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Angel Alba (ES)

Angel is a consultant specialist in strategic innovation and accelerating innovation processes and projects. Innovation coach of the European Commission for the SME Instrument.

He has more than 20,000 hours of experience in innovation projects. He worked at Procter & Gamble for 7 years and after that he worked as Managing Director of the first Tech Center of KIBS in ES. In 2012 he launched his own consultancy start-up, called Innolandia.es, achiving +140 clients in 7 countries in 4 years.

He is certified innovation consultant and professor for the EOI Foundation (under the Ministry of Industry), working in several innovation and entrepreneurships projects and courses.

He is specialist in helping organizations and entrepreneurs to innovate sustainable and continuously and in designing new products and services with agile tools such as Design Thinking and Lean Start-up.

Orchidea Innovations (FI)

Orchidea Innovations is leading software company in the field on innovation. They help their customers to systemize and involve the whole organization in innovation. Orchidea SaaS platform enables employees, customers and partners to participate in innovation. Their software and expertise help the customers to accelerate innovation which leads to more profitable business.
Orchidea was founded in 2002 assist and catalyze in-person ideation. Since 2006 they have focused on systemization and acceleration of employee driven innovation. They codevelop software with their customer which involves employees, customers and partners in development of products, services and process improvements.

Javier Carrillo-Hermosilla (ES)

Javier Carrillo-Hermosilla is a Full Professor in the Department of Economics and Business Management at the University of Alcalá (UAH), where he leads the INNOGREEN Research group on eco-innovation and circular economy. He is also an associate researcher at IAES and the Banco Santander Chair of Corporate Responsibility, a member of the Innovation Council at IFI, and a fellow at the Centre for European Studies Jean Monnet at IE University.

He has served as Head of the Department of Economics at IE Business School, where he co-founded the Center for Eco-Intelligent Management, and has held visiting researcher and professor positions at international institutions. His research focuses on eco-innovation and the circular economy, with numerous publications and active participation in media and conferences. He holds a PhD in Economics from UAH and an MBA with Honors from IE Business School.

José Luis Prieto (ES)

MSc. in Industrial and Management Engineering by Univ. Politecnica Madrid (Spain). Extensive experience as innovative operations executive leading a metrology innovation infrastructure (LOMG) funded by Galician regional government to play an intermediate role among academia, industry and public administration. Specialties: Innovation; Entrepreneurship; Metrology; Total Quality and Project Management. Member of Business in Fact, spanish business angels network. Founder&Partner of SIL Engineering (spanish SME engineering firm). Regular participation as mentor at entrepreneurial inititatives (e.g. Crea UPM, lead by Univ. Politecnica Madrid) and as speaker at international and national fora about R&D infrastructures and their role within innovation ecosystems.

Anna M. Sanchez (ES)

PhD on Innovation and Business Management
Master in Public Administration
Telecommunications Engineer
Technical Engineer in Electronics

Owner at ITimes Advisers, S.L., accompanying institutions in all stages of innovation management, from the detail of the strategy to the exploitation of results,
Member of various national and international technical committees related to R & D and Innovation: International Expert for CEN and ISO in Innovation Management Systems, Assessment and Partnership Working Groups; Member of the Technical Committee for R&D and Innovation Standardization at AENOR.
Teacher at masters and postgraduates modules of R&D, Innovation and Technology Transfer Management in public and private universities: UPC, FPC, UB, Ramon Llull, ESADE, EOI, EADA.