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Meet the technological challenges of large companies

Do you have a disruptive technological solution? Would you like to make it known internationally?

Major corporates and investors will be back at MWC 2023 to participate in the MWC Open Innovation Challenge with a single goal: to find the best innovative solutions to meet their technological challenges.

If you are a company, a technology centre or a startup, this is a great opportunity to offer your technology to large international companies during the main B2B meeting event of MWC.

Choose the business challenges that best match your profile, present your ground-breaking proposal and you will be able to request face-to-face or virtual meetings to find new technology partners. This could be the start of a fruitful friendship full of great projects.

The call to request meetings during MWC is closed.

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What does it offer?
How does it work?
Conditions and applications

What does it offer?

Corporates already know that the best innovation comes from outside. Users, citizens and especially companies and startups are changing the way innovation affects all types of businesses.

The big international companies and investors participating in the MWC Open Innovation Challenge want to integrate the most innovative technology or invest in new technological solutions.

In this way, this B2B event offers the opportunity to a broad range of companies and organizations to meet with corporates to create alliances with new local and international partners.

In the last edition some 2,000 meetings were held with 105 corporates and investors.

ACCIÓ is organizing the MWC Open Innovation Challenge in the framework of MWC 2022 and the activities of the project Enterprise Europe Network, to which ACCIÓ belongs.

How does it work?

Would you like to present your solutions to large companies during MWC 2022? Participate in the MWC Open Innovation Challenge and start preparing your schedule of meetings:

Enter the platform and register your solution.
Review the challenges of the participating corporates and investors.
If your company, technology centre or startup fulfils the conditions for any of the challenges, request a meeting, either virtual or face-to-face, during MWC. You can apply to as many challenges as you think you have solutions. Of course, make sure your solution matches the chosen challenges.
The corporate will review your application. If the solution is attractive for their challenge, it will agree to meet you at MWC Barcelona, either virtually or in person.
Moreover, with the MWC Open Innovation Challenge you can also request meetings with participating companies, startups or technology centres.

Conditions and applications

The MWC Open Innovation Challenge targets innovative startups, SMEs and technology centres from around the world.

Check the terms and conditions applicable to each challenge and apply only to the ones for which you are sure you can meet them. Remember that if you are granted a face-to-face meeting, you must attend MWC Barcelona (from 27 February to 1 March).

Some of the corporate challenges

Astrazeneca. Open in a new window.

Astrazeneca is looking for novel ways to collect data on what their equipment and operations are consuming and looking for bigger ideas than smart metering – is it sensing / computer vision / machine learning on equipment log data or something completely disruptive.
EDF-Electricité de France. Open in a new window.

EDF is looking for innovative IoT solutions for the energy sector and they are also interest in solutions for the valorisation of construction project data (AI that analyses documents; manufacturing, construction site management, progress measurement).
Grupo Planeta. Open in a new window.

Grupo Planeta is looking for new forms of content consumption in entertainment, education and information.
IKEA. Open in a new window.

IKEA wants to extend their core products with services that cater for life at home needs, powered by a platform and an ecosystem. To further develop a service offer which adds value to the life at home of their customers, they want to learn form already existing platforms / players in life at home services.
Samsung. Open in a new window.

Samsung Mobile is looking for new technologies that can add unique and innovative features to their devices such as mobile phones, smartwatches, earbuds and potential future products such as AR glasses.
Vestel. Open in a new window.

Vestel is looking for smart home energy storage technologies to help homes end users with increasing energy bills and moving towards a sustainable future.