Mundo empresarial TICs

...with you, even if it's
just visual contact.

I'm not going to give a talk, I'm
putting an example of something real.

I'm putting an example of a scenario
where there are two persons,

another person from IBM
is doing the introduction

and he works at IBM Research,
he's one of our big research gurus,

his name is Dario Gil, he's
from Madrid, Spain,

and right now he's leading more
than 1,500 people in the

research wing at IBM Research.

Dario does the introduction and
there's an example of a real scenario

of collaboration between two persons
and a system.

And I'd like... I'm not doing anything else,
because what I want is for you to think,

because this talk is about expertise,
how are you going to support or

how are you going to use
your expertise in the future?

You've been studying for four years,
for those that it's been four years, if not more,

and it turns out that we world we lived in,
the world that you knew when

you entered this university and
and the world that will be when

you graduate.

Just in four years,
the scenarios and the expertise,

the experience, the knowledge
you'll have to apply

it'll have to be in
a different way by then.

And I'd like you to see the scenario
and later, based on that scenario,

ask me questions.
Alright?

Okay, so instead of me
giving the talk, let's leave it

to my friend Dario Gil.

URL to the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0heqP8d6vtQ

Well, look, given that we can't listen
to the video, we'll look at it

and I'll explain it, okay?

What you're seeing there is
two persons standing, and the screen

behind is a system,
the Watson system.

The system is currently using
open data and what they're about to do

collaboratively between those two
persons and the system is

making a decision, okay?
And the system,

as they ask it questions and
how they ask Watson,

obviously each time...
this one is Michael Perrone

and the other is Bryan.
Each time Michael

asks it something, he talks
on behalf of Watson and the moment

Watson gets the sentence with
the question being asked

by the person, okay?,
it answers with the information.

Right now, he asked it to show
all the companies that have anything

to do with technological innovation
in the ambit of artificial intelligence

and in the conversation between
a person and a system.

Now Bryan is preparing
information for Watson

of all those words
considered as relevant

regarding the question about
to be asked. And note

that what he's giving...
right now they're looking for

companies directly dedicated
to the field of robotics.

And on that chart showed by Watson

is where you can see the interrelations.
They're doing all of this

as they're talking, okay?
The information is popping up

and now he's about to ask Watson...
he's asking it to, please, make

a decision table, which is
what has just appeared over there,

to be able to make a comparison
between the three companies from the information

that they think is more relevant.
And right now they're giving it,

he's telling Watson what are
the arguments they want to use

for the decision table.
That's the decision table,

they put in it four companies and now
he's asking it to, please, apply

more parameters to compare
more information.

That's what you just saw, okay?
And what he's telling Watson now

is to tell him what's its recommendation
and, as you see, it pointed to a company

as a recommendation to buy.
What they're both doing is to decide

what company they're buying.
Can you see it?

So, my question,
and I'm leaving it here, is...

When you think about your future,
considering this is real,

that this is not a demo, this system
is used by IBM for its purchasing of companies

and they do it this way.

Considering a system that is
able to interact with you

naturally, that is able to swallow
all that information and is able

to show the information as
you need it in the making of decisions

in a completely natural way...
the question is:

how will your way of work
look like in the future?

And I'd like that, when we reach
the questions and answers part,

you ask me questions about it.

What is the value of knowledge

And how is it going to use that knowledge in a company?

in a company for example as IBM

What do we expect in such an environment?

What type of people profile

It is in people that a company as IBM

In your different branches want to hire?

What type of work are you going to develop?

What is the type of values in which we believe

And in which we believe that they are the ones who push

To people and companies for the future?

What is the type of diversity in which

We are convinced that it is absolutely necessary

To create the breeding ground for innovation

And the discovery?

What kind of work environment

can you expect?

Make that reflection and ready to answer

the questions as soon as the round table

thank you very much

When I was called to give this conference

The first question that came to mind

Was it to me

Because the normal because maybe watching Elisa and Maria Jose

Is to call people with or extraordinary people

or people with extraordinary careers

And mine was not like that, but it may have been

Even ordinary in all aspects of the word

But I thought and why me?

What can I tell these guys?

And I said no, not clear and there was one thing

That I said clear that connects me with them

And is that exactly 20 years ago

I was sitting where you are sitting now

Then I said good I thought to myself

Maybe what I can share is

Because part of what I have done in recent years

And, and some lessons learned

With which 20 years ago I was sitting there

And I was thinking about my professional career

That today I had been asked to give a talk

A conference on professional orientation

When I thought about my professional career

I thought maybe

that I have to do? Or how can that be?

Who do I have to be for IBM to hire me?

Well now my approach is very very different

And what I want to convey is that this

It's not about your career this goes

That you are happy and make happy

To the people who are going to surround you in the future

Then you have to see your professional career

As a vehicle as a means to be happy you

And make people happy around you

If I ask you

How many of you know exactly

What are you going to do in your professional career

In the next 20 years now that you are going to license them?

Raise your hand those you know exactly what you are going to do

Well there is one, there is one that at least

What a lucky man, because I remember when

Finish the college career

I was more lost than Heidi on Mother's Day

Of course in your generation I do not know if you know who Heidi is

But she was an orphan, the case is that she did not have

Nor the most remote idea of who he was or what he wanted to do

I was absolutely lost

With which the first idea that I want to transmit

Is that you do not worry if when you finish the college career

You are lost is something absolutely normal

And it is something that we have spent almost all

In fact the most interesting people I've ever met in my life

And in my career almost all have been very lost

At some point in your life because maybe

The only way to find us is to lose ourselves

Here we see two people with a professional profile

very different

Steve Jobs I was created a startup in Silicon Valley

And I lived there 3 years and something widely accepted in Silicon Valley

Is that Steve Jobs was a genius

Steve Jobs and this other person have a skill set

A "set of skills" as they say there totally different

Are two very different profiles that in your life

And in their professional career they have done things

very different

For me Steve Jobs was certainly a genius

But as Lao Tse said in the Tao Te Ching

Maybe somebody know him one of the works

Peaks of humanity

Everything is relative

Then just like Steve Jobs was a genius

This man is a crack to me and I am

The goals that I scored 20 years ago for my professional career

Because I have not yet reached the highest evidently

In terms of the goals that you mark me

But I dreamed when I was your age

Was that they paid me for sleeping and this man has done it

With which, but good jokes apart

What I do think is very important

Is that the starting point is to know

To yourself and think about what you want to do

In whom you want to convert

The fact is that all of us here

We have been given a one-stage time

And it is no coincidence that you were born in Madrid

In Seville or wherever you were born

That you are born children of so-and-so

That each of you have a series of talents

A series of capacities and possibly infinite potentialities

All this is no accident

Is for something then, part of your work at the moment

Is to investigate a little and be a little attentive

to the world around you, to your world we each have ours

And think that you have come here

And in that you want to use those capacities that you all have

Depending on that you can decide if

You want to be an entrepreneur or if your profile is an entrepreneur

And you want to go to Silicon Valley to mount a startup

or if I do not know, if you want to be teachers,

if you want to be pianists, or if you want to have

a sure work that is not of many complications

and live quiet you can even get to sleep

at work, it does not matter, everything is good

the important thing is that you discover what is yours.

Obviously, once you discover that

you will have to make many decisions

in the next 20 years, in the next 30 years

from the moment you finish the race,

you will having to take, one decision after another.

I remember a couple of years ago or so, in the summer

of 2015, that was going to spend the summer in Tarifa,

because I like to do a lot of windsurfing, and well

I said this summer I'm going to Tarifa, and I remember

That in 2008 when my adventure in the Silicon Valley

was ending or I already started

to intuit that it was going to end,

because the body and called me the next adventure

I remember telling Johanna Classen,

A person of great value, I tell you there,

I said, I'm totally lost Johanna,

I do not know what to do from now,

I do not know if I start another company,

if I become an employee again, if I go traveling,

if I go to Maui to surf, if it makes me a MBA

maybe and to continue forming, I said to him

I do not know, the truth is that I do not know very well

where I want to go and Johanna, a very wise person,

She said, look at Thomas why you do not start

write a diary, and that I did,

It was a very enriching experience

And that he contributed a lot to me, which follows me

providing of course and later read

in a book by Stephen Covey, which he said

that writing unites our consciousness with

our unconscious, is a deep exercise

and rich, the case is that in 2015 I was carrying

one hundred and one hundred pages and take me to Tarifa

that summer, I printed them, because of course

I have them on Google Drive, and I took it to Tarifa

and after browsing, as I read it,

after reading the hundred pages,

that made me relive beautiful moments,

of the past, ugly, a little of everything and learn

a lot about me. There is one thing that stands out

which was as next,

I realized that everything

what I had in my life I had decided, everything.

At that time he was CEO of Termicro

for Spain and Portugal, be CEO of

Termicro had decided it, to live in Madrid

I had decided, the clothes I wore

I had decided, learn what I had learned,

I had decided, the experiences I had,

I had decided to have them, with which, and at that moment

The truth is that I complained, "Uff, what work do I have"

or this I do not like, this does not fill me, this yes, this does not

and I said but if all I have I have decided,

the only thing I have to do now, from

of that moment, is to decide who I want to be

from here to 5, 10 years, I want to do,

what experiences do I want to have, with which

something fundamental that I would like to transmit

in case you help, it has helped me a lot

to come to that conclusion, is what, as human beings

we have a very potent capacity, which is the

ability to decide,

So what, do you know

from now on all the decisions that

you are going to be keys to your future

and make you be exactly where you want to be

in the future.

Deciding is very difficult,

I now, as of January 1, I dedicate myself

fundamentally to coaching and mentoring

and what I'm seeing, is that almost all my clients

they are confused and do not know very well when

have to make a decision on where to go.

And i remember

that in the year

I think it was about

2006 I started doing yoga and I had a teacher

that the truth was great and the dude was in a cloud,

He had an inner peace, but I never went beyond

the teacher-student relationship in class

I had never talked to him, and it was in 2008

when I went to talk to him and I said: "Juan Vicente

I'm absolutely lost,

I do not know towards

where I want to go, I do not know if I want to continue doing

what I've done so far, I'm very lost. "

But I remember that for me what struck me most

and what I did very much stress to Juan Vicente was:

"But Juan Vicente is that I'm 28 years old"

of course, the movie that I had done when

was sitting there

where you are sitting now,

is that at 28, the whole movie that I had done

married, with children, a job, money, and I do not know what

I thought I would be there, and when I arrived

at 28 did not coincide, with which all the

movie that I had made was only in my mind,

did not exist,

and then to Juan Vicente I said to him:

"Besides, as the worst I am 28 years old and

I mean, there with 15 or 18, 20 or 24

when you finish the race but with 28 ".

And I remember that he kept staring at me

from that infinite peace I had

and I said:

"I'm just like you

and I have 58 "

and I said, "Oysters!"

very well, helped me a lot and gave me an idea

which was a treasure that has accompanied me these

years, he told me "Tomás you have to see your life

and your professional career as a solar system.

In the solar system there is a center that is the Sun

and everything, in this system revolves around that center "

with which he said to me: "You have to find a center

and that everything revolves around that center "

And there he left.

I left there very happy

and I spend 10 or 12 years at least looking

center.

Well, at one point I thought

the center, the women who are beautiful, next

the money, I want to earn a lot of money,

I did not fill myself, the following I want to create

companies, I want to create a company and sell it,

go to Silicon Valley to create a company and sell it.

I managed to create the company, I did everything,

I did not get it to sell but I still got it

the lesson, did not fill me either

So I started to do a series of things,
to put them in the center.

And I couldn't find the center, and
it had been years since I last saw this man,

so I was like "damn, what's my center?".
I had no idea.

So, not long ago, I realized
what my center had been

during all my life, and what I want it
to be my center for the rest of it.

Sounds super sappy, and I know,
because it sounds like that to me too.

But I realized that the very center
of my solar system

had to be love.
You have to, and I encourage you

to love where you work, to love
from now on what you do,

the people you mingle with,
the city you live in,

love what you're learning.

Let's put it like "cool to me, I'm into it
or this fills me" if you'd like to.

"I like what I do, what I am,
what I'm learning,

who I'm becoming, etc, etc...".

So, whenever you're about
to make a decision,

let love be in the center, the core of it,
something that you like

and that fills you.

In my professional career and
in my personal life I've found out

that following your heart, I mean,
letting love lead us

is something quite difficult because,
almost inevitably, stepping out

of our comfort zone, following
our hearts involves

stepping out of our comfort zone.
So we have to be brave.

They say God owns the world
but He leaves it to the brave ones.

So, for the next few years,
I encourage you to be brave

and have the courage to
follow your heart and

to choose who you want to be.
And to choose, whether IBM,

Tomás Lara, Google or
whoever comes to hire you,

whether spending those years of your life
in that place will make you better persons or not.

Well, my talk about the comfort zone
lasts for an hour

and I thought "how am I fitting it
here and make a one-minute slide?".

I honestly thought:
"that's absolutely impossible".

Then, what I would basically tell you
in this moment of your lives

about this slide and stepping out of
your comfort zone, it could be summed up

by stepping out of your comfort zone automatically
involves stepping into the learning zone.

I remember Feliciano Rivera one of my
Great masters who was my boss in the US

He always I went with 30 years to Silicon Valley
And he always told me you have to stretch

"You have to stretch yourself" he told me and it's true
I had to stretch one day to here for another here

Another for here, what I realized is that everyone
Those stretches which they did apart from

To expand my inner world, was to
If this was my comfort zone when doing so

I had expanded and gone outside and
He had done something new and had entered

Especially in the area of learning with
which from now on you do what you do

Work for who you work also me
I will translate another learning I had in

My career, is that the companies pay you on one
Coin that has two faces

A face is money is worth, now I earn 30000
now 35000, now 45000, now 70,000

And it's another learning I for a while in
my career I sold and how I sold I bought

And pay it expensive, I paid even very expensive
because those years of my life I do not give them back to me

And the money disappears with which
in the future you can ask a question

How much do I want to win? For me, I asked myself
that question and that's why I share it with you

For me that question is absolutely wrong

The other side of the coin, has to do with the
experience with learning my American boss Feliciano

I also repeated the same thing "we are shape
by our experiences" that could be defined as

Our experiences make us
about us

Then the face of the coin that has
to do with learning and experience

Is absolutely fundamental with which what I would
invite you and I would encourage you in the future

To your professional career is that you
always ask what I want to learn

The million dollar question I do not know
if it was from a TV show or something

But the million dollar question is that I want
to learn and depending on what you want to learn

In your future you will do one thing or another

For me the future has nothing to do with
Mariano Rajoy with Pablo Iglesias or with

The Merkel or ... the future is you for that
When they called me for this conference

I was very excited, because I really
feel that giving this conference I am in some way

Touching the future, because the future, a new
Humanity, something different from what we have now or better

Or taking the good that we have now and even
improving it is currently in your hands

Many times our worst enemies are
Our parents, our friends our surroundings

That make us think that we are not worth or that
we are not worth it or that we are not good enough

Do not believe anything of all that you have all
infinite potential and from here to your future.

In the next 20 years you can do exactly what you want.

Thank you very much.

Subtitles by César Godino, Alfredo Hernández
and Miguel Pomboza - ELP