This year there is an important date for the South Summit: their tenth anniversary. The event has been confirmed as the main meeting and connection point for the key players in the global entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem.
In each edition, they have gathered in Madrid a growing ecosystem of startups, corporations and international investors to generate real business opportunities and high-value connections, as well as to learn about trends and innovations in the entrepreneurial ecosystem.
A trajectory that has served to build an increasingly interconnected ecosystem that is advancing at breakneck speed due to the very complexity of the world around us, full of technological innovations that are advancing without brake.
“In just a few years we have gone from talking about digitization to talking about metaverses and NFTs. Innovation has advanced so fast that we are facing a hyper-complex world where conversations about Fintech, sustainability or decentralization take place”, says María Benjumea, founder and CEO of South Summit.
Thus, the objective of South Summit Madrid 2022 It will focus on bringing the entire ecosystem closer to the great advances in technology, the speed of innovation or the great challenge of fighting climate change, as well as analyzing the innovative solutions that provide answers to this complex world. With this idea in mind, South Summit Madrid 2022 has announced that the title of your program for this year’s edition: ‘[de]coding complexity’.
In this sense, Benjumea highlights that the goal of South Summit 2022 will be “decode all this complexity to make it more accessible to the entire ecosystem and extend it to all citizens to make this innovation more accessible to anyone who wants to create and promote a disruptive idea for a business. At South Summit we will define the main innovation poles and trends and materialize them through real business opportunities and networking”.
Records in 2021
Following this maxim, South Summit Madrid 2022 will be held this year from June 8 to 10bringing together, as in every edition, the most innovative startups to present their projects and innovation and business models to investors and corporations from all over the world.
In the last 2021 edition, all attendance and participation records were broken, with more than 22,000 physical and virtual attendees, more than 1,600 investors with a portfolio of approximately 135,000 million dollars, together with more than 8,000 startups, 680 speakers and 7,000 members. of corporations.
But these figures would not be possible without the prelude to each edition, that is, the Startup Competition where the 100 most disruptive startups in the world are chosen. Entrepreneurs interested in participating may register until next March 15through the South Summit website: https://www.southsummit.co/startups/startup-competition/.
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