Seminar on Artificial Intelligence and Innovation at Círculo de Empresarios

The Círculo de Empresarios held a seminar on "Artificial Intelligence and innovation: application in value chains and the link between academia and business" with a key note from Ms. Carme Artigas, Spain's Secretary of State for Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence, followed by a roundtable discussion featuring Mr. José Duato (UPV - RAC), Ms. Ernestina Menasalvas (UPM), and Mr. Javier Calvo (Management Solutions)

 

The event, jointly organized by the Circulo de Empresarios groups for Digital Transformation, chaired by Mr. Alfonso Serrano-Suñer, and for Science and Innovation, co-chaired by Mr. Gil Gidron and Mr. Vicente López-Ibor, included a key note address by Ms. Carme Artigas, Secretary of State for Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence, who emphasized the importance of carrying out reforms to make the most of investments in Artificial Intelligence and innovation.

The Secretary of State's address was followed by a roundtable discussion moderated by Vicente López-Ibor and featuring Mr. José Duato, Professor at the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) and member of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Spain, Ms. Ernestina Menasalvas, Professor at the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM) and head of Artificial Intelligence, and Mr. Javier Calvo, Management Solutions Partner responsible for Research and Development. The panel discussion covered topics of interest such as the need for more universal and anonymized databases that bring together data not only from individual companies, the need for collaboration between academia, business and the public sector, as well as some case studies on the application of Artificial Intelligence in different industry sectors.