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
