David Esteban Email & Phone Number

Barcelona Area, Spain

Consultancy specialized in development and management of R&D innovative projects, telecommunication and information technology, and international business development.

Brussels And Luxembourg

Active since 1987 (2nd EU R&D Framework Programme) in European RTD Programmes: partner and manager in European RTD projects and also as an independent expert, including programme policy development and support. Experienced reviewer, evaluator and panel rapporteur for the European Commission, having evaluated proposals and reviewed projects in a number of ICT-related domains, for programmes like Telematics, ACTS, IST, TenTelecom, eTEN, FP6-IST, CIP-ICT-PSP, FP7 and Horizon 2020. He has been involved in the assessment, evaluation and review of a number of large-scale projects and European R+D+I instruments. Also involved at the European level in a number of working groups and expert panels, like in the EUREKA Programme (expert for the Technology Roadmap of the ITEA Cluster), TEN-ISDN, TEN-IBC and as a User Coordinator for INTUG (the International Users Group Association).

Ukraine

ICTERI (http://www.icteri.org) is a peer-reviewed International Computer Science conference that brings together academics and practitioners interested in the technological advances and business applications of Information and Communication Technologies and Infrastructures.ICTERI focuses on real world applications; therefore authors should highlight the benefits of their results or experience for industry and services, in addition to academic world. Papers describing advanced prototypes, systems, tools and techniques and general survey papers indicating future directions are also encouraged. Both technological and methodological submissions are welcome. All papers must describe original work, not previously published or submitted elsewhere.The international proceeding volumes of ICTERI are usually published at CEUR-WS (ISSN 1613-0073, http://ceur-ws.org).

Barcelona Area, Spain

AGAUR (http://www.gencat.cat/agaur) is the Agency for Management of University and Research Grants of the Government of Generalitat de Catalunya. Established in 2001, it is an instrument for service and support to individuals and institutions constituting the Catalan academic and research system.Throughout the last decade it has been a reference agency, which has helped to finance 700 Catalan researchers abroad and to bring over foreign researchers to Catalonia. Over 1,200 research groups have been recognised, of which 780 have been financed.There has also been strengthened incorporation of PhDs into the business fabric, increasing the connection between businesses and public research and innovation sector. In addition, university grants for 151 million euros have been managed.

Bucharest, Romania

ANCSI, the Romanian National Authority for Scientific Research (http://www.research.ro) exercises the responsibilities of the Romanian state authority for research-development and carries out its activity in compliance with the Government provisions on the scientific research and technological development.The Authority’s mission is to ensure the elaboration, application, monitoring and evaluation of the policies in the field of research-development and innovation, consistent with the strategy and the Governing Programme, for the purpose of ensuring on this basis the enlargement of the national and international technological and innovation patrimony, the sustainable economic development, the access on the internal, European market and on the global markets, the creation of the informational knowledge-based society, the satisfaction of the citizens’ needs and a growth in the quality of their lives.

Barcelona Area, Spain

Member of the Academic Advisory Board.The Postgraduate Course in Digital Transformation of Organizations is aimed at professionals and managers interested in learning more about digital culture and its transformational ability to make changes in organizations as well as open new business lines and models. It is also for communication and marketing professionals with the capacity to carry out projects that take advantage of the digital environment and the new methods of consumption and dissemination. In the same way, new graduates, digital natives, will acquire a strategic and applied vision of business that will give them an edge in the labor market.