Metlabs discusses digital security at the 5th APD Technology and Business Forum
Pablo Gómez shared Metlabs’ perspective on verifiable records, artificial intelligence and talent, alongside representatives of Jealsa, Resonac and R | MasOrange.
Metlabs took part in the 5th APD Technology and Business Forum on May 12, 2026, at the Fundación Santiago Rey Fernández-Latorre headquarters in Arteixo, A Coruña. Pablo Gómez, the company’s CEO and founder, joined the panel on digital security and its implications for business.
Organised by APD with support from Inforhouse, the event brought together professionals from Galicia’s business community. Its programme connected artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and data management with leadership decisions, exploring the transition from digitalisation to organisational change.
Digital security across four industries
The panel was moderated by Julio Sánchez Agrelo, president and dean of Galicia’s telecommunications engineering association. Gómez was joined by Javier Codesido, IT director at Jealsa; David Serantes, Global Director of Digital Excellence at Resonac; and Alfredo Ramos, director for Galicia at R | MasOrange.
The discussion brought together experience from food manufacturing, advanced materials, telecommunications and blockchain development. Those different perspectives helped frame security as a question of business processes and responsibilities, alongside the tools used to protect systems.
Verifiable records and artificial intelligence
Metlabs’ contribution focused on checking operations through shared records and cryptographic signatures. Gómez connected that approach with asset tokenization, where the technical design needs to identify what is recorded and how transfers are documented.
He also addressed the traceability of operations performed by artificial intelligence agents. For a business introducing automation, retaining evidence of the actions carried out matters when understanding how a system works and reviewing its decisions. His contribution placed that requirement alongside the control mechanisms organisations already use.
The discussion of trust therefore led to a practical question: what can a company demonstrate about its own systems? In Metlabs’ work, that question connects infrastructure design with the documentation and review of the operations it supports. It also gives technology teams and business leaders a common basis for discussing how those operations should be controlled.
Talent and leadership decisions
Another part of the panel addressed how teams adapt to artificial intelligence. Gómez highlighted the need to learn tools that change rapidly and to offer technology projects that help people develop their skills while working from Galicia.
Metlabs brought a perspective grounded in building blockchain infrastructure for businesses. The forum offered an opportunity to share that approach with leaders from other industries and place verifiable operations within a broader discussion of security and organisation. The company develops this work through its blockchain consulting practice.
