Attila Havas (PhD, 1997) is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Economics, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, regional editor of the International Journal of Foresight and Innovation Policy, member of the Editorial Board of Foresight and STI Governance. His academic interests are in economics of innovation, national and sectoral innovation systems, measurement of innovation, business-academia collaboration, social innovation, theory and practice of innovation policy, and technology foresight. In 1997-2000 he was Programme Director of TEP, the Hungarian Technology Foresight Programme. He has participated in a number of international research projects on STI policies, innovation and transition, as well as on foresight and prospective analyses, advised foresight programmes in several countries, has been a member of EU expert groups, and invited speaker at a number of international conferences and workshops on technology foresight.
Alberto Tejero (ES)
Alberto Tejero is an expert in management and organization of technological innovation. He works at Technology Intelligence Unit (Centre for Technology Innovation, CAIT-UPM) in international innovation and technology intelligence projects. In addition, he is a lecturer of the European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) and responsible of E&I online contents at Madrid Node (EIT Digital) since 2015, expert associate of the Royal Academy of Engineering in Spain and advisory board member of several Foundations and Councils in topics related to innovation, technology and education. He holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration and a Master’s Degree in Computer Science. He is a PhD candidate at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM). He worked as lecturer and research fellow at UPM (2010-2015), coordinator professor at CEPADE and ESCP Europe Business School (2014 and 2015) and senior ICT specialist at UPM (2002-2014).
Miguel Maté (ES)
Miguel Maté, holds a master´s degree in Law and Business Administration in the Universidad Pontificia Comillas and Executive MBA at the IESE. After a brief period of time in the consultancy firm Bain & Company Italy, he started his professional career in Telekom Austria in Vienna, where over 7 years, he acquired experience as a Controller of different departments and areas of expertise, firstly in the Systems Area until being Manager of the CRM department, being appointed afterwards as manager of the Marketing Business and Residential department. In his background stands out the experience in project analysis and monitoring, overall vision understanding of finance and business operations; thanks to his involvement in the Mobilko and Telekom Austria merger and to his position as Chief Financial Officer of several small companies. Since his return to Spain in 2012 he has worked with Innovation and Technology companies connected with universities and research centres, helping them in the early stages as well as in the later acquisition of public and private equity, in Spain and overseas.
Juan Antonio Esteban (ES)
Telecomunitions engineer, with wide experience both at a local level (Spain) and internationally, working in the area of innovation, managing complex projects with multidisciplinary teams, business development and consulting.
Expert in Data Visualization, executive dashboards, Assesments and KPI Analysis and Data Scientist.
R&D Senior consultant and Innovation Project Design on Smart Cities, IoT, Cloud Servicies, Big Data, Ultra Narrow Band Servicies and others.
General Manager of a start-up of LED lighting technology and R&D director in Efison company (specialized in innovation and energy efficiency).
Coordinator at red.es of Digital Contents White Paper in Spain.
Trainer and coordinator in several masters at EOI, ICEX, Telefonica Learning Servicies, UNED, Universidad Alfonso X.
Ray Garcia (US)
Ray Garcia is the managing director of Buoyant Capital, a global peer advisory think-tank addressing the growth challenges of small to medium sized enterprises. The firm coordinates its team of experts to help its clients improve competitiveness through talent management, global market expansion partnership access, technology asset management, capital investment and restructuring. Buoyant Capital was founded in 2000 in New York City and has helped launch several start-up companies and works as an advisor to company founders, CEO’s, and their investors. Ray has over 20 years of experience as a technology entrepreneur, as company CTO co-founder, for four venture-backed companies. Since 2015 he is serving as a business expert to EU Commission Horizon 2020 SME innovation instrument where he is evaluating commercialization grant proposals of technology ventures and coaching company executives who have received grant funding.