Jorge Garcia del Arco is co-founder and CEO of AQUADAT, a water deeptech researching and engineering solutions for water challenges & nexus.
This project has been a MIT Water Innovation Prize finalist and Galileo Master regional winner. It currently holds the H2020 Green Deal Seal of Excellence (awarded by the European Commission) and the INNOVATIVE SME Seal (awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation). In 2022 it was selected among the 35 European organizations by EIT - European Institute of Innovation and Technology for the Innowise Scale Community Water Scarcity programme. In 2023 it was awarded for the Data Science transfer service by BCAM - Basque Center for Applied Mathematics, a world-class interdisciplinary Research Center in the field of Applied Mathematics.
Executive MBA from IE Business School, he has 20 years of management experience across the value chain of the Telecommunications Industry. The last 10 years he has focused on social and environmental innovation projects. He has been co-organizer of TEDx Bilbao and Financial Congress Digital Meeting. He was elected Founding Curator of the Global Shapers Bilbao Hub, a World Economic Forum community that empowers youth to play an active role in shaping local, regional and global agendas. One of the G-100 of TERRIS (Territories and Social Innovation), a process of co-creation of a New Rurality to build a new rural identity for the 21st century.
As of 2022, he is a member of the Board of Directors of PTEA, a public-private cooperation network for the promotion of R&D in the water sector. It currently has 57 associated entities, representing more than 450 organizations.
His confession: He´s a fan of Mr. R. Buckminster Fuller “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
