Three main blocks for the day:

• Barcelona’s Technology/Deep-Tech Innovation ecosystem at 22@
• Supercomputing, AI and European technological sovereignty at Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)
• Entrepreneurship, investment and leadership at IESE Business School

• Barcelona’s strategy and ambitions to strengthen its position as a European deep-tech hub.
• Role of public policy in supporting innovation, talent and technology-driven growth.

• How Barcelona transformed an industrial district into one of Europe's leading urban innovation hubs.
• Overview of the city's deep-tech, startup and industrial ecosystem.
• Structural drivers behind Barcelona's innovation competitiveness.

• Mediapro: AI and next-generation audiovisual technologies and their real-world applications.
• Multiverse Computing: Quantum-inspired AI, model compression and the journey of a Barcelona-founded deep-tech company.
• i2CAT: Applied research and innovation in AI, 5G/6G, cybersecurity and advanced digital infrastructure.

Interactive discussion on technology transfer, scaling deep tech and Barcelona’s role in Europe’s innovation ecosystem.

• Guided visit through Barcelona's flagship innovation district.
• First-hand view of the companies, research centres and urban transformation shaping the ecosystem.

• Exclusive visit to MareNostrum 5, one of Europe's most powerful supercomputers. • Barcelona's role in AI, high-performance computing and European technological sovereignty.
• How supercomputing accelerates breakthroughs in healthcare, climate, mobility and industry.

• Barcelona’s entrepreneurial ecosystem and its global positioning.
• From innovation to scale: how technology and entrepreneurship connect within the ecosystem.
• Corporate Venture Capital and collaboration between established companies and startups.
• Entrepreneurship through Acquisition and the Search Fund model.
• Interactive discussion with entrepreneurs, investors and IESE faculty.
• Closing masterclass by Prof. Nuria Chinchilla.

Hosted by raising local artist Juliana Plexxo and master printmaker Virgili Barbarà, this session at the iconic Studio46 where legends like Picasso, Miró, and Dalí created masterpieces will explore the interdependence of fine art craftsmanship, and modern technology (AR/VR).

Juliana will show us the history, current projects, and creates a space for little Picasso and Joan Barbarà anecdotes and lots of questions.

LEADers will have the chance to directly get insights on one of the most iconic places for Artists in BArcelona and see impressive body of work.

All of us will have the chance to connect to the Artists and become a new Art Collector on the spot.

Inspirational introduction to IAAC and its role within Barcelona’s innovation ecosystem

Discover how IAAC brings together advanced architecture, digital fabrication, robotics, computational design

and ecological thinking to address the challenges of the built environment.

Understand IAAC’s distinctive education-research-innovation model.

Connect selected projects with wider built-environment challenges.

Observe how ideas become prototypes, components and applications.

Art Directors Club Europe - a place that is known for combining the leading creative talent and creates space and opportunity.

ADCE is now part of The One Club for

Creativity allowing to grow and promote

European creativity beyond the continent. The merger created a new combined community of 9.100 individual and corporate members across 74 countries.

Mercè Segú presents and provides the Introduction into the cosmos of ADCE.

DHub & Materfad- Barcelona's Materials Centre, Fostering Arts and Design Hub Exhibition
LEADers will get the chance to visit and explore an current exhibitions.

Materfad Exclusive Tour with Robert D Thompson, Scientific Director.

Materfad is one of a kind in Europe and the backbone for Product Designers.
“We are the Barcelona Materials Centre, created and driven by the FAD, Fostering Arts and Design.”

“At MATERFAD we work as an observatory of the future, conducting technological research and surveillance focused on innovation, sustainability and creativity through materials”

Born from the international performing arts company La Fura dels Baus, who Revolutionized the Olympics Opening Ceremony 92’

A collision between Humanities, Science, Technology and Society.
Fundacio Epica positions the Cultural and Creative Industries as relevant and necessary in the R+D+i processes

LEAders will get a taste of Humanity and AI and how Fundacio Epica helps to understand this interdependent dynamics and its influence on society in a more tangible and relatable way.

Technology Pitch Session – Presentations of innovative technologies currently being developed by CSIC.

Research Center Tour – Guided visit so that the LEADers can explore the facilities and learn about ongoing projects.

Inventor Matchmaking – Networking sessions between the LEADers and the technology inventors to discuss projects of interest in greater detail.

Presentation: Human-centered co-creation in clinical trials

Speakers: Hannah Tribe (RMIT University) and Maria Gabriela Irrazabal (RMIT University)

Proof of System: How Barcelona Moves Healthcare Innovation From Pilot to Practice.

Why do some validated health solutions reach patients while most stall after the pilot? Following the journey from lab to deployment across four angles — research (CSIC), ecosystem (Barcelona Health Hub), scale-up (InBrain Neuroelectronics, WEF Technology Pioneer 2025), and corporate (AstraZeneca) — this panel explores what separates the innovations that scale from the ones that don't.

Moderator: Andreea Rasoga

Visit & Presentation of the CaixaResearch Institute work.

The CaixaResearch Institute is the first research center in Spain and Portugal dedicated entirely to the study of immunology. Opened in 2026, it is backed by a €100M investment from the “la Caixa” Foundation. LEADers will have the chance to visit the Institute in exclusivity.

Visit & Presentation of the CosmoCaixa Museum work + Interactive Activity for participants.

The CosmoCaixa Museum of Science, European Museum of the Year Award in 2006, is a premier, highly interactive Science museum financed and operated by “la Caixa” Foundation. LEADers will have the opportunity to have a private, guided tour of the museum and a special activity designed for them.