From 1 to 3 July we debated “The future of transparency in Spain in the face of the challenges of artificial intelligence” at the UIMP

• The meeting, organized by the Council and the Menéndez Pelayo International University, takes place in Santander, within the Summer Activities 2026 of the UIMP

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Can there be true public transparency if we do not know when, how and with what criteria artificial intelligence intervenes in the decision-making of the Administration? If public management is automated, how do you know if the decisions are correct?

For three days, in the meeting "The future of transparency in Spain before the challenges of artificial intelligence", these and other relevant challenges for Public Administrations and citizens will be addressed: algorithmic transparency, the right of access to data, models and automated systems, the tension between data protection and transparency, the potential of AI to promote public transparency and improve the information published by the Administration to account for its management, the ethical, safe and responsible use of artificial intelligence, or the new legal scenarios that open up to the automation of public decisions.

With a multidisciplinary approach, experts in transparency, technology, law and data protection will participate in this course, to offer the vision of the Transparency Council, the judiciary, the university, civil society, international organizations…

Representatives of the Supreme Court, the OECD, the Spanish Data Protection Agency, the Spanish Agency for Supervision of Artificial Intelligence, the Bank of Spain, the Public Sector and Artificial Intelligence Observatory and the citizens’ foundations Civio, Hay Derecho, Transparency International, Maldita and the Spanish Committee of Representatives of Persons with Disabilities (CERMI) participate, among others.

WEDNESDAY, 1 JULY

9:30 Opening

• Concepción Campos Acuña, President of the Council for Transparency and Good Governance
• Paulino Sánchez Menéndez, General Director of Administrative Simplification, Transparency and Citizen Participation. Government of Cantabria

10:00 Transparency and algorithms: legal guarantees in public decision-making

• Concepción Campos Acuña, President of the Council for Transparency and Good Governance

11:30 Transparency and data protection: how to ensure the necessary balance in the digital sphere

• Lorenzo Cotino Piedra, president of the Spanish Association of Data Protection (AEPD)

12:30 The challenges of transparency in the implementation of AI

• Manuel J. Garcia Rodriguez, Dr. Ing. de Telecomunicación, Banco de España.

15:30 AI opportunities in document management

• Julián Antonio Prior Cabanillas, deputy director of Transparency and Good Governance. CTBG
• María del Carmen Rial Quintela, technical advisor of the Subdirectorate General of State Claims. CTBG

Modera: José Santiago Fernández del Valle, Deputy Assistant Director of State Claims. CTBG

THURSDAY, 2 JULY

09:30 Active Advertising: Assessment and Compliance in the Data and AI Age

• Gonzalo Gómez de Villalobos, Deputy General Director of Transparency and Good Governance. CTBG

10:10 The right of access to public information in the face of new types of requests: data, algorithms and models

• Marta Timón Herrero, Assistant General Director of State Level Claims. CTBG

10:50 Transparency of access to information: Is automation possible?

• José Manuel Jover Lorente, Deputy General Director of Claims of Autonomous Communities and Local Entities. CTBG

12:00 Transparency as a means of ensuring ethical and responsible use of AI

• Fernando Llano Alonso, Professor of Philosophy of Law and Dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Seville.

13:00 The Administration’s role in ensuring the ethical and safe use of AI

• María Esteller Fernández, Deputy General Director of Reports and Test Infrastructures. Spanish Agency for Supervision of Artificial Intelligence (AESIA)

15:30 Round table: Challenges of algorithmic transparency from the perspective of civil society

• David Cabo Calderón, co-director of the Civio Foundation
• Germán J. Arenas Arias, researcher at the Hay Derecho Foundation
• Mónica Roa Hastamory, researcher at Transparency International Spain
• Luis Cayo Pérez Bueno, President of the Spanish Committee of Representatives of People with Disabilities (CERMI)
• David Fernández Sancho, Director of Engineering Maldita.es

Modera: Gonzalo Gómez de Villalobos, Deputy Director General of Transparency and Good Governance. CTBG

FRIDAY, 3 JULY

9:30 Dialogue on the future of transparency in the AI era at European level

• Isabel Lombardero Lasarte, general secretary of the CTBG
• María Pascual Dapena, Public Policy Specialist, Anti-Corruption, Integrity and Open Government Division. Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
• Gabriele Vestri, professor of procedural law at the University of Seville and president of the Public Sector and Artificial Intelligence Observatory (OspIA)

11:30 The challenges of the new legal realities in the face of artificial intelligence: a vision from the application of law

• Juan Pedro Quintana Carretero, Justice of the Supreme Court
• Susana de la Sierra Morón, Professor of Administrative Law at the University of Castilla-La Mancha
• Isabel Jiménez Plaza, Director of Cabinet of the CTBG

13:30 Closing

• Consuelo Sánchez Naranjo, Secretary of State for Civil Service