Invited Talks

Some of my talks can be found online. For an up-to-date, recent list of talks, please, consult the ELLIS Alicante webpage.
I have given over 300 invited talks both at scientific conferences, government bodies and for the general public.

Scientific Conferences and Technical Talks

Speaker at the Nobel Symposium on Predictability in Science in the Age of AI, Stellenbosch, South Africa, Oct 2022
Keynote speaker at the 2022 MIMODE conference on “Data Science against COVID-19”, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (online), Oct 2022
Keynote speaker at the EUH4D, DSSC, BDVA i-Spaces event about “Towards a Socially Sustainable Artificial Intelligence”, Valencia (online), Spain, Oct 2022
Keynote speaker at the 2022 ACM Multimedia Conference on “Data Science against COVID-19”, Lisbon, Portugal, Oct 2022
Keynote speaker at the NiCcolla European project meeting on “Towards European Sovereignty in AI”, Alcoy, Spain, Sept 2022
Keynote speaker at the “Workshop on Human-machine Collaboration and Teaming” at ICML 2022, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, July 2022
Keynote speaker at the 22nd International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE) on “Towards Socially Sustainable Artificial Intelligence”, Bari, Italy (online), July 2022
Invited speaker on “Data Science against COVID-19” at the Data Science summer school of the University of Castilla La Mancha, Albacete, Spain, June 2022
Keynote speaker on “Data Science against COVID-19” at ODSC Europe conference, hybrid, June 2022
Keynote speaker on “Data Science against COVID-19” at the Foundations of Responsible Computing (FORC) conference, Harvard, Massachusetts, USA, June 2022
Keynote speaker at BIFI 2022, "Data Science against COVID-19", June 2022
Invited speaker at the Symposium on the Foundations of Responsible Computing 2022, "Data Science against COVID-19", June 2022
Keynote speaker at the Spanish Conference on Pediatric Neurology, "Artificial Intelligence", Benidorm, Spain, May 2022
Keynote speaker at CHIL 2022 on "Data Science to fight against COVID-19", April 2022
Invited speaker at CHI Greece on "Data Science to fight against COVID-19", Nov 2021
Invited speaker at 2021 Innovations in Intelligent Systems and Applications Conference (ASYU) on "Data Science to fight against COVID-19", Oct 2021
Keynote speaker at ICLR 2021 workshop on "Artificial Intelligence and Health" with a talk on "Data Science to fight against COVID-19", May 2021
Keynote speaker at ASPLOS 2021 with a talk on "Data Science to fight against COVID-19", April 2021
Keynote speaker at the WWW Conference (Web of Health track) with a talk on "Data Science to fight against COVID-19", April 2021
Distinguished speaker at the Web of Health special event, colocated with TheWeb 2021 conference, "Data Science against COVID-19", Mar 2021
Invited speaker at the Int Conf. for Women in Multifaceted Research (ICWMR'21), "Data Science against COVID-19", India, Mar 2021
Distinguished Lecture Speaker at the Max Planck Software Systems, "Towards human behavior modeling from data", Nov 2020
Invited speaker at the European Big Data Value Forum, "Data Science against COVID-19", Nov 2020
Invited speaker to open de academic year 2020-2021 at the Polytechnic University of Valencia (Alcoy and Gandia campus), "Towards a Socially Sustainable Artificial Intelligence", Oct 2020
Invited speaker at the G-STIC conference, "Artificial Intelligence and Education", Oct 2020
Invited talk at the EU on the Move 2020 conference on Digital Health, "Artificial Intelligence and Health", Nov 2020
Invited talk at the EPR 2020 conference, "Towards socially sustainable Artificial Intelligence", Sept 2020
Keynote talk and invited panelist at the ACM womENcourage 2020 conference, "Data Science against COVID-19", Sept 2020
Keynote talk and invited panelist at the EVPA 2020 conference, "Data Science for Social Good", Sept 2020
Invited panelist at the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI) about "Artificial Intelligence and Society", Aug 2020
Keynote talk at the International University Menendez Pelayo (UIMP), "Artificial Intelligence and the Society of the Future", Aug 2020
Keynote talk at the International University Menendez Pelayo (UIMP), "Data Science in the fight against COVID-19", Aug 2020
Keynote talk and invited panelist at the IFAC 2020 conference, "Data Science against COVID-19", July 2020
Keynote talk at the Telecommunications Day in Catalunya, "Data Science against COVID-19", May 2020
Keynote talk and invited panelist at ISPOR 2020, "Data Science against COVID-19", May 2020
Invited talk on "Data Science against COVID-19" at the DataWizzard conference, April 2020
Invited talk at the "ELLIS COVID-19 Conference Series" on "Data Science against COVID-19", April 2020
Keynote talk on "Artificial Intelligence" at the opening conference of the Lusitania III super computer, Extremadura, Spain, Feb 2020
Tutorial on "Human Behavior Modeling via Machine Learning" at NeurIPS 2019, Vancouver, Canada, Dec 2019
Keynote speaker at the Academic Year opening ceremony at the Communications Department in the Autonomous University of Barcelona, "Artificial Intelligence and Communications", Barcelona, Spain, Oct 2019
Keynote speaker at The Meeting of the Experts, "Artificial Intelligence and Reproductive Medicine", Alicante, Spain, Sept 2019
Panelist at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), "Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property", Geneva, Sept 2019
Keynote speaker at the Academic Year opening ceremony of the Catalan Universities, "Towards Human(ity)-Centric AI", University Pompeu Fabra, Sept 2019
Keynote speaker at IbPRIA 2019, "Human behavior modeling and prediction from mobile data", Madrid, Spain, July 2019
Keynote speaker at Interaction 2019, "Human behavior modeling and prediction in intelligent, interactive systems", San Sebastian, Spain, June 2019
Keynote speaker at Cruce de Caminos 2019, "Artificial Intelligence", Madrid, Spain, June 2019
Keynote speaker at CyberWall 2019, "The Bright and the Dark Sides of Data-driven Algorithmic Decision-Making", Avila, Spain, June 2019
Keynote speaker at 15th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (IWANN), Canary Islands, Spain, June 2019
Keynote speaker at the Lawyers Conference (congreso de la abogacia), "The tyranny of the data? The bright and the dark sides of data-driven algorithmic decision making", Valladolid, Spain, May 2019
Keynote speaker for ACM-Women conference, "Data Science for Social Good", Spain, March 2019
Keynote speaker at the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property, "The tyranny of the data? The bright and the dark sides of data-driven algorithmic decision-making" University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain, March 2019
Keynote speaker at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge conference on "Radical Approaches to Cancer Prevention", "Technology and Health", Cambridge, UK, March 2019
Keynote speaker at the Forinvest Night of Finances, "Technology and the Financial Sector", Valencia, Spain, March 2019
Keynote speaker at the CIO Forum during the GSMA Mobile World Congress, "Artificial Intelligence", Barcelona, Spain, Feb 2019
Keynote speaker at AFI conference on "Will robots take our jobs?", "Artificial Intelligence", Madrid, Spain, Dec 2018
Invited panelist at the Artificial Intelligence Conference in Alicante, Spain, Nov 2018
Keynote speaker at Robotiuris conference, "The tyranny of the data? The bright and the dark sides of data-driven algorithmic decision-making for public policy", Madrid, Spain, Nov 2018
Keynote speaker at Big Data Spain, "Data Science for Social Good", Madrid, Spain, Nov 2018
Keynote speaker at the ALLEA and Royal Society conference on Flourishing in a Data-enabled Society, "Data Science for Social Good: Opportunities and Challenges", Chicheley Hall, UK, Nov 2018
Keynote speaker at the UOC Inaugural event, "Data Science for Social Good: Opportunities and Challenges", Alicante, Spain, Oct 2018
Invited panelist at ACM MobileHCI 2018, "Industrial mobile HCI research", Barcelona, Spain, Sept 2018
Invited panelist at Women in Science within EURO 2018, "Women in Technology", Valencia, Spain, July 2018
Invited panelist at the CEU VI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Data Economy, Madrid, Spain, June 2018
Keynote speaker at ACM MMSys, "Towards Human Behavior Modeling from Pervasive Sensors", Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 2018
Keynote speaker at AOM Big Data Conference, "The Tyranny of Data? The Bright and Dark Sides of Data-Driven Decision Making for Public Policy", University of Surrey, United Kingdom, April 2018
Keynote speaker at the European Big Data Value Forum, "The Tyranny of Data? The Bright and Dark Sides of Data-Driven Decision Making for Public Policy", Versailles, France, Nov 2017
Keynote speaker at IEEE IntelliSys Conference, "Towards Human Behavior Modeling from (Big) Mobile Data", London, UK, Sept 2017
Invited panelist at the 12th Metaheuristics International Conference (MIC'17), Barcelona, Spain, July 2017
Keynote speaker at CorBI Foundation Data Summit, "Big Mobile Data for Social Good", La Corunya, Spain, June 2017
Keynote speaker at Columbia University Alliance Summer School: Research Methods in Sustainable Development, "Mobile data for social good", Paris, France, June 2017
Invited panelist at Global Summit Innovate Finance 2017, "Mobile data for financial inclusion", London, UK, April 2017
Invited speaker at NetMob 2017, "Mobile Data for Social Good: What's next", Milan, Italy, April 2017
Invited speaker at the Alan Turing Institute, "Human Behavior Modeling from (Big) Mobile Data", London, UK, March 2017
Keynote speaker at Data Summit, "Big Mobile Data for Social Good", Edinburgh, UK, March 2017
Keynote speaker at EPFL Applied Machine Learning Days, "Human Behavior Modeling from Mobile Data: Opportunities and Challenges", Lausanne, Switzerland, Jan 2017
Keynote speaker at IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress, "Human Behavior Modeling from Data: Opportunities and Challenges", Brussels, Belgium, Nov 2016
Keynote speaker at i-Know International Conference on Data-Driven Future, "Human Behavior Modeling from (Big) Data", Graz, Austria Oct 2016
Invited speaker at Symposium on Big Data and Human Development, "Big Mobile Data for Social Good", Oxford, UK Sept 2016
Keynote speaker at Chief Data Scientist Europe, "Big Data for Social Good: Opportunities and Challenges", London UK Sept 2016
Keynote speaker at IEEE Int Conf on Intelligent Environments (IE) 2016, "Towards data-driven models of human behavior" London, UK Sept 2016
Keynote speaker at WSTNet Web Science Summer School 2016, Koblenz, Germany, July 2016
Keynote speaker at Spanish Conference on Information Retrieval (CERI) Granada, Spain, June 2016
Keynote speaker at "Big Data needs Women" at the European Celebration of Women in Computing Brussels, Belgium, April 2016
Keynote speaker at AI conference PAPIs Connect "Big Data for Social Good" Valencia, Spain, March 2016
Invited talk at " Mobile Thinking Days " Barcelona, Spain, Feb 2016
Keynote speaker at DPharm Europe "The Future of Mobile Computing" London, UK, Feb 2016
Keynote speaker at CAEPIA 2015 "Towards data-driven models of human behavior" CAEPIA 2015. Albacete, Spain, November 2015
Keynote speaker at IEEE Int Conf on Data Science and Advance Analytics (DSAA) 2015. "Towards data-driven models of human behavior" Paris, France, October 2015
Keynote speaker at DPharm Boston "The Future of Mobile Computing" Boston, USA, Sept 2015
Keynote speaker at BDigital Global Congress "The Future of Mobile Computing" Barcelona, Spain, June 2015
Invited speaker at NetSci BackStage "Big Data for Social Good: Opportunities and Challenges" Zaragoza, Spain, June 2015
Keynote speaker at 5th ACM International Conference on Digital Health "Towards better health with mobile computing" Florence, Italy, May 2015
Keynote speaker at 2nd BSC International Doctoral Symposium "Data-driven Models of Human Behavior" Barcelona, Spain, May 2015
Keynote speaker at ICEIS 2015 on "Data-driven Models of Human Behavior" Barcelona, Spain, April 2015
Keynote speaker at the NTTS international conference . Brussels. "Big Data for Social Good" . Brussels, Belgium, March 2015
Invited talk at GSMA Mobile World Congress 2015 on "Mobile Big Data: Solving Real-life Challenges while Maintaining Users' Trust" Barcelona, Spain, March 2015
Invited talk at " Mobile Thinking Days " Barcelona, Spain, Feb 2015
Invited talk at " Jornadas de ehealth e Innovacion en Gestion de Salud " Barcelona, Spain, Feb 2015
Invited talk at the University of Luxembourg. "Human Behavior Understanding with Big Data " Luxembourg, Feb 2015
Keynote speaker at ITU WTIS 2014 Global Conference . Big Data for Development. Georgia. Nov 2014
Keynote speaker at ACM and IEEE MODELS 2014 international conference. Talk on "Towards data-driven models of humans" . Valencia. Spain. Oct 2014
Keynote speaker at New Frontiers in Digital Technologies for Influenza . Talk on "Big Data and the H1N1 flu pandemic". London, UK, June 2014.
Keynote speaker at European Wireless Conference . Talk on "Small Devices for Big Impact" . Barcelona. May 2014
Invited speaker at ACM Multimedia 2013 Workshop " Personal Data Meets Distributed Multimedia ".
Invited speaker at IDIAP on "The power of the cellphone: small devices for big impact " Switzerland. Sept 2013
Invited speaker at Ada Lovelace Talk Series 2013 . Autonomous University of Madrid. April 2013
Invited speaker at CITIC-UGR. "Research in Industry and Universities ". Granada. April 2012
Keynote speaker at NIPS Big Learning workshop on "Towards human behavior understanding from pervasive data: Opportunities and Challenges ahead" NIPS Dec 2011
Invited speaker at eHealth 2011. "Mobile Computing for eHealth: Exciting opportunities ahead". Nov 2011
Keynote speaker at Workshop on Human Behavior Understanding . Amsterdam. Nov 2011
Invited speaker at UCVP 2011 (Int. Workshop on Use of Context in Video Processing) , "Opportunities in a context-rich world". ICMI 2011. Alicante. Spain. November 2011
Invited speaker at IEEE EUSIPCO 2011 . "Towards Smart Cities" . Barcelona. Spain. September 2011
Invited speaker at Panel on Social Media at IEEE Int. Conf. on Multimedia Expo (ICME'11) . Barcelona. Spain. July 2011
Invited speaker at IEEE WCCI 2010, Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Computer Vision . "Research Challenges and Opportunities in Multimedia: a Human Centric Perspective" . July 2010
Invited speaker at the International Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval Workshop (AMR '09) . Madrid. Spain., September 2009
"Towards Sustainable Mobility" Invited Speaker at Barcelona Digital World Congress. Barcelona. Spain. May 2009
"Human-Centric Multimedia Access". Open Research Day. Telefonica Research. Barcelona. Spain. November 2008
"Physiological Monitoring on a Mobile Phone". Jornadas de las Mujeres en Informatica. Alicante. Spain. October 2008
"Towards Perceptual Intelligence: Challenges and Opportunities in Sensing and Machine Learning". International Conf. of Computer Aided Design of User Interfaces CADUI '08 . Albacete. Spain. June 2008
"Towards Perceptual Intelligence: Challenges and Opportunities in Sensing and Machine Learning". UPF. Barcelona. Spain. March 2008
"Towards Perceptual Intelligence: Challenges and Opportunities in Sensing and Machine Learning". UPC. Barcelona. Spain. Nov 2007
"Smart Spaces and Users"Invited talk at the University of Alicante. Alicante. Spain. Jan 2007
“S-SEER: Office Activity Recognition with a Layered Representation and Selective Perception”Invited talk at the "Activity Recognition and Discovery Workshop" at NIPS 2005. Vancouver,Canada. December 2005
Invited talk at CEDI 2005 "Towards Perceptual Intelligence". Granada. Spain. Sept 2005
“S-SEER: Office Activity Recognition with a Layered Representation and Selective Perception”Invited talk at the Machine Learning for Multimodal Interfaces Conference. IDIAP. Switzerland. June 2004
“Graphical Models for Perceptually Intelligent Systems”. Tutorial at INTERMEDIA 2001. Valencia, Spain. May 2001 Materials for the course can be found at the end of my Main Page
"Towards Perceptual Intelligence" Keynote Speech at the International Conference on Visual Computing (Visual 2000) Mexico City, Mexico. Sept 2001
"Internet and Society" Invited Speech at the International Conference on Technology and the Stock Markets Palace of Congress, Stock Market School, Madrid, Spain. May 00

Government, courses, universities and technology conferences

Keynote speaker at PuzzleX on “Five reasons to question the metaverse”, Barcelona, Spain, Nov 2022
Panelist at the Smartcity Expo on “When Technology becomes a Push for Inclusion”, Barcelona, Spain, Nov 2022
Speaker at the Bosch Connected World Conference on “Data Science against COVID-19”, Berlin (online), Germany, Nov 2022
Keynote speaker at the V Connected Industry Conference on “Towards Socially Sustainable AI: The European Perspective”, Valencia, Spain, Nov 2022
Keynote speaker at the V Artificial Intelligence Conference on “ELLIS, The European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems”, Alicante, Spain, Nov 2022
Keynote speaker at the conference organized by the Spanish Government's Public Employment Service on “Artificial Intelligence”, Extremadura (online), Spain, Oct 2022
Distinguished speaker at the Juan March Foundation on “Towards a Socially Sustainable Artificial Intelligence”, Madrid, Spain, Oct 2022
Keynote speaker at the Economic Forum EL ESPAÑOL, Alicante, Spain, Oct 2022
Panelist at the Global IESE Alumni Reunion on “Artificial Intelligence: Using Your Power for Good”, Munich, Germany, Oct 2022
Response at the induction ceremony of Dr. Ana Conesa at the Spanish Royal Academy of Engineering, Madrid, Spain, Oct 2022
Inaugural lecturer at the opening of the 2022-2023 academic year of the public universities in Murcia, Cartagena, Spain, Oct 2022
Panelist on an AI Ethics panel organized by the GovLab.org, online, Sept 2022
Keynote speaker at the Algoverit event on “Towards a Socially Sustainable AI”, Madrid, Spain, Sept 2022
Speaker at the launch of the SRIP 2022 report of the European Commission, webinar, July 2022
Speaker at the Bellesguard Dialogues by the Abat Oliba University on “The Role of Artificial Intelligence in today’s world”, webinar, July 2022
Invited speaker on “Towards socially acceptable Artificial Intelligence” at the conference of the federal lawyers of the Spanish Ministry of Justice, Madrid, Spain, June 2022
Invited speaker on “Artificial Intelligence” at the Inetum Process Automation at the Public Administration conference, Madrid, Spain, June 2022I
Invited speaker at the European Vision for AI event, "Artificial Intelligence and Society", April 2021
Invited speaker at the Instituto de Empresa (IE), "My professional career on Artificial Intelligence", Mar 2021
Invited panelist at the IADB Artificial Intelligence webinar, "Artificial Intelligence for Social Good", Mar 2021
Invited speaker at the "Innovation for SDGs: inspirational tools towards sustainability challenges" by the Univ of Girona and the Global University Network for Innovation, "Data Science against COVID-19", Mar 2021
Invited panelist at the AI Ethics, Online Harm and Digital Priorities Conference by the British Embassy in Madrid, Spain, Mar 2021
Invited speaker at the OECD Conference on "The Future at Five: How do gender stereotypes affect 5 year-olds' ideas about their future?", Mar 2021
Invited speaker at the CNMC Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Mar 2021
Invited speaker at the Conexus Webinar on Artificial Intelligence in Business, "ELLIS: The European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems", Mar 2021
Invited speaker at the UPC CFIS Forum, "Data Science against COVID-19", Mar 2021
Invited speaker at the AI CON conference, "Data Science against COVID-19", Bosch, Mar 2021
Invited speaker at the Digital Space Conference by the European Space Agency, "Artificial Intelligence", Dec 2020
Invited speaker at the Ateneo in the University of Zaragoza, "Data Science against COVID-19", Dec 2020
Invited speaker at the CIBER-BBN Annual Conference, "Data Science against COVID-19", Nov 2020
nvited speaker at the Big Things 2020 Conference, "Data Science against COVID-19", Nov 2020
Invited panelist at the "Artificial Intelligence" event by the German Chamber of Commerce in Spain, Nov 2020
Invited speaker at the "AI on the move" conference organized by the German Federal Ministry of Health, "Artificial Intelligence and Health", Nov 2020
Invited speaker at the Destaca Conference, "Data Science against COVID-19", Nov 2020
Invited speaker at the 15th Berlin Debate on Science and Science Policy, Robert Bosch Stiftung, Berlin, Nov 2020
Invited speaker at the AECTA Conference, "Data Science against COVID-19", Nov 2020
Invited speaker at the Valencian Cultural Committee (Consell Valencia de la Cultura), "The Valencian AI Strategy", Nov 2020
Invited speaker to the Director's Circle, "ELLIS: The European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems", Nov 2020
Invited speaker at the Euskaltel Technology Conference, "Artificial Intelligence", Oct 2020
Invited panelist at the CEDE annual conference (Director's conference), dialog with Antonio Garrigues, Oct 2020
Invited speaker at the COVID-19, Technology and Gender conference by the Women's Institute of Spain, Oct 2020
Invited speaker at the Santander Banking Conference, Oct 2020
Invited speaker at the Democracy and the COVID-19 pandemic debate by DigitalEnlightment, "Data Science against COVID-19", Oct 2020
Invited speaker at the PhiWeek by the European Space Agency, "ELLIS: The European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems", Sept 2020
Invited speaker at the Research and Innovation Days at the European Commission, "ELLIS: The European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems", Sept 2020
Invited speaker at ESADE on "Data and pandemics", "Data Science against COVID-19", Spain, May 2020
Invited speaker at the Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Strategy at the European Union, Konrad Adenauer Foundation and European Commission, May 2020
Invited speaker to IKEA, Data Science against COVID-19, Spain, May 2020
Invited speaker at the DataWizzard conference, "Data Science against COVID-19", April 2020
Speaker to the Gender Equality Leadership Teams at the IDB, WEF and French Development Agency, Women and COVID-19, April 2020
Invited speaker to the European Parlament on Contact Tracing Apps against COVID-19, April 2020
Invited speaker at the presentation of the first Spanish Assessment of Ethics and Artificial Intelligence, Madrid, Spain, Feb 2020
Immune Women in Tech speaker, "My professional career", Madrid, Feb 2020
Invited speaker to a course for the Judicial Power, "Limitations of existing AI-based decision-making systems", Granada, Spain, Feb 2020
Invited panelist at Industria Navarra Summit, Navarra, Jan 2020
Keynote speaker at the Fifth Summit of the Travel Agencies Associations, "Demystifying Artificial Intelligence", Seville, Spain, Nov 2019
Keynote speaker at the G50, "Artificial Intelligence", Madrid, Spain, Oct 2019
Speaker at iNNpulsa, "Mobile Data and Financial Inclusion", Bogota, Colombia, Oct 2019
Panelist at the Club of Madrid, "Artificial Intelligence and Democracy", Madrid, Oct 2019
Keynote speaker at the 10th Anniversary of the Valencian Science Park, "Innovation: My Personal Experience", Valencia, Sept 2019
Keynote speaker at European Institute of Technology (EIT) Digital Conference, "Artificial Intelligence and Education", Brussels, Sept 2019
Keynote speaker at Artificial Intelligence Conference by Multinational Companies for Marca España, Madrid, Spain, June 2019
Keynote speaker at All Women Conference, "Big Data for Social Good", Madrid, Spain, June 2019
Keynote speaker at Caja Rural Central's 100th Anniversary, "Towards a cooperative technology", Orihuela, Spain, June 2019
Keynote speaker at the Artificial Intelligence Conference by Bankinter Foundation, "Artificial Intelligence: opportunities and challenges", Madrid, Spain, May 2019
Keynote speaker at the Health Management Master program at the UMH, "Technology and Health", Alicante, Spain, April 2019
Keynote speaker at the Women in Technology, Engineering and Industry conference, "Where are the women in tech?", Valencia, March 2019
Keynote speaker at the Campalans Foundation, "Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work", Barcelona, Feb 2019
Keynote speaker in the HUMAINT Winter School, organized by the European Commission, "Challenges in data-driven algorithmic decision-making", Seville, Feb 2019
Keynote speaker to the Valencian Cultural Board (Consejo Cultural de Valencia), "Where are the women in tech?", Valencia, Jan 2019
Invited panelist at the Internet Governance Forum, "Artificial Intelligence", Madrid, Oct 2018
Keynote speaker at Girls4Tech conference, "Where are the women in technology?", Alicante, Spain, Oct 2018
Invited keynote speaker at BBVA's Open Summit, "Data Science for Social Good: Opportunities and Challenges", Madrid, Oct 2018
Invited keynote speaker at Iberdrola's Innovation Summit, "Artificial Intelligence", Madrid, Oct 2018
Keynote speaker at the PSPV-PSOE Summer School, "Innovation needs Education", Alicante, Spain, Sept 2018
Invited speaker at the European Central Bank conference on Artificial Intelligence, Frankfurt, Germany, Sept 2018
Invited panelist at the "Good Artificial Intelligence" course at the University of Malaga summer school, Ronda, Malaga, July 2018
Invited speaker at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Meeting on Infectious Diseases, "Pervasive technology for disease detection, prediction, prevention and intervention", Bellagio, Italy, July 2018
Keynote speaker at the "Atenea International Conference: Women, Art and Technology Conferece", "Where are the women in technology?", Valencia, June 2018
Keynote speaker at the "AI Conference" organized by the Spanish Government, Alcala de Henares, May 2018
Invited panelist at the "DES 2018 conference", "The Good AI", Madrid, May 2018
Keynote speakers at "Mobile Clinical Trials Europe", "The Tyranny of Data? The Bright and Dark Sides of Data-Driven Decision Making for Public Policy", London,
Keynote speaker at the Valencian Telecommunications Celebration, "Big Mobile Data for Social Good", Valencia, May 2018
Invited panelist at the United Nations Data for Development Festival, Bristol, UK, March 2018
Invited speaker at the University of Castilla la Mancha, "Human Behavior Modeling from Data", Cuenca, March 2018
Invited speaker at the GSMA Mobile World Congress, "The Future of Artificial Intelligence is NOW! Opportunities and Implications", 4YFN, Barcelona, Feb 2018
Invited speaker at the GSMA Mobile World Congress, "Artificial Intelligence: We are on the air!", 4YFN, Barcelona, Feb 2018
Invited speaker at the GSMA Mobile World Congress, "Embracing Digital Transformation & Digital Culture", Barcelona, Feb 2018
Invited panelist at DAVOS at the Finis Origine workshop, Davos, Switzerland, Jan 2018
Invited speaker to the Professional Doctors Association, "The Future of the Mobile Phone", Alicante, Dec 2017
Invited keynote speaker at the Adolescent Pediatry Association, "Digital Erudites", Alicante, Dec 2017
Invited speaker at the ADEA Congress, "The Future of the Mobile Phone", Zaragoza, Nov 2017
Invited speaker at the University Politecnica of Valencia (Alcoi campus), "A career of research in technology", Nov 2017
Invited speaker at Caixa Forum Palma, "The mobile phone changes its skin", Nov 2017
Invited speaker at Rutberg Global Summit (Wireless Influencers), Los Angeles, Nov 2017
Keynote speaker at 100xScience Conference, "Industrial Research: Opportunities and Challenges", Alicante, Nov 2017
Invited Panelist at Broadband World Forum, "Artificial Intelligence", Berlin, Oct 2017
Keynote speaker at Telco Network Analytics Conference, "Mobile Phone Data for Social Good", Madrid, Oct 2017
Keynote speaker at Artificial Intelligence Expo & Congress, Madrid, Oct 2017
Opening keynote at "Salud On Me" conference, "The Future of the Mobile Phone", Madrid, Oct 2017
Keynote speaker at Horizons Talks & Lectures by Fundacion La Caixa, "Artificial Intelligence: Past, present, future", Barcelona, Oct 2017
Invited talk at the Financial Times Senior Leadership Innovation Summit, "Artificial Intelligence and Big Data", London, Oct 2017
Invited speaker at the National Innovation Forum by SUMA, Alicante, Sept 2017
Invited speaker at the 34th Summer University of Andorra, "The Future of the Mobile Phone", Andorra, Sept 2017
Invited speaker at the "Big Data and AI for Social Good" workshop, Fundacion Rafael del Pino, Madrid, Sept 2017
Invited speaker at the Advanced School on Smart Cities, IME-USP, Sao Paolo (Brazil), July 2017
Invited speaker at the Summer Dialogue on Technological Change, Social and Political Change by the Valencian Government, Alicante, June 2017
Invited speaker at the University of Murcia, Computer Science, "Human Behavior Modeling from (Big) Data", June 2017
Invited panelist at the European Commision Expert Panel in the Workshop on Access for Public Bodies to Privately-held Data for Public Interest, Brussels, June 2017
Invited panelist at the European Commission Digital Assembly, Malta, June 2017
Webinar speaker for United Nations System Staff College (UNSSC), "Leveraging (Mobile) Data to Predict and Prevent Crime", June 2017
Invited panelist at United Nations Global Festival of Ideas for Sustainable Development. Bonn. March 2017
Invited speaker at the TM Forum - Data Sharing Workshop -- Lisbon Feb 2016
Keynote speaker at eHealth Master program of University Barcelona. Barcelona. Feb 2015
Invited panelist at the Royal Statistical Society panel on "Big Data and Official Statistics" London Jan 2015
Keynote speaker at Microsoft's Innovation Outreach Program
"The Future of Mobile Computing". Barcelona. Spain. Sept 2014
Invited speaker at WIRED London. October 2013. "What Big Data and the Mexican Pandemic Taught Us"
"La Caixa Fellowship Invited Talk". CaixaForum. Madrid. May 2008
"Wearable Physiological Monitoring" Invited talk at the TTI/Vanguard NextGens Conference . Seattle. Dec 2006
“Research in Science and Technology: Opportunities and Challenges”. Invited speaker at the Conference on Policies for Research organized by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology. Univ. Menendez Pelayo . Santander, Spain. July 2005
Invited speaker at BDigital Global Congress . "Big Data for Social Good" . Barcelona. Spain. June 2013
"Social Technology" Invited Talk at the International University Menéndez Pelayo (UIMP) Palacio de la Magdalena, Santander, Spain. July 99
Invited Talk at EFIC’99 "Perceptual Intelligence" Chiclana de la Frontera, Spain. June 99
Invited Talk at NECSYS’99 "Perceptual Intelligence" Computer Science Dept., Valencia University, Valencia, Spain. May 99
Talk for Valencia’s Strategic City Plan "Cities of Atoms and Bits" Invited Palace of Congress, Valencia, Spain. April 99
Invited Talk for the Spanish Senate Commission on Technology, Computer Networks and the Internet Spanish Senate " Perceptual Intelligence at the MIT Media Lab " . Palacio del Senado Plaza de la Marina. Madrid. 22 Dec 98
"The MIT Media Lab: The Most Advanced Technological Research" Invited Keynote Speech at the Catalonian Science Week Barcelona. Spain. Nov 99

General Public Events (TEDx...)

Invited speaker on “Artificial Intelligence and Creativity” at the Artificial Intelligence webinar organized by CEDRO, July 2022
Invited panelist at the Women in Technology Conference by Dircom, "Where are the women in technology?", Mar 2021
Invited panelist at the ABC Vocento Digital Future in Europe Conference, "Artificial Intelligence", Mar 2021
Invited speaker at La Termica with Pere Estupinya, "Artificial Intelligence", Malaga, Mar 2021
Invited speaker at the Joint Royal Academies Conference, "Data Science against COVID-19", Nov 2020
Invited speaker at the WomanLiderTic 2020 conference, "Data Science against COVID-19", Nov 2020
Invited speaker at the Feria Destaca, "Towards a Socially Sustainable Artificial Intelligence", Nov 2020
Invited panelist at the III Artificial Intelligence Conference, "Artificial Intelligence and COVID-19", Alicante, Spain, Nov 2020
Invited speaker at the Equality Forum by the Alicante Diputacion, "Women, COVID-19 and Technology", Nov 2020
Invited speaker at the "Four seasons forum" with Antonio Garrigues, Club INFORMACION, Alicante, Spain, Oct 2020
Invited speaker at the ONCE conference on Artificial Intelligence, "Artificial Intelligence", May 2020
Invited speaker at Retina Datos event, "Data Science against COVID-19", May 2020
Invited talk to AEPA on Data Science against COVID-19, April 2020
Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) speaker on Data Science against COVID-19, April 2020
Invited talk on Data Science against COVID-19 at the Conversas desde Casa event organized by the Barcelona townhall, Spain, April 2020
Keynote speaker at the Red Cross conference on Gender Equality, "Technology: Where are the Women?", Alicante, Spain, Oct 2019
Panelist at Enciende el Cosmos Forum, "Artificial Intelligence", Tenerife, Spain, Oct 2019
Invited speaker at Cinema Forum, "Hidden Figures", Alicante, Spain, March 2019
Invited speaker at the graduation ceremony of Altozano School, Alicante, Spain, March 2019
Invited speaker at the University of Alcala de Henares, "Artificial Intelligence and my professional career", Alcala de Henares, Spain, March 2019
Invited panelist at Club INFORMACION, "Communicating science", Alicante, Spain, March 2019
Invited speaker at Casa Mediterraneo, "Women in tech, artificial intelligence and my professional career", Alicante, Spain, March 2019
Invited panelist at the Polytechnic University of Madrid "Women that change the world" conference, Madrid, Spain, March 2019
Keynote speaker at the University Miguel Hernandez, "Where are the women in tech?", Elche, Spain, March 2019
Invited panelist at the GSMA Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, Spain, Feb 2019
Panelist at the Digitising Europe Summit organized by the Vodafone Institute, Berlin, Germany, Feb 2019
Keynote speaker at the University of Castilla la Mancha, "Where are the women in tech?", Albacete, Spain, Feb 2019
Invited panelist at the Age of Perplexity event by EL PAIS and BBVA, "Artificial Intelligence", Madrid, Spain, Nov 2018
Invited panelist at the "Gala Premios Impulso" by the University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain, June 2018
Invited speaker at "Murcia Digital Week", "Where are the women in technology?", Murcia, Spain, June 2018
Invited speaker at "V Planeta Responsable Conference", "Big Data for Social Good", Madrid, Spain, May 2018
Invited speaker at "FilosoBeers", "Where are the women in technology?", Alicante, Spain, April 2018
Invited speaker at "Women TechMakers", "Where are the women in technology?", Alicante, Spain, April 2018
Invited speaker at the "Future technology" event organized by the Vodafone Institute, Brussels, Belgium, Feb 2018
Invited speaker at the "Aging conference" on "Technology for a better life", Alicante, Spain, Feb 2018
Invited speaker at the Juan March Foundation on "Artificial Intelligence", Madrid, Spain, Jan 2018
Invited speaker at the Rotary Club of Alicante, Alicante, Spain, Jan 2018
Invited speaker at CreativeMornings, "Technology: where are the women?", Barcelona, Spain, July 2017
Invited speaker at the Rotary Club of Alicante Puerto, Alicante, Spain, June 2017
Keynote speaker at Futured X General Assembly, "The Future of the Mobile Phone", Madrid, Spain, June 2017
Keynote speaker at TMT Experience, "The Future of the Mobile Phone", Valencia, Spain, June 2017
Invited speaker at the Distinguished Seminars by the Spanish National Center for Cancer Research (CNIO), "The Future of the Mobile Phone", Madrid, Spain, Feb 2017
Keynote speaker at HP InnoTalent program, "A career in technological research", HP Labs, Sant Cugat del Valles, Barcelona, Spain, Feb 2017
Invited speaker at the Crazy about Science program by the Fundacio Catalunya la Pedrera, "A career in technological research", Mont Benet, Spain, Jan 2017
Invited speaker at Elisava School of Design, "The Future of the Mobile Phone", Barcelona, Spain, Jan 2017
Invited panelist at Women360 Congress on Female Leadership, ESADE, Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain Oct 2016
Invited speaker at 50 AEDIPE conference on the Future of Work, Pamplona, Spain Oct 2016
Invited speaker at Fundesem Summit 2016, "Big Data for Social Good" Alicante, Spain, Sept 2016
Invited speaker at Digital Technologies event by Generalitat of Catalunya Barcelona, Spain, June 2016
Invited speaker by FEDA on The Future of the Mobile Phone. Oviedo, Spain, June 2016
Invited speaker at ThinkingParty 2016 -- "Technology and the Brain, an exciting pair" Madrid, Spain, June 2016
Keynote speaker at Whats Next STEM event organized by Microsoft Madrid, Spain, April 2016
Keynote speaker at the Center of Law Studies and Specialized Education of Catalunya "Modeling Human Behavior from Mobile Data" Barcelona, Spain, April 2016
Keynote panelist at Digital Society event. Auditorium of Alicante. Alicante, Spain, April 2016
Keynote speaker on "Technology and Emotions" at Fundacion Telefonica. Madrid, Spain, March 2016
Keynote speaker at the Science Museum of Valencia on "The Future of the Mobile Phone" Valencia, Spain, March 2016
Keynote speaker at "Tertulia Digital" on "Artificial Intelligence" Barcelona, Spain, June 2015
Invited panelist at the Royal Statistical Society . " What is the Future of Official Statistics in the Big Data Era?" . London, UK, Jan 2015
Invited speaker at 5Talks Barcelona. "How Big Data can help Fight Pandemics: From H1N1 to Ebola". Barcelona, Spain, Dec 2015
Invited speaker at Data Renaissance: a new era of data Innovation within Responsible Business Week. London, UK, April 2014
Invited speaker at TEDx Barcelona. "My cellphone, my partner" . Barcelona. Spain. May 2013
Invited speker at SmashTech Barcelona on "Big Data for Social Good". Barcelona, Spain, February 2013
Invited speaker at Startup Live Europe. Alicante. Spain. June 2012
Invited speaker at TEDxRamblas. "The Invisible Army: Small Helpers for Big Problems" . Barcelona. Spain. February 2012
Invited speaker at Aula CAM. "The Invisible Army. Small Helpers for Big Problems". Alicante. Spain. April 2012
Invited speaker at Casa Asia, Gender Equality Committee. Barcelona. Spain. July 2011
Invited speaker at FireWeek 2010 in Barcelona. Spain. "Smart Cities". July 2010
"Towards a Human-Centric Vision of the Digital Universe" Internet Day Peru. Peru. May 2009
"Towards Perceptual Intelligence"Invited talk at the Auditorio CAM . Alicante. Spain. Dec 2006

Talks to School and Highschool Students

Invited speaker at the Leader Code course, Alicante, Spain 2017
Invited speaker at the University Polytechnic of Valencia, Alcoi, Spain, Nov 2017
Invited speaker for primary school students in Muro de Alcoi, Spain, Nov 2017
Invited speaker at the Science Bootcamp of the University Miguel Hernandez, July 2017
Invited speaker to several highschools: HHMM Maristas Alicante, IES Miguel Hernandez Alicante, Agora Int School Sant Cugat, IES Joaquima Plá I Farreras Sant Cugat, IES Maria Blasco
Invited speaker at UPC during Science Week . Several talks followed by over 4000 teenagers in total "Small Devices for Big Impact" . Nov 2013 - 2014
Invited speaker at Ingenious! as an expert in AI . May 2012