On the 1st of December, at 12:30 p.m., the 7th Ada Lovelace Awards Ceremony will take place, awarded by the Centre for Advanced Studies in Information and Communication Technologies (CEATIC).

The event will take place in the Salón de Grados (purple room) of Building C1 of the Campus las Lagunillas of the University of Jaén.

During the event, a conference entitled "The Magnificent Seven" will be given by Juan Ramón Velasco Pérez, Professor of Telematics Engineering at the University of Alcalá.

Juan Ramón Velasco Pérez is a Telecommunications Engineer and holds a PhD in Telecommunications Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid. He was Full Professor at the same university until 2002, when he moved to the Department of Automatics at the University of Alcalá, where he is Full Professor since 2008.

He was Deputy Director of Research and Business Relations at the Higher Polytechnic School of the UAH between 2004 and 2008, and subsequently Deputy Inspector of the Services Inspection of this university until March 2010. During the period 2010-2018 he was in charge of the Vice-Rectorate for Postgraduate Studies and Lifelong Learning, and since 2018 he has been Vice-Rector for Strategy and Planning.

As a researcher, he coordinates the Networks and Intelligent Systems Research Group, where he works on the use of the internet of things for the early detection of health disorders. Throughout his professional life he has participated in 50 research projects (more than 30 of them as principal investigator), with both public and private funding, and has more than 150 scientific publications.

The Magnificent Seven

The gender bias in Information and Communication Technologies is more than evident. Everyone knows a few names of people who have made possible the level of digital interconnectedness we enjoy today. And most of those names are male. It might seem that there have been no women who have been responsible for these advances; nothing could be further from the truth. In this talk we will discover the life and work of seven Magnificent Women, seven female engineers who have earned, on their own merits, the recognition of this digital society in which we live.

The event can be attended in the following modalities:

a) In person. This year, in accordance with current Covid regulations, there are no capacity limitations.

b) Virtual. Through the room https://meet.google.com/sjr-kdjm-kds
Place

Salón de Grados (purple room) of the C1 Building of the Las Lagunillas Campus.