Engineer · MIT Sloan · Founder of Nodos Energy

I turn AI intoreal returns,not demos.

More than 25 years leading teams and businesses: CEO for 12 years, entrepreneur and executive in energy and industry. I know what it means to answer for results, and that is the lens I bring to AI: where to use it, what return to expect, and how to take it from pilot to production.

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01 · Talks & teaching

AI explained without hype,
from experience

Keynotes and training for people who want to know what AI can really do for their business — and what it cannot. Direct, with real cases and no empty promises.

Keynote · Energy sector

RENMAD UsefulAI 2026

"AI hallucinations are not a bug: they are part of the system." The real limits of AI and where the return is in the energy sector, for renewables professionals.

Webinar · AI & energy

What AI can (and can’t) do for energy

What AI can and cannot do today for the energy sector. 150+ live attendees, held to the very end.

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Keynote · Panama

"The Humanity of AI" — ITSE Panama

The human impact of AI: how to stay relevant and lead the change. Coverage on TVN, Nex, Panamá 24 Horas and more than a dozen headlines.

Teaching · MBA

AI Professor — Compostela Business School

MBA Artificial Intelligence module: strategy, use cases with real returns and practical limits, for executives.

★★★★★ 4.9/5 average student rating

Topics I speak on

I never give the same talk twice. These are the themes, the angle is built around your sector and the goal of the event.

Why most AI projects never leave the demo stage, and what the few that reach production do differently.

How to pick the use cases that pay for themselves and how to measure the return before signing any licence.

Real cases from energy and industry, what genuinely works today and what is not ready yet.

Resistance is human, not technical. How to move a team from distrust to everyday use.

Hallucinations, bias and the real limits of AI, and how to work with them without risking your reputation.

02 · Voices from the audience

Don’t take my word:
take the audience’s

Finally, someone who breaks with tradition and genuinely wants the audience to have a good time. The slides, the pace, the timing… everything. I was lucky enough to exchange a few words with him afterwards: it had been no accident, and the goal was met with the audience spellbound from the first word to the last.
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"Straight to the point: neither bubble nor total revolution. Thank you for saying what many think but few say out loud."
— RENMAD Energy Events
"150+ live attendees, and you kept them glued to their seats right to the end."
— María Mendicute · ATA Insights
"I loved it. The speaker, brilliant, and the content too. It had been a long time since I enjoyed such a good training session."
— Attendee · AI training for ARI
★★★★★ 4.9/5 average rating from students of the MBA AI module.
— Compostela Business School

03 · In-company training

Hundreds of professionals
trained in AI

AI literacy and hands-on adoption programmes, aligned with the new EU AI Act. With certificate.

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"I came expecting the typical 'this is ChatGPT' talk and I was glued to the screen."— Head of software development · ¡HOLA! magazine

04 · Online course

How AI works,
properly explained

My online course to understand from the inside the tools you already use. The fundamental concepts of artificial intelligence explained with simulators you can play with, no compulsory maths and no hype.

  • Interactive simulators: you touch every concept, not just read it
  • At your own pace, on any device, in English and Spanish
  • Certificate when you complete the course

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  • 52lessons
  • 8blocks
  • 2languages

First lessons free

05 · Daily analysis

AI analysis,
every single day

What truly matters in artificial intelligence, analysed without hype, with an engineer’s judgement and a business lens.

  • Daily AI news briefing with independent judgement
  • Podcast in Spanish and English
  • Followed by 6,000+ professionals
Network of energy and intelligence
No hype. An engineer’s judgement.

06 · Career

From megawatts
to models

Engineer (University of Oviedo), trained in AI at MIT Sloan. Almost three decades leading projects that produce: first energy, now intelligence.

1998

Energy sector

Regional delegate at HC Energia and co-founder of Ingelia (renewables and energy efficiency).

2008

CEO Spain — ABO WIND

12 years leading the Spanish subsidiary: more than 1,000 MW of wind and solar promoted and developed.

2015

International leadership

CEO of EMELIK Consultants (Panama) and Spain director of KARL H. Co-founding trustee of the IDEC Foundation.

2021

Nodos Energy & Liderapia

Founder of Nodos Energy (applied AI) and co-founder & CTO of Liderapia. Advisor to Reolum.

Today

Applied AI, teaching & outreach

AI consulting and training, professor of the MBA at Compostela Business School and daily analysis.

My consultancy

Nodos Energy

Everything I talk about on stage is what we apply every week: AI consulting, training and systems for companies.

07 · Contact

Shall we talk?

Talks, training, press or AI projects. I answer personally.