AutoMob brings you the opportunity to listen to insights from the market leaders in the automotive and mobility industries internationally. Here you may check speakers from all editions. These are the speakers who have taken part in the different editions of AutoMob Summit.
SPEAKERS 2024
Justo Sierra
President of Asime
Justo Sierra
President of Asime
President of Asime, organizer of the AutoMob Summit, and President of the company Urovesa, a Spanish defense contractor with a long history, specialized in the construction of special vehicles of great tonnage and capacity.
María Jesús Lorenzana
Regional Minister of Economy and Industry, Xunta de Galicia
María Jesús Lorenzana
Regional Minister of Economy and Industry, Xunta de Galicia
Law Degree from the Universidade da Coruña in June 2004. Advanced course in Autonomous Law at the Institute of Public Law of Barcelona. CAE Certificate in English by the University of Cambridge and French B1 by the Alliance Française. She joined the scale of Lawyers of the Xunta de Galicia by competitive examination in May 2007. She has held several positions as a lawyer in the Legal Department of the Xunta de Galicia, among them, in the legal department of the Vice-Presidency of Equality and Welfare and in the General Legal Department of the Xunta de Galicia. From November 2011 to February 2013 she held the position of legal advisor to the Presidency of the Xunta de Galicia. In February 2013 she was appointed General Technical Secretary of the Department of Labor and Welfare. In October 2015 she was appointed technical secretary general of the Regional Ministry of Environment and Territorial Planning. In October 2018 she was appointed technical secretary general of the Regional Ministry of Rural Affairs. In September 2020 she was appointed Regional Minister of Employment and Equality and in June 2023, Regional Minister of Economy, Industry and Innovation.
Diego Calvo
Diego Calvo, Regional Minister of the Presidency, Justice and Sports of the Xunta de Galicia
Diego Calvo
Diego Calvo, Regional Minister of the Presidency, Justice and Sports of the Xunta de Galicia
Rebeca Torró
Secretary of State for Industry of the Government of Spain
Benjamin Krieger
Secretary General at European Association of Automotive Suppliers (CLEPA)
Benjamin Krieger
Secretary General at European Association of Automotive Suppliers (CLEPA)
Secretary General at CLEPA, the European Association of Automotive Suppliers. He has worked in EU policy and communications for the past 15 years. A journalist by training, Benjamin started his career in the European Parliament, first managing the office of a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) and later becoming the spokesperson to a delegation of 12 MEPs. He also worked as a consultant advising clients on a broad range of topics at the intersection of sustainability, digitalisation and trade across different sectors. Most recently, Mr. Krieger led government affairs at CLEPA.
Jorge Muñoz
Communication Director Volvo Spain
Jorge Muñoz
Communication Director Volvo Spain
- Degree in Business Administration from San Pablo CEU University (Madrid).
- Master in Business Administration at Instituto de Empresa (Madrid).
- More than 25 years in the automotive sector, first at Ford Credit and then at Volvo Car España in different positions.
- Currently Press Manager at Volvo Car España.
Iñigo Loizaga
Engineering Director at CIE Automotive
Iñigo Loizaga
Engineering Director at CIE Automotive
He holds a Master's degree in Materials and Mechanical Behavior from Mondragón Unibertsitatea and an Electrical Industrial Engineering degree from the University of Engineering of Bilbao. He started working with José Ignacio López de Arriortua in 1998 as a design engineer and has been working at CIE Automotive since 2002. He has been involved in different product development and manufacturing process projects in the automotive world. Iñigo Loizaga has strong links with the industrial, research and university community. He was president of CIC marGUNE since 2007. MarGUNE brings together companies, universities and research institutions in order to prepare the industry for the challenges and opportunities of the future in the field of high performance manufacturing involving more than 300 researchers. He has been a professor at the University of Deusto since 2014 and was a professor from 2014 to 2017 at Tecnun University of Navarra. He has led several collaborative R&D projects in the areas of manufacturing, automotive and electrification. Projects carried out by Spanish, European and international consortia. Currently with a strong focus on climate change and environmental, product and process risk analysis and mitigation.
Sergio Jerónimo Miranda
Electromobility expert at MAN Truck & Bus Iberia
Sergio Jerónimo Miranda
Electromobility expert at MAN Truck & Bus Iberia
eMobility Expert at MAN Truck & Bus Iberia, mechanical engineer from the Polytechnic University of Madrid and Executive MBA from EAE Business School, with 3 years of experience in the electromobility sector of industrial vehicles, as well as in associated services and their ecosystem.
Luis Moreno
General Manager at CTAG
Luis Moreno
General Manager at CTAG
The Galician Automotive Technology Centre, CTAG, offers advanced technological solutions to the automotive sector. It supports the sector's industries in their modernization and adaptation to new technologies in their products and manufacturing processes. It promotes several autonomous driving projects such as AUTOPILOT, with which it has carried out parking and autonomous driving tests in the city of Vigo.
Camilo Gómez
New Products and Processes Industrialization Manager at GKN Automotive
Camilo Gómez
New Products and Processes Industrialization Manager at GKN Automotive
Professional Experience
2004 - GKN Automotive Vigo (Spain).- Position: Head of Industrialization of New Processes and Products.
- Function: Responsible for the implementation of new manufacturing processes and industrialization of new products.
- Position: Manufacturing Engineering Manager.
- Function: Responsible for manufacturing processes. Continuous improvement and optimization of manufacturing and assembly processes. Responsible for launching new product applications.
- Position: Manufacturing Engineering Manager.
- Function: Responsible for the implementation of new manufacturing processes. Continuous improvement and optimization of manufacturing and assembly processes. Responsible for the industrialization of new products.
- Position: Responsible for Homokinetic Seals Manufacturing Engineering.
- Function: Responsible for homokinetic seals manufacturing process improvement. Responsible for the industrialization of new applications of fixed joints.
- Position: Resident engineer at Chrysler (Detroit, USA).
- Function: Responsible for the launch of the Chrysler Voyager model year 95, for GKN products (lateral and longitudinal transmissions).
- Position: Process Engineer
- Function: Responsible for processes of different CV joint components.
Academic background
1987-1990 Industrial Engineer. Machine Intensification.- ESII Gijón.
- Validation of the academic degree of Mechanical Engineer (USB-Caracas, Venezuela).
- Completion of the monographic courses for the academic degree of Doctor Engineer.
Fernando Royo
Plant Manager at Gestamp Vigo
Fernando Royo
Plant Manager at Gestamp Vigo
In 2010 he entered Gestamp and began his professional career within the automotive components multinational. He is the current Plant Manager of Gestamp Vigo. Fernando Royo began his professional career in General Motors in 2005. In 2010, he entered Gestamp as the President Assistant. After more than 6 years, he became the Sales Controlling and Marketing Director. And in 2016, he started his current position as Plant Manager of one of the production plants of the automotive components company in Spain: Gestamp Vigo. Royo is an industrial engineer by the Zaragoza University. He also studied Business Administration and Management (UNED). Besides, he has the CLEPA Global Management Programme, studied in the Harvard Business School (MITSUI -— HBS Global Management Academy) and in the lE University (Transformative Leadership Executive Programme).
Javier Dorado
Director of Public Affairs at Cabify
Javier Dorado
Director of Public Affairs at Cabify
With more than 10 years of experience in public policy, government affairs and international relations, she is passionate about making cities better places to live. Head of Public Affairs at Cabify, she leads the institutional relations and promotional efforts of the first Spanish unicorn and a leading multi-mobility platform operating in eight international markets.
Javier Cervera
Head of Energy Transition at Baleària
Javier Cervera
Head of Energy Transition at Baleària
- He holds a degree in Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Valencia.
- In 2005, he joined the energy sector at Unión Fenosa, where he worked for 14 years in the world of utilities in the areas of commercial management and business development.
- In 2019, he moved from the energy sector to the maritime sector, where he joined the shipping company Baleària, leading the Company's energy transition actions, both in the development of the company's LNG strategy and in the introduction of new biofuels.
- Since 2014 he has been a member of the board of directors of the Association of Energy Engineers, and is currently the President of the Association in Spain.
- Since 2023 he has been President of the Net Zero Mar Alliance, for the decarbonisation of the national maritime-port sector.
Jorge Castro
Vice President of the Automobile Manufacturers Association (AFIA)
Jose Evelio Jiménez
Country Manager Spain of CT Engineering Group
Jose Evelio Jiménez
Country Manager Spain of CT Engineering Group
José Evelio Jiménez is the Country Manager for CT Ingenieros in Spain and has over 25 years' experience in key sectors including aerospace, defence, energy, industrial and marine. His background as an aeronautical engineer, combined with an MBA, has enabled him to take on operational, team leadership and business development roles within CT Ingenieros. The company is recognised for providing advanced engineering solutions to major industries.
Romina Fernández
Branch Manager Galicia, Suardiaz Group
Abel Caballero
Vigo's Mayor
Abel Caballero
Vigo's Mayor
Mayor of Vigo, birthplace of the automotive industry in the Spanish region of Galicia, where many of the cars that travel the streets of half the world are manufactured in the PSA Peugeot Citroën factory, the first that the firm installed in Spain.
SPEAKERS PREVIOUS EDITIONS
Ricardo García
Executive Vice President South Europe at Benteler
Carlos Castaño
Vice President of Engineering at BorgWarner Emissions, Thermal and Turbo Systems
María Paz Robina
General Manager ES and PT at Michelin
Emilio Titos
General Manager at Mercedes-Benz Vitoria plant
Emilio Titos
General Manager at Mercedes-Benz Vitoria plant
The Mercedes-Benz plant in Vitoria, where the world's manufacturing of VITO and CLASS-V and its electric variants eVito and EQV is based, has the most advanced manufacturing technologies and is the largest company in the Basque Country, with some 5,000 workers.
Iñigo Loizaga
Engineering Director at CIE Automotive
Iñigo Loizaga
Engineering Director at CIE Automotive
He holds a Master's degree in Materials and Mechanical Behavior from Mondragón Unibertsitatea and an Electrical Industrial Engineering degree from the University of Engineering of Bilbao. He started working with José Ignacio López de Arriortua in 1998 as a design engineer and has been working at CIE Automotive since 2002. He has been involved in different product development and manufacturing process projects in the automotive world. Iñigo Loizaga has strong links with the industrial, research and university community. He was president of CIC marGUNE since 2007. MarGUNE brings together companies, universities and research institutions in order to prepare the industry for the challenges and opportunities of the future in the field of high performance manufacturing involving more than 300 researchers. He has been a professor at the University of Deusto since 2014 and was a professor from 2014 to 2017 at Tecnun University of Navarra. He has led several collaborative R&D projects in the areas of manufacturing, automotive and electrification. Projects carried out by Spanish, European and international consortia. Currently with a strong focus on climate change and environmental, product and process risk analysis and mitigation.
René González
Advanced Manufaturing Director of Gestamp
René González
Advanced Manufaturing Director of Gestamp
Responsible for defining and implementing the roadmap for the incorporation of Industry 4.0 initiatives within Gestamp, an international Spanish automotive engineering group dedicated to the design, development and manufacture of metal components for automobiles.
Agustín Sáenz
Tecnalia Vice-president for Markets
Agustín Sáenz
Tecnalia Vice-president for Markets
Tecnalia is the first private Technology Centre in Spain and one of the main organisations dedicated to applied research in Europe. In the field of mobility, they promote new concepts that use new materials, integrate communications systems, alternative means of propulsion and interact with the occupants.
Carlos Bergera
Head of External Relations Smart Mobility of Iberdrola
Carlos Bergera
Head of External Relations Smart Mobility of Iberdrola
Iberdrola is one of the main companies dedicated to production, commercialization and distribution of energy. Within its strategy for a decarbonised economy, it is promoting transport electrification with a sustainable mobility plan that will invest €150 million to increase roll-out of electric vehicle charging points in the coming years. The initiative entails around 150,000 charging points in homes, companies and on the public road network in cities as well as on the main motorways and highways over the next five years.
Alfredo Serret
Business Development Global Director at Telefónica IoT & BD
Alfredo Serret
Business Development Global Director at Telefónica IoT & BD
Telefónica is the most important telecommunications company in Europe and the fifth largest worldwide. Based in Spain, it is one of the leading organizations in innovation and technology. In the field of IoT, they promote the digital transformation and interconnectivity of companies, economy, mobility and other agents of the economy.
Pablo Martín
Partner responsible for the Automotive Sector at NTT Data
Luis Moreno
General Manager at CTAG
Luis Moreno
General Manager at CTAG
The Galician Automotive Technology Centre, CTAG, offers advanced technological solutions to the automotive sector. It supports the sector's industries in their modernization and adaptation to new technologies in their products and manufacturing processes. It promotes several autonomous driving projects such as AUTOPILOT, with which it has carried out parking and autonomous driving tests in the city of Vigo.
Pedro Martínez Vergés
General Director of the Marsan Group
Pedro Martínez Vergés
General Director of the Marsan Group
General Director of the Marsan Group, a reference in the automotive sector for more than 65 years and with an international presence, and CEO of VMS Automotive, a spin-out of the company that has developed a high-performance, all-electric three-wheeled vehicle with an internationally patented shock absorber system.
Juan Riva
CEO of Suardiaz
Juan Riva
CEO of Suardiaz
Suardiaz is a leading group in multimodal logistics. It offers its customers integrated solutions with more than 100 years of experience and more than 600 employees in Europe, America and Africa. In Galicia, it works intensively in the automotive logistics and the Sea-Corridor Atlantic Highway.
Joost Vantomme
Smart Mobility Director of the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA)
Joost Vantomme
Smart Mobility Director of the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA)
Smart Mobility Director of the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA), which represents the 16 major Europe-based car, van, truck and bus manufacturers. Joost is Chair of the Strategy Committee of ERTICO-ITS Europe as well as member of its Supervisory Board. He serves also as member of the Board of the European Mobility as a Service Alliance (MaaS). Furthermore, Joost was selected as member of various Commission Expert Groups, among which the Expert Group on B2G data sharing.
Alfonso Nogueiro
Managing Director of Faconauto
Alfonso Nogueiro
Managing Director of Faconauto
Faconauto is the employer that integrates the official dealer associations of the brands of passenger cars and agricultural machinery present in the Spanish market. It represents the interests of 2,152 dealers on which approximately 3,551 companies at the second level of distribution (agencies and official services) depend.
Arancha García
Director Industry and Environment of Anfac
Arancha García
Director Industry and Environment of Anfac
Anfac represents the common interests of the manufacturers of vehicles or derivatives thereof, of their engines and components, and of their brands. Anfac researches, deepens and disseminates a better knowledge of the technical, economic and social aspects in order to promote the harmonious progress of the automotive sector, for the benefit of all economic agents
Nicolas Cantaert
Managing Director of Sumauto
Nicolas Cantaert
Managing Director of Sumauto
Sumauto is Vocento's B2B engine brand. It brings together its five specialized portals in the automotive market (Autocasión, Autoscout24, Unoauto, Mascus and Motocasión). It offers dealers and dealers the option of becoming your digital knowledge partner and guaranteeing them the maximum return on their investment in digital channels.
Adiel Ramos
Director of business development for the municipality of Celaya
Adiel Ramos
Director of business development for the municipality of Celaya
Director of business development for the municipality of Celaya, in the Mexican region of Guanajuato, which has a strong automotive, metalworking and equipment manufacturing industry.
Abdelaziz Meftah
Managing Director of Amica (Moroccan Association of the Automobile Industry and Automobile Manufacturers)
Abdelaziz Meftah
Managing Director of Amica (Moroccan Association of the Automobile Industry and Automobile Manufacturers)
The Amica (Moroccan Association of the Automobile Industry and Automobile Manufacturers) is a dynamic agent of the Moroccan automobile sector, a growing ecosystem in constant search of investors to support the vigorous evolution of the Moroccan automobile industry.
Antonio Garamendi
President of the Spanish Confederation of Business Organisations (CEOE)
Antonio Garamendi
President of the Spanish Confederation of Business Organisations (CEOE)
The Confederación Española de Organizaciones Empresariales CEOE is a Spanish business organisation founded in June 1977 that represents Spanish entrepreneurs, integrating public and private companies from all sectors of activity.
Justo Sierra
President of Asime
Justo Sierra
President of Asime
President of Asime, organizer of the AutoMob Summit, and President of the company Urovesa, a Spanish defense contractor with a long history, specialized in the construction of special vehicles of great tonnage and capacity.
Raúl Blanco
Secretary General of Industry and Small and Medium Enterprises of Spanish Government
Raúl Blanco
Secretary General of Industry and Small and Medium Enterprises of Spanish Government
Secretary General of the Industry and SME division of the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Tourism
María José Rallo
Secretary-General for Transport and Mobility Spanish Government
María José Rallo
Secretary-General for Transport and Mobility Spanish Government
General Secretary in the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda, responsible for the Spanish Strategy for Safe, Sustainable and Connected Mobility 2030.
Abel Caballero
Vigo's Mayor
Abel Caballero
Vigo's Mayor
Mayor of Vigo, birthplace of the automotive industry in the Spanish region of Galicia, where many of the cars that travel the streets of half the world are manufactured in the PSA Peugeot Citroën factory, the first that the firm installed in Spain.
Alberto Núñez Feijóo
President of Xunta de Galicia
Alberto Núñez Feijóo
President of Xunta de Galicia
President of the Regional Government of Galicia, responsible for initiatives related to innovation, entrepreneurship and internationalization of Galician companies.
David Regades
State Delegate Vigo Free Trade Zone
David Regades
State Delegate Vigo Free Trade Zone
Public institution that manages an international trade free zone in the area of Vigo (Spain) and acts as an economic development agency.
Fernando Guldrís
Director of the Galician Institute for Economic Promotion (IGAPE) Xunta de Galicia
Fernando Guldrís
Director of the Galician Institute for Economic Promotion (IGAPE) Xunta de Galicia
Director of the Galician Institute for Economic Promotion (IGAPE), the agency attached to the Ministry of Economy, Employment and Industry, which is responsible for the economic development of Galicia.
Alberto Ruiz
Councillor for Industry of the Permanent Representation (REPER) of Spain to the European Union is an Embassy of the Spanish Government.
Alberto Ruiz
Councillor for Industry of the Permanent Representation (REPER) of Spain to the European Union is an Embassy of the Spanish Government.
The Permanent Representation (REPER) of Spain to the European Union is an Embassy of the Spanish Government composed of officials from all the ministries, experts in the subjects of their competence, who work in coordination under the instructions of the Ambassadors and their ministries in Madrid.
The mission of REPER is to promote and defend the interests of the Spanish people and of all Europeans as a whole in the decision-making process, to defend the Spanish position and to influence decisions, always with the aim of building a fairer and more balanced Europe for all citizens of the Union. To this end, it has the dual function of forming part of the Council of the European Union and defending Spain's interests before all the Union's institutions.
Felipe Jiménez Alonso
Director of Intelligent Systems at the University Institute for Automotive Research (INSIA)
Felipe Jiménez Alonso
Director of Intelligent Systems at the University Institute for Automotive Research (INSIA)
The University Institute for Automotive Research (INSIA) is a Research Center of the Universidad Politécnica Madrid. It was the first research center in the field of motor vehicles in Spain and from its intelligent systems unit it is currently developing technologies for cooperative autonomous driving, ADAS systems, driver assistance based on automation, vehicle positioning on electronic maps and other elements of the vehicle of the future.