Orit Kopel

Founder at Wikitribune

Orit Kopel es cofundadora y vicepresidente de desarrollo comercial de Wiki Tribune, una innovadora plataforma de noticias basada en Wiki que pone en contacto una comunidad de voluntarios con periodistas profesionales con el objetivo de crear un espacio de noticias colaborativas. Kopel tiene recorrido en el campo de derechos humanos y es consejera delegada de la Jimmy Wales Foundation for Freedom of Expression. Kopel trabaja para conseguir que bloggers y usuarios de redes sociales para que puedan expresarse libremente. Anteriormente también había sido asesora especial para el Expert Advisory Council de Google en el campo del 'Derecho al Olvido', defendiendo la libertad del usuario en Internet.

Ryan Bubinski

Founder at Codecademy

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 write to their first lines of code.

Alexis Bonte

Partner at Atomico

Empresario. co-fundador y angel investor con una sólida formación general y 19 años de experiencia en gestión de todo tipo de start ups desde las primeras etapas de post-IPO. Algunos de sus casos de éxito incluyen lastminute.com o eRepublik Labs. Además, ha sido reconocido por el Foro Económico Mundial (Davos) y el Young Global Leader (YGL) en 2012. Alexis es apasionado por la creación de nuevas organizaciones y equipos de gestión en entornos de rápido crecimiento, y tiene el objetivo de ofrecer los mejores resultados a través del mejor servicio a sus clientes. Aunque crear nuevas empresas es complicado, lo considera una aventura increíblemente interesante.

Chad West

CMO at Revolut

CMO @ Revolut

Dhiraj Mukherjee

Co-founder at Shazam

Dhiraj Mukherjee es uno de los cofundadores del servicio de identificación de canciones y música, Shazam. Completó su máster en la Universidad de Stanford en 1997 y actualmente es el líder de Innovación Bancaria en la empresa Virgin Money en el Reino Unido. Antes de lanzar Shazam, Mukherjee trabajó como consultor en Bain & Company y fue gerente de proyectos para Viant Corp.

Clancy Childs

CTO at Dow Jones

Chief Product & Technology Officer, Dow Jones Professional Information.

Sofía Benjumea

Google - Head of Campus Madrid

Sofia is the Head of Campus Madrid, creating a vibrant, transformative and collaborative community where entrepreneurs and tech startups can flourish and grow through meaningful connections, knowledge and unique opportunities. Before joining Google, she was the founding partner and CEO of Spain Startup, organizing what has become the leading startup conference in Southern Europe, The South Summit. She holds a BA in International Business Administration, an MA in journalism from El Pais and an MBA from IE Business School and UCLA's Anderson School of Business. Sofia is a passionate community builder, a tireless doer and creative thinker. Previously a journalist, she pivoted and returned to Spain with a desire to help build and rebuild by fostering a strong startup ecosystem.

Lorenz Jüngling

CPO at N26

Lorenz joined N26 in November 2016 after working for many years as a strategic management consultant and partner for McKinsey & Company in Europe and Africa. He holds a diploma in Mathematical Physics and a PhD. Lorenz focuses on building products that enable people to deal with the challenges of everyday life in an intuitive way. Together with the product, design, and tech teams at N26, Lorenz is changing commercial banking by putting its users' true interests first. Without N26, Lorenz would be a fashion photographer and amateur blues guitar player.

Javier Suárez

CPO & Co-Founder at TravelPerk

Javier Suarez is the CPO and Co-Founder of TravelPerk, named Europe’s fastest-growing tech startup by SaaS1000. TravelPerk is modernizing the business travel sector by offering companies of any size, a tool for booking and managing all their travel in one place. TravelPerk has raised $75m to date by some of the world’s leading investors including Spark Capital, famous for Twitter, Trello and Slack. Prior to founding TravelPerk, Javier worked in several strategic roles within Booking.com’s HQ. Mostly recently, leading the company's #1 priority as a founding member of the the global innovation team. Javier started writing business plans at 14 and is a frequent speaker at industry events. He’s lived in six countries and speaks Spanish, English and German, fluently.

Asha Jadeja

Venture Capitalist and Angel Investor

Asha Jadeja is a mom, entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist based in Palo Alto, California. In her career as a venture capitalist, Asha has invested in over a 100 startups some of which have gone on to become public companies. She initiated the spread of the maker movement and maker hubs in Africa in 2010 and later in India, Pakistan, and Brazil. Makerfest, a three day event that brings local makers together for a week of collaboration and co-inventing happens in various cities around the world now. Asha is also creating a network of Fablabs around the world, to help spark off distributed manufacturing using just in time creation, tinkering and deliveries. Through Rajeev Circle Fellowships, Asha is developing a dynamic corridor of entrepreneurship, collaboration and community between Silicon Valley and South Asia.

Pepe Agell

CSO & Founder at Chartboost

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).

Svetlana Velikanova

CEO & Founder at Harbour.Space

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.

Toni Raurich

CBO at Wallapop

Internet professional since 2003, focused on transactional sites, specialized in hyper-growth marketing, operations, product and financing. Academically investigating the problems generated on employees with artificial intelligence, low labor and high capital intensive technologies and what we as society will do to mitigate its effects on the labor market.

Laura González

HR Manager at Schibsted

Laura is an experienced international Recruiter and HR Manager, specialist in Talent Acquisition, HR Processes and Policies, Payroll and Compensation management, with experience ranging from top corporate environments to start-ups worldwide. Talent is everywhere. Why search for the best engineers only in your city? Laura has been working in recruitment, creating remote environments and establishing processes and operations for full remote startups. Building an engineering culture, improving communication amongst teams and dealing with cultural differences is her day to day life. Her passion is people, she’s an advocate for company culture and loves creating a strong talent landscape wherever she goes. After leading the HR teams for retail companies such as Bershka or Deichmann, and managing Recruitment and HR Processes for Couchsurfing, Sovolve and Divescover, she moved to manage the Talent Acquisition and HR for the international hub of Schibsted in Barcelona. She’s also the mother of two girls and a dive instructor.

Vicenç Martí

Chairman at elrow & Tangelo Games

Vicenç Martí es mitad emprendedor, mitad ejecutivo. Es un líder de tiempo completo que ha estado involucrado en proyectos apasionantes, con más de 17 años de experiencia centrados en la estrategia, el desarrollo empresarial y las relaciones con inversores. Actualmente es presidente de Tangelo Games (anteriormente Akamon), la mayor plataforma de comunidad de juegos, y de Billy Mobile, un Ad-Exchange 100% móvil centrado en rendimiento. También participó como asesor estratégico en elrowFamily, una compañía de entretenimiento musical, y como inversionista y asesor en Ubiqum, Code Academy y Finizens (startup de Fintech), entre otros. En el pasado tuvo otros roles de interés, incluyendo CEO de Akamon Entertainment, CCO de la aerolínea Vueling durant el llançament de la IPO y CEO de la división interactiva en la mayor empresa de juegos de España, Cirsa, durante un período de cinco años. Se graduó en administración de empresas en la Universidad de St. Louis, tiene un MBA en IESE Business School y ha completado el Programa Ejecutivo de Stanford en la Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Julia Barrett

Program Offering Manager at e-Residency

Julia Barrett recently joined e-Residency to help transform the program. Previously the Global Program Director of Startup Relations at Salesforce, Julia initially joined Salesforce to assist acquisition Heroku on corporate alignment, strategic partnerships and go-to-market strategy. Prior to Salesforce, Julia drove early-stage marketing for Wealthfront, the fastest growing fintech startup in the United States. Julia has also managed several global e-commerce partnership programs, including the eBay Partner Network, after time on Wall Street.

Àlex Rodríguez Bacardit

Founder & CEO at MarsBased

Founder & CEO de MarsBased & Director Regional de Startup Grind en el sur de Europa. Desarrollador de formación, durante su paso por consultoras como Deloitte y VASS, y más de 5 años colaborando y dirigiendo ESN en la Universitat Pompeu Fabra, lo hicieron transicionar hacia el desarrollo de negocio. El año 2014, fundó MarsBased con sus dos mejores amigos, una consultora de desarrollo 100% remota y especializada en Ruby on Rails y Javascript. En tan solo 3 años, MarsBased se ha convertido en un referente dentro del mundo emprendedor de Barcelona gracias a contribuciones como el desarrollo del Barcelona Startup Map, la gestión de una comunidad de 1000 emprendedores y startups de Barcelona en Slack y la redacción de la newsletter Startup Digest, entre otros.

Xavier Noria

Ruby on Rails Core Team Member

Xavier Noria has been doing software professionally for the last eighteen years, twelve of which remotely. An independent consultant from Barcelona with a math background, Xavier has taught dynamic languages at the University of Barcelona, and has been an active member of the open source community for many years. Most notably, he was into Perl in the 2000s, he's been in the Ruby on Rails core team since 2011, and he's also personally interest in Erlang and Elixir, projects he has contributed a bit too.

Xavier Redó

Founder & CTO at MarsBased

Xavier is a founding member and CTO at MarsBased, an all-remote Ruby on Rails & Javascript development agency. He's responsible for architecture and development and an expert in managing teams of remote developers. Xavier started his career freelancing before joining the corporate world, working for companies like ATOS Origin and Gnuine, where he discovered the wonders of Ruby on Rails, which inspired him to create a specialised company just a few years after.

Josh Feldberg

Founder at Rentify

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.

Miguel Valls

Founder at Alta Life Sciences

Mr. Miguel Valls is an established serial entrepreneur and investor in Spain and Silicon Valley and a former investment banker with several successful investments in life science and tech companies. Mr. Valls is Founding General Partner of Alta life sciences, a multi stage life sciences investment firm based in Silicon valley and Barcelona. Mr. Valls is co-Founder and Chairman of Dadata Capital and has been the co- founder, investor and advisor to biotech companies like Genotesta, Clear Labs, Base Health and tech companies like Spirit Films and Nektria and vLex. Miguel is also the co-founder and co-chair of the San Francisco-Barcelona Sister City Committee and Technology Advisor to the Barcelona and Spain Chambers of Commerce.

Jaime Novoa

Investor at K Fund

Periodista reconvertido en inversor. Empezó como periodísta cubriendo el sector tecnológico, la cual cosa lo llevó a crear su propia publicación (Novobrief.com), que vendió posteriormente. Ahora se dedica a hacer inversiones con K Fund para apoyar a los mejores emprendedores del sector startup español.

Josep Mitjà

COO & Co-founder at Rakuten TV

COO & Co-founder at Rakuten TV.

Montse Guàrdia Güell

Digital Challenge & Emerging Technologies Director, Banc Sabadell

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.

Costanza Vannutelli

Innovation Manager at Utopicus

Born in Rome, living in Madrid | Innovation Manager at Utopicus | Startup Grind Madrid Co-Director | Supporting social entrepreneurs @MakeSense

Quirze Salomó

CEO at Nostrum

CEO at Nostrum.

Scott Mackin

Founder at Barcinno

Scott Mackin is the Chief Commercial Officer for OneCoWork, a premium workspace platform from Barcelona. Prior to joining OneCoWork, Scott founded Barcinno Media, the international resource for Barcelona tech, startups and innovation, which he later sold. Originally from Boston, Scott holds a Bachelors in Communication from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and earned his MBA from the University of San Diego in 2013. Outside of work, Scott is an associate professor of entrepreneurship and digital strategy for the Master's and MBA programs at EADA Business School. He is married with two children and currently lives in Barcelona.

Sunil Bhardwaj

CEO and Co-Founder of Globatalent

Sports marketing professional and co-founder plus CEO of Globatalent, Sunil Bhardwaj, leads a team of expert individuals dedicated to giving talented sports men and women a fairer route into their professional careers, without financial burden. Globatalent is a decentralised blockchain-based tool where clubs and players can fund themselves by selling their future revenue rights to fans and investors. Sunil Bhardwaj, aged 41, graduated in 1999 with a diploma in sports management from the University of Greenwich, London and has since enjoyed an accomplished 18-year career in the sports industry. He has worked in many territories including Germany, Holland as well as his native Spain.

Agustín Tonna

VP at Ironhack

Born and raised in Buenos Aires, Agustin always had a passion for technology. Having worked in startups since he was young, he had the chance to be in Chile as part of Startup Chile and later San Francisco. After moving to Europe, initially to Barcelona and later London, he helped Onfido scale significantly and later with Unidays expand their student verification capabilities. Now as VP Product at Ironhack he is bringing Product and Software development best practices in order to provide outcome focused education to thousands of students across 8 cities.

Georgina Smallwood

Director of Product at N26

Georgie is a highly experienced digital leader that has a knack for identifying, starting and delivering capability in teams, product ladders, business road maps and organisations. Across Australia, Asia and Europe she has worked in, with and coached, Product teams, Business Operations as well as Ad Tech talent and leaders, in environments where high growth rates (25%+yoy) and business change are the priority. Georgie has the ability to prioritise the most important work and keep a cool head in time critical situations all while building high quality deliverables and high performing teams. With over 12 years experience in global digital companies such as Xero, News Ltd, REA Group, Adconion Media Group, IAB, iCar Asia and Scout24, her leadership, strategic thinking and operational effectiveness has benefited from her breadth of experience and the leaders she’s had the opportunity to work with. Georgie’s style is open and direct, and she believes that change for growth is always successful when done with high levels of communication (verbal and non verbal) and respect throughout the organisation. She has led teams of 50+ over multiple locations and timezones.