21 February 2025
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All the content from Tech Spirit Barcelona: Health Edition 2025
21 February 2025
Tech Spirit Barcelona

In the second edition of Tech Spirit Barcelona: Health Edition, medical professionals, health technologists, pharmaceutical leaders, and entrepreneurs gathered at the Llotja de Mar during the Barcelona Innovation Health Week organized by Biocat. The sessions from the event are now available.
- Turning the demographic tide: How can the world respond to aging societies and falling fertility | Marc Canals (โชMcKinseyโฌ & Company ) discusses the issue of demographic change, focusing on declining fertility rates and aging populations and the consequences that will happen: depopulation and shifts in economic growth. The talk serves as a call to action for governments, businesses, and communities to innovate and adapt in response to these demographic challenges.
- Advances in Telemedicine | Nรบria Abdรณn (โชFundaciรณ Tic Salut), Dr. Jesรบs Caballero (Hospital Arnau de Vilanova โ Lleidaโฌ ) i Xavier Escayola (โชSant Joan de Dรฉu), moderats per Xavier Garcia (BetterCare), se centren en lโevolucio del model assistencial sanitari. Tambรฉ es fa una crida a la colยทlaboraciรณ entre el sector de la salut, la tecnologia i la ciutadania per adoptar noves solucions tecnolรฒgiques.
- Healthcare Startup Pitches
- Healthcare Pitches: RobSurgical | Pitching de RobSurgical per Jaume Amat, startup que ha desenvolupat el Bitrack System, un sistema robรฒtic que permet fer cirugia hรญbrida.
- Healthcare Pitches: Nostrum Biodiscovery | Alexis Molina, from โชNostrum Biodiscoveryโฌ, shares their approach to drug discovery and biotechnology. The presentation focuses on proteins, emphasizing the need to understand their structures to identify drug binding sites effectively.
- Healthcare Pitches: Able Human Motion | Alfons Carnicero from โชAble Human Motionโฌ takes the stage to share how they developed their exoskeleton and their mission to make it accessible to all. The pitch wraps up with a live demo of the product.
- Google Agents: The next frontier in Healthcare and Life Sciences | Lucrezia Noli from Google demonstrates how AI agents can transform the healthcare sector. She focuses on the importance of grounding them in reliable data to minimize hallucinations. The session concludes with a live demo of Agent Space, a platform particularly beneficial for tasks like clinical trials and regulatory compliance in the healthcare sector.
- Generative AI in health, the Spanish market demand | Javier Perdices de AWS explica cรณmo la inteligencia artificial generativa puede transformar el sector salud, con un enfoque especial en el mercado espaรฑol. El 2025 serรก el aรฑo de la adopciรณn de la IA, impulsando avances como la automatizaciรณn en la confirmaciรณn de citas mรฉdicas, la mejora de la documentaciรณn clรญnica y un acceso mรกs รกgil a guรญas mรฉdicas actualizadas. Sin embargo, estos avances tambiรฉn traerรกn consigo desafรญos clave, como garantizar la calidad de los datos y el cumplimiento de la normativa.
- Nestlรฉ Health Strategy | Fabrizio Monaco, from Nestlรฉ shared insights into their โGood for Youโ health strategy, focused on delivering nutritious, tasty, and affordable food while promoting sustainability. Nestlรฉ uses technology, including data analytics and AI, to optimize product development, improve consumer understanding, and encourage healthier habits.
- Collaborative Innovation in Health for Impact on Results| En un debat sobre la colยทlaboraciรณ com a motor de la innovaciรณ, Roc Fages (CSAPG) Meritxell Centeno (Fundaciรณ Hospitalร ries de Sant Boi), Marc Serra (Robopedics) i Marc Ramis (Montana Impact Fund) han compartit la seva experiรจncia. Malgrat provenir dโร mbits diferents dins del sector salut, tots coincideixen en una idea clau: activar la innovaciรณ passa per colยทlaborar i provar noves solucions en diversos centres aporta un gran valor, ja que es viuen realitats diferents. Una sessiรณ moderada per Felip Miralles (Eurecat).
- Translating Draghi Report into Health Code | Montse Daban (Biocat) Carmen Rios (Doctomatic) and Cecilia Edebo ( Sahlgrenska Science Park) discuss the limited presence of the healthcare industry in the Draghi Report. They also explore how regulations in Europe compare to those in other regions, such as the United States and China.
- Investment trends in health | En un panel liderado por Antonio Herce (Inveready) y Daniel Oliver (Capital Cell) se analizรณ la evoluciรณn del sector biotecnolรณgico en Barcelona, destacando el creciente flujo de inversiรณn y la madurez que estรก alcanzando el ecosistema. Destacan la importancia de la transferencia tecnolรณgica y la colaboraciรณn, asรญ como el papel fundamental del capital riesgo en la financiaciรณn de la innovaciรณn. Tambiรฉn se centran en los mecanismos de captaciรณn de fondos. Panel moderado por Aleix Casals (AWS)
- Adoption of Innovation within the Healthcare System: First Results of The Catalan Health System Innovation Access Program (PASS) | Robert Fabregas (Biocat) i Ramon Maspons (Aquas) repassen lโInforme de la BioRegiรณ 2024 i detallen el funcionament del Programa dโAccรฉs de la Innovaciรณ al Sistema de Salut de Catalunya (PASS)
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