9-11 JUNE 2026 | MÁLAGA - FYCMA

DES is the leading international B2B event on AI and Exponential Technologies for enterprises transformation and business growth strategies. In Málaga, top experts, innovative companies, and industry leaders come together to share knowledge, explore disruptive solutions, and drive change through technology, AI, and digitalization.

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The leading multisector event for digitalization, innovation, and technology in Europe

DES 2026 (9 – 11 June, Málaga – FYCMA) brings together 400+ participating companies presenting 700+ innovations, solutions and services in Artificial Intelligence, Data, Cybersecurity, Cloud, IoT, Quantum Computing, retail tech, marketing, startups, and digital businesses, driving transformation, competitiveness, and growth for 15,000 C-level professionals.

As exponential technologies continue to evolve at a fast pace reshaping industries, DES 2026, the largest event in all of Europe, introduces the DES Universe – an interconnected world of experiences where each professional can design their own journey. A new universe where AI, cybersecurity, cloud, retail tech, marketing, startup innovations, tech and digital businesses, among others, converge to deliver a fully tailored congress, showroom and networking experience.

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Digital Business World Congress 2026

The Digital Business World Congress 2026 is Europe’s most relevant congress on Artificial Intelligence, transformative technologies, and business growth strategies.

During the event, more than 500+ international experts, leaders, and innovators will share their knowledge, experiences, new trends, business models, digital strategies, and real success stories, offering inspiring talks and high-value content for all professional profiles.

The congress will feature 8 simultaneous auditoriums, organized into 9 vertical forums, 6 tech series, and 7 C-level agendas, designed to provide specialized and relevant content for each participant across industries.

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Top Speakers Digital Business World Congress 2025
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Javier Tebas
President
La Liga
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José Elías Navarro
Entrepreneur & President
Audax Renovables
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Aleida Alcaide
Chief AI Officer
Ministerio de Transformación Digital y Función Pública
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Richard Benjamins
CEO / President
OdiseIA / EIT Digital
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Ildefonso Vera Gómez
Director Innovación Procesos y Transformación Digital
Isdefe
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Margaret Mitchell
Researcher and Chief Ethics Scientist
Hugging Face
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Fernando Domínguez Pinuaga
Vice President
SandboxAQ
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Javier San Juan Martin
Former President
L’Oreal LATAM Region
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Natalia Bustos Gongora
AI-driven cultural transformation
SEAT
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Paula Palomino
Director of Twitch Global Spanish Partnerships - Spain & Spanish Speaking Americas
Twitch
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Ángela de Miguel
President
Cepyme & AEMEES
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Ángel Manuel Siles García
Inspector Jefe. Jefe de Servicio Área de Seguridad y Protección Aérea
Policia Nacional
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Laura Palomo Bueno
General Manager
Scotta 1985
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Yann Fontaine
CEO
Miravia
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Juan Baixeras
Former Country Manager at Audible (Amazon) & Director Digital Channels Division Mediaset España
Mediaset España
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Meinrad Spenger
CEO
MasOrange
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Ulrich Ahle
CEO
Gaia-X Association for Data and Cloud (AISBL)
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Rafael Juan Fernandez
CEO
Vicky Foods
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Pablo De La Puente Mora-Figueroa
Chief Information Officer
Gestamp
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Hazel Diez Castaño
Global Chief Information Security Officer
Santander
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Miguel Escassi García
Head Of Government Affairs And Public Policy, Google Spain And Portugal
Google
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Antonio Muñoz
Director de Diseño Sonoro
Osmos Global
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Jonatan López
CDO
Idilia Foods
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Emanuel Pupello
Head of Strategy, Projects & Sustainability in production area
SEAT
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Carmen Prada Caballero
Cloud Platform Director
IBM
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Álvaro Ontañón
CIO
Merlin Properties
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Rosa María Rodríguez Curto
Vice President Sales
T-Systems
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Álvaro Vázquez
People Management Director Securitas Direct Iberia, Italy & LatAm
Securitas Direct
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Antonio Sanz
Regional Minister for the Presidency, Interior, Social Dialogue and Administrative Simplification
Junta de Andalucía
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Francisco Salado
President
Diputación de Málaga
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Óscar López
Minister for Digital Transformation and Public Administration
Gobierno de España
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Francisco de la Torre
Mayor
Ayuntamiento de Málaga
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Ana Varela
Marketing Director
Banregio
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Jo De Boeck
EVP and Chief Strategy Officer
imec
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Jesús Mantas
Board of Directors at Biogen
Global Managing Partner at IBM
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Alex Romero Gallego
Founder & CEO
Alto Intelligence
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Rafael Blesa
Chief Information Officer
Naturgy
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Ángel Nigorra Pareja
General Manager
Bizum
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Susana Voces
President
Adigital
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Oriol Segarra Montaner
CEO
Uriach
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Oscar Herencia Rodrigo
VP South of Europe & General Manager at MetLife Spain and Portugal
MetLife
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Eva Ivars
CEO Alain Afflelou Spain & Portugal
Groupe Afflelou
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Lisa Martin
Tech news reporter | CMO Advisor
The Futurum Group
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Raúl Alberto Vallejo Martínez
Commercial and Marketing Director
Grupo Presidente
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Julia Díaz
Head of Data Science
Repsol
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Nerea Luis Mingueza
Artificial Intelligence PhD
Independent Consultant
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Valero Marín
President of IndesIA
Client General Manager at Repsol
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David Vivancos Cerezo
CEO
Artificiology.com
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Paul Van Branteghem
National AI Strategy and development at SEDIA
INECO
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Idoia Salazar
President & Founder
OdiseIA
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Jon Hernández Vallve
Founder
Inteligencia Artificial
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Noelia González
Data & AI Expert
Alfonso X El Sabio University (UAX)
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Nestor Álvaro
Director of AI and Advanced Analytics
Santalucía Seguros
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Victor Ivan Contreras Lozano
CEO & Founder
Totaltech
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Floren Molina Carballo
CTO
Cyber Guardian by Banco Santander
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Tato Valverde Garcia
Head of Digital & AI
Acciona
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Ricardo Enriquez Miranda
Head of Quantum Technologies Team
Repsol
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Carme Artigas
Senior Fellow at Harvard Belfer Center. Co-Chair UN AI Advisory Body (2023-2024)
Harvard's Belfer Center
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Rafael Larrosa Jiménez
PhD. in Computer Science, and Systems Director of the ICTS-RES Picasso supercomputer at the SCBI at the University of Malaga. Associate Professor of Computer Architecture.
University of Malaga
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Carlos Kuchkovsky Jimenez
CEO & Co-Founder
QCentroid
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Elisa Torres Durney
Founder & CEO
Girls in Quantum
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Andrés Gómez Tato
Applications & Projects Department Manager
Galicia Supercomputing Center
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Ignacio Sáez Martínez
Associate Professor & Research Director
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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Rosa Domínguez Faus
Former Sr. Mgr. LCA at GTI Energy / Former Technical Director Open Hydrogen Initiative. Carbon Accounting instructor at New York University
Principal and Founder at RoDo Consulting
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José M. Muñoz
Head of Ibero-America
Cerebralink Neurotech Consultancy
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Clara Lin Hawking
Former Head of AI at Globeducate, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Kompass Education, and Chief AI Officer at IQQEdge
Kompass Education
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Ceyhun Necati Pehlivan
Counsel | Head of TMT/IP
Linklaters
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Natalia Martos Díaz
CEO & Founder
Legal Army
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Andy Ramos
Partner
Perez-Llorca
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Lorenzo Cotino Hueso
President
Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (AEPD)
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Óscar Corominas Nogal
Learning Facilitator-Supraadvisor for MIT Professional Education in collaboration Global Alumni
MIT Professional Education
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Ligia Sandoval Parra
Founder
IntegrityPulse
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Ernesto Gallardo Jiménez
CEO
Monex Europe
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Rodolfo Carpintier Santana
Partner & Founder
Cardom Digital
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Omar Galicia
Executive Director Digital Omnichannel
Farmacias del Ahorro
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David Nicholson
Senior Vice President / Global Technology Advisor
The Futurum Group
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Beatriz Calzada Martínez
Performance & Digital Markerting. Head of Performance Marketing
Nationale Nederlanden
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Luis Miguel Martín Montes
Group CIO
Sercotel Hotel Group
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Carlos Díez de la Lastra
CEO
Les Roches Global
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Marc Planas Compta
CIO
Catalonia Hotels & Resorts
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Mateo Ramón Sastre
Chief Technology & Transformation
Grupo Piñero
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Aitor Cubo Contreras
General Director of Digital Transformation
Ministerio de Justicia
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Javier Hernández Díez
Deputy Director General for the Promotion and Innovation of Digital Justice Services
Ministerio de Justicia
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Julio Merelo Casado
CIO
Alastria Blockchain Ecosystem
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Lukas Schack
Principal Machine Learning Engineer
TUI
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Cristian Fondevila
CEO
Lifelong Learning Sixminds
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Carmen Romano
Brand Manager
Sociograph
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Mercedes López Gil
Head of Digital & IT Client Repsol
Repsol
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Florencio Castro Fernández
Customer Experience Director
Planeta Formación y Universidades
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Belén García Díaz
Director General of the Public Employment Service
Community of Madrid
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Manuel Escobar Montes
Deputy Director of Digital Services and Data Analytics
Agencia Digital de Andalucía
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Angelines Turón
Deputy Director General of Information and Communications Technology
SEPE
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Alberto Palomo
Chief Strategy Officer
Gaia-X European Association for Data & Cloud AISBL
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Carmen García Roger
Director of Information Systems and Technologies
Consorcio Compensación de Seguros
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Belén Brunet
Director of Digital and Operational Technology
Coca-Cola Europacific Partners
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Elena Gómez Del Pozuelo
Co-founder & CEO
The Friendly Companies
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Antonio Vázquez Vicente
Technical-Executive Advisor
Servicio Andaluz de Empleo -SAE- Junta de Andalucía
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Elena Liria Fernández
Chief Executive Officer of Madrid Digital
Community of Madrid
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Silvia Tomillo
Special Delegate Councillor for Administrative Modernisation
Valladolid City Council
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Luis Lázaro
Managing Director Retail & Logistics
MERLIN Properties
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Bella Palomo
Dean of Faculty
Univesidad de Málaga
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Daniel Arribas
General Director of Consumer Affairs
Ministerio de Derechos Sociales, Consumo y Agenda 2030
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Arianna Iseppi
Country Lead
Alibaba.com
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Antonio Fagundo Hermoso
Director
Masaltos
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Basilio García
Managing Director
Callaghan
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Beatriz Moro Soria
Board member of Bodegas Matarromera and President of Bodega Win
Bodegas Matarromera y Bodega Win
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Jordi González Torrens
Director
Observatorio Comercio Electrónico
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Oriol Ripoll
CEO & Co-Founder
Decántalo
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Ricardo Fernández
CEO
Destinia
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Laura Durán
General Director of Business Development and Sustainability
IKEA
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Silvia Gamo
Directora General
Fundación Círculo de Tecnologías para la Defensa y la Seguridad
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Pilar Ferrer Lafuente
Manager Sustainable Finance Santander España
Banco Santander
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David Fernández Fuentes
CFO
Agroponiente
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Eva Montoro Candela
Scib Global Head Of Chief Data, Digitalization & Ai
Banco Santander
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Rafael Guzmán Robles
AI Catalyst
Airbus
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Sara Moreno
Head of Operations
TikTok
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Oliver Blanchard
Research Director
The Futurum Group
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Marta Fuentes del Castillo
HR Director Servicios
Caser
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Valentina Ponasova
Security Awareness Analyst
TUI
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Paco Sánchez Sánchez
CEO
Lola Casademunt

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