ARTificial Intelligence: The Future of Human Creativity

Javier Fernández-Lasquetty

IP Lawyer & Professor

Elzaburu SLP

https://www.linkedin.com/in/javierlasquetty/

Javier is a experienced Lawyer admitted to the Madrid Bar since 1982, as well as a Professor, Public Speaker, and Panellist of WIPO Mediation and Arbitration Center and member of its Advisory Committee.



Javier handles legal proceedings concerning trademark, copyright, information technology and unfair competition matters. Javier also participates in international mediation and arbitration proceedings on the same subjects and provides counsel and participates in different kinds of settlement, such as licensing agreements, joint ventures, franchise agreements, R+D projects, audiovisual production and distribution, etc.

Sofía Urbina

Contemporary Art Dealer and IEU Professor of the course “contemporary art and it’s market

ART ADVISORY SERVICES

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sof%C3%ADa-urbina-a93aa852/

Sofia Urbina is a contemporary art dealer, as well as IEU Professor of the course “contemporary art and it’s market". Sofia is passionately committed to the acquisition of works of contemporary art. As founder and partner of ART ADVISORY SERVICES, Sofia lives and understands art as a way to follow our historical contemporaniety and as an alternative way of looking at the world.



Prior to founding ART ADVISORY SERVICES, Sofia worked on Christie´s Auction House, Latin Collector Gallery, Kent Gallery and Albion Gallery, among others, as well as the Flash Art, Art in America and ArtAuction magazines.



In addition to her gallery and auction house experience, Sofia has curated several photography exhibitions in New York and Dubai. Since 2001, she also acts as the New York and London correspondent for the Spanish Art Magazine "Arte y Parte".

Catalina Tejero

Vice Dean of IE University Arts & Humanities Division

https://www.linkedin.com/in/catalina-tejero-a7755885/

Catalina Tejero, appointed Vice Dean for Management and Development of IE University Arts & Humanities Division, was associate executive director of this strategic area of the university since its creation in 2019. She also held management positions in International Business Development and Corporate Relations departments within the institution. She previously worked as a corporate lawyer at leading Spanish law firm Garrigues. In her new position, she will lead the strategy of the Division and the creation of alliances with leading institutions in the art world, as well as developing extracurricular activities for students. The Division has also organized more than 300 extracurricular events since 2019 including museum visits and scenic arts shows at various cultural institutions in Madrid and Segovia, as well as seminars and panels. In addition, the Division has made several strategic external partnerships, including agreements with Instituto Cervantes, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza and Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.

Tejero holds a law degree and a diploma in international relations from ICADE (Universidad Pontificia de Comillas) and an International MBA from IE Business School. She is also an adjunct professor at IE University, specializing in art and business. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Business Administration at IE University, with research on corporate artistic patronage.

Elena Garces

Tech Manager & Senior Research Scientist in AI & Computer Graphics/Vision

SEDDI

https://www.linkedin.com/in/elena-garces/

Elena Garces has a Ph.D. in Computer Science since 2016 and is focused on AI-powered solutions and applications. She is head of the optical and AI team at SEDDI, where she enjoys the role of leading the research and technology transfer roadmap, being at the intersection of research, client engagement and product development.

What she loves more about her current role is to have a direct impact in shaping the product while applying and developing state of the art techniques in AI and computer graphics research.

Previously, she actively collaborated with Adobe Research where she interned twice and participated in several international projects. After a post-doctoral position at Technicolor R&D (France), in 2018, she returned to Spain as Juan de la Cierva Fellow at the MSLAb of the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. Having published a dozen of top-tier international journals, in 2017, she also received the Spanish FBBVA-SCIE Award to Young Researchers.