Held at Madrid's The Hub location, this event "Ten Years from Now" featured speakers from various backgrounds projecting what their world may look like in ten years.

Madrid
Spain

Alexander Van de Putte

Alexander Van de Putte is Senior Director and Operating Officer at PFC Energy International and a member of PFC Energy’s Executive Committee. Alexander is an expert in managing complex projects, as well as an accomplished valuation and scenario planning expert. He is based in PFC Energy’s Lausanne, Switzerland office. Alexander has numerous masters and PhD degrees, and also holds teaching appointments with IE Business School, INSEAD and IMD.

Alberto Dubois

Alberto Dubois is an Economist, MBA at IESE, and a graduate at the legendary Singularity University in Palo Alto. Former manager and entrepreneur, he is a partner in technology startups, and invests in emerging listed companies, especially in the sectors of energy, biotech and nanotech.

Nicolás Alcalá

Nicolás Alcalá loves cinema so much he eats celluloid and projects it through his eyes. He has directed 4 short films, written hundreds of screenplays, produced two movies and made a lot of advertising for the internet. Now, he is working in his most ambitious project: The Cosmonaut, a movie that could change cinema as we know it. He will tell us about how this new platform will enhance creativity and modify for ever the business of movies.

Miguel Belló

Miguel Belló studied Areonautical Engineering at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. PHD in Aeronautical Engineering, and PDG at IESE, he created DEIMOS in 2001, in which he has covered different management roles in Spain and abroad. DEIMOS is a Spanish private aerospace company providing engineering solutions and high-technology systems.

José Mariano Lopez-Urdiales

José Mariano Lopez-Urdiales is an aeronautical engineer with a Masters from MIT, he spent 10 years working at places like Boeing, MIT, and the European Space Agency; now he heads a company that promises zero emissions flight to near-space.

Ricard Huguet

Ricard Huguet worked for a few multinational companies of the tech sector, before becoming the Director of Innovation for the city of Barcelona. Today, through the company he has created, he promotes innovation and creativity in children and has worked with 250.000 children in Spain. Ricard is co-chairman of the MIT Enterprise Forum, Vice-President of MIT Club of Spain and President of the Fundación Scientia. He will speak about the future, as seen by children.

Vicente Guallart

Vicente Guallart was born in Valencia, lives in Barcelona and works everywhere in the world. He is director of Guallart Architects (www.guallart.com) and of the Instituto de Arquitectura Avanzada de Cataluña, where students from around the globe design self-sufficient houses and experiment with personal fabrication. (www.iaac.net). He will speak about those houses, and how his students built a real one, by hands, an house ready to be brought to the beach and become your own.

Heather Martin

Heather Martin began her career as a product designer at Tangerine in London and then joined IDEO after completing her Masters in Interaction Design at the Royal College of Art. She has taught interaction design at great schools and she co-founded the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design (CIID) in Denmark, a new school teaching interaction design to international graduate students. She has worked for great brands on an international level and now leads the Barcelona office of Smart Design. She will tell us about the marvelous role of simplicity in the future of design.

Ibán Yarza

Journalist and translator by education, and self taught baker, Ibán Yarza spends his time teaching baking classes throughout Spain and spreading the word of bread. Passionate about bread and gastronomy, his blogs have become a reference for the artisan bread-making community in Spain. He has recently launched “El foro del pan”, the place for all things bread in Spanish. He will tell us about the fundamental role of bread in our civilization, and how to choose good bread.

Rodrigo Aguirre

Rodrigo Aguirre studied Economics at Northwestern University, and then spent 4 years working as an investment banker and management consultant. In 2007, Rodrigo co-created SocialBid: the first company in the world dedicated to helping NGOs that operate in Spain raise funds through the online sale of products and services. In 2 years SocialBid has raised over 600.000€ of new funds. In 2009 Rodrigo was appointed an Ashoka Fellow, a leading organization dedicated to the support of social entrepreneurs across the world. In 2010 Rodrigo becomes a Fundación Rafael del Pino Scholar. Rodrigo will tell us about how he was able to create this success and will inspire all the entrepreneurs – social or not – in the audience.