The Digital Enterprise Show 2022 event, DES, which will be held from June 14 to 16 at Malagahas named the Community of Madrid as an Innovative European Region 2022.
DES2022 will host one more year the Madrid Technology Transfer Zone (MTTZ)a space dedicated to making the entire innovative ecosystem of the Community of Madrid visible and connecting it with large corporations and SMEs from around the world that come to DES in search of technology partners or innovation projects to transform their businesses.
Organized with the support of the Community of Madrid and with the support of the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), this space will have an exhibition area in which innovative entities from Madrid will present their innovation projects, as well as a dedicated agenda in the content program detailing each one of them and their applications. In addition, different entrepreneurial projects will meet in the startup forum in which startups from Madrid will have the opportunity to present their projects to investors, corporate ventures or venture capitals.
MTTZ will also have a specific forum at the Digital Business World Congress, Madrid Tech Calendar, in which visibility will be given to different innovation projects in the Community of Madrid that seek an economic and digital boost, as well as making their projects known to the entire business fabric at an international level. In addition, it will have a specific networking area to organize one-to-one meetings to promote the generation of business and opportunities in the Brokerage event.
“With the aim of consolidating and reinforcing the activities carried out in the last five years in Madrid, DES2022 will have an area dedicated to highlighting, making visible and generating business opportunities between the innovative ecosystem of the Community of Madrid with the Spanish business ecosystem and from other countries. That is why Madrid Technology Transfer Zone was born as a platform for the transfer of knowledge and technological ideas to face the challenges of digitization and increase business competitiveness”it states Sandra Infante, director of DES-Digital Enterprise Show.
DES2022 hopes to gather to the entire Madrid ecosystem, corporations and medium and small companies from all industry sectors at the MTTZ forum. The MTTZ initiative has the participation of AMMDE (Madrid Association of Women Managers and Entrepreneurs), Madrid Network, a powerful networking network for professionals from different sectors, and Q4I Consulting, a consultancy that supports companies in their digital transformation, as well as their biggest promoter NEBEXT which is the leading organizer of large format B2B events.
Community of Madrid: at the forefront in investment in R&D
Last January of this year, the real estate consultancy CBRE and the MWCC association published the report ‘Top 55 most innovative companies in Madrid’, from which the consolidation of Madrid as the main business and innovation hub in the south was extracted. of Europe.
The Community of Madrid has concentrated an investment of 2,487 million euros in 2021 in startups in Spain, seven times more than the previous year. In addition, according to data from the Government and the CAM, Madrid is the region with the highest investment in R&D, reaching more than 4,200 million euros in 2020, 27% of spending in all of Spain. In addition, it is also a leader in technological innovation where it allocates 5,246.8 million euros, 28.8% of the total.
