4YFN expands at the local and international levels with activities at DLD Tel Aviv and Bizbarcelona

• Mobile World Capital will send a delegation of local and international startups to the DLD Tel Aviv Innovation Festival, Israel’s most important international high-tech event
• 4YFN organises the talk “The Sport of Starting Up a Digital Business” in conjunction with Bizemprèn at the Bizbarcelona congress
• The speakers scheduled for the event are Ulabox CEO Jaume Gomà and Caravelo CEO Iñaki Uriz – the company that won the 2015 4YFN Awards.

June 25, 2015

4Years From Now (4YFN), the international mobile startups event organised by Mobile World Capital Barcelona and GSMA, constantly supports the entrepreneurial sector through different programmes and events committed to forging links at the local and international levels. 4YFN will be present with its own delegation for the first time at the DLD Tel Aviv Innovation Festival, Israel’s premier international high-tech event.

This representation will be comprised of 15 startups, both national and international, operating in the mobile sphere. 4YFN has opened up a selection phase, after which it will choose the most innovative proposals featuring mobile technology at its cores. Other decisive selection criteria will be their economic and social impact, and their potential for growth. The entries can be submitted to the organisation until 12 July via an online form. The finalist startups will be announced on 21 July.

The 4YFN delegation will be present at the DLD Tel Aviv Innovation Festival from 7 to 9 September. Over the course of the three days, the selected startups will undergo immersion in a highly-innovative setting, following a programme specifically designed to encourage interaction with executives, engineers, and investors in the high-tech sector.

4YFN at Bizbarcelona

For the second straight year, 4YFN is participating in the Bizbarcelona by Barcelona Activa Congress. On 2 July 4YFN will present an analogy between climbing a mountain and the creation of a startup at the session “The Sport of Starting Up a Digital Business.”  Attendees will discover how the values behind mountain climbing – effort, overcoming obstacles, and passion – are also the keys to entrepreneurial activity.

The session will feature Jaume Gomà, CEO of Ulabox, and Iñaki Uriz, CEO of Caravelo (a winning company at the 2015 4YFN Awards), who will review their business experiences and how they strive to reach their particular “summits.” Both entrepreneurs will address the different stages through which their projects passed, from the creation of their ideas and the building of their teams, to the challenges they overcame and the advances that buoyed their respective business “expeditions.” With David Domingo, 4YFN’s director of contents and technology, moderating the session, Gomà and Uriz will also share what spurred them to become entrepreneurs and how passion for a project is the defining element for its success.

Entrepreneurial talent

The activity designed by Mobile World Capital Barcelona will take place at the BizEmprèn space, the new area of the Bizbarcelona by Barcelona Activa Congress dedicated to entrepreneurs with business ideas, projects underway, and people looking for different ways to approach self-employment.