This year’s program focuses on High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) and will also explore emerging research areas such as Quantum Computing. The “HPC Computer Architectures for AI and Dedicated Applications”, will take place from 20-24 July in Barcelona, Spain, hosted by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS) and the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC).

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Acció is organizing the eighth edition of Exponential Day, which will bring together experts from around the world in the fields of AI and agent AI. During the day, practical sessions will help you understand what is changing and how to prepare to take advantage of the opportunities of this new stage of artificial intelligence. There will also be a networking space, where you can find real solutions related to AI.

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The FAIR Data Fair is the meeting point for experts, professionals and institutions in Catalonia interested in promoting the management and reuse of data according to the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable). This is the fourth edition of the Fair, an event organized by the Consortium of University Services of Catalonia (CSUC).

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The RISC-V Summit Europe is the premier event that connects the European movers and shakers – from industry, government, research, academia and ecosystem support – that are building the future of innovation on RISC-V. This edition takes place in Bologna from Monday 8th to Thursday 11th June, 2026, with side events on Friday 12th. X4HPC will be there with our RISC-V Technology Portfolio.

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The Health Revolution Congress it’s the largest European summit in digital health, where global startups & stakeholders join forces in the beautiful city of Barcelona, at Recinte Modernista de Sant Pau. OneCareAI, one of the X4HPC spin-offs, will be showing its innovative solutions.

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Advanced Factories is the leading event for automation, industrial robotics, and Industry 4.0, and also hosts the largest European Congress on advanced and digital industry. It will take place from May 5 to 7, 2026, at Fira Barcelona – Gran Via.

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Next Monday, March 23, the X4HPC network will hold its kick-off event to officially launch the network’s new phase. The event will take place in the auditorium of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center.

Check out how was the event and photo gallery here!

Kick-Off Session of the R&D&I Transfer Networks, 2026-2028 edition, organized by the General Directorate of Transfer and Knowledge Society, of the Department of Research and Universities of the Generalitat de Catalunya.

Check out the news piece and photo gallery here!

The Tech Spirit Barcelona Fair will be held on December 10-11th at Llotja de Mar, Barcelona Tech Spirit Barcelona. The Tech Barcelona Association structures and promotes the digital and technological ecosystem of the city, connecting and making emerging companies visible; catalyzing innovation processes with corporations; and encouraging entrepreneurship.

Check out the news piece and photo gallery here!

Presentation of the MVPs.

At this link you can watch a video wrap up of the 2025 edition of the Innovation Journey!

CDTI, the Science Technology Platform INDUCIENCIA and the Spanish Science Industry Association INEUSTAR, organize Big Science Industry Forum Spain 2025 (BSIFS2025), the first Spanish Big Science industry forum.

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Preparing for the final session: The Pitch: Investors, Partners, Clients Recap.

Funding strategies: public vs. private. Subsidies and grants: the first resources.

Slush Helsinki is a highly exclusive event and the leading technology conference in Northern Europe. Each year it brings together around 5,000 startups, 3,000 investors, 200 researchers, and 2,500 professional visitors from the international entrepreneurship ecosystem. BSC will be present with Qilimanjaro through ACCIÓ.

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The SC25, the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, takes place from the 16th to 21 of November 2025 in St.Louis.

BSC will present the new Digital RISC V catalog.

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Skillset diagnostic: who am i as a leader? Core team – project management.

Structures and legal formulas: patents, licenses, BSC model shareholders agreements.

The Barcelona Deep Tech Summit, celebrated on November 4th , 5th and 6th, will be the meeting place for startups and spin-offs, researchers, investors and corporations to find revolutionary solutions to the most complex global problems. The epicenter of leading-edge technology and the Deep Tech scientific and entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Check out the news piece and the event photo gallery here!

The Smart City Expo World Congress is the world’s biggest and most influential event on urban innovation. Celebrated from the 4th to the 6th of November 2025 in Barcelona, leaders from the most innovative companies, governments and organizations are connected to move cities towards a better future. BSC will be present with several projects as Caliope, Impetus4Change, RES5, ASCENDER, MePreCiSa, and vCity.

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Lean startup methodology. Business model canvas: strategy and planning value proposition. B2B vs. B2C.

Starting with a problem we want to solve in mind, we will uncover market needs and refine the ideas to create a solid value proposition using the NABC methodology and the Business Model Canvas

The 11th AI Congress will take place on October 22 and 23, 2025, at the L’illa Auditorium in Barcelona, ​​in an in-person format only. The conference will feature a talk on the track “When AI Adds Value: Inspiring Cases” by OneCareAI.

https://aicongress.barcelona/es/

BIOSPAIN is the largest biotech event organized by a national bioindustry association in Europe and one of the largest in the world by the number of one-to-one meetings and companies participating. It will take place from October 7 to 9, 2025, at Fira de Barcelona.

https://biospain.com/

We are pleased to invite you to the X4HPC Annual Conference, which will take place on Monday, October 6, 2025, at Pier07, Barcelona. This key event will bring together the main stakeholders of Catalonia’s R+D+I ecosystem in high-performance computing (HPC) to review the first three years of the X4HPC Network and launch the Innovation Journey 2025, a new cycle of activities to foster collaboration, technology transfer, and innovation.

Find out how the event went, here!

The BSC Connects program aims to bring the knowledge and technology developed at BSC closer to companies, helping them transform their businesses with innovative solutions and prepare for future technological challenges.

Watch the event photo gallery, here!

The Exponential Day 2025 poses a fundamental challenge: how to harness the potential of data and AI in businesses. How companies can cross the threshold of change and monetize knowledge, leverage artificial intelligence, and transform their business models to generate sustainable competitive advantages.

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Join NVIDIA experts and leading European model builders for a live webinar on building, evaluating, and scaling multilingual large language models (LLMs). Jens Grivolla, Senior Research Engineer at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, will participate as a speaker in the webinar.

The Mobile World Congress Fair is coming again to Barcelona from March 3 to 6, 2025 with the collaboration of 4YFN, with the aim of connecting startups. The largest and most influential connectivity event in the world.

Stay tuned for the full agenda and updates on our activities. https://bsc.es/mwc25

The HiPEAC conference is the premier European forum for experts in computer architecture, programming models, compilers and operating systems for general-purpose, embedded and cyber-physical systems. The HiPEAC 2025 conference will take place in Barcelona, Spain. Associated workshops, tutorials, special sessions, several large poster session and an industrial exhibition will run in parallel with the conference.

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The Tech Spirit Barcelona Fair will be held on December 12-13th at Llotja de Mar, Barcelona Tech Spirit Barcelona. The Tech Barcelona Association structures and promotes the digital and technological ecosystem of the city, connecting and making emerging companies visible; catalyzing innovation processes with corporations; and encouraging entrepreneurship.

https://techspirit.barcelona/

The SC24, the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, takes place from the 17th to 22 of November 2024 in Atlanta.

www.sc24.supercomputing.org

Born in Stockholm in 2019, Impact/Week is an annual summit dedicated to defining the critical problems of our time and enabling solutions to them. On November 6-7 2024, will gather 1000+ of the world’s top founders, investors, business leaders and policymakers, for Impact/Week #5.

www.norrsken.org/impactweek

The Smart City Expo World Congress is the world’s biggest and most influential event on urban innovation. Celebrated from the 5th to the 7th of November 2024 in Barcelona, leaders from the most innovative companies, governments and organizations are connected to move cities towards a better future.

www.smartcityexpo.com

The Barcelona Deep Tech Summit, celebrated on November 5th , 6th and 7th, will be the meeting place for startups and spin-offs, researchers, investors and corporations to find revolutionary solutions to the most complex global problems. The epicenter of leading-edge technology and the Deep Tech scientific and entrepreneurial ecosystem.

On October 22, the General Assembly of the X4HPC Network will be held, from 10:00 to 1:00, in the BSC.

Find out how the event went, here!

On October 9 and 10, 2024, the 10th edition of the AI & Big Data Congress organized by CIDAI and Eurecat will be held at the AXA Auditorium in Barcelona, within the framework of the Artificial Intelligence Strategy of Catalonia: Catalonia.AI

AI & Big Data Congress will present trends and best practices of pioneering companies, new technological developments and their application and success stories explained in detail.

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The RISC-V Summit Europe is the premier event that connects the European movers and shakers – from industry, government, research, academia and ecosystem support – that are building the future of innovation on RISC-V.

The “Indústria del Coneixement” Program, promoted by the Department of Research and Universities of the Government of Catalonia, aims to boost an economy based on knowledge by incentivizing the transfer of research results from various knowledge generation centers within the Catalan system of science and innovation.

The Knowledge Industry Programme

The Barcelona Supercomputing Center and the X4HPC will attend IOT Solutions World Congress 2024, in Barcelona, from May 21 to 23, 2024. 

As X4HPC and BSC we will also have our own stand: Stand 5 in the Government of Catalonia pavilion: Gran Via, Hall 1, Level 0, Street D, Stand 80.

IOT Solutions World Congress 2024

Advanced Factories Congress will be held on April 9-11th at Fira de Barcelona – Gran Via. Advanced Factories is the annual meeting of industry leaders. Since 2017, year after year, this event has established itself as the industrial trade show where the latest solutions on industrial automation systems, robotics, industrial software, artificial intelligence, artificial vision and virtual simulation solutions, Big Data, IoT, cybersecurity, Industrial Cloud Computing, Machine Learning and all technologies 4.0 associated with digital manufacturing are showcased.

www.advancedfactories.com

On March 20, 21 and 22, the Transfer 2024 Fair will be held to connect the national innovation ecosystem with the global stage. The thirteenth edition of the fair will take place in Malaga, Spain, with the aim of sharing scientific and technological knowledge, connecting Spanish R&D&I with the global scope and linking science and business.

The Mobile World Congress Fair is coming again to Barcelona from February 26 to 29, 2024 with the collaboration of 4YFN, with the aim of connecting startups. The largest and most influential connectivity event in the world.

The 13th of December will be the Demo Day closing of the program Innovation Journey. We will gather to celebrate weeks of dedication and hard work with a final presentation of the projects. A selected jury will provide feedback to each team to help you grow further in your entrepreneurial journey, and we will end with the announcement of the pitch competition winners. Join us for the final showdown!

Watch a video summary of the event, here! And the videos of Innovation Journey Pitch Competition, here!

The 16th of November from 15:30h to 17:00h at the BSC Auditorium will be held the Investors day of the Innovation Journey, a training program in technology that aims to promote entrepreneurship among BSC-CNS and X4HPC researchers. We will delve into the musts of funding strategies, learning about the different public and private financing options, and how to apply these concepts to your unique research ideas. In the afternoon, you’ll be able to get insights from actual investors. The round table will include:

• Francisco Badia, Managing Partner at Grow Venture Partners
• Arnau Segura, Investment Manager at Banc Sabadell
• Eduardo Salvo, Partner at Antai Ventures
• Christophe Primault, Partner at Elaia Ventures

The 9th of November from 15:00 to 17:00h at the BSC Auditorium will be held the Spinoff day of the Innovation Journey, a training program in technology that aims to promote entrepreneurship among BSC-CNS and X4HPC researchers. We’ll teach you all the management skills a good CEO should master and the art of building high-performing teams. During the afternoon, we will hear real stories of BSC Spin-offs from previous editions. Have you ever wondered how are Spin-offs developing BSC technologies inside their companies? Curious about the incredible possibilities that lie ahead when technologies developed within your own institution extend beyond the realms of academic research? Join us and you will find the answer to those questions. If you would like to attend the session, please register here.

“Artificial Intelligence“, an exhibition co-produced by the CCCB and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center – Centro Nacional de Supercomputació (BSC-CNS), is inaugurated, based on an original traveling exhibition curated and organized by the Barbican Center in London in 2019. The exhibition will be open until March 17, 2024.

The X4HPC network attended the Deep Tech Jungla, an event that fosters a rainforest entrepreneurial ecosystem of Barcelona, emphasizing innovation in the area of Deep Tech through collaboration, diversity, and trust. It is inspired by the metaphor of a rainforest, promoting the idea that a thriving startup environment thrives on the diverse interactions between various stakeholders.

The Innovation Journey is a technology transfer training program designed and designed for BSC and X4HPC researchers who wish to acquire the tools to bring their technologies to the market. The 2023 edition will take place from October 19th to November 30th with the aim of promoting entrepreneurship among researchers.

On September 12 at 10:00 a.m. at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, the event Promotional day Supercomputing for Business will take place, which has been organized in collaboration with the Center for Centro de Competencias Nacionales en Supercomputación (EuroCC) and the Digital Innovation Hub de Catalunya (DIH4CAT)

During the informative session, use cases will be presented by companies that benefit from the use of supercomputing as a work tool.

The X4HPC Network has opened a new call for Valorisation studies 2023 developed by expert suppliers in the field, for all members of the network. The call offers optional support at no cost to research groups aiming to transfer their technologies or launch their spinoffs and can cover studies such as: market studies, industrialisation plans, legal assessment, mentoring, business plans or public financing plans.

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