Human Capital Development
Seminas goals
- Analyse the future of universities as hubs for flexible and lifelong learning.
- Understanding how skills ecosystems evolve and their impact on employability.
- Explore innovative models from an international business and academic perspective.
- Identify challenges and opportunities for universities in this context.
Programe
International Speakers
Paulo Blikstein
Paulo Blikstein es Director del Laboratorio de Investigación del Instituto del Futuro de la Educación (Tecnológico de Monterrey, México) y profesor asociado de Educación, Tecnología y Diseño en Teachers College, profesor asociado afiliado de Informática y profesor afiliado en el Instituto de Ciencia de Datos en la Universidad de Columbia.
Ingeniero de formación, Blikstein posee un doctorado en Ciencias del Aprendizaje por la Universidad Northwestern y un máster por el Media Lab del MIT, y formó parte del claustro de la Escuela de Posgrado en Educación de la Universidad de Stanford desde 2008 hasta 2018.
Su investigación se centra en cómo las nuevas tecnologías pueden transformar profundamente el aprendizaje de las ciencias, la informática y la ingeniería, con especial atención a las aplicaciones de minería de datos, inteligencia artificial y análisis de aprendizaje multimodal para la enseñanza.
En 2010, creó el primer programa basado en investigación para llevar makerspaces a las escuelas, el Proyecto FabLearn, que actualmente está presente en 22 países.
Galardonado con el Premio a la Carrera Temprana de la Fundación Nacional de Ciencias y el Premio Jan Hawkins a la Carrera Temprana de la AERA, su trabajo ha sido destacado en The New York Times, Scientific American, Wired, The Guardian y varias otras publicaciones.
Antonio Mele
Antonio Mele is Associate Professor of Economics and Education and Director of the Undergraduate Programme in the Department of Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where he is helping to transform teaching through the strategic integration of artificial intelligence.
With previous experience at Oxford and Surrey, Dr Mele understands that technological change is not just a research topic, but a fundamental lever for reimagining higher education.
As an affiliate member of the LSE Data Science Institute, Dr Mele believes that higher education institutions must evolve towards models that prepare professionals capable of navigating the technological revolution, without sacrificing the intellectual rigour and critical thinking that define academic excellence.
Ronaldo Fuentes
Dr Rolando Fuentes is a research fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, a non-resident fellow at the Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University, and a visiting research fellow at KAPSARC in Saudi Arabia.
He is a research professor at EGADE Business School at Tecnológico de Monterrey and holds a PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics (LSE).
His work focuses on analysing technological turning points that reshape markets and redefine the role of industries and universities, with a particular focus on energy, digitalisation and artificial intelligence.
Through academic research and applied analysis, it studies how the energy transition and the adoption of digital technologies are transforming not only capital-intensive productive sectors, but also the skills required, training models and the strategic role of higher education.
His work seeks to bridge the gap between research, decision-making and institutional design, with a particular focus on how higher education can anticipate and respond strategically to large-scale technological changes.