Joe Haslam is the Executive Director of the Owners & Entrepreneurs Management Program at the IE Business School in Madrid. In the MBA program, he teaches an elective called Trillion Dollar Challenges which focuses on Exponential technologies. He is also a mentor in the IE Venture lab. From Ireland, Joe has cofounded a number of startups going back to 1998. He is the Chairman and cofounder of Hot.es, a mobile only last minute hotel booking App. He is also on the board of Gaspay.com & Gaspay.com. As a non profit, he sits on the advisory board of StartupDublin.com. Joe has lived in eight countries and speaks four languages.
I am graduated in Journalism at the University of Malaga in 2001, EMBA – Executive Master Business Administration at ESIC Business & Marketing School in 2009 and Higher Programme in Digital Marketing at Esic Business & Marketin School in 2015. I am currently working as Managing Director of the Association of Science and Technology Parks (APTE) in which I have been working since 2000. I am responsible for the management and administration of the following areas: Association services with special focus in brand communication, cooperation projects between members, international projects and cooperation with other networks of innovation at national and international level. Since August 2014, I have worked as an expert in communication in science and technology parks collaborating in two projects, one of them carried out in Boyacá Colombia for the development of the viability and master plan of the first science and technology park in the region and the other in Tenerife for the design of the marketing plan of the Science and Technology Park of Tenerife. Previously I worked for two years as editor of the news services of Guadalhorce Television, a local television station in Malaga where she established the news agenda to be elaborated every day, she searched and elaborated the information and presented the news daily.
Full Professor at the Signal, Systems and Radio-communications Department of the E.T.S. Ingenieros de Telecomunicación of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, where he has been teaching on topics related to Communications, Audio-visual Systems and Computer Vision since 1994. Director of the Visual Telecommunication Application Research Group – GATV from 2004 to 2019, and Director of the Chair of the Spanish Public Broadcaster RTVE at UPM since 2015.
Dina Pereira is currently managing UBIMEDICAL at University of Beira Interior (UBI), incubator for health and life sciences. Previously, had worked as researcher at Instituto Superior Técnico (CEG-IST) – University of Lisbon and coordinated the IP Office at the Division of Research and Development of University of Beira Interior, where she was also responsible for EU Fundraising. She is member of the EIT Food RIS Council and mentor of the EIT Health Mentoring and Coaching Network (MCN). She realized many specializations in the fields of IP at INPI, EPO, WIPO and ASTP and entrepreneurship and technology transfer, at University College London, AUTM, UCLA, and University of Texas. She is co-author of a set of publications in entrepreneurship and innovation. She is associate researcher of CEG-IST – Centre for Management Studies /IST-University of Lisbon and NECE- Research Centre in Business Sciences/University of Beira Interior. She won the National Innovation Prize, 2017, National Innovation Agency and Ministry of Economy, Portugal; and the Best Paper Award of the Interdisciplinary European Conference in Entrepreneurial Research, IECER 2012, University of Regensburg, Germany. Her research interests include: entrepreneurship; innovation; coopetition and quality of work life. ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1119-2744
Multidisciplinary professional with a global mindset and international vocation. More than 15 years of experience driving innovation, value creation and wealth generation in the Basque Country; With an extensive knowledge of the business and the scientific-technological fabric. Throughout my career, I have had the opportunity to get to know first-hand and learn in some of the most vibrant and recognised global innovation ecosystems such as Boston, Silicon Valley, or Shanghai, and other closer ones such as Cambridge-London, Barcelona, or Malaga. A Fellow of the Basque American Leadership Program, an international leadership programme in the US aimed at young talents with high professional development potential; the experience, with stay and high-level meetings with the main stakeholders, think tanks, lobbies and most prestigious academic institutions in the country such as Havard, MIT, Georgetown or George Washington University, or CIC -Cambridge Innovation Center -, among others, has marked my career and professional vocation. Curious by nature, I speak six languages, I am passionate about music and I do not get tired of learning. A tireless traveler, I have traveled more than 30 countries in search of new experiences and opportunities. Impeccable, committed and creative. I continue to look for new professional and personal challenges; I think with passion, patience and perseverance nothing is impossible.
Computer science engineer, futurist, enthusiastic about the future, the society and the technology.
I was born in 86, I grew up with the albums of The Smiths and Talking Heads, and since I was little I get lost in the universe of books and stories. These were the reasons why, years later, I decided to study Journalism and I was fascinated by the universe of travel, cultures and traditions. It was also this desire that led me to study in Ljubljana (Slovenia) and to work in cinema in Santiago de Compostela (Spain).
In professional terms, and after a period of several years in journalism and television and cinema production, in 2013 I decided to change and leave my comfort zone. I trained in Entrepreneurship in Cultural Industries, in Video Capture and Editing and in Communication Strategies and became Communication Manager of Tec Labs, the incubator of the Faculty of Sciences of ULisboa, where my main functions were the management of social networks and online platforms, press relations, content and event production, video and image editing, as well as training in the areas of entrepreneurship, communication and design thinking.
More recently, I embraced the challenge of coordinating the same incubator after almost six years of evolution and learning in support of students, researchers and entrepreneurs with scientific and technological projects.