Madrid Connect 2025

Organize

Madrid Science Park

Dates

Del 28 al 29 Oct

Madrid Connect 2025 – Science, Talent and Capital for a Global Future, is a space for networking, trends and investment in deep tech.

Organised by Madrid Science Park (PCM), Madrid Connect 2025 seeks to strengthen Madrid as a global business capital based on science, knowledge and innovation, positioning it on the international map as a platform for technological collaboration and investment projection.

This exclusive meeting, with limited capacity, brings together strategic local, national and international entities: startups and deep tech scaleups, investment funds, corporations, universities, research centres, sector clusters, administrations and public entities.

Madrid Connect 2025 axes

The forum is structured around three key verticals for the technological and economic development of Madrid region:

Space technologies, defence and semiconductors;
Digital health, biotechnology and applied AI;
Circular economy, clean energy and energy vectors.

Collaboration and investment opportunities

Madrid Connect 2025 promotes opportunities for collaboration, expansion, co-development and investment through:

informal sectoral networkings around the three axes;
collaboration labs and personalised matchmaking between startups/scaleups, investors and corporations.

Provisional agenda

Tuesday 28th of October

8:30-9:00	Registration
9:00-9:30	Institutional welcome and reception
9:30-10:00	Opening keynote – Madrid as deep tech capital: science, talent and investment to lead the future
10:00-11:15	Roundtable 1 – Space, defence and semiconductors: deep tech for strategic autonomy from Madrid
11:15-11:45	Coffee & strategic networking
11:45-13:00	Roundtable 2 – Smart health: science and data for the medicine of the future
13:00-14:30	Lunch and strategic networking
14:30-17:00	Collaboration labs – Open innovation between startups, scaleups and corporations Space, defence and semiconductors Smart health

Wednesday 29th of October

8:30-9:00	Registration
9:00-9:30	Institutional welcome and reception
9:30-10:45	Round table 3 – Energy vectors and circularity: deep tech for industrial transition
10:45-11:15	International keynote – Science as a global business platform: technology transfer and investment from the Canadian ecosystem
11:15-11:45	Coffee & strategic networking
11:45-12:45	Thematic meeting – Access to funding and internationalisation in deep tech
12:45-14:15	Collaboration labs – Open innovation between startups, scaleups and corporations Energy vectors and circularity
14:15-15:30	Lunch and strategic networking
15:30-17:00	Matchmaking sessions – Bilateral meetings: Startup/scaleup – investors Expansion of international opportunities