Director of Digital Technological Services at Cruz Roja

Ms Cristina Colom has developed her professional career in the fields of corporate communication, marketing, brand and reputation, media, and crisis management. She combines extensive experience in multilateral organisations such as the European Commission and the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), along with a long career in both the public administration (Generalitat de Catalunya) and large corporations such as the international energy company Shell. She holds a degree in Economics by the University of Barcelona, MA in European Affairs by the University of Exeter and a post-degree on Community Management and Social Media by the IL3-UB.
Cristina is currently leading Digital Future Society, an initiative from Mobile World Capital Barcelona supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation that seeks to build an inclusive, equitable and sustainable future in the digital era.

Director of the Cabinet of the Secretary of State for Digitization and Artificial Intelligence. Political scientist. Consultant in communication and public affairs.

Senior Investment Officer at IDB Lab

The work of Mabel Palacín (born 1965, Barcelona) is a constant investigation about images. The subject of her work is photography considered in all its mutations, including cinema, video and its digital variants. She considers images as theoretical agents capable of developing models from which to understand and expand the contemporary visual landscape. The notion of project is essential in her method of work, in which images generate instructions for use and engender narratives that arise only because of the images themselves. In her work the content of the images is always the spectator, and the spatial dimension as well as the multiple projection of some of these works strongly request the viewer, establishing links between image and architecture.

In 2011 she represented Catalonia and the Balearic Islands in the 54th Venice Biennale with the work 180 degrees. Her work has been seen in individual and collective exhibitions at the Ángels Barcelona Gallery, Frankfurter Kunstverein and LA Galerie (Frankfurt), Centre d’Art Santa Mònica(Barcelona), The Agency (London), Norwich Gallery (Norwich), Transmission Gallery (Glasgow), Kwangju Biennale (South Korea), Artothek (Cologne), Taipei Fine Arts Museum (Taiwan), Kunstbunker Tumulka (Münich), Bolsky Gallery (Los Angeles), Galerie Anne de Villepoix (Paris), Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin), MUA (Alicante), Colecçao Berardo Museum (Lisbon), Salvador Dalí Museum St. Petersburg (Florida), Frac Languedoc-Roussillon (Montpellier), MACBA (Barcelona), OK Center (Linz.), Casino Luxembourg (Luxembourg), Artium (Vitoria), Reykjavik Art Museum (Reykjavik) among others. She currently resides and develops her work between Barcelona and Milan.

International Human Rights Lawyer and author. She is currently a HAI Race & Tech Fellow at Stanford University. With more than fifteen years of experience working in cutting edge issues related to technology and society. She co-founded and leads the Alliance for Inclusive Algorithms.

Laia Bonet Rull (Valls, 2 de enero de 1972) es Teniente de Alcaldía de Agenda 2030, transición digital, deportes, coordinación territorial y metropolitana en el Ayuntamiento de Barcelona. Jurista de formación y profesora de Derecho Administrativo (en la Universitat Pompeu Fabra) y Derecho de la Comunicación (Blanquerna-Universitat Ramon Llull). Fue secretaria del gobierno de la Generalitat en el periodo 2007-2010, y diputada en el Parlament de Catalunya entre 2010-2012, periodo en el que fue portavoz adjunta del grupo parlamentario socialista en el Parlament de Catalunya.

Content Coordination at Espacio Fundación Telefónica. Photo: ©Berta Delgado

General Manager GSMA, Mobile World Capital

Ms Cristina Colom has developed her professional career in the fields of corporate communication, marketing, brand and reputation, media, and crisis management. She combines extensive experience in multilateral organisations such as the European Commission and the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), along with a long career in both the public administration (Generalitat de Catalunya) and large corporations such as the international energy company Shell. She holds a degree in Economics by the University of Barcelona, MA in European Affairs by the University of Exeter and a post-degree on Community Management and Social Media by the IL3-UB.
Cristina is currently leading Digital Future Society, an initiative from Mobile World Capital Barcelona supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation that seeks to build an inclusive, equitable and sustainable future in the digital era.

Director of the Cabinet of the Secretary of State for Digitization and Artificial Intelligence. Political scientist. Consultant in communication and public affairs.

The work of Mabel Palacín (born 1965, Barcelona) is a constant investigation about images. The subject of her work is photography considered in all its mutations, including cinema, video and its digital variants. She considers images as theoretical agents capable of developing models from which to understand and expand the contemporary visual landscape. The notion of project is essential in her method of work, in which images generate instructions for use and engender narratives that arise only because of the images themselves. In her work the content of the images is always the spectator, and the spatial dimension as well as the multiple projection of some of these works strongly request the viewer, establishing links between image and architecture.

In 2011 she represented Catalonia and the Balearic Islands in the 54th Venice Biennale with the work 180 degrees. Her work has been seen in individual and collective exhibitions at the Ángels Barcelona Gallery, Frankfurter Kunstverein and LA Galerie (Frankfurt), Centre d’Art Santa Mònica(Barcelona), The Agency (London), Norwich Gallery (Norwich), Transmission Gallery (Glasgow), Kwangju Biennale (South Korea), Artothek (Cologne), Taipei Fine Arts Museum (Taiwan), Kunstbunker Tumulka (Münich), Bolsky Gallery (Los Angeles), Galerie Anne de Villepoix (Paris), Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin), MUA (Alicante), Colecçao Berardo Museum (Lisbon), Salvador Dalí Museum St. Petersburg (Florida), Frac Languedoc-Roussillon (Montpellier), MACBA (Barcelona), OK Center (Linz.), Casino Luxembourg (Luxembourg), Artium (Vitoria), Reykjavik Art Museum (Reykjavik) among others. She currently resides and develops her work between Barcelona and Milan.

Content Coordination at Espacio Fundación Telefónica. Photo: ©Berta Delgado

Communications and politics consultant. CEO at Ideograma

Laia Bonet Rull (Valls, 2 de enero de 1972) es Teniente de Alcaldía de Agenda 2030, transición digital, deportes, coordinación territorial y metropolitana en el Ayuntamiento de Barcelona. Jurista de formación y profesora de Derecho Administrativo (en la Universitat Pompeu Fabra) y Derecho de la Comunicación (Blanquerna-Universitat Ramon Llull). Fue secretaria del gobierno de la Generalitat en el periodo 2007-2010, y diputada en el Parlament de Catalunya entre 2010-2012, periodo en el que fue portavoz adjunta del grupo parlamentario socialista en el Parlament de Catalunya.

She’s an ICT woman with a Bachelor’s in Journalism and a diploma in business. Her career has focused on digital communication and strategic and organisational consulting. In the Sant Cugat Town Hall, she has served as the Councillor for Communication, Information, Citizen Attention, City Promotion and Technology and as the lieutenant mayor for Economic Promotion, Innovation and Open Government. In June 2018, she was appointed director general for Digital Society in the Government of Catalonia.