The III Working Group on AI in Spain highlights public-private collaboration to advance sovereignty and adoption

This Tuesday was celebrated the III Public-Private Roundtable on the State of AI in Spain, a working group promoted by AI-Network with the collaboration of the General Directorate of Artificial Intelligence of the Ministry for Digital Transformation and Public Service, to advance technological sovereignty and adoption of AI.

At the meeting, the president of AI-Network, Tomás Martínez, reviewed the evolution of this collaboration since the two previous editions of the Working Group, and conveyed the commitment of the association’s Advisory Council to continue contributing knowledge, real use cases and concrete proposals that help accelerate the implementation of AI in Spanish companies.

“The objective of the association is accelerate the use of artificial intelligence in companies so that no one is left behind“, pointed out Martínez. To this end, during the session, the members of the Advisory Council conveyed to the General Directorate specific experiences and proposals on data governance, adoption of artificial intelligence in SMEs, regulation, public procurement, technological infrastructures and sovereignty, sectoral use cases – with special attention to healthcare -, training, talent and public-private collaboration.

For her part, the general director of Artificial Intelligence, Aleida Alcaide, has reviewed the status of the National Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2024 of the Government of Spain and the main programs underway to promote its deployment in the country: artificial intelligence factories y sovereignty initiatives.

In the first, it is spaces for the design, testing and implementation of artificial intelligence solutions, which in Spain will be developed through the Barcelona Supercomputing Center and the Galicia Supercomputing Center to offer SMEs the capabilities that will allow them to develop their own projects for free.

With them, it is intended establish a development ecosystem of artificial intelligence, which will allow, on the one hand, to create accelerators for large companies that work with AI and, on the other, to hold workshops throughout Spain, through sectoral nodes, to show SMEs how they can integrate AI so that it is useful and brings benefits.

The second program seeks to “advance sovereignty while being aware that sovereignty does not mean full autonomy”, as Alcaide has pointed out, who has stressed that this is work that is done together with European partners to compete on a global level.

This is where the project of the artificial intelligence gigafactory, the creation of the infrastructure that allows large AI models to be trained and operated in a European cloud, in which Spain participates with an investment of 250 million euros, and which will have a total investment close to 5,000 million euros.

A ello is the one Public Procurement of Innovation (IPC) in AIa project of strategic interest in which Spain participates with different Member States to select AI initiatives in each of the countries that cover the value chain of this technology in Europe.

The session included the participation of members of the AI-Network Advisory Council, the body that brings together some of the most representative organizations of the sector in Spain: Axicom, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Berocam, Cirentis, decide4AI · LinkRoad, Devoteam, HP, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Innova-tsn, Mética Partners, Orange Empresas, Prosegur, SDG Group, Sellcom Solutions, Singular, the Polytechnic University of Madrid, ElevenLabs, ERNI Consulting and alterMInd, among other prominent players in the sector.

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