Software is everywhere:
in our life, every morning, evening and night.
Cars, planes, cities, phones...
We are surrounded by the digital world.
A world that has changed
every single activity we engage.
Have you ever thought
what is the biggest taxi company in the world?
Uber, and it does not own a single taxi.
Or the biggest hotel company in the world?
AirBnB, and it also does not owns a single hotel.
Also Facebook is the most important content
company in the world
and Alibaba the most powerful e-commerce.
What do they have in common?
Software.
Software has dramatically disrupted these businesses
by creating a new breed of digital companies and information.
Organizations and companies need people
with software talents
for building the digital world.
By 2050 almost 70 percent of the world population
will be urban and many cities will have
over 10 million inhabitants.
We need software architects that help us
to transform the cities of the world to smart cities
where citizens can live in a much better way.
Today, 90 percent of the customer relationships
take place in the Internet.
In the digital area we need to be
true innovators for strenghtening customer relationships
to be a leader in the financial world.
We need professionalism with creativity
and innovation skills and capable for leading
the digital transformation of organizations.
Software architects are a new breed of entrepreneurs.
Everywhere new institutions help you
to grow your ventures.
Architects design and build the world,
transform our reality.
Software architects do this in the digital world.
And architects have two main skills:
first, technological, focused to efficiency,
and second, artistic, focused to creativity and inovation.
The software revolution has arrived.
It has the power to change the culture
of a civilization and its institutions.
And in this sense higher education institutions
should understand this evolution,
embrace the digital culture
and prepare the people to create a better world.
Campus Madrid is a Google space for entrepreneurs
where they can learn, connect
and build companies that will change the world.
We need entrepreneurs, we need developers,
we need software architects to turn the ideas
into thriving companies.
We help for to education, connections
and bringing communities together
to share their insights and their experience.
So what are you waiting for?
Come to start something!
This is your turn.
Would you like to become
a software architect of the future?
Please, take your seat.