Alberto has developed most of his career in Spain and in the UK, both in the IT sector and in Academia. As VP of Open Source Innovation at OpenNebula Systems, he is used to deal with strategic collaborations with public cloud/edge providers, open source initiatives, and development teams from other tech vendors. Alberto coordinates the COGNIT Project—a Horizon Europe action emerged from the SovereignEdgeEU initiative—and is involved in both the IPCEI-CIS and the European Alliance for Industrial Data, Edge and Cloud, where he supports the role of OpenNebula Systems as chairing company of the Cloud/Edge Working Group while co-leading the Task Force focused on the European open source ecosystem. Alberto is particularly interested in the conjunction between open source, ethical innovation, and digital sovereignty.