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CITIC of the University of A Coruña participates in the Coruña Innovate Summit at the ICT City.

23/10/2024 - CITIC
  • The event, taking place on October 24 and 25, aims to be a meeting point for stakeholders working with technology that will transform businesses and society
  • CITIC researcher and UDC professor Amparo Alonso Betanzos will deliver a lecture on Friday about budgeting in AI

 A Coruña, October 23, 2024.- The Advanced Services Center (CSA) of the ICT City will host the Coruña Innovate Summit on October 24 and 25. This event will bring together startups, companies, and professionals working with the most innovative technologies that will shape the future of their sectors.

The Coruña Innovate Summit is presented as much more than a conference on AI, Big Data, or Machine Learning. The experts participating in the event will demonstrate to the audience how they bring digital solutions to life, taking on the challenge of transforming organizations and society as a whole.

The event will start on Thursday, October 24, at 4:30 PM, with an inauguration led by the Rector of UDC, Ricardo Cao, and the deputy for Industry, Business, Environment, Employment, and Demographic Policy, Rosa Ana García López. Following the official ceremony, the first lectures will be delivered by Enrique Vesteiro Rivas, head of Research, Development, and Innovation at Grupo Cofrico, and Antonio Fabregat, knowledge graph lead at AstraZeneca.

On Friday, the 25th, CITIC researcher Amparo Alonso will kick off the morning sessions with a talk titled “AI on a Budget: Frugal and Sustainable.” The second day will also feature speakers from the business world, including Paco Nathan, Principal DevRel Engineer at Senzing; Fernando Manzanera Pérez, Technical Lead for Fatigue and Damage Tolerance at CT Ingenieros; Dimitrios Athanasakis, Principal AI Engineer at AstraZeneca’s AI Center; Rocío Vega Martínez, Digitalization Manager at Reganosa; Ioannis Alexandros Antonoglou, CTO and Co-founder of Reflection AI; Kadripathi KN, AI Engineer at IONA Drones UK; and David Vázquez, Business Development Manager at ITG DroneSolutions.

The Coruña Innovate Summit is organized by DataSpartan, in collaboration with the A Coruña Provincial Council, the ICT Galicia Cluster, and the Professional College of Computer Engineering of Galicia.

For more information and registration, please follow this link.