Josep Maria Ganyet i Cirera (
Vic
Vic (; es, Vic or Pancracio Celdrán (2004). Diccionario de topónimos españoles y sus gentilicios (5ª edición). Madrid: Espasa Calpe. p. 843. ISBN 978-84-670-3054-9. «Vic o Vich (viquense, vigitano, vigatán, ausense, ausetano, ausonense): ...
, 1965) is a
Catalan computer engineer. Graduated from the
Autonomous University of Barcelona in 1988, he then specialized in
artificial intelligence.
He began his career with
IBM and
Deutsche Bank in designing human interactions. He also worked with online advertising agency El Sindicato (now part of
Havas) and created the website Hoymesiento.com.
In 1994 founded his first Internet company, Ars Virtualis. Currently, he is CEO and co-founder of Mortensen.co study and participates in the start-up Soundkik. In parallel, he is professor of new media studies of the Audiovisual Communication degree at the
Pompeu Fabra University. He collaborates in radio broadcasting show ''El món a
RAC 1'',
La Vanguardia and
Barcelona TV, and works with
Kelly Goto at Gotomedia. In 1998 he published the book ''Interacción humana con los ordenadores (UOC)''.
He is also known for creating the 2012 campaign ''Keep Calm and Speak Catalan'', based on the poster
keep calm and carry on
''Keep Calm and Carry On'' was a motivational poster produced by the Government of the United Kingdom in 1939 in preparation for World War II. The poster was intended to raise the morale of the British public, threatened with widely predi ...
, against the education reform project undertaken by the Spanish Minister of Education,
José Ignacio Wert (after its threat to "''hispanize Catalan students''"), a fact considered by most of the Catalan parliamentary spectrum as a threat to education in Catalan language.
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1965 births
Living people
Autonomous University of Barcelona alumni
Academic staff of Pompeu Fabra University
People from Vic
Computer engineers