Madrid pulses with the new era of Artificial Intelligence at the Google Cloud Summit 2025.

The event, which Sngular attended as a partner, once again brought together thousands of professionals and organizations committed to the country's digital future

Held on May 22nd, the [Google Cloud Summit 2025]https://cloudonair.withgoogle.com/events/google-cloud-summit-madrid-2025) made it clear that AI is no longer just an emerging promise—it’s a strategic tool already driving real improvements in efficiency and innovation across both the public and private sectors.

Google Cloud reaffirmed its commitment to supporting Spain through this transformation, with a strong focus on modernizing public services and empowering businesses via the cloud and artificial intelligence.

Sngular, a modernization partner with an AI twist

As a Google partner, Sngular had a strong presence at Cloud Summit 2025, showcasing its approach to technological modernization with an AI edge.

Sngular’s value proposition spans several key areas: helping companies migrate and optimize their infrastructure on Google Cloud, modernize platforms and processes to gain agility, efficiency, and scalability, and embed AI in everyday operations to enable automation, analytics, and personalization.

All of this is done with a strong emphasis on security, even in hybrid or multicloud environments, leveraging Google’s capabilities to extend protection beyond its own cloud to wherever data and applications reside.

Sngular also highlighted its expertise in data management and governance, viewing data as a true driver of innovation. Under the slogan "No data, no AI," it stressed the importance of transforming information into real organizational value.

Among the core services presented were cloud-native application development, the use of AI and DeepTech in multiple industries, and the application of AI to areas like marketing and data analytics—all with one common goal: unlocking the value of data to deliver personalized experiences and smarter business decisions.

Unveiling the secrets of matter at record speed

One of the clearest examples of how AI is revolutionizing scientific innovation was presented in the session From Years to Days: Accelerating Innovation with AI, featuring Israel Olalla, Cloud Customer Engineer Manager at Google Cloud; José Miguel Seoane, Technology Advisor at Repsol Tech Lab; and Javier García-Lasheras, SVP of Deep Tech at Sngular.

For centuries, human progress has followed the pace of materials—from stone to bronze, iron to silicon, and now to smart materials like advanced polymers and superconductors. However, the discovery of new compounds has historically been slow, relying on intuition, trial, and error. Among an estimated 10¹⁰ to 10⁶⁰ possible stable material combinations, only a few million are known. This limitation clashes with the urgent need for solutions to climate change, the energy transition, and the scarcity of strategic resources.

That’s where generative AI comes into play, rewriting the rules. Following the example of DeepMind’s AlphaFold, which solved protein folding, AI applied to materials—as in the GNoME project (Graph Networks for Materials Exploration)—has increased the number of known stable materials from around 48,000 to over 421,000 in just one year, including thousands with potential uses in batteries, superconductivity, or semiconductors.

The key lies in AI’s ability to learn the physical laws that govern atomic interactions, build models that reason about material properties, and generate entirely new theoretical structures from large volumes of simulated or experimental data. It does this with unprecedented speed and efficiency—what once took weeks of supercomputing can now be done in minutes at a fraction of the cost using cloud platforms and accelerators like GPUs and TPUs.

This new paradigm is built on a three-part alliance: AI as an exploratory designer, the human expert as a strategic guide, and robotic automation to synthesize and validate the most promising compounds. It’s a continuous cycle of prediction, experimentation, and learning—reinforcing rather than replacing the role of the researcher.

A concrete example of this revolution is the collaborative project between Repsol Tech Lab and Sngular, developed on Google Cloud, which aims to discover new catalysts for the efficient production of green hydrogen. Thanks to techniques like MLIP (Machine-Learned Interatomic Potentials), simulations that used to take weeks are now completed in under a minute, allowing for faster iteration and refinement.

The implication is clear: generative AI can dramatically shorten R&D cycles, uncover hidden patterns, and design materials "on demand" to tackle the great challenges of the 21st century. We are witnessing a new way of doing science—faster, more precise, and more accessible.

From left to right, Israel Olalla, Cloud Customer Engineer Manager at Google Cloud; José Miguel Seoane, Technology Advisor at Repsol Tech Lab; and Javier García-Lasheras, SVP of Deep Tech at Sngular.

The new biomedical revolution

The transformative impact of AI also took center stage in the biotech sector, with the dedicated track AI for Biotech@Summit at the Google Cloud Summit Madrid 2025. This session brought together leading voices from the scientific, business, and tech communities to explore how AI is accelerating drug discovery, optimizing research, and opening new opportunities in health and biomedicine.

The session began with a welcome speech from Miguel López-Valverde, Madrid’s Regional Minister for Digitalization, followed by a panel moderated by Fernando Rojas, Global Chief Executive Health & Life Sciences at Sngular, focused on the sector’s challenges in the face of AI disruption. Panelists included Isaac Hernández, Country Manager at Google Cloud; Ana Martínez de Molina, Deputy Minister of Universities, Research, and Science of Madrid; Patricia Alfonso, co-founder and CSO at Enzymlogic; Vijay Vaswani, CEO of Omniscope.ai; and María del Acebo Sánchez-Macián, Director of AI at Vithas.

A highlight was the keynote by Melissa Davis, Director of Computational Biology at Isomorphic Labs, who shared advances in AI-powered molecular modeling for faster drug development. Davis later discussed the impact of these technologies on the pharmaceutical industry with María Álvarez, Public Policy Manager at Google Cloud.

The event concluded with remarks from Emilio Viciano Duro, Madrid’s Regional Minister for Education, Science, and Universities, emphasizing the importance of public-private collaboration in this field. It also included the announcement of a $1 million contribution from Google.org to the Fundación General CSIC, aimed at promoting open-source AI for biomedical research.

The key takeaway: AI is not only transforming the present of biotechnology—it’s redefining the future of healthcare.

From left to right, Fernando Rojas, Global Chief Executive of Health & Life Sciences at Sngular; Ana Martínez de Molina, Deputy Minister of Universities, Research, and Science of the Community of Madrid; Patricia Alfonso, Co-founder and Scientific Director of Enzymlogic; Vijay Vaswani, CEO of Omniscope.ai; and María del Acebo Sánchez-Macián, Director of AI at Vithas.

Artificial intelligence as an economic accelerator for Spain’s public sector

During the event, numerous studies were presented, including an important report commissioned by Google Cloud that analyzes the potential impact of generative AI in Spain’s public sector. The findings are clear: adoption could boost productivity per employee by up to 9% over ten years, creating an annual economic value of €7 billion.

The analysis also revealed that two-thirds of public sector employees could benefit from partial task automation, ranging between 10% and 50%. While 54% already use AI tools for tasks such as data analysis or document summarization, 60% believe their institutions are not fully prepared for effective integration. The study also highlights the need for clear governance frameworks and robust investment in cloud infrastructure to realize this potential.

Additionally, Google Cloud announced new investments in the development of open AI models focused on scientific and healthcare research, built around a fully collaborative approach for the common good.

Massive training for an inclusive transformation

Recognizing that technological innovation is only possible with skilled people, a national initiative was announced at the Summit to train one million people in Spain by 2027. The goal is ambitious: to equip public sector workers, healthcare professionals, teachers, students, and workers from all industries with essential knowledge about artificial intelligence and cloud computing.

The plan involves partnerships with leading organizations to design targeted programs for both career changers and newcomers to the workforce. This push for digital talent is complemented by Spain’s regulatory leadership, with the launch of the first regulatory sandbox for AI applications under the new European AI Act.

Google Cloud supports this initiative with a secure sandbox within its infrastructure and a suite of tools to ensure ethical, traceable, and responsible AI. This environment is especially designed to help SMEs and startups meet legal and technical requirements, while also accelerating the country’s digital sovereignty.

Technological innovations with direct impact in Spain

Google Cloud’s strategy for Spain relies on a continuously evolving technology platform. The event featured major advances in digital sovereignty, including solutions offering greater data control, advanced key management, and locally operated environments for sensitive sectors. New capabilities were also introduced for fully isolating systems based on security requirements.

In the communications field, Google announced that Meet now includes real-time voice translation, preserving the original speaker’s tone—a feature soon to be tested in enterprise environments. Additionally, network infrastructure improvements were unveiled that cut costs and boost performance, along with solutions that bring AI model power directly to local or isolated environments.

One of the key announcements was the evolution of the Vertex AI platform, which now includes more powerful models with enhanced capabilities in image generation, reasoning, speech synthesis, music, and video, further enriching its open ecosystem of tools and connectors. The focus on AI agents was strengthened with no-code interfaces, designed for business users aiming to automate processes without programming knowledge.

But Google Cloud’s vision goes beyond developing models. It also includes the effective integration of AI into everyday tools. Demonstrations included assisted collaboration features such as spreadsheets with smart analysis, documents with audio summaries, and automated workflows.

In the realm of cybersecurity, a new generation of AI-assisted solutions was presented, aimed at improving threat detection, malware analysis, and proactive alert management through specialized agents.

White Mirror: a creative and collaborative experience… also with an AI twist

Beyond enterprise solutions and success stories, Sngular also brought a more creative and collaborative side of AI to the Summit: the White Mirror game.

This initiative builds on the company’s previous creations for the event, evolving from monomodal AI-generated avatars to multimodal cards featuring AI-generated images and text fragments from new fictional universes. This year, the concept takes it further—the cards are now playable.

White Mirror is used as a Design Thinking-based tool that combines three key elements: real-world challenge analysis, strategic thinking activation to turn challenges into opportunities, and inspiration to imagine possible futures.

In this game, players must figure out how to avoid an apocalyptic scenario, using cards that represent threats, transformational sectors, digital professionals, and solutions or services. The gameplay encourages collaboration and open dialogue, reflecting Sngular’s approach to making the future tangible, shared, and participatory.

A new era begins

The Google Cloud Summit Madrid 2025 reinforced the idea that artificial intelligence, powered by advanced technology platforms, is not just another tool—it’s a new way of doing science, inventing, and creating value. It’s not just about technology—it’s about a new way to transform the world and every one of its industries.

Events like this show that we’re entering an era where imagining, discovering, and innovating happen simultaneously. The shared vision is clear: this is not science fiction—it’s today’s science and technology, already mapping out the future.