V CONGRESS

Best innovative strategies for leading to a green transition

5 June 2025

Keynote Speakers

Marta Marinas

Strategic Accounts Director

David Stainforth

Professor and researcher in climate strategy

Gokcin Cinar

Researcher in electrified aircraft propulsion projects

Dustin Tingley

Professor of Public Policy. Energy transition and climate specialist

Alicia Muñoz

Deputy Secretary of the Board, Santander Spain

Programme

Talks in English will have simultaneous interpretation.

8:30

9:00

Opening of the congress:

Salvador Coll, Vice-Rector for Innovation and Transfer at the UPV.
David Rosa, Director of Valencia Innovation Capital.
Felipe Javier Carrasco, Regional Secretary for Industry, Trade and Consumer Affairs, Generalitat Valenciana.
Norberto Martínez Ibáñez, Director of Smart Business: Innovation & Values.

MOBILITY TRACK

9:30 - 10:15

Conference: Gokcin Cinar, Principal Investigator at the University of Michigan, collaborating with NASA on electrified aircraft propulsion projects.

Charting the future of sustainable aviation.

10:15 - 11:00

Round table: Green and smart mobility strategy: Decarbonisation, digitalisation, intermodality and infrastructure.

Moderator: Ignasi Gómez-Belinchón, Director of Railgrup.

Panellists: Frédéric Reutenauer, Regional Director of PTV Group; Fermín Tirado, Engineering and Maintenance Operations, Air Nostrum; Tomás Ruiz, Director of the UPV Chair in Transport and Society; Jorge Vara, Head of development of light vehicle and passenger platforms, Stadler.

11:00 - 11:30

Coffee / Networking.

TECHNOLOGY TRACK

11:30 - 12:15

Conference: Marta Marinas, Strategic Accounts Director at Google.

Google’s innovation formula revealed: people, technology and a touch of AI.

12:15 - 13:00

Round table: Strategies in smart technologies: Personalised, Predictive and Sustainable.

Moderator: Paola Miquel, Director of Invest In Valencia (Valencia Chamber of Commerce).

Panellists: Esther Aucejo, Digital Project Manager, Innovation and Digital Transformation, Ribera Salud; Ricardo Vinuesa, Founding Partner of XturIA; David Rosa, Director of Valencia Innovation Capital; Steve Bryen, Managing Director, Mesh AI; Jose Ventura, Data & AI Sales Representative, IBM.

CLIMATE TRACK

13:00 - 13:45

Conference: David Stainforth, Professor and researcher in climate strategy at the London School of Economics.

How to plan for an uncertain climate future.

13:45 - 15:00

Networking Lunch

15:00 - 15:45

Round table: Sustainable climate strategy: Risk mitigation. Resilient corporations. Environmental awareness.

Moderator: Javier Urchueguía, Professor of Industrial Engineering at the UPV.

Panellists: Joan Aguado, Head of the Climate Change and Energy Transition Section, Valencia Provincial Council; José Cuenca, Director of AVASA; Israel Griol, Technical Manager, StartUPV.

ENERGY TRACK

15:45 - 16:30

Conference: Dustin Tingley, Professor of Public Policy and energy transition and climate specialist, Harvard University.

Green energy transitions: Local economies, global contexts and trade-offs everywhere.

16:30 - 17:15

Round table: Energy strategy: Creating efficient, competitive and sustainable environments.

Moderator: Enrique Bayonne, Director of the Valencian Region Energy Cluster.

Panellists: Daniel Soler, CFO of Power Electronics; Fernando Giner, Business Development Director at GDES; Carla Montagud, Director of the UPV Chair in Urban Energy Transition; Carlos Sanz, Corporate Development Director at Matteco.

SUSTAINABILITY TRACK

17:15 - 18:00

Conference: Alicia Muñoz Lombardía, Deputy Secretary of the Board of Santander Spain.

The role of the financial sector in the transition to a low-carbon economy.

18:00 - 18:45

Round table: Sustainability strategies: Comprehensive positive impact.

Moderator: Rafael Escamilla, Director of Institutional Relations at IVACE.

Panellists: Elías Amor, Head of Sustainability at Consum; Raúl Sangrós, Director of the Industrial Transformation Unit at UBE Corporation Europe; Mª Luz Pérez Bou, Integrated Systems Director at Grupo Bertolín; Matthijs Kostelijk, Investment Director, CCEP Ventures at Coca-Cola.

18:45

Wine & Chill Out – Networking.