Inma Martinez | Artificial Intelligence & Digital Scientist
After a career in banking (Goldman, Sachs), Inma joined telecom giant Cable & Wireless to become the Global Head of IP services in the late 1990s, just when digitalisation and the Internet were emerging. Shifting to entrepreneurship in 2000, she has been directly behind the development of mobile Internet services, A.I. personalisation and prediction of consumer behaviours, video and music streaming, intelligent wearables, the connected car and smart living. One of the most active advisors to the European Union across working groups developing strategy and regulation on Web 2.0 and the digitalization of industries, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence. In the UK she has served on the board of the Sport, Media and Culture’s Innovation Fund (2009-2010) and in 2010 she was appointed industry ambassador on entrepreneurship to the UK Trade & Investment Catalyst Group, a role that has taken her around the world to support British bilateral relations in countries like Croatia, Brazil and China. As an engaged scientist, Inma gets involved in corporate projects as a consultant in a variety of industries where A.I. and digitalisation can help transform businesses. For over 10 years she has developed a committed relationship with Imperial College London where she is a guest lecturer at the MSc Management program, the MSc in Economics and the MSc Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Strategy and a mentor of disruptive new scientific projects at their accelerator programme and its spin-off Deep Science Ventures, a venture-builder science institute where audacious entrepreneurial scientists explore solutions to world’s challenges.
Twitter: @inma_martinez
