Alicante Technology Forum, meeting technology and innovation, It starts with the official opening at 11:30 on Tuesday, 29 November. ADD and keep going hUntil Saturday, December 3, fifty free activities programmed with workshops, roundtables, conferences, technology exhibitions, hackathon, film screenings or competitions play a gameannounced, among others, Member of Parliament for Presidency, New Technologies and Project Coordination, antonio peralresponsible for the event, which is expressed in three thematic axes: the congress, the ATF Battle Arena gaming championship and the Alicante Smartphone Film Festival.
meeting It will last until Saturday, December 3For the official opening, MARQ sees the Plaza de Toros as a major nerve center, although some events were taken to ADDA and other venues in the city, such as the Aguas de Alicante Museum and Puerta Ferrisa.
ATF Battle Arena Championshipis a Valorant based tournament for amateur players, shooting and strategy game8 teams that make it to the quarter-finals will fight for victory in public matches. broadcast online. The championship will meet in Alicante 48 players of national and international origin, eight teams They reached the quarterfinals.
Quarter-finals, semi-finals and final matches in Alicante will be played one-on-one with the matches broadcast by professional commentators. This competition started online in October with 128 teams from different backgrounds. He will be at the Plaza de Toros every afternoon. Since November 29, The award ceremony will be held on Saturday, December 3rd.
Short film festival with smartphone
Alicante Smartphone Film Festival is a competition of award-winning short films made with mobile devices. 150 short films competition. It is the second festival of these specialties held in Spain after Barcelona. From Wednesday, December 30th to Friday, December 2nd, late in the afternoon 35 selected shorts in public sessions.
opening
The opening ceremony will be held with the participation of the President of the Alicante Provincial Assembly. Carlos MazonFrom the Minister of Innovation, Science, Universities and Digital Society, Josephine Goodand the mayor of Alicante, Luis Barcala.
Then, councilor Antonio Peral will announce the planned activities, giving way to an international speaker and economic analyst. Marc VidalHe is considered one of the most influential figures in the digital economy in Spain. He will be in charge of giving the first conference titled. Can you reach the future in time?
In it, he will describe in close and optimistic language the challenges that the industry and people will have to face in the near future. The opening session will also include music. Star wars who will be performing live ADDA Symphony governing Joseph Vicenwill end with a t and a video matching The one that will change the inside of ADDA.
Congress
Alicante Technology Forum Congress will bring together more than the scientific and informative Alicante Technology Forum Congress, which will be held in Plaza de Toros in the morning. 40 distributors, researchers and experts from technology companies.
Wednesday, 30 NovemberAt 09:45 at the round table chaired by the mayor luis barcalawill join Orizon, which offers technological performance solutions to large companies with Huawei, Orange, NTT Data and Alicante Facephi specializing in facial biometrics. It will be covered in separate tables on the same day. innovative projects that transform societyand the relationship between ecosystems and talent, with participation from innovation experts and successful bestselling authors. This day concludes with another meeting on cryptocurrencies, their effects and social dangers.
Thursday 1st of December Telefónica presents Telefónica Innovation Day. Right after, innovative projects of companies in the Alicante ecosystem are introduced at 11:00 am. Then at 12:00 in another roundtable meeting, smart cities Good practices developed in other municipalities such as Malaga, Valladolid and Elche, with the involvement of the mayors of Alicante, Benidorm and Las Rozas and responsible for municipal technicians, part of the Spanish Smart Cities Network RECI. . Immediately after, centre innovative Alicante Futura and AL21, a project on Artificial Intelligence from Alicante Smart City.
On Thursday, it will conclude with a roundtable discussion on “Who controls who: rights and technologies in the intranet of metaverses, companies, politicians and citizens” with Marta Pascal, consultant specializing in systems digitization policies, and Diego Hidalgo, founder of different technology companies. and the author of “Anesthesia. Humanity under the technology empire.” The moderator will be Juan Pedro Moreno, former president of Accenture Spain, Portugal and Israel, and executive chairman of WPP in Spain.
Friday, December 2 The event will be opened by two scientists from Alicante with international projection. Francis M. MojicaProfessor of Microbiology at UA and Eduardo FernandezProfessor of Cellular Biology at UMH. Starting at 10:30, it will be the turn of the teams. education part Iñaki Bilbao and Pepe Arcos from Amazon and Apple, respectively, with respective interventions. At 11:30, innovative projects from the UA and UMH Science Parks will be exhibited. And at 1:00 am Alicante native and Artificial Intelligence expert, nuria olive, Science director and co-founder of the ELLIS Alicante Foundation to talk about “Artificial Intelligence for the Social Good”.
The day will conclude with a roundtable on cybersecurity with the heads of the Civil Guard, including Lieutenant General Arturo Espejo.