FC Barcelona president, Joan Laporta, and John Hoffman, CEO of GSMA Ltd., the corporate in the back of MWC Barcelona, signed a collaborative settlement on Monday for the once a year Barça Innovation Hub sports activities innovation congress, Sports activities The next day to be a part of the programme of occasions within the upcoming version of MWC Barcelona 2023. The settlement way sports activities innovation goes to be integrated into one of the vital international’s maximum necessary era occasions, whilst additionally selling Sports activities The next day to a global target market thru a number one emblem like MWC Barcelona.

The settlement, signed via Joan Laporta and John Hoffman within the President Suñol Field at Camp Nou, was once pushed via each events with the purpose of attaining synergies between era and game innovation, thereby representing the primary house for conferences, debates, and data for the sports activities ecosystem inside of MWC Barcelona. The development additionally counted with the presence of Àngel Riudalbas, board member accountable of Barça Innovation Hub.

The settlement way Sports activities The next day will happen on a special date and at a special location. The congress will transfer from the Membership’s installations to one of the vital spaces within the Fira de Barcelona in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, the common location for MWC Barcelona. As for the date, it’ll now not be held all through every week of November, however fairly over two days between February 27 and March 2 2023, coinciding with the following version of MWC Barcelona and lately bureaucracy the scope of the settlement between FC Barcelona and GSMA.

A congress centered at the position of the thoughts in game

The content material could also be set to modify. Sports activities The next day has historically consisted of various tracks or sports-themed meetings, corresponding to medication, physiotherapy, diet, knowledge research, era, or game trade. The congress will now revolve round a unmarried subject for the 2023 version, specifically “Minds In the back of The Sport”, which can take an in-depth glance into the position of the thoughts on sportspeople’s efficiency, in addition to the cognitive packages of man-made intelligence in all domain names of the sports activities sector.

The truth that Sports activities The next day goes to type a part of MWC Barcelona 2023, the sector’s largest match for the era and connectivity sector, responds to the will of the congress and its organiser, Barça Innovation Hub – FC Barcelona’s platform of data and innovation – to advertise a tradition of excellence and collaboration with manufacturers, universities, analysis centres, start-ups, marketers, scholars, sportspeople, traders, and visionaries from all over the world. One option to put in force that is via setting up congresses and meetings corresponding to Sports activities The next day, a pioneering initiative wherein soccer golf equipment have turn into a reference within the wearing area since 2016 (underneath the title Sports activities The next day from 2020). As an example, the 2021 version of the congress introduced in combination 282 professionals and was once attended via over 2000 other folks. 

The settlement with GSMA additionally implies that Sports activities The next day strikes from the Membership’s terrain right into a city-level venture like MWC Barcelona, one of the vital key occasions in relation to projecting the Barcelona emblem international.

Observation of Joan Laporta, FC Barcelona president

“We’re very proud and glad about this settlement with MWC Barcelona, the main platform within the cellular era sector, as it’ll each convert a number one sports activities innovation match such because the Sports activities The next day congress into a world reference in relation to linking era and game, whilst additionally serving to venture town of Barcelona as a global capital on this sector”.

Observation of John Hoffman, GSMA CEO

“We’re past excited to collaborate with FC Barcelona. Co-locating Sports activities The next day Congress at MWC Barcelona 2023 brings in combination two world-leading occasions and creates area to spot and create new trade alternatives around the cellular and sports activities ecosystems.  The transfer displays the strategic significance and gear of cellular connectivity and follows the release of Business Town at MWC22, that includes the fintech, production, and automobile sectors.”