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The @aslan Association, which brings together 192 manufacturers and suppliers specializing in digital innovation and cybersecurityCybersecurity solutions are essential in the digital age, will celebrate the 32nd edition of the ASLAN2025 Congress & EXPO on March 18, 19, and 20 at the Palacio de Congresos in Madrid. Under the slogan “AI + Digital Innovation: Major Challenges and Opportunities”, this event will kick off the annual program of technology outreach activities.
In a context of accelerated digital transformation, both businesses and public administrations have the opportunity to evolve their services and operations through the incorporation of Artificial Intelligence. The ASLAN2025 Congress presents itself as a key space to learn about advancements in cybersecurity, digital workplaces, automation, and data management, as well as to analyze new challenges in networks, multi-cloud environments, data centers, and digital infrastructures.
A benchmark event that grows over time and space
After 10 years of consolidation and growth, this year @aslan will extend the duration of the ASLAN2025 Congress & EXPO from two to three days in the morning. The physical extent of the event is also increasing, and activities will be distributed across all floors of the Palacio de Congresos. This new temporal and spatial distribution will provide a better experience for both participating companies and visitors.
Participating companies will have better scheduling for their presentations, which will coincide with fewer simultaneous activities, facilitating attendance for all interested attendees. Furthermore, visitors will have more days to visit the exhibition, resulting in a smaller crowd at any given time. Additionally, with fewer activities happening simultaneously, attendees will be able to attend a greater number of conferences and events.
The inauguration of the ASLAN2025 Congress & EXPO will be attended by the Minister for Digital Transformation and Public Function, Óscar López, and the Digitalization Counselor of the CAM, Miguel López-Valverde Argüeso, who will also preside over the closing ceremony.
Alberto Pascual, President of the @aslan Association, emphasizes that “one of the main pillars of the Recovery, Transformation, and Resilience Plan, supported by the EU’s Next Generation funds, is digital transformation. A large part remains to be developed, and acceleration will come in 2025. @aslan aims to be a catalyst for this transformation for companies through a comprehensive agenda of activities that starts with the Congress.”
6 innovation challenges and two Knowledge Forums
This year, ASLAN2025 has structured all content of the Congress & EXPO around two central themes (Artificial Intelligence and Cyber-resilience) to address these six challenges:
- Challenges and opportunities in applying Artificial Intelligence to IT infrastructures, digital services, and cybersecurity.
- More competitive and resilient companies and services thanks to Artificial Intelligence, advanced data analytics, and other disruptive technologies.
- The ICT distribution channel as CIO in SMEs, thus driving their digitalization and protection against threats.
- The challenge of modernization and financing opportunities in the final stretch of European funds for public administrations.
- Managed services, the great value of the integrator for productivity, efficiency, and security.
- Data centers, connectivity, and technological innovation, the challenge of keeping Spain as a major digital hub for Southern Europe.
Additionally, the programming for the Knowledge Forums is divided into two major thematic areas:
- Digital Innovation & AI Forum: Over three days, the impact of AI on improving the workplace, automation, and business decision-making will be analyzed, exploring topics such as data analytics, hyper-automation, management of complex networks with AIOps, the combination of hybrid and cloud infrastructures, Edge computing, and high-performance computing (HPC) solutions.
- Cybersecurity & AI Forum: The main challenges in cybersecurity will be debated, including security in cloud environments, the application of AI & ML in cybersecurity, protection of IoT and 5G environments, and managing exposure to threats through XDR and SASE solutions.
Distribution of the areas of Congress & EXPO ASLAN2025
Floor 0 of the Palacio de Congresos will be entirely dedicated to Artificial Intelligence, while the 1st floor will be completely focused on the Public Sector. The 2nd floor will host the Technology Trends Forums, and the 3rd floor will be dedicated to the EXPO, with more space than in previous editions while still hosting the “VII Annual Meeting of ICT Executives”. The 4th floor will have several co-working and networking rooms where sponsoring companies, speakers, the press, and attendees with “Platinum Pass” can meet.
An intense agenda of activities focused on AI, digital innovation, and cyber-resilience
Attendees will be able to listen to presentations within the Knowledge Forums, visit the exhibition area, see live demonstrations, or have 1-to-1 meetings with representatives of the attending companies. These experts, from both the public and private sectors, will be distributed across different knowledge spaces, addressing challenges and technological trends in Cybersecurity and resilience, Artificial Intelligence applied to innovation, Smart Networks, Cloud, Edge Computing, or Data Analytics.
Moreover, over 125 technology companies will present the latest solutions for digital transformation at the exhibition. All of this aims to ensure that the professional audience attending ASLAN2025 has direct and in-person contact with the most relevant actors in the digital ecosystem. Each attendee will receive practical, high-value information directly from the protagonists of digital innovation.
The disruption caused by AI marks a turning point
The Association recently published the report “AI. Everything changes: A current perspective from the digital innovation and cybersecurity industry in Spain.” In the study, as noted by Alberto Pascual, President of the @aslan Association, “the current situation and expectations of AI are addressed from a strategic and business perspective. Experts highlight the enormous strategic relevance of AI and everything it can contribute in areas such as cybersecurity, healthcare, finance, and industry sectors, not to mention marketing and sales or facilitating the oversight of networks, systems, or processes. It is the most disruptive technology of the last 30 years, and 93.1% of respondents are already incorporating it.”
In this line, Félix de la Fuente, Vice President of the @aslan Association, emphasizes the central importance of data as the foundation of AI, “we are accompanying data on its journey. Years ago, the focus was on capturing and transporting data; now it involves processing data, in the cloud and data centersA data center or data processing center, to feed AI. Artificial Intelligence is being implemented at a much faster pace than any previous technology, and this is why we are paying so much attention to it, so we can convey all these advancements to our members and to society in general.”
A space for innovation in Public Administration
As part of the programming, the VIII National Annual Meeting of Experts in Technologies in Public Administration will take place, a key gathering to address the technological challenges and priorities facing public administrations at central, regional, and local levels in an environment of accelerated transformation.
This edition aims to delve deeper into strategic topics that merge technological innovation with practical approaches for implementing solutions in the public sector. From the protection of critical infrastructures to the impact of Artificial Intelligence on public services, as well as advances in the Spain Digital Agenda 2026 and the adoption of data-driven strategies, the Congress aims to be a space where leaders and experts share visions, strategies, and best practices that chart the way towards a more connected and efficient future.
The culmination of the event will be the traditional Gala Dinner, where the XVI Public Administration Awards will be presented, recognizing those entities that have driven digitalization through innovative initiatives.
Integrating technology into strategic management
This year, the Congress & EXPO ASLAN takes a step further in technology outreach and will hold a series of meetings and activities to reach C-level profiles and boards of directors in companies and policymakers in public administrations. The @aslan Association has observed over the past few years that the application of technology cannot remain solely within the purely technical realm, particularly in infrastructures and cybersecurity. It is necessary to convey the possibilities of emerging technologies to decision-making bodies to facilitate their integration into the core of strategic and business planning.
Francisco Verderas, Managing Director of the @aslan Association, emphasizes that, “at the ASLAN2025 Congress, several activities will take place to bring technology closer to boards of directors: a meeting of ICT Directors, a session titled ‘CEOs with Tech DNA,’ a meeting under the theme ‘The Challenge of CIOs in the IBEX35,’ and a lunch for technology executives and CEOs, all aimed at making the importance of technology in corporate strategy more transversal.”
@aslan, over 35 years as a spokesperson for technological innovation
The @aslan association brings together 192 leading multinational and national technology companies, a historic record of members, with a clear mission: to promote technological outreach with the help of experts from its member companies. Proximity to the market, along with an extensive collaboration network and excellent work methodologies and collaboration dynamics, are the keys to its success and implementation.
The activities carried out by the Association reach nearly 100,000 professionals each year, of which 15,000 participate in face-to-face activities, with a growing focus on including C-level and senior management profiles. The Association’s annual action agenda includes the publication of reports and studies, executive training programs, and @aslan clubs (Alumni, JD, DTIC, etc.), among other technology outreach activities.
A meeting point for the digitalization of the future
ASLAN2025 will bring together over 8,000 professionals from the digitalization world, reaffirming its position as the benchmark Congress for digital innovation and cybersecurity. With AI as the central axis, this edition will solidify ASLAN as an indispensable forum for the exchange of ideas and the promotion of new technologies in the sector, gathering professionals from digital transformation across various sectors, as well as technology leaders in public administrations, integrators, technology consultants, Telco operators, data centers, and Cloud providers.
Alberto Pascual, President of the @aslan Association, summarizes it with these words, “having collaborated with over 300 companies to organize more than 500 activities and influence 210,000 professionals over a 35-year history validates our experience and knowledge.”