Al Gore and Pablo Isla are among the speakers confirmed for South Summit Madrid 2022

Former US Vice President Al Gore and former Inditex President Pablo Isla are among them speakers The confirmation was made at the next South Summit in Madrid, a technical event to be held in the capital between 8 and 10 June.

South Summit celebrates 10 years as one of the main global meeting points for the entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem. The event brings together entrepreneurs, investors and corporations to generate real business opportunities in the global entrepreneurial ecosystem.

The meeting will take place again in La Neve, Madrid. will find more than 450 speakers of recognized international reputation. They will share with attendees their successful professional careers and their experience in the fields of innovation and the business world.

between the speakers sal khanFounder and CEO of Khan Academy, a non-profit educational organization; Mark OshimaCo-founder and CMO of AeroFarms, a leader in sustainable indoor farming; marcy zaroffFounder and CEO of EcoFashion Corp., a benchmark in the sustainable fashion sector; inigo tray, CEO of BioTechFoods, a biotechnology company dedicated to the development of synthetic meat; You Hrish LotikarCo-founder and CEO of Superworld, an augmented reality (AR) virtual world mapped geographically to the real world, among other profiles.

Great advances in technology, the pace of innovation or the great challenge of fighting climate change will be some of the central themes of the South Summit Edition content programme. The program will be expressed under the motto ‘[de]coding complexity’ (decode complexity).

100 finalists of startups at South Summit Madrid 2022 startup competitionSelected through a rigorous selection process among over 3,000 candidates from 114 countries. The 100 finalist startups hail from a variety of fields and have innovative and cutting-edge projects, such as a robot that automates the process of harvesting and gathering food on farms or the ability to detect wildfires from outer space. system is.

For this year’s edition, the South Summit is expected to generate a economic activity all around €20 million With over 22,000 attendees at this essential event for the entrepreneurial ecosystem and global innovation, during its celebration in the city of Madrid. In the last 2021 edition, all attendance and participation records were broken with over 1,600 investors with a portfolio of approximately $135,000 million, 8,000 startups, 680. speakers and 7,000 corporate members.