Speaker

Carme Parareda. Co-founder, administrator and COO of ICTINEU Submarins SL. As a Surveying Engineer she worked in the service of the Cartographic Institute of Catalonia for 15 years, since 1992, in the field of geodesy, high accuracy positioning and GPS navigation techniques. In 2004 she re-oriented her career to ocean observation and underwater technology, co-founding in 2004 the Ictineu Institute, Catalan Submarine Research Centre, and in 2007 ICTINEU Submarins SL where she develops her main professional activity as chief operations manager, sales, certification procedures and pilot in training. In parallel from 2007 to 2009 she coordinated the Argo Maris Foundation activities (sea exploration and outreach) and from 2009 to 2016 she was
a board member of the Catalan Maritime Cluster. Member of the Marine Technology Society since 2009. A traveller who loves adventure sports and mountaineering, after crossing Mongolia by bike, she sailed across the Atlantic twice. She co-wrote a book l’Atlàntic a quatre mans (The Atlantic four hands).