Theme: Watching the Future

In recent decades, human societies have undergone a much more drastic transformation than in all their previous history. We have changed our way of working, of relating, of having fun; how we access information, how we learn, what our values are...

There is no doubt that some of these changes have been beneficial. We live longer, our lives are more comfortable and we have access to many more places and experiences than a few years ago. However, many of these transformations are having a clear cost on our planet, on the rest of the species that inhabit it and, most likely, also on ourselves. Given this situation, it is convenient to stop and reflect on whether we are going in the right direction. To balance between what we gain and what we lose, between what increases our greatness and what impoverishes us as human beings.

We want this new edition of TEDxRivasVaciamadrid to become a forum in which we can share the feelings that inspire us in the future and where we discuss some of the key issues that arise:

Are we in time to stop climate change?

What is the future of human relations in the digital age?

What diseases will we have to worry about in the coming years?

What will be the future of the arts and poetry in an increasingly technified society?

Salón de Actos del Ayuntamiento de Rivas Vaciamadrid (Edificio de Servicios Administrativos)
Plaza de la Constitución 1
Rivas Vaciamadrid, Madrid, 28522
Spain

Abraham Esteve Núñez

Professor at the University of Alcalá de Henares

Doctor in Biochemistry from the University of Granada (2000). He is currently a full professor at the University of Alcalá and an associate researcher at IMDEA Agua where he heads the Bioelectrogenesis group. After developing a postdoctoral stage at the University of Massachusetts (USA) and the Center for Astrobiology (CSIC-INTA), he focuses his research on environmental biotechnology, specifically, on studying the mechanisms of the relationship between bacteria and conductive materials of electricity, a theme that would have been considered science fiction just a few years ago.

Alfonso Gómez

Student and Magician

In spite of having projected his career towards the field of virology, he considers as his most precious passion the art of magic. He does not perceive magic as a profession since for him it supposes a way of life, an alternative way of observing his environment as well as a tool to connect with those around him. Although he is currently in Switzerland, doing his masters studies, he tries to devote as much time as possible to getting to know in depth the secrets of the beautiful art of magic.

Bruno Galán Ruíz

Documentalist

Licensed in Fine Arts. He works in the audiovisual world as an editor, cameraman, graphic artist, director ... Now he likes to define himself as a documentary maker. She is currently working with several fashion brands and co-directs a documentary series about celebrities from the fashion world at VOGUE Spain. He also works with UNHCR filming the experiences of refugees in Europe. His documentary works have been published in Al Jazeera, BBC, Public Television of Algeria, VOGUE France, ICON of El Pais, The Adventure Handbook and Polppetas.

Daniel Díez García

Head of Blockchain at UST Global

Daniel is an entrepreneur of Bitcoin and Blockchain. Fascinated by the properties of cryptocurrencies and the social implications of decentralization and the new ways of exchanging value that enable this technology, Daniel has worked as a researcher in the field of cryptoeconomics, trying to develop analytical models for the valuation of cryptocurrencies, and decentralized and interconnected ecosystems, through the application of the general theory of systems. He is currently globally responsible for Blockchain at UST Global, co-author of Blockchain: The Industrial Internet Revolution and Professor at the Specialized Blockchain Course of ESIC - ICEMD.

Elena García Armada

Industrial Engineer, Senior Scientist at the Center for Automation and Robotics (CSIC-UPM)

Elena García Armada holds a PhD in Robotics, Industrial Engineer from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Senior Scientist of the Higher Council for Scientific Research at the Automation and Robotics Center, and co-founder of Marsi Bionics. His time at the Leg Lab of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology marked his path to dynamically stable walking robots and elastic performance. After obtaining his position as a Senior Scientist at the Center for Automation and Robotics (CSIC-UPM) he forms his own research group, to which he transfers his interest in biomimicry in robotics, creating artificial legs and quadrupeds inspired by biology and developing muscles. artificial to get versatile movements. His research advances towards bionics, initiating studies on exoskeletons of force amplification with industrial application.

Francisco Doblas Reyes

Head of the Department of Earth Sciences of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center

Francisco Doblas is a doctor in physics. For years, he has carried out his research on the variability and prediction of global climate. He obtained his doctorate at the Complutense University of Madrid. After completing postdocs at Météofrance, the National Meteorological Service of France, and the National Institute of Aerospace Technology in Torrejón, he worked for ten years at the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, where he became familiar with the challenges associated with the production of information climate for the future and its application. From 2010 to 2015 he directed the Climate Forecasting Unit at the Catalan Institute of Climate Sciences and in that year he assumed the direction of the Department of Earth Sciences of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center-National Center for Supercomputing.

Guillermo Alegre Quiroga

Poet

Born in Madrid, but grown up and educated in Rivas. He has earned his living as a laborer, farmer, replenishing, transporter and maintenance worker, always dedicating his personal motivation to the arts, and specifically, to the world of poetry. He began to show his poems to the world at the age of 18 but has been writing since he has the use of reason. Now, with her first book of poems entitled Loaira, she goes to the places where the doors open, the corners are bent or the bars close.

José Alfredo Martín Piñas

Entrepeneur and Co-founder of "Apadrina un olivo"

His passion has always been to inspire society to achieve a change towards a happier, more sustainable and humane world. After four fruitful years in the financial sector, he decides to start doing what he really loves and makes the best of him as a professional and human being, co-founding with Alberto, Adrián and Pablo an original environmental and social project that they baptized as "Apadrina un olivo". They seek to be an icon of transformation for the 4,000 rural areas that lie in the process of disappearing in Spain. His first stop in the trip is in Oliete, Teruel, where they are managing to bring back to life the 100,000 abandoned old olive trees of the town, thus creating a sustainable economy, which saves the town from extinction.

Margarita del Val

Immunologist. Senior Scientist at Centro de Biología Molecular "Severo Ochoa"

Margarita del Val holds a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, from the Autonomous University of Madrid. She is a scientific researcher at the CSIC. Her research is aimed at the study of the immune response against viral infections. She has carried out her research at the Federal Institute for Research on Viral Animal Diseases, in Tübingen (Germany), at the University of Ulm (Germany), at the National Center for Microbiology at the Carlos III Health Institute in Majadahonda and currently at the Center of Molecular Biology "Severo Ochoa" (CSIC-UAM) in Madrid. She has directed numerous research projects and has published articles of great impact. In addition, she has represented Spain in the European Medicines Agency, EMA, for the marketing of medicines, and is a member of the Royal National Academy of Pharmacy. For the past 5 years she has been infected with the virus of outreach, for which luckily no vaccine has been discovered.