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The BDigital Global Congress is the standard congress on breakthroughs in information and communication technologies (ICT) and their business, technological and social applications.
The objectives of the congress are to contribute to developing the sector TIC as an engine economic of the country, to foster the entrepreneurial interest in incorporating the digital technologies, and to spread as well as promote its use in the social area.
The Future Internet
The BDigital Global Congress is a reflection to the digital world and a benchmark in the dissemination and promotion of trends and technological advances. The Congress is the meeting point where large tractors technology services put in question the market needs and share solutions and opportunities with companies offering ICT challenges.
This year's Edition was dedicated to the Future Internet, one of the priority investigation lines considered by the Commission, which will affect the development of intelligent infrastructure, energy networks, new systems of transport and mobility and health care, among others.
The Congress was organized in 16 sessions and was discussed topics related to this strategy: e-Health, the security of Cloud Computing, the ICT application in energy efficiency and the building and the Cities Smart environments. Each of the sessions deepened in a particular subject and had the presence of national and international experts.
The magisterial conference pronounced by the Dr. Michio Kaku, which opened the Congress, awaked notable interest between the attendances. Kaku, Professor of Theoretical Physic of the University of New York and future trends expert, addressed the total interconnection of the human with Internet through the chips, a technology that, in a few years, will be integrated in all around us, both objects as people. According to Kaku, this emerging technologies will change we form of life and work.
As each edition, the Congress had the presence of national and international speakers, as Jésper Tégner, Director of Computacional Medicina Unity of the Karolinska Institute; Charles Cooney, Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at Deshpande Center; Jan Annerstedt, Professor at Copenhagen Business School, & Sènior Advisor; Karl Koster, Executive Director of the Corporative Relations Office of the MIT-ILP; Jim Reavis, Executive Director of CSA-Cloud Computing Alliance.
In the Congress framework, also delivered the award BDigital to Digital innovation and the “Barcelona SmartCity” International Award to the best use of ICT, chosen among a total of 150 received nominations projects.