Pilar Conesa

Pilar Conesa is a Smart City pioneer and an advocate of innovation in the successful transformation of businesses. She has held various executive management positions at ICT companies and public organizations for more than 20 years.

Currently, she is the founder and CEO of anteverti, a consulting company that advises private companies, cities and public organizations in projects of transformation and change, focusing on Smart Cities and OpenGovernment. Furthermore, she is the Congress Director of Smart City Expo World Congress, the world referent event.

She is the former CIO of the Barcelona City Council. Other previous positions include T-Systems’ Vice President for Public Administration and Health, CEO of AIS Chile, and executive positions at Catalan Government’s ICT Services and Barcelona’92 Olympic Games organization committee.

Pilar Conesa is a member of several Advisory Boards: ITC Catalan Government, International Graduate Institute at Open University (UOC), Polytechnic University Alumni (UPC-Barcelona Tech).

She holds a BA in Computer Science from UPC-Barcelona Tech and completed Executive Business Programs at IESE Business School and at the European School of Management and Technology (ESMT).