The organization of the Valencia Digital Summit breathes calmly and satisfied this Friday, after observing that this sixth edition, which closes today, yesterday once again exceeded expectations and brings together 12,000 professionals from 91 different countries in these two days. “These are figures that break the international participation record for the second consecutive year,” says Startup Valencia, the Valencian startup association.
For the second consecutive year, the contest is located in the Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències, and has the participation of technological leaders and gurus who talk under the motto Building the Good Future.
A large part of the presentations developed throughout yesterday morning addressed the keys to facing challenges of international scaling and growth. Among the speakers, Ann Hiatt, with more than 15 years of experience in Silicon Valley as an Executive Business partner of Jeff Bezos or Eric Schmidt, CEO/executive chairman of Google. Anamaria Meshkurti, from Unorthodox Ventures, also participated; Juan González, from Armilar Venture Partners; and Nikolas Mastroyiannopoulos of W11 Ventures.
The event will continue this Friday and during the day it will be known which of the candidate startups -Cafler, Quantic Brains, Autoscriber, Legitify, Ender Turing, Spendbase, Welii, Zim Connections, Beynex and Bridgewise- becomes the winner of the Seed and Growth category of the competition that the event celebrates.
The meeting had the support of the Valencian Government and the Valencia City Council, with the presence of President Carlos Mazón and the mayor, María José Catalá. The first sought complicity with the sector by asking for help to make a transition as quickly as possible to the reduction of administrative obstacles, one of the most common complaints of the business sector, especially in its emerging phase.
Thus, Mazón advocated “taking advantage of the talent of startups” to accelerate the implementation of zero bureaucracy in the Generalitat and provide better services to citizens in their relations with the Administration. “The ecosystem of politicians and institutions and the ecosystem of talent, SMEs, innovation and digital creativity must come together to give prominence to those who really have it, who are those who create and undertake, and also to those who They want to improve the Administration’s relations with citizens,” he said.
For her part, Mayor Catalá announced that the Valencia City Council will double the financial and personal support for this meeting so that it continues to be an international benchmark in the sector.” Catalá pointed out that the objective of her government is “to attract the best projects and the best talent, but above all, that those ideas and talent are developed and consolidated in Valencia.”
Català also pointed out that the council “is committed” to making the city “the best meeting point for the innovation, technology, entrepreneurship and digitalization sector of the Mediterranean.”
