Esther Garrido received her Diploma of Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Valladolid in 1997 after presenting her Final Year Project in the Fachhochschule Mannheim (Germany), where she started her professional activity as a software developer. Her area of expertise is Public Sector and ICT related projects, where she has been working for more than 15 years, assuming different roles and responsibilities. Since 2015 she is working at Atos Research & Innovation focused on business development towards the company and exploitation/sustainability activities within European research projects, mainly in the area of e-Government and Smart Cities.