TRADE SHOWS
        
        
          38 | 39
        
        
          Bizbarcelona
        
        
          Solutions for SME and Entrepreneurs
        
        
          05-06/June
        
        
          Montjuïc. 3rd event
        
        
          Over two intense days, Bizbarcelona presented
        
        
          its proposals to accelerate business growth and
        
        
          the creation of new businesses. This show for
        
        
          SMEs, self-employed workers and entrepreneurs
        
        
          hosted around 200 conferences, more than
        
        
          700 counselling sessions and 15 networking
        
        
          spaces. Worthy of mention was the financing
        
        
          market, which facilitated 1,800 meetings between
        
        
          entrepreneurs and representatives of investment
        
        
          entities with a credit potential of almost 100
        
        
          million euros.
        
        
          The show was structured around five
        
        
          categories: finance and business strategy; 2.0
        
        
          communication and customer services; sales and
        
        
          internationalisation; new business opportunities
        
        
          and trends; and product innovation and services.
        
        
          There was a commercial area with companies
        
        
          related to Internet, hosting and social networking,
        
        
          phone services, consulting and training, tax and
        
        
          employment advisory services, marketing, design,
        
        
          management tools and franchises.
        
        
          SMEs were the protagonists of this year’s
        
        
          event, which offered them counselling on how to
        
        
          grow, innovate, internationalise and find funding.
        
        
          New to the show were two parallel events:
        
        
          Failcon Spain, hosting conferences meant
        
        
          to defuse the experience of business failure,
        
        
          and the San Francisco-Barcelona Conference,
        
        
          where California entrepreneurs and business
        
        
          owners who are leaders of the global market gave
        
        
          the clues to access the funding given by Silicon
        
        
          Valley investors.
        
        
          More tan 150 entities take part in
        
        
          Bizbarcelona, promoting business culture and
        
        
          entrepreneurship, such as Barcelona’s City
        
        
          Council, the Government of Catalonia, «la Caixa»,
        
        
          Diputació de Barcelona and the Chamber
        
        
          of Commerce.
        
        
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          1,800
        
        
          meetings
        
        
          AREA
        
        
          28,770 m
        
        
          2
        
        
          EXHIBITORS
        
        
          99
        
        
          TYPE
        
        
          Professional and public
        
        
          ACTIVITIES
        
        
          Conferences, counselling
        
        
          sessions, networking
        
        
          and funding, Conecta VIP,
        
        
          VideoPitch, Failcon Spain,
        
        
          Bizfranquicias and retail,
        
        
          Agents&Brokers, Open
        
        
          Innovation Marketplace