OCT 24 2024
Ubiwhere fostered digital innovation through the Digital Nervous System Testbed at Techstars Startup Week Guimarães
Guimarães hosted Techstars Startup Week for the first time, with a focus on innovation and entrepreneurship: a global event for entrepreneurs that took place from the 21st to the 25th of October at the Sítio Coworking Space, with the participation of Ubiwhere through the deployment of the Digital Nervous System Testbed.
Techstars Startup Week Guimarães was a week of innovation and knowledge sharing for entrepreneurs. With a dynamic programme, the event featured talks, workshops, and round tables focused on entrepreneurship and digital innovation as essential parts of the growth of small and medium-sized companies.
Ubiwhere was one of the invited companies with interventions to highlight: our participation in this event was focused on promoting and disseminating the Digital Nervous System Testbed to reach the target audience present through the "Challenge Digital Nervous System Testbed". Ana Pereira, our Head of R&I, was one of Ubiwhere’s representatives at the event and was a speaker at two very relevant sessions:
- on the 21st of October at the Workshop ‘Shaping the future, From Idea to Product’ with Vodafone Business;
- on the 23rd of October at the Interactive Round Table ‘Future In Focus: Unlocking Opportunities’ with Vodafone Business.
In these sessions, Ana Pereira challenged everyone in the audience to participate in the ‘’Challenge Digital Nervous System Testbed‘’: a challenge that invited companies and innovators to test and validate innovative solutions on the services and infrastructures of the Digital Nervous System Testbed. This challenge aimed to test a solution that addresses the main urban challenges in mobility, energy management, public services or environmental sustainability, being deployed on Ubiwhere’s Urban Platform and integrating end-to-end technologies and real-time data from various sources, including transport systems, IoT devices and public infrastructures.
This challenge is available, and you can find a unique space for experimentation and development, with specialised support to ensure that it becomes a solid and scalable solution. Fill in the form, join us on this exciting innovation journey and download the "Challenge Digital Nervous System Testbed by Ubiwhere" information document below.
Alongside this challenge, Ubiwhere was one of the companies invited to advise other companies looking to grow: Ana Clara Lima, Business Consultant at Ubiwhere, was on the panel of Mentors at Techstars Startup Week Guimarães, where she was responsible for providing advice and support to companies on corporate matters such as raising finance.