SPEAKERS

Maria Tsavachidis
CEO
EIT Urban Mobility

Prof Carlos Moreno
Scientific director of the Chair “Entrepreneurship – Territory – Innovation”
IAE Paris – Sorbonne University (France).
He works at the heart of issues of international significance as a result of his research, bringing an innovative perspective on urban issues and offering solutions to the issues faced by the cities, metropolises and territories during the 21st century.
Some of his concepts traveled the world: the Human Smart City, the 15mn City, the Territory of 30mn.

Aleksandra Klenke
Policy Officer, European Commission
Directorate Mobility and Transport, Sustainable and Intelligent Transport Unit

Valentino Sevino
Director of Mobility Planning Area
Milan Environment and Territory Mobility Agency

Ángeles Marín Andréu
Director of the Mobility Strategy Office
MITMA
She has worked for the Ministry of Development, now known as the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and the Urban Agenda, since 2012. After working at the Technical Department of the General Secretariat of Transport (2012-2016) and the Subdirectorate of International Relations (2016-2019), she has been the Director of the Mobility Strategy Office at the General Secretariat of Transport and Mobility since January 2020.
In this position she is responsible for coordinating the drafting, promotion and launch of the Safe, Sustainable and Connected Mobility Strategy for 2030, writing the Draft Law on Sustainable Mobility and implementing the measures of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (RTRP) within the scope of the Transport Secretariat.

Manel Villalante
Chief Development and Strategy Officer
Renfe
Prior to this he was the Director of Mobility and Transport Infrastructures at the Barcelona Regional Urban Development Agency (2012-2018), Managing Director of Land Transport for the Spanish Ministry of Development (2010-2012), Managing Director of Land Transport for the Catalan Autonomous Government (Generalitat de Catalunya) (2007-2010) and Director of Mobility at Barcelona City Council (1991-1997), and he held various managerial posts from 2004 to 2007 at Ferrocarriles de la Generalitat de Catalunya (FGC) and from 2000 to 2004 at Barcelona Metropolitan Transport (TMB).
He has also been a member of different Boards of Directors at companies including Renfe Operadora, TMB, FGC and the Sagrera Alta Velocidad Consortium.
In the academic sphere, he currently directs the Postgraduate course ‘Smart Mobility: Intelligent Transport Systems’ at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, having been a lecturer in Transport Planning and Economy at the same university.

Daniel Serra
Innovation Hub Director South
EIT Urban Mobility
He will take part at the round table about the economic reality of the new automotive sector: financing and electric vehicles.

Joseba Lasa
Head of Electric Aircraft Lab
Tecnalia
Electric Aircraft Lab is distinguished by its capacity for future foresight and strategy and the ideation of this near future, but in addition to all this by knowing which ideas are possible and knowing how to turn those into physical, working realities. His team engages in cutting edge research by designing and building creative experimental platforms that allow them to explore the fundamental principles of transportation and aerial robotics in the areas of dynamics and control.

Noemi Moya
Regional Head of Public Policy for Spain, Italy, France and Belgium
Voi Technology
She has a Degree in Political Science and Public Administration from the UAB, a Postgraduate Degree in Intercultural Relations with East Asia from the same University and Master’s Studies in Asian Geopolitics from Chonbuk National University, South Korea.

David Fidalgo
CEO
Y Mobility

Lluís Molina
Business Development Manager
European Battery Alliance – EIT InnoEnergy
Lluís Molina is an economist and has a Master’s Degree from Essex University. He has over 25 years’ experience in developing industrial projects, focusing on cleantech and the circular economy. He is currently responsible for accelerating strategic projects for raw material extraction and refining at the European Battery Alliance (www.eba250.com).

Ángel Lequerica
Director of new diversification business development
Fagor Ederlan Taldea

Arturo Pérez de Lucía
Managing Director
AEDIVE

Mónica Díaz
Technician – Energy Efficiency and Sustainability Area
EVE Basque Energy Agency

Jon Asin
CEO & co-founder
BeePlanet Factory
Jon is CEO and Co-founder of BeePlanet Factory S. L. (created in March 2018), a startup dedicated to the reuse of electric vehicle batteries and recharging systems, a company that won the La Caixa Entrepreneur XXI Award in February 2019 in Navarra (https://bit.ly/2Nfj7Ve) and the Expansion “Startup” Award (https://bit.ly/38aBKTI).
Telecommunications Engineer by UPNA (Universidad Pública de Navarra) with more than 20 years of experience in three sectors of great relevance for electric mobility: Energy (Ingeteam Power Technology), Automotive (TRW Automotive) and ICT (Telefonica Móviles, Matra Nortel, S21sec). He was a founding member of AEDIVE (Association of Innovative Electric Vehicle Recharge Infrastructure Companies) in 2011, holding the position of president from 2016 to 2018 and from 2009 to 2015 he was an expert member of the IEC committee TC69 “Electric road vehicles and electric industrial trucks”, a committee in charge of developing international standards for electric vehicles and their chargers.

Aitor Fernández
Chairman
Spanish Autonomous Connected Vehicle Association
He has also been involved in the creation and development of several start-ups in the Asturian ecosystem, all of them nationally acclaimed.
He is currently Chairman of the AEVAC and his aim is to promote an intelligent, sustainable and inclusive mobility model, based on autonomy and connectivity, that will improve the quality of life for all.

Nora Spiegel
Team Leader Mobility Ecosystems
AustriaTech

Juan José Rodríguez Ballesteros
Founder and Managing Partner
Green B2E
He is an entrepreneur who has co-founded and strategically leads the international expansion of the GreenB2E, JRB Green Consulting LTD (UK and UAE) business groups operating in the Energy and Sustainability sector in various geographical areas such as Europe, MENA, LATAM and AFRICA. He has more than 20 years of experience in the Energy and Sustainability Sector, having actively participated in Engineering, Development, Promotion, EPC Construction, Financing and the Operation of Utility Scale Renewable Energy Production Plants and Energy Efficiency Projects all over the world. He has proven experience and extensive technical knowledge in Photovoltaic Solar, Thermoelectric Solar, Wind, Mini Hydro, Biomass and Waste-to-Energy technology, having co-developed projects in these technologies with Iberdrola, Acciona Energía, BP renovables, Total Renovables Group, Enel Renovables, Gamesa Energía and Engie, among others. He has also co-founded and actively participates in the incubation, acceleration and development of several innovative start-ups related to the Fintech sector, renewable energies and Blockchain technology, developing pioneering projects for the energy sector, such as the Grennovation platform for energy exchange and Marketplace for CO2 (carbon credits) and energy based on Blockchain applicable to voluntary energy markets, energy communities, storage systems, renewable hydrogen and electric mobility, among others.
He is currently strategically leading an International Consortium formed by Spanish, Italian and Middle Eastern Groups, leaders in low carbon Hydrogen production technologies, that are developing Large Scale Hydrogen and Synthetic Fuel (Ammonia and Methanol) Generation Projects in Spain, Romania, United Arab Emirates, Israel and Algeria. The Consortium is also involved in projects for the creation of hydrogen distribution and supply infrastructures and the decarbonisation of the transport sector (road and maritime) by means of hydrogen.

Jordi Carmona
Secretary of the Automotive Sector
State UGT FICA

Gaizka Lazarobaster
Intelligent and sustainable mobility researcher
TKNIKA / Euskadi VT Applied Research Centre / EDUCATION DEPARTMENT / Vocational Training Office

David Valls
General Manager of Extremadura
New Energies

Dr. Elisa Sayrol Clols
Senior Lecturer Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC)
CARNET Academic Committee
She is part of the Academic Committee of CARNET, a knowledge hub founded by the UPC together with SEAT and VW Research. She has been the UPC representative at EIT Urban Mobility from January 2019 to January 2022, period in which she has also coordinated the Master in Urban Mobility of the UPC. She was Deputy Director and Director of the School of Telecommunication Engineering of Barcelona, as well as Vice-Rector of Institutional Relations of the UPC, all in the period 2001-2013.
Her research interests, publications and projects include the study of machine learning and deep learning techniques involving computer vision, particularly in urban mobility applications. She coordinates a project and participates in several projects funded by the EIT Urban Mobility, one of which is Women in Urban Mobility.

Carlos Poveda Rey
CEO
UMILES Group