MC, Founder & Director at Deep Tech Institute
Alex Barrera is a computer scientist, entrepreneur, investor, and veteran technology conference host. For more than 15 years, he has worked across startups, product, innovation, and emerging technology, building companies, advising founders and teams, and helping make complex ideas understandable.
He is Founder & Director of the Deep Tech Institute and is currently helping build a European deep-tech investment fund, working at the frontier of AI, quantum, robotics, energy, advanced materials, biotech, and other technologies making the leap from science to real-world products.
Alex is also Editor-in-Chief of The Aleph Report, co-founder of Tech.eu, and a professor of innovation at IE Business School. On stage, he combines a computer scientist’s curiosity with an entrepreneur’s instinct for products, markets, and the questions worth asking.
