Aleida Alcaide García
Aleida Alcaide García assumed the position of Director General of Artificial Intelligence at the
Ministry for Digital Transformation and Public Service. She leads Spain's representation on AIrelated
matters and is responsible for proposing and implementing public policies in Spain
related to AI and other digital technologies, as quantum technologies. Her responsibilities
encompass the AI promotion adoption in productive sectors and public administrations, the
innovative research on AI and other digital technologies, the development and coordination of
regulations, the protection of rights in this field, as well as creating spaces for public debate on
the risks and benefits of these technologies. She is also a board member of the Spanish Agency
for the Supervision of AI.
In the public sector, she held roles such as Chief of Cabinet at the State Secretariat for
Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence, was a board member of different public entities as
related to digitalization, innovation and cybersecurity and served as Deputy Director-General for
Coordination of European Funds at the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation,
overseeing the execution of funds allocated to digitalization under the Recovery,
Transformation, and Resilience Plan.
Aleida holds the degree of Telecommunications Engineer from the Valladolid University, she
completed the Leadership Program for Public Management at IESE Business School, and she is
member of the Superior Body of Information Systems and Technologies and the Computer
Management of the General State Administration.
Monday 28 September Day One Plenary Agenda
Panel 3: GROWTH & SIMPLIFICATION – AI and Digital Omnibuses and beyond
- What does the EU economy need from its digital regulatory framework to scale globally, and how are the current simplification reforms responding to that need?
- What are the AI Act, Digital Omnibus, GDPR/ePrivacy and Data Act simplification efforts delivering in terms of reducing fragmentation, overlaps and improving predictability for operators across the EU?
- Beyond the Omnibuses, what further work is needed – and is the Digital Fitness Check the right framework to address remaining barriers to simplification?
- How can cross-sector industries benefit from greater regulatory coherence across AI, data and digital services?
- From the perspective of companies deploying the same product across 27 Member States, what does effective simplification look like in practice?