Leticia Gasca is a guru who wants to tell the more adventurous the truths about the entrepreneurship scene. It's not all about smiles, closed deals and instant income, and this is why she founded Fuckup Nights, a movement that encourages entrepreneurs to talk about their failures. Gasca is one of the 33 innovators featured in the ebook Hablan los protagonistas ( The key players speak).

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.

The experts highlight the importance of professional sales specialists to ensure the successful evolution of startups. Specialists in digital marketing is the profile most in demand by startups.

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

Big Data is once again the hot topic of Barcelona’s Mobile World Congress. The challenge no longer lies in how to analyze vast amounts of data to give us a global view of society, but how to convert this information into user experiences.

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.