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Most companies are investing in AI. Far fewer are turning that investment into measurable business value. On 28 May, I’ll be joining the #BSCConnects Summer AI Wave roundtable in Barcelona to discuss what is actually changing in the AI landscape and what it means for corporates in 2026. 📅 28 May 2026 🕰️ 17:00 – 19:30h 📍 Pier07 Tech Barcelona Terrace (6th Floor) If this interests you, please RSVP here: https://lnkd.in/eDdeRgwa Together with: @ Esteve Almirall – Professor of Innovation, AI & Smart Cities and Director of the IIK-CIC Center for Innovation in Cities @Diego Perino – Director of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center AI Institute we will explore the AI and Technology landscape in 2026 and its impact on corporates. Hosted by #BSCConnects , this event will bring together senior executives, innovation leaders, start-ups, and researchers for: * Strategic insights from leading experts * Open discussion on AI adoption and business impact * Cross-sector exchange with senior leaders * Networking, food, and drinks overlooking incredible 360° views of Barcelona! BUT that´s not it, we end the roundtable with a BIG SURPRISE for BSC Connects! And some exciting, and fun games to enjoy the evening while networking!! If you are working at the intersection of technology, innovation, and business, I believe you will find this terrace highly relevant and refreshing. Looking forward to connecting with many of you at the terrace! #BSCConnects #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Innovation #Technology #QuantumComputing #Leadership #Barcelona #TechBarcelona

It's been several months since I joined the Barcelona Supercomputing Center , and I couldn't be happier to share the preprint of my first author paper! 📘 "Quantum Metropolis–Hastings via Penalised Qubitized Walks: Spectral Filtering and Circuit Implementation" is now on arXiv! https://lnkd.in/e4HUTe5z ⚛️ The Metropolis-Hastings algorithm is a cornerstone of Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods, underpinning a wide range of applications in computational physics, Bayesian inference, and machine learning. Quantum variants of Metropolis-Hastings promise accelerated mixing through quantum walks, but their practical realisation remains challenging. In this work, we construct and simulate an explicit circuit level implementation of a quantum Metropolis-Hastings algorithm based on the framework introduced by Claudon et al. (arXiv:2506.11576). We present the full quantum workflow required to prepare a stationary distribution, including a number of modifications required to make the algorithm implementable in a realistic quantum circuit model. Our results demonstrate that these modifications are essential to recover the correct stationary behaviour and highlight both the potential and current limitations of quantum Metropolis-Hastings algorithms, which are expected to become practically relevant in the fault tolerant quantum computing regime. You can find the documentation and project repository in this link: https://lnkd.in/ePY95d38 A huge thank you to Rosa M. Badia and Artur Garcia-Saez for your support, guidance, and collaboration throughout the project!

There are only a couple of days to go until the "Artificial Intelligence in Health Sciences Symposium" at the Paranimf, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Barcelona. With more than 250 registered attendees, it promises to be an exciting meeting. I truly appreciate the invitation and look forward to engaging in interesting discussions. You can find the full program here: https://lnkd.in/edG-heBx Program Morning session Registration required 8:45 Registration 9:00 Institutional Welcome Dr. Antoni Trilla, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, UB. 9:15 Keynote Speaker: Ninon Burgos, Paris Brain Institute, ARAMIS Lab. Generative Models for Anomaly Detection in Neuroimaging: Comprehensive Evaluation and Clinical Proof-of-Concept. Session chair: Petia Radeva 10:10 Oral sessions I: Clinical-technical interactions Simone Balocco & Berta Alegre , UB, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona. AI Assisted Analysis of head and neck tumors. Jordi Abante, UB. Generative AI in Neuroscience: From Data Integration to Foundation Models. Session chair: Roser Sala-Llonch 10:50 Coffee Break 11:20 Invited talk: Martin Krallinger, Barcelona Supercomputing Center. Clinical Language Technology Solutions: Development and Evaluation of Multilingual NLP Systems. Session chair: Petia Radeva 12.10 Oral sessions II: Opportunities and challenges. Transfer & Market opportunities Agustín Gutiérrez-Gálvez, UB. AI-Driven Metabolomics for Precision Health Diagnostics Jordi Pegueroles, Ephion Health. Integrating AI to identify digital biomarkers in gait analysis. Session chair: Antonio Pardo 13.00 Invited talk: Guillem Anglada. ERC Executive Agency. AI in Health @ ERC: From funded research to AI in funding Session chair: Roser Sala-Llonch Afternoon session Please, note: This session is intended to senior researchers and potential collaborators, i.e., those actively interested in initiating a project or exploring collaborations. 14.00 Lunch 15.30 Talk by UB International Research Projects Office (OPIR). Research Programmes and calls. 16.00 Workshop & Open Discussion. Challenges, Opportunities and further directions for collaborative projects involving AI & Health. Panelists: Petia Radeva, Simone Balocco, Roser Sala-Llonch.

We are really happy to share our strategic agreement with Almirall to explore together innovation opportunities. #BSCConnects is fully commited to show all technology, knowledge, infrastructure and Barcelona Supercomputing Center ecosystem that will bring value to Almirall 's challenges to accelerate innovation. I would like to thank Francesc Férnandez, Marc Soriano , Arsenio Nueda, Karl Ziegelbauer for his help and enthusiasm #innovation #ai #health