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AmChamSpain Online with Darío Gil: The Urgency of Science

Online event
22 Jul 2020, Webex
On July 22, we had the opportunity to hear from Dr. Darío Gil, Director of Research at IBM and Head of Innovation at IBM globally, a member of the US National Science Board and former member of the US President's Council of Science and Technology Advisors.
 
Dr. Gil is the 12th Director of Research at IBM in its 109-year history and leads a group of more than 3,000 researchers in 19 laboratories located on 6 continents. Under his leadership, IBM has been the first company in the world capable of building a programmable quantum computer and making it available through the cloud.
 
Dr. Gil (Murcia, 1975) is a passionate advocate of collaborative innovation models and co-chairs the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium, the largest public-private computing consortium ever created, joining efforts against the pandemic of the United States Government, of technology companies and universties. 
 
He presented a perspective on the urgency of science to combat the current pandemic and to prepare society for future challenges.
 
The event was led by Jaime Malet, President of AmChamSpain, and had the participation of:
 
- Marta Martínez, CEO of IBM Europe, Middle East and Africa
- Horacio Morell, President of IBM Spain, Portugal, Greece and Israel
 
Place

Webex

Online event
Date / Hour

22 July

2020
4 to 5 pm