Ficod 2014: the Spanish commitment to internationalize the digital content industry

With the inauguration of the Minister of Industry, Energy and Tourism, Jose Manuel Soria, Ficod 2014 will drive from the 2 al 4 December the digital content industry in Spain, with a renewed proposal focused on internationalization and the economic opportunities it offers, under the experience of more than fifty speakers, reference companies and training centers.

The sixth edition of the International Digital Content Forum (Ficod), that of 2 al 4 of December organizes the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism, through the public entity Red.es, at the Municipal Congress Palace of Madrid, will show from a more practical and international perspective the trends and economic opportunities offered by the digital content industry in Spain.

The Minister of Industry, Energy and Tourism, Jose Manuel Soria, will inaugurate this renewed edition, which has the participation of more than fifty national and international experts, the proposal of more than forty reference companies in this sector and twenty-four training centers to show those close to 6.500 registered attendees the level of quality that Spain has in the development and creation of digital content in an international environment with demand and growth, with a potential of more than five hundred million Spanish speakers in the world.

Under this premise, Ficod organizers want not only to encourage competition and show innovative national projects and services, but to attract foreign investment to our country so that they can install their decision centers and carry out their productions.. An economic and development opportunity for this industry that is structured in concrete measures under the Plan to Promote the Digital Economy and Digital Content 2013-2015, endowed with more than 90 million euros, within the framework of the Digital Agenda of Spain.

This was stated by the Secretary of State for Telecommunications and for the SI, Victor Calvo-Sotelo, at the presentation to the Ficod media 2014: “The Government has identified the digital content industry as a priority in the Digital Agenda for Spain, approved in February 2013. The digital content sector is a booming sector (video games, animation, apps, social networks,…) with high growth potential, marked by innovation and which also represents a source of qualified employment for our young people”.

Four different areas

In this sense, The contest focuses on four specific areas: Ficod Congress, with the participation of more than fifty national and international experts and which will begin on the first day with Nick Bilton, columnist for 'The New York Times', which will talk about the future of technological trends and how the digital revolution is affecting the way business will be done in the future.

Another area is Ficod Industry, with the participation of companies with greater potential in the digital content sector, in which digital industry networking and business generation are encouraged. In this sense, the multichannel proposals to interact with the Spanish supplier's customer stand out. Technological (more information at Digital AV Magazine), as well as that of the media and digital content aggregator smartycontent, which will show the advantages of its smartycenter multi-screen technological platform through the presentation-workshop given by the 2 December Jesús Aldana, CEO and founder of this company.

At Ficod Talento, students can learn about the training centers specialized in this sector and begin the different professional areas offered..

For your part, Ficod Financing is an opportunity to discover the projects that are emerging in Spain and their practical materialization in the market, as well as a meeting point between entrepreneurs looking for financing and investors looking for interesting projects to invest in in order to generate new businesses., that will be promoted through different sources of financing: business angels, venture capital, traditional banking, crowdfunding, public financing and investment of large companies.

To enhance the efforts of entrepreneurs in the Spanish digital content industry, during the second day of Ficod 2014 Fourteen selected projects that compete for the Ficod Prize will be shown, who will have to overcome the first round of financing, a second of innovation and the final.

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