Jose Iglesias
Human-centred AI for higher education. Previously building entrepreneurship education programs in 120+ countries. galician.
Welcome.I’m Co-founder at Hawkings, where we build human-centred AI infrastructure for learning. Our platform helps higher-education institutions create, deliver and evaluate courses in one connected system, with a focus on fair assessment, course quality and meaningful learning analytics.Before Hawkings, I spent over a decade at Techstars, a global investment firm that backs early-stage technology startups. There I led the Community & Education Programs unit, scaling Startup Weekend and Techstars from a small experiment into one of the world’s largest entrepreneurship education movements, supporting programs in over 120 countries every year.I am lucky to support incredibly talented founders as an advisor or investor at a personal level. Check out Humara, Mentiness, BrandNewVerse and Fuell (YC W22) to learn more about them. I also serve as an independent advisor for the European Commission on digital learning, research and innovation projects.To support my own community, I am part of the founding team at Startup Galicia, a non-profit that aims to foster entrepreneurship and innovation in the region, and nosday, the largest startup conference in Galicia.I’ve been a speaker at some of the world’s largest tech conferences like Web Summit, The Next Web, TechCrunch Disrupt, 4YFN, the Global Entrepreneurship Congress, and at organisations like CERN, ESADE, the European Parliament, Google, and many more.I have an incredibly brilliant wife, two wonderful daughters and, together, we live with a sometimes not-so-brilliant but cute-as-hell dachshund named Gauss.You can also find me on Twitter and LinkedIn.You can contact me here.