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UPCOMING EVENT
Infrastructure is a central pillar for a country’s competitiveness, social cohesion and citizens’ quality of life. In a context marked by energy transition, budgetary pressure and profound technological disruption, infrastructure management is a strategic priority for everyone.
The immediate challenge is clear: to guarantee reliable services, efficiently maintain and modernize assets, improve territorial and operational coordination, and professionalize risk management in critical industries such as transportation, water and energy. Operational excellence of infrastructure is no longer an aspiration. It’s the starting point.
At the same time, infrastructure must be prepared for the future by including risk and climate resilience criteria in design, harnessing the potential of data, AI and digital twins, using new materials, and moving toward more electrified, intelligent and sustainable systems.
Achieving this requires robust financing mechanisms, greater public-private collaboration, and innovation-driving regulation. The goal: to turn priorities into specific decisions based on supervisors, realistic deadlines and clear-cut metrics.
On May 12, we’ll hear from industry leaders who’ll address all these challenges and generate the discussion required to get down to work. It’ll be an essential day for those who want to move from vision to execution, and to lead the transformation required by tomorrow’s infrastructure.
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| 08:30-09:00 | Registration |
| 09:00-09:30 | Welcome
• Prof. Jaume Armengou, Decision Analysis, IESE Business School, Director Académico del Encuentro |
| 09:35-10:20 | OPENING SESSION
The Decade of Decisions: Infrastructure, Welfare and Competitiveness in Spain and Europe We’re living at a time when infrastructure decisions cannot wait. We need clarity about why this decade is so critical: converging structural tensions, including limitations on fiscal space, the energy transition, urban concentration, demographic aging, logistical vulnerability and climate pressure, make it necessary to act with strategic vision and a sense of urgency. More than a diagnosis, we want to establish an agreement at this industry meeting designed to transform priorities into real decisions. The goal is to give participants a clear road map that indicates the supervisors, deadlines and metrics that allow progress to be made from day one. • Prof. Gonzalo Fernández, Member of the Governing Board, College of Civil Engineers (Roads, Canals and Ports), Madrid Regional Branch |
| 10:25-11:30 | PANEL I
Making It Work Tomorrow: Transportation Reliability and System Coordination Mobility and transportation are the backbone of a country’s daily operations. We’ll analyze how system reliability can be improved in terms of operation and maintenance, not based simply on construction, and we’ll identify decisions that will have an impact in the next 12-18 months. Current challenges include coordination between different public authorities, operators and supply chains; efficient incident management; and modernization priorities that make a real difference. We therefore need a systemic vision that leads to better operations, greater predictability and a direct impact on users and competitiveness. • Sergio Vázquez, President, INECO Moderator: Prof. M.ª José Rodríguez Largacha, Member of the Governing Board, College of Civil Engineers (Roads, Canals and Ports), Madrid Regional Branch |
| 11:30-12:10 | Coffee-Break |
| 12:10-13:15 | PANEL II
Uninterrupted Critical Services: Water and Energy Make up the Backbone Water and energy supply support all other industries. Based on the dual approach of water and energy, we aim to highlight the shared challenges of service continuity, asset modernization and decisions that are often postponed due to their complexity or the lack of consensus. Infrastructure must be perceived as a strategic asset: Where are the system weaknesses? In the network, operation, interconnection, storage, regulation or governance? Based on this analysis, there are bound to be specific levers that can increase reliability, even in scenarios with limited resources and tight deadlines. • Blanca Losada, President, Fortia Energía and ex Presidenta-CEO, Unión Fenosa Distribución Moderator: Prof. José Miguel Atienza, Director, Escuela de CICCP, UPM |
| 13:20-14:25 | PANEL III
Connecting the City and Its Territory: A Holistic Perspective on Transport and Mobility Infrastructure Cities are experiencing population growth and, consequently, a rise in demands—including increasing transport needs. The same applies at the territorial level, as a city is not an isolated entity; citizens’ mobility must always be considered within a broader regional context. Can we rethink how to design future transport and mobility systems by learning from the past and prioritizing livability and demand management? Beyond building additional infrastructure, issues such as maintenance, operations, emerging patterns, and operational decision-making require a discussion that blends strategic vision with professional pragmatism—avoiding abstractions and focusing on what can be effectively implemented. • Pere Calvet, Director of ALSA Catalonia and Dean of the CICCP-Catalonia Branch Moderator: Prof. Gonzalo Fernández, Member of the Governing Board, College of Civil Engineers (Roads, Canals and Ports), Madrid Regional Branch |
| 14:25-16:00 | Networking Lunch |
| 16:00-17:05 | PANEL IV
Key Proposals for Water and Energy Policy Climate change is no longer a future event. It affects investment decisions, design standards and operating models. A rigorous approach must be taken to include risk criteria in water and energy infrastructure by identifying extreme scenarios, defining comparable priorities and realistically sequencing adaptation and mitigation measures. The goal is to move from simply forecasting to creating resilience architecture: to agree on the minimum standards the country should require, to identify systemic risks that are still being underestimated and to translate them into specific projects that can be implemented in the short and medium term. • Mariano González, CEO, Canal Isabel II Moderator: Prof. Juan Luis López Cardenete, IESE Business School |
| 17:10-18:15 | PANEL V
Bankable Projects, Sustainable Systems: Financing and Rules of the Game All transformations require a clear, sustainable financial model. How to finance the level of service demanded by society must be addressed without ideologies or simplifications, as well as how to turn strategic priorities into projects that can actually attract financing. Mechanisms such as concessions, public-private partnerships (PPP) and pay-per-use schemes based on the logic of incentive design and appropriate risk distribution will be analyzed as we review critical enablers such as regulatory stability, procurement quality, technical standards and impact metrics that generate confidence and attract investment. • Nuria Haltiwanger, CEO, Iridium Moderator: Prof. Carles Vergara, Finance Department, IESE Business School |
| 18:20-18:50 | CONCLUSIONS
Twelve Months to Change Course: Five Decisions, Supervisors and Monitoring The meeting will end with an executive summary that identifies five key decisions that must be made in the coming months, including assigning supervisors and setting verifiable milestones for the first 90 days. We want the meeting to be a turning point: an event where participants don’t merely talk, but define a specific agenda and agree on a monitoring mechanism to ensure continuity. • Prof. Jaume Armengou, Decision Analysis, IESE Business School, Director Académico del Encuentro |
| 18:50-20:20 | Spanish wine |
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The IESE Infrastructures meeting will be held on IESE Madrid
The fees for this meeting:
On Campus: € 600
On Campus: € 500
On Campus: € 420
PAYMENT MUST BE MADE PRIOR TO PROGRAM ATTENDANCE
