Entrepreneur Xavier Verdaguer to present Imagine Express 2014

Xavier Verdaguer, emprenedor en sèrie, fundador de la competició Imagine

Xavier Verdaguer, creator of several companies and founder of the Imagine competition and the Imagine Creativity Center (in Silicon Valley and Barcelona), will be giving a conference at the UAB on 12 December at 12:30 pm. Verdaguer will speak on the entrepreneurial spirit and present the first edition of the Imagine Express 2014, which will begin in mid-December. The conference has been organised by Treball Campus under the UAB Emprèn programme. It will take place at 12:30 pm at the Theatre Hall of the ETC Building (Plaça Cívica), and will include the presence of Glòria González, Vice Rector for Quality, Teaching and Employability.

28/11/2013

Imagine Express aims to discover and promote innovative and entrepreneurial talent for mobile phone applications, through a 4-day trip between Barcelona, Paris and London which will take place from 24 to 26 February and in which the selected candidates will be able to develop further their projects.

Those chosen (12 innovators, 12 computer engineers and 12 business economists) will design applications for the tourist, cultural, health and social sector. They will publicly present their works at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on 27 February. Imagine Express 2014 will also offer them a space in which to develop their projects further.

This new competition receives the support of the UAB, the only public university participating, and it does so through its Emprèn UAB programme.

A Serial Entrepreneur
Xavier Verdaguer is a serial entrepreneur from Barcelona who in the past 15 years has created several technology innovation companies. He obtained his degrees in computer engineering and architecture from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and holds a degree in business management from Stanford University. He is currently lecturer at UPC.

Verdaguer begun his professional career as chief information officer at the Consulting Taller d’Enginyeries and at age 25 he began his career as a serial entrepreneur. Currently living in California's Silicon Valley, he has founded several companies, including the TMT Factory and BCN Media (software engineering and multimedia communication services), Integra Interactive (leader in dynamic communication systems through screens), Innovalley (intelligent clothes which combine Barcelona-based creativity with the latest generation of American technology) and seven4seven (software development).

He also created the Imagine Creativity Center in California, which according to his words is dedicated to "the generation of disruptive ideas which change the world and change the lives of those participating in the creation of these ideas".

Other competitions organised by the Creativity Center are the Imagine Silicon Valley and Imagine PostDigital.

This year, Verdaguer will also be investing in innovative projects, through the Lanta Digital Ventures, a venture capital fund for entrepreneurs.

To attend the conference please send an email to: uab.empren@uab.cat

More information on Imagine Express 2014