During his speech at #Santander35
Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2025 5:36 am
The 35th Meeting on the Digital Economy and Telecommunications, organised by AMETIC , Banco Santander and the Menéndez Pelayo International University (UIMP), brought this edition to a close last Friday with its third and final day of presentations and round tables, a day that focused on reindustrialisation, innovation and emerging technologies.
MarketingDirecto.com travelled to Santander to cover the event once again and gather the main conclusions that the experts on the portal and on our social networks left us with . The informative work of our media stood out on Twitter, a social network in which it achieved more than 4.5 million potential impacts on Twitter .
Here we go with day three here at #Santander35 by @AMETIC_es with the first intervention by Francisco Polo, High Commissioner for the entrepreneurial nation of Spain. Last night we had dinner at @SamsungEspana with our dear @alfonsoferAF and we got to know the cool news of a great #brand : pic.twitter.com/2PJbTsQD3k
— Javier Piedrahita (@jpiedrahita) September 3, 2021
The third day kicked off with an institutional address by Francisco Polo , High Commissioner for Spain as an Entrepreneurial Nation, who announced the publication in the BOE of the Ministerial Order creating the Advisory Council of the Spain as an Entrepreneurial Nation Strategy , a "roadmap" presented last February and already in execution, with a budget of 4.2 billion euros until 2023. The creation of this Council, which will be made up of up to 50 professionals, will be "fundamental to ensuring the development of the Strategy, to leave no one behind and to reduce existing gaps," said Polo.
"There are reasons to think that entrepreneurship is better than it was four years ago. But we cannot stop because there is still much to do. Let's bet on innovation and move from 'let them invent' to 'let's start ourselves '," he said at #Santander35.
Reindustrialization, innovation and emerging technologies meet digital economy
Xavier Ferràs, professor of Operations, Innovation and Data Sciences at the global academic institution ESADE, also participated in the meeting to talk about the era of hypercompetition in R&D. Ferràs stated that the future of R&D lies in "gigafactories" and that, in this "macrocompetitive" environment, Spain should not look so much to Brussels and should also seek other formulas.
Following this speech, it was the turn of the Minister of Industry, Trade and Tourism, Reyes Maroto , who called for the "active participation" of all agents and sectors and to promote public-private collaboration to achieve the transformation and recovery of the country. In her speech, Maroto highlighted the role of technologies and industry 4.0 , which during this health crisis "have been put at the service of people to save lives." She also recalled her department's commitment to tourism that is "of higher quality, digital, safe and a backbone of the territory."
Next, Ezequiel Navarro , Member of the Executive Committee of AMETIC, moderated a round table on "microelectronics, chips and their impact on the industry of the 21st century" in which participated the Secretary General of Innovation of the Ministry of Science and Innovation, Teresa Riesgo ; the Deputy Director General of Digitalization of the Industry and Collaborative Environments of the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism, Jordi Llinares ; the representative of the Spanish Industry IPCEI of Microelectronics, José María Insenser ; the integrated Circuis & Systems Design Group of CNM-IMB (CSIC), Lluís Terés ; and the director of Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Mateo Valero .
Riesgo valued microelectronics as an opportunity and assured that there is a co-investment mechanism between the public and private sectors that favors an "enormous" potential thanks to multi-million dollar investments.
Ezequiel Navarro, for his part, said that digitalisation, cybersecurity and the cloud have led to a "massive increase in the use of transistors."
During his speech, Jordi Llinares said that European funds are "a great opportunity" for the microelectronics sector. And José María Insenser also mentioned the "enormous possibilities" that "microelectronics offers us."
On the other hand, Lluís Terés spoke about “RISC-V ” networks (an open source hardware instruction set architecture) and the “enormous possibilities” they offer when it comes to “facilitating collaboration” between team members.
Finally, Mateo Valero said that for Spain this is opening up a "unique opportunity to do things that have never been done before" and stressed the need to collaborate.
The last day of the event continued with a debate panel moderated by the Deputy Director General of Digitalisation of Industry and Collaborative Environments of the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism, Jordi Llinares . The Industry X Lead of Iberia Accenture, Javier Rodríguez ; the General Manager of Gradiant, Luis Pérez ; and the Deputy General Manager of AFM Advanced & Digital Manufacturing Technologies, Patricia Tames , participated in it .
Javier Rodríguez pointed out that Spain "is not leading the industrial train in Europe " and therefore advocated "having the ambition to improve this position."
Tames, for his part, approached digitalisation from four points of view that he declared complementary: the technological field; infrastructure; the business model; and talent .
"You have to work from a strategy and understand the processes, needs and reality of each company," said Pérez.
Llinares recalled that "when we talk about Industry 4.0, we are talking about industrial modernization , about introducing technology into companies that allows them to increase their competitiveness."
The future will be sustainable or it will not be
«The future will be sustainable or it won't be» was the title of the next presentation, given by David Alonso , director of Mobility Business at Samsung, who pointed out that, «if we don't work in a sustainable way» from an environmental and social point of view, «there will be no future». The professional spoke during his talk about the need for reinvention and highlighted the European Funds as an opportunity. « Innovation is our DNA, from a technological and marketing point of view», he stressed about Samsung. Alonso mentioned the «Galaxy for the Planet» initiative, which aims for the company's environmental impact to be minimal or null by 2025; «Samsung Smart School», which has provided educational centres such as Aguanaz with tablets facilitating distance education; a programme to help people with ALS disease or «Employers», which contributes to reducing the digital and gender gap.
Following his presentation, the representative of Banco Santander, Javier Gómez, presented Enrique Sánchez, representative of the European Quantum Industry Consortium (QuIC), with the 2021 Business Excellence Award in Quantum Technologies , instituted by AMETIC, in its second edition. The event was presented by the member of the board of directors and treasurer of QuIC, Enrique Lizaso , and was attended by Laure Le Bars , Research Director of SAP Technology & Innovation and President of this consortium in which more than 300 companies participate; and Professor Tommaso Calarco , chair of the Quantum Community Network and director of the Peter Grünberg Institute Quantum Control Center at the Forschungzentrum Jülich.
Later, Enrique Lisazo moderated the panel “Quantum Technologies. State of Quantum Spain” , which was attended by the managing partner of Business and Innovation Consulting at Grant Thornton, Luis Pastor ; the chair and group leader of The Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO), Valerio Pruneri ; and the director of the Quantum Computing and Information Research Group at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Vicente Martí n.
During his speech, Martín assured that there are projects based on quantum technology that, under the protection of European Funds, will lead "Spain to occupy a significant position."
Luis Pastor delved deeper into quantum technology and highlighted that companies are already obtaining “greater performance” from Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms thanks to the application of this type of computing.
Pruneri said that funding of 260 million euros is already planned for 2022 for the development of jordan number data quantum technology and that, by 2024, a deployment phase is expected to be reached to create a small constellation of four or five satellites.
Jordi García Brustenga , Director of Operations and Strategy of ENISA and Secretary of the IND+I (Industry and Innovation) Council, moderated a round table discussion on technological sovereignty and reindustrialisation. The panel was attended by the Chief Data Officer of the State Secretariat for Digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence, Alberto Palomo ; the professor at the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM) and member of the Forum of Innovative Companies, Gonzalo de León ; the Tink&Leader of Tecnalia, Eva Arrilucea ; and the Mayor of Viladecans (Barcelona), Carles Ruiz Novella .
Palomo said that “digital sovereignty also involves achieving data sovereignty .” He also highlighted that the main components of data sovereignty are the construction of a reference model, the promotion of an environment of transparency and trust, and the establishment of rules to foster competitiveness and stability in the markets.
For Gonzalo de León, technological sovereignty is a broader problem that should be framed within the concept of “strategic autonomy” . The professional identified three levels of technological security: the first, “to ensure that we have the materials and services when we need them”; the second, which “allows us to have the knowledge and capabilities to develop projects”; and the third, in which he placed the construction of “an equitable and fair environment in which to work”.
MarketingDirecto.com travelled to Santander to cover the event once again and gather the main conclusions that the experts on the portal and on our social networks left us with . The informative work of our media stood out on Twitter, a social network in which it achieved more than 4.5 million potential impacts on Twitter .
Here we go with day three here at #Santander35 by @AMETIC_es with the first intervention by Francisco Polo, High Commissioner for the entrepreneurial nation of Spain. Last night we had dinner at @SamsungEspana with our dear @alfonsoferAF and we got to know the cool news of a great #brand : pic.twitter.com/2PJbTsQD3k
— Javier Piedrahita (@jpiedrahita) September 3, 2021
The third day kicked off with an institutional address by Francisco Polo , High Commissioner for Spain as an Entrepreneurial Nation, who announced the publication in the BOE of the Ministerial Order creating the Advisory Council of the Spain as an Entrepreneurial Nation Strategy , a "roadmap" presented last February and already in execution, with a budget of 4.2 billion euros until 2023. The creation of this Council, which will be made up of up to 50 professionals, will be "fundamental to ensuring the development of the Strategy, to leave no one behind and to reduce existing gaps," said Polo.
"There are reasons to think that entrepreneurship is better than it was four years ago. But we cannot stop because there is still much to do. Let's bet on innovation and move from 'let them invent' to 'let's start ourselves '," he said at #Santander35.
Reindustrialization, innovation and emerging technologies meet digital economy
Xavier Ferràs, professor of Operations, Innovation and Data Sciences at the global academic institution ESADE, also participated in the meeting to talk about the era of hypercompetition in R&D. Ferràs stated that the future of R&D lies in "gigafactories" and that, in this "macrocompetitive" environment, Spain should not look so much to Brussels and should also seek other formulas.
Following this speech, it was the turn of the Minister of Industry, Trade and Tourism, Reyes Maroto , who called for the "active participation" of all agents and sectors and to promote public-private collaboration to achieve the transformation and recovery of the country. In her speech, Maroto highlighted the role of technologies and industry 4.0 , which during this health crisis "have been put at the service of people to save lives." She also recalled her department's commitment to tourism that is "of higher quality, digital, safe and a backbone of the territory."
Next, Ezequiel Navarro , Member of the Executive Committee of AMETIC, moderated a round table on "microelectronics, chips and their impact on the industry of the 21st century" in which participated the Secretary General of Innovation of the Ministry of Science and Innovation, Teresa Riesgo ; the Deputy Director General of Digitalization of the Industry and Collaborative Environments of the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism, Jordi Llinares ; the representative of the Spanish Industry IPCEI of Microelectronics, José María Insenser ; the integrated Circuis & Systems Design Group of CNM-IMB (CSIC), Lluís Terés ; and the director of Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Mateo Valero .
Riesgo valued microelectronics as an opportunity and assured that there is a co-investment mechanism between the public and private sectors that favors an "enormous" potential thanks to multi-million dollar investments.
Ezequiel Navarro, for his part, said that digitalisation, cybersecurity and the cloud have led to a "massive increase in the use of transistors."
During his speech, Jordi Llinares said that European funds are "a great opportunity" for the microelectronics sector. And José María Insenser also mentioned the "enormous possibilities" that "microelectronics offers us."
On the other hand, Lluís Terés spoke about “RISC-V ” networks (an open source hardware instruction set architecture) and the “enormous possibilities” they offer when it comes to “facilitating collaboration” between team members.
Finally, Mateo Valero said that for Spain this is opening up a "unique opportunity to do things that have never been done before" and stressed the need to collaborate.
The last day of the event continued with a debate panel moderated by the Deputy Director General of Digitalisation of Industry and Collaborative Environments of the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism, Jordi Llinares . The Industry X Lead of Iberia Accenture, Javier Rodríguez ; the General Manager of Gradiant, Luis Pérez ; and the Deputy General Manager of AFM Advanced & Digital Manufacturing Technologies, Patricia Tames , participated in it .
Javier Rodríguez pointed out that Spain "is not leading the industrial train in Europe " and therefore advocated "having the ambition to improve this position."
Tames, for his part, approached digitalisation from four points of view that he declared complementary: the technological field; infrastructure; the business model; and talent .
"You have to work from a strategy and understand the processes, needs and reality of each company," said Pérez.
Llinares recalled that "when we talk about Industry 4.0, we are talking about industrial modernization , about introducing technology into companies that allows them to increase their competitiveness."
The future will be sustainable or it will not be
«The future will be sustainable or it won't be» was the title of the next presentation, given by David Alonso , director of Mobility Business at Samsung, who pointed out that, «if we don't work in a sustainable way» from an environmental and social point of view, «there will be no future». The professional spoke during his talk about the need for reinvention and highlighted the European Funds as an opportunity. « Innovation is our DNA, from a technological and marketing point of view», he stressed about Samsung. Alonso mentioned the «Galaxy for the Planet» initiative, which aims for the company's environmental impact to be minimal or null by 2025; «Samsung Smart School», which has provided educational centres such as Aguanaz with tablets facilitating distance education; a programme to help people with ALS disease or «Employers», which contributes to reducing the digital and gender gap.
Following his presentation, the representative of Banco Santander, Javier Gómez, presented Enrique Sánchez, representative of the European Quantum Industry Consortium (QuIC), with the 2021 Business Excellence Award in Quantum Technologies , instituted by AMETIC, in its second edition. The event was presented by the member of the board of directors and treasurer of QuIC, Enrique Lizaso , and was attended by Laure Le Bars , Research Director of SAP Technology & Innovation and President of this consortium in which more than 300 companies participate; and Professor Tommaso Calarco , chair of the Quantum Community Network and director of the Peter Grünberg Institute Quantum Control Center at the Forschungzentrum Jülich.
Later, Enrique Lisazo moderated the panel “Quantum Technologies. State of Quantum Spain” , which was attended by the managing partner of Business and Innovation Consulting at Grant Thornton, Luis Pastor ; the chair and group leader of The Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO), Valerio Pruneri ; and the director of the Quantum Computing and Information Research Group at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Vicente Martí n.
During his speech, Martín assured that there are projects based on quantum technology that, under the protection of European Funds, will lead "Spain to occupy a significant position."
Luis Pastor delved deeper into quantum technology and highlighted that companies are already obtaining “greater performance” from Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms thanks to the application of this type of computing.
Pruneri said that funding of 260 million euros is already planned for 2022 for the development of jordan number data quantum technology and that, by 2024, a deployment phase is expected to be reached to create a small constellation of four or five satellites.
Jordi García Brustenga , Director of Operations and Strategy of ENISA and Secretary of the IND+I (Industry and Innovation) Council, moderated a round table discussion on technological sovereignty and reindustrialisation. The panel was attended by the Chief Data Officer of the State Secretariat for Digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence, Alberto Palomo ; the professor at the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM) and member of the Forum of Innovative Companies, Gonzalo de León ; the Tink&Leader of Tecnalia, Eva Arrilucea ; and the Mayor of Viladecans (Barcelona), Carles Ruiz Novella .
Palomo said that “digital sovereignty also involves achieving data sovereignty .” He also highlighted that the main components of data sovereignty are the construction of a reference model, the promotion of an environment of transparency and trust, and the establishment of rules to foster competitiveness and stability in the markets.
For Gonzalo de León, technological sovereignty is a broader problem that should be framed within the concept of “strategic autonomy” . The professional identified three levels of technological security: the first, “to ensure that we have the materials and services when we need them”; the second, which “allows us to have the knowledge and capabilities to develop projects”; and the third, in which he placed the construction of “an equitable and fair environment in which to work”.