Lecture and Colloquium Tech & Society: «Media, Big Tech, Democracy»

Tuesday, October 22nd
from 7.00 to 8.30pm
Auditorio Espacio Fundación Telefónica

Aspen Institute España, in collaboration with Fundación Telefónica, will hold the second conference of the VIII Edition of the Tech & Society Program next Tuesday, October 22, with Jordi Pérez Colomé, a journalist at El País specializing in Technology and Society, and Alejandro Romero, founder and CEO of Alto Intelligence, Aspen España Fellow, and promoter of the non-profit initiative Cyber Guardians. The lecture and colloquium will be moderated by Lucía Gandarillas, Aspen España Fellow, consulting Public Affairs, Accenture.

Jordi Pérez Colomé

He is a reporter for the technology section of El País. Previously in politics and reporting. He has been a professor of writing at the Pompeu Fabra University, the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and the University of Barcelona. He was the author of the blog Obamaworld, the first in Spain to make crowdfundings to finance coverage abroad. He received the Jose María Porquet digital journalism (2013) and iRedes (2014) awards. He has published a work on the writing process and several reports in book format.

Alejandro Romero

He is the founder and CEO of Digital Risk & Cyber Intelligence firm Alto Intelligence and co-founder of Cybersecurity firm Constella, both leading global companies in their respective fields. Out of a profound sense of urgency and moral responsibility Alex’s primary mission and obsesion is to help organizations and individuals to anticipate and mitigate emerging digital risks. Alex is a limited partner at Ballistic Ventures, an early-stage Cybersecurity venture fund based in San Francisco focused on addressing the growing threats to society’s digital infrastructure. Alex also teaches as visiting professor the subject “Hybrid Threats” at Sciences Po University in Paris (France) as part of Sciences Po “Master in International Security”. He also serves as Cybersecurity and Digital Risks expert on the boards of Telefónica Tech (Madrid), Cyber Peace Institute (Geneva), European Council on Foreign Relations (Madrid, Brussels), and the Elcano Royal Institute (Madrid). He also supports and serves at the boards of several non-profits such as Endeavor, The Conversation and Hermes Foundation. Previously, Alex was the CEO and founder of a data analytics company specialized in applying big data and artificial intelligence to the analysis of public data which was sold to another US company in 2020. Before that Alex was Vice President of Viacom for Southern Europe, Turkey, the Middle East, and Africa and held different positions in companies such as Yahoo!, Vodafone and Alcatel-Lucent. Alex has a degree in Industrial Engineering and Automation and Electronics from the Polytechnic University of Malaga (Spain) and an MBA from Henley Business School (UK). Since 2014 Alex has been an Endeavor entrepreneur, and he has attended Endeavor programmes at Harvard University (Scaling Entrepreneurial Ventures Executive Program) – and Standford University (Innovation and Growth Executive Program). More recently, Alex is leading the launch of a non-profit initiative, cyber-guardians.org to raise awareness among parents, educators and regulators about the digital risks that new technologies represent for the mental health of younger people, especially those technologies related to LLMs and Generative AI.

Lucía Gandarillas

She is a public services consultant in Accenture, working to redesign the services provided by public administration in different areas: employment, social services, justice, education, or tourism. She believes in the potential of technology, data, and user center design to improve public policies and simplify citizen’s relationship with the administration.  Previously she did consultancy for the financial regulatory sector. Analyzing the transformation of banking institutions into transparent, and collaborative ecosystems. Lucía studied business administration in UC3M, and now is studying a master’s in public management, administration, and taxation in the UNED. She has some complementary studies in social psychology, one of her great interests along behavioral sciences. She has collaborated tutoring academic courses of the Collegue of Europe and ESCP Business School and she is part of the Qvixote Leaders. Lucía has lived in USA, China, and France. She is passionate about cultural exchange, dance, critical thinking, and listening to new perspectives. She is Aspen España Fellow.

VIII Edition of the Tech & Society Program

Aspen Institute España and Fundación Telefónica launched the VIII Edition of the Tech & Society Program.