Laura Urquizu, CEO and Partner of Red Points, is leading the worldwide innovation for online IP protection. Laura joined the initial founding team in 2014 and has led the company since its infancy. Red Points is the game-changer in online brand protection, online copyright protection, and the prevention of illegal online content distribution. Sales have grown exponentially under Laura’s leadership with the company surging from 10 to 170 people. She is leading the way for global adoption of Red Points’ technology and continues to bolster worldwide sales throughout Europe and the United States. Previously, Laura held executive and management positions in Arthur Andersen, Caja Navarra, and Corporacion CAN. In addition, she was the Advisor for the Board of Directors and Corporate Development at Lokku as well as being appointed to numerous Boards across European technology companies. Laura holds a Masters in Management Development from IESE for Caja Navarra and an Economics degree from Universidad del Pais Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea. In August 2018, Red Points was named one of the hottest European start-ups to follow by Wired (world reference publication in technology) and in October, CEO, Laura was included in the “50 most influential women entrepreneurs and investors in the European Technology Industry.

CTO, Digital Nomad, Wanderlust and Scuba Diving instructor. Sergio has been taking <strong>CTO</strong> positions for over a decade, specializing in cross cultural management, startup ecosystem and in finding a common language between business and technology.

Juan Margenat is a Founder and Chief Operating Officer at Marfeel. Margenat has a talent for spotting and investing in technology companies that are at the forefront of the industry and has served as a mentor, angel investor and advisor to numerous start-up companies around the globe.

Margenat founded Barcelona Experience and Weekendesk Iberia that have both received international recognition for their encouragement of tourism and commerce in Spain. Margenat has also worked as a private investor for many years and is known for his strategic vision and planning. He served as the Founder and General Manager at PlanB!, which is now part of Barcelo Group, one of Spain's leading tourist companies and founded and served as the General Manager at Smartbox, which was later sold to Smart & Co. Margenat is often relied on for counsel and support in the technology community in Barcelona and is the power behind a lot of successful companies coming out of Barcelona.

Christopher Pommerening started his professional career in Spain in 1998 co-founding AutoScout24 Spain as CEO and member of the Board of Directors. Christopher was appointed Managing Director of Scout24 Spain in 2001, Europe’s leading operator of virtual market places. While preparing the internationalisation of the Scout24 Group, he also set up B24 Networks, a Europe wide on-line market place for the yachting sector.

In 2002 he decided to devote himself full time to entrepreneurship and venture capital through his already established venture catalyst company VCMORE by offering consulting services and investment to start-ups through a network of business angels. Alongside the latter, in 2002, he co-started the Spanish chapter of the Entrepreneurs Organisation (EO) being one of the largest entrepreneur organisations in the world, and in the same year he co-founded Active Venture Partners, one of Europe’s first entrepreneurial driven VC companies.

In 2006 He has been elected to be the Ambassador for EO Europe & Africa, growing the organisation in 12 countries. In 2007 Christopher co-founded Linqia, the first marketplace for online communities.

In 2007 he created the terminology for Venturepreneurship and Venturepreneurs and created the Venturepreneurs’ Organisation.

In 2008 he initiated the Global Entrepreneurs Week in Spain and created the vision for the Barcelona Entrepreneurship City Commission.

Currently he is Managing Partner of Active Venture Partners, member of the Board of Directors of BuyVIP, Non Executive co-founder and Advisor of Foundum and Linqia, member of the Venture Committee of ASCRI, Advisor to Gild International and Chairman of the Venturepreneurs' Organisation & of the Barcelona Entrepreneurship City Commission.

Specialties: Venture Capital, Early, Expansion & Development stage, Venturepreneurship, Venturepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurs.

Co-founder of Panoramio.com, acquired by Google. Previously partner at Loquo.com, acquired by eBay. Currently at Mailtrack.io

Shruthi Chindalur is Regional Managing Director across Europe, Middle East and Africa for Criteo, which is the world's leading advertising platform for the open internet. In her role Criteo’s technology provides the opportunity for smaller businesses to use big data and machine learning to deliver personalised and effective communications to their shoppers, and hence compete with huge online retailers. Shruthi has almost 20 years of experience primarily working with mid-sized business in EMEA complimented with large account experience across EMEA & LATAM, and a deep understanding of digital sales across a wide range of industries having previously held roles at LinkedIn and Oracle. Shruthi is an advocate of coaching, personal and leadership development, and diversity and inclusion. In her spare time she’s a Patron for the Hope Foundation.

Award-winning entrepreneur and strategist, with extensive experience driving companies to successfully achieve innovation, revenue and business growth.

Named among the top 50 Most Admired CEOs (The Technology Headlines, USA, 2019), top 100 Leaders of the Future (Capital Magazine, Spain, 2009), and Entrepreneur of the Year (Entrepreneurs Magazine, Spain, 2006) among other recognitions.

CEO at Strands (www.strands.com), empowering with Artificial Intelligence 650 banks worldwide, boosting international expansion and strengthening its position as global FinTech leader.

Previously, founder of Polymita (acquired by Red Hat) pioneering the Business Process Management (BPM) software industry, recognized as a Visionary by Gartner (Magic Quadrant 2009 & 2010) and Major Player by IDC (MarketScape 2011). Co- founder of multiple companies within enterprise software, mobile and Internet businesses, including Intelligent Software Components - iSOCO (acquired by Santander) and Enzyme Advising Group (acquired by Nexe Group).

Founder of Bcombinator (www.bcombinator.com), helping startups to scale up through incubation, acceleration, education, mentoring, advisory and fundraising. Raised €30M among all portfolio companies.

Board Member and President of the Entrepreneurship Commission 22@Barcelona, Member of the CEO Collaborative Forum and Member of the Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO).

Academic Director and Professor at Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Lean Startups and Leadership.

JF Gauthier is a Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur and Founder & CEO of Startup Genome. He advises more than 30 governments across 25 countries on how to accelerate the growth of their entrepreneurial ecosystems through evidence- based policymaking. He also is the co-founder of Exit Reality, a fast-growing VR startup, and active angel investor.

Based on the voice of 10,000+ entrepreneurs, 300 local partner organizations and with more than 50 cities across 28 countries, Startup Genome has built the largest body of knowledge on what fuels the performance of startups and their ecosystems.

Based in Silicon Valley for 20 years JF has founded and played pivotal roles in companies active in the Tech, Life Sciences and Cleantech sectors as well as led several exits and acquisitions on both sides of the table. He has an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Partner at Alta Life Sciences

Daniel is co-founder and CEO of Bitnami, a company focused on helping companies and individual developers adopt cloud technologies. Bitnami is headquartered in San Francisco and has a distributed workforce. It was part of YCombinator and its customers include Google, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft. Daniel is a 20-year industry veteran with a focus on open source and infrastructure software.

Daniel has a Ms Sc. engineering degrees from University of Seville and DTU in Denmark. 

Guayente Sanmartin is the General Manager of the HP’s Large Format Design Business and investor. Guayente is passionate about innovation processes and development of teams, with special focus on women. She has been instrumental in the creation of several internal women networks and has been key note speaker at various universities and panels where she has shared her career experience to coach and inspire other professionals.

Guayente holds a Master Degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the Universidad Politecnica de Barcelona and a PDD Master Degree from IESE Business School in Barcelona, Spain.

An entrepreneur by heart, a designer and biologist by training, and a maker for life, Cecilia is known internationally as an innovation activist in empowering individuals and organizations by building exponential communities to innovate for impact with design and technologies.

She is a serial entrepreneur, founder of multiple companies such as MOB, Makers of Barcelona, a collaborative co-working community, FabCafe, a new concept that brings digital fabrication tools to the everyday environment of a coffee shop. Her latest venture FutureFunded.co is a community funding platform focus on training the next generation of women in technology. Cecilia is also the founder of MEAT, an agency that enables companies for corporate transformation to innovate with technology.

Cecilia was a fellow at the prestigious and highly selective Global Solution Programs at Singularity University 2017 focused on applying exponential technologies in finding impactful and meaningful solutions for global challenges at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View California.

Cecilia received her master as an architect at Harvard University and a degree in biology at Emory University. She is the recipient of the prestigious Wheelwright Travelling Fellowship as well as the Faculty Design Award by Harvard University. Currently, Cecilia is a senior adjunct faculty at Parsons New School Global Executive Master for Strategic Design and Management and visiting faculty for the Social Innovation Program at Toulouse Business School.

Cecilia was a product strategy expert at Google Developers Group and a certified Google Sprint Master. She has mentored at Google Launchpad, Startupbootcamp IoT & Data, Numa and Harvard Innovation Lab. She is currently on the executive board of advisors for Barcelona Global, SWAN (Womens Angels Network) as well as for the City Government of Barcelona. Cecilia was the Design Ambassador at Hotel W.

Cecilia is a 4-times TEDx speaker, and has given talks at World Mobile Congress, Smart City Expo, IAM Fest, Challengers, SHIFT, Open FAD and 4YFN. Cecilia was a regular contributor to the newspaper L'Econòmic. Cecilia has been awarded the Creative Entrepreneur of the Year 2017 by the Creative Net. Her publication “Hackable Cities” written together with her students at Parsons New School has won the Design for Well Being Award 2015. Cecilia has been mentioned in media such as CNBC, El Periodico, Skyword, Monocle, La Vanguardia, The Australian, and Expansion.

Josh in an entrepreneur and digital strategist who just last month exited Rentify, the startup he co-founded in his kitchen in London 7 years ago. He's also spent 15 years working with some of the world's leading brands including HP, Coca-Cola and McDonald's, as well as for leading global politicians, foundations and the British government. Amongst other things, he is currently head of digital for 89up.org and is working for the British government as an advisor to its enquiry into Fake News and the future of social media legislation.

A serial community builder, she founded Hacking Communities to spread the seeds of thriving communities around places, ideas or products, researching and offering 1-on-1 support to community leaders while writing a book to be released in 2019. At Startup Genome, she aims to enhance collaboration across startup ecosystems to allow startups being successful anywhere.

Founded and got her first business (8spaces.co) acquired by Flyspaces.com, Southeast Asia's largest marketplace for workspaces. Started several communities from local Startup Grind Chapters in Buenos Aires and Kuala Lumpur to MoreGirls.co (a community-driven platform to increase representation of women speaking at events related to tech, business and innovation with over 200 female founders, C-level and VCs in Southeast Asia.

Before, she acted as Startup Grind Global Community Director for Africa and APACa and worked with the Malaysian government to build a vibrant startup community, participating in the design and execution of the Global Accelerator Program by MaGIC (Malaysian Global Innovation and Creativity Centre) as well the MaGIC Academy (startup education program). 

Founder and CEO of SocialCar, the first platform in Spain for P2P car rental. Mar, is a benchmark in sharing economy, sustainable mobility and legality. Founding member of Sharing España and board member of ADigital. Mar supports Barcelona's tech ventures as a member of BCN Tech City's board of directors. She is also a promoter of innovation as part of the Creafutur advisory board. Graduated in Law and PDD by IESE, she began her professional career at Cuatrecasas Abogados and her social entrepreneurship interest began at Grameen Bank with Prof. Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

Former journalist turned investor. I started my career working as a journalist covering technology, I then went on to create my own publication (Novobrief.com) which I later sold. I now work at K Fund, looking to back the best and brightest Spanish startups.

Director with +15 years working for large e-commerce, classifieds and internet companies.

Analytical minded and strategic thinker, applying innovative and fresh perspectives. 

Casey is a serial entrepreneur who Cofounded and grew Couchsurfing.com to a community of more than 15 million members. He founded Upstock - a way to modernise the antiquated stock option system by offering a replacement that is simple, fair and inspiring to everyone. He has also built Wonder, a 360 peer feedback app and Mastly, equity as a service. Justin has a passion for building talented, diverse teams and bringing groundbreaking ideas to life.

Peter is a Managing Director at Vitruvian; a venture partner at BlueYard and LocalGlobe; an advisor to Entrepreneur First; and a Trustee of Frazzled Cafe, Doteveryone, and the Oxford Mindfulness Centre (Oxford University). He is an angel investor/advisor in over 100 tech startups, including: BigHealth, BookingBug, Business Of Fashion, CarThrottle, Citymapper, Craft, Diagonal View, Eyeclick, EyeEm, Farfetch, Freeformers, GetYourGuide, GiveMeSport, GoEuro, Hopster, Medigo, Memrise, Mippin, Mixlr, Monoqi, MoviePilot, Mubi, MyHeritage, Oddshot, Qapital, Qidenus, Quill, ReturnPath, Roli, Sailthru, Snap.hr, SofarSounds, Songkick, Styla, Tictrac, TVBeat, and Twitmusic

Peter was previously an angel/advisor at NevenVision (acquired by Google), Saynow (Google), Readmill (Dropbox), Fizzback (Nice Systems), Techlightenment (Experian), uberVu (Hootsuite), Gidsy (GetYourGuide), Bandpage (Youtube), AdjustYourSet (Oliver Group), ChicChickClub (JustFab), Shopwiki (Oversee), Launch Music (Yahoo), LoveFilm (Amazon), Skype (eBay), TastemakerX (Rdio), Mobix (Seachange), Kindo (MyHeritage), MusicNation (Universal Music), Preview Networks (Rightster), Playahead (MTG), HSX (Cantor Fitzgerald), H2G2 (BBC), iFilm (MTV), Metacafe (The Collective), Liveplanet (Disney), Fandango (Comcast), WoolAndTheGang (Blue Gem), YPlan (Time Out), and Meevee (eUniverse)

Peter was previously: General Partner at Google Ventures; Board Director of GP Bullhound and Entertainment Insights; President of Nielsen Entertainment; Governor at Beaconsfield High School; Fellow of Wellington College; a film awards judge at BAFTA; and a digital advisor to Oxfam, Sport England, and The Roundhouse. He is an active supporter of Founders Forum, Founders4Schools, AppsForGood, Speakers4Schools, Cambridge Wellbeing, Mindfulness In Schools, Mind & Life, CSAP, and NFTS. He was an Associate Producer on Rabbit Fever and an (uncredited) actor in Flyin' Ryan which both received some of the worst reviews in movie history

Partner at K FUND.

Anne Driscoll is a current CMO of Startup Genome; an international effort providing insight to entrepreneurs and partners alike in order to help foster success within global tech startup communities. Based in Silicon Valley, Anne’s experience in the Valley also stems from a background as a former Google Executive. Her passion for startups has led to a passion for global connections, and is also an advisor for multiple roles and companies at the CMO level. In March, Anne recently launched Startup Genome’s Global Startup Ecosystem Report for 2017 – providing data analysis and knowledge for startup ecosystems from around the world

Senior Telecommunications Engineer, has more than 20 years of experience in Information Technology & Operations, leading transformation projects and launching new businesses. Montse has spent the last 7 years building bridges between Start-Ups and Multinationals, working very close to multidisciplinary and multicultural teams with high experience in cutting-edge technologies and entrepreneurial skills. Prior to her current position at Banco Sabadell, where she leads a team specialized to identify the business challenges where emerging technologies could provide a competitive advantage. Montse worked in France at an Oil & Gas Services multinational from 2008 to 2016, managing globally the technology portfolio and the international software engineering team. Her work with multicultural teams in different countries has allowed her to live, adapt and adopt the cultural richness of several countries in Europe, South America, the United States, Japan, South Korea, South Africa, India, Malaysia, and of the Arab Emirates. She has been COO of a Information Technology multinational in South America and responsible for the implementation and delivery of Information Technology services of 4 Olympic Games, Pan American Games, and several World Championships and UN Summit. Montse is a regular contributor to social innovation programs. She is Vice-President of the Alastria Consortium and President of the Quantum Blockchain Alliance.

Entrepreneur. co-founder and angel investor with a strong general management background and a 19 years 360 degrees experience in all types of start ups from early stage to post IPO (lastminute.com, eRepublik Labs etc.) Recognized by the World Economic Forum (Davos) as a Young Global Leader (YGL) in 2012.

Passionate about building successful organizations and management teams in fast growing environments, to deliver maximum results by offering the best service to customers. Building great companies is hard its also an incredibly interesting adventure.

Specialties: General management, people management, strategy, culture change, online marketing, offline marketing, e-commerce companies, PR, business development, entrepreneurship, international development, online media market, online projects, commercial sales, online travel, videogames, online games, social games, mobile games, game development, game design, healthcare industry, angel investing, start ups, public speaking.

Founder and CEO of SocialCar, the first platform in Spain for P2P car rental. Mar, is a benchmark in sharing economy, sustainable mobility and legality. Founding member of Sharing España and board member of ADigital. Mar supports Barcelona's tech ventures as a member of BCN Tech City's board of directors. She is also a promoter of innovation as part of the Creafutur advisory board. Graduated in Law and PDD by IESE, she began her professional career at Cuatrecasas Abogados and her social entrepreneurship interest began at Grameen Bank with Prof. Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

Derek Andersen is the founder and CEO of Startup Grind, a global community that is powered by Google for Entrepreneurs designed to educate, mentor, and connect entrepreneurs. Founded in 2010 from humble beginnings with only 9 people attending his first event, 4 years later Start up Grind has grown to more than 200 cities, in 85 countries around the world.

After founding Vaporware Labs in 2009, he incubated many products (most of which failed spectacularly) including Startup Grind and professional social network Commonred. In 2012 Commonred was sold to Income.com.

He is also Ex-Electronic Arts where he worked on games like Burnout, Mirror's Edge, The Sims, and Need For Speed. Having spent 8-years living outside the United States, he currently lives in Palo Alto California with his wife and three children.

Derek has been featured on Forbes, Tech Crunch, and The Wall St Journal.

Chad is Director of Marketing & Comms at Revolut, a UK financial technology company that offers banking services.

He previously held the same position at Rocket Internet.

I am a product leader with extensive experience in hypergrowth pre and post-IPO companies. I am currently the Chief Product Officer at N26, where we are building a retail bank which empowers users to live and bank their way, and with 5 million customers, we’re well on our way! I love to build things - products, teams, companies, user value, anything exciting and challenging! My interests range from transforming organisations from early stage into global businesses to embedding a product-led mindset in order to drive consumer value and commercial outcomes.

Ryan is an entrepreneur, educator and software developer. He has over 10 years of experience in the education technology space, and over 15 years of experience building software companies. Ryan has been recognized on Inc. Magazine's 30 Under 30 list, and selected as a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum. He is the Co-Founder and former CPO of Codecademy, an online startup-up company that has taught over 45 million learners around the globe to write their first lines of code.

Svetlana Velikanova is the co-founder and CEO of Harbour.Space - Europe’s state of the art university for technology, design and tech entrepreneurship. She is driven to create a space of learning where the most gifted young people in technology and design from all over the world can evolve and emerge as the most ground-breaking graduates in their field. With the Harbour.Space board, she shares a highly innovative vision for university education: to connect the best professionals of today with extraordinary young people through immersive and progressive learning, which will revolutionise our technology-led future.  

Chief Product & Technology Officer, Dow Jones Professional Information

Pepe Agell leads Chartboost’s strategic planning, marketing and corporate development efforts. In this role, he oversees the company’s strategic partnerships, key future product developments, m&a activities, external communications and thought leadership. He holds a Mechanical Engineering degree from the UPC Barcelona and the ETH Zurich. Prior to joining Chartboost, Agell led product management and operations teams in both multinational (Hilti AG) and startups (3scale and Innovalley). 

Michael Eckhardt is Managing Director at Chasm Institute in their Silicon Valley Office, where Michael has been a partner for over 15 years:

  • a veteran of PwC, Harbridge Consulting, HP, and Pepsico

  • a Harvard MBA and Wall Street Journal Award winner, Michael is a recognized expert in new product launch success & go-to-market tools + best practices. He has lead over 500 client engagements in the US / Europe / Asia Pacific

  • Michael’s clients include: Adobe, Spotify, Citrix, Google / Nest, NetApp, RSI, HotChalk, Intel, Cisco, Xilinx, 3D printing ventures, Autodesk, SAP, Agilent Life Sciences, Jive, QAD, Micron, Philips Medical, Samsung, Logitech, and many other tech-based businesses, from large enterprises to mid-sized companies to venture-backed start-ups.

  • his firm’s books include the newly-updated “Crossing the Chasm 3.0” -- with 25 all-new tech company examples best practices, as well as the companion books “Escape Velocity” and “Zone to Win”

  • these best-sellers -- over 3,000,000 books sold -- continue to be proven playbooks for entrepreneurial success in B2B and B2C markets

  • its frameworks underpin the way tech companies around the world plan & fund their investments in disruptive innovations

  • Michael’s client focus, through 2-day strategy workshops and consulting services, drive three client outcomes:

      (1) accelerating new product success in next 12 to 24 months

      (2) best practices and tools for revenue growth

      (3) launching profitable innovations

  • Michael served as editor and contributor for both the updated for 2017 “Crossing the Chasm 3.0” and “Escape Velocity" books, which have sold more than 3 million copies worldwide