Biography
Josep Maria is Partner at Schumpit, a Barcelona-based innovation and technology consultancy that helps industrial and mid-market companies design and execute transformation programmes. He has more than 20 years of experience in business management, strategic planning, innovation processes and internationalisation.
His work sits at the point where AI meets organisational change: defining where the technology creates measurable value, and then building the processes and teams that make adoption stick. At Schumpit he has driven the development of applied AI solutions for industry, including SherpAI, an agent that unifies fragmented internal data into a single knowledge base for operational and executive decision-making. He is an active member of the Digital Catalonia Alliance AI community.
His perspective is especially relevant for audiences interested in enterprise AI adoption, industrial digital transformation, and how consultancies and SMEs turn AI pilots into production systems.
Session
- AI For GrowthSpeaker
Closing D1: Catalonia's AI Ecosystem - Collaboration, Talent and Real-World Value
Tuesday 22 September, 18:00 – 18:40Panel StageThe Digital Catalonia Alliance (DCA), an initiative of the Generalitat de Catalunya driven by the i2CAT Research and Innovation Centre, brings together more than 800 advanced digital technology companies. In this session, innovative companies from the DCA-IA community discuss how to build a dynamic, competitive and interconnected AI ecosystem. The session goes deep on real use cases, pilot projects and the sector's strategic outlook in Catalonia, highlighting the talent and capacity of the local ecosystem to lead the technology of the future, and showing how local collaboration and a diversity of capabilities make it possible to tackle complex challenges with agility and excellence.
With Tetiana Klymchuk, Carlos Varea Filella, Martí Norberto, Jara Forcadell