19 November 2024
7:00 pm
Lecture and Colloquium Tech & Society with Catherine Jestin
Conference
Auditorio Espacio Fundación Telefónica

Lecture and Colloquium Tech & Society with Catherine Jestin

Tuesday, November 19th
from 7.00 to 8.30pm
Auditorio Espacio Fundación Telefónica

 

Aspen Institute España and Fundación Telefónica will host the second Lecture and Colloquium of the VIII Edition of the Tech & Society Program next Tuesday,  November 19th with Catherine Jestin, Executive Vice President Digital at Airbus. The lecture will be moderated Noelia Amoedo, Founder of mediasmart mobile & Advisor specialising in Responsible Tech and Aspen España Fellow.

 

Catherine Jestin

She has been Executive Vice President Digital at Airbus since 1 July 2021 and is a member of the Company’s Executive Committee. The main focus of Catherine’s organisation is to foster digital innovation across Airbus’ industrial ecosystem and its products and services portfolio, accelerating data analytics, artificial intelligence, automation and services for customers as well as digital security for the Company. Catherine works to reinforce the transversal cooperation across Airbus functions company-wide in order to continue the successful deployment of the Digital Design, Manufacturing & Services (DDMS) programme, established to enable co-design capabilities and digital continuity system-wide. Catherine had previously held the position of Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Airbus since March 2020. In this role, she was responsible for driving state-of-the-art Information Technology systems and solutions in support of Airbus employees, customers and suppliers.  Prior to this position, Catherine was Chief Information Officer at Airbus Helicopters, a role that she held from July 2013 to February 2020. Before joining Airbus, Catherine held a variety of positions, between 2007 and 2013, at Rio Tinto in Montreal, Canada within the field of Information Systems & Technology (IS&T). Catherine also spent 17 years at Accenture and was nominated Partner in 2002, a position that she held for five years.

 

Noelia Amoedo 

She is a visionary leader and successful entrepreneur in the digital technology sector, recognised for her ability to drive innovation and leverage disruptive technologies to create profitable businesses. Throughout her 24+ year career, she has pioneered significant technological change, including micro-payments for digital goods, mobile services, social media and programmatic advertising. Today, she is especially motivated by the challenge of ensuring that technological progress serves humanity and contributes positively to our society. With a global perspective, Noelia has managed dynamic teams and markets across five continents, always leading with integrity and transparency. She founded and led Mediasmart Mobile as CEO, an AI-powered SaaS platform in the AdTech space, and orchestrated its acquisition by Affle Group in Singapore, successfully completing a 4-year post-transaction earn-out period and serving on the boards of publicly listed Affle (India) Limited and Ireland-based subsidiary Jampp.  Noelia’s rich background in executive roles includes serving as VP of Marketing and Business Development for webOS at Palm (a subsidiary of HP), as VP of Mobile at the hi5 social network, and as Director of Mobile at the hi5 social network. Palm (a subsidiary of HP), as VP of Mobile at the hi5 social network, and as Managing Director of Buongiorno USA, a leading provider of mobile value-added services. General Manager of Buongiorno USA, a leading provider of mobile value-added services. She began her career at iPIN Transaction Systems in San Francisco in 1999,gaining very early exposure to Internet-based businesses that laid the foundation for her future work in foundation for her future work in emerging technologies. A Fulbright Scholar, Noelia holds a B.Sc. in Physics (with a specialisation in optical communications) from the University of California, Berkeley.communications) from the University of Santiago de Compostela, an MSc in Electrical Engineering from Stanford UniversityElectrical Engineering from Stanford University and a certificate in Corporate Governance from ESADE. Governance from ESADE.

 

VIII Edición del Programa Tech & Society

El Programa Tech&Society se ha convertido en el principal foro en España para la reflexión acerca de las grandes cuestiones planteadas por los avances de la tecnología digital. La VIII edición albergará a distintos líderes de todos los sectores de la sociedad civil para debatir acerca de los nuevos retos tecnológicos y su influencia en ámbitos tan diversos como las relaciones humanas, la política, la educación, la cultura, la economía o la medicina.

Leigh Hafrey, catedrático en el MIT Sloan School of Management, Sandy Parakilas, asesor del Center for Humane Technology que recientemente apareció en el documental de Netflix «El dilema de las redes sociales», Cathy O’Neil, autora del libro “Armas de destrucción matemática: Cómo el Big Data aumenta la desigualdad y amenaza la democracia”, Beth Noveck, directora de The Gov Lab y profesora de Tecnología, Cultura y Sociedad en NYU y quien dirigió la Iniciativa de Gobierno Abierto del Gobierno de Obama son solo algunos de los ponentes que han pasado por el Programa de Tech & Society a lo largo de las distintas ediciones.

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With
  • Catherine Jestin
  • Noelia Amoedo
Location
Auditorio Espacio Fundación Telefónica
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  • Conference