SouthSummit 2019 | Spain Startup | 2 October 2019 | La Nave , Calle Cifuentes 5, 28021 Madrid, Spain

Be the next unicorn!

South Summit Startup competition has already become a benchmark for Innovation which brings together the 100 most innovative startups. Any Startup in the ecosystem, if having a promising idea and team behind, will surely be found in our pitching sessions. South Summit is undoubtedly a seal of quality recognizable by every agent related to the entrepreneurial environment.

2019 Speakers

Javier Villamizar
Partner, Softbank

Chris Barton
Co-Founder, Shazam

Niall Ferguson
Professor, Harvard University

Jennifer Kanyamibwa
Senior Strategy & Operations Manager for Product Design, Twitter

Ciaran Quilty
Vice President, EMEA, Facebook

Valentin Stalf
Founder & CEO, N26

Carlos Torres Vila
President, BBVA

Silvina Moschini
Co-Founder & President, Transparent Business

Adam Kostyál
Senior Vice President, NASDAQ

Jose María Álvarez-Pallete
Executive Chairman, Telefónica

Gabriel Perdiguero
Chief Customer & Business Transformation Officer, Iberia

Nabil Malouli
VP of Customer Solutions & Innovation, DHL

Paul Misener
VP, Global Innovation Policy and Communications, Amazon

Tom Mendoza
Deal Partner, EQT Ventures

Gabrielle Thomas
VC Investment Manager, BlackFin Capital Partners

Scarlett Sieber
Managing Director, Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer, CCG Catalyst

Michael Lints
Partner, Golden Gate Ventures

Sophie Bruchou
VC Investment Manager, Idinvest Partners

Yasser Eissa
Vice President IBM Cloud Platform Europe, IBM

Carissa Véliz
Research Fellow, University of Oxford

Richard Vaughan
Founder and Chairman, Vaughan Systems

Ju-Ho Lee
Former Minister of Education, South Korea

Almudena Arpón de Mendívil
Secretary General International, Bar Association

Markus Witte
CEO, Babbel

Jaime Gonzalo
Vice President, Mobile Services Europe, Huawei

Kelly Palmer
Co-Founder and Chief Learning and Talent Officer, Degreed

Anthony Salcito
Vice President of Worldwide Education, Microsoft

Walter Jennings
CEO and Director, Asia Insight Circle

Santiago Íñiguez
President, IE University

Patricia Kuhl
Co-Director of the Institute for Brain and Learning Sciences, University of Washington

Andreas Schleisser
Director, Directorate for Education and Skills, OECD

Clara Durodié
Chair, Cognitive Finance Group

Marcela Cubillos
Minister of Education, Government of Chile

Beatriz González
Founder & Managing Partner, Seaya Ventures - Spain

Javier Imbroda
Regional Minister of Education, Government of Andalucía

Brian Caulfield
Partner, Draper Esprit

Luis Sanz
CEO, CARTO

Darío Gil
Global Research Director, IBM Research

José Marín
Managing Partner, FJ Labs

Lucía Figar
IE Chief of Corporate Innovation, Chairwoman IE Rockets

Galia Benartzi
Co-Founder, Bancor

Siva Kumari
Director General, The International Baccalaureate

HUI Chark Shum
Deputy Representative, Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in Brussels

Alex Romero
Founder & CEO, Alto Data Analytics

Anne-Valérie Bach
Partner, Serena Capital

Orlando Ayala
Advisor to the President of Colombia, former VP for Emerging Markets Microsoft

Adam Seldow
Head of Education Partnership, Facebook

Pablo Navas
Rector of the University of Los Andes

Tal Ben-Shahar
Founder, Happiness Studies Academy

Nina Jetter
Investment Manager, Project A Ventures

Marcus Dantus
Founder & CEO, Startup Mexico - Mexico

Leandro Sigman
Chairman, Chemo

Oscar Farrés
Head of Business Angel Investments,EIF

Marvin Liao
Partner & Head of Accelerator, 500 Startups

Margarita Escobar
congresswoman, El Salvador

Renaud Visage
Co-founder, Eventbrite

María del Mar España Martí
Director at Spanish Agency for Data Protection, APED

Alain Sylvain
Founder and CEO, Sylvain Labs

Ander Michelena
Co-Founder, Ticketbis & All Iron

Alexis Bonte
CEO/Partner, eRepublik Labs/Atomico

María Eugenia Girón
Executive Director, Rising Tides

Elena Pisonero
President, Hispasat

Justyna Orlowska
GovTech Polska Director at the Chancellery of the Prime Minister in Poland, Poland

Zuweina Farah
Co-Founder & Managing Partner, id8 space

Rob Brown
Global CMO, BBVA

Sofía Benjumea
Head, Campus Madrid.

Kike Sarasola
Founder, Room Mate Hotels- Colombia

Sebastian Barrios
CTO & VP of Technology, Cabify

Gil Dibner
Founder & General Partner, Angular Ventures

Jannat Shah
Investor, AXA Venture Partners

Hristo Stoykov
Head of European Growth Capital & Innovation Finance, European investment Bank

Paul Murphy
Partner, Northzone

Jordi Escruela
Innovation Manager, Correos

Cristobal Viedma
Founder & CEO, Lingokids

Chema Alonso
Chief Data Officer, Telefónica

Isaías Táboas Suárez
Chairman, Renfe

Patricio Guitart
Founder, Guitart&Partners

James Downing
Director of Venture Capital Services, Silicon Valley Bank’s UK Branch

Nicolas Cary
Co-Founder & Vice Chairman, Blockchain

Tara Cemlyn-Jones
Fintech Expert / Advisor, TCJ Fintech Advisory - UNITED KINGDOM

Jacky Abitbol
Cathay Innovation

Federico Flórez
Chief Information & Innovation Officer, Ferrovial

Eneko Knörr
Founder, Onyze

Itxaso Del Palacio Aguirre
Investment director, Notion Capital

Fernando de Pablo Martín
General Secretary of Digital Administration in the Ministry of Territorial Policy and Public Function Spain

Francisco Velázquez de Cuellar
CEO & Managing Partner, Axon Partners Group

Davide Dattoli
Founder and CEO, Talent Garden

Ralf Weigand
Regional Sales Director Spain & Portugal, Tradeshift Spain

Anne Ravanona
Founder and CEO, Global Invest Her

Sam Hui
Deputy Representative Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in Brussels, InvestHK

Hussein Kanji
Analyst, Hoxton Ventures

Carlos Pierre
CEO& Founder, Badi

Juliet Bailin
Associate Partner, Mosaic Ventures

José María Siota
Director, IESE Business School

Juan José Güemes
President of the Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation, IE Business School

Darren Westlake
CEO & OoFounder, Crowdcube

Alejandro Artacho
CEO & Co-founder, Spotahome

Diego Rubio
Executive Director, IE Center for the Governance of Change

Hiroki Takeuchi
CEO, GoCardless

Luis Maldonado
IE Business School

Fabio Tentori
Head of Startup Initiative & Business Incubator, Enel

Spyro Korsanos
Founder & Managing Partner, Global Venture Partners

Didac Lee
Galdana Ventures

Alexandra Mitjans
Head of Partnerships Ashoka Spain, Ashoka

Christine Michaelis
Eu Startup Festival, Co-Founder

Martijn Roordink
Co Founder and Managing Director, Spaces

Natalia Martos Díaz
Founder & CEO, Legal Army

Lupina Iturriaga
Founder and CEO, Fintonic

Christian Prada
Managing Director, Desafia San Francisco

Brendan Wallace
Co founder & Managing Partner, Fifth Wall Ventures

Carlos González-Cadenas
Senior Executive, GoCardLess

Agustín Escobar
CEO, Siemens Mobility and Siemens Rail Automation

Eyal Malinger
Investment Director, Beringea

Marion Chalumeau
Head of Digital & Innovation and part of the leadership Team, Novartis Oncology

Parker Crockford
Director of Strategic Accounts and Policy, Onfido

Isaac de la Peña
General Partner, Conexo Ventures

Tamaz Georgadze
Co Founder & CEO, Raisin

Alberto Tornero Suárez
Director of High Growth Potential Companies Area, PWC

Peggy Van de Plassche
Managing Partner, Roar Partners

Alonso Aznar
Head of Iberia & Mexico, Afiniti

Boris Golden
Principal, Partech Ventures

Jaime Biel
Investment Director, Faraday Venture Partners

Oriol Juncosa
Co-Founder, Encomeda & White Peak Partners

Adrián García-Aranyos
President, Endeavor

Bernardo Hernández
Venture Partner, e.Ventures

Natalia Bayona
Senior Expert on Innovation and Digital Transformation, UNWTO

Julio Casal
Founder Alien Vault & 4iQ, 4iQ

Gonzalo Tradacete Gallart
CEO & Co-Founder, Faraday Venture Partners

Brian Farrel
Executive Creative Director, BBVA

Seth Elliott
CMO, GTMHub

Rodrigo Mallo Leiva
Program Director, SOSV

Leonard Boord
Co-Founder, IntoTheBlock

Rosa Jiménez Cano
Chief Ecosystem Relations, The Venture City

Paula Pastor Castaño
Legal & Operations Manager, Point Nine Capital

Ernest Sánchez
Managing Partner, Nekko VC

Carlos Silva
Co-founder, Seedrs

Harrie Vollaard
Head of Rabo Frontier Ventures, Rabobank

Unai Franco
Co-Founding Partner, White Peak Partners

Laura González-Estéfani
Founder & CEO, The Venture City

Mercedes Storch
Head Of International Relations, AXIS Participaciones Empresariales SGEIC SA

Katrina Logie
Public Relations and Public figure

Pepe Borrel
Managing Director, CrowdCube

Nicolas Iordanov
Principal, Iris Capital

Ricardo Sequerra
Partner, Point Nine Capital

Josep Salvatella
Founder & CEO, RocaSalvatella

Michiel Kotting
Partner, Northzone

Giovanni Nani
Investor, Frog Capital

Ben Marrel
Founding Partner, Breega Capital

Carlos Santiso
Director, CAF

Sigrid Dalberg-Krajewski
Head of Communications, Trafi

Miguel Arias
Global Entrepreneurship Director, Telefónica

Max Oliva
Co-founder, Impact Hub

Rob Moffat
Partner, Balderton Capital

Luis Rossano
CEO & Chairman of Board, RPC Injection | Tooling Group

Ton Van't Noordende
CEO, 01 Ventures

Patricia Pastor Garrido
Director, GoHub

Henri-François Martin
Group Innovation Director, Veepee (Vente-Privée)

Sujay Tyle
Co-Founder & CEO, Frontier Car Group

Fredrik Hjelm
CEO, Voi Technology

Shaul Eyal
Managing Director, Oppenheimer&CO

Gur Talpaz
Equity Research Analyst/Managing Director, Stifel Financial Corp.

Dustin Figge
Founder & Managing Director, The Homelike

Santiago Zavala
Partner, 500 Startups

Paul Morgenthaler
Senior Investment Manager, Commerz Ventures

Dr. Javier González-Soria
CEO & Founder, TopSeedLabs

Ignacio Lucea
Founder & CMO, BeWanted

Carlos Gomez
Founder, 7r Ventures

Vincenzo Villamena
Founder & CEO, Global Expat Advisors

Borja Breña
Investment Manager, Nauta Capital

Alexander Theis
Founder & CEO, Tink Referral as a Service

Iván Burgos Murillo
Connected Car Manager, Porsche Iberica

Susana Espinosa de los Reyes
Analyst, Angel Ventures

Ana Villanueva
Founder & CEO, Tiko

Jeffrey Char
Founder & CEO, J-Seed Ventures, Inc - Japan

Clara Pombo
Deputy General Manager, Clarke, Modet & Co.

Tom Hockaday
ex-CEO at Oxford University Innovation, Owner Technology Transfer Innovation

Juan Álvarez de Lara
Co-founder and Co-general Partner of Origen Ventures Fund, Founder and CEO of Seed&Click

Roger Casals
Co-Founder & CEO, Plazah

Nikol Wolpert
Head of Business Development LATAM, OrCam Technologies

Jaco Oosthuizen
Co-founder and Chief Insurance Officer, Yulife

Karim E-Jisr
Executive Director, SEE Institute - The Sustainable City

Steven Mendel
CEO and Co-founder, Bought By Many

Isabel Cano
Director of Strategic Development, Indra

Carlos Fernández de la Pradilla
Partner, Polymath Ventures

Javier Megias Terol
CEO and Co-founder, StartupXplore

José Mínguez Matorras
Head of Innovation Market Iberia, Endesa

Moisés Cohen
Co-founder & Director, The Floor Hub

Luz Rello
Founder, Change Dyslexia

Cristina López Pancorbo
Head of Digital - Womenswear @CorteIngles; Member of Women in Tech Spain, El Corte Inglés

Hunab Moreno
Country Manager - Spain, Mobike

Tobias Schirmer
Managing Partner, JOIN Capital

Patrik Bergareche
Managing Director, Just Eat

Fermin Bueno
Co-founder & Managing Partner, Finnovista

Alan Coleman
Founder & CEO, Sweepr

Valeria Dominguez
Founder & CEO, Felino

Adriano Travaglia
President, European Startup Association

Christopher May
Co- Founder & Managing Director, Finoa

Matteo Concas
Co-Founder and CMO, Penta

Alexandre Prot
CEO, Qonto

Sonja Zillner
Senior Key Expert, SIEMENS

Hugo Cuello
Researcher, Nesta

Oscar Sala
Director, The Collider programme of Mobile World Capital Barcelona

Caroline Ramade
CEO, 50inTech

Jose Iglesias
Director Europe, Middle East & Africa, Techstars

Pouya Boland
CEO and co-founder, Chiquelle

David Ríos Insua
Chair in Adversarial Risk Analysis, ICMAT-CSIC

Zack Sabban
CEO, Festicket

Charles Ehredt
Co-Founder & CEO, Currency Alliance

Inmaculada Puig Santos
External psychology consultant, Barcelona FC

Pearly Chen
VP BD & Partnerships. VR/AR Investor. Chief of Staff to CEO, HTC

Ben van Berkel
Founder, UnStudio

Michael Mandahl
General Partner, Northcap

Andrew Chakhoyan
Founder & CEO, Strategic Narrative Consulting

Cédric Royer
Sales Director Growth, Indeed

Punit Aggarwal
Advisor, Founder Bay®

Joe Cisneros
Founder & CEO, Start-USA

Vitek Subert
Co-Founder & CEO, UP21 Incubator

Gonzalo Úrculo
Founder, CrowdFarming

Firmin Zocchetto
CEO and Co-Founder, PayFit

Silvia Sanjoaquin Vives
Client Innovation Manager, Naturgy

Patricia Benito
Chief Digital and Business Officer, Openbank

Julia Sánchez
Head of Global Alumni Relations, IE Business School

Antonio Valenzuela
Co-founder & Global New Business, Mox Holdings

Beatriz Volckaert
Impact Investment Analyst, Fundación Ship2B

Marisol Menéndez
Chief Open Innovation, Spain Startup - South Summit

Alberto Díaz Gonzalez
Founder, BeAble Capital

Guillermo Llibre
CEO, Housell

Alistair Owen
Partner, Deep Science Ventures

Ana Durán
CEO, Innoboster

Borja Santos
Head of Spain & Latam, Stripe

Antonio Fernández
Founder, Armanext

Damien Balsan
Conexo Ventures, Partner

David Brush
Chief Investment Officer, Merlin Properties

Jessica Schulz
Partner, Northzone

Joaquín Ayuso de Paul
CEO, Denizen/BBVA

Luis del Valle Alemán
Innovation Strategist, MADRInnovation

Pawel Tomczuk
Advisor, Coinfirm

Omar Hatamleh
Chief Innovation Office, NASA

Paul Ortchanian
CEO & Founder, Bain Public

Óscar Salazar
Co-Founder, Uber

Ernesto Acosta Martín
CTO & Co-Founder, Mercury TFS

Carlos Mallo Molina
CEO, Innoceana

Ben Costantini
CEO, Startup Sesame

Samarth Shekhar
Regional Manager EMEA, Sixthirty

John G. Izaguirre
BD Director EU, Ontology

Richard Forde
Account Director, BeachhutPR

Mario Berta
Founder & CEO, FlySpace

Gregg Pasquarelli
Participant, SHoP Architects

Laura Urquizu
CEO, RedPoints

Javier Vallaure
Director of operations, Allpago

Guillermo Lliebre
CEO, Housell

Sandra Steving Villegas
Head of Innovation, Founders Intelligence

Coro Saldaña
Fashion Practice Lead Iberia, Accenture España

Clara Gutiérrez
Managing Partner & CEO, Gennaker Venture Capital Fund

Nicolas Tonnard
Founding Director and Chief Operating Officer, CFTE

Antonio Iglesias
Managing Director, Endeavor Spain

José Benjumea
Co-Founder & CEO, POWEN

Esther Checa
Head of Innovation, T2O media

Patrick Kedziora
Founder & CEO, Kedzoh

Federico Ruiz
Director, Spain's 5G National Observatory

Sanjib Kalita
Founder & CEO, Guppy

Sebastien Toupy
Head of Startup Relations, The Next Web

Enrique Belenguer Saborit
Head of Behavioral Economics, BBVA

Tom Horsey
Co-founder & Investor Relations, (Moderator & Investor in Transeop), Connected Mobility Hub

Luís Pedro Oliveira
CEO and co-founder, Aircision

Gregorio Magno Toral Jiménez
Founder & CEO, Ciclogreen

Owen Reynolds
Venture Investor, Expon Capital

José Carlos Huerta Romero
Head of Startups Program, Fundación Innovación Bankinter

Francisco Pizarro Escribano
Business Development Manager, Fundecyt-PCTEX

Ludovic Ulrich
Partner, Silicon Foundry

Jason Maroothynaden
Business Broker, European Space Agency

Carlos Sabater
Investment Manager, (Investor in Mox), VAS Ventures

Fernando Mancha
CMO, Transeop

Félix González Quesada
Senior Vise President Business Development, Fractus Antennas

Esther Wojcicki
Founder of the Media Arts program, Palo Alto High Schools.

Iván Caballero
CEO and Founder, Citibeats

Claudia Costin
Senior director, Education World Bank

Jordi Carrera
Engineer, Citibeats

Montserrat Gomendio
Head of OECD Centre for Skills

Stela Campos
journalist, VALOR

Rocío Albert
Viceminister of Education, Madrid Region

Lucia Dellagnelo
President, Center for Innovation of Education of Brasil

Fredrik Lindgren
CEO, Kunskapskolan Sweden

Alfredo Hernando
Founder, escuela21.org

Nick van Dam
Global Chief Learning Officer, McKinsey

Tim Munden
Chief Learning Officer, Unilever

Andrew Meltzoff
Co-Director, Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences University of Washington Seattle

Lucía Figar
Chief Of Corporate Innovation and Ventures, IE Business School

Rory Simpson
Chief Learning Officer, Telefónica

Isabel Diaz Ayuso
Presidenta Comunidad de Madrid

Simon Nelson
CEO, Future Learn

Pierre Dubuc
Co-founder and CEO, OpenClassrooms

Gonzalo Martin Villa
CIO, Telefónica

Barbara Oakley
Best Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), `Learning How to Learn´

Pat Khul
Endowed Chair, Bezos Family Foundation

Bernhard Niesner
Co-founder & CEO, busuu

Polly Akhurst
Co-founder, SkySchool

Peter Murphy
Director, Vienna International School

Berta Gonzalez de la Vega
journalist and education expert

Javier Bardají
CEO, Atresmedia

Cesar Alierta
Exec. Chairman, Fundación Telefónica

Rebeca Grynspan
Ibero-American Secretary-General

Caroline Hjelm
CMO, VOI Technology

Bryan McLoughlin
Vice President, Harbert Management Corporation

Ignacio Puig Masllorens
Investment Director, Inveready Technology Investment Group

Laura Connell
Principal, Balderton Capital

Eric Schmidt
Executive Chairman, Google

Steve Wozniak
Co-founder, Apple

Jeanette J. Epps
Astronaut, NASA

Gwynne Shotwell
President and COO, SpaceX

Ken Robinson
TED Speaker, Education Expert

Jasper Masemann
Principal, Holtzbrinck Ventures

Allen Blue
Co-Founder & VP Product Management, Linkedin

Dr. Werner Vogels
Vice President and CTO, Amazon

Robin Chase
Co-Founder, Zipcar

Agatha Ruiz de la Prada
Founder, Agatha Ruiz de la Prada

Megumi Ikeda
Managing Director, Hearst Ventures

Dr. Mike Lynch
Founder, Invoke Capital

Scott Painter
Founder of Fair, Founder & former CEO of TrueCar, Fair

Alejandro Agag
Founder & CEO, Formula E

Frederico Flores
Chief Information and Innovation Officer, Ferrovial

Sanjay Sarma
Vice President for Open Learning, MIT

Rüdiger Schmidt
CIO and Deputy General Manager, Banco Sabadell

Johannes Bruder
COO, Rocket Internet

Alec Oxenford
Co-Founder, Letgo

Dhiraj Mukherjee
Co-Founder, Shazam

Dave Palmer
Co-Founder & Director of Technology, Darktrace

Jonathan Medved
CEO, OurCrowd

Dana Dunne
CEO, eDreams ODIEGO

Nancy Villanueva
Managing Director, Interbrand Madrid

Tal Morgenstern
Partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners

Vinoth Jayakumar
Principal, Draper Esprit

Jeff Lynn
Co Founder & CEO, Seedrs

Billie Whitehouse
Co-Founder & Creative Director, Wearable Experiments

Thierry Petit
Co Founder & CEO, Showroomprivé

Peter Halacsy
Co-Founder & CTO, Prezi

Monica Pal
CEO, 4iQ

Kei Shimada
Global Director of Innovation and Business Development, Dentsu

2019 Partners

ECOSYSTEM PARTNER:
• BBVA

GLOBAL PARTNERS:
• Sabadell BStartup
• Google for Startups
• Wayra
• Endesa

IDUSTRY PARTNERS:
• Mutua Madrilena
• Iberia
• Ferrovial
• Amadeus
• Renfe'
• Foundation Once
• Huawei Delivery Pay
• Adif

INNOVATION PREMIUM PARTNERS:
• Decathon
• Indra
• Sacyr
• Correos
• Accenture
• Bankia
• Salesforce
• Banktinter
• Naturgy
• IBM
• Visa

INNOVATION PARTNERS:
• Airbus BizLab
• Axis Grupo
• Porsche
• DayOne
• Fundacion Repsol
• Prosegur
• Siemens
• Biscay
• HP
• Engas Emprende
• Netflix
• Cisco

FOSTER ECOSYSTEM PARTNERS:
• ICEX
• Red.es
• Cutrecasas
• Start USA
• Fundacion para el Conocimiento
• White & Case
• CEEI Asturias
• BFA
• Zabala
• Merlin
• Lanz Dera
• Uc3m
• FI Gorup
• EIT Digital
• Perez-Llorca
• Garrigues
• Afiniti
• Tradeshift
• Clarke Modet
• Enisa
• Novartis
• Emprende Rioja
• Abanca Innova
• Utopicus
• Stripe
• Invest HK
• Cathay Pacific
• Loom House
• Amperio
• Amazon
• Spaces
• EIT Health
• Deliveroo
• Fundecyt Pctex
• PwC
• Junta de Andalucia
• HKTDC
• Go:Hub

COLLABORATORS:
• MVK Mash
• BME
• Cristina Oria
• Finnovista
• YNLTD
• Guiri
• Trescom
• Moovit Wondo
• Zity
• Fundacion Create
• Adara
• DCH
• IEBS Business School
• F6S
• StartUp Lighthouse
• Soft Landing
• TNK
• Dinahosting

COMMUNITY PARTNERS:
• Seedrs
• Chinaccelerator
• Cockpit
• MentorDay
• Estudio Muniz
• Plug & Play
• Solar Impulse Foundation
• Demium
• Alchemist Accelerator
• Data Pitch
• StartUp Explore
• StartUp Sesame
• Go-Hub
• eOffice
• Bootcamp
• Decelera
• Fundacion Universidad-Empressa
• AED
• Celera
• Oxentia
• Edeavor Spain
• Impact Hub