Meet the judges
Here is the list of judges and experts in the tech ecosystem that make the competition possible:
Raphaël Abou
Director - CEO at ALLYUM
Niko Bonatsos
Managing Director at General Catalyst Partners
Santiago Bustelo
User Experience Director, Kambrica
Olga Cavalli
Director South School on Internet Governance
Ferhan Cook
Co-founder of m-Spark.org
Sergio Delgado
Director of da Vinci Foundation
Janusz Marszalec
Founder and CEO at Edison Centre, Lecturer of Entrepreneurship at Warsaw University of Technology
Richard Menneveux
Founder & CEO AdsVark Media
Carlos Osorio
Associate Professor of Innovation at Adolfo Ibañez School of Management
Raouti Chehih
Chief Executive Officer of Euratechnologies
Ingrid Stoeckicht
Co-founder and President of the Brazilian Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and the Innovation to Health Institute in Brazil
Gabriel Weinstein
Ambassador of Singularity University in Argentina
Agustín Macià Barber
Founder, CTO & Corporate Strategy Director at Nuubo
Nuno Arantes-Oliveira
Healthcare Executive and Entrepreneur
Jonathan Baer
Managing Partner Threshold Ventures
Harold de Vladar
Chief Scientific Officer & Founder at Ribbon Synthetic Biolabs; Senior Researcher at the Centre for Cooperation and Conflict in Evolutionary Systems iASK – Institute of Advanced Studies Kőszeg
Carmen Eibe
Project Coordination Director at PharmaMar, S.A
Arturo Forner-Cordero
Associate Professor at University of Sao Paulo
Laurent Hermoye
CEO of Imagilys
François Jouen
Senior Researcher at Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes
Piotr Kaczmarek
Assistant Professor at Poznan University of Technology
Hans Lehrach
Director em. at Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin
Seppo Makinen
Investor, Board Professional
Bernat Ollé
CEO at Vedanta Biosciences
Rodomiro Ortiz
Professor, Genetics & Plant Breeding at Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)
Fernando Pliego
Full Professor of Plant Physiology, Plant Biology Department, University of Malaga
Mauro Rebelo
PhD in biophysics and professor at Biophysics Institute of UFRJ
Cécile Tharaud
Vice President Innovation, Groupe NAOS (Bioderma, Instituts Esthederm, Etat Pur)
Emmanuelle Tognoli
Associate Research Professor of Complex Systems and Brain Sciences
Jaime Alée
Executive Manager of Innovation and Entrepreneurship OPENBEAUCHEF Ecosystem – Engineer Faculty Universidad de Chile
María Alegre
Researcher, Columbia University Center on Global Energy Policy
Pascal Boulanger
CEO at NAWATechnologies
Mikele Brack
Founding Partner, Urban Living Futures
Roberto del Navío
Director general de Najeti Capital
José Luis del Valle Doblado
Chairman of the Board of Lar España Real Estate SOCIMI
Renata Krzyzynska
Head of the Department of Air Conditioning, Heating, Gas Supply, and Air Protection at Wroclaw University of Technology, Faculty of Environmental Engineering
Daniel Pardo
General Manager at FARSENS
Alain Picasso
Director of Economic Development Agency in EDF Renewable Energy
Tristan Dumont
Managing Partner
Olivier Leclerc
Innovation Catalyst & Intrapreneurship Activist
Dariusz Nachyla
Entrepreneur, Investor and Consultant, Management Consultant to the TMT Industry
Nuria Oliver
Scientific Director
Jorge Bravo-Abad
Associate Professor of Physics at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
María Teresa Martínez
CSIC Research Professor
Arturo Menchaca
Physics Professor at UNAM
Patrick Teyssonneyre
Innovation & Technology Director at Braskem
Yves Van Ingelgem
CEO of Zensor, Co-Founder of CellSine and part-time professor at Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Maciej Wiesner
Assistant professor in Adam Mickiewicz University
Grzegorz Wróblewski
Assistant Professor at Warsaw University of Technology
Arturo Baroncelli
Business Development Manager at Comau Robotics
Cristiano de Mello Gallep
Professor at Unicamp
Luis Enrique Moreno Lorente
Full Professor at Universidad Carlos III of Madrid
Juan Arturo Nolazco Flores
Director at ITESM
Matthieu Somekh
Head of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Ecole Polytechnique
Ignasi Barri
Innovation and Digital Transformation Consultant at GFT
Pablo Blasco Bocigas
Managing Partner at Fintech Spain
Erick Brethenoux
Research Director, Gartner
Jean-François Carrasco
Smart City IoT Projects Director
José Domingo Carrillo Verdún
Profesor "Ad Honorem" at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Kumardev Chatterjee
Founder & President at European Young Innovators Forum
Ernesto Gálvez
Videogames leading at Codesa S.A.
Joe Haslam
Executive Director of the Owners & Enterpreneurs Management Program at the IE Business School in Madrid
John Janas
President at Janas International Enterprises, Inc.
Duygu Kayaman
Microsoft Dynamics Inside Sale Specialist, Microsoft Accessibility Team Project Coordinator, Consultant for The Young Guru Academy
María Zaghi
Business Development
Myriam Beque
Director of Innovation Development
Patrick Bosteels
Founder of Stage-Co
Luis Buznego
International Bussines Manager, Advisor at Imasa Ingeniería y Montajes, s.a. President at Innovasturias
Paloma Cabello
Partner, Finance and Strategy Sr. Advisor and Tech Angel Investor at CALLIGRAM
Isaac Castro
Co-founder at Emerge
Rodrigo de Alvarenga
CEO & Founder of HAG Consulting & Ventures and Startup Grind Brazil Director
Nathalie De Ceulaer
CFO - growth financing and scale-up mentor
Koenraad Debackere
Managing Director KU Leuven Research & Development
Jean-Jacques Degroof
Venture investor
Izabela Disterheft
Director of Gdansk Science & Technology Park
Kate Goodall
CEO at Halcyon
Jeffry Illingworth
Director Business Development & Strategic Planning - GPF (Fybeca Group)
Samantha Jerusalmy
Partner at Elaia Ventures
Katarzyna Królak- Wyszyńska
Partner at Innovatika
Sébastien Lalevée
Founding partner Financière Arbevel
Michel Lévy Provençal
Founder at L'Échappée Volée and Co-founder at Brightness
Félix López Capel
General Manager at Conectando Empresas and Director of SEK Lab EdTech Accelerator
Gabriela Macagni
Corporate Director Grupo Supervielle
Jean-Noël Marrot
Digital economy project manager at Toulouse Metropole
Benjamin Minard
Innovation expert at Agoria
Panayiotis Philimis
Founder and CEO of CyRIC and Gravity Ventures
Stanisław Rogoziński
Managing Partner at Brante Partners sp. z o.o.
Tomasz Rudolf
CEO, D-RAFT and Chairman at Innovatika Group
Wytze Russchen
Chairman Supervisory Board at Dutch Network Brussels
Emmanuel Touboul
Head of Startups programs at L’Atelier BNP Paribas
César de la Fuente
Postdoctoral Associate, MIT
Michael Segalla
Professor of Management at HEC Paris
Teresa Gonzalo
Managing Director at Vertess Healthcare M+A
Marc Ramis Castelltort
Co-founder Senolytic Therapeutics
Anna Hejka
CEO at Heyka Capital Markets Group
Javier Hernández
Research Scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Héctor García Martín
Quantitative Metabolic Modeling Director
Ricardo Forcano
Global Head of Talent and Culture at BBVA
Filip Granek
Co-founder and CTO at XTPL
Marek Kotelnicki
CEO and Creative Director at Internest Ltd
Peter Verhasselt
Account manager at Sirris
João Claro
Associate Professor at the University of Porto
Romain Lacombe
CEO & Co-Founder of Plume Labs
Maciej Lawrynczuk
Associate Professor at the Institute of Control and Computation Engineering (Warsaw University of Technology)
Luca Escoffier
CEO at Innoventually, Project Manager at the EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation
Rasmus Rothe
Founder of Merantix
Néstor Guerra
Entrepreneur, advisor and professor. CEO and co-founder at IEC
Abdennour Abbas
Professor of Bionanotechnology at the University of Minnesota
George Malliaras
Professor of Bioelectronics, Ecole des Mines de St. Etienne
Rubén Criado
CEO at Luz Wavelabs
David Ascher
Consultant, Advisor, Mentor, former Mozilla Labs Director and Product Development VP
Isabel Michiels
Lead expert within the expertise center innovation of Agoria
Diego Lafuente
Technology Lead at Hotelbeds Group and Celera founder
Abbas Kazmi
Serial entrepreneur and investor: Managing Partner & Founder - Collegiate Capital and CEO and Founder of AFFINITY
Alex Villazon
Full professor at Bolivian Private University
Julien de Wit
Bruno Wattenbergh
Senior Advisor and Ambassador for Innovation at EY Belgium (Ernst & Young), Academic Director of the AMISM Advanced Masters at Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Economic Editorialist at BEL RTL
Bianca Dragomir
General Director of AVAESEN (Association of Energy Companies of the Community of Valencia)