News · 4th Andalusian Artificial Intelligence Congress, Granada

What matters is not that an avatar talks, but everything that happens behind the conversation.

Internal·IA presents in Granada an artificial intelligence demonstration centre connecting people, technology and real services

The Málaga-based company showcased at the Andalusian Artificial Intelligence Congress its multichannel conversational technology, combining voice, avatars, WhatsApp and integration with information and management systems. Francisco Orellana also took part in the panel “AI at the service of people. Transforming lives”.

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Three people at the Internal·IA stand; behind them, the sign “Your city can now speak”, the TuCiudad WhatsApp mock-up and a screen showing the conversational avatar
Francisco Orellana, CEO of Internal·IA, left, with municipal officials from the provinces of Granada and Jaén at the Internal·IA demonstration centre, with the TuCiudad demo and the conversational avatar on screen.

The event

Event
4th Andalusian Artificial Intelligence Congress · Granada Exhibition and Conference Centre
Dates
27–28 October 2026
Organiser
Andalusian Digital Agency · Regional Government of Andalusia
Format
Interactive demonstration centre, company selected for Open Innovation Gates 2026 (presentation with live demo) and panel “AI at the service of people. Transforming lives”
Speaker
Francisco Orellana, CEO of Internal·IA

Málaga, 4 November 2026.— Málaga-based technology company Internal·IA has presented at the 4th Andalusian Artificial Intelligence Congress, organised by the Andalusian Digital Agency of the Regional Government of Andalusia, an interactive demonstration centre showing how the company has turned artificial intelligence into a new way of reaching information and public services in cities.

Francisco Orellana and Juanma Moreno shaking hands and smiling among the audience at the congress opening
Francisco Orellana, CEO of Internal·IA, with the President of the Regional Government of Andalusia, Juanma Moreno, during the institutional opening of the 4th Andalusian Artificial Intelligence Congress.

During the event, held in Granada on 27 and 28 October, attendees could talk directly to an avatar in natural language. An experience that goes beyond the visual interface: behind it runs technology developed by the company to interpret queries, reach contextualised information and connect with existing data sources and systems.

One intelligence, several channels

Internal·IA’s main proposition is that a single intelligence can serve people across different channels: WhatsApp, including voice messages, web assistants, visual conversational interfaces and intelligent telephone support. The aim is to remove technological barriers and let residents and visitors reach information and services in the most natural way possible.

Francisco Orellana, phone in hand, explaining the demo to three visitors in front of the “Your city can now speak” panel
Francisco Orellana shows stand visitors, on his phone, how TuCiudad answers over WhatsApp.

«For years we built applications so that people could use the systems. Now we are taking the next step: letting them relate to those systems simply by talking. What matters is not that an avatar talks, but everything the technology is able to do behind that conversation.»

Francisco Orellana, CEO of Internal·IA
WhatsApp screen with TuCiudad answering about bus lines, logging a bulky-waste request and showing free car-park spaces in Granada
TuCiudad conversation prepared for the congress: how to reach the Conference Centre by bus, a bulky-waste collection request and free spaces in Granada’s car parks.

This vision rests on intelligent conversational assistants such as TuCiudad, aimed at municipalities and tourist destinations; TuFerIA, used at events such as the Málaga Fair; and CareOS, aimed at customer support and business processes. Solutions that combine artificial intelligence, up-to-date information and technological integration to ease the relationship between people and organisations.

Business innovation and university knowledge

The presentation of the demonstration centre coincides with a new step in the company’s innovation strategy: the recent collaboration agreement with the University of Málaga, driven by its Faculty of Tourism, to develop joint research, innovation and training initiatives.

The collaboration seeks to bring together the university’s knowledge of one of the main economic engines of Málaga and the Costa del Sol with Internal·IA’s business and technological experience, exploring new artificial-intelligence applications for visitors, residents and destination managers.

Speaking at the Congress

The company also took part in the Congress as a speaker. Francisco Orellana joined the panel “AI at the service of people. Transforming lives”, where he showed the demonstration centre’s conversational avatar and shared his view on the need to move artificial intelligence from technology demos to practical application in society.

Panel stage with three seated speakers and Francisco Orellana standing, pointing at the screen with the avatar, within the congress live-stream frame
Panel “AI at the service of people. Transforming lives”: Francisco Orellana, standing, shows the demonstrator’s conversational avatar. Frame from the congress’s official live stream.

Internal·IA was also one of the Andalusian companies selected by the Andalusian Digital Agency to present its technology at Open Innovation Gates 2026, before a committee of public-administration and business leaders. The company brought the demonstration centre to work there: a single conversational intelligence that understands a person’s question, queries the city’s sources at that moment and answers on whichever channel that person has chosen.

Francisco Orellana standing before the audience next to the Open Innovation Gates 2026 welcome slide
Francisco Orellana at the start of Internal·IA’s presentation at Open Innovation Gates 2026, where the company was selected to show its technology to the committee of public administrations and companies.
Francisco Orellana standing with his phone in hand, giving a demo in front of a screen showing the TuCiudad conversational avatar
The demonstration centre at work during the presentation at Open Innovation Gates 2026: the conversational avatar answers a question from the audience by querying the city’s sources at that moment.
Francisco Orellana and Gema Casquero, thumbs up, in front of the stand panel and a screen showing the conversational avatar
Francisco Orellana and Gema Casquero, CEO and COO of Internal·IA, at the stand; on screen, the conversational avatar answering about the congress programme.

Internal·IA, backed by a technology track record that began in 2002 with Internalia Group, is committed to a model of artificial intelligence able to build on the systems that administrations and companies already use, adding new ways of interacting without replacing their technological infrastructure.

The goal: for artificial intelligence not to be yet another digital service to learn, but a simple and accessible way of relating to the data, services and information that already exist.


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