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Núria Carretero Lleida, Spain (1970) IT expert in project management and artificial intelligence. Experienced lean/agile Portfolio, Program and Project Manager in digital, organizational or other kinds of transformations, transition and adoption of business growth activities on global and local level Technical Engineer in Management Computing, EPS-UdL (1st promotion, 1997). Postgraduate training in Project Management, Artificial Intelligence and Scaled Agile.

IBM certified senior manager (1996 to 2007), she managed international projects in Spain, France and Turkey. Head of Systems and Processes Portfolio in Pharma Development at Roche Farma (Switzerland, 2007-2018). Since 2018, she is the Digital Transformation and Innovation Portfolio Manager at Swiss Re Group, a leading global insurance and reinsurance company based in Zurich (Switzerland).

To carry out digital transformation projects, she uses Agile methodology and information analysis tools.

Alfons de Borja Prize (Alumni UdL, 2018). She affirms that computer scientists are “strategists of the future”, integrating themselves in more and more areas, which enables the evolution of society and the person machine interaction.

Ares Mingot Lleida, Spain (1986) Molecular biology PhD. Head of R&D Opennatur department. She leads a biofactory, which generates solutions for the biological control of plant pests through environmentally friendly methods Agricultural engineer (UdL 2010), MSc and PhD in biotechnology (UB 2011 y 2016).

She worked in IRTA (2008), UdL (2009), Center for research in agricultural genomics (2011-2016) and University of Cambridge (2014). Her research was based on agricultural pest management through pheromones, genetic modification of plant pathways, and the characterization of P1N-PISPO, a new gene product present in sweet potato potyviruses (Tesis doctoral, 2016).

From 2017, she leads the R&D Opennatur Department and the insect biofactory, located in Lleida Agri-food Science and Technology Park (PCiTAL). In the biofactory, natural enemies are mass-produced and used as biological control agents of pests. Some agents produced by Opennatur are a predator of pear psyllid and a ladybug, which is able to control aphids on fruit crops and ornamental species. The use of biological control through natural enemies reduces the number of chemical treatments (Goal included in the European Green Deal, 2030).

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Marta Orive Manresa, Barcelona, Spain (1960) Biologist expert in brewing microbiology, yeast, fermentations and microorganisms in beer, soft drinks and water. Head of the Microbiology Central Laboratory at Mahou-San Miguel (MSM, 2001-2021) BSc of Biological Science (Barcelona Univ 1982) and MSc in Brewing and Distilling (Heriot-Watt Univ, Edinburgh, UK 2012).

Until 2021, she led the Microbiology Central Laboratory at the MSM Quality, R+D+I and Environment Department in Lleida, where she started in 1984. She was responsible for the Yeast Bank and projects related to the microbiological quality of beers, soft drinks and waters; expert in rapid microbiology; Brewer's yeast, genetic improvement programs, identification and typing techniques, and furthermore, in brewery hygiene.

She was a member of the Analysis Group and Vice-Chair of the Microbiology group of the European Brewery Convention, lecturer in international conferences and author of articles in specialist magazines; associate professor (UdL, 2016-2021) and co-author of the book The beer: microbiological aspects (UdL, 2000).

Conxita Solans Montargull, Lleida, Spain (1947) PhD in Chemistry. CSIC Research Professor (retired) with expertise in Colloid and Interfacial Chemistry, fundamental in the development of nanotechnologies and novel advanced materials BSc in Chemistry (Barcelona Univ 1970), MSc in Chemistry (Univ of Missouri-Rolla, USA 1980) and PhD in Chemistry (Sevilla Univ 1983).

Researcher during 40 years at the Institute for Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia (IQAC) of the CSIC in Barcelona in the areas of colloid chemistry and advanced materials, namely in nanostructured systems such as surfactant aggregates (micelles, liquid crystals) and liquid dispersions (emulsions and microemulsions). She was president of the European Colloid and Interface Society (ECIS) and the Spanish Specialized Group on Colloids and Interfaces (GECI).

She has registered 3 patents, published 200 scientific papers and co-edited 2 books. She received the Jordi Camp Award to the research on surfactants, 1983. Awarded with the prize to the scientific career by FUNDE Association, 2015. She received the MICELA Prize awarded by the Spanish Committee on Detergents and the FORMULA-Pierre Fillet Prize awarded by the Formulation Group of the French Chemical Society, both in 2016.

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