2. bizBarcelona – Overview
BizBarcelona 2012 provides opportunities for anyone who wants to create
a business or grow their company to find inspiration, practical solutions,
support, advice and, above all, funding.
Bizbarcelona include:
Global Talks on Innovation & Entrepreneruship (GlobalTalks)
Global Entrepreneurship Competition (GEC)
The Open Innovation Marketplace (OIMP)
We encourage you to participate in BizBarcelona 2012 by being an active
member of one of the most attractive sessions of the event
Join BizBarcelona 2012!
13th and 14th June
3. bizBarcelona GlobalTalks
Keynote Speakers
Cliff Reeves Christina Brodbeck Manav Subodh
General Manager Team founder at Global Manager
at Microsoft YouTube Entrepreneruship and
Innovation at Intel
4. bizBarcelona GEC
Global Entrepreneurship Competition – 4th edition
TOP entrepreneurs from 16 cities and 14 countries are competing to be the world champion.
The winners of the most famous competitions from the TOP16 entrepreneurship centers present their business
plans to the bizBarcelona 2012 Summit.
A jury composed by famous investors, successful entrepreneurs and corporate senior executives will choose the
best three companies. Winners will receive cash prizes and the opportunity to showcase the potential of their
proposals to international investors.
1st Prize 15,000€ 2nd Prize 5,000€ 3rd Prize 3,000€
Gent Tallinn
Munich
London
Paris
Barcelona
San Francisco Tokyo
Madrid
Lisbon
Monterrey
Bangalore
Singapore
Rio de Janeiro
Cape Town
5. bizBarcelona OIMP
BizBarcelona 2012 will host the first Open Innovation Marketplace
(OIMP), a unique opportunity for:
Presenting your latest challenges and innovation needs to a broad and
cross-sector audience of world experts.
Getting exclusive access to the worlds’ network of scientific &
technology parks, researchers, SMEs and entrepreneurs.
Finding the best collaborators to develop solutions for identified
problems or innovation challenges of your company.
• Giving you direct access to cross-sector innovation, an opportunity for
building new partnerships across all business and industrial sectors.
Participating at the annual unique meeting point of all the partners of
the world innovation ecosystem.
6. bizBarcelona OIMP
Challenge to solve: What are big companies looking for?
PRODUCT & COMPANIES &
TECHNOLOGIES PARTNERS
SERVICES ENTREPRENEURS
Challenge to solve: What are entrepreneurs and Research and
Technology Centers looking for?
PARTNERS SHOWTIME INVESTORS OR
CLIENTS
DONORS
Challenge to solve: What are facilitators and brokers looking for?
IDENTIFY CONNECT OFFER &
DEMAND SELL THEIR SERVICES
OPPORTUNITIES
7. bizBarcelona OIMP
How does it work?
The OIMP consists of 3 elements:
1. GlobalTalks - OIMP Roundtables
2. The Marketplace
3. The Cross-Sectorial Presentations
8. bizBarcelona OIMP
How does it work?
The OIMP consists of 3 elements:
1. GlobalTalks - OIMP Roundtables
2. The Marketplace
3. The Cross-Sectorial Presentations
10. bizBarcelona GlobalTalks
Open Innovation Round Table 2
Stefan Heuser Jorge Lang
VP Open Innovation at Strategic Alliance Director at
Samsung Intel
Aaron Crum Roy Sandbach
Principal at Google Research Fellow, The Procter
& Gamble Company
11. bizBarcelona OIMP
How does it work?
The OIMP consists of 3 elements:
1. GlobalTalks - OIMP Roundtables
2. The Marketplace
3. The Cross-Sectorial Presentations
12. bizBarcelona OIMP
How does the Marketplace work?
The large corporations participating at the OIMP will present their innovation
challenges and demands at the OIMP’s website
These will be publicized and addressed to the world’s scientific and technology
parks, research centers, business associations and entrepreneurs.
Those who are working in possible solutions to these demands will present their
proposal through the OIMP’s website confidentially.
A committee of experts will evaluate the solutions presented and filter them,
selecting only those which best adapt to the companies’ requirements.
The selected ‘solvers’ will get the chance to get a one on one meeting with the
company’s delegate at the OIMP area of the BizBarcelona 2012 event.
Companies will receive personally the best solutions for their challenges from the
best experts worldwide.
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14. bizBarcelona OIMP
How does it work?
The OIMP consists of 3 elements:
1. GlobalTalks - OIMP Roundtables
2. The Marketplace
3. The Cross-Sectorial Presentations
15. bizBarcelona OIMP
How does the Cross-sectorial Presentations work?
The Cross-sectorial presentations is meeting point to show advanced technology
versatility.
Technology or Research Centers located in Science and Technology Parks of
Catalonia (STP) will present the most advanced technology cases.
Three or four companies will present some examples of this technology application
in different knowledge areas and sectors (IT, Cleantech, Media, Health).
The Technology or Research Center, the companies and the public will discuss
different ways to put in practice a technology in a networking session.
16. bizBarcelona OIMP
Who will be in the Cross-sectorial Presentations?
Cetemmsa is a technology centre located in
TecnoCampus Mataró-Maresme with over 19 years'
experience in carrying out applied research on Smart
Materials and Smart Devices.
Catalan Institute for Water Research
Foundation (ICRA) , located in the Science and
Technology Park of Girona, is an international
reference point in the research of the integral
water cycle, hydraulic resources, water quality
and treatment and evaluation technologies.
The Computer Vision Centre is a non-profit institution
and leading research and development centre in the
Computer Vision field. Created by the Generalitat de
Catalunya and the UAB with the purpose of generating
quality knowledge in the field and transferring added-
value technology to the industry and to society. It is
located in the UAB Research Park.
17. bizBarcelona OIMP
Who will be in the Cross-sectorial Presentations?
LEITAT is a Technological Center, located in the Science
and Technology Park of Terrassa- Orbital 40, that aims
to collaborate with companies and institutions by
adding technological value both to products and
processes, and focuses its activity on research,
development and industrial innovation (R+D+2i).
Barcelona Digital Technology Centre (BDigital) is an
advanced technology centre specializing in the
application of Information and Communication
Technologies (ICTs) in the fields of healthcare,
security, mobility, energy, and food and environment.
It is located in the 22@Barcelona.
The ASCAMM Technology Center is located in the Vallès
Technology Park. Since the beginning of the 90s, Ascamm
has been developing a growing applied research activity
orientated towards the generation of first level knowledge
in the industrial technologies area.
18. bizBarcelona OIMP
Who will be in the Cross-sectorial Presentations?
The UPC Technology Center (CIT UPC) is dedicated to
applying university research capabilities to innovation in
business. CIT UPC is formed by multidisciplinary teams
dedicated to optimising the technology offered in various
strategic sectors, thus providing a comprehensive and
specialised response to companies and government
bodies. The main technology areas are Materials, Energy
and Enviromental, ICT, Chemical and Food Industry,
Advance Manufacturing and Biomedical Engineering.
Located in the Park UPC.
And more…
The Catalan Association of Research Centres (Associació Catalana
d'Entitats de Recerca - ACER) is an independent association of
institutions with legal personality located in Catalonia which count
research as their principal mission.
19. bizBarcelona OIMP
Who will be in the Cross-sectorial Presentations?
This panel will investigate: What makes a community a cluster of innovation? What
are the most effective government and private initiatives to encourage the success
of such clusters?
Shigeo Kagami,
Wim de Waele
Moderated by: CEO, Institute for Broadband
Science Entrepreneurship
and Enterprise
Technology
Development, University of
Tokyo
H. K Mittal Helmut Schönenberger
Secretary of Technology CEO, Center for
Prof. Jerry Engel from Development, Government
Innovation & Business
Creation, Technical
University of California of India
University of Munich
at Berkeley
Executive Director,
Entrepreneurship
Center, National
University of Singapore