25th January 2023
The 9th annual edition of 4YFN will take place from 27 February to 2 March in Barcelona, Spain. It is a start-up event of the world’s largest exhibition for the mobile industry, GSMA MWC. They aim to support start-ups, investors and companies to connect and launch new business ventures.
4YFN offers curated programmes focused on start-ups and innovation in high-growth verticals and strategic areas. These programmes include exhibition and pitching sessions, conference content and networking activities to connect start-ups with industry leaders and innovators.
This year, EIT Health will be present at the shared booth with EIT Food, EIT Urban Mobility and EIT Digital to support and engage with start-ups at the event. Zara Pons, Collaboration Lead at EIT Health Scandinavia, will also be speaking at Digital Health & Wellness Summit organised within 4YFN, with the overarching theme “Connecting needs & solutions globally for an emerging digital health & wellness market”. Zara will be speaking in the session “Skills: What skills do we need for digital health at scale? ” on Tuesday, 28 February, from 12:10 to 12:40 CET.
Ángeles Barrios, Public Affairs & Stakeholder Relations Lead at EIT Health Spain, will participate in the round table Digital Health: Transforming technology in value-based solutions in health, on the transformative possibilities of digital health solutions in the treatment of some pathologies and the challenges in the evaluation, validation and access to the health portfolio of these digital solutions. It will take place on 1 March, at the Discovery Lab Floor 1 at 10.50h.
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