Carmen Vázquez de Castro Álvarez-Buylla

Carmen is an accomplished professional with more than ten years of experience in training and education. She is the founder of CAVAC Consulting, an innovation consultancy, and an international Agile trainer accredited by European Scrum, one of the continent’s most renowned certification bodies. She specialises in helping organisations bring innovative services and strategies to life.

With a proven track record, she is one of the few professionals in Spain qualified to certify participants through European Scrum-accredited training programmes in Agile, Lean Startup, and Design Thinking. Her clients include large companies, universities, start-ups, and foundations seeking meaningful transformation. Her background combines business management, product development, and data science.

In academia, Carmen lectures in entrepreneurship at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (ETSII), focusing on fostering a high-tech entrepreneurial culture. She has also mentored spin-offs and innovative start-ups at the UC3M Science Park, helping research-driven ventures turn cutting-edge technologies into scalable businesses.

Driven by a passion for empowering people with the tools to launch scalable businesses and technologies, Carmen co-founded Start Universe and helped build Saturdays.AI, open innovation communities created to teach artificial intelligence and agile methodologies to thousands of people. Saturdays.AI is now present in more than 30 cities across five continents, making it one of the largest non-profit networks for AI education.

Drawing on her experience and expertise, Carmen designs forward-thinking strategies that transform organisations and individuals. Her work includes creating impactful programmes that help innovative companies emerge and grow.