BIT Audiovisual Start-ups 2018, new platform to support entrepreneurship

This initiative of the Professional Audiovisual Technology Show, BIT Audiovisual 2018, is focused on providing visibility to business projects and new companies that develop innovative technology-based projects with broad application potential in the audiovisual sector.

The next edition of the Professional Audiovisual Technology Show, BIT Audiovisual 2018, has launched an initiative focused on highlighting and providing support for newly created companies that develop innovative technology-based projects with broad application potential in the audiovisual technology sector.

This is the first call for BIT Audiovisual Start-ups 2018, which is organized in collaboration with Promotes Vision of RTVE, and which aims to offer entrepreneurs a meeting point and professional contact, within the framework of the reference fair for the audiovisual technology sector.

In this way, BIT Audiovisual, organized by IFEMA from May 8 to 10 in Madrid, will add to its wide range of content, a stand for the collective presentation of the selected projects, in which young companies will have a common meeting space where they can attend and generate professional contacts, at the time they need, either punctually or with a permanent presence, during the three days of the fair.

In addition, they will be able to benefit from the important promotion offered by the fair, share space with the main companies in the audiovisual sector and obtain visibility in the BIT Audiovisual communication campaign, through press releases, newsletter, social networks, website and visitor guide, among other tools aimed at both the media and the professional world.

On the other hand, the most outstanding selected companies, at the discretion of the Selection Committee, may present their proposal within the BIT Audiovisual conference program.

Selection criteria

Those new companies that have been selected by a accelerator linked to the business, university or some public body, with proposals or services aimed at the audiovisual sector as the main market. Also those that are currently in the acceleration process or have completed this no earlier than May 2016.

The dynamics of the contest will start from a selection process, carried out by a Committee made up of experts from the entrepreneurial ecosystem in the audiovisual sector, among all the proposals presented to the management of BIT Audiovisual, before April 8, 2018.

The jury's decision, which will attend to the criteria technological innovation degree; project scalability; application potential and impact in the audiovisual industry; and internationalization potential will be announced before April 23.