María LuqueBuilding what comes next.

Challenge

Future communications between Earth, the Moon and deep space require architectures fundamentally different from terrestrial Internet infrastructure. The technology existed, but industrial use cases, international alignment and commercial pathways still needed to be built.

What María helped do

• —Connected space agencies, industry, researchers and international institutions.
• —Helped translate DTN/IPN research into industrial roadmaps and terrestrial pilots.
• —Built international consensus around standards, use cases and deployment narratives.
• —Coordinated the “A Solar System Internet for Humanity” campaign.

Outcome

Interplanetary networking became part of strategic space-infrastructure conversations, including ESA's long-term strategic vision environments and lunar communications initiatives.

Challenge

Spain's entrepreneurial ecosystem was fragmented, with no sufficiently shared national vision or modern regulatory framework.

What María helped do

• —Coordinated more than 300 organisations and 2,000+ stakeholders.
• —Aligned founders, investors, regions, industry and political actors.
• —Translated ecosystem pain points into economically viable policy proposals.
• —Helped build transversal political support around a national entrepreneurship agenda.

Outcome

Startup policy transformation, including the Spanish Startup Law and approximately €4B in entrepreneurship and innovation within the government's 2018—2022 economic strategy.

Challenge

Quantum moved from laboratory research towards national and industrial priority without an ecosystem prepared to absorb it — no shared standards conversation, no clear infrastructure pathway, no security narrative institutions could act on.

What María helped do

• —Worked across research, industry, policy and communications to build a common language.
• —Contributed to governance, standards and international cooperation environments.
• —Supported infrastructure and industrial positioning across telecom and defence.
• —Brought post-quantum security into institutional and public conversations.

Outcome

The same methodology applied across every field: science → ecosystem → policy → infrastructure → deployment.

Challenge

Digital technology companies and defence institutions operated in parallel worlds, with few structures to translate civilian capability into strategic capability.

What María helped do

• —Built and scaled AMETIC's Digital Technologies for Defence ecosystem from 21 to 80+ organisations in under one year.
• —Contributed to the development of a broader Dual-Use Commission with 150+ industry members.
• —Coordinated industry, institutions and defence stakeholders around shared agendas.

Outcome

A functioning dual-use industrial environment connecting AI, cybersecurity, quantum and telecommunications with European strategic autonomy.

Challenge

Public institutions needed more than AI pilots: governance, coordination and deployment pathways across administrations and universities.

What María helped do

• —Coordinated ecosystems across government, academia and industry.
• —Worked on AI governance and public-sector transformation agendas.
• —Supported institutional deployment and capability building.

Challenge

Frontier capability rarely fails for technical reasons alone — it fails when capital, industrial strategy and institutions are not aligned around it.

What María helped do

• —Worked across strategic investment, CVC and industrial competitiveness environments.
• —Connected emerging technology ecosystems with institutional capital.