For three days, Salamanca has become the world epicenter of digital transformation, innovation and entrepreneurship thanks to the eleventh edition of Startup Olé, a technological meeting that has brought together more than three thousand attendees in the capital of Salamanca and 700 speakers who have participated in the more than one hundred round tables that have been held since Tuesday.
“We have designed an incredible agenda which shows that Startup Olé is no longer a great event, but a great experience,” its CEO and founder said this Thursday, Emilio Corchado, After making a more than satisfactory assessment of this meeting and highlighting that in 2024, Startup Olé held four large events in Santiago de Chile, Miami, Marbella and Salamanca, bringing together in total more than five thousand attendees, a thousand speakers and 300 startups, in which they have had the presence of renowned experts and professionals in this field of digital transformation such as the founder of Blablacar, Frederic Mazzella; the co-founder of Bq, Rodrigo del Prado or the president of Matarromera, Carlos Moro, in addition to investors from different parts of the world, such as Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay and large national funds.
Facing the next yearadvanced that they will celebrate the second edition in Miami between March 23 and 25 and the seventh edition in Latin America where they will reveal the dates of the next event in Salamanca. “We have become a great international fair operating from the capital of hopeful Spain, of which Salamanca is a clear reflection,” he concluded.
For his part, the mayor of Salamanca, Carlos García Carbayo, He assured that this meeting is already a “heritage” that the city must value but also a breeding ground for the development of large projects. “It is a space that creates wealth and expands it throughout the world,” he said, in statements collected by Ical, while placing the City Council on the side of Salamancan companies to grow by offering their support through the network of infrastructures dedicated to digital innovation. .
In addition, he asked investors and entrepreneurs to “pay a lot of attention” to Salamanca and pointed out the potential of this event to put entrepreneurs, investors, sponsors and top-level companies in contact. “This is the best climate for the creation and growth of this type of companys”, he added.
The general director of CDTI, José Moisés Martínhighlighted the progress that startups are experiencing in Spain as well as the support of public administrations in this growth.
Finally, Javier Poncegeneral director of the Spanish Society for Technological Transformation (SETT), reaffirmed his commitment to accompanying the private investor and highlighted the prominence of Salamanca in this field of digital transformation, but also in the development of a national model of Artificial Intelligence that is developing in Barcelona.