Inma Martinez

Inma Martinez is a technology pioneer and AI scientific advisor to businesses and government leaders alike. She is also an expert of the digital economy and its benefits, as well as societal well-being.

Taking advantage of her previous careers in investment banking and telecommunications, she gradually moved towards technology entrepreneurship. She is recognized worldwide as one of the leading entrepreneurs who launched with teams from the University of Cambridge and Trinity College Dublin the mobile internet’s first real-time AI recommendation system.

Throughout the 2000s, she contributed to technological innovation by creating emerging digital technologies such as mobile music, video streaming, connected cars and smart homes. Her unique background has allowed her to become one of the most sought-after experts in predicting digital disruption as well as the potential uses of AI and other technologies.

As a government advisor, Inma is currently Chair of the Multi-Stakeholder Expert Group and Co-Chair of the Committee of the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI), the G7/OECD global agency for AI development and cooperation. She joined the GPAI as a government-appointed expert on AI innovation and commercialization and is the project lead for AI in Agriculture.

She has worked in the UK for the Trade & Investment Agency as well as the Department of Sport, Media and Culture Innovation Fund, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on AI, and is currently a member of the A.I. Council Advisory Board (Secretariat of State for AI) at the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation in the Spanish Government.

Inma Martinez: an expert speaker

Since 2001, Inma has provided expert testimonies and strategies on Big Data and AI to the European Commission, contributing to many policies shaping the digital future of the single market. Within the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), she has highlighted the implications of 4IR for developing countries.

She has also become a collaborator in UNESCO’s initiative to make AI inclusive of cross-cultural input, and is part of the human and robotic exploration programs of the European Space Agency (ESA) as well as the Community of Ariane Cities (CVA).

Inma is a regular lecturer at Imperial College London Business School and directs the Masters in AI at Loyola University in Spain, where she is also a member of its advisory board. She has been a key figure in Europe’s best knowledge transfer efforts and has mentored technology innovation in some of the bloc’s finest business accelerators.

She is the author of two books (“The Future of the Automotive Industry” (June 2021) and “The Fifth Industrial Revolution: How Space Commercialization will drift the Biggest Industrial Expansion of the 21st Century” (November 2019)), and has collaborated in writing numerous white papers on Cloud and Edge Computing as well as other telecommunication innovations.

FORTUNE and TIME have commended Inma Martinez as one of Europe’s top talents for social engagement through technology, while FastCompany likens her to a “firestarter”. The Financial Times and The Economist have benefited from Inma Martinez’s interventions in their conferences. She was voted “Best contributor to the formation of strategy” in the “Driving the Future of Europe’s Digital Economy” section at Bloomberg BusinessWeek’s European Leadership Forum: Charting the Economic Future of Europe, a conference dedicated to CEOs and governments.

Sujets populaires: A.I. and Automation | Man-Machine Collaborations | Digital Media | Mobile and Web Technologies | The Digitalisation of Life, Work and Play | Developing Businesses: Getting Big Fast | Fintech | Smart Cities and AI Scientific Talent and Commercial Opportunity