Alberto P. Martí has spent most of his career in Spain and in the United Kingdom, both in Tech and in Higher Education. As Vice-President of Open Source Innovation at OpenNebula Systems, he deals with strategic collaborations with cloud and edge providers, other open source initiatives, and chief information officers from relevant vendors. He is one of the initial promoters of the SovereignEdge.EU initiative, coordinating involvement in the Horizon Europe programme and in other joint research and development activities based on European open source technologies for the cloud-edge continuum. In March 2024, Alberto was elected Chair of the Industry Facilitation Group of the new €3B IPCEI Cloud. He also leads the Federated AI Factory initiative Fact8ra.AI