Dual-use technologies: an opportunity for Catalonia.

The Catalan Association of Telecommunications Engineering and Digital Technologies, telecos.cat, together with GRAUSTIC, is organizing a new conference to mark the feast day of Saint Gabriel, the patron saint of telecommunications engineers.

The event will take place on September 29 at the Espai Francesca Bonnemaison in Barcelona, under the theme “Dual-Use Technologies: An Opportunity for Catalonia.”

The event will focus on the role that technology and ICT talent can play in an increasingly complex geopolitical context. Europe faces the challenge of strengthening its technological sovereignty, its defense capabilities, and the resilience of its infrastructure, while upholding the values that define the European project: peace, freedom, and well-being.

Representatives from institutions, experts, and companies will come together to analyze the major technological challenges of the moment, share experiences, and identify the opportunities that this new landscape opens up for the sector.

Among the participants is Luis Fernando Álvarez-Gascón, CEO of Secure e-Solutions and chair of AMETIC’s Dual-Use Technologies for Defense Commission, who will take part in a panel discussion alongside Antoni Paz Lostes, technical secretary and director of the Aeros Ecosystem Task Force; Miguel À. García Alvira, head of the Generalitat’s General Commission for Information and Communication Technologies; and the Honorable Mr. Pedro Valdés Guía, Colonel in the Infantry and the Ministry of Defense’s Defense Delegate in Catalonia. The panel will be moderated by Chelo Fernández Rodríguez, a member of GRAUSTIC’s Board of Directors.

An event to reflect on how dual-use technologies can help strengthen Europe's strategic capabilities while also creating new opportunities for the Catalan technology and business ecosystem.