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BIST Forum 2026


Event Details

  • Date:
  • Venue: CosmoCaixa
  • Address: Carrer d'Isaac Newton, 26, 08022 Barcelona
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Programme

8:30h

Networking Coffee

9:00h

Welcome

  • Dr. Àngel Font, Associate General Director of Research and Fellowships, “la Caixa” Foundation
  • Dr. Eduard Vallory, BIST Director General

9:10h

Institutional Opening

  • Prof. Andreu Mas-Colell, Chairman of the BIST Board of Trustees
  • Ilma. Sra. Maria Eugènia Gay, Deputy Mayor of Barcelona
  • Hble. Sra. Núria Montserrat, Minister of Research and Universities of the Government of Catalonia
  • Excm. Sr. Jordi Hereu, Minister of Industry and Tourism of the Government of Spain

9:30h

Conditions for Frontier Research to Shape the New Industry

Keynote speaker

  • Ms. Nadia Calviño, President of the European Investment Bank

Round table

  • Ms. Carolina Aguilar, CEO and Co-Founder of INBRAIN Neuroelectronics
  • Ms. Nadia Calviño, President of the European Investment Bank
  • Prof. Teresa Garcia-Milà, President of Cercle d’Economia
  • Dr. Gábor M. Lamm, Managing Director of EMBL Enterprise Management Technology Transfer GmbH
  • Facilitator: Dr. Eduard Vallory, BIST Director General

10:25h

BIST Community Impact Highlights

  • AI tools for next-generation materials
    Dr. José Hugo García, Team Leader at ICN2. ERC grantee
  • A biomarker to stratify breast cancer patients
    Prof. Roger Gomis, ICREA Research Professor at IRB Barcelona
  • Mobile testing units to decarbonize the industry
    Dr. Júlia Viladoms, ICIQ’s Decarbonisation Unit Manager
  • Introduced by: Dr. Alina Hirschmann, Communication Head at ICFO

11:00h

Coffee break

11:30h

Closing the Gender Gap in Science – To the Mothers of Science

Announcement of the 2026 Mothers of Science Award winners, followed by a roundtable conversation with previous awardees.

  • Dr. Denitza Denkova, ICFO postdoctoral researcher
  • Prof. Irene Marco-Rius, IBEC group leader
  • Facilitator: Prof. Mara Dierssen, CRG group leader and chair of CRG’s Gender Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee

12:00h

BIST Ignite Awards

Announcement of the 8th edition call winners, followed by presentations by the lead researchers of the two projects awarded in the 7th edition.

  • Introduced by Prof. Imma Riu, IFAE group leader.

12:30h

Closure

  • Dr. Eduard Vallory, BIST Director General

12:40h

Networking Refreshments

Attendance by invitation. Please contact communication@bist.eu for further information.

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