The next IFP School Voices webinar will be hosted by Mr. Fernando Dominguez Pinuaga, Vice President of Global Outreach at SandboxAQ, on March 27, 2025 at 1:00 p.m. (Paris time).
Biography of Fernando Dominguez Pinuaga
Vice President of Global Outreach
SandboxAQ
Equal part engineer and strategist, Fernando Dominguez Pinuaga is a driven innovator with a relentless passion for projects that make the world a better place. This drive has powered Fernando through a career in technology, most recently as Vice President of Global Outreach at SandboxAQ, a company using AI and Quantum technologies to solve challenging problems with positive impact.
Fernando started his career as a professional rugby player in Europe where he played two World Cups with the Spanish Rugby National team. He then joined Google/Alphabet in 2012 to help scale its services and products across Latin America before joining its secret innovation lab in Silicon Valley, X (formerly Google X), where he spent six years building new companies for Alphabet.
Fernando’s education and career spans three continents and a variety of industries, including energy, aerospace, transportation, robotics and AQ (AI + Quantum), in both the private and public sectors. He is an experienced business professional that understands how to create empathy with partners, lead teams and propel projects from concept to launch in the most challenging environments. His multilingual education (speaking 5 languages) and international experience allows him to adapt quickly to diverse business situations and find creative solutions to complex problems. Fernando is energetic and has learned to bring the values of rugby and high-level athletics to his professional career.
Fernando serves on the Board of Directors of a technology company. He has authored multiple articles in prestigious journals such as Nature and has delivered numerous lectures and public speaking engagements.
About his conference
"Reinventing Energy with AI, Quantum technologies & Large Quantitative Models(LQMs)"
This session will explore how Large Quantitative Models (LQMs) are transforming the energy sector by solving real-world problems that traditional AI struggles to address. While language-based AI models excel at tasks like summarizing data and generating text, LQMs tackle complex, quantitative challenges in areas like grid optimization, renewable energy integration, and energy storage solutions.
In this session, Fernando Dominguez Pinuaga, IFP School graduate (ENM, 2011), VP of Global Outreach at SandboxAQ, will share practical examples of how LQMs accelerate R&D, reduce costs, and unlock breakthroughs in areas like smart grid management, advanced battery development, and carbon capture technologies.
Attendees will gain insights into the future of AI beyond language models and learn actionable strategies for leveraging quantitative AI to solve real-world problems in the energy sector. Fernando will also share insights about the formation of SandboxAQ, a spinoff the Google X secret lab in Silicon Valley and how students can start new ventures.