2024 PROGRAMME

1st DAY: STRATEGY AND TRENDS
9 October | 9.00h to 19.00h
On the first day of the congress, we will have the participation of different experts who will give their vision of AI putting the person at the centre (whether as a user, citizen, patient, ...), regarding topics such as: human and social relations, geopolitics, sustainability, ethics and regulation, business, innovation, finance and banking, the future of work, leisure, etc.

Welcome
09.00h to 09.15h

ANA FREIRE
Vice-Dean for Social Impact and Academic Innovation at the UPF Barcelona School of Management
09.15h to 09.45h

XIAOPENG YE
Solution Architect, Huawei Cloud Europe
ROI RODRÍGUEZ,
Head of AI Ecosystem Development and Data Spaces, Huawei
09.45h a 10.15h

SUSANA GIMENEZ
CoE IA Technical Solutions
CaixaBank Tech
10.15h to 10.45h

COFFEE BREAK | 10.45h to 11.30h

RIKA NAKAZAWA, Group Chief Commercial Innovation, NTT DATA.
Co-founder and chair, Strides AI
11.30h to 12.30h

Institutional session
12.30h to 13.00h

RECOGNITION OF PROFESSIONAL CAREER:
RAMON LÓPEZ DE MÁNTARAS
Professor at the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (CSIC)
13.00h to 13.30h

JAVIER CORONADO, Senior Data Scientist, Telefónica Tech
& SARA MARTÍNEZ, Data & AI technical sales engineer, IBM
13.30h a 14.00h

LUNCH BREAK | 14.00h to 15.00h

ALEJANDRO MATAMALA,
Co-founder & CDO, Runway
15.00h to 16.00h

MIKEL URIZAR
Generative AI Center of Excellence Manager
Iberia-Latam, Inetum
& ALBERT CAPDEVILA, Principal Architect, Data Analytics, Google Cloud
16.00h a 16.30h

JOSÉ MANUEL MUÑOZ
Legal Director, Adequa Corporación
16.30h to 17.00h

10th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
17.00h a 19.00h | SALA BIKINI (L'Illa, Av. Diagonal, 547)

Join us to celebrate the tenth aniversary of the AI & BD Congress, to network and to learn about some outstanding business initiatives during the last 10 years, all enlivened in Sala Bikini style.

2nd DAY: TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT
10 OCTOBER | 9.00h to 14.00h
Throughout this day, a tour of the main technological trends in AI is proposed through six parallel thematic sessions (in the Auditorium and in Room 1) where representative projects and initiatives will be presented.
AUDITORIUM

GENERATIVE AI:LLMs VS SLMs
09.00h to 10.00h

MULTIMODAL TRANSFORMER MODELS I
10.00h to 10.30h

COFFEE BREAK | 10.30h to 11.15h

MULTIMODAL TRANSFORMER MODELS II
11.15h to 12.15h

MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS AND ACTIONABLE AI: OPTIMAL AND/OR AUTONOMOUS CONTROL SCENARIOS
12.15h to 13.30h

CLOSING | 13.30h
ROOM 1

GENERATIVE AI: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES
09.00h to 10.00h

EXPLAINABILITY: ADVANCES IN BLACK BOX MODELS
10.00h to 10.30h

COFFEE BREAK | 10.30h to 11.15h

QUANTUM COMPUTING AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
11.15h to 12.15h

In 2024 we will have the participation of: