Dr. Oscar Lazaro

Dr. Oscar Lazaro is Managing Director of Innovalia, the Spanish group of high-tech SMEs with headquarters in Bilbao. Oscar has participated in the establishment of various initiatives to support the digital transformation of SMEs, like the Advanced Manufacturing HUB (AMHUB) network of the World Economic Forum (WEF) and in collaboration with the European Commission, the Thematic Working Group on Data in Manufacturing, as part of the activities of the European Network of Digital Innovation Hubs (EDIH). He is board member of the BAIDATA Association for the development of data economy and is part of the European Data Space Support Centre (DSSC). He has led European initiatives for the specification and deployment of Data Spaces in manufacturing; he is the deputy spoke person of the International Manufacturing-X Council and founding member of the Catena-X Competence Centre in Spain. He is currently leading at European level the flagship initiative euroFMX on Generative AI for Industrial Automation.