III CONGRESS

Inspiring Innovation

15 June 2023

Keynote Speakers

Álvaro Pascual Leone

Professor and neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School

Román Arjona

Chief Economist at the Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, European Commission, Brussels

Miguel Ángel Sánchez Valero

Executive Director of Strategy: Walmart, Nike, McKinsey, MIT

Martin Lambert

Head of Hydrogen Research at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, United Kingdom

Heyd Más

Programme Director at PACE (Platform for Accelerating the Circular Economy), World Resources Institute’s Centre for Sustainable Business

Programme

Talks in English will have simultaneous interpretation.

8:30 - 9:00

9:00 - 9:30

Opening of the congress by:

José E. Capilla, Rector of the Universitat Politècnica de València.
José Vicente Morata, Director of the Valencia Chamber of Commerce
Norberto Martínez Ibáñez, Director of Smart Business: Innovation & Values

9:30 - 10:15

Álvaro Pascual Leone, Professor and Neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.

The Brain of a Leader: how to build leadership through neuroscience.

10:15 - 10:45

Román Arjona, Chief Economist at the Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, European Commission, Brussels.

The impact of the “permacrisis” on industry: disruptions in value chains and the EU’s strategic dependencies.

10:45 - 11:30

Round table: European Regulation. Industry, SMEs and Entrepreneurship.

Moderator: Gonzalo Escribano, Senior Analyst at the Elcano Royal Institute.

Panellists: Ignacio Más, CEO of Startup Valencia; José Luis García Broch, European Planning Director at BP; Jerónimo Franco, R&D and European Projects Director at SAV; Román Arjona, Chief Economist at the Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, European Commission.

11:30 - 12:00

Coffee / Networking.

12:00 - 12:45

Round Table: Predictive Analytics. Opportunities to apply Artificial Intelligence in organisations.

Moderator: Jon Ander Gómez, Lecturer on the Data Science degree at the UPV.

Panellists: Vicente Albert, CTO of Jeanologia; Manuel Bosch, CTO of Ribera Salud; Marcos Rozas, Digital Transformation Director at Obremo/Grupo Gimeno; Nacho Reig, Deputy COO of Zeus.

12:45 - 13:30

Miguel Ángel Sánchez-Valero, Executive Director of Strategy: Walmart, Nike, McKinsey, MIT.

Strategic transformations in logistics to drive business goals.

13:30 - 14:15

Round Table: Keys to zero-emission logistics.

Moderator: Ignasi Gómez Belinchón, Director of the National Railway Cluster.

Panellists: Francesc Castro, Regional Manager at Panasonic Connect Europe; Federico Torres, Energy Transition Director at the Valencia Port Authority; Antón Esmoris, Product Manager at Mahle; Daniel Soler, CFO of Power Electronics.

14:15 - 15:45

Networking Lunch

15:45 - 16:30

Round Table: Driving innovative solutions to foster talent and competitiveness in organisations.

Moderator: Juan Vicente Capella, Director of the UPV’s Ciudad Politécnica de la Innovación (CPI).

Panellists: Elías Colom, Corporate Director of Global Omnium; David Gastón, R&D Director at HP; Santiago de Taranco, CEO of Alberta Norweg; Antonio Piles, General Manager of Business Development at Grupo Bertolín.

16:30 - 17:15

Martin Lambert. Head of Hydrogen Research at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, United Kingdom.

Green hydrogen: Hype or Hope.

17:15 - 18:00

Round Table: How to scale innovative companies and spin-offs.

Moderator: Adolfo Plasencia, science and technology journalist.

Panellists: Fernando Conesa, Head of the UPV Service for the Promotion and Support of Research, Innovation and Transfer; María Guillem, CSO of Corify Care; Luis Morró, Chairman of TRL+, founding partner of Tanskriptorium AI and Sensing Tools; Jon Ander Gómez, Co-founder and CDO of Solver Intelligent Analytics.

18:00 - 18:45

Heyd Más. Programme Director at PACE (Platform for Accelerating the Circular Economy), World Resources Institute’s Centre for Sustainable Business, The Hague, Netherlands.
How to accelerate the Circular Economy in organisations.

18:45

Wine & Chill Out – Networking.