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CONTENTS
Welcome
Key Information:
- Agenda - Floorplan Link - Media Downloads - Travel Info - 4YFN19 PR Contacts
Fast Facts
Headline Speakers (including PR Contacts)
Special Projects:
- Stratosphere Project - The Face
Exhibitors (including PR Contacts)
- Fast Facts - PR Contacts
Headline Speakers
Stratosphere Project
Exhibitors
4YFN Awards
Featured Programmes
Sponsor PR Contacts
4YFN Key Spokespeople
Site Map
Agenda
WELCOME
TO 4YFN ‘19
4YFN is back at the world’s largest exhibition for the mobile industry, MWC19,
supporting startups, investors and companies to connect and launch new business
ventures together.
Over three days, 4YFN19 will showcase the latest tech startup innovations from around
the world. Featuring curated content, startup pitches, competitions and dedicated
networking sessions.
The event is tailor-made to connect the international startup community, investors, talent
and corporations.
Agenda
Full agenda is available here. A printable version is available at the back of this document.
Floorplan
Download the floorplan here. A printable version is available at the back of this document.
Media Download Centre
Videos and images are available to download from here
Travel Info
FROM MWC
A free shuttle bus will transport you to and from the venues from Fira Montjuïc to Fira Gran
Via (North Entrance).
Monday to Wednesday
7:00 – 10:00 every 5 mins
10:00 – 18:00 every 7 mins
18:00 – 21:00 every 4 mins
BUS
Take the H12 Bus from central Barcelona to Pl. Espanya (4YFN)
METRO
The closest metro stop to the 4YFN venue is Plaça Espanya, L1 line (red) and L3 line
(green)
AIRPORT
Take the AeroBus running from T1 and T2 to Pl. Espanya every 5 minutes. Otherwise there
is a taxi rank
PR Contacts
For any press-related inquiry, please contact the 4YFN PR team:
Jennifer Roberts, 4YFN Global
Communications Manager, GSMA
+34 678 40 39 33
4YFN Press Office
Pau Guerrero: +34 607 34 83 64
Ruth Amat: +34 617 33 50 24
Nacho Almirall: +34 630 187 844
Fast Facts
4YFN 2019 is hosted in Barcelona from 25 – 27 February
4YFN was started in 2014, making this its sixth edition
4YFN is one of the world’s most influential business platforms for start-ups, investors and corporations to create, discover and launch new ventures together
4YFN’s main objectives are to:
- Support startup growth for a better future
- Help enterprises discover start-ups; uncover the next disruptions, find solutions and find partners
- Convene the tech industry’s top experts to challenge and develop the newest ideas
- Help investors find early stage
companies, develop their current portfolio, connect with other investors & corporates
- Inspire the next generation of
entrepreneurs
In this year’s edition, we have:
- more than 300 speakers
- 760 exhibitors and sponsors
- 7 stages
There are exhibitors from 44 countries all over the world
One third of our exhibitors are Spanish
120 of our startups are from Catalunya (nearly 20%)
The verticals main verticals this year’s startups come from are:
o Consumer Electronics 5.87%
o Financial & Insurance services 6.51%
o Manufacturing, Energy & Utilities 6.83%
o Telecommunications & Operators 8.41%
o Retail & Marketplaces 10.48%
o Other 10.79% o Entertainment, Media &
Gaming 12.06% o Healthcare & Agrifood
12.54% o Smart Cities & Mobility
12.70% o Business & Productivity
13.81%
This year we expect more than 21,000 attendees
Attendance has grown from 2,000 visitors in the first edition
4YFN also has editions in Shanghai (26-28 June) and Los Angeles (22-24 October)
Key themes or 4YFN19 are:
o AI/Robotics
o Tech4Good
o Blockchain
HEADLINE SPEAKERS 4YFN 2019 has an amazing lineup to learn from inspirational speakers, founders of groundbreaking digital companies, executives, futurists and leading experts attending 4YFN19. Click here to see the full list of speakers.
Omar Khan, Chief Product Officer, Magic Leap
Press Contact: Daniel Diez, [email protected]
Charlotte Hogg, CEO, Visa Europe
Specialist Subject: Payments
Charlotte Hogg is executive vice president and chief executive
officer for Visa’s European operations. Ms. Hogg brings more than
25 years of experience in financial services, bank operations and
management consulting to Visa. Most recently, Ms. Hogg served
as chief operating officer for the Bank of England, from 2013 to
2017. Prior to that role, she led retail distribution for Santander in
the UK and previously worked at Experian as the managing
director of UK and Irish operations.
PR Contact: Renny Popoola [email protected] /
Catherine Palacios [email protected]
Nicola Mendelsohn, VP for EMEA, Facebook
Specialist subject: Social Media
Nicola Mendelsohn is currently the Vice President for
Europe, Middle East and Africa for Facebook, a role she
has held since 2013. She currently serves on the Mayor of
London’s Business Advisory Board, the UK government’s
Industrial Strategy Council and is a non-executive director
of Diageo. She and her husband are also co-presidents of
the charity Norwood. Prior to joining Facebook Nicola
worked in advertising for over 20 years, beginning her
career at Bartle Bogle Hegarty before moving to be deputy
Chairman of Grey London. In 2008, she became partner
and executive chairman at the advertising agency,
Karmarama.
PR Contacts: Mihiri Bonney, [email protected] /
Martin Casado, General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz
Martin Casado is a general partner at the venture capital firm
Andreessen Horowitz where he focuses on enterprise investing. He
was previously the cofounder and chief technology officer at Nicira,
which was acquired by VMware for $1.26 billion in 2012. While at
VMware, Martin served as senior vice president and general
manager of the Networking and Security Business Unit, which he
scaled to a $600 million run-rate business by the time he left in
2016.
PR Contacts: Alex Doniach, +44 7788 438465,
Adeo Ressi, Founder, Founder Institute
Specialist Subject: Tech4Good
Adeo Ressi is CEO of the Founder Institute, a pre-seed startup
accelerator that operates in nearly 200 cities worldwide, and he is
a recognized mentor for fast-growing technology businesses. He
has pioneered innovations in the protection of founder rights, the
raising of early-stage capital and the scaling of new businesses.
Previous to the Founder Institute, Adeo helped create nearly $2
billion in shareholder value by founding or running nine
businesses including TheFunded, Game Trust, Xceed and Total
New York. The Founder Institute has helped to create
approximately $25 billion more in shareholder value by launching
nearly 3,000 technology companies that have raised an estimated
$1 billion from investors.
PR Contact: Urs Rothmayr, +34 656 800 898,
Dr Wanli Min, Chief Machine Intelligence Scientist,
Alibaba Cloud
Specialist Subject: AI
Dr. Wanli Min received PhD in Statistics from The University
of Chicago. He joined Alibaba Group in 2013 to build a data
scientist team for the e-commerce platform. Since 2015, he
has been leading Alibaba Cloud’s efforts on big data and AI
for Industry and developed ET Brain series in City, Industry,
Agriculture, Aviation and Environment. Prior to Alibaba, he
had worked at IBM T. J. Watson Research Centre, IBM
Singapore and Google as researcher and business
innovation leader. His research in traffic network flow has
made him a primary contributor to the development of smart
city in many cities. He was appointed by Chinese Ministry of
Science and Technology to the National Strategic Advisory
Committee on next generation of AI and is also recognized
by Forbes among leading figures of AI in China.
PR Contact: Crystal Liu, [email protected]
Jared Ficklin, Chief Creative Technologist at Argo
Design & Strategic Design Partner with Magic Leap
Specialist Subject: AR/VR
As an innovator, futurist & product designer Jared is always
exploring the boundary between humans and technology.
Currently Jared is leading the strategic design partnership
with Magic Leap helping to create the model for spatial
computing. He lives by the mantra "Think by Making, Deliver
by Demo" and believes technology should serve humanity.
PR Contact: Jordan Bresler,
Jens Riegelsberger, UX Director, Google
Specialist Subject: UX
With over 12 years of experience in Google UX Design, Jens
Riegelsberger currently leads global UX teams for Search,
Assistant, Maps and Google's UXR infrastructure. Jens has
transformed Google's user insights teams and shaped the
company-wide product development culture. He splits his time
between London and California and his team spans the US,
Europe, and Asia. Prior to Google, Jens was a UX consultant
with LBi, taught at the University of the Arts in Berlin, and spent
time as a trainee paramedic and radio reporter.
PR Contact: Katie Duckhorn, [email protected]
Bracken Darrell, CEO, Logitech
Bracken Darrell joined Logitech as president in 2012 and
became chief executive officer a year later. In this role he has
led a transformation of Logitech. He is a proponent of the
importance of the liberal arts and design in business, especially
of their role in innovating product experiences for consumers.
Bracken brings to Logitech experience in product and brand
building through design. Since he took over five years ago,
Logitech has been a top performer on the SIX Swiss stock
exchange and on the NASDAQ. The company’s stock price and
profits have more than quadrupled in the same period.
PR Contact: Ben Starkie, [email protected]
Laura Urquizu, CEO, Red Points
Specialist Subject: IP Protection
Laura Urquizu is leading the worldwide innovation for online
IP protection. Laura joined the initial founding team in 2014
and has led the company since its infancy. Red Points is the
game-changer in online brand protection, online copyright
protection, and the prevention of illegal online content
distribution. She is leading the way for the global adoption of
Red Points’ technology. Previously, Laura held executive and
management positions in Arthur Andersen, Caja Navarra, and
Corporacion CAN. In August 2018, Red Points was named
one of the hottest European start-ups to follow by Wired and
in October, Laura was included in the “50 most influential
women entrepreneurs and investors in the European
Technology Industry”.
PR Contact: [email protected]
Maximilian Tyanthal, CFO & Co-Founder, N26
Specialist Subject: Retail Banking
Maximilian Tayenthal is co-founder and CFO of N26.
Together with his business partner and friend Valentin Stalf,
he built one of the first and now fastest-growing mobile banks
in Europe. Their vision was to create a retail bank that's
flexible, transparent and speaks to today's digital lifestyles.
Previously, Max worked in a variety of consulting and financial
roles at leading professional services firms, including CMS
and Booz & Company.
PR Contact: (Spanish only) Miriam Sarralde,
[email protected]; Isabel Gata,
[email protected]; Beatriz Dorado,
[email protected] (International) Larissa Kreuzberg,
[email protected] & Katharina Heller,
Christian Guttmann, VP, Global Head of Artificial
Intelligence & Data Science, Executive Founding Director,
Tieto Sweden AB, Nordic Artificial Intelligence Institute
Specialist subject: AI
Christian Guttmann is one of the world’s foremost experts on
Artificial Intelligence. During the last 25 years, he has led the
design and development of 100s of AI science, technology and
business, including machine learning systems; autonomous
robotic teams; music recommendation engines; conversational
agents and distributed AI, which was applied and deployed in
several industries. He will be discussing the ethics of AI at
4YFN19.
PR Contact: Christian Guttmann, +46 (0) 725112640,
Steven Sprague, CEO, Rivetz
Specialist subject: Blockchain
Steven Sprague is the CEO of Rivetz Corp. and one of the
principle industry evangelists for the application of trusted
computing technology. Steven is skilled at translating these
concepts into layman’s terms. Steven Sprague was successful
at Wave System Corp., a Nasdaq company, taking the company
from delisting in 1997 to over a 2 billion dollar valuation in 2000
and leading the industry in OEM and enterprise trusted
computing software.
PR Contact: Nikki Dance, [email protected]
You can check the complete list of headline speakers in the following link: https://www.4yfn.com/barcelona/headline-speakers/
You can check the full list of 4YFN speakers in the following link: https://www.4yfn.com/barcelona/speakers-list/
STRATOSPHERE PROJECT 4YFN is the first conference to ever reach the stratosphere. This year, for the first time, 4YFN, along with its partners Zero 2 Infinity is launching a balloon to the stratosphere containing the resolutions for the future contributed by startups. The whole adventure is shot in HD and available to use.
A series of beautiful short documentaries were shot to accompany the project,
highlighting some of the amazing work of three inspirational startup leaders. Watch the teaser trailer here.
The 4YFN trophy also went all the way up to the stratosphere before falling back to Earth where it was recovered to be handed to the 4YFN Award Winners on 27 February.
Last year, the music event Sonar beamed music into space, but this is the first time a conference has physically broached the edges of space.
B Roll is available and free to use but STRICTLY EMBARGOED until 5:30PM, 25 February. Segments of the short movie are also available here.
PR contact: Fulvia Buonanno, [email protected]
EXHIBITORS In 4YFN 2019 you will be able to meet startups from all over the world that will shape the world of tomorrow. Click here to look through all 760 exhibitors! Download images and video content from highlighted exhibitors here.
Robotics/AI
ABLE Human Motion
ABLE Human Motion: is the first lightweight, easy-to-use
and affordable exoskeleton for people with spinal cord injury
that restores their ability to walk naturally and intuitively. It is
based on an electric actuator that acts like a muscle, flexing
and extending the leg, and an inertial sensor to detect the
user’s intention. The Spanish startup is under the umbrella
of IQS Tech Factory, Spain’s first industrial accelerator.
Stand: M8 Stand (IQS Tech Factory)
PR Contact: Cristina Casaprima, +34678049991, [email protected]
Somnox Sleep Robot
The Somnox Sleep Robot helps you sleep faster, longer
and wake up refreshed by slowing down your breathing
using simulated human-like breathing techniques,
focussing your attention and playing soothing sounds at
the right times in the sleep cycle using intelligent sensors.
Being huggable and soft, the robot makes the user calmly
doze off again with a feeling of affection. It’s a robot that
cuddles you to sleep!
Stand: M8 Stand J2.4
You can book meetings with Somnox at:
https://email.meetsomnox.com/meetings/julianjagtenberg/mwc-4yfn
PR Contact: Jereon Feron, +31 6 52 19 63 49, [email protected]
Empath
Empath is an Emotion AI which can identify emotion from the voice in real-time regardless of
the language. Empath SDK and API have
been more than 1,000 customers over 50
countries in multiple business sectors such
as call centre, automobile, and robotics.
Empath won 8 international pitch
competition including Viva Technology 2018
and ICT Spring 2018. They were accepted
by Google Launchpad Accelerator and Plug
and Play. Can it show how excited or
stressed the media are? Come and find out!
Stand: M8 Stand K3.3
PR Contact: Miho, [email protected]
Chiara
Chiara is the most advanced online
course to improve your communication
skills. Thanks to the immersive
capacity of virtual reality, you can
immerse yourself in real life
environments such as the most
common situations that could happen
in meetings, presentations or even
public speeches. How will journalists
rate against Chiara’s training?
Chiara analyses your speech aspects that influence communication, giving you a
personalized training through a virtual coach and everything you might need to improve on
the facets that you most need. Thanks to Chiara’s Artificial Intelligence, subjectivity is
eliminated thus giving you a personalized analyzation of your profile as a communicator.
Chiara has more than 200,000 feedback combinations and it also controls in parallel the
most important parameters of oral communication such as: volume, intensity, intonation,
pauses and silences, tags, clarity.
Stand: M8 Stand T3.9
PR Contact: Gelen Torres, +34 91 571 34 33, [email protected]
Tech4Good
Field Buzz
Field Buzz software helps organizations to manage dispersed activities & transactions in the
“last mile” in emerging markets, such as tracking distribution to small shops, interactions with
smallholder farmers, microfinance, delivery of services to low-income households, and rural
infrastructure monitoring & maintenance. Started in 2015, the company’s smartphone and
web-based software is already in use by leading organizations with thousands of users in
over a dozen countries in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America.
For more information, videos and images, please go to: https://field.buzz
PR contact: Alexis Rawlinson, +49 1 76 81 93 83 72, [email protected]
Eneza Education
Eneza Education increases literacy level and school
performance for African by providing them with a mobile-
based, gamified learning system. By subscribing to a
SMS/USSD service directly on the mobile at a low fee
deductible from the airtime, the students can review their
lessons, take adaptive quizzes, ask live teachers questions
and get individualized reports on their performance. Over 4.9 millions learners are already
taking mobile courses on our platform across Kenya, Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire.
Stand: 54
PR Contact: Juliet Otieno, [email protected]
Re-circula
Recysmart system is an easy-to-implement waste
container device and mobile app that interacts with
citizens offering an incentive system and generates
big data. It aims is to increase at least packaging
recycling rates by 15% and boost the circular
Economy. Recysmart system is the key piece of the
project since it is responsible for recognizing
packaging material and its quantity. Citizens are
rewarded when they are recycling correctly thanks to our incentives portfolio in its app
mobile.
Stand: M8 Stand F1.7
PR Contact: Jordi Berguinzo, +34 654 869 903, [email protected]
Blockchain
Security Matters
Security Matters (SMX) owns the technology to permanently and irrevocably “mark” any
object either solid, liquid or gas, allowing brand protection, authentication, supply chain
integrity and quality assurance for countless products in virtually every industry. SMX’s
technology comprises a chemical-based hidden "barcode" system, alongside a unique
“reader” to identify these codes, and blockchain record to store and protect ownership data.
SMX’s vision is to become the global record for physical goods through its unique
technology for asset tracking and its ability to create a “Physical to Digital Twin”.
Stand number: M8 Stand F4.4
PR Contact: Avital Trachtman, +972-54-4791881, [email protected]
VR/AR
Broomx
BroomX is bringing the world’s first VR projector,
the MK360, to the 4YFN showfloor. This
innovative technology will create an immersive
space where visitors will enjoy some of the best
VR content and share their experience without
using individual headsets. From underwater
videos to galaxy trips and digital art creations,
the range of mind-blowing immersive
experiences will be one of this years’ 4YFN
highlight. Don’t miss the opportunity to
experience this unique technology that is
revolutionizing the way to enjoy virtual reality
content beyond the typical VR headsets!
Stand: M8 Stand R4.13, Hall 4YFN Montjuic Hall M8 Stand FC2
PR Contact: Ignasi Capellà, +34 658 078 815, [email protected]
Mohawk
Mohawk by RideOn is a ski helmet with a heads up
display to show your speed and altitude, navigation,
communication and an built-in entertainment system. It
can help capture some of the best runs while you’re
riding and includes an SOS system in case of
emergencies. It is a visually arresting deployment of
AR in a sports setting, perfect for maintaining safety
and integrating the great outdoors with amazing digital
technologies.
Stand: M8 Stand F4.2
PR Contact: Tom Berkovits, +972-524733067, [email protected]
StageInHome
StageInHome is an Augmented Reality app that allows
you to transform empty spaces into vibrant, eye-
catching places. It’s as simple as walking around the
place with the phone, and dress the space with
carefully designed virtual furniture and decoration
elements. Once it’s done, you can take pictures to use
them for real-estate promotion or as a design
guidelines. The solution is fully focused on real-estate
owners and professionals that want to speed up and
increase conversions.
Stand: M8 Stand P2.2
PR Contact: Enrique Oriol, [email protected]
Minushu
Minushu is a start-up company founded in August,
2015 in Barcelona, Spain devoted to innovative
storytelling experiences with AR and VR technologies.
Minushu's first launch is NUSHU, an animated
adventure series based on international current affairs.
NUSHU is an alien life form that has come to earth
tasked to learn about humans and through engaging
with young earthlings, teaching them about their world
as well. More than 20 missions will be demo’d at
4YFN.
Stand: M8 Stand G3.3
PR Contact: Charles Dranginis, +34665302723, [email protected] /
Eva Dominguez, +34637709784, [email protected]
SoccerDream
Virtual Reality Football Training to accelerate
player's tactics learning. Focused on improving
decision taking in the field, players learn 10 times
faster thanks to Virtual Reality, as it allows them to
train tactical skills aside from the physical &
technical aspects. Users are provided with the
training drills from the top clubs in the world,
making them available to anyone, anytime,
anywhere. Click here to see it in action:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=149v0NhX91Q&feature=youtu.be
Stand Number: M8 Stand R4.10
PR Contact: Andreu Bartolí, +34 666 785 343, [email protected]
Mobility
Zero 2 Infinity
Zero 2 Infinity's mission is to simplify access to
Space through innovative solutions. One of their
products is ELEVATE, a stratospheric
transportation service that carries payloads of up
to 500kg of mass. The company is currently the
only private actor in Europe offering access to
the stratosphere for clients from the aerospace
industry, commercial companies, and academics
institutions. And this year, Zero 2 Infinity
executed a very special project for 4YFN, sending the 4YFN Awards trophy to the
stratosphere and along with the written ambitions of entrepreneurs into the atmosphere.
Stand number: M8 Stand D1.8
PR Contact: Fulvia Buonanno, +34 667 757 516, [email protected]
JIVR
JIVR is a folding, chainless and electric bike
designed to help riders beat urban congestion. It
features a distinctive custom frame made of
aerospace-grade aluminium and a powerful 250W
electric motor with a range of 50km. A proprietary
driveshaft and premium batteries are safely
encased inside JIVR’s sturdy yet lightweight
frame. Now anyone can take on crowded city
streets in comfort and style without the lifestyle
compromises demanded by conventional bicycles.
Stand number: M8 Stand G2.4
PR Contact: Martin Kasz, +48 730 185 007, [email protected]
Health
WIVI
WIVI is an immersive 3D technology to assess and
improve children’s visual dysfunctions at an
affordable price. In just 20 minutes, WIVI provides
a complete cognitive assessment and treatment
analysis with more than 50 parameters (current
systems only 4), while creating an engaging
experience to the user. WIVI clinical performance
demonstrated that it can revolutionize current
practices: A variety of tests have reached with high accuracy. WIVI reduces the standard
treatments from 6 to 2.5 months, while being a cheaper alternative.
Stand: M8 Stand A1.6
PR contact: Eva Garcia Ramos, +34620602469 [email protected]
CreatSens Health
A unique paper-based creatinine and potassium potentiometric sensors solution helping the
healthcare professional to better manage the information that can be generated in primary
care centers, doctor’s office or patient’s home.
Stand: M8 Stand O2.4
PR Contact: [email protected]
iBreve
Patent-pending wearable technology that analyzes
respiratory patterns in real-time, enabling market
applications for seizure prediction, respiratory treatment
and stress management.
PR Contact: Flavia Wahl, [email protected]
Newton 1665
Newton 1665 aims to restore the body structure to live harmoniously with gravity and the
environment. Newton 1665 developed the 360365 Scaling Dr. to remove all biofilm from the
pockets to whole mouth surface, and the Godsumm Dr. to reduce snoring and sleep apnea.
Newton 1665 helps create an environment where a healthy life is possible by preventing
disease based on natural healing.
Stand number: M8 Stand L1.8
PR Contact: Mira, [email protected]
Cognyx
Cognyx is a headband that uses
neurotechnology to improve sleep at night
and reduce stress during the day. Cognyx is
designed to help people improve their sleep
quality. Cognyx is the first headband that
senses brain patterns and subtly changes
the way the brain recreates certain cognitive
states, in real time. Cognyx reads brain
signals and then sends back personalized
signals that help induce better sleep. Cognix
provides the benefits of taking sleeping pills,
without having to take medication. This is all done through the Neural Activation System
(NAS), which allows Cognix to replicate natural brain waves and patterns. Some features of
Cognyx include falling asleep faster, maintaining better sleep and waking up feeling
rejuvenated.
Stand: M8 Stand F4.5
PR Contact: Tomer Aharonovitch, +972-52-6496094, [email protected]
App
Moasure
Moasure is a revolutionary measuring
technology that measures by sensing its
position & movement in three dimensions. The
patented technology uses motion to make
measurements, leveraging inertial sensors & a
proprietary algorithm to deliver an innovative
new way to measure. Moasure ONE, is the
world’s first motion-based measuring tool.
Built using the latest inertial sensors it can
accurately measure volume, area, circumference, height, angle, level and more. Download
the Moasure App to experience our technology today.
Stand number: M8 Stand L2.7
PR Contact: Mohammed Hussain, +44 77 69 70 71 72, [email protected]
4YFN AWARDS The 4YFN Awards will return to MWC19 once more, celebrating the most innovative and
visionary start-ups from around the world. Five finalists have been shortlisted following
an intensive selection process with applicants from more than 200 companies. The
selected finalists now have the opportunity to win the prestigious ‘4YFN Start-up of the
Year’ award, plus prizes worth €300,000 during an award ceremony taking place on 27
February at the Banc Sabadell Stage during 4YFN at MWC19.
The winning start-up will receive a number of benefits focused on helping it to continue
growing and developing, including:
Total prize value of €300,000, including:
Free exhibition space at 4YFN Barcelona, 4YFN Shanghai or 4YFN Los Angeles
Office and business support services from the MediaTIC incubator for three months and
three team members
Lifetime access to FindThatLead.com to support finding new clients and investors
An invitation to Las Vegas to participate in AWS re:Invent 2019
The final five start-ups
The five international start-ups that have been selected to participate in the final phase of the
4YFN Awards 2019 are:
Carfit (France): Carfit technology based on Artificial Intelligence and reads car vibrations
to support and facilitate maintenance.
PR Contact: Steve Goyet [email protected]
NanoLock Security (Israel): NanoLock Security technology provides a low-cost security
and management solution to mitigate against malicious attacks ranging from ransomware
to the manipulation of stored codes and configuration information.
PR Contact: Eran Fine [email protected]
Scoot Networks (US/Spain): Scoot is an application that provides shared electric
vehicles on demand. The company owns different types of vehicles, including bicycles
and motorcycles.
PR Contact: Anna Juan [email protected]
Factorial (Spain): Factorial technology automates human resource tasks, reduces
errors, obtains global organization information and makes it visible through data analysis.
PR Contact: Jordi Romero [email protected]
3DLOOK (United States): 3DLOOK uses new technologies, deep learning and 3D vision
and scanning to transform the textile industry.
PR Contact: Vadim Rogovskiy [email protected]
FEATURED Aside from the conference programme you will find featured programmes with specific content and discussions related to subjects such as education, health and more.
Health Summit
Highlighting the challenges and digital solutions in health, the objective of DHWS19 is to showcase the best innovators bringing digital technologies to improve healthcare delivery around the world. It creates opportunities for these innovators to meet end-users (clinicians and patients) and understand their needs and challenges.
Women4Tech
Women4Tech at 4YFN takes a meaningful look at gender equality and gender diversity in the global tech start-up community. Women4Tech activities include Interactive Workshops, Panel and Keynote discussions as well as Networking events.
Join us at Fira Montjuic on Tuesday, 26 February, and discover how the startup community drives performance and delivers success by embracing the culture and value of diversity.
EdTech Track
The 4YFN EdTech Track is a specialised track to engage participants from the educational community worldwide in relevant and meaningful discussions about the driving force of technology in education.
The track is addressed to schools and universities, international organisations, NGOs, EdTech businesses and start-ups, education policy-makers, teachers and students.
Barcelona FinTech City
Explore the pros and cons that finance is facing with the rise of new tech and business models. Barcelona Fintech City will explore the main opportunities and challenges that finance is facing with the new technologies and the emergence of new business models.
SPONSOR PR CONTACTS GOLD
Press Contacts Clara de Melo Ponce - [email protected]
SILVER
Press Contact: Dara Francis Elie - [email protected] Caixa
Mastercard Press Contact: Ana Diaz - [email protected] +34682319797
Rivetz Press Contact: Nikki Dance - [email protected] +1 831.401.3175
SEAT Press Contact: Daniel Martinez +34 648 280 851 - [email protected]
Taitra Press Contact: Stan Wang - [email protected]
SEAT Press Contacts: Renny Popoola - [email protected] Catherine Palacios - [email protected]
Main Spokespeople for 4YFN Pere Duran, 4YFN Event Series Director
Pere is the Event Series Director of 4 Years from Now, the most influential startup platform in the world. He is an expert in startups, innovation and growth.
Pere is a Barcelona native who has worked with the Mobile World Congress for over 10 years. He was the Sales Director of MWC sister-event 4 Years from Now (4YFN) and recently took over as 4YFN’s Event Director. Pere studied Economics at the Pompeu Fabra University and lived in London for 3 years where he worked in telecoms and events.
Pere has been instrumental in the growth and development of 4 Years from Now from a small area within MWC, attracting 2,000 attendees into a supersize startup event outgrowing its event location and bringing in more than21,000 visitors including top investors and corporates.
Peter Brady, GSMA Business Director
Peter is the Business Director of GSMA, responsible for
GSMA’s newest business platforms, events and
partnerships. He is a leader in convening the telecoms,
media and technology sector, dedicated to bringing
together the international tech industry for over 10
years.
Prior to moving to Barcelona in 2017, Peter lived and
worked in China for 4 years and before that UK, and
Italy. During his time in China, he was part of a team
that created and launched the Mobile Asia Expo, which
became China’s largest international technology
tradeshow. As Sales Director, he learned little
Mandarin but he did oversee triple-digit growth.
Peter has overseen forums for thought leadership and platforms for change in over 40
countries, welcoming in excess of 1 million attendees from across the technology
ecosystem. These days, his focus is on designing, creating and launching new ventures,
platforms and business information platform services – ensuring sustainable profitability,
finding talent and encouraging new teams to create a successful culture.
Peter got his Bachelor’s degree at University of Nottingham, and more recently earned his
International MBA at Hong Kong University in 2017, as well as having completed a corporate
innovation programme at Michigan University School of Business.
He says he would be a football journalist if he wasn’t doing his current job and has a secret
penchant for chess, at which he has competed at national level!
