Adrián González Sánchez

Adrián González Sánchez is the Data & AI Lead for Public Sector and Health at Microsoft Spain, and a university lecturer at HEC Montréal’s École des Dirigeants, and Concordia University Continuing Education in Canada. He also leads Responsible AI initiatives at the Spanish Observatory OdiseIA, he is the author of the first Data & AI Fundamentals course of the Linux Foundation, a book author and online instructor for O’Reilly Media, and lecturer for the Information and Communications Technology Council (ICTC Canada). He collaborates with 2U / GetSmarter as a tutor in the executive courses on AI and Blockchain from MIT Sloan, and on Fintech from Harvard VPAL. 

His areas of expertise are artificial intelligence, ethics and regulation of responsible AI, new data spaces architectures, and integrated platforms for analytics and data governance. He leads projects at the national and regional level with all the actors of the public sector in Spain. He has more than 10 years of experience in data science, project management, artificial intelligence, and telecommunications.

Corporate Experience

• Senior Cloud, Data & AI Specialist – Microsoft Spain, April 2022 – Present

• Technology & Product Consultant – Toptal (Freelancing), August 2020 – Present

• Senior Management Consultant AI/ML – CGI Canada, July 2018 – March 2022

• Senior Consultant & AI Product Owner - IVADO Labs Canada, March 2019 – August 2020

• Co-founder & CTO – SmartBonds Canada, May 2018 – March 2019

• Data Project & B2B Presales – Dhatim France & LATAM, August 2015 – March 2017

• Business Manager – Davidson Consulting, France & Spain, May 2013 – June 2015

• R&D Engineer – Alcatel Lucent Bell Labs France, July 2012 – January 2013

• Software Project Manager – TIC Consulting Services Spain, May 2011 – May 2012

Academic Experience

• Online instructor – Linux Foundation, USA, 2022 – Present

• Online instructor – O’Reilly Media, USA, 2021 – Present

• Online instructor – ICTC, Canada, 2021 – Present

• University Lecturer - HEC Montréal (École des Dirigeants), Canada, 2020 – Present 

• Learning Facilitator - U2 / GetSmarter, USA, 2018 – Present

• University Lecturer - Concordia University (Continuing Education), Canada, 2019 – 2021 

• Project Reviewer - Udacity, USA, 2019 – 2020

Academic Background

• Master of Business Administration (MBA) – HEC Montréal, Canada, May 2018

• Master in Mobile Communications (MSc) – Telecom ParisTech, France, December 2012

• Telecom & IT Engineering – Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain, May 2010