The GATE PRO

Carme Pigem – Founder of RCR Laboratory of Architecture (LAB·A)

John Palmesino – Co-founder Territorial Agency

Franscesc Subirada – Director of the UPF initiative for the Ciutadella del Coneixement

Francisco J.Doblas – Reyes – Head, Department of Earth Sciences Barcelona Supercomputing Center-Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS)

Julia García – Scientific director IGTP

The session focuses on the debate around the evolution of cities in a new ecosystem dealing with increasingly rapid changes. Cities, which have been and will be a key element in the evolution of society, need to adapt, in the coming years, to radical physical and conceptual/social changes.

Bastian Koller – Managing Director of the High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart

Vicente Guallart – IAAC FOUNDER

Marcos Cuzziol – University Sao Paulo

Fernando Vilariño – Associate Director of the Computer Vision Centre (CVC)

Àurea Rodríguez – Directora EIT Culture and Creativity CLC South West

The session aims to reflect and debate on both the technical and ethical limits of the human-machine inter-relationship, as well as the knowledge-use intersections, the possible new interfaces that facilitate this relationship or even the possible new realities where this relationship takes place (metaverse).

Mónica Bello – Head of Arts at CERN

Veronika Liebl – Managing director of Ars Electronica

Vittorio Loreto – Director Sony CSL – Rome and Faculty at Sapienza University of Rome

Alistair Hudson – Scientific-artistic director of the ZKM Karlsruhe

Miha Turšič – Project developer for the Open Wetlab at Waag

During the session, the previous experiences of the last years, the successful and unsuccessful ones, as well as reference initiatives such as S+T+ARTS or the new New European Bauhaus will be analysed. Focusing on i) the analysis of their impact, both intra and inter sectorial, ii) the need to find the necessary indicators to validate their potential or ii) to define the type of collaboration framework in quadruple helix (administration, academia, business and society).

Michael Resch – Director of the High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart

Andreas Kaminski – Department of Philosophy of Computational Science

Jordi Mas – Director de la Fundació Catalana per a la Recerca i la Innovació (FCRI)

We are in a society led by science and technology. We are in the midst of a transition, perhaps soft or hard, from the industrial revolution to the knowledge revolution. Since science and technology became aligned, their capacity for evolution, growth and impact has grown at speeds unimaginable just a few years ago. Science and technology are leading both the vast majority of future challenges and opportunities for society, as well as many of society’s problems and fears.

Glòria Oliver – Directora General Adjunta FPM

Jordi Barretina – CEO at Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP)

Ramon Perisé – Research & Development Head Chef at Mugaritz

The session will focus on reflecting and debating, from a holistic point of view, on the opportunities and limitations to promote and strengthen collaboration between sectors and nations, trying to answer questions such as the type of narratives needed, or the need to seek common indicators, which are fundamental in decision-making.

Alejandra Panighi – Responsible for strategy with the European Institutions

Javier Piñol – Managing Director and Founder of ALL WE ARE SAYING

Inma Ballesteros – Directora de programación de Acción Cultural Española

Daria Tataj – Network Thinking

The session will focus on discussing the future role of the cultural and creative industries, both within their own sector, in the new emerging markets, new opportunities offered by technology and new consumer habits, and their impact and positioning with large traditional sectors (health, industry, mobility, energy…) in need of new visions, disruptive innovation and above all new narratives capable of connecting with society.