Area 31 Newsletter
Thursday 1st of October 2015
Dear Area 31 Entrepreneurs and Friends,
In Area 31, as well as Venture Lab team building and training sessions, we're hosting Future Hacks. This hackathon on Internet of Things, coorganized by IBM, IE Business School and Vodafone, will bring together 80+ programmers, designers and business developers. Finally, check out Startup4cities, a competition for smart cities' startups looking for a real city in which to prove their concept.
EVENTS OCT 5TH - OCT 12TH
Opportunities Lab
Monday, October 5th 2015
19:00-22:00
Location: The Valley
The Venture Lab is IE's 5 month startup acceleration program. If you are a designer, programmer, engineer, scientist, marketeer or other who wants to join a startup team or has a great idea to share we want to hear from you. Teams participating in IE's Venture Lab Accelerator must have at least one IE student of Alumn in the team. RSVP emailing carmen.corrais@ie.edu
Venture Lab: Getting Funded
Tuesday, October 6th 2015
19:00-22:00
Wednesday, October 7th 2015
19:00-22:00
Location: The Valley
This is a private session for students selected to participate in IE Business School's Venture Lab Accelerator.
Future Hacks
Friday, October 9th-11th 2015
Location: All Area 31
80 developers, makers, designers and business people will come together at the Future Hacks Hackathon focusing on Internet of Things at Madrid at Area31. It’s 54 intensive hours of hacking and building awesome stuff. And why IoT? Well the new rule for the future is going to be “anything that can be connected, will be connected”. So lets disrupt the future of IoT together… www.futurehacks.co
Registration for this event is now closed.
OPPORTUNITIES
The South Summit
October 7th-October 9th
Las Ventas, Madrid
South Summit is one of the leading startup conferences in Europe aimed to prove to the world the talent, the innovation and the opportunities from the South. This incredible event, organized by Spain Startup in partnership with IE Business School,
gathers Southern Europe and Latam´s top talent. With more than 7.000 attendees, including 3.500 entrepreneurs and 450 investors South Summit has become one of Europe’s most relevant startup up events. Read more and register.
Startup4cities
Deadline :October 19th
FROM OUR BLOG
Women for Resilient Cities Acceleration Program
The World Bank in partnership with IE business School has launched the WE’Resilient Cities, a start-up competition to encourage innovative female-run business solutions to address urban risk in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). In the week from 14 to 18 September, we celebrated the Women Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program for Resilient Cities 7 finalists in a Madrid Bootcamp: IE Campus had been the place to connect with other entrepreneurs, investors and specialized trainers. Read more.
AVAILABILITY OF THE SPACE
- Mon, Oct 5th, 19h-22h Only half of the space will be available for coworking
- Tues, Oct 6th, 19h-22h Only half of the space will be available for coworking
- Wed, Oct 7th, 19h-22h Only half of the space will be available for coworking
- Fri, Oct 9th, 14h- Sunday Oct 11th 20h All Area 31 will be occupied for an event.