Francisco Blanes since 2012 is director of the Instituto de Automática e Informática Industrial in the Universitat Politécnica de Valencia (UPV). He holds a PhD in Computing Sciences by the UPV where he is teaching Computing Architecture and Technology topics. He has more than 50 scientific publications, and his research has been fo-cused on Real-Time Embedded Systems applied for robot control and distributed industrial control systems. During the last 10 years, he has combined his research and teaching activities with technology transfer projects and collaboration with companies, being responsible for many projects of technol-ogy transfer.