The 2026 speakers

Ariadna Masó is the Founder & CEO of SANNO, a healthtech company with a practice management system for practitioners and clinics, and a module that enables health companies to run observational studies. She launched SANNO to help clinicians reclaim time and improve personalised patient support, inspired by her own journey living with a chronic gut condition.

Ariadna was featured in ELLE magazine for her perspectives on female leadership and entrepreneurship, and appeared on the cover of Forbes in 2017 as a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree in both Europe and Spain. She also hosts two evidence-based health podcasts: SANNO Health (English) and Casa Salud (Spanish) featuring leading experts.

Before founding SANNO, Ariadna spent nine years in finance across banking and private equity in London. She holds a BBA from ESADE and a CEMS Master’s from HEC Paris, and earned a Nutrition Science certification from Stanford School of Medicine in 2020.

Stefanie Söhnchen is Vice President Strategy / Lead Digital at PIABO Communications, leading communications agency for the world’s most innovative companies. She has been a recognized expert in digital communication strategies for over a decade. Whether it's corporate ambassador programs, social media, website concepts, content development, SEO, or storytelling – when it comes to strategic communications at PIABO, all roads lead to her.
With a background in multimedia journalism, Stefanie combines editorial expertise with a strong strategic mindset. Throughout her career, she has successfully supported companies across a wide range of industries – including insurance, energy, automotive, tech and healthcare – in strengthening their digital brand presence. Her broad perspective on what drives success in both German and international markets makes her a sought-after strategic partner.
Stefanie is also a passionate foodsaver and advocates for sustainability, equality, and diversity – in both her professional and personal life.

Vincent pioneers AI-first companies at Poolside Ventures, where he builds live products including DataMerge and Meet.bot. With 15 years leading B2B SaaS ventures as a founder and product leader across VC-backed, PE-backed, and public companies, he brings deep expertise in scaling technology businesses from zero to growth. Vincent is also the best-selling author of Product-Led Sales, a definitive guide to blending automation with human-led approaches to drive sustainable revenue growth.

Alberto Almeida is Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at dLocal, where he leads the global technology organization behind a large-scale payments and data platform used by global merchants in high-growth markets. Based in Spain, he defines dLocal’s technology and AI strategy and oversees the reliability, scalability, and security of mission-critical payment systems.

Alberto and his teams apply AI and data-driven decisioning across fraud detection, risk, operations, and developer productivity, always with a focus on real-world impact rather than hype. He has deep experience building resilient, compliant systems in regulated, high-availability environments.

Michael van Lier is Founder and CEO of Builders, a venture studio that conceives, builds, and scales technology companies from the ground up. A serial entrepreneur at heart, Michael has spent the past decade turning ideas into operational businesses — combining product vision, venture strategy, and hands-on execution. He works closely with founders and operators to validate opportunities, assemble strong core teams, and design ventures that are built for scale from day one. With a background in entrepreneurship and venture building, Michael focuses on spotting emerging market shifts — particularly in AI and digital transformation — and translating them into investable, scalable companies.

Sharon Klaver is Co-founder and Managing Director at Builders, a Rotterdam-based startup studio that launches and scales AI Enterprise ventures. She brings a sharp operational and financial lens to early-stage building, combining a background in design, finance, and tech to turn creative ambition into structured, scalable companies. Sharon started coding at 13 and built her first software company by 16, and she has spent the past decade-plus helping founders validate ideas, assemble teams, and raise the right kind of capital. At Builders she leads studio operations, finance, and growth—designing the systems, processes, and culture that let multiple ventures move fast without breaking.

Javo Granda is a technology and data leader with more than 12 years of experience building digital products and leading high-performing data and AI teams across startups, scale-ups, and international organizations. He currently serves as Co-Founder & CTO of Skills4ImpactLinks to an external site., an education and technology initiative focused on sustainability, climate action, and responsible innovation.

Throughout his career, Javo has specialized in product analytics, machine learning, experimentation, personalization systems, and modern data architectures. He has led multidisciplinary teams of data scientists, engineers, and analysts, translating complex data into actionable business and product strategies.

Before founding Skills4Impact, Javo held several leadership positions at GlovoLinks to an external site., including Director of Data for Marketplace, where he led large-scale analytics and AI initiatives focused on customer experience, experimentation, and data-driven product development. Earlier in his career, he co-founded CinePass, a digital entertainment platform that expanded across Latin America.

Oleg Chervonnyi is an Investment Manager at Beiersdorf Corporate Venture Capital, where he leads early-stage investments in AI, techbio, longevity, digital health, and sustainability. His recent deals include DeepLife, a GenAI-powered drug discovery company, and ReVentas, a circular packaging startup. Before Beiersdorf, Oleg led AI-driven go-to-market strategy at SECJUR and spent three years as a Senior Associate at Verve Ventures, one of Europe's most active VCs with over 140 portfolio companies. He began his venture career at Speedinvest and First Momentum Ventures. Oleg holds a Master's in Information Systems with a specialization in AI and Data Science from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

Sacha Morard is a French technology entrepreneur and executive renowned for his significant impact in the digital media and tech sectors. Morard is recognized for his expertise in web performance, cloud infrastructure, and blending creativity with technological innovation. Known for having been the CTO of Le Monde Group for six years, he then co-founded Edgee in 2024 to advance edge computing solutions.

Dr. Jorge Del-Bosque is Head of AI at NANU and Lead Consulting Partner & AI Solutions Architect at Hudson & Hayes. He builds AI products and ships them. At NANU, he is the inventor behind a patent-pending AI platform that delivers science-based, real-time feedback on leadership skills, which he took from zero to production, assembling the team, architecting the stack, and fine-tuning the models. At Hudson & Hayes, he guides major UK enterprises through the complete AI adoption journey, from discovery through to production deployment of solutions that deliver real impact.
Over 15 years he has built and scaled SaaS platforms for Fortune 1000 clients including AT&T, AIG, and Heineken, and founded five ventures, three B2B SaaS. He actively mentors AI founders in London and holds a PhD in Conversational AI from Queen Mary University of London, with peer-reviewed scientific publications at conferences including ReInAct and SemDial.

Jakob is a growth executive, advisor and speaker with experience building and scaling early-stage ventures from 0 to 1. As a co-founder and operator, he has led across sales, business development, partnerships, operations and customer success, helping launch new business models, build strategic collaborations with global partners and guide cross-functional teams through fast-moving, ambiguous environments.

Beyond business, Jakob is passionate about endurance, wellbeing and community. He founded a local breathwork and health-conscious community, creating space for people to connect, grow and support one another.

An Ironman finisher and ultra trail runner, Jakob brings the same resilience, consistency and focus from endurance sport into leadership, growth and innovation. At the AI Summit, he shares a people-first perspective on scaling, community and the mindset required to build what comes next.

Anna is the founder and CEO of nyris, a visual search engine that gives people a more natural way to find what they are looking for. Based in Berlin and Dusseldorf, Nyris serves leading companies across all industries, currently running in 54 countries and representing every continent. Nyris is also a founding member of the German AI Association, which today represents more than 500 AI companies and is a key voice in any European political discussions around AI. Anna studied Engineering at the RWTH Aachen, graduated with honors as best by year and holds a PhD in process automation.

Alejandro Martí is the CEO and Co‑Founder of Mitiga Solutions, a deep‑tech company turning cutting‑edge science, AI, and supercomputing into actionable intelligence on physical climate risks. He also serves as Chair of the United Nations Group on AI for Climate Applications, where he helps set global standards for how institutions leverage AI to navigate growing climate volatility.

Under Alejandro’s leadership, Mitiga has emerged as a European frontrunner in climate risk intelligence, trusted by major insurers, investors, and infrastructure operators to strengthen resilience against extreme weather and natural hazards.

He holds a PhD in Environmental Engineering from UPC and has pursued advanced studies in Applied Physics, Mathematics, Climate Change, Business, and Entrepreneurship at Rutgers, Princeton, Cambridge, and ESADE. With more than 15 years at the intersection of science, technology, and policy, Alejandro is recognized for shaping how the world measures and manages climate risk.

Barbara Cresti is a trusted advisor to Boards and executive teams navigating complexity, growth, and transformation. With over 20 years of global leadership across regulated and technology-driven industries — from energy and healthcare to cloud, AI and advanced manufacturing — she helps organisations unlock new value and lead strongly in moments of structural change.

As Founder of StratEdge, she advises C-suite leaders and Boards on AI strategy, governance, and AI-enabled business transformation - aligning leadership, operating models, and growth to turn emerging technologies into measurable competitive advantage.

I’m Anya Nova, Director of Sales at Galaxy, a Nasdaq-listed digital assets company with 700+ employees and $17B+ AUM.

I work with banks, asset managers, fintechs, and infrastructure providers on institutional custody, tokenization, trading, staking, and stablecoin use cases. I’ve spoken at 50+ events on digital asset market infrastructure and tokenization.

At Galaxy, we work with institutions including State Street, DWS, J.P. Morgan, and Superstate. Galaxy’s own Nasdaq-listed shares are also natively tokenized, giving us a practical view of how regulated financial assets can move on-chain.

For AI Summit Barcelona, I would bring a financial services perspective on how AI and digital assets are converging across institutional workflows, risk controls, compliance, and future market infrastructure.

I am a Senior Solutions Architect with over 16 years of technical experience. My current focus areas include Autonomous AI Agents, CyberSecurity, Decentralized AI Swarm Orchestration and Neurosymbolic Agentic AI applicability to Legacy Code Modernization.

Anna Bohonek, Business Lead at Fameplay, sits at the front line of the AI revolution in voice and video and she's turned that experience into a very practical obsession.
That obsession? What it actually means to have a great conversation with a voice agent. Not just functional. Not just fast. But genuinely good the kind that leaves you feeling heard, helped, and maybe even a little surprised.
Anna has spent the last year exploring the frontier of AI voice companions: what makes them click, what makes them fall flat, and why the bar for "good enough" is quietly being raised by people who don't even realize it yet.
On stage, she brings warmth, honesty, and zero tolerance for buzzwords to one of the most human questions in tech right now what does it take for a machine to truly connect and stand out?

Oscar Lepoeter is an AI Fellow at Herprogrammeer De Overheid and Co-Founder of Manava, where he advises organizations on learning, development, and AI literacy. A lecturer in digital literacy at Windesheim University, Oscar studies the impact of digital technology on children's development and champions critical thinking about AI in education. He is a contributor to the Netherlands' National AI Delta Plan, a major initiative to drive widespread AI adoption and literacy across Dutch society. A self-described generalist, Oscar holds degrees in Cultural History, Biomedical Engineering, and Education from institutions including Utrecht University, Eindhoven University of Technology, and UCL Institute of Education. He is a recognized voice in AI education discourse, regularly publishing research-driven insights on prompt engineering, AI pedagogy, and digital literacy to his 18,000+ newsletter subscribers.

Founder of Spain’s first regulated AI-focused fund. Next Tier Ventures
is an early-stage VC investing in globally ambitious, B2B native AI companies.

Katya de Freedericksz is a growth marketing expert, startup mentor, and founder of SheRise, a Barcelona-based platform dedicated to empowering women founders through education, mentorship, and community. With 14+ years in tech and a background that spans co-founding nilo.health — a workplace mental health platform — and advising early-stage startups across Europe and the Middle East through Techstars and Google for Startups, she bridges the worlds of growth strategy, personal branding, and entrepreneurship. A regular speaker on AI's impact on founders and personal brand building, Katya is one of Barcelona's most active voices in the startup and innovation ecosystem.

Sarah Anto is Founder of FundHER, empowering 100+ women-led startups (including YC/Techstars) to raise $50M+ in capital via investor readiness, pitch coaching, and commercialization tracks. As former Chief of Staff at Hayden AI (Silicon Valley AI unicorn), she scaled revenue from $1M to $30M ARR, grew headcount 10x (30→300+), and led Series A/B raises totaling $30M+ through strategy, OKRs, and cross-functional execution. A CPA ex-EY Audit Manager, Sarah audited $80B+ in Silicon Valley tech deals, mastering M&A due diligence ($500M avg.), data analytics, and governance—skills she now deploys for founder traction and VC alignment. Currently a PhD Researcher in AI at University of Helsinki, she studies women founders' ethical AI approaches (bias, fairness, EU AI Act), mentoring deeptech at Conception X and advising accelerators on lab-to-market transitions. Key achievements: 70% cost reductions via automation at EY, 30%+ pitch-to-term-sheet boosts at FundHER. French-born global operator (SF→Europe), Sarah speaks at 4YFN Barcelona, Smart City Expo, TechEx on inclusive innovation, women in AI, and scaling ethically. Her mission: Bridge operational grit with capital access for underrepresented founders.

Ferdi Alici is a visionary new media artist and founder of Ouchhh Studio, a global creative powerhouse redefining the intersection of art, science, and artificial intelligence for over 15 years. Born in 1981 in Izmir, Turkey, Ferdi co-founded Ouchhh in 2011 with a radical philosophy: "Data as paint, algorithm as brush". Under his creative direction, Ouchhh—working alongside co-director Eylul Alici and a multidisciplinary team of AI coders, data scientists, architects, and media artists—has produced over 75 monumental public art projects across six continents for institutions including NASA, CERN, Google, Ars Electronica, and brands like Ferrari F1, Mercedes, Nike, and Bulgari. Ferdi's landmark works include the world's first AI Maze Data Sculpture in Taipei, AI data murals on the Burj Khalifa using real-time climate data, collaborations with Paramount Pictures (Mission Impossible), and the "Human Cell Atlas / Neuroorganism" AI data painting—the first AI art sent into space aboard SpaceX's lunar mission in February 2024, landing on the Moon and selected at Cannes Film Festival. Ouchhh has won Red Dot Best of the Best, Ars Electronica Prix, German Design Award, and Muse Creative Awards. Ferdi's question: "What does it mean to be an artist in the 21st century with AI and technology?"—answered through infinite collaboration between humans and algorithms.

Christophe Blefari is a data engineer turned entrepreneur with over a decade of experience building data platforms and teams for companies like BlaBlaCar, Qonto, and Kapten, as well as public institutions. In 2024, he co-founded nao Labs — backed by Y Combinator — the AI-powered code editor built specifically for data teams, enabling analysts and engineers to work faster with agentic workflows. Beyond his work at nao, Christophe is one of the most recognized voices in the French-speaking data community, running blef.fr, the leading data newsletter in France, with 20,000+ followers across platforms.

Limor Schweitzer is a serial technology entrepreneur pioneering autonomous robotics for enterprise, currently Founder & CTO of MOV.AI and Founder of TUGBOT. MOV.AI, a VC-backed robotics software company founded in 2016, developed a universal operating system for Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs)—"the Android for robots"—built on ROS with industrial-grade fleet management, dev-ops, and scalability from 1 to 1,000 heterogeneous robots deployed in warehouses and facilities worldwide. TUGBOT, spun off from RoboSavvy in 2021, manufactures intelligent AMRs for industrial cart intralogistics, optimizing workflows and productivity in facilities of all sizes. Before robotics, Limor co-founded XACCT Technologies (sold to Amdocs 2004), where he pioneered real-time billing mediation technology for telecom networks, and Xpert, an early UNIX consulting firm that raised $17M and was acquired by Bezeq. He also co-founded ActuatedCharacter, an EU-funded project researching biologically inspired running robots, and consulted for IMAX on in-theater gaming. With a background in Physics from Tel Aviv University, Limor's philosophy is open-source meets enterprise-grade: building tools that make robotics accessible, collaborative, and transformative.

Dr. Martin Ignatovski is a healthcare technology executive, product leader, and cybersecurity researcher with 20+ years of experience building and scaling enterprise software in regulated environments. He holds a PhD in Cybersecurity and has led technology, product, security, compliance, and AI initiatives across healthcare SaaS organizations.

His work focuses on the practical application of AI in high-trust industries, including AI-driven engineering, secure product development, governance frameworks, and responsible automation. He has published peer-reviewed research and developed AI governance approaches aligned with emerging regulatory and compliance standards, including the EU AI Act, Cyber Resilience Act, HIPAA, and ISO 42001.

Martin has spoken at industry forums including the EU Cyber Acts Conference in Brussels and the Behavioral Health AI Summit. His perspective centers on how organizations can adopt AI responsibly while balancing innovation, security, privacy, explainability, and real-world operational impact.