Boston is the largest life sciences cluster in the world with 450 companies. There is the world’s most experienced accelerator in health, CIMIT, which in just 15 years has successfully accelerated more than 600 projects, doubled the rate of successful commercialization and cut the time to next phase by more than half.

Numerous experts in economics, development and strategic planning of medical devices; in prototypes and patents and founders of several startups are part of the consortium. How have they succeeded? What lessons can you apply to your own project?

Next April 17 CIMIT experts will be in Barcelona Tech City (Payment Inovation Hub) in Panel discussion: Being a successful healthcare entrepreneur: lessons from Boston to Barcelona organized jointly by CRAASH Barcelona – Moebio (Biocat) and CIMIT.

18:00h Welcome
Miquel Martí, CEO – Barcelona Tech City
Jordi Naval, Director of Strategy – Biocat

18:05h Panel discussion with experts from CIMIT (Consortia for Improving Medicine with Innovation & Technology, Boston, Massachusetts)

Experts:
Mike Dempsey, Eric Evans, Wolfgang Krull, Paul Tessier, Josh Tolkoff, Joel Weinstein

Moderator:
John M. Collins, Ph.D, COO – CIMIT

18:50h Questions & answers

19:25h Closing

19:30h Cocktail – Networking

The event is supported by Barcelona Tech City and Payment Innovation Hub and will be fully held in English.

La exposición de SEN SOIRÉE 1960, es una iniciativa que contribuye a los objetivos de la Comisión Europea y StartUp Europe de fomentar la cultura emprendedora y la educación artística a través de la creación de exposiciones fotográficas llamadas Startup Europe News SOIRÉE – SEN SOIRÉE.

El objetivo de SEN SOIRÉE es animar a más personas a descubrir y comprometerse con el patrimonio cultural europeo y a reforzar el sentimiento de pertenencia a un espacio europeo común. dando visibilidad a obras de artistas emergentes que han dejado atrás el concepto clásico de galería de arte como lugar meramente expositivo, y que buscan en el cripto-arte y las exposiciones itinerantes una alternativa sólida para abrirse a un público más diverso y activo.

El proceso artístico es muy similar al camino del emprendedor. Tanto los artistas como los emprendedores crean a partir de la nada, se enfrentan al rechazo y tienen que refinar su estrategia para alcanzar sus metas. Estas travesías paralelas hacen de SEN SOIRÉE el lugar perfecto para que emprendedores y artistas puedan aprender y compartir experiencias en un ambiente cultural y distendido. Para fomentar la creatividad y el emprendimiento en las organizaciones, es necesario familiarizar a los emprendedores con nuevos conceptos y captar su atracción e interés sobre ellos. Ser creativo implica aprender a ver las cosas de una manera diferente de lo que el resto del mundo considera normal.

SEN SOIRÉE 1960 ART EXPO es una exposición fotográfica colectiva, totalmente gratuita para el visitante y abierta a todos aquellos artistas, emprendedores, empresarios sociales, estudiantes y académicos que tengan la voluntad de vivir una experiencia única y disfrutar de un nuevo concepto artístico donde la creatividad y tecnología se entrelazan.

SEN Soirée, desde sus comienzos, ha conseguido hacer un balance entre dos diferentes audiencias: artistas y emprendedores, y ha logrado reunirlos en un único lugar único donde los artistas han mostrado su interés por la innovación y los emprendedores por la creación de nuevos vínculos de proximidad.

¿Está el concepto de retención del talento tecnológico obsoleto? ¿Qué valoran los perfiles de IT a la hora de quedarse o no en su empresa?

Lo analizaremos de la mano de Julien Mur, Manager de la división de Information Technology de Hays España.

En primer lugar, Julien Mur presentará los resultados del estudio realizado a nivel nacional sobre la Retención del Talento Tecnológico en España. Analizaremos cuáles son los principales criterios que valoran los perfiles de IT a la hora de quedarse o no en su empresa actual.

En segundo lugar, debatiremos sobre los resultados del estudio con nuestros ponentes y nos explicaran cuál es su realidad en sus empresas y qué es lo que han implementado.

Para terminar, tendremos una sesión de networking en la cual podremos seguir intercambiando opiniones y best practices.

PONENTES:

Luis Moreno – HR Business Partner – Nestlé Global Digital Hub
Sergio Cortés – Founder & Chairman – Cink
Marc Oliveras – CTO – Tiendeo

Inscripción obligatoria a través del enlace https://es.surveymonkey.com/r/HaysTalentoTecnologico2018

Aforo limitado.

Sónar D is an international congress that explores how creativity is changing our present and imagining new futures, in collaboration with researchers, innovators and business leaders. Since 2013, this antidisciplinary meeting gathers in Barcelona leading artists, creative technologists, musicians, filmmakers, designers, thinkers, scientists, entrepreneurs, makers and hackers to participate in a carefully commissioned program with the aim at inspiration and networking.

Sónar+D is an international congress that explores how creativity is changing our present and imagining new futures, in collaboration with researchers, innovators and business leaders. Since 2013, this antidisciplinary meeting gathers in Barcelona leading artists, creative technologists, musicians, filmmakers, designers, thinkers, scientists, entrepreneurs, makers and hackers to participate in a carefully commissioned program with the aim at inspiration and networking.

Mattias Hjelmstedt is the founder of Utopia Music, which creates platforms so everyone can understand, use and benefit from the power of data in the music industry. He will explain how his company, Utopia Music AG will use various blockchain technologies (public & private ledgers combined with cryptocurrency settlement) in order to address the numerous inefficiencies in the music and entertainment industries.

As featured in Bloomberg, CNN, The Guardian, Wall Street Journal, and Wired, serial entrepreneur, Hjelmstedt has successfully created companies since the early 1990s in the areas of: content distribution; streaming; online gaming; social media; and computer technologies.

An unparalleled innovator, Hjelmstedt’s commitment to online user experience, enhancing the media industries and turning online TV into a global reality, sees him partnering with the leading figures in TV, Music, electronics, and digital industries, as well as discerning consumers.

Abstract:Typically disruption means the death of an industry, such as how the car killed the buggy whip, the computer killed type writers, Uber is killing the taxi industry, and streaming killed the record industry, but this is not always the case. By lowering the barriers to entry and increasing the total industry value, it is possible to shift the roles of industry participants so that more value is created, less waste occurs and only those stakeholders who provide zero value are left behind…as they should be.

By democratizing growth and lowering boundaries, platform companies can allow for systematic efficiency gains and overall great levels of growth.

En todos estos años ha liderado y participado en proyectos para clientes como: SEAT, Gas Natural, ING DIRECT, BBVA, Renta 4 Banco, TMB, RICOH, FCBarcelona, RACC, MECALUX, FLUIDRA, Vaughan, Desigual, ESADE, EDUCO, EVObanco, Expohotels&Resorts, RBA, Media Markt, Vueling, Letsbonus, Atrápalo, La Salle, ALSA, Bershka, Uterqüe, ZARA Home, IKEA, SABA, Planeta, MANGO, La Caixa,… Además, colabora como docente de User Experience & Internet Project Management en varias universidades. En los últimos 10 años ha colaborado con la Universitat de Barcelona (UB), la Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), ELISAVA, ISDI, ESADE, UXER SCHOOL y KSCHOOL.

Marta Gaia Zanchi as investor, entrepreneur, startup coach, and director of digital health at the Stanford Byers Center of Biodesign, Marta Gaia Zanchi has had a privileged view of the past decade of digital health in Silicon Valley.

During the talk, ‘Digital Health: A Journey of Innovation in Silicon Valley’, she will offer several examples of digital health companies (some successful, some not) to share a few lessons learned as well as some practical wisdom on how to create sustainable innovation that matters.

Program

09:15 to 09:30am Attendee registration
09:30 to 10:30am ‘Digital Health: A Journey of Innovation in Silicon Valley’ talk – Marta Gaia Zanchi
10:30 to 10:45am Questions and Answers
10:45am Coffee networking

The event will be held in English.

For more information, please send an email to Anna Rovira (events@biocat.cat).

We are thrilled to expand our global team with a new engineering office in Barcelona!  Chartboost started in San Francisco with the mission to empower mobile developers to build successful businesses. We have a team of over 100 people worldwide and have raised $21M from Sequoia Capital and other investors.

We would love to meet you and partner with you to grow our engineering operations in Barcelona. Interested? Join our event on May 22nd and take a look at our current job openings.

• Maria Alegre, co-founder and CEO
• Sean Fannan, co-founder and CTO
• Pepe Agell, VP of Strategy

Presentation & Happy Hour: From Silicon Valley to Barcelona

Meet the Chartboost team and learn more about our journey, engineering culture, and why we decided to build an engineering center in Barcelona. We will serve tapas and drinks. And you can pick up some Chartboost swag too!

Game Changers Welcome!

We’re looking for extraordinary engineering talent who can solve challenging creative problems for a fast-paced industry from sunny Barcelona! Here some of the first positions that we are excited to fill in Barcelona:

• Head of Engineering
• Software Engineers (Scala)
• Full Stack Software Engineers
• Office Manager