We are a community on a mission to make AI accessible to anyone.
We connect the ecosystem of experts and companies to create social impact.
Our Mission
At Saturdays.AI we want to make AI accessible to everyone through the formation of communities.
We have designed our flagship programme, AI Saturdays, suitable for anyone that wants to start in AI. It takes students 12 to 15 Saturdays to learn ML techniques and end up creating their own project in AI. Everything with the guide and support of the community during the whole process.
We also offer courses exclusively for schools and businesses that want to lead in AI and we organise other initiatives such as talks, our own podcast or events in our community to bring AI closer and motivate the creation of real projects.
- To promote knowledge of new technologies
- To grant an affordable course price
- To advocate open technology initiatives
- To bring the professional world closer to our community
- To support organizations and events that share our values
01/2018
Early in 2018, we set in motion the AI Saturdays program, starting as an inspired group of friends learning about Deep Learning in a basement in Tarragona. We followed courses together, exchanged impressions and saw the potential of teamwork learning AI. We opened up a Meetup group to invite 40 more people and in 24h we had 500 requests…
Saturdays.AI was born.
07/2018
Shortly after finishing the first AI Saturdays Tarragona edition, we opened the 2nd community in Tarragona. We were a small group of people learning AI together with a purpose: building social impact projects, always open sourced to the world.
Since then, we have never stopped growing.
09/2018
Our colleague Christian, one of our students on the first edition in Barcelona and later mentor in Tarragona’s community, returned with an idea to his hometown Guayaquil, in Ecuador. No longer, we opened AI Saturdays Guayaquil and Saturdays.AI became intercontinental.
2019
We became global with the opening of communities in more than 15 cities in one year: Madrid, Almería, Sevilla, Monterrey, Alicante, Quito and Hermosillo. By June 2019, we were advancing the opening of Lima, Santiago de Chile, Bogotá and Milano.
Besides, AWS, Bitbrain, Ensitech, 4YFN and Shugert joined the community to help us continue expanding AI Saturdays around the world and democratising AI.
2020
This year the world is hit hard by the Coronavirus crisis, but our community continues its activity thanks to the AI Saturdays online.
In March we issued a challenge to fight the COVID crisis with AI, taking in many projects that had real impact.
This year sees the birth of our largest and most global edition ever created, AI Saturdays LATAM, with a selection of 60 students and mentors from different communities.
2020
Our students are becoming noticed: Jeremy Howard mentions Pedro in his fast.ai courses, …
In the second half of the year we expanded our community and reached out to companies, universities, teachers and colleges through our new programmes FridAIs and AI4Schools. By this time, we had already opened in Murcia, Asturias, Córdoba and Dubai.
In June 2020, we launched our podcast in Spanish Language, covering the implementation of AI in different fields.
2021
In March this year, we opened our Online community to connect all our different local communities. It is a space where we can start discussions, ask our questions, share personal projects, look for job opportunities and take forward our initiatives in a collaborative way.
Our Team
Miguel Guerrero
CEO & Co-founder
I co-founded Saturdays.AI so I could learn Deep Learning while building impact projects. I currently serve as president and help with the daily operations and the strategy in order to fulfill our mission. I'm a Data Geek with extensive management experience in industrial and technology companies. I'm also a MBA Graduate from HEC Paris and Wharton, with a track-record as an entrepreneur for mission-driven initiatives, and a part-time professor of Applied AI. Passionate about how technology empowers everyone to achieve great things, I'm on a quest to build a better tomorrow for my 3 children.
Jan Carbonell
Chairman & Co-founder
I co-founded Saturdays.AI back in 2018 willing to learn Deep Learning within a community of makers. More about me: I am a self-taught developer and former strategy consultant. My previous projects include an underwater augmented reality experience and a wearable to facilitate the navigation of the visually impaired from which I was nominated to the MIT Under 35. I'm actively involved in the Barcelona Entrepreneurship Scene through Startup Weekend, Global Shapers and StartupGrind among others.
Virginia Huidobro
EU Manager & AI Saturdays Madrid Ambassador
I was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, but I have Spanish nationality. As Europe Manager, I oversee the operations and expansion in Europe. I am a tireless proactive and multidisciplinary learner, with good communication skills and always looking to be happy in what I do. I feel fulfilled by helping and teaching others. With great ability to work in a team and excellent leadership skills, experience and professionalism, I am always ready for new opportunities.
Angelina Alarcón
LATAM Manager & Guadalajara (MX) City Lead
I’m a computer engineer passionate about technology and open source philosophy, eager to share knowledge and always motivated to learn. I have several postgraduate studies: a Masters in Business Administration and another in Data Science and Big Data, and I am co-founder of Women in Data Science, Power and Engineering AC.
Pablo Castañeda
Global Teams Lead & AI Saturdays Madrid Ambassador
I lead the global team, provide support to the communities and also strategic advice. My great passion is the human brain, although I am a computer engineer by training and I have worked on several AI projects related to health. I have always been fascinated by psychology and neuroscience and believe that the complex interactions of our brain shape our thoughts, memories, feelings and motivations, and ultimately make us human. I like to talk about mental well-being in the modern world, habits, brain-computer interfaces, education, learning, productivity and creativity. You can read me at smartsapiens.net and recommend a good book 😉
David Griñán
CTO & AI Saturdays Madrid Mentor
I have been part of Saturdays.AI since 2018, when I started as a mentor for the AI Saturdays Madrid edition. I am currently working for Fujitsu as an NLP Engineer (Natural Language Processing), after having completed a double degree in Computer Science and Mathematics and the Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence at the Polytechnic University of Madrid. I enjoy playing Hades, RocketLeague and Sea of Thieves.
Eduardo H. Ramirez
Board Member & Monterrey City Lead
I am a doctor in Intelligent Systems from ITESM and have collaborated in Yahoo Research and Microsoft Research in Machine Learning applications. I am a founding partner and the head of Analytics at Ensitech in Mexico, where I carry out Data Science projects for leading companies in the country. I am also a board member of CAINTRA's Centro de Vinculación Tecnológica, founder of the Data Science community in Monterrey and a contributor to media such as Forbes, Economía Hoy and SG Software Guru.
Christian Tutivén
Board Member & Guayaquil City Lead
I was a student in the 1st edition of AI Saturdays Barcelona and mentor later in the 1st edition of Tarragona. I returned to Ecuador and became the city lead of AI Saturdays Guayaquil. I’m a teacher and an entrepreneur in constant learning, in search of generating a positive impact by sharing and applying the knowledge acquired at work, studies and in life. One of my goals is to make Ecuador one of the countries with the highest technology development worldwide. I love technology and I have experience in Data Science, Machine Learning, control, electricity, robotics and telecommunications. Also, in the design of mobile applications with acquired skills in administration, in competitive analysis, resource and project management and in implementation of processes and tools focused on improving service/product too. At the moment, I am working on the development of an autonomous vehicle.
Rosa Oliva
Marketing Manager
I lead the marketing efforts in Saturdays.AI. I have a background in Business management and marketing. I love reading and dancing, which I do every here and there.
Looking forward to make a difference!
Daniel Garcia-Teba
Engineering Lead
I am a former participant of AI Saturdays Sevilla. Since then, I made my passion in Artificial Intelligence my occupation and now I help Saturdays.AI to build awesome AI products and produce top class content about Machine Learning.
Ana Muñoz
Marketing team
I love learning new things and always enjoy a good challenge. This is why being part of the Saturdays.AI team has become an awesome learning experience where I can use my artistic and business acumen skills to bring social AI to all.
Carmen Vázquez de Castro
Board Member
I believe in the power people have to unite and achieve great things. This is something that drawn me to Saturdays.AI: to help others overcome any obstacle and deliver incredible projects with social impact.
Adriana López
Marketing team
Passionate about everything related to art and design, I look forward to offering my vision and point of view to the marketing of Saturdays AI. I firmly believe that the fusion of design with good communication is capable of achieving great impacts.