More than 2,200 attendees participated in the thirteenth edition of the BDigital Global Congress, a reference in Spain to know the advances of the Digital Society and the uses of Information Technology and Communication (ICT).
The congress was supported by Generalitat de Catalunya, Ajuntament de Barcelona, ‘La Caixa’, Abertis, Capgemini, HP, Indra, Telefónica, Fujitsu, Elogia, Lavinia, CTecno, Acens, IBM, Tecnocom and FECyT, and focused on the concept of Smart World, analyzing how digital technologies are becoming a hub to transform cities, medicine and health care and to how they are providing new opportunities for business and professionals in the field of social networks
The sessions was grouped around three thematic blocks:
Smart Cities
This set of topics dealt with all ICT initiatives in line with “Green IT” energy efficiency and the optimization of existing processes in cities, with the aim of improving people’s experiences, minimizing environmental impact and maximizing economic viability. Some of the topics analysed in the context of the Smart Cities were: sustainability, energy, green vehicles, smart buildings, multimodal mobility, e-government, etc.
Smart Health
The path to predictive telemedicine was the starting point for this debate about technological innovations in the world of e-health and the business models that will make it possible. Along the day, the main stakeholders involved, such as public and private healthcare providers, the industry, healthcare professionals, researchers, standardising organisations and – of course – patients, showed the revolutionary progress recently made in the field and the major obstacles that we should face to implement it on a massive scale.
Smart Media
Users have seized power definitively and become essential, self-organised creators of the social ecosystem on the Internet. With this scenario, showed how business and technology are interrelated in a way never seen before, creating trends, new concepts and constant innovation. The business world has followed this current, creating a new social reality.
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