Inma Martinez

Inma Martinez is an advisor to leaders in business and government on how to turn digital transformation into competitive advantage and contribute to societal progress.

She is recognised worldwide as one of the leading entrepreneurs who pioneered the creating and emergence of digital technologies like the mobile internet, music and video streaming, the connected car and smart living. Her unique experience has allowed her to become one of the most sought-after experts in forecasting digital disruptions and revealing the potentiality of A.I. and other transformative technologies. She's been invited as the Chair of GPAI during ministerial meetings.

FORTUNE and TIME have described her as one of Europe’s top talents in social engagement through technology and FastCompany labelled her a “firestarter”. She was voted the “Best contributor to the formation of strategy” in the section “Driving the Future of Europe’s Digital Economy” at Bloomberg BusinessWeek’s European Leadership Forum: Charting the Economic Future of Europe, a conference for CEOs and government officials.

After a career in banking (Goldman, Sachs) and the telecoms industry (Cable & Wireless, NOKIA), Inma spent years working in the innovation labs of tech giants (IBM, HP, LG, Apple) and created innovative technologies for media companies, automotive, and luxury brands.

Since 2001 Inma has provided expert testimonies across various technology boards at the European Union. She has combined her career in innovation with prestigious government appointments in the United Kingdom (at the Trade & Investment agency and at the Innovation Fund of the Department of Sport, Media and Culture) and Spain (State Secretariat for Artificial Intelligence at the Ministry of Economy and Digital Transformation).

She has also advised the Malaysian government’s Sarawak Centre of Performance Excellence on digital transformation strategies for both civil society and government-owned businesses.

She is a Venture Partner at Deep Science Ventures  the UK’s first deep-tech accelerator for science-driven companies and a technology advisor to both the European Union and the British Government as well as to global corporations in matters of digitalisation and A.I. governance and development.

She is currently an advisor to the board at the All Parliamentary Party Group on A.I. at the House of Lords, and has provided evidence at the EU Commission on A.I. and the misuse of citizen data in light of new GDPR policies.

At Imperial College Business School in London, Inma is a guest lecturer at the MSc Management program, the MSc in Economics and the MSc Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Strategy.

Inma has written two books: “The Future of the Automotive Industry” and “The Fifth Industrial Revolution: How Space Commercialisation will derive the Biggest Industrial Expansion of the 21st Century”. Both books focus on digital transformation and radical business models that are paving the way to a new concept of progress, competitive attributes and stakeholders’ values.

In March 2021 she was appointed to the GPAI’s Innovation and Commercialisation of A.I. Task Group.

Described by Fortune and TIME as one of Europe’s top talents in social engagement through technology, serial entrepreneur and angel investor in technology Inma, was ranked by Red Herring among the top 40 women in technology, and FastCompany labelled her a "firestarter”.

A pioneer, Inma is the perfect speaker to educate corporate audiences on the emerging digital trends.