Albert Cañigueral

Manager - Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)

AI Wonk contributor

Albert Cañigueral is an explorer, consultant, author and speaker around the impacts of technology in society. He currently works at Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) as the AI Factory one-stop shop manager. Before his current position, he was the Artificial Intelligence and Language Technologies (AI/LT) coordination and development manager. Always bridging research, innovation and society. Before joining BSC, Albert focused on the impacts of technology and the future of work. Author of “El trabajo ya no es lo que era: nuevas formas de trabajar, otras maneras de vivir” (Conecta, 2020) and co-producer and co-director of “Ciudad en Beta: el trabajo de hoy, la ciudad del mañana” (Createl, 2022). Between 2021 and 2022, Albert served as director general de Dades Obertes, Transparència i Col·laboració at the Open Government Secretary at Generalitat de Catalunya. Before that he led the development of the Ouishare network in Spain and Latin America from 2012-2021.

Albert Cañigueral's publications

Civil society

Public AI: Policies for democratic and sustainable AI infrastructures

Public AI policies can support sustainable AI infrastructures through public compute, data commons and open-source model ecosystems.

December 5, 2025 — 7 min read

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