Grenade continues to gain ground on the technological level, especially in the fields of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity. Koh Young Technologya world leader in the development of advanced technologies and artificial intelligence, chose it last year as the headquarters for its European subsidiary and many other companies have also focused on this Andalusian city that wants to become technological capital.
Proof of this growth of the innovation sector is the II Congress of Artificial Intelligence (AI) of Andalusia #AndalucIA24 which is being held these days in the city and which has managed to double last year’s numbers, with more than 4,000 participants, some 200 speakers and 120 organisations.
The advisor to the Presidency, Interior, Social Dialogue and Administrative Simplification, Antonio Sanzinaugurated the meeting accompanied by the mayor of the city, Marifran Carazo and has highlighted the importance that the Andalusian Government gives to AI, highlighting that the Andalusia Digital Law (LADI), whose start of processing has already been approved by the Government Council, includes a specific section dedicated to this technology, “always protecting the privacy of citizens, and ensuring make your application accessible and sustainable“.
An AI center in Granada
A regulation that will follow “consolidating Andalusia as a benchmark in technological innovation”stated the Andalusian head of the Presidency. The LADI also includes the creation of an Artificial Intelligence Center in Granada, which will be a fundamental pillar in the development and coordination of the use of AI in the Andalusian Administration.
It is a center that will work in collaboration with key institutions in sectors such as education, health and industrypromoting innovative projects that improve the quality of public services and generate new economic opportunities. It is planned that, throughout 2025, the center will be shaped with the collaboration of the entire AI ecosystem in Andalusia, providing it with human and technical resources necessary for its implementation.
In this sense, Sanz has praised andGranada’s role as the epicenter of AIthe contribution of its University, its companies and its City Council, with projects that have a “global” scope. The mayor of the capital of Granada, for her part, has been convinced that the “enormous potential” of Granada is going to break into a new economic model supported by “science and technology at the hands of the Board.”
After reiterating his conviction in the application of new technologies to municipal management, Carazo highlighted the commitment to promoting talent and training with the launch of the first Urban Demonstration Center for AI and Quantum Computing (iQuantum) in Spain, of which he has predicted that “he will a disseminating, training and driving role for new companies and talent capable of consolidating Granada’s notoriety as an AI technological center and transferring applications to cities.”
In his speech, the counselor highlighted the 58 AI use cases that the Board is applying in areas such as Education, Justice or Health. With an investment of 36 million euros, the Andalusian Administration is applying AI to intelligent automation that, through the robotization of processes, streamlines the relationship between the administration and the citizen, or in virtual assistants, such as the one in Playas or that of the Romero Plan of the Rocío pilgrimage.
In educational subjectpredictive models of school dropouts are being used with a predictive analytics system based on AI through the Seneca portal that collects data from millions of students for more than 20 years, so that More than 430 variables are analyzed such as grades, absenteeism and socioeconomic conditions and identifies which students have “a greater risk of abandoning their studies before completing compulsory secondary school,” the Board has detailed.
Thanks to this information, educational centers can adopt support measuressuch as personalized tutoring or reinforcement plans. In that sense, the Administration is also using AI to optimize schooling in Middle and Higher Level training cycles.
In Social Services There is also a predictive model for dependency care. Likewise, in Granada and Cádiz, AI is used to improve public transport management with the Aforos TramBahía and AforosMG projects of the Cádiz Bay tram and the Granada metro.
Support for the Andalusian Health System
These initiatives use artificial vision systems to quantify the flow of people at stops, providing crucial data for better planning and optimization of the service. In something as important as health, AI offers the Andalusian healthcare system endless perspectives from analysis of radiological images, assistance in cancer screening breast cancer or the optimization of waiting lists. In addition, this new technology is being applied in the areas of Tourism, Justice and Agriculture or in the fight against forest fires.
Sanz also highlighted during his speech the creation of a quantum hub with physical headquarters in Granadain collaboration with the City Council of the capital, included within the quantum computing project of the Digital Agency of Andalusia (ADA) recently launched and which has an investment of two million euros.
In addition, he announced that the technological node specialized in AI will soon be launched at the public center of FPE Cartuja, in Granada, with an investment of 3.7 million euros for the next four years and will have courses at various levels, many of them with certification from leading companies in the sector.
The ACUTEL Technology Fair
On the other hand, also focused on AI and cybersecurity, it is being held these days in the municipality of Armilla the 39th Technology Fair organized by the National Association of Telecommunications and Local Television Operators of Spain (ACUTEL). An event that brings together more than 3,000 professionals under the motto ‘More connection, more closeness’.
In addition to local companies that operate nationally, this edition also includes international firms from Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Netherlands, Italy, China, United States and Argentina, among other countries.
The company FlashStart Group welcomed with his presentation on ‘DNS Security in the era of AI and cyber wars’ and then passed the baton to the firm Gamma, which gave a presentation titled ‘Webex for Gamma: communications and collaboration for the business success of SMEs’.
Along the same lines, Bluevía with ‘Sector trends’, CableMóvil with ‘The new mobile network CableMobile. The most powerful mobile service for operators’, Aire Networks with ‘The future of the Telco market in Spain: innovation against price devaluation’, and Opefree Silbo and Choir with ‘Cybersecurity in the telecommunications sector’.
Looking ahead to the second and last day of this technology fair, it is starred by Huawei under the title ‘Intelligent optical networks. Differentiate through improving the home experience and develop the corporate market.’
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