Innovation Hub Manager

Clara has a degree in Computer Science from the Universidad Politécnica of Madrid and Master in Innovation Management by the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. She has more than 20 years’ experience in R&D projects development and management.

Currently, she is the Innovation Hub Manager at Research and Innovation Group in Atos. Her main responsibilities now are to maximize the impact of research projects, to ensure the transfer of the technology to the business units of the company and the go-to-market of the research results contributing to the generation of new business.

Beyond her technical background, mainly in cloud, services and software engineering, she is also skilled in open business models and innovation processes. In last years, she has coordinated numerous research and innovation projects and she has been leading the business development and communication in many others.

She is the FIWARE Competence Center reponsible at Atos, an open development framework for development of smart applications in IoT, and member of the Technical Steering Committee in the FIWARE Foundation. She is also the President of PLANETIC, the Spanish technology platform for the adoption and promotion of digital technologies in Spain. Her current interest areas are innovation management, the improvement of software development processes and methods and the adoption of innovation assets by the industry.