Dr. Oscar Lazaro is Managing Director of Innovalia, the Spanish group of high-tech SMEs with headquarters in Bilbao. Oscar has participated in the establishment of various initiatives to support the digital transformation of SMEs, like the Advanced Manufacturing HUB (AMHUB) network of the World Economic Forum (WEF) and in collaboration with the European Commission, the Thematic Working Group on Data in Manufacturing, as part of the activities of the European Network of Digital Innovation Hubs (EDIH). He is board member of the BAIDATA Association for the development of data economy and is part of the European Data Space Support Centre (DSSC). He has led European initiatives for the specification and deployment of Data Spaces in Manufacturing such as Data Space 4.0, SM4RTENANCE, SAGE among others and is deputy of the International Manufacturing-X Council and one of the founding members of the Catena-X Competence Centre in Spain.