Can Big Data help reduce Deforestation in the Amazon?
The disturbing images and videos of the Amazon ablaze last month were truly shocking and saddening. Not only trees, but wildlife, animals, habitats and homes burned to the ground. 41,858 fires have...
View ArticleLUCA Talk: RCS for Business Messaging, a New Generation
It is undeniable that we are in the midst of a revolution in communications. With more than five billion active accounts in mobile messaging applications and a strong upward trend in the use and...
View ArticleAura arrives in Colombia to transform the relationship with its customers
During the Andicom International ICT Congress, which took place last Friday in Cartagena de Indias (Colombia), the CEO of Telefónica Movistar in Colombia, Fabián Hernández, announced the launch of...
View ArticleIs your AI system discriminating without knowing it?: The paradox between...
This post assumes that readers are aware of the good things that Artificial Intelligence (AI) can bring to our businesses, societies and lives. And also about the most evident challenges that the...
View ArticleTransform to Perform: If you have talent in your company, don’t let it escape
Cars can’t fly yet, but do we need them when we are experiencing a flood of information from all directions? I have always wondered what the traffic lights of the future would look like if cars could...
View ArticleYou are no longer just a company of products or services, you are a data company
All companies in operation today are actually data companies. This is because, every day they collect and process a large amount of information: from customers, internal operations, suppliers,...
View ArticleARTYficial Intelligence or just Artificial, can tech be creative?
When I hear the word art, a few masterpieces spring to mind; Monet’s Water lilies, Picasso’s Guernica and Van Gough’s Starry Night. Whilst many artists names’ do not carry the same grandeur of those...
View Article“Artificial is Natural”: The Artificial Intelligence event for companies
LUCA Innovation Day 2019 is arriving, the third edition of our annual innovation event where you will have to engage all 5 senses. Watch along on our live stream if you are unable to attend. It’s a...
View Article“Eurobeer”, artificial intelligence and a financial system without banks
Among the challenges of the digital economy is security by default. Innovation, artificial intelligence, IoT, blockchain … a whole series of enabling technologies for new business models but security...
View ArticleSuccess Story: pioneering project for economic and social development
In a previous article we talked about how important it is to undertake a cultural transformation, that is, of individuals, whilst a company or sector undertakes a digital transformation of its...
View ArticleArtificial Intelligence in small and medium-sized enterprises
We hear of increasingly more applications of Artificial Intelligence ranging from improved medical diagnosis to autonomous vehicles to automatic translation to voice recognition. But when we look at...
View ArticleArtificial Intelligence, doing more than humanly possible since the Greeks
Many of those working in the world of Artificial intelligence acknowledge the 1950’s as the birth of concepts such as Machine Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence with the creation of the ‘Turing...
View ArticleMovistar Living Apps, a new technological experience in the home
The fact that Artificial Intelligence is revolutionising and transforming the telecommunications sector is nothing new. Users, accustomed to dealing with virtual assistants and chatbots, increasingly...
View ArticleThe highlights of LUCA Innovation Day 2019. What did you miss?
The third edition of LUCA Innovation Day took place on Wednesday the 16th of October, in which we presented the advances developed over the last year by the data unit and showcased the new lines of...
View ArticleThe Data hiding behind Halloween
Big Data and Artificial Intelligence are shaping the future of business with data insights, personalised content and improved user experiences and Halloween, one of the biggest consumer holidays, is...
View ArticleBig Data, the fuel for digital Banks
In 1981, Bill Gates said “640KB will be enough for anybody”. Surpisingly, it was hard even then, to imagine where we would be today; in a sea of data. Big data is fuelling the world of business,...
View ArticleThe RAE launches LEIA with Telefónica, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Twitter and...
Last Friday, Chema Alonso and I had the opportunity to attend the closing session of the 16th Congress of the Association of Spanish Language Academies (ASALE) in Seville organised by organizado por...
View ArticleTelefónica Aura receives the award as a leading Artificial Intelligence...
Last week, Telecoms.com, the digital transformation news platform, held the seventh edition of the Global Telecoms Awards (GLOTEL Awards) in central London. Like every year, experts from around the...
View ArticleSMASSA Success Story: Intelligent Parking Services
Today we bring another success story from the public sector: the example of SMASSA, the Sociedad Municipal de Aparcamientos (Municipal Parking Company) whose mission is to solve the parking problems...
View ArticleOur vision of Aura: more than just a digital assistant
This week I participated for the first time in the Telco AI Summit, which took place in London. During the presentation entitled “Our vision of Aura: much more than a digital assistant” I was able to...
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