Boosting the adoption of AI in strategic sectors
How can artificial intelligence help address the key challenges facing your sector? What opportunities are there to collaborate with other organisations on the design and validation of innovative AI-based solutions?
The BSC AI Factory’s first hybrid sectoral hubs workshop will be held on 21 October 2026 as part of theAI Congress Barcelona. This initiative is backed by BSC-CNS to accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence in strategic sectors through collaboration between companies, public administrations, technology centres, start-ups and other actors in the ecosystem.
Contents of the Presentation
- During the plenary session, the key progress made by the hubs will be shared, along with the activities carried out to date and the next steps for the project.
- Furthermore, those attending in person will be able to take part in a networking space to foster the exchange of experiences and generate new opportunities for collaboration between organisations within the AI ecosystem.
- In the second part of the workshop, attendees will take part in collaborative sectoral sessions to review and validate the key challenges identified during the first workshop, prioritise them and work together to define high-impact use cases based on artificial intelligence.
The sessions will be organised around the following sectoral hubs:
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- Health, Pharma and Biotech
- Agriculture, Climate and the Blue Economy
- Energy
- Finance and Legal
- Communication and Media
These sessions will enable us to pinpoint the most significant challenges facing each sector, identify opportunities for innovation and lay the foundations for the development of future AI solutions in collaboration with the various actors involved.
This workshop will be held in a hybrid format, so participants will be able to attend in person or follow the plenary session on-line via Microsoft Teams. The sectoral sessions will be solely in-person.
Aimed at:
- Companies and organisations interested in fostering the adoption of artificial intelligence in their sector.
- SMEs wishing to identify opportunities to apply AI to real challenges.
- Start-ups specialised in artificial intelligence that are interested in collaborating on the development of new use cases.
- Clusters and sectoral associations that represent the needs and challenges of their sectors.
- Public administrations, technology centres and innovation organisations.
- Leaders in innovation, digital transformation, technology, AI and data.
- Professionals interested in collaborating on the development of high-impact AI solutions.
The BSC AI Factory is an initiative driven by the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre-National Supercomputing Centre (BSC-CNS), aimed at accelerating the adoption of AI solutions in strategic industrial sectors. Through its sectoral hubs, it acts as a space for collaboration between SMEs, start-ups, associations, clusters and technology centres, facilitating shared access to advanced infrastructures, data, models, expert knowledge and specialised talent.
For further information, please see the Press Release from the Ministry for Digital Transformation and Public Administration.