Julián Fiérrez is a senior lecturer at the Escuela Politécnica Superior and a member of the ATVS - Biometric Recognition Group at the Autónoma University in Madrid. A graduate in Communications Engineering from the Madrid Polytechnic University, he obtained his doctorate in 2006 with the Extraordinary Prize, and was a Marie Curie post-doctoral fellow at Michigan State University between 2007 and 2009. He has just received the 2015 Miguel Catalán Award for researchers aged under 40.

Innotribe Startup Challenge Latin America is part of the SWIFT Latin America Regional Conference (LARC), which will take place in Mexico City on 28 and 29 June, for the purpose of recognizing local startups focused on financial technology.

Emilio Martínez, CEO of Agnitio, the company specializing in voice biometric systems, highlights the benefits of "voiceprints" for personal authentication.

To complete this project, Mark Zuckerberg's company has decided to capture high- resolution satellite images and use a machine that maps and takes photos of all houses on the planet.

BBVA signed a strategic alliance with Cisco today that will help the company in its digital transformation process, allowing Cisco to become its priority technology partner. The agreement seeks to foster connectivity and collaboration between BBVA Group clients and employees and provide networking solutions. This is the first of a series of alliances that BBVA is aiming to forge with strategic partners. BBVA CEO Carlos Torres Vila and Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins have taken part in the signing of the agreement.

Projects such as an application for moving violations or a digital map of microbus routes –previously non-existent– are just two of the innovative projects handled by Gabriella Gómez Mont, founder and director of the Laboratorio para la Ciudad (Laboratory for the City), along with other organizations, to improve the lives of the capital's residents. She is one of the 33 innovators in the  ebook Hablan los protagonistas.