How lengthy have you ever been with Telefónica and what’s your evaluation of your time right here?

Well, I’ve been right here nearly 12 years now, however in reality it looks like yesterday that Enrique Blanco learn me the orientation guide over our first espresso.

My first contact with Telefónica was at a Top 150 occasion in Brazil in December 2010, the place I used to be invited to discuss cybersecurity, and on 1 February 2012 I began at Wayra and launched the Talentum programme. The relaxation has been a journey of unimaginable experiences, rollercoasters, new tasks and extra adjustments.

In 2013 we launched ElevenPaths, in 2015 we merged ElevenPaths and the cybersecurity vertical of Telefónica Digital, and I joined Telefónica Business Solutions. The following 12 months, Telefónica provided me the place of Chief Data Officer and I began a brand new part, main a beneficial undertaking such because the fourth platform (now Kernel) and the creation of LUCA, amongst different initiatives. In November 2019, one other change to be answerable for digital expertise and buyer platforms, and now additionally with Open Gateway, Wayra and the event groups of Telefónica Innovación Digital.

Has it been a journey or not? For me it has been intense, stunning, difficult and never at all times simple. But I wouldn’t change these twelve years in an organization like Telefónica for something.

Is there any undertaking at Telefónica that you’re significantly happy with or pleased with?

All of them. The profitable and the unsuccessful. Nobody is aware of what the long run might be like, and if you create expertise and innovate, you at all times should reside with the thrill of realizing that it might go a technique or one other. I’m pleased with everybody, ElevenPaths and all its merchandise, the Talentum programme at Wayra, LUCA, Kernel, HaaC, the work of the Tuenti crew in growing their great cloudphone in Novum, Aura, the innovation tasks, the patents. Of working at Wayra, of internet hosting interns, of later seeing ElevenPaths and LUCA turn into a part of the nice firm that Telefónica Tech is right this moment.

I come to Telefónica to work on daily basis with enthusiasm, with the need to do issues, realizing that if you do numerous issues it’s simpler to go unsuitable, however as I inform my colleagues: “A telephone engineer in innovation has to do a lot of things and get most of them right”.

What do you suppose Telefónica has contributed to society?

It modified my life. The day that I noticed Julio Linares, I gave him a giant hug and I stated to him: “Thank you for Infovia”. The day the Infovia flat fee arrived, a era of Internet and expertise fanatics with low buying energy have been in a position to hook up with the Net. On that day, Telefónica put Spain on the forefront of Internet connectivity and it modified my life.  But it hasn’t stopped but.

When somebody will get indignant with us on social networks and complains that they don’t have fibre or protection at house in Spain, I at all times inform my colleagues that it’s regular. Everyone is aware of who has invested essentially the most in “tiling” connectivity on this nation, from high to backside. That is Telefónica, an organization that’s altering the way forward for a rustic and a society by means of the impression of what we do.

Where do you see Telefónica sooner or later?

I see Telefónica adapting to technological evolution. As it has at all times achieved. 90 per cent of the income of our firm comes from companies that didn’t even exist 20 years in the past. New networks that needed to be created. New companies that needed to be constructed. Platforms that didn’t exist.

Telefónica is an organization that might be 100 years outdated, and never by likelihood. It is as a result of it has recognized methods to compete within the technological evolution, it has tailored and it has consistently modified its property. I at all times bear in mind nice corporations that have been all the pieces in my world and disappeared earlier than they have been 25 years outdated.

So I see a Telefónica that’s extra related on the earth of the long run as a result of it has tailored a lot better to the digital world, with software program, programmable networks, managed by AI, with digital companies that benefit from our capabilities, with individuals having fun with their lives because of being extra and higher related to their family members, and with corporations rising because of expertise and communications that convey improvement to society. Just as Telefónica has at all times achieved.

Could you reside and not using a cell phone?

I might reside. But I might miss issues. I feel persons are a very powerful factor. And though I’m very disciplined in my work and go surfing on daily basis, I additionally know methods to put it apart. I’m not addicted in any respect.

I take pleasure in my buddies, my women. My Hacker, who’s 15 and drives me loopy, and my Survivor, who’s now 10 and is aware of greater than the purple mice and at all times will get on my nerves.

I feel expertise offers us higher methods of working, higher methods of residing, it brings us nearer to people who find themselves distant, however I wouldn’t commerce a hug, a kiss, a chat over a beer or a day within the nation with buddies for a video convention, not whilst a joke.  I really like expertise, sure, however I really like individuals extra.

Help us remedy one in every of humanity’s nice enigmas: the potato omelette… With onion or with out onion?

Please increase your hand in the event you like omelette with out onion, I’ll chop it up. The solely omelette allowed with out onion is the Betanzos omelette, the remainder with onion. If not, it’s a mazacote. The Betanzos omelette is completely different. In Galicia, we all know methods to eat good meals and good issues, and this omelette deserves a spot within the Guinness Book of Records as the one omelette with out onion you could by no means say no to. Not even after you’ve eaten it. All the others with onion, please. There, chicote and I’ve made our level.

Nominate one other colleague to look on this part

Yes, many. I wish to see Telefónica by means of the eyes of Denise Sayuri, who has a particular soul, or Adriana Folgueira, who has an vitality that could be a driving pressure for a lot of, or Cristina Burzaco, who’s at all times a shoulder to lean on when there’s a drawback, by means of the eyes of Luis Prendes, who suffers and watches over us. Or the eyes of a few of our community technicians within the NOC in Aravaca, who combat arduous within the tough moments of downtime or throughout the pandemic. I stroll previous them and even really feel respect for them. But I might additionally wish to see them by means of the eyes of the younger hackers within the Telefónica Tech operations centres in Hispam. When you concentrate on the dimensions of this firm, it’s unattainable to not really feel small and know that although you’ve been right here for twelve years, there’s nonetheless rather a lot you don’t know and don’t see.