DIGIT-A, the digital collaboration platform of firms specializing in the digital transformation, has organized a conference to look at the food-sector’s digitization needs in order to ensure its ongoing competitiveness and innovativeness.

Héctor Besga, founding member of DIGIT-A, kicked off the event with an opening speech stressing the need for organizations to make greater digitization efforts. Next to speak was the special guest speaker, Javier Sirvent, technology evangelist, who argued that no economic sector can afford to ignore the importance and impact of the digital transformation; all firms, he added, are now duty bound to tweak their business model or fall by the wayside, stressing the particular importance of client-centeredness in this whole endeavor.

GMV, a member firm of the DIGIT-A ecosystem, gave a paper as cybersecurity expert to raise the food sector’s awareness of the importance of taking the right cybersecurity measures in such a critical sector. As GMV representative, Miguel Hormigo, Manager of the company’s Industry Sector, highlighted cybersecurity as a business aspect; it needs to be tackled with a holistic approach, boosting production and driving digital innovation. Cybersecurity is a continuous, proactive activity rather than a one-off task. To be effective, moreover, it must stem from a real transformation of people and processes on the basis of proper planning, preparation and prevention. His speech also mentioned three cases of companies that have suffered a cyberattack and are now working with GMV to demonstrate the key points of technological action.