ONE OF THE BEST TALENTS IN HUMAN DIGITAL BEHAVIOUR BY FORTUNE AND TIME.
Combining her previous careers in investment banking and telecommunications, and adding the entrepreneurial experiences, Inma Martinez has become a trusted expert in developing digital transformation strategies and revealing the potentiality of A.I. and other transformative technologies. She was part of the core development in Europe of AI personalisation, music and video streaming, the connected car and smart living across a series of startups that got acquired and at the innovation labs of leading tech companies.
Inma Martinez led projects in both the private and public sector, and been appointed to government advisory roles. She currently served as Chair of the Multi-stakeholder Expert Group and Co-Chair of the Steering Committee at the GPAI, the G7/OECD global agency for the development and cooperation on AI.
She also serve a member of the A.I. Council Advisory Board (State Secretariat for AI) at Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation, Government of Spain. In the UK Inma Martinez served at the UKT&I (UK Trade & Investment) and the Investment Fund of the Sport, Media and Culture Agency.
Since 2001 she has provided expert testimonies and sector strategies on Big Data and AI at the European Commission contributing to numerous strategies and policies shaping the digital future of the single market; at the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) highlighting the implications of the 4IR for developing countries. She is a collaborator of UNESCO’s initiative to make AI inclusive of intercultural input and the European Space Agency’s Human and Robotic Exploration and the Ariane Cities programmes.
Since 2008 she has committed my time to education at various business schools (Imperial College London, UCL, and the University of Loyola in Spain), and to the mentorship of innovation at venture-focused acceleration programmes.
She has also written white papers and industry books that describe the transformation of industries thanks to digitization “The Future of the Automotive Industry” (June 2021) for Apress Media New York (Springer Nature), and “The Fifth Industrial Revolution: How Space Commercialisation Will Derive The Biggest Industrial Expansion of the 21st Century” (Deusto, Editorial Planeta).
“One of Europe’s top talents in social engagement through technology” (Fortune, TIME); “A firestarter” (FastCompany); voted the “Best contributor to the formation of strategy” in the section “Driving the Future of Europe’s Digital Economy” at Bloomberg BusinessWeek’s European Leadership Forum: Charting the Economic Future of Europe, a conference for CEOs and government officials.
