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Data and Climate Modelling: video and highlights

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On April 17th, we hosted the 2nd episode on our “Data and Sustainability” series. The topic of the session was: “Data and Climate Modelling”. We had a full room ready to carefully listen to all our speakers.

We started the evening with Francisco Javier Doblas-Reyes (Barcelona Supercomputing Center) talking about digital twins on climate; followed by Rachel Lowe (BSC), who provided a great overview on the relationship between climate challenges and health issues across the globe!

Following Rachel’s talk, we had Ignacio Villanueva (RAVENWITS) on stage to highlight the main applications of machine learning on meteorology!


We closed the night with our remote speaker Ferran Alet Puig (Google DeepMind) who gave an extensive talk on their research and on the climate models they have been developing during the last years!

We ended the evening with some pizza and drinks to follow up on questions and very interesting discussions!

Thanks everyone for coming, especially to the speakers for accepting our invitation! Also thanks to Adevinta Spain for hosting us!

The full video of the event is available in the video below

P.:D Stay tuned to know about the upcoming events!

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New event: Gender Gap in Data and AI

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While women account for roughly 55% of university graduates their presence in STEM-related sectors like software development, engineering or analytics is significantly lower. According to various surveys from WEF, Global Gender Gap Report and BCG, women make up only between 15% to 22% of all data science professionals.

In BcnAnalytics we want to reflect on the gender gap in the field of Data Analytics and Data Science. Why is this happening? What can we do about it? So we are organizing an event that will focus on Gender Gap.

When: November 22nd, from 19h to 21h.

Where: Adevinta offices at Barcelona

As speakers, we will have Elisenda Bou-Balust (co-founder and CTO at Vilynx, now Head of Apple Media Knowledge) and Marta Cardona (Data Lead at Holaluz).

After the talks food and drinks will be provided so we all have time for some networking and follow-up discussions.

If you are interested, you can register here.

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New event: “Barcelona: Hub for Advanced Analytics and Big Data”

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We are pleased to announce our next event “Barcelona: Hub for Advanced Analytics and Big Data” on January 21st 19h at Movistar Centre. Doors will open at 18:45. You can register here.

We will have two great speakers in our panel: Josep Maria Martorell (Associate Director at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center) and Òscar Sala (mVentures Director at the Mobile World Capital Barcelona organization). Both will share their views on Barcelona and its potential to become a European Hub for Advanced Analytics and Big Data. You can see their bios below.

Josep Maria Martorell is Associate Director at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain’s leading supercomputing centre, specialized in High Performance Computing. Josep Maria gathers a rich experience in technology and research in government, education and the private sector. Among other positions, he was Director of Research for the Catalan Government, Head of Research at Universitat Ramon Llull and is a shareholder and advisor in multiple technological startups in Barcelona.

Òscar Sala is the mVentures Director at the Mobile World Capital Barcelona organization, a venture builder program that addresses the challenge of transforming scientific knowledge into technological solutions. In the past, Òscar held multiple positions related to technology and innovation at Caixabank, VP of Product Strategy at Strands (a successful local fintech), and member of the board at Mobey Forum, a global industry association empowering banks and other financial institutions to lead the future of digital services.

This event could not be possible without the collaboration of Movistar Centre.