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GET READY TO SEE INDUSTRY AS NEVER SEEN BEFORE!

IQS Tech Fest 2019, the biggest festival of industrial entrepreneurship in Europe, is back!

This 2019 IQS Tech Factory brings you, a new edition of IQS Tech Fest: The First Festival of Industrial Startups in Europe, that will take place on January 24 at the Antiga Fábrica Estrella Damm in Barcelona. This year we joined forces with Barter-one of Barcelona's most important agencies on events production- to break all your schemes and delve into the Moonshot revolution.

In this new edition of the festival we pay tribute to one of the most important steps of Humanity - the arrival of first man to the moon 50 years ago-a step that opened the way to Moonshot Thinking: a revolutionary way of thinking that made possible the creation of projects, technologies and innovations that seemed impossible to achieve.

IQS Tech Fest will turn the Antiga Fàbrica Estrella Damm into the cradle of industrial entrepreneurship, presenting the new generation of Moonshot Innovators: 40 Industrial Startups that are solving the daily challenges of society, that nobody had been able to solve until now.

This 2019 join the Moonshot Revolution and see the biggest celebration of Industrial Entrepreneurship in Europe, which will make Barcelona tremble with:

• 40 Local & International Industrial Startups
• International Conference Program
• Investment Forum
• Demo Day with 2018’s 10 Most Promising Industrial Startups
• Networking Tool and Networking Activities

In 2018 more than 1,200 people, 50 startups, 100 investors and inspiring keynote speakers turned Barcelona into the cradle of industrial entrepreneurship.

Discover 2019 IQS Tech Fest Program

Alex Rodríguez, Knowledge Curator of Alpha, Telefonica’s moonshot factory and Europe’s first one focused on these kind of projects, will be one the keynote speaker at the festival. The audience will have the opportunity to learn about the impact of the Moonshot revolution in today's world and discover some of the well-kept secrets of innovations that will change our future through his presentation "Exponential universe in the art of Moonshoting".

IQS Tech Fest conference program will also count the presence of Luís Pérez - Breva, director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Innovation Teams Enterprise (MIT Engineering and MIT Sloan), who will join the conference program with his keynote on Solving for Innovating: "Minimum Viable" or Venturing into the impossible? The author of the book Innovate: A Doer’s Manifesto for Starting from a Hunch, Prototyping Problems, Scaling Up, and Learning to Be Productively will break down attendee’s preconceptions and introduce a new way of understanding innovation, thus breaking with the beliefs established so far. Luís Pérez-Breva is an expert in deep technology for the impact and especially in the application of artificial intelligence to solve real-world problems.

The festival will also bring on stage the most visionary minds of the Spanish startup ecosystem through the round table Technologies made in Spain that are changing the space. The audience will immerse in a futuristic journey and discover the most relevant startups that are transforming and making the space exploration a reality.

• Moderator: Gemma Milne, Tech&Science journalist and ScienceDisrupt Co-founder
• Adrià Argemí, CEO at Pangea Aerospace
• Carles Franquesa, COO at Aistech Space
• Gloria García, President& CEO at Celestia Aerospace
• Izan Peris, Product Manager at Zero 2 Infinity
• Máximo Calvo, CTO & Co-founder at Karten Space

Finally, IQS Tech Fest conference program will dedicate a slot to Corporate Venturing, an increasing concept in the startup ecosystem. Through the panel discussion Corporate Venturing State of the Art, experts coming from leading industrial companies, who will analyze the latest trends in Corporate Venturing.

• Markus Solibieda, Managing Director at BASF Venture Capital GmbH
• Mariona Sanz, Open Innovation Manager at Girbau
• Jesús Santamaría, Business Director EMEAI at Lubrizol Engineered Polymers,
• Rocco Van den Berg, Innovation Lead at Philips Healthworks.

The Most Promising Industrial Startup

Attendees will also meet the 10 startups of IQS Next Tech, Spain’s first industrial acceleration program, at the Demo Day to be held within the same framework. A jury of leading actors in the ecosystem will be in charge of choosing the Most Promising Industrial Startup of 2018, that will travel to Boston to continue promoting its technology in the immersion program by Richi Entrepreneurs.

This year, are you gonna miss it?