- Javier Andrés, co-founder of LuzIA, a free chatbot based on artificial intelligence for WhatsApp, considers that AI represents a change “at the level of the internet or smartphones”
- David Fernández, general director of Clicollege, encouraged young people to try, to get to know each other, because “by knowing you, AI will help you in your future.”
Schools
Last Tuesday, 68 high school students from Colegio Claret in Madrid and IES Alfonso Moreno discovered how intelligence artificial can be a great ally when undertaking during the School of Entrepreneurs, organized by Junior Achievement in the Puente de Vallecas business incubator.
The meeting, subsidized by the Madrid City Council, through Madrid Emprende, and with the collaboration of Endeavor, was organized around a round table in which the panelists, entrepreneurs and experts in artificial intelligence talked about entrepreneurship, AI, innovation, soft skills and future opportunities.
Inauguration of the School of Entrepreneurs
During the opening of the day, Ángel Niño, delegate councilor for Innovation and Entrepreneurship of the Madrid City Council, highlighted the importance of promoting dissemination and inspiration among adolescents with entrepreneurship and technology as axes.
Speakers
Javier Andres, co-founder of LuzIA, a free AI-based chatbot for WhatsApp, highlighted that “AI overcomes the barrier of executing ideas to speed up the creative process, and in all of this the value that people provide remains fundamental.” For this reason, during his speech he encouraged attendees to use artificial intelligence to their advantage, since it will mean a change "at the level of the internet or smartphones." He also pointed out that, although AI is useful, it is necessary to learn how to use it, since in order for it to offer good answers you must give it the best indications.
For David Fernandez, general director of Clicollege, “the future is uncertain, but optimistic.” In this sense, he encouraged young people to try, to know what they like, to get to know themselves because "by knowing you, AI will help you in your future." And to accumulate experiences to have a life story, to travel, to take advantage of all the opportunities they are offered to learn, to live unique moments because that is what will make them succeed.
Along the same lines was the intervention of Vera Prohaska, BA Computer Science and AI, Python Engineer at Swissblock, IE Robotics Club: “I think about how I want to be and then I move pieces in my life” to achieve it.
Likewise, the speakers agreed that entrepreneurship is a service, “it is doing things to fix things,” in the words of Fernández.
Moderators
The round table was moderated by Claudia Gallardo, second-year student of the International Technological Baccalaureate, and by Samuel Sánchez, Junior Achievement alumni and CEO and co-founder of Plantae, a company dedicated to the creation of IoT devices for precision agriculture and irrigation. . For Sánchez, “entrepreneurship does not have to go hand in hand with personal tastes, it is enough to detect a need in the environment and create a solution for it.”
Closing of the School of Entrepreneurs
Lucia de Zavala, CEO of Junior Achievement and Star Martin, general director of Entrepreneurship of the Madrid City Council, were in charge of closing the round table. Both highlighted the unique opportunity that young people have to lead the future.
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