From 15-18^th June was held in Paris Viva Technology, an international trade fair dedicated to technological innovation and startups.

A delegation of 7 Catalan companies visited the fair to discover the innovation ecosystem of the Paris region and to foster links between Catalan and French actors and Roca Group was one of them.

During our visit, we exchanged with the Open-innovation Managers of TotalEnergies, EDF, Orange, L’Oréal, RATP Dev, Dassault Systèmes and Software République. We also visited STATION F, the world’s largest start-up campus, and RaiseLab, a hybrid space designed to foster innovation and collaboration between start-ups and large corporations.

The mission was organised by ACCIÓ and the Paris office of Catalonia Trade & Investment.

From June 8th to 10th our team was at South Summit to discover start-ups that may work with Roca and bring innovative ideas that enrich our services and/or processes.

Specifically, our colleagues Daniel Valverde and Enrique Dupuy de Lome were on the jury on June 8th in the start-up pitch sessions that will take place in the Next Big Thing stage in the Energy Transition & Sustainability and Industry 4.0 tracks respectively.

On Thursday June 9^th, Frank Gómez, from the Digital Transformation team took the floor as speaker in the panel “Cognitive Cities: Beyond Smart” in the Playground Stage. The panel where Frank contributed talked about the power of data and its impact on cities, mobility, and homes and how the citizen is affected and what is the value it brings.  Mercè Tell was on the same day part of the jury of the Final Challenges – City XXI within the 15th edition of the EmprendeXXI Awards of Caixa DayOne.

You may check Franks’ contribution to the panel in this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEzerl0KYVs&list=PLUb1bJ-vHsxC3IWFN4kXvSdPMhPCW5wt0&index=8&t=19s