Organized by Fira de Barcelona and promoted by the Barcelona City Council through Barcelona Activa, the Barcelona Provincial Council, Pimec, and the Chamber of Commerce, Bizbarcelona 2025 will take place on October 15 and 16 at the Montjuïc exhibition center. The event is presented as the perfect occasion for SMEs, businesses, and small self-employed businesses to find different arguments and ideas that allow them to gain renewed momentum. With this objective, the fair, which reaches its fifteenth edition, will offer a complete range of presentations in which experts in various fields will share success recipes, explanations of new tools, processes, and inspiring business best practices.
The fair's program combines a more strategic vision, on major topics such as leadership or team management, with a more micro focus centered on the daily problems that arise when carrying out a business activity. A mix that, approached from a very practical perspective, seeks to offer attendees some keys to help them create or refine their roadmaps and, in this way, ensure sustainable and sustained growth of their projects.
How to integrate technologies
Specifically, the conferences will address issues such as the digital transformation of businesses, with a special focus on the integration ofartificial intelligencein the operations of companies for process automation. In this same framework, Bizbarcelona will also offer sessions on the incorporation of specialized talent in new technologies.In addition to the technological aspect, the fair will also address concerns affecting business management, strategy, sales, communication, and financing. In this regard, the program includes presentations on buying and selling companies; brand reputation; commercial excellence, marketing and social networks, or support resources for SMEs, with special attention to both available aid and financial tools.
These presentations will be given by top-level professionals, including: Jordi Urbea, vice president and CEO of the Ogilvy advertising agency; Mònica Mendoza, expert in commercial strategy, emotional intelligence, and customer acquisition; Laura Sallent, expert in female leadership; Jordi Reche, consultant specializing in non-verbal language; Juanita Acevedo, expert in personal branding with values; Alba Guzmán, consultant in digital transformation; Ramon Montanera, expert in social networks; Selva Orejón, reference in cybersecurity and digital reputation; Daniel Resnich, specialist in branding and creativity; Joan Riera, mentor of emerging companies; or David Millet, expert in marketing.
Workshops and networking activities
Bizbarcelona will complete its informative menu with 45 workshops of an eminently practical nature in areas coinciding with the themes addressed in the conferences and that affect the day-to-day of businesses. Techniques can be learned to get more performance from teams, strengthen leadership, communicate better with clients, or use AI. There will also be other workshops related to themarketingdigital, social media, electronic invoicing, brand protection, financial planning, leadership improvement or stress management orburnoutlaboral.In parallel, Bizbarcelona will once again promote professional connection in a dozen networking activities designed to generate concrete collaborations. Among them, there will be sessions focused on relational marketing to amplify the quality of professional contacts; spaces to create multi-sector alliances; dynamics that stimulate emotional and personal connection in a digital environment, and activities that promote inclusion and diversity as axes of business collaboration. The Official College of Commercial Agents of Barcelona (COACB), the Intercollegiate Association, the Barcelona Chamber of Commerce and Pimec are some of the entities organizing these spaces.
Personalized advice
Likewise, the fair will have a space forpersonalized advice with more than 50 expert people, who will analyze each specific case to propose strategies that help develop new business ideas or boost existing projects. The orientation sessions cover key areas such as communication andmarketing, legal aspects,e-commerce, logistics and distribution, social and solidarity economy, financing, internationalization and sustainability.As for the exhibition area, it will bring together 75 companies and entities that will present their products and services, also focused on business management and acceleration. The proposals range from all types of digital solutions to tax, legal or labor advice, digital marketing agencies, coworking spaces, training and business transfer. The programs, tools and resources offered by professional associations and those of the institutions and entities that promote the local economy and are the main promoters of the event will also be presented.
Some of the exhibiting firms are Volcanic (web development); Manglar Consulting (Strategic Innovation); Raiola Networks (web hosting services); Odoo ERP (open source business management applications); Groupmee (SABE consulting); Tecnihand (the office to the cloud for SMEs); Gecko Studio (graphic design and branding); Dianatool (content management with AI), Talenom (accounting and tax services); UVTEAM España (outsourcing services for SMEs); Timeneos (time control system); Billivo (electronic invoicing app); ESIC (training in marketing and business) or Loft 153 (coworking spaces).
Coincidence with the Employment Fair
This year, Bizbarcelona will once again coincide with the Employment Fair, also organized by Fira de Barcelona and promoted by the Barcelona City Council through Barcelona Activa, focused on promoting quality employment. This other event, with independent entry and content, will offer 140 activities, among workshops, conferences, demonstrations, and personalized guidance to boost professional careers, facilitate a job change, and promote labor insertion at any age range, with special attention to young people seeking their first job and the group of unemployed over 45 years old.As a novelty, the Employment Fair will reinforce spaces aimed at connecting job seekers with job opportunities. The event premieres a stand area with twenty companies in need of incorporating talent, which will publicize specific job offers and the characteristics of the profiles they need. In addition, Barcelona Activa will organize five sectoral marketplaces, recruitment spaces where companies with open selection processes and candidates can hold brief interviews. Furthermore, the guest fair Sí, i millor, dedicated to the labor inclusion of people with disabilities, will facilitate express interviews with another twenty companies, foundations, and special employment centers.
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