Santiago Jiménez Cortés

Santi is 25 years old. He is an architect and entrepreneur. He is passionate about technology, design and nature. As he was 15 years old, he started his first projects and as he reached the age of 18, he built his first startup. He carried out his university degree in architecture one year quicker than the academic time established and was granted a scholarship to study an MBA and several programs in leadership and business management. He is currently the co-founder and CEO of Liight. Together with his team he has developed an app that uses gamification mechanics, AI and Smart City systems to motivate people to be more sustainable in their day-to-day activities. The app promotes the use of bicycles, public transport, shard mobility or recycling in our cities. The mission is to encourage citizens to fight against global warming by rewarding their actions with Liight, a virtual coin exchangeable in fashion, travel or leisure thanks to different partnerships with councils and brands. In the last year and a half he app has allowed to reduce polluting emissions by more than 350 tons CO2eq. Santi has been described by several companies and institutions as one of the most innovative person in recent times, and through this recognition has been able to represent Liight in various programs and obtain different awards in Madrid, Barcelona, London, Helsinki, MIT (Boston), Brussels, Copenhagen or Silicon Valley (San Francisco). Moreover he was selected in the boost talent program Celera and he has been winner of multiple hackathons with different companies of technology. He also likes to play drums, surf and adventure sports in the mountain.