| FIBES. Palace of Congresses and Exhibitions of Seville Av. Alcalde Luis Uruñuela, 1, 41020 Seville |
| 31st October 2024 |
Galleries
International Conference
Awards
Program
31 October 2023
8:45h – 9:15h
Arrival of participants and accreditations
9:15h – 9:20h
Welcome and presentation
Conductor of the event
María Matos
Director of Studies and Spokesperson for Fotocasa
9:20h – 9:30h
Inauguration of the Conference
«The investment opportunity in Seville and its metropolis»
José Luis Sanz
Mayor of Seville
+ informationPresentation of Silver Sponsors
Presentation of Silver Sponsors
9:35h – 9:45h
Audiovisual Projection
Pilar Conesa
Founder and president of Anteverti. Curator of the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona
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Round Table
«Strategic planning for Seville in the 2030 horizon»
Moderator
Francisco Morcillo
Strategic Coordinator of Sevilla City One
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Antonio Castaño
Managing Director of Contursa
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Inés Leal
ESG Expert Advisor in Sustainability, Energy and New Technologies in Building and City. Founding Partner Tecma Red Group
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Esteve Almirall
Director of the «Center for Innovation in Cities»
+ informationPresentation of Gold Sponsors
Presentation of Gold Sponsors
10:35h – 10:45h
Audiovisual Projection
«Seville. The road to climate neutrality»
10:45h – 11:30h
Round Table
«Successful experiences in sustainable transformation processes»
Moderator
José Luis Losa
Journalist, El Confidencial
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Luis Pérez Díaz
Managing Director of PCT Cartuja
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Joaquín Segovia
Managing Director in the Southern Territory of Telefónica Spain
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Rafael Carmona
President of the Port Authority of Seville
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Vincenzo Cardarelli
Director of IR at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission
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Coffee break and media attention
Presentation of Diamond Sponsors
Presentation of Diamond Sponsors
12:15h – 13:00h
Round Table
«Responsible financing in urban transformation processes»
Moderator
Manuel Alejandro Cardenete
Professor of Economics at Loyola University
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José Mª Vera
Deputy General Manager – Commercial Director of Caja Rural del Sur
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David Salado
Mortgage Business Director – Territorial Promoter in Andalusia – Extremadura
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Jerónimo Béjar
General Partner of EONIQ.Fund
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Audiovisual Projection
«International projection of Seville. Global communication»
13:05h – 13:50h
Round Table
«Seville, metropolis of the south, as an investment destination»
Moderator
Manuel Parejo
Director of Seville Open for Business
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Olaf Steinbusch
Senior Acquisition International Manager of Primevest Capital Partners
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José Manuel Llovet
Commercial CEO of Real Estate Iberia Grupo Lar
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Álvaro Arteaga Biforcos
Managing Director of M7 Real Estate Spain
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Gustavo Cardozo Lupi
Managing Director of Panattoni Iberia
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Alberto Prieto Ruiz
Managing Director of Coral Homes
+ informationPresentation by the Organisers
Presentation by the Organisers
13:55h – 14:05h
Report Presentation
«The future outlook for metropolitan Seville»
José Ignacio Fernández de Jódar
Spokesperson for Sevilla City One
14:05h – 14:15h
Closing Ceremony
«Andalusia, land of opportunities»
Rocío Díaz Jiménez
Regional Minister for Development, Planning and Housing of the Government of Andalusia
+ informationAlberto Prieto Ruiz
Managing Director of Coral Homes
Alberto Prieto Ruiz has been CEO of Coral Homes since July 2023. Previously, he was director of the real estate business (head of real estate) since the company’s creation in 2018.
Prieto has a long and successful career in the Spanish real estate sector, with relevant positions in different companies, always in the world of real estate transactions.
He joined Knight Frank in 1996 to set up and develop the company’s residential and land business. He contributed to the significant growth and expansion of the company, first as a partner, later as an owner-partner and from 2011 to 2016 as Managing Director for Spain. During his time as CEO, he was also one of the four founders of the Association of Consultancy Firms (ACI). Between 2016 and 2018, he combined his position as Managing Director of BDO, a leading professional services firm, where he was responsible for setting up the Real Estate department, with that of independent director of Neinor Homes.
He holds a degree in Computer Science and is an expert in Business Communication and Economic Journalism from the Complutense University of Madrid.
Álvaro Arteaga
Managing Director of M7 Real Estate Spain
Álvaro is Managing Director at M7 Real Estate Spain. He is responsible for business development and delivering performance from the assets under management.
Prior to joining M7 in May 2020, he was Country Manager for a pan-European multi-family office for 4 years, with involvement in acquisitions and management of both residential and office assets with a combined purchase price of c.€450 m.
Before this, Álvaro worked for some of the most well-known real estate companies (Grupo Lar Grosvenor, Hill International, Aktua-Intrum) being involved in acquisitions value in €500m and managing assets for a value of €600m.
Álvaro has a degree both in Business Administration and Law (E-3) from Icade-Univ, Pontificia Comillas in Madrid.
Antonio Castaño
Managing Director of Contursa
He currently holds the position of Managing Director of Empresa Municipal Congresos y Turismo de Sevilla, S.A. (Contursa), of which he was also Managing Director from 2011-2015.
He is a technician in tourism companies and activities with a Master’s degree in Senior Management of Public Administration Institutions, San Telmo Business School.
Throughout her career, she has held positions of responsibility in marketing in companies in the tourism and food sectors, such as EVENTIA (Coca-Cola/Rendelsur), LANDALUZ and New Way Foods (MAJAO).
David Salado
Mortgage Business Director – Territorial Promoter in Andalusia – Extremadura
Born in 1978 in Sanlúcar La Mayor (Seville). Graduated in Business Studies from the University of Seville. Postgraduate studies, MBA (Business Administration), at the University of Alicante, Autonomous University of Barcelona and Carlos III University of Madrid, also expert in Real Estate Companies, at the College of Architects of Madrid.
After his studies, he began his professional career in the financial system (Banco Santander) with more than 20 years of experience in various responsibilities, and for the last 10 years he has been in charge of Banco Santander’s real estate business in Andalusia.
Esteve Almirall
Director del «Center for Innovation in Cities»
Esteve Almirall is Professor at Esade and Director of the Centre for Innovation in Cities.
He has taught at several universities, including UC Berkeley, Purdue, UPF, UPC and EPFL. With a mixed background in AI and management sciences, he is passionate about the intersection of digital technologies and innovation, particularly in the context of smart cities.
His research has been published in leading journals in his field. He writes for La Vanguardia, among other media, and participates in Revolucio40 on Catalunya Radio.
Francisco Morcillo
Strategic Coordinator of Sevilla City One
Urban Planning and Innovation Consultant, Project Manager, focused on the development of Smart Cities and Territories as CEO of MB3 GESTION. As a specialist consultant and project manager, he has developed a large number of master plans, action plans and public projects for business innovation and digital transformation of cities and digital transformation, specifically in the development of Smart Cities and Territories.
Speaker at International Forums on Service and Business Models in Smart Cities, Barcelona, Santander, Benidorm, Seville, Malaga, Madrid, Panama City, Santiago de Chile, Bogota. He has participated as guest blogger and influencer in innovation portals and multinationals such as Telefónica IoT, I-Ambiente, Política Comunicada (Argentina), SmartLigthing, Phillips Innovación, Siemens, FCC, ect… or thematic magazines such as FuturEnergy. Collaboration as an influencer with ENDESA, ENEL GROUP, SAP or SANTANDER, participating in dissemination activities and focus groups, such as the one held in New York in July 2018, selected as one of the twenty participants of this specialised forum at the international level.
Blog franciscomorcillo.com (with more than 100,000 visits in Spain and Latin America, creating the Canvas Smart City methodology for the development of value propositions in smart cities).
Gustavo Cardozo Lupi
Managing Director of Panattoni Iberia
Born in Caracas, Venezuela and graduated in Civil Engineering from the Metropolitan University of Caracas (Venezuela). During my first 10 years of professional career, I worked as Project Manager of large touristic developments in Venezuela, USA and the Turks and Caicos Islands (BWI). After moving to Spain in 1998, I worked as Director of Project Management of large Office, Industrial and Infrastructure developments for Gerens – Hill International. After joining Prologis in 2002, I started as Director of Project Management for Spain. In January 2007, I was appointed as Prologis´ Country Manager for the Iberian market and awarded the title of Senior Vice-President in 2012. During this time as Country Manager of Prologis, I was directly involved in the development of 750.000 sq m of new logistics buildings, the acquisition of 800.000 sq m of logistics buildings from third-parties, disposition of 350.000 sq m of assets and the purchase of more than 1.2 million sqm of land. At the time I left Prologis, I was leading a team that managed a portfolio of 1.200.000 sqm of real estate (€800 Million value), occupied by 92 customers and generating circa € 59 Million per annum of Gross Rental Income. I joined Panattoni in February 2020 as Partner and Managing Director for Spain & Portugal, with the main goal to create and manage a team that will take Panattoni to become one of the top leaders in development of logistics and industrial real estate in these 2 countries. We are currently executing 14 development projects of logistics facilities across Spain and Portugal, totaling 600.000 m2 of buildable area and have 500.000 m2 in the pipeline for future development.
I have a vast experience in the construction, development, acquisitions, dispositions, asset management and leasing of Industrial real estate. Throughout these last years, I have been invited to participate as speaker in various seminars organized by ESADE Business School, Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya, Salon Internacional de la Logística, Barcelona Meeting Point, The District, Feria Inmobiliaria de Madrid, the French Chamber of Commerce in Spain, Property Investor Europe, GRI, PwC, among others, and also offered countless interviews and press articles published in the financial and real estate media in Spain and Europe.
Inés Leal
ESG expert in sustainability, energy and new technologies in buildings and cities. Founding partner of the Tecma Red Group
Founding partner of Grupo Tecma Red, a leading online publisher in Spain, specialising in sustainability, energy and new technologies in buildings and cities. In Grupo Tecma Red she is responsible for the editorial direction and business development. She is also the director of the Near Zero Energy Buildings Congress and the Smart Cities Congress (2012-2021).
At the same time, she is a member of several advisory boards of private and public institutions related to sustainability, new technologies and energy efficiency in buildings and cities. From 2011 to 2015 he was a member of the Board of Directors of the Official Association of Architects of Madrid (COAM) and a member of the Assembly of the Higher Council of Spanish Architects’ Associations (CSCAE).
She is a regular speaker at professional forums and postgraduate courses/masters on topics related to his professional experience, always with a strategic ESG focus and vision of future trends. His contribution provides an expert understanding of the market, stakeholders, business, regulations, technical perspective and design.
Specialities
- Sustainable architecture and building
- Smart Cities
- Near zero energy buildings
- Renewable energy integration
Educational background
- Architect from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid (Madrid School of Architecture)
- Specialist in Analysis and Management of Real Estate Projects, Universidad Pontificia de Comillas (ICADE)
- Certificate and IC-A Diploma in Corporate Governance from the Instituto de Consejeros y Administradores España (IC-A)
Passionate about digital communication and the possibilities of social networks, where she shares her knowledge and professional experience.
Founding partner of WAS (Women Action Sustainability) and partner of WIRES (Women in Real Estate Spain).
Jerónimo Béjar
General Partner of EONIQ.Fund
Law degree and MBA from ESADE and HEC-Paris.
General Partner of EONIQ, a venture capital fund dedicated to early-stage technology start-ups, with a deep knowledge of the Andalusian entrepreneurial fabric and a special interest in identifying talent beyond Madrid and Barcelona.
Previously, he was the Executive Director of the Sociedad para la Promoción y Reconversión Económica de Andalucía (SOPREA), where he managed public investment funds and carried out operations worth 440 million euros in companies in various sectors, with a focus on Andalusia.
Joaquín Segovia
Managing Director in the Southern Territory of Telefónica Spain
He has an extensive professional career that he has developed entirely in Telefónica, where he has held various positions of responsibility in Andalusia and Extremadura. In 2021 he was appointed Director of the Southern Territory, from where he manages the company’s presence in Andalusia, Extremadura, Ceuta and Melilla.
Segovia maintains a strong commitment to innovation and entrepreneurship, hence his involvement in the creation of public-private collaboration programmes for Open Innovation and support for entrepreneurship such as Andalucía Open Future, Extremadura Open Future and Ceuta Open Future, which have become a benchmark in the field of innovation and entrepreneurship in these regions.
He always highlights the excellent levels of connectivity that we have in Spain and Andalusia, and defends the competitive advantage that this fact gives us and how it makes us a very attractive country and region for investment and new projects. He is also a strong advocate of the application of new technologies to improve people’s lives and highlights the use of these technologies to build a greener, more responsible and sustainable future, which has led him to participate in various projects and forums on innovation in urban sustainability, blue economy or decarbonised ecosystems.
José Luis Losa
Journalist, El Confidencial
- Journalist specialising in economic information
- Communication and coaching expert
- University lecturer
- Newsroom coordinator (El Economista, Europa Press, ABC, Sevilla TV, Punto Radio…)
- Theatre director
After almost 20 years in the world of journalism, in 2012 I decided to stop thinking about «what I wanted to be when I grew up» and ask myself what the public wanted. After a year in New York, I returned to Spain with a rucksack full of energy, ideas and new projects. Among them, www.comunicayconvence.com, the company I founded in 2013 to help great professionals express themselves in public without fear, bring out the best in themselves and make communication not a problem but an ally. I teach intensive personal communication courses for professionals at the Palacio de Congresos in Seville. The rest of my time is divided between teaching at Loyola Andalucía University, being El Confidencial’s correspondent in Andalusia and giving talks on Canal Sur, Cadena SER and Ondaluz, among other media.
José Luis Sanz
Mayor of Seville
Graduate in Economics and Business Studies.
His professional experience has been dedicated to politics, being Senator and Mayor of Tomares for 14 years. He was General Secretary of the PP-A (2011-2014), President of the PP in Seville (2007-2011) and a member of the Parliament of Andalusia (2000-2011).
José Manuel Llovet
Commercial CEO of Real Estate Iberia Grupo Lar
José Manuel Llovet has more than 25 years of experience in the Spanish property sector. He has held key positions in leading companies in the shopping centre and retail park, logistics and office sectors.
He is a graduate of CUNEF, a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, President of the Association of Commercial Property Owners (APRESCO) and Vice President of the Spanish Association of Shopping Centres and Retail Parks (AECC). He has been a member of the Board of Directors of RICS in Spain and is an active speaker at conferences, meetings and international trade fairs.
He joined Grupo Lar in January 2015 as exclusive manager of Lar España Real Estate SOCIMI. He is currently CEO of the company’s Tertiary (retail, offices and logistics) division.
He was previously Director of Retail Capital Markets Spain at JLL, after 12 years as Director of Investment Management at Unibail-Rodamco. He has also held senior positions in other companies such as SCCE and FCC.
He has managed portfolios of more than €5,000 million for GAV, led transactions of more than €4,000 million and developed prime assets of more than 300,000 m2.
José María Vera
Deputy General Manager – Commercial Director of Caja Rural del Sur
José María Vera López is Deputy General Manager and Commercial Director of Caja Rural del Sur, SCC. He holds a degree in Economics and Business Studies, a Master’s Degree in Management from the Instituto de Estudios Cajasol and a programme in Senior Management of Leading Companies and Institutions. San Telmo Business School.
His professional career has been developed in the financial and insurance sector, where he has participated in various merger projects and business consolidation of the resulting entity; among other functions, he was General Manager of Garántia SGR until May 2022.
Luis Pérez Díaz
Managing Director of PCT Cartuja
Born in Minas de Riotinto (Huelva, 1975), Luis Pérez graduated in Law from the University of Huelva. He is an expert in the management and creation of technology-based companies (EOI) and an expert in innovation management (San Telmo International Institute).
After working in the private sector, he has spent most of his career at PCT Cartuja, where he was recruited in 2003 to create a specific department for new business projects. Until his new appointment, in which he replaces Martín Blanco García, Pérez Díaz was the company’s director of innovation and projects.
The new General Manager of PCT Cartuja has extensive experience in the management of R&D&I projects, as well as in public and private financing of innovative technology-based companies (EIBT). Since 2010, he has been the manager of the Marie Curie Techno-Incubator at PCT Cartuja, which has seen the manager of the Marie Curie Techno-incubator at PCT Cartuja, which has seen more than 120 business projects.
Pérez Díaz also has extensive experience in advising on the creation and development of science and technology parks, both nationally and internationally.
Manuel Alejandro Cardenete
Professor of Economics at Loyola University
Professor of Economics at Loyola Andalucía University and Pablo de Olavide University (and Visiting Research Professor at Georgetown University).
He was Regional Minister for Education and Sport. Previously, he was Deputy Minister of the Vice-Presidency-Ministry of Tourism, Regeneration, Justice and Local Administration, both of the Junta de Andalucía, and a member of the Committee of the Regions of the European Union, being spokesman for the Renew Europe Group in the NAT Commission of the same and President of NECSTouR. Before entering politics, he was Vice Rector of Postgraduate Studies and Director of the Loyola Leadership School at Loyola Andalucía University. He is an Academician of the Andalusian Academy of Regional Sciences.
He is Principal Investigator of the CLIMAMODEL SEJ-511 research group (Multisectoral Models for Climate Change), Distinguished Research Professor at HISPAREAL (Hispalis Regional Economics Applications Laboratory) and Associate Researcher at CISE-Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila (Mexico).
He was Visiting Research Scholar at the Regional Economics Applications Laboratory -REAL- of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA) in 2002 and at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain) in 1998. He has also worked as a technical advisor for the Ministry of Economy of the Regional Government of Andalusia (Spain) on CGE and SAM models (2002-2005 and 2007-2009), as an advisor to the Economic and Social Council of the City of Valencia.
Advisor to the Institute of Cartography and Statistics of Andalusia (2015-2018), Chairman of the Business Strategy Committee of the Andalusian Confederation of Employers (2014-2018), Chairman of the Economics Committee of the Seville Association of Economists (2018-2019), Chairman of the Analysis and Forecasting Committee of the Andalusian Confederation of Employers (2019) and Chairman of the Andalusian Association of Regional Sciences (2014-2020). Finally, he has been Associate Researcher at CEDRUS-Universidad Autónoma de México-UNAM (Mexico) (2016-2019), Universidad Autónoma de Chile (2016-2018). Senior Economist at the European Institute of Public Administration (Maastricht, Netherlands) (2012-2013) and at the European Commission (JRC-IPTS) (2011-2012). He has been Professor at the Pablo de Olavide University (2000-2013), the EOI Escuela de Organización Industrial (2001-2013) and the University of Huelva (1995-2000). His research interests include input-output models, SAM models and general equilibrium models applied at international, national and regional levels using the GAMS, PyIO and SIMSIPSAM software.
Manuel Parejo
Director of Seville Open for Business
- Doctor of Economics (Industrial Mention).
- Managing Director of FLACEMA.
- Director of Sevilla Open for Business.
- Professor of Finance Pablo Olavide University.
- Member of the Social Council of the University of Seville.
- Competitiveness Council-CEA.
Olaf Steinbusch
Senior Acquisition International Manager of Primevest Capital Partners
With more than 27 years of experience in real estate, Olaf has extensive experience in transactions, sales, leasing and asset management.
He has worked at a family office, at a project developer, and since 2015 he has been serving the institutional market in the purchase of rented housing in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Denmark and Spain.
Olaf holds two bachelor degrees and a master in Real Estate, and is a member of the RICS.
Pilar Conesa
Founder and president of Anteverti. Curator of the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona
Pilar Conesa is a smart city pioneer, founder and president of Anteverti and curator of the Smart City Expo World Congress.
With more than 30 years of management experience in the ICT sector, she was CIO of Barcelona City Council and General Manager of Public Sector and Healthcare at T-Systems.
She is President of the Business Council of the Barcelona Innova Foundation, a member of the General Council of MACBA, the Board of Trustees of EADA Business School and the Scientific Council of the Order of Architects, Planners, Landscape Architects and Conservators of Italy.
A speaker at global events and jury member for international urban innovation competitions, she was the first woman to be awarded the Honorary Prize of La Nit de les Telecomunicacions i la Informàtica de Catalunya.
Rafael Carmona
President of the Port Authority of Seville
Currently President of the Port Authority of Seville and President of Suncruise Andalucía, the association comprising the port authorities of Algeciras, Almeria, Cadiz, Huelva, Malaga, Motril (Granada) and Seville, and the Public Ports Agency of Andalusia.
Auditor of the Andalusian Audit Chamber and was a member of the Andalusian regional parliament. As such, he became spokesman in the Commission for Economy, Innovation, Science and Employment. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of Radio Televisión de Andalucía (RTVA). He is also a lecturer in Economics at the University of Seville.
The Port Authority of Seville and Endesa have recently signed a collaboration protocol for the design and planning of a set of measures to facilitate the energy transition of the port environment before 2030, and make it a national benchmark in sustainability and energy efficiency to transform the Port of Seville into a greener and decarbonised port, committed to renewable energies and greater energy efficiency. To this end, an energy efficient model will be implemented which integrates sustainable mobility, renewable energy, energy storage and the digitalisation of processes through «open data» and distributed platforms, allowing the Port of Seville to be at the forefront of this type of environment, both nationally and internationally.
Rocío Díaz Jiménez
Regional Minister for Development, Planning and Housing of the Government of Andalusia
She holds a degree in Political Science and Sociology from the University of Granada, where she has lived since 1993. With training in leadership and public management from the IESE Business School, she has been Director General of the Patronato de la Alhambra y Generalife and Vice-President of the Fundación Pública Andaluza Rodríguez-Acosta since March 2019.
Previously, she was spokeswoman for the Popular Group in the Granada City Council (2016-2019) and its councillor for six years in different areas such as presidency, tourism or citizen participation (2011-2016), as well as member of the Board of Trustees of the Alhambra and Generalife (2012-2016), vice-president of the Albaicín Agency (2012-2016) and senator for Granada in the XI Legislature.
Vincenzo Cardarelli
Director of IR at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission
Currently President of the Port Authority of Seville and President of Suncruise Andalucía, the association comprising the port authorities of Algeciras, Almeria, Cadiz, Huelva, Malaga, Motril (Granada) and Seville, and the Public Ports Agency of Andalusia.
Auditor of the Andalusian Audit Chamber and was a member of the Andalusian regional parliament. As such, he became spokesman in the Commission for Economy, Innovation, Science and Employment. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of Radio Televisión de Andalucía (RTVA). He is also a lecturer in Economics at the University of Seville.
The Port Authority of Seville and Endesa have recently signed a collaboration protocol for the design and planning of a set of measures to facilitate the energy transition of the port environment before 2030, and make it a national benchmark in sustainability and energy efficiency to transform the Port of Seville into a greener and decarbonised port, committed to renewable energies and greater energy efficiency. To this end, an energy efficient model will be implemented which integrates sustainable mobility, renewable energy, energy storage and the digitalisation of processes through «open data» and distributed platforms, allowing the Port of Seville to be at the forefront of this type of environment, both nationally and internationally.
