{"id":3613,"date":"2025-10-03T13:16:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T11:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/2025\/10\/03\/la-universidad-de-la-laguna-reune-a-expertos-en-ia-y-sostenibilidad-en-la-jornada-diginnova-inspira\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T13:16:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T11:16:26","slug":"la-universidad-de-la-laguna-reune-a-expertos-en-ia-y-sostenibilidad-en-la-jornada-diginnova-inspira","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/en\/2025\/10\/03\/la-universidad-de-la-laguna-reune-a-expertos-en-ia-y-sostenibilidad-en-la-jornada-diginnova-inspira\/","title":{"rendered":"The University of La Laguna brings together experts in AI and sustainability at the &#039;Diginnova Inspires&#039; event\u2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The University of La Laguna celebrated today, October 3rd <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/en\/portal2\/agenda\/evento\/diginnova-inspira\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Diginnova Inspires<\/a>, A day dedicated to connecting professionals in key areas such as digital transformation, innovation, and sustainability. This event marked the closing of the second edition of the program, which offers free, specialized training in subjects related to digital transformation, sustainability, and innovation, as well as paid, non-work placements in various organizations in the Canary Islands.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Those who spoke at this event included Eduardo Manrique de Lara, manager of the University Foundation of Las Palmas; Julio Brito, manager of the General Foundation of the University of La Laguna; Javier Franco Hormiga, director of the Canary Agency for Research, Innovation and the Information Society; and Antonio Aparicio, vice-rector of Research and Transfer of the University of La Laguna.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Manrique de Lara emphasized the cooperation between university foundations to promote training projects and boost employability, highlighting that a high percentage of program participants have successfully entered the job market. Brito, for his part, noted that the purpose of this meeting is &quot;to continue emphasizing innovation, digital transformation, and sustainability,&quot; key elements for the archipelago&#039;s economic development.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Javier Franco emphasized his pride in promoting initiatives born with a clear vocation: &quot;To transform the present and future of the Canary Islands through knowledge, technology and sustainability,&quot; while Aparicio focused on the importance of strengthening knowledge transfer mechanisms to the business sector, with special attention to the creation of spin-offs and startups.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>From AI to sustainability<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After the institutional speeches, it was the turn of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/pedromujica.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pedro Mujica<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, an expert in artificial intelligence, who gave the lecture \u201cWithout AI there is no future: keys to remain relevant\u201d, focusing his speech on the concept of \u201csuperhumans\u201d, which consists of empowering oneself through artificial intelligence and the metaverse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mujica emphasized that \u201ctechnology is neither good nor bad; it is a tool, but its impact on humanity will depend on how we use it.\u201d The expert took the opportunity to address a common concern regarding AI and jobs: \u201cArtificial intelligence has failed as a replacement; this tool is meant to complement us because it lacks human strengths.\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Odile Rodr\u00edguez de la Fuente, a biologist and science communicator, was the next speaker, with a talk entitled &#039;Climate of change&#039;, where she explained the consequences of climate change and the possible actions to face this emergency through innovation and creativity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rodr\u00edguez de la Fuente stressed that \u201chumanity is part of the Earth\u2019s living system and should put its extraordinary capacity for reflection at the service of life\u201d and presented systematic and biomimetic solutions in various sectors, such as information and energy, that benefit the planet and the quality of life of citizens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Diginnova is a program of the Canary Agency for Research, Innovation and Information Society, funded by the Ministry of Universities, Science and Innovation and Culture of the Government of the Canary Islands, and the European Social Fund Plus, managed by the University Foundation of Las Palmas in collaboration with the University of La Laguna.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La Universidad de La Laguna celebr\u00f3 hoy 3 de octubre Diginnova Inspira, una jornada para acercar perfiles profesionales en \u00e1reas&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3614,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,375,59,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-destacado","category-fundacion-general","category-institucion","category-portada-ull"],"acf":[],"primary_category":null,"featured_image_thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/10\/Clausura-Diginnova-inspira-40-300x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}