Theme: Alphas

In a 100% digital universe, we are losing our identity as humans. In this era of technological revolution, we have to assume an unprecedented responsibility: to achieve the binomial between human and machine, we need to balance the battle between carbon and silicon.

Why is it important to vindicate the humanities in a world that seems destined to succumb to screens?

The human being is unique and irreplaceable, it is the original being, the one who transcends. With its ideas, it can illuminate and awaken free thought through art, philosophy and ethics, science and language. It is capable of connecting with other beings in a transcendental way on a physical, intellectual, emotional and spiritual level. Technology is here to stay and humanism is the only thing we have to protect our humanity. In this context, the Alphas ideology arises.

Alphas was born in a community of creative beings, who carry the banner for innovation and reclaim their own voice. Alphas is a way of thinking, it is exponential, always bigger, further, with a vision ahead of our time. Alphas goes beyond Digital Humanism. Alphas is activism, it is guidance, it is leadership, it is the heart of change. Alphas cultivates beacons of wisdom, to illuminate the ideas of the present and the future. Alphas represents the new voices of humanism, the soul behind the machine. Alphas is the thought of today and tomorrow, it is us and those to come.

This philosophy builds an improved society, based on the pillars of art, science, quality education and the enrichment of languages, in order to coexist with technology without it overshadowing us. Behind every machine, there will always be a human. The soul will prevail over artificial intelligence and algorithms. The Alphas ideology will vindicate the humanities in the world of machines.

Universidad Nebrija - Campus Princesa
Calle de Santa Cruz de Marcenado 27
Madrid, Madrid, 28015
Spain

Ángel Perabá

Actor + Arteducator

Ángel Perabá (Jaén, 1983) is an actor and arteducator, who dances. He is continuously researching and learning new ways of composing scenically in real time, and therefore, interested in Viewpoints and different improvisation techniques. Trained at the Real Escuela de Arte Dramático de Madrid, his latest works as an actor have been Casa (dir. Lucía Miranda, The Cross Border Project) premiered at the Teatre Lliure in Barcelona; Cluster (dir. Juan Ceacero, Ex-Límite company) or the piece of Teatro Foro La chica que soñaba (dir. Lucía Miranda, The Cross Border Project). As a dancer he was part of Atávico (dir. Poliana Lima), first prize in the 28th Certamen Coreográfico de Madrid. As an arteducator, he participates in the pedagogical and community action activities of the Cross Border School through dance and applied theater. He has been artistic director of the project Global Generation in its edition with 21Distritos (scenic creation with teenagers from diverse origins).

Elena Ibáñez

Entrepreneur + INFJ

Founder Singularity Experts, Top 100 Women Leaders of Spain 2020 and 2021, Cotec 100 Expert, Board Member of W Startup Community and advisor in several startups.

Emilio Díaz

Consultor + Seller

Degree in Business Administration from the University of Oviedo. Postgraduate in Strategic Marketing and Commercialization Management by ESADE. After accumulating commercial experience in different sectors, he has held management positions in manufacturing and distribution companies (electrical equipment, climate and renewable sector), to start in 2019 the activity as a consultant and business and entrepreneurship trainer. In 2021 he has launched as co-founder Estrategizate S.L a consultancy oriented to "make things happen". He approaches business from the perspective of "people collaborating with people" and always "with his feet on the ground".

Emilio Lledó

Philosopher

He studied in Madrid and Heidelberg, where he had philosophers such as Löwith and Gadamer as professors. Between 1964 and 1967 he was Professor of Philosophy at the University of La Laguna, and between 1967 and 1978, at the University of Barcelona. In 1978 he became Professor of the History of Philosophy at the National University of Distance Education (UNED), based in Madrid. His distinctions include the Alexander von Humboldt Prize, awarded in Bonn in 1991, and the National Essay Prize in 1992. He was a "Fellow" of the Wissenschaftkolleg in Berlin. Emilio Lledó focused his philosophical interests on the problem of language, understood as the exclusive vehicle that leads man to philosophize. He tried to propose the methodology of a philosophical semantics based on linguistic and philological research, seeking to justify the abstraction of thought from the material conditioning factors in which human thinking is produced.

Eva Porto

Psciologist + Recruiter + Content creator

Psychologist specialized in Human Resources with more than three years of experience in the selection area. She currently advises on how to enhance the professional profile, improve the job search and face selection processes in a more confident way.

Fernando Castro Flores

Artist and philosopher.

Fernando Castro Flórez (Plasencia, 1964) is a Spanish philosopher, esthete and art critic. He has developed his teaching work at the Institute of Aesthetics and Theory of the Arts, the Autonomous University of Madrid, the Institute of Contemporary Culture of the Ortega y Gasset Institute and the Reina Sofía Museum, of whose board of trustees he is a member. He teaches doctoral courses, classes and conferences at numerous universities and museums both in Spain and in other countries. He has written regularly in cultural supplements of newspapers such as El País, Diario 16, El Independiente, El Sol, El Mundo, and has been an art critic for ABC Cultural for more than ten years, collaborating in various cultural magazines. He has curated more than a hundred exhibitions and countless individual and group shows in museums around the world3 and collaborative works such as with Domingo Sánchez Blanco from Salamanca.

Iraide Ibarretxe

Linguist + Scientist

Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano (PhD, University of Edinburgh) is Professor of General Linguistics and Researcher at the University Institute of Heritage and Humanities (Psylex Group) at the University of Zaragoza (Spain). She is also an elected member of the Academia Europaea de las Ciencias, Humanidades y Letras. Her area of specialization focuses on the relationship between language, cognition and communication from a typological and psycholinguistic perspective. Her research deals with the processing and motivation of multimodal language in different languages of the world with special attention to semantics, iconicity and the biocultural bases of language. Her latest academic publications include the book Lenguaje y cognición (ed. Síntesis, 2021, with Javier Valenzuela). Committed to scientific dissemination, she co-coordinates the repository Zaragoza Lingüística a la Carta (@ZaragozaLing) and collaborates in various media such as the journal Archiletras (@archiletras).

Jon Andoni Duñabeitia

Cognitive scientist

He is a Doctor of Psychology and an expert in cognitive science and psycholinguistics. He is a professor and principal investigator at the Faculty of Languages and Education at Nebrija University, where he directs the Nebrija Research Center on Cognition (CINC). After completing his studies as a teacher (University of the Basque Country) and psychopedagogue (University of Deusto), he began a research career exploring the relationship between brain and language, using behavioral and neuroimaging techniques, focusing mainly on multilingualism and literacy processes in people of different ages. He is an adjunct professor at the University of the Arctic (Norway), a member of the AcqVA Aurora Center of the same university and an affiliated researcher of the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL). His scientific contributions exceed 130 articles of international impact and he has directed several national and regional projects on language, reading and language learning.

Jorge Moreno

Musician + Comunicator

Trombonist, composer and arranger. Jorge Moreno has a degree in Jazz and Contemporary Music Performance from the Centro Superior Música Creativa. Jorge has been a part of numerous musical projects led by some of the most prominent names in by some of the most outstanding names in the national jazz scene, such as Moisés P. Sánchez, Luis Verde or Roberto Pacheco. On a personal level, Jorge leads his own musical project, Bestiario, a quintet in which he fuses music and poetry, contemporary jazz with Mediterranean, African and American traditions, and incorporates sounds of rock, funk and flamenco. As a composer, he has explored writing for large jazz ensembles, with works premiered by Let The Children Play Big Band or Leganés Big Band. Recently, he has been awarded by the Comunidad de Madrid for De Osas y Gatos. A project for big band in which he collects melodies and rhythms from traditional music and transports them to the language of modern jazz.

Juan García-Escudero

Creative + Storyteller

Juan has a degree in Graphic Design from IED. He began his professional career as a designer at Lowe Lintas Madrid and later continued his career at Contrapunto and JWT. In October 2011 he joined Leo Burnett as CCO, and finally in March 2020 he joined TBWA Spain to lead the creative area as CCO. His work has been recognized in all national and international festivals highlighting: 1 Grand Prix at Cannes, 6 Grand Prix and 1 Platinum at the El Sol festival, and Grand Prix at the CdC, EFI, Inspirational IAB and El Ojo de Iberoamérica. In 2015, "Justino", the acclaimed campaign for the Christmas Lottery was recognized as the most awarded ad in the world and the most awarded integrated campaign that year. Recently, Juan has been part of the list of the 100 most creative people in the business world according to Forbes magazine and Google recognized his most recent work for Licores Ruavieja as the most viewed and shared Spanish campaign in history.

Juan Ignacio Rouyet

Humanistic engineer

He now walks towards several horizons. At Quint, he helps customers get along with technology; at UNIR, he leads students towards sustainable and ethical entrepreneurship; in lost hours he writes his thoughts in Digital Biz or esglobal; and, as president of We The Humans, he seeks a more human AI. In all his walks through this life he works for a technology with a human dimension. A technology that makes us better people: kinder, more joyful, more artistic.

Liliana Acosta

Digital Humanist

Philosopher and Humanist. Master in Philosophy and Master in Digital Business. PhD candidate in Philosophy; research project: Ethics for Artificial Intelligence. Over 15 years of consulting experience in public and private projects in Colombia and France. As an entrepreneur, she founded her own project, which today has been operating for 10 years. Liliana was director of APD Colombia, and accompanied the expansion in LATAM. Lecturer and Master's professor. Researcher in Transhumanism and Human Vs Technology issues. She is currently the founder of Thinker Soul, a consulting firm in Philosophy, Ethics and critical thinking applied to business. Definition: Digital Humanist

Lucía Velasco

Social Innovator + Discloser

Lucia Velasco heads the national observatory that studies the impact of technology on society under the Secretary of State for Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence. She is an economist and has recently published her first book on the future of work in Spain entitled "¿Te va a sustituir un algoritmo?"

Pablo Occimorons

Activist + Nonconformist

He is a psychologist, a vinethist, a lecturer, a writer and an activist. Author of the book: Those Things That Weigh Us Published by Penguin Random House. He develops much of his work in his social networks account -occimorons where he shares weekly bullets and cartoons about mental health through his protagonists occi and morons. It currently has a community of more than 150,000 people since the project began in April 2020. In addition, he provides talks on mental health in associations, institutes and universities. He manages the project Dame la mano-Hermanos Especiales, where he accompanies and gives emotional support to siblings of people with disabilities and coordinates educational projects in the association Síndrome 22q11.2 Andalucía.

Raúl Boldú

Engineer in the metaverse

Raúl Boldú is the manager of Acciona's Mixed Reality skill center where he develops and implements innovative solutions related to immersive technologies (VR/AR/MR) for the company's different businesses. He is an Electrical Engineer from Clarkson University in New York and Master in Computer Graphics and VR and Simulation from U-Tad, Madrid. Among the projects he has carried out stand out the digital twins in virtual reality for water and waste treatment plants, control centers in VR, collaborative rooms for corporate meetings (Metaverso), Augmented Assistant, which allows to superimpose 3D models (BIM) in industrial plants and then visualize them in augmented reality, 360 Immersive transmission of a live concert using 5G and VR glasses and digitalization of museum pieces for the preservation of historical and cultural heritage (national archaeological museum, Great Museum of Egypt).

Rebeca Jodar

Dancer + Entrepeneur

Rebeca Jodar Huete, at the age of 9 years old, begins her training in Spanish dance, she is a teacher of elementary degree of the Spanish dance career, evaluated by the A.P.D.E. Certificate of the classical ballet career at the Royal Academy of Dancing. These last 15 years dedicated to the traditional African dance of West Africa, performing different formations of dance, technique and movement research mainly in Spain, Guinea Conakry and Senegal. Other formations: Technician in Cultural Management, from the European University Miguel de Cervantes and Higher Course in Business Administration. She currently teaches African dance at the Escuela de Arte Flamenco Amor de Dios in Madrid, directs and organizes the cultural project Kukutamtam of African dance and percussion, promoting classes, workshops, dance trips... to spread the practice of African dance and cultural exchange with the collaboration of artists from Guinea Conakry and Senegal.

Roberto Menéndez

Creator of social robots

Artificial Intelligence and Robotics keynote speaker. Some keynote conferences given by Roberto Menéndez: - The Birth of Fire. - A New Era - Artificial Intelligence VS Emocional Intelligence? - A Robot will replace you at the workplace... or will it? - Your next lover will be a Robot. - Living in a holographic world. - Is Virtual Reality Real? - Artificial Intelligence for business people. - Your grandchild may be a Cyborg. Digital CEO with 30 years of international experience in the US, Europe and other key zones. Futura VIVE Technologies, Robotics Franchise, Organizer of Digital Talent Summit and Artificial Expo - Artificial Intelligence Expo. Creator of Robotics, AI and VR projects in Hospitality, Health, Retail and other sectors.

Wendy Elvira-García

Linguist + Professor

Dr. Wendy Elvira-García studied Philology and has been teaching at 6 universities in 3 countries. Nowadays, she is a professor of linguistics at the University of Barcelona, member of the Phonetics Laboratory and coordinator of the Master in Cognitive Science and Language. She has collaborated with companies performing tasks related to computational linguistics and, especially, to speech technologies. Her research focuses on the creation of technological tools to address linguistic problems, both theoretical, for example, the annotation and transcription of intonation (the melody of speech), and applied, for example, the search for markers of dementia in the voice.

Xurxo Mariño

Neuroscientist + Discloser

Xurxo Mariño Alfonso has a PhD in Biological Sciences, Professor of the Department of Medicine of the University of A Coruña and member of the Neurocom research group. He has collaborated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he did his member of the Neurocom research group. He has published the books "Os dados do reloxeiro", "Neuroscience for Julia", "Earth" and "The conquest of language", among others. He participates in scientific divulgation in radio, TV, internet, magazines and press; having collaborated with CRTVG, Onda Cero, "Muy Interesante", "Filosofía Hoy"; or the websites Culturagalega.org and Naukas.com. In 2018 he received the award in the category of Dissemination at the Gala do Libro Galego for his book "Tierra", a work that also received a honorable mention in the 2018 PRISMA awards.In 2021 he received the Follas Novas award for his book Unhamente que voa ('The conquest of language' in Spanish).