The engineering and technology group Sener has launched Dcode, its new business unit specialising in the digital market. With this move, it becomes one of the first major engineering firms to combine advanced sector expertise (in markets such as energy, infrastructure and mobility, data centres, or aerospace and defence) with the delivery of digital services, offering a deep understanding of clients’ end products and operational environments.

Specifically, Dcode will focus on four main areas of activity: data, advanced analytics, AI and OT/IT cybersecurity—OT referring to operational technologies, those that control and monitor devices through industrial control systems, robotics or sensors, among other means, in order to improve and safeguard physical processes. IT refers to information technologies, encompassing data, networks and computers.

“The launch of Dcode represents a natural step in our evolution as a technology group. We bring something unique to the market: we are not only experts in digitalisation, but we also understand the infrastructure, the system and the end product from our clients’ perspective—an integrated vision that enables us to design solutions with significant added value,” says Esteban Álvarez, Managing Director of Dcode at Sener. “With Dcode, we reaffirm our commitment to innovation and technological transformation, consolidating our position as a key player in the digitalisation of complex industrial sectors. Thanks to the combination of advanced digital capabilities and deep knowledge of the businesses in which we operate, we offer a distinctive value compared with other market proposals.”

Esteban Álvarez, Managing Director of Dcode.

Dcode’s business plan envisages selective inorganic growth in areas of industrial digitalisation that can complement its technological capabilities, combined with organic growth. The latter will focus on data, AI and cybersecurity services in those markets and geographies where Sener already has a strong presence and deep expertise. Today, Dcode primarily provides services in infrastructure, mobility, energy and the healthcare sector.

The Board of Directors of the Sener Group has approved the appointment of Gabriel Vera Artázcoz as its new Secretary. In this capacity, he will support the Chair and ensure the proper functioning of the Board, safeguarding the formal and material legality of its actions.

He will combine this role with the secretariat of the boards of the Group’s main businesses (comprising 4,500 professionals specialising in the aerospace and defence, mobility and transport infrastructure, energy, and data centre markets), the oversight of compliance with corporate obligations across its companies, and the provision of legal advice on acquisitions and restructurings (M&A), a responsibility he has held to date.

Gabriel Vera holds a degree in Law from the University of Navarra. He has completed the General Management Programme (PDD) at IESE Business School and the Executive Programme for Directors in Good Corporate Governance at the Study Centre of the Madrid Bar Association.

He began his professional career at Garrigues as a corporate lawyer. In 2010, he joined Sener, where he worked on project contracting in the energy and infrastructure sectors, as well as on their legal management. Between 2019 and 2024, he served as Director of Legal Affairs for the Aerospace and Defence division. During this period, he advised the Group on several corporate restructurings, as well as on the acquisitions carried out by Sener in recent years: Tryo (2018), Tactix (2022), Quark (2023) and SCR (2024).

The Sener Foundation has been recognised by the NGO Ingeniería para la Cooperación / Lankidetzarako Ingeniaritza (ICLI) during the organisation’s 30th anniversary celebrations. The award was collected by the director of the Sener Foundation, Rosana Madroñal, from the president of ICLI, Miguel López.

The event took place on 21 November at TECNUN – School of Engineering of the University of Navarra, in San Sebastián, and brought together various ICLI collaborators from Bizkaia, Araba and Gipuzkoa to celebrate three decades of commitment to development cooperation and engineering at the service of people.

The collaboration between the Sener Foundation, Sener and ICLI has been consolidated over the years through joint projects that reflect a shared vision of a more just and sustainable world. These include the project ‘Strengthening the socio-productive chain of granulated panela in the Sierra de Piura (Peru)’, carried out by volunteers from the Sener Foundation, as well as the donation of computer equipment and office supplies to support the initiatives that ICLI develops in different countries.

Rosana Madroñal, director of the Sener Foundation, said: ‘For the Sener Foundation, accompanying ICLI on this anniversary reaffirms our conviction that engineering and technology can change people’s lives and help build a fairer world. Together, we celebrate not only the achievements made, but also the challenges that inspire us to continue working.’

The director of the Sener Foundation, Rosana Madroñal, and the president of ICLI, Miguel López.