Startup OLÉ will make Salamanca an international benchmark for entrepreneurship and technological innovation, with the collaboration of INCIBE
The Palacio de Congresos and the Colegio Arzobispo Fonseca will host from 8 to 10 October 2024 the new edition of Startup OLÉ Salamanca ‘24, one of the largest entrepreneurship and technological innovation events in Europe and Latin America. This initiative aims to connect entrepreneurs and startups/scaleups with investors, corporates, public administrations, media and other agents of the international ecosystem, in an environment conducive to doing business and obtaining investment, with the ultimate goal of creating wealth and employment.
To this end, Startup OLÉ Salamanca will include forums on investment and corporates, cybersecurity (CIBER-SHUBE), accelerators, public administrations, media, universities, Ibero-America, rural innovation and a hackathon, among others. It will also feature exclusive content with great speakers at round tables and plenary talks, a startup fair, pitch competition, business rounds and networking activities including cocktails and concerts, making Salamanca the international capital of entrepreneurship and investment during these days. In its 2023 edition Startup OLÉ hosted nearly 2,500 event attendees, more than 800 top speakers, 230 startups and more than 150 investors and corporations, bringing together personalities and entrepreneurs from 29 countries.
The eleventh edition of this fair has the backing of corporations, investors and entities such as Iberdrola, Acciona, Cepsa, Fundación Once, Talgo, Enagás Emprende, SpainCap, RTVE, Renfe, Iberia, Mondragón, the Stock Exchange (BME), Across Legal, Red Cross, ClarkeModet, Letslaw and Caja Rural de Salamanca. As for public institutions, Startup OLÉ is receiving support from CDTI INNVIERTE, Enisa, EOI, ICO Axis, INCIBE, Junta de Andalucía, Comunidad de Madrid, Ayuntamiento de Salamanca, Diputación de Salamanca and Universidad de Salamanca.
In addition, there will be the participation of incredible international speakers such as Guillermo Jiménez, CEO of Axis; Pilar Carrato, CTO of CDTI; Carlos Blanco, co-founder of Encomenda Smart Capital; José Zudaire, CEO of SpainCap; Jesús González, CEO of BME Growth; Joe Chi, President of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America (CAMACOL); Pablo Zalba, Head of Regulation and Public Policy at Deloitte; Sara Goldberg, Executive Director of URUCAP; Luis Bermejo, Managing Partner of Alaya Capital; Ajith Abraham, Vice Chancellor of Bennett University; Yohania de Armas, Managing Director of Conecta Iberoamérica; Carlos Capataz, National Director of Technology Services at Cruz Roja and María Isabel Martín, CEO of Caja Rural de Salamanca. In the institutional section, Carlos García Carbayo, Mayor of Salamanca; Francisco Javier Iglesias, President of Diputación de Salamanca; Marina Villegas, Director General of Research and Innovation of Communidad de Madrid or Francisco Javier González, Director General for the Promotion of Entrepreneurship and Continuing Education of Junta de Andalucía. Emilio Corchado, CEO and founder of Startup OLÉ, will host the event.
This event is also part of the Strategic Projects in Spain, within the framework of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, with funding from the Next Generation-EU Funds.
Within the framework of Startup OLÉ Salamanca, the CDTI- INNVIERTE IBEROAMÉRICA forum will also be held, which will consist of several activities aimed at presenting the CDTI- INNVIERTE programme, the benefits of being part of it, how to be part of it in the figure of an approved co-investor fund, as well as other topics that generate added value related to the creation of the Ibero-American entrepreneurship and investment ecosystem, such as, for example, investment or co-investment issues, as well as other topics that generate added value related to the Ibero-American entrepreneurship and investment ecosystem, such as, for example, investment or co-investment, all with a focus on aspects of interest to support the creation of a large Ibero-American ecosystem led by Spain to promote investment and co-investment in technology-based and innovative Spanish companies.
INCIBE's strategic projects
Instituto Nacional de Ciberseguridad is an entity dependent on Ministerio para la Transformación Digital y de la Función Pública, through Secretaría de Estado de Digitalización e Inteligencia Artificial, consolidated as a reference entity for the development of cybersecurity and digital trust of citizens and companies. It is also a driver of social transformation and an opportunity for innovation, fostering R&D&I and talent.
INCIBE's particular mission is to boost the cybersecurity capabilities of society and the economy in general through a programme that seeks to promote and generate knowledge and its transfer to the productive sector, especially by establishing synergies between the social and economic spheres of cybersecurity. To develop this purpose, the programme of grants for the excellence of advanced research teams in cybersecurity was launched in 2018. In 2022, specifically on 5 December, in order to give continuity to this strategy, the public invitation for collaboration in the promotion of Strategic Cybersecurity Projects in Spain was published.
These initiatives are part of the Global Security Innovation Programme, included in the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (PRTR) through Component 15. Investment 7 Cybersecurity: Strengthening the capacities of citizens, SMEs and professionals and boosting the sector.
Strategic projects are a way of providing concrete solutions to some of the greatest scientific and technological challenges facing our society and economy. They are designed to promote the application of the results of research and innovation, combining new forms of governance and collaboration, as well as involving citizens and the productive and social fabric.
In addition, Startup OLÉ Salamanca ‘24 invites the general public to attend the event, where you can register for free as an attendee at the following link: https://lc.cx/GIbXfT
For more information, please visit: https://startupole.eu/
