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Dr. Ignacio M. Llorente
Chief Executive Officer at OpenNebula - Open Source Edge Cloud Platform - and Chairman at Edge/Cloud WG - European Alliance for Industrial Data, Edge and Cloud
Dr. Ignacio M. Llorente is a senior technology executive and entrepreneur known for his leadership at OpenNebula, an open-source Cloud & Edge Computing platform, where he has been instrumental in enabling organizations worldwide to build innovative open clouds since its inception in 2008.
With a Ph.D in Computer Science and an Executive MBA, Dr. Llorente is a pioneer in Cloud Computing, recognized as a top-cited author in the field, and the recipient of the ARITMEL 2020 Computer Science Award from the Spanish Scientific Society for Informatics.
His career spans various prestigious positions in academia, research, and industry, including roles at Berkeley Lab, Harvard University, NASA, the European Commission, and the World Economic Forum, where he has served as an expert, strategist, and consultant.
Dr. Llorente's expertise lies in large-scale distributed systems, cloud and edge computing infrastructures, and he is deeply passionate about innovation, open-source technologies, and their impact on the economy and society.
He holds a diverse educational background, having studied Executive MBA at IE Business School, Ph.D in Computer Science at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and Graduate degree in Physics with a major in Computer Science from the same university.
