·} CONECTA DIGITAL JURY {·
The jury of the PITCH STARTUPS & PITCH YOUNG MINDS contests of Conecta DIGITAL 2024 is formed by professional experts and senior executives from the technology and audiovisual industry. They will be in charge of reviewing and evaluating the projects received in our open calls.
CECILIA MANGISCH
Digital Innovation Manager
Mediaset (Spain)
Cecilia Mangisch is a professional dedicated to digital business?innovation, currently serving as Manager of Digital Innovation at Mediaset since 2023. Previously, she was the Innovation Manager for Nestlé, overseeing operations in Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay from 2017. Cecilia has specialized training in innovation, having worked with startups around the world in her role as Project Manager at the Silicon Valley Innovation Outpost. She holds a degree in Business & Systems Management and a master’s degree in Strategic Technological Business Management. She began her professional career in the e-commerce sector, which has provided her with valuable experience and now enables her to possess both strategic and technical skills to lead business digital transformation.
PERE VILA
Director of Technology Strategy & Digital Innovation
RTVE (Spain)
PhD in Telecommunications from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, MBA from ESADE Barcelona. Director of Technological Strategy of the Spanish Radio and Television Corporation (RTVE). Member of the Permanent Commission of the Telecommunications Advisory Council (Ministry of Science and Technology). He currently chairs the association UHD Spain and is a member of the Advisory Council for Digital Transformation.
SORAYA CADALSO
CEO
Uttopion & Metaverse Educator (Spain)
One of the world’s few women who is an expert and leader of a virtual platform (video game). Three and a half years ago she founded Uttopion: a cutting-edge technology company that brings together different innovative solutions that adapt to the new consumption habits of both content and its application to e-commerce through virtual experiences. It is considered by the magazine “Emprendedores España” one of the forty most innovative entrepreneurs in the country. She is a reference in technology today, being a speaker on WEB3 and teacher in the Master in Web3 and Innovation of Bit2Me MBA, the Master of Metaverse specialization of the E-commerce module of “The Valley” and the Metaverse and Augmented Reality module in Social Networks of the Master in Digital Marketing of EDEM, in addition to giving a masterclass for the Telefonica group “UNIVERSITAS”. She has also intervened as a speaker in different events. She is one of the builders of virtual worlds that participate in the new AUREN book “Mundo Metaverso”. She has a joint project with Teatro Real, broadcasting the first opera in the metaverse in a 3D replicated space of the Teatro Real. This year she starts her career as a mentor for technological entrepreneurship.
PACO TORRES
CEO
Blend Studios (Spain)
Paco Torres is a director and producer of fiction, advertising, AI and animation, with more than two decades of experience working in television, feature films, short films, music videos, documentaries and advertising. He has directed over 300 commercials for major global brands such as Guinness, Dallah,Santander, Mahou, SGBL, HSBC, Sevilla FC, Dior and Sony, and his work has been distributed worldwide in cinemas, television and on platforms such as Netflix, Filmin, Apple TV and Amazon. He has collaborated with Lars Von Trier on his Gesamt project and has received accolades from Variety for his film “The Flight of the Train,” highlighting Torres’ talent and instinct as a director. He has been honored more than 30 times, receiving awards from Amnesty International, 1 Cannes Corporate Award, 2 RTVA Awards, 1 ICCL Human Rights Award for his film “The Rattle of Benghazi” and has garnered 4 Asecan Award nominations. He is currently preparing his second feature film entitled Veleta and the animated series Jesterina.
