Energy transition to net zero

Antonio Ramírez Rodríguez is PhD by the School of Civil Engineering of the Polytechnic University of Madrid (2017). He is Civil Engineer by the School of Civil Engineering of Granada, promotion of 1999. He is postgraduate in Digital Transformation by the IEBS (Innovation & Entrepreneurship Business School). From 1999 to 2006 he was working on site in different civil works and in different positions (Head of work, Production, Technical Office, Quality, Safety and Health and Environment). Since 2006 he was working as Head of the R+D I Department and later as Director of the Department of the company SACYR CONSTRUCCION. And since 2022 he is working as Innovaction Director in SACYR CONCESIONES.
His main achievements have been obtaining for the first time the R&D Management System certificate according to UNE 166.002, obtaining more than 10 patents for the company, obtaining Motivated Reports as R&D for an amount exceeding 100 million euros and obtaining grants from the Administration for different research projects for an amount exceeding 60 million euros.

Industrial engineer and MBA
Chief Innovation Officer at Tubacex
DH has developed most of his professional career with Tubacex, first in technology and engineering, and, during the last 15 years, as head of innovation at group level.
During that time, Tubacex has experienced a deep transformation towards high end applications and customers. The energy transition is the main focus of the innovation activities at Tubacex nowadays.

Expert in energy market fundamentals and development, Ieda is a non-executive board director in the energy, utilities, infrastructure, certification, and construction industries gained over 30 years of international experience in executive and non-executive positions in public, private and not for profit companies in the USA, Brazil, Central America/Caribbean, Singapore, France, Isle of Man and the United Kingdom.
Ieda is currently a Senior Visiting Fellow of the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, a Senior Adviser at the Brazilian think tank FGV Energia and a member of the Infrastructure Council of the Sao Paulo Federation of Industries (FIESP) where she conducts research on natural gas, hydrogen and biogas.
Ieda had previous leadership roles at BP plc, including Vice President of New Ventures, President of BP Brazil, Vice President for BP Solar, Vice President of BP Gas & Power Regulatory Affairs and Country VP for Pan American Energy. Active leader and player in large international projects in India, Colombia, Brazil, Jordan, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Abu Dhabi, Philippines, and Ghana

He is Master in Materials and Mechanical Behavior at the Mondragon University and Electrical Industrial Engineer at Bilbao Engineering University. He started working with José Ignacio López de Arriortua in 1998 as design engineer and is working at CIE Automotive since 2002. Iñigo Loizaga has a strong link with industrial, research and university community.
He was President of CIC marGUNE since 2007. MarGUNE brings companies, universities and research institutions together in order to prepare industry for the challenges and opportunities of the future in the field of high-performance manufacturing involving more than 300 researchers. He is lecturer at the Deusto University since 2014 and from 2014 to 2017 at Tecnun University of Navarra.
He has leaded several collaborative R&D projects in manufacturing, automotive and electrification areas. Projects carried out by Spanish, European and International consortiums. Currently with a strong focus on the climate change and environmental, product and process risk analysis and mitigation.

Isabel Gorgoso holds a degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. He began his professional career in 1999 at Nortel Networks, participating in optical network deployment projects, and later joined the European 3G network development group as an integration engineer on international projects.
In 2005 he joined IZO, a leading company in customer experience, where for 5 years he held different positions, leading the technological area of the company, as well as the management of large accounts, being part of the Management Committee of the company.
Between 2010 and the end of 2011 she held the positions of Commercial Director at Unísono Technologies and Director of Customer Loyalty at Unísono.
At the end of 2011 she joined Iberdrola, as Customer Experience Manager of Customer Service until 2019 when she was appointed Head of Public Recharging, leading the strategic deployment project in Spain, Portugal, Italy and UK.
In 2020 she assumed the position of Head of Smart Cities, developing the new business unit of the company, until her incorporation to Cepsa in November 2021 as Director of New Mobility, leading the new mobility models based on clean energy.
In addition, Isabel Gorgoso has been a professor at ICMD/ESIC between 2007 and 2019 and currently collaborates at ISDI also as a teacher.

Pierre-Yves Sachet began his professional career in Madrid in 1990, as Retail Development Manager for Elf Spain. Between 1993 and 2001, he held various positions in Africa, mainly as Chief Executive Officer, for Elf and then Total in Senegal, Gambia and Ghana. In 2001, he returned to Paris in the Strategy and M&A Division of Total Refining&Marketing before moving to Brussels in 2004 as Retail&Fuel Cards Director of Total Belgium.
Subsequently, Pierre-Yves continued to develop professionally within Total in senior positions as CEO of AS24 (2007), Vice President Downstream Americas based in Panama City (2011), CEO of Total Erg in Rome (2016), Executive Vice President Downstream of Total Southern Africa and CEO of Total South Africa in Johannesburg and finally in 2019 Executive Vice President Crude Equity Acquisition for Total Trading&Shipping again in France.
Pierre-Yves joined Cepsa in 2020 as Commercial and Strategic Growth Director, and since 2022 he has been Director of Mobility & New Commerce. Since joining the company, he has been a member of the Management Committee.
Pierre-Yves graduated from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences-Po) in Economics and Finance, with a specialization in Marketing. In addition, he has participated in executive programs in Leadership and Energy, at Stanford Graduate School of Business&Massachusetts Institute of Technology respectively.