Current affairs
From 16 to 24 October, Alcalá de Henares was home to Mobile Week.
Over these nine days, this event hosted over 50 conferences, showrooms and round tables with some of Spain’s technology leaders in order to boost ties between the public, corporations, academia and institutions that promote innovation.
The Mobile Week schedule included over 200 hours of activities for children and adults, and more than 100 innovative projects were presented by companies and university research groups.
Engineer José Pablo Haro Rodríguez, from Isdefe’s Transport and ICT Department, mentored one of the teams created to compete in this educational project.
The iDΣΛ Challenge is a project in innovative education that, in keeping with the Design Thinking methodology, asks Master’s and senior-year undergraduate students at the Advanced School for Aeronautical and Space Engineering (ETSIA) to solve an actual technological challenge.
The competition was held during the hackathon workshop on 15 October at the ETSIAE, where 15 student groups presented their solutions to the
Organised by the Universidad Europea, a virtual roundtable was held on Wednesday, October 13 on the “Emerging Capabilities of Systems of Systems”.
Belinda Misiego, Head of the Innovation Division of Isdefe’s Business Development Department, moderated the roundtable, which featured systems engineering experts Alberto Sols, Dean of the School of Architecture and Engineering at the Universidad Europea de Madrid, César Martínez, Director of the FCAS Programme at Indra, Sergio Tiraplegui, coordinator of systems engineering at SENER for the ESA’s Proba-3 mission, and José Molins, CTO
The Women Pioneers_IT Award was created in 2019 by the IT Women Working Group of the Official Association of Telecommunications Engineers (COIT) in an effort to showcase the contributions and achievements that have been made in society thanks to the presence of female talent in the field of technology and, in particular, in telecommunications.
Isdefe is extensively involved in the telecommunications sector, and thus shares in the objective of the COIT and these awards, as evidenced by the company's commitment to equality in the sectors in which it operates.
María Jesús Llordén, Manager of Tactical Platforms and Systems at Isdefe's Defence and Security Department, was the Company's representative at the Círculo Foundation's 19th Conference on Defence and Security Technologies.
The conference was held at the facilities of the National Institute of Aerospace Technology (INTA) in Torrejón de Ardoz under the slogan “Towards a new digitised, hyper-connected, autonomous and intelligent scenario", on 29 and 30 September.
The symposium brought together a group of notable experts from the Armed Forces, law enforcement, the