Valencia Digital Summit 2022 | VDS | 23 October 2022 | Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias, Av. del Professor López Piñero, 7, 46013 València, Valencia, Spain

Fueled by the main theme of ‘Inspiring the Good Future’, This Summit 2022 showcases how technology, innovation and digitalization can change, impact and transform every aspect of our lives in a positive way. It will address the role of technology in the main social and economic challenges faced by society in the near future. Whether it takes the form of a sprint or a marathon, innovation is the most impactful journey in the history of mankind.

2022 Speakers

Lina Chong
Investment Director, Target Global

Mike-Butcher
Editor-at-large, TechCrunch

Egita Polanska
Partner, Startup Wise Guys

Pep Gómez
Founder, Reby and Fever

Ton van 't Noordende
Investor, Quantum Delta NL Infinity

Felipe Navío
CoCEO & Cofounder, Jobandtalent

Sébastien Lefebvre
Partner, Elaia

Quique Dacosta
Chef. Quique Dacosta

Merit Valdsalu
Cofounder & CEO, Single.Earth

Gonzalo Galindo
Head, CEMEX Ventures

Stephanie Hospital
CEO & Cofounder, OneRagtime

Teresa García
General Director of Entrepreneurship and Cooperativism, Consellería de Economía Sostenible, Sectores Productivos, Comercio y Trabajo

Fran Villalba
CEO, Internxt

Joanna Kirk
Founder, JKPR

Elias Veris
Head of Global Operations, Google for Startups

Maria Dramalioti-Taylor
General Partner, Beacon

Eloi Gómez
CEO, Jeff

André Zimmermann
Senior Partner, Pipeline Capital

Patricia Pastor
Managing Director, GoHub Ventures

Pepe Villatoro
Cofounder, Fuckup Nights

Javier Jiménez
Director General, Lanzadera

Tanja Kufner
Head of ventures, Nemetschek SE

Yolanda Pérez
Director, BStartup Banco Sabadell

Javier Megias
Managing Partner EMEA Fund, Plug and Play

Sunny Bates
Founder & CEO, Sunny Bates Associates

Juan Luis Hortelano
President, Startup Valencia

Ariel Camus
Founder & CEO, Microverse

Sofia Benjumea
Head of Google for Startups EMEA

Allen Bargfrede
Chief Business Officer, Verifi Media

Philippe Nieuwbourg
Analyst, Metaneo

Jon Bradford
Partner, Dynamo Ventures

Pepe Agell
Partner, Pear VC

Nelly Markova
Principal, Molten Ventures

Álvaro Verdoy
CEO, Sales Layer

Pilar Prados
CEO & Cofounder, Bounsel

Fran Estevan
Cofounder & CEO, Innsomnia

Rocío Pillado
Partner, Adara Ventures

Jill Petzinger
Senior Tech Reporter, Tech.eu

Raph Crouan
Managing Director Tech Clients Europe, Orrick

Sebastian Greiss
Founder StationX & Head of Startup Partnering, Siemens

Helena Torras
Managing Partner, PaoCapital

Michael van Lier
Founder & MD, Builders

Julie Kainz
Partner, Lightspeed

Iker Marcaide
Founder & Executive Chairman, Zubi Group

Jose Bort
Cofounder & CEO, Eventscase

David Pistoni
CEO and Cofounder, Zeleros Hyperloop

Enrique Penichet
Founding Partner, DraperB1

Mariano Amartino
Americas Managing Director, Microsoft for Startups

Javier Artiach
Partner, GED Conexo Ventures

Jorge Dobón
Chairman and Founder at Demium, Demium Startups

Diego Fernández
Founder and CEO, Wine Luthier

Helena Ortiz
Cofounder, Techer Team

Eric Sánchez
CEO, Reental

Víctor Sanchis
CEO, V2C

Andrea Montoliu
CEO, Talentomnia

Paloma Mas
Events and Culture Manager, Plug and Play

Kilian Zaragozá
CEO and Cofounder, Naria

Aarón de Bernardis
CEO, Nax Solutions

Sergio Brisa
CEO, Miobio

María Martínez
CEO, IO-dit

Juan Castillo
Founder, GuruWalk

Marija Rucevska
Managing Partner & Cofounder, Helve

Miguel Arias
Partner, K FUND

Jorge Soriano
CEO, Criptan

José Blasco
CEO, Oratrex

Jaime Bosch
CEO, Voicemod

Sergio Navarro
CEO, Domoblock

Teresa Tarragó
CEO, Exheus

Harry Meijer
Executive Director, ICHR

Diego Fernández
CEO, Gellify

Víctor Claver
COO, Nespra

Benjamín Sanchís
CEO, Bitstartups

Alex Barrera
Chief Wowness Officer, The Aleph Report

Raúl Alarcón
CEO & Founder, XAUX T

Pablo Casañ
CEO, Flit2go

Lorenzo García
CEO, TheLogicValue

Emily Meads
Deep Tech Investor, Speedinvest

Elías Gil
Chief Strategy Officer, Feria Valencia

Mario García
CEO, Feending

Hugo Mira
CEO, Mojito360

Sergio Gallastegui
CEO & Cofounder, Code Contract

Diego Ferreiro
CEO, Trebellar

Valentina Metež
CEO & Founder, Proky

Stéphane Paillard
CEO, Agily

Sergio López
CEO, unBlock

Raul Verdu
Chief Business Development Officer, PLD

Ralph Michaud
COO & Co-Founder, Star Startups

Pablo de la Hoz
COO, Zityhub

María Escartí
Director, Invest in Valencia

Nathan Benaich
General Partner, Air Street Capital

Nacho León
CEO, Ziknes

Margarita Albors
Founder and President, Social Nest Foundation

Marc Peñalver
CEO, Esportslink

Jack O'Grady
COO, Colibid

Mireia Martínez
Regulatory and personal data protection specialist, Query Layer

Juan Manuel Porcaro
Executive Director, ARCAP

Íñigo Balbín
Venture Manager, 7r

Ann Hiatt
Founder and Leadership Strategist, Hypergiant

Íñigo Artundo
CEO, VLC Photonics

Diana Morant
Minister, Ministry of Science and Innovation

Francho García
CEO & Cofounder, Arkadia Space

Ana Karen Zapata
COO & Cofounder, ClimateTrade

Francisco Ferreira
Partner, Bynd Venture Capital

Klára Losert
Cofounder & CEO, Talkbase

Federico Jack
Investment Partner, Myelin VC

Enrique Lizaso
CEO, Multiverse Computing

Bertrand Bouteloup
Deputy General Manager, IDnow

Aquilino Peña
Founding Partner, Kibo Ventures

Verónica Aldazosa
CEO, talenTeal

Ali Kutay Yarali
CEO & Founder, Delivers.ai

Adrià Aguado
CEO, Miivo Mobility

Amparo García
Chief Operating Officer, Zeus - Smart Visual Data

Dani Tomás
CEO, RHAMDA

Luis Gosálbez
Managing partner, Metricson

Alberto Iglesias
CEO, Syndeno

Alberto Villanueva
CEO, Amaia-App

Álvaro Cabrera
Director, Founder Institute València

Josep Garcés
Founder & CEO, LiveLoop

José Salinas
Co-CEO, MindCloud

Ana Barquero
Cofounder, Kultur App

Jesús Deusa
CEO, Agrari

Ignacio Kleinman
CEO, Culpass

Esther Soler
Business Development, Pressenger

Gabriel Cambra
CEO, Cubicup

Cho-Lung Ling
CEO, Streamion

Carles Pons
CEO, Kokoro Kids

Ben Costantini
CEO, StartupSesame

Angelo Delle Piane
CEO & Cofounder, Smart Kiwi

Leire Garmendia
Cofounder, Kultur App

Lluís Costa
Fi Boost Manager, FI Group

Siddharth Suresh
Founder & CEO, Mint One

Vicente Montón
CEO & Cofounder, Supernieto

Belén Ríos
Institutional Relations, Feria Valencia

Sergio Conejo
Founder and CEO, Worksible

Miguel Romero
COO, Versen

Luís Chimeno
CMO & Founder, Oscillum

Lucía Marrocco
CEO, Drype

Sergio Pajares
CTO, Mercadona

Julio López
CEO, EQIDATA - Genetsis Data

Chaume Sánchez
CEO, GeeksHubs & Sailor

Bautista Amadeo
CEO, B-Local Sports

Irini Sfirakis
Sales Account Executive, BlueQuo

Thamir Hamoh
CEO, Diamond Visions

Salvador Albalat
CEO, Smarthealth

Yulia Trubitsyna
CEO, Beetested

Miguel Romero Valero
Cofounder & CEO, AtriaMove

Marco Filippi
CEO & Founder, Volvero

José Burgos
CEO, Fresh People

Jesús Rondón
CEO & Cofounder, Sporttrait

Iga Kurowska
Head of Innovation & Legaltech, Aktion legal

Alberto Morales
CEO, BIUWER

Adrián Tomás
Co-CEO & CTO, Lexi

Tom Voorneveld
CEO & Founder, Bligson

Niamh Muldoon
Chief Information Security Officer, Fenergo

Nekane Estalayo
Strategy Manager, Sagenso

José Ignacio Ruiz
Open Innovation Manager, GoHub Ventures

Ibán Ríos
CEO & Cofounder, Chat Ergo Bot

Álvaro Reguera
CEO, KeyTrends

Derek Lou
CEO, Parallel

David Domingo
Ecosystem Manager, The Collider - Mobile World Capital Barcelona

Diego Ferragud
CEO, Criptendo

Dr issame Outaleb
Founder, PharmaTrace Ltd

Dr. Pádraig O´Leary
CEO, QueryLayer

Gonzalo García
CEO, Therminer

Cova Baselga
Innovation Strategy manager, Amadeus

Andreu Climent
CEO, Corify Care

Vanessa Palmer
Manager, CaixaBank DayOne

Alberto Fabra
CEO, Belong

Federico Sujoluzky
CEO, Qoala

Luis Antonio Morró
CEO & Founder, TRL PLUS

Francisco Armengol
Head of the Industrial Digitalization team, Vicky Foods

MªÁngeles Aguilar
People Director, Nailted

Moises Barbera
CEO & Founder, Drill Surgeries

Manuel Marie
Insurance expert, AXA

Raúl Mir
CEO & Founder, Ângela Impact Economy and DATÂIE Sustainability Analytics

Roberto Alvarez
GM EMEA, Jeeves

Stephane Gantchev
General Partner, LAUNCHub Ventures

Ricardo Marín
CEO, FOODCOIN

Krzysztof Szypillo
Cofounder / CPO, QueryLayer

Nikolay Ryashin
Drone program manager, AI Foundry

Julio Moreno
Project Manager, Grupo Ribera

Joaquín Durán
Managing Partner, BlueBull

Aldebarán Bermell-Scorcia
Cofounder, Emendu

Cristian Ull
Cofounder, Area101

Diego Moya
Chief of Growth, ClimateTrade

Guillem Moreno
CEO, Nuwe

Jaime Sendagorta
Vice President, GP Bullhound

Heidy Greising
CEO, BeSukha

João Hazim
Cofounder, EscolaCripto and NFTFY

Gonzalo Román
CEO, Zinkee

Arnau Ramió
CEO, Cryptomaster Academy

Miguel Milián
Corporate Manager, Lanzadera

Alejandro Gómez
Energy and European Projects Officer, València Climate and Energy

Maurizio Consilvio
Cofounder, Treepli

Virginia Real
CEO, Accesscity - Adecual Costa Blanca

Marc Ferrer
Business Developer, Wayra

Jorge Cortell
Innovation Fellow / Venture Partner, Harvard University / NLC

Kishhanth Renganathan
Founder, Petti pod

Koh Onozawa
Managing Partner, Bit2me

Jesús Beatove
Chief Business Officer, Polygonal Mind

Franco Segarra
Innovation Director, Valencia CF

Gonzalo Belenguer
General Manager, REDIT Innovation Network

Cai Felip
CEO, Union Avatars

Alberto Iglesias Fraga
Deputy Director, D+I - EL ESPAÑOL

Adolfo Bartolomé Ibáñez
CEO and Creative Director, E-Place Heritage

Juancho Arregui
CEO, Brickfy

Joaquín del Río
Innovation and Quality Director, Vicky Foods

David Salvador
Founder, Nespra

Alex Casas
Advisor - Tokenomics Design, Green Climate DAO

Giovanni Bernardi
Head of Sales, BizAway

Andrés Echecopar
Founder, AEA Capital

Dan Heyman
CEO, Palm NFT Studio

Cristina Carrascosa
CEO, ATH21

Carlos Matilla
CEO & Cofounder, FuVeX

Carlos Fisch
Director, Seaya Andromeda

Carlos Albo
CEO, Wenalyze

Carles Marcos
Country Manager Spain, Qonto

Elena Femenia
DIH Leader, Insomnia consulting

Ernesto Faubel
Head of Smart City Office, Municipality of Valencia

Fernando Dávila
CEO, Crowmie

Javier Ferrer
CEO, Witrac

Jon Fatelevich
CEO, StadioPlus

Jorge Schnura
CEO, Turing Capital

José Joaquín Infantes
Chief Metaverse Technical Officer, Utopia Voyagers

Lola Rebollo
Deputy Director Boost of Industry and R&D&i, INCIBE - Spanish National Cybersecurity Institute

Lorena García
Cofounder & CMO, gutXain

Mar Ferrer
Urban Innovation Consultant, TECHFriendly

Matías Sosa
Product Marketing Manager, OVHcloud

Maysoun Douas
Founder, Strartup Commission

Óscar Valle
Competitive Intelligence and Alliances Area Director, ITI

Pablo Jover
Branch Manager, Specialist Computer Centres

Patrick Heinz
Deputy Consul General, German Consulate General Barcelona

Salvador Furió
Innovation & Port Cluster Development Director, Fundación Valenciaport

Yegor Gordeev
Head of TV project, 1+1 Channel

Adela Gimeno
Promotion & Communication, ENISA

Salvador Enguix
Journalist, La Vanguardia

Alberto López
Founding Partner, Genially

Ángel Buigues
Startup Advisor, Banco Sabadell

Eduard Aran Calonja
CEO, Valerdat

Grisel Dugarte
Cofounder & CMO, Uphint

Emilia Méndez Barrios
Founder and director , Tilúa

Iñaki Berenguer
Managing Partner, LIFE X VENTURES

Alejandro Carbonell
CEO, Green Urban Data

José Blasco
CEO, Oratrex

Xavi Serra
Cofounder, Valua Arts & Crafts

Ximo Masip
Cofounder, ImpactE

Beatriz Jacoste
General Director, KM ZERO Food Innovation Hub

Cristina Vila
Founder and CEO, Cledara

David Ortega
Chief Innovation Officer, Bit2me

Eva Giner Asensi
Innovation Director, The SPB Global Corporation

Fran Piera
CEO & Founder, Successful Fund

Hans Scheffer
CEO & Founder, Helloprint

Viroslava Novosylna
Cofounder, Wtech

Óscar David Sánchez
Director, Inndromeda

Marta Antúnez Ruiz
Director, Wayra

Luis Scola
CEO, Pallacanestro Varese

Laura Navarro Moratalla
COO, Bioithas

Paula Carsí
EU Mfg Innovation Manager, Ford Motor Company

Juan Such
Co-founder, Rankia.com and Verema.com

Francisco Polo
High Commissioner, Spain Entrepreneurial Nation

Andrés Gómez Morón
Head of Open Innovation, Renfe

Antonio Rodes
Director SPTD and CEO, Comunitat Valenciana Digital District

Aurelia Bustos
Scientific Director and Co-Founder, MedBravo

Diego Díaz
CEO y Co-founder, Uphint

Ximo Puig
President, Generalitat Valenciana

Ezequiel Sánchez
Executive president, PLD Space

Fernando Perez-Borrajo
Corporate Director, Aunoa

Juan Carlos Sanchez
Investment Manager, Goldacre Ventures

Nacho Mas
CEO, Startup Valencia

Marcos Aubeso
Director M&A Scaleups, CIB - Caixabank

Martina Luckanicova
Innovation Consultant, SpeedOut Advisory

Pablo Moro
Head of Investments, Telefónica Ventures

Alejandra Menéndez
Director, Valencia Digital Summit

Gonzalo Medina
Winemaking Director, Wine Luthier

Toni Mateos
CTO, Freeverse

Karolina Korth
Head of Strategy and CDO, Siemens Mobility

Héctor Ibarra
Regional Group Director, Accenture Song

Damián Martín
B2B General Manager, Cooltra

Theresa Gschwandtner

Thomas Osdoba
Director, Climate-KIC

Isidre March
Innovation Master Director, UV

Marcos Sanz
CTO & Co-Founder, Bounsel

Sergi de Luna
Product Manager, HP

Eric Pascual
Operations Lead, HP

Samuel Hamilton
Creative Director, Decentraland Foundation

Vito Esposito
Global Partnership Manager, WMF - We Make Future - Festival

Virginia Sánchez
Managing Director, Zubi Labs

Rafael Climent
Conseller Economia Sostenible, Sectores Productivos, Comercio y Trabajo, Generalitat Valenciana

Pascal Ollivier
Chairman, IAPH

Lorena Lahuerta
Project Manager, HP

José Blasco
CEO, Oratrex

Joaquín Montesinos
CPO, Loonfy

José Peris
Web3MBA Director, Bit2Me

Carlos Vidal
Chief Financial Officer, V2C

Pedro Ramón López García
Co-CEO, Climatecoin

María Dolores Parra
General Director of internationalization, Generalitat Valenciana

Gadi Benmoshe
Port Network Lead, Aeler

Agustín Escobar
CEO, Siemens Mobility

Marija Rucevska
Managing Partner & Cofounder, Helve

José Torrego
CEO, El Referente

Yael H Oaknin
CEO, Token City

Roberto Sarasa
R&D SW Hub Valencia Site Manger, HP

Elisabeth Martinez Guardiola
COO, Nuclio

Enrique Valero
Director, Caixabank DayOne Comunitat Valenciana

Juanjo Milla
Director of Data & Analytics, Jeff

Ramón López Roldán
Head of Innovation Ecosystems, AGBAR

Suzanne Newman
CMO, Sesamers

Zeina Halasa del Carmelo
CEO, A&D REAL TIME

Arnau Navarro
CEO & Cofounder, Haddock

Sergio Pajares
CTO, Mercadona

Carlos Lahoz
Product and Incubation manager, HP

Ernesto Faubel
Head of Smart City Office, Municipality of Valencia

Merce Tell
Managing Partner, Encomenda Capital Partners

David Salces
COO & Cofounder, Fibsen

Clara Fernández Porta
Cofounder, Rosita Longevity

Carlos Mateo
President, Asociación Española de Startups

Borja Valero
CEO, Organic Boosting

Ana Carrau Mínguez
Founder and CEO, Upbeat Modus

Rafael Rubio
CEO, Qoala

Jan-Jaap Verhoeve
COO, Plan A

María Machado
Innovation + Development, Loomis Spain

Rafa Pillado
Senior Director Iberia, Havi

Natalia Villora
CEO & Cofounder, flowww

Marta Campillo
Investment Manager, Banco Sabadell - BStartup

Marina G. Aedo
Sustainability Manager, IBERIA

Carla Pregel Hoderlein
Management Team, Center for Digital Technology and Management (CDTM)

Joe Haslam
Professor, IE Business School

Jordi Zanca Soler
Cofounder & CTO, Bee the Data

María José Tomás Sánchez
Technician, CDTI

Estefanía Pastor
Journalist, Valencia Plaza

Andrés Torrubia
Cofounder, Instituto de Inteligencia Artificial

Rubén Colomer
Investment Manager, GoHub Ventures

Ana Cabezas
Founder, Soy Calidad

Esther Molina
Journalist Innovation & Tech

Antonio Torregrosa
Managing Director, Fundación Valenciaport

David Salces
Cofounder and digital designer, Fibsen

Natalia Álvarez
Open Innovation Sr Analyst, Repsol

Javier García
CEO, Asterius VC

Paula Sánchez
CEO & Cofounder, CoCircular

Pablo Rodrigo
CEO, Trazable

2022 Sponsors and Partner

HOST PARTNER:
• Generalitat Valenciana

DIAMOND SPONSORS:
• Ajuntament De Valencia
• Valenciactiva
• Las Naves
• Diputacio of Valencia

ECOSYSTEM SUPPORTERS:
• Jeff
• GoHub
• Sabadell
• Google for Startups
• Dekalabs
• Wayra
• Elewit
• Zeus
• Decathlon
• Plug and Play
• Big Translation
• OpenTop