From Building Technology to Questioning It— A Conversation With Paula Mesa Macías

🎙From Building Technology to Questioning It— A Conversation With Paula Mesa Macías Paula Mesa Macías From Building Technology to Questioning It: Paula Mesa Macías on Creating a More Responsible Digital Future In her Legacy Bench conversation, Paula Mesa Macías shares the journey that led her to look beyond what technology can achieve and focus instead on how it should be developed. As the founder of Pau&Company, she helps organisations build safer, more responsible digital systems by bringing together expertise in cybersecurity, privacy, sustainability, and emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence. But her story is about more than technology consultancy. It is about challenging the assumption that innovation alone is enough, and asking whether the systems we build genuinely serve the people who depend on them. Paula began her career as an engineer, fascinated by technology’s ability to solve problems and transform organisations. Yet as digital systems became increasingly embedded in everyday life, she found herself asking a different set of questions. How do organisations balance innovation with responsibility? How do they manage emerging risks while still embracing