Mobile World Capital Barcelona at 4YFN26

This content session will offer an in-depth exploration of two technological experiences at the 4YFN stand of Mobile World Capital Barcelona, driven by its spin-off ecosystem. The event will open with a welcome address by Albert Mascarell, Director of Technology Transfer at Mobile World Capital Barcelona, at the stand itself, and will continue with presentations from the spin-offs Ephion Health and Uniscool, who will personally share the origin, development, and application of their solutions. During the session, it will be explained how Ephion Health applies AI to transform clinical observations based on patients’ mobility into objective data, and how Uniscool addresses the energy challenge of AI through advanced liquid cooling systems for data centers. At the end, attendees will be able to experience both technologies firsthand through a live demo.

Javier Avellaneda

Portfolio Manager at Mobile World Capital Barcelona

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Quique Llaudet

CEO and Co-Founder, Ephion Health

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Montse Vilarrubí

COO and Co-Founder, Universal Smart Cooling

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Join us for a pitching session featuring 10 of Catalonia’s most innovative companies, selected as Catalonia Exponential Leaders by ACCIÓ. From breakthrough technologies to bold business models, these companies are redefining industries and accelerating the next wave of technological and business transformation.

Marc Cortés

CEO, 4BlueTech

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Marta Barrachina

CEO and Co-Founder, ADmit Therapeutics

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Gary Gautier

CEO, Casa Batlló

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Alfred Coma

Head of Innovation ERIA

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Genís Frigola

Business Development Manager, Protofy.xyz

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David Castillo

Senior Bioinformatician, Sequentia Biotech

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Javier García

CTO and Co-Founder, Sycai Medical

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Montse Vilarrubí

COO and Co-Founder, Universal Smart Cooling

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Eduard Obis

CEO, Vegga

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Miguel Cota

CTO, YPlasma

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Mireia Fageda

Disruption Consultant, ACCIÓ

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We will address questions about how corporations are currently innovating and how to collaborate with startups, what the budgets are, and how pilot projects are structured. We will also discuss the Venture Client collaboration process with startups.

Juan Aguirre

Head of Innovation Office, Ibercaja

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Laura Vidal

Head of Innovation & Employee Engagement, SEAT

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Fernando Casado

Co-Founder & General Partner, Inclimo

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Margarida López

Director of Innovation and Digital Transformation, TMB

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Eva Corretgé

Innovation Manager, Cambra de Comerç

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Private gathering aimed at fostering synergies and sharing experiences among scientist-entrepreneurs from the Mobile World Capital Barcelona Foundation portfolio.

Rita Salavert

Tech Transfer Programme Manager

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Consuelo Rebolledo

Talent Manager, The Collider

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Matchmaking Session: First meeting between the scientific teams participating in the team formation phase and their potential CEO co-founders. The session will be moderated by Consuelo Rebolledo, who will welcome participants and present the structure of the dynamics. Each team should have a table and chairs (there are 7 teams). The goal is for each team to have conversations with two entrepreneurs (each conversation lasting 25 minutes — it’s like dating, but not speed dating). The entrepreneurs will rotate according to the moderator’s instructions.

Consuelo Rebolledo

Talent Manager, The Collider

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There are 1,007 active deep-tech spin-offs in Spain. Behind each one lies a difficult decision: taking science out of the lab and turning it into real impact.

The session will include the presentation of the report focusing on people rather than data, testimonials from deep-tech spin-off founders and an institutional interview on national missions and the future of the ecosystem.

Albert Mascarell

Director of Technology Transfer, Mobile World Capital Barcelona

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Paul Brown

Founder, NanoChronia

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Fernando Escobar

Representative, SEDIA

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Europe is consolidating some of the most sophisticated deep-tech accelerator programmes in the world, combining scientific talent, specialised capital and strong industry connections.

This session will analyse how they select projects, reduce technological risk and facilitate the transition from lab to market through venture building models and university-industry collaboration.

David Groom

Managing Partner, Deeptech Labs

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Javier Avellaneda

Portfolio Manager at Mobile World Capital Barcelona

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Exclusive meeting within the framework of 4YFN bringing together Catalonia’s R&D&I Networks to celebrate the continuity of the initiative and foster new strategic agreements and collaborations.

Albert Mascarell

Director of Technology Transfer, Mobile World Capital Barcelona

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Carme Pratdesaba

Representative of the Networks, AccesCat

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The session will bring together leaders from EIC/EISMEA, CDTI, FundingBox, EurA and Sploro to share practical insights on what is changing in Europe’s scale-up landscape, particularly around EIC Accelerator updates, faster funding pathways, cascade funding/OpenFunding mechanisms and what founders must do to execute without slowing down.

Alberto Sierra

Representative, Sploro

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Mariana Marques

Representative, EurA

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Sanyu Karani

Co-founder of Funding Box

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Susana Getman

Representative, European Innovation Council (EIC)

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Luis Guerra

Spain’s Delegate to Horizon Europe, European Innovation Council (EIC)

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The EAE TOP10 Women Entrepreneurs of Catalonia ranking aims to give visibility to ten women and their projects, strengthen connections with key stakeholders in the entrepreneurial ecosystem, and promote female talent as a driver of equality and sustainability.

This year we celebrate the fourth edition of this recognition, which highlights the innovative capacity, leadership, and impact of women entrepreneurs in Catalonia. An initiative that, in addition to showcasing inspiring projects, creates strategic networking spaces to generate new opportunities for collaboration and growth.

At the MWCapital stand, we will hold the award ceremony honoring this year’s 10 winners of the TOP10 Women Entrepreneurs of Catalonia, in an event that will publicly recognize their talent, trajectory, and contribution to the entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Itziar Blasco

Director of Entrepreneurship at Barcelona Activa

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The session will explore how women-led talent and ideas can move from STEAM pathways into scalable ventures, highlighting the role of innovation ecosystems and investment in turning projects into sustainable growth.

Eva Díaz

Founder & CEO, STEM Women Congress

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Mar Masulli

Representative, Bitmetrics

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Marta Albújar

Communication and Marketing Officer, EIT Urban Mobility

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Tatiana Vírseda de Lucas

Project Assistant, Connectology

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Denisa Rohunova

Innovation Implementation Lead, AI & Business Lab

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Raluca Ioana Niculescu

Former Software Engineer, Google

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High-level conversation on the women shaping the next era of technology, from artificial intelligence and quantum computing to green energy systems. The session will explore how priorities are set, how strong teams are built and how breakthroughs are delivered with real impact across markets and communities.

María Paula Caycedo

Head of Ecosystem & Stakeholder at EIT Urban Mobility

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Ana-Maria Matejic

Member of the Working Group on Cybersecurity Awareness, ENISA

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Gaia Verzelli

Junior Software Engineer, Start & Go Innovative Solutions

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Mitchell Davis

Founder, CosmoGrap

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Berta Herrero Estalayo

Head of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Huawei Europe; Director, The European Leadership Academy

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Anna Dorangricchia

Programme Manager – Gender Equality, Union for the Mediterranean

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This panel will discuss Europe’s position in the global quantum race from an industrial and ecosystem perspective. With speakers from a leading quantum startup, a major energy corporate and the tech sector, the conversation will focus on how Europe can convert its scientific leadership into real market impact through collaboration, investment, industrial use cases and cross-border partnerships.

The panel is part of the DeepTech Alliance “Exploration Program” on Next-Gen Computing, which supports corporates in building long-term strategic insight and partnerships in frontier technologies.

Magnus Melander

Co-founder and Chief Evangelist, THINGS AB

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Victor Canivell

Co-Founder and Chairman, Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech

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A session aimed at startups and stakeholders within the innovation ecosystem who want to understand how inclusive innovation can become a true competitive advantage. Through the alliance between the Mobile World Capital Barcelona Foundation and ONCE Innova, the strategic value of accessibility by design will be addressed, along with open innovation opportunities with ONCE through the Entrepreneurs Challenge 2026 and a real pilot case currently underway, presented by the startup YASYT. A practical session to inspire, learn, and connect technology, impact, and real business.

Eduard Martín Lineros

CIO, Mobile World Capital Barcelona

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Jorge Iniguez

Secretary-General of ONCE

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Cristian Sainz de Marles

Accessibility Lead, Digital Workplace Lead, and ONCE Innova Collaborator

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Ana Ortega Pérez-Cepeda

Head of ONCE Innova, ONCE Innova

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Núria Infiesta

COO and Founder of YASYT

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Pol Viñuales Pérez

Coordinator of Socio-Cultural Animation Activities and Sports Promotion, ONCE Catalunya

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Sant Cugat del Vallès is positioning itself as a living urban lab where companies, startups, research centres and public institutions can test solutions in real-life environments with strong municipal support and institutional guarantees.

The session will explore how the city enables pilot projects, experimental trials and technological validation in areas such as mobility, health, sustainability, digitalisation and GovTech, and how this model attracts talent, investment and high-quality economic activity.

Josep Maria Vallés

Mayor, Ajuntament de Sant Cugat del Vallès

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Oriol Alcoba Malaspina

Director of Innovation and Knowledge Transfer, ESADE

Pere Fuertes Pérez

Director, Vallès School of Architecture (UPC BarcelonaTech)

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Roger Font Espriu

Corporate Markets Director, Eurecat

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We’ve spent trillions building networks. Yet 2.6 billion people — and more than half the world’s schools —remain offline. How do we turn that underutilized infrastructure into measurable impact? Giga, the UNICEF–ITU initiative, has mapped school connectivity in over 40 countries, with 135,000+ schools sharing real-time connectivity data openly with the world. Connectivity Credits build on this foundation by turning verified, live connectivity into a tradable unit of digital infrastructure delivery. Like carbon credits, they reward outcomes — in this case, they reward ISPs for every day a school, health center, or underserved community stays online. By transforming internet access into a measurable, exchangeable asset, Connectivity Credits lay the foundation for a new market in digital public infrastructure — where capital, capacity, and incentives flow toward verified impact. The goal is simple but systemic: make keeping communities online not just a social good, but an economically rewarded outcome at global scale.

Naroa Zurutuza

Lead of the Giga Technology Centre in Barcelona

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Ravi Suchak

Group Head of External Affairs, Sustainability & Public Policy, Helios Towers

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Eulalia Flo

Vice President, Growth & Emerging Markets Europe, Equinix

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Harry Wilson

Product Lead, Giga

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Globally, 2.2 billion people remain offline It is estimated that half of the world’s schools are disconnected. Closing this gap is a major infrastructure challenge that demands scalable, commercially viable solutions.

The inaugural Giga Accelerator cohort of nine startups has been working on a diverse set of solutions to accelerate school connectivity: solar-powered last-mile connectivity and portable digital classrooms, ISP-as-a-Service models, community energy + Wi-Fi hubs, AI-enabled network management, and open-source platforms for IoT and infrastructure monitoring.

From this cohort, four will take the stage at Giga Accelerator Demo Day to pitch their solutions to scale connectivity in real-world conditions.

The Giga Accelerator Programme is collaborating with the Mobile World Capital Barcelona and other key local entrepreneurship institutions to connect founders with governments, investors, and industry leaders to help turn pilots into sustained deployments.

Giga is a partnership between the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) . Our mission is to support governments in connecting every school to the Internet, turning education into a gateway to information, opportunity and choice.

Alex Wong

Giga Co-Lead, ITU

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Anastasia Nedayvoda

Accelerator Program Lead at Giga, ITU will present the Giga Accelerator

Joanna Henderson

Executive Director, Hello World

Jordi Planelles

PhD from Université Paris-Saclay and the University of Barcelona

Keegan White

Founder & CEO, Taurine Technology

Ochieng Quinter

Co-founder and CEO of Chargebyte