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## UJI graduate Emilio Sánchez promotes the use of cutting-edge technologies worldwide from the company Z1

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The entrepreneur Emilio Sanchez, a graduate in Computer Engineering from the Universitat Jaume I and co-founder of the company Z1, promotes, together with the team he is part of, the use of cutting-edge technologies in the development of engineering and design of emerging companies. The UJI graduate UJI is Director of Technology (CTO) of the international studio for the creation of digital products Z1, a company that promotes and practices the advantages of working remotely. A proof of that is that Sánchez lives and works from a location in the province of Castellón.

Sánchez was the founder, along with Héctor Giner and Carlos Tabasco, of the Z1 studio, which helps entrepreneurs improve their ideas and make them profitable. The Seville-based firm, which began in 2015 with five employees, currently has around 50 people employed and more than forty projects in countries such as Canada, the United States, Spain and Korea, in fields as diverse as podcasting, education and real estate.

The success of the team, which has tripled its turnover in the last two years and is growing by 300%, allowed them to join the Canadian investment fund Tiny in 2019, which works with some of the most powerful companies in the design and development of digital products in the international arena, such as Google and Facebook. Z1 specializes in providing a technical team (engineering and design) to help emerging companies develop their ideas thanks to the capabilities of a multidisciplinary team for research and development of digital products.

**UJI EXPERIENCE**

Emilio Sánchez was a student at the Universitat Jaume I in the Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering. In his opinion, universities provide three basic pillars for the professional future of students. "Firstly, a broad vision of the field of knowledge. Technology, engineering and computer science, in particular, cover many aspects, although in the end you have to end up specializing. This broad vision is fundamental in the role of CTO, since all technological decisions pass through his hands. The Universitat Jaume I provided me with enough knowledge to go deeper into them if necessary".

Secondly, the manager points out the analytical and problem-solving capacity because "during the university stage, students manage to create mental structures that allow them to tackle any problem successfully, even if it is the first time they have faced something similar", he adds. And, finally, he highlights the creation of a network of contacts, "I will always be grateful to all the people with whom I coincided. Both male and female classmates from other degrees, professors who left their mark and student associations. My first professional opportunities came from this network, many of them thanks to the Computer Science Association. Later, I also found it useful to have contact with former teachers and even today I use these networks when looking for a profile to hire at Z1.

**Z1**

The firm, which is at the forefront in the use of leading technologies such as React Native, Swift, GraphQL and Node, among others, has created more than fifty digital products for entrepreneurs, mostly American. One of the most emblematic has been for the company LoftSmart, a type of Airbnb for renting flats to university students in the United States, which has obtained financing of almost 20 million dollars.

Other projects developed by Z1 have been Altru Labs, a digital product already used by companies such as L'Oréal, Unilever or Dell, which helps them to attract, convert and retain talent thanks to a platform that allows employees to create their own content related to their jobs, or Launch After School, a tool for children to learn about computers in an attractive way in a collaborative environment.

Among the latest products are Less, an app that incorporates the mindfulness philosophy in alcohol consumption, to achieve a more conscious and moderate use; Storytelling With Data, a website that brings together a large community to perfect data visualization skills (turning them into a meaningful story that is easily assimilated by users), and Supercast, a tool that facilitates the monetization of podcasts by turning listeners into subscribers and providing customers with useful tools and statistics about their programmes.

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