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Madrid, October 28. The second edition of the Madrid Tech Show has exceeded all expectations, reaching 12,644 IT professional visitors on the two days of the fair, 70% more than in 2021. C-level managers and experts in cloud, cybersecurity, big data, AI, centers of data, e-commerce and digital marketing have attended the reference appointment for the professional IT sector after registering more than 21,000 requests for assistance.
Of the more than 12,000 attendees, one in three, that is, 4,081 visitors attended with the category of VIPs (CTOs, CIOs, CDOs, CISOS, Operations and Infrastructure Directors, Digital Directors as well as Directors of Digital Marketing and eCommerce of the main state and international companies).
The event was attended by the deputy mayor of the Madrid City Council, Begoña Villacís, who opened Madrid Tech Show 2022, while the Deputy Minister of Local Administration and Digitization of the Community of Madrid, José Antonio Sánchez, was in charge of the institutional closing of the event. Institutional representatives have also participated such as; Fernando de Pablo, General Director of the Digital Office of the Madrid City Council; Miguel Ángel Redondo, delegate of Economy, Innovation and Employment of the Madrid City Council or Ángel Niño, Councilor in Madrid delegate of the Area of Innovation and Entrepreneurship of the Madrid City Council, among others.
The general director of CloserStill Media Spain, Agustín Torres, has celebrated the success of the fair, which has exceeded all expectations. “We are delighted with the great reception that this professional event has had, in which the most cutting-edge IT news and strategies are disclosed. Starting tomorrow we will start working on the Madrid Tech Show 2023, which has already become a reference fair for the sector", he maintained, while the director of the Tech Portfolio of CloserStill Media Spain, Simon Blazeby, pointed out that " With a 70% increase in unique visitors, a very good ratio of VIPs and very good quality conferences, there is a very high rate of satisfaction among the fair's participants, which has made it easier for 77% of the exhibition space to be pre-booked. for the next edition. In 2023 we will increase the exhibition space to 2 pavilions”.
Participation of the main technological players and business leaders
All attendees have been able to see in first person all the news of the more than 300 exhibiting companies, leaders in the IT sector, which have had a stand at the fair. Companies like IBM, headline sponsor of the Madrid Tech Show, or AWS, lead sponsor. Other major sponsors include Huawei, Microsoft, Prestashop, Google, Hubo, IBEXA, Legrand, Schneider Electric, Cloudera, Pue, HP, Evolutio, Keepler Data Tech, Denodo, Incentro, Darktrace, One Trust, Checkout, SAP, Publicis Group , Paypal, Scalapay, and UPS, among many others.
Madrid Tech Show has offered more than 80 hours of talks featuring more than 350 national and international Keynote speakers. Among them, Alberto Palomo, Chief Data Officer of the Government of Spain; Francesco Bonfiglio, CEO of Gaia-X aisbl; Alex Borysov, Netflix software engineer; Vince King, Head of DevSecOps for Cloud Transformation at Bank of England; Timo Raab, Global E-commerce Director of L'Oreal; Eva Mosquera, Head of Cybersecurity Awareness, Fraud Prevention and Training of Banco Santander; Pablo García, Datacenter Manager and Head of Datacenter Assets
Lilin Yang, CEO and Co-founder of MiiN Korean Cosmetics, has also participated; René Walker, Head of Ecommerce Central Europe at Johnson
The CPD of the future, the main piece of Madrid Tech Show 2022
During the two days of the event, attendees have been able to visit the recreation of a scale data center, the so-called Next Generation Data Center, by Dunwoody. A space of 90 square meters in which the real and working skeleton of a CPD will be shown so that attendees can see and detect the different pieces that give life to its framework.
This data center at scale, “powered by” Dunwoody, has included elements and services from companies such as AKSA, Bergvik, Crestchic, EATON, Gunnebo, Iceotope, IDP Data Centers, Leoch, Riello, Schneider, Seenco, Serveo, Solarwinds
Virtual event until November 11
After the two days of the face-to-face fair, Madrid Tech Show will show in its official app a total of 50 deferred conferences from companies such as IBM, AWS, Microsoft, Google, La Liga, Mapfre and The Bank of England. In addition, the app will continue to be a space for networking and content through its virtual event. Until next November 11, all those registered for the event will be able to continue connecting with companies and professionals from the IT sector, as well as reliving some of the best sessions offered on October 26 and 27 at IFEMA Madrid.
For its part, during the days of the face-to-face fair, the official Madrid Tech Show app has registered more than 35,053 contacts made between exhibitors and visitors, more than double the data from
About CloserStill Media (CSM)
CSM is a London-based company dedicated to the organization of global fairs related to technology and medical care. The CloserStill team is made up of more than 400 professionals spread across its offices in London, Barcelona, Paris, New York, Berlin, Singapore and Santa Rosa. The company has received more than thirty awards in the last seven years, including the coveted Best Business Exhibition, awarded seven times. In 2018, 2019 and 2020, the Sunday Times has highlighted it as one of the 100 best companies to work for. In addition, the Financial Times FT1000 Index named CloserStill the fastest growing exhibition organizer in Europe.
For more information:Marta Sánchezm.sanchez@closerstillmedia.com
