DFactory Barcelona Challenge: Scale Your Industrial Tech at the Gateway to Industry 4.0

General objective:

Transform the Zona Franca Industrial Estate into an industrial innovation hub, attracting disruptive technologies that boost District 4.0.

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Challenge Description:

DFactory Barcelona is looking for companies developing disruptive industrial technologies related to Industry 4.0 that want to validate, scale, and demonstrate within a real application.

This challenge offers access to a dynamic innovation ecosystem where companies can collaborate in the DFactory and its phase II with strategic partners, test their technologies, and contribute to the digital transformation of the Europe’s top Industry 4.0 innovation hub.

Expected Results /Impact:

Selected companies are expected to deploy their solutions in real industrial settings within the hub, generating measurable impact in efficiency, sustainability, and digitalization. The challenge also aims to foster strategic collaborations, open new market opportunities, and accelerate the growth of participating technologies.

Benefits of settling in our ecosystem:

1. Multifunctional spaces: Not only offices, but also showrooms and laboratories that allow ideas and prototypes to be scaled in an environment prepared for innovation.

2. Collaborative technological environment: Location in a business ecosystem focused on technology and industry 4.0, which favors the generation of synergies and strategic collaborations.

3. Visibility and promotion: Promotion and positioning that increase the visibility of the company through the Consorci's own events (SIL, BNEW, BWAW) and communications in

   media such as La Vanguardia

4. Strategic location in Barcelona: Establish yourself in a city internationally recognized for its commitment to innovation, ideal for doing business and expanding globally.

Companies we are looking for:

• Disruptive technologies linked to Industry 4.0.

• Companies that want to validate, scale, and demonstrate their ideas and solutions in real-world environments.

• Companies seek to collaborate in an open innovation ecosystem with strategic partners.

• National companies that want to promote themselves.

• International companies that are interested in expanding in Europe.

• Technologies that generate an impact on efficiency, sustainability and digitalisation.

• Main sectors of interest: Industrial automation, automotive, mobility, healthtech & biotech, aviation, Greentech & circular economy.

Tecnologies sought:

• OT, Nanotechnology, 3D scanning, Sensors. 360 Technology, Environmental data, Decarbonization, 3D printing, Cybersecurity, Process optimization, Robotics, Artificial intelligence, Resource Mapping, Augmented and virtual reality