The second edition of DES Digital Business World Congress (DES2017), the world's largest international forum on digital transformation, is going to take place in Madrid (IFEMA) from 23-25 May.

The event will bring together the knowledge of over 450 international speakers on subjects such as Digital Leadership, Cloud, IoT, Cyber-security, Big Data and Analytics, as well as emerging technologies such as Blockchain, AI and Robotics.

According to the official release, companies including Accenture, Fujitsu, IBM, Wipro, LinkedIn, Mediacloud, Microsoft, EMC, Everis, Google, HP Enterprise, Huawei, Intel, T-Systems, Vmware, Berepublic, Altran, CA Technologies, Dynatrace, Ericsson, FHios, Improove, Konica Minolta, Lenovo, SAS, Schneider Electric, Seidor, Siemens and UST Global have already placed their trust in DES Digital Business World Congress as a meeting point for digital transformation.

The event will also feature Alex Tapscott, co-author of 'Blockchain Revolution: How the technology behind Bitcoin is changing money, business and the world', who will set forth the theory of how blockchain will lead to a new landscape of development in areas as diverse as health, education, government and public administration, finance and business.

In addition, Anita Schjøll will explain the Iris AI project, an artificial intelligence system that will work as a scientific research assistant, helping to find the necessary information within multiple sources. With time, this system will acquire knowledge, turning it into an autonomous investigator.

Other speakers include Susan Fonseca , founder of Women@TheFrontier (a global association of female innovators) and founder of the Singularity University (SU) a business incubator and think-tank of future leaders that leverages exponential start-ups; Martha Heller, writer of the book 'The CIO Paradox: Battling the Contradictions of IT Leadership' ; and Roya Mahboob, one of the first Afghan women to become CEO of an IT company, and founder of Women's Annex, a platform that gives women from Afghanistan and Central Asia the chance to tell their stories to the world.