Archives, Information Technologies and Artificial Intelligence. He has worked as technician and head of the Documentation Centre at the Democratic Memorial of the Government of Catalonia, where he promoted online historical dissemination projects applying information technologies. In 2021 he founded La Foneria, a company specialized in applying disruptive technologies to cultural heritage, with research projects and collaborations with human rights archives in Europe, Latin America and Asia.