Talent Garden Madrid, 28 y 29 de octubre

Science, Talent and Capital for a Global Future
A meeting space for Deep Tech trends and investment

What is Madrid Connect 2025?

Exclusive event, organized by the Madrid Science Park (PCM), designed to establish Madrid as a global capital in the deep tech ecosystem.

Our goal is to create a space where leaders and visionaries come together to address the issues shaping the city’s future, thereby boosting opportunities for collaboration, co-development, expansion, and investment.

This limited-capacity event brings together the most influential players in the deep tech ecosystem:
  • Scientific startups and scaleups
  • Specialized investment funds
  • Corporations
  • Universities and research centers
  • Sector clusters and public administrations
The event offers:
  • Round tables with experts in key verticals for the future
  • Sector-specific networking to connect with industry leaders around science, talent, and capital
  • Matchmakings and Collaboration labs between startups, scaleups, investors, and corporations to foster investment agreements and co-development projects

axes

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

Space technologies, defense, and semiconductors

Digital health, biotechnology, and applied AI

Circular economy, clean energy, and energy vectors

program

Reception and coffee

Institutional opening

Marta del Castillo, Dir. Gral. PCM
Marina Villegas, Dir. Gral. Res.&Tech. Innov., Comm. of Madrid
Óscar Romera, Gral. Coord. Economy, Commerce & Consumer Affairs, Madrid City Council
Master of Ceremonies: Carmen Gilabert, Head of Comms. PCM

Madrid deep tech

IOT Lenses, a PCM success story
Carolina Gago, COO IOT

Round Table 1 – Space, Defense, and Semiconductors: Deep tech for strategic autonomy from Madrid

Moderator: Francisco Marín, Dir. CITT Space Techs.
Daniel Granados, Dir. CITT Semiconductors
David Gómez, Dir. Adv. Techs. Tekniker
Luis Benaite, Dir. Electronic War Lab. Funditec

Startups panel
Moderator: Paloma Domingo, Dep. Dir. FGCSIC
José Antonio González, Cofounder YPlasma
Daniel González, CEO Nanostine
Nikolai Lavroff, Business Dev. G2Zero

Coffee & strategic networking

Round Table 2 – Smart Health: Science and data for the medicine of the future

Moderator: Micaela Martelli, Dir. Sector Sols. Telefónica
Ana Isabel González, Area for Promotion, Innov.&Int. in Health Research, Comm. of Madrid
Rosa Lillo, Dir. IBiDat – Big Data Institute UC3M
Ángel Sánchez, Medical Dir. Quirónsalud
Marta Pedrosa, Innov. Dpt. Cinfa
Felip Miralles, Dir. Health Techs. Eurecat

Startups panel
Moderator: Clément Destoumieux, Spanish Startups Assoc.
Jesús Prada, CEO Horus ML
Raúl Alelú, CEO Healthy Minds
Blanca Caballero, CEO Nanological

Lunch and healthy networking

Collaboration labs – Open innovation between startups, scaleups, and corporations

Reception and coffee

Science as a driver of economic growth

Félix Zamora, Vice-Rector Innov.&Transfer UAM
To be defined, UCM
Javier Etxabe, Head Entrepr.&Innov. Vice-Pr. Knowl. Transfer CSIC

Round Table 3 – Energy Vectors and Circularity: Deep tech for industrial transition.

Moderator: María Cano, Dir. Greentech Retech Node
Pedro Pereira, Cofounder Nanostech and Emeritus Prof. Univ. Calgary
Jesús Montes, Energy Tech. Intell. Moeve
Lidia Caramazana, Innov. Proj. Manager Naturgy
Miquel Rovira, Sustainability Dir. Eurecat

Startups panel
Roberto Clemente, CEO Gnanomat
Rafael Mombiedro, CEO Empirical Advances
To be confirmed, Evoenzyme

Coffee & strategic networking

International Keynote – Science as a global business platform: Technology transfer and investment from the Canadian ecosystem

Pedro Pereira Almão – Cofounder Nanostech (Canadá)

Thematic meeting – Access to financing and internationalization in deep tech

Carlos Herranz, Coord. Digit.&AI Secretariat, Min. Dig. Transf.
Andrés Ubierna, Head Capitalisation&Tech. Transfer Div. CDTI
Ignacio Liñán, Comms.&Promotion Dept. Enisa
Juan Rodríguez, Innov. Sales Dir. Clarke Modet (Arosa I+D)

Collaboration labs – Energy vectors and circularity

Open innovation between startups, scaleups, and corporations:

Lunch & collaborative networking

Matchmaking – Bilateral meetings

SPEAKERS

MATCHMAKING

Madrid Connect 25 offers five on-site meeting spaces (28th & 29th of October) and two virtual ones (4th & 5th of November) to connect start-ups, scale-ups, investors, corporations and other entities.

Explore the participants and schedule your meeting through the b2match platform within the framework of the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN):

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REGISTRATION

Science, Talent and Capital for a Global Future
A meeting space for Deep Tech trends and investment

Talent Garden Madrid, October 28–29

Registration for Madrid Connect 25 opens on Monday, September 15. This registration does not grant access to the matchmaking (B2B meetings).

To participate in the matchmaking, you must register in the corresponding section via an external platform.

LOCATION

Madrid Connect 2025 will take place at Talent Garden Madrid, a modern and functional space in the heart of the city, just minutes from the Atocha transport hub and the historic center.

Its facilities for the forum (auditorium and Gran Vía and Sol rooms) make it easy to interact and establish connections among participants.

Public transport:

  • Metro: Atocha (L1), Delicias (L3), and Méndez Álvaro (L6).
  • Train: Atocha (medium and long distance, and Cercanías C1–C5, C7, and C10), Delicias (Cercanías C5), and Méndez Álvaro (Cercanías C5 and C10).
  • Bus: Méndez Álvaro (medium and long distance) and urban lines 102 and 152.

Private vehicle: regulated parking zone (SER) with time limits. For a full day, Rafael Hoteles parking is recommended.

speakers

Space, defense, and semiconductors

Foto de Francisco Marín de CITT Tecnologías del Espacio
Francisco Marín, President of the Cluster in Space Technologies
Paloma Domingo, Deputy Director, General Foundation CSIC
Foto de Daniel González, CEO de Nanostine
Daniel González, CEO of Nanostine
José Antonio González, Cofounder of YPlasma
Luis Benaite – Director of Electronic Warfare Laboratory, Funditec
Daniel Granados – Semiconductors Cluster

Nicolai Lavroff – G2 Zero

Foto de David Gómez de Tekniker

David Gómez – Tekniker

Smart health

Foto de Ana Isabel González de la Com. de Madrid
Ana Isabel González, Head of Health Research Area, Community of Madrid
Clément Destoumieux – Spanish Startups Association
Felip Miralles, Director of Health Technologies at Eurecat

Jesús Prada, CEO of Horus ML

Raúl Alelú, CEO of Healthy Minds

Foto de Rosa Lillo

Rosa Lillo, director of IBiDat – Big Data Institute

Carolina Gago, IOT

Energy vectors and circularity

Foto de Jesús Montes de Moeve
Jesús Montes, Collaborative Innovation at Moeve
Foto de Lidia Caramazana de Naturgy
Lidia Caramazana, Innovation Manager at Naturgy

María Cano – Retech Madrid

Miquel Rovira, Director of Sustainability at Eurecat
Foto de Pedro Pereira, fundador de Nanostech
Pedro Pereira, CTO of NanosTech and Emeritus Professor at University of Calgary

Institutions

Coordinator, Secretary of State for Digitalization and AI, Ministry of Digital Transformation
Javier Etxabe – Head of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Area, Vice President of Innovation and Transfer, CSIC
Foto de Óscar Romera del Ayto. Madrid
Óscar Romera, General Coordinator of Economy, Commerce, and Consumer Affairs, Madrid City Council
Foto de Marta del Castillo Vázquez, Dir.ª Gral. Parque Científico de Madrid
Marta del Castillo, Community of Madrid
Foto de Marina Villegas de la Com. de Madrid
Marina Villegas, Community of Madrid

Félix Zamora – Vice-Rector for Transfer, Innovation, and Culture, UAM

Ignacio Liñán – Communication and Promotion Department, Enisa