The King of Spain in Argentina: Felipe VI has shown his support for technological and innovation projects

During his visit to Argentina, the king of Spain Felipe VI, after having lunch with the president Mauricio Macri and Hispanic-Argentine businessmen, attended a meeting with entrepreneurs with technology and innovation projects.

It was in the frame of "Buenos Aires, good ideasorganized by COTEC (European Foundation specializing in innovation and entrepreneurship), with the support of Telefónica. EOn this occasion, the King, a few hours before his departure for the International Language Congress, in the province of Córdoba, spoke of the "enormous importance" of Argentina for Spain.

Highlighted Its investments and refer, in a nutshell, to the "environment of difficulty" that runs through the country. He also distinguished the quality of local human capital and stressed the need to continue Hispanic-Argentine cooperation in the technological sector of tomorrow.

"Your country is one of the leaders in the human development index among all those in Latin America, which is why the COTEC Foundation has taken the initiative to publicize the great collaboration between Spanish companies and Argentine entrepreneurs ", he pointed.

Representatives of the national government, entrepreneurs and Telefónica's CEO, José María Álvarez-Pallete, among other authorities, attended the event.

Álvarez-Pallete spoke of the revolution the world is going through. "We live onRead more powerful based on artificial intelligence "he said. And he emphasized his company's collaboration with companies such as Facebook and Google to "take the Internet where there is no".

A famous Argentine unicorn

In front of the king, el CEO and founder of Mercado Libre, Marcos Galperin he was interviewed Spanish technology investor and entrepreneur in the technology sector, Bernardo Hernández (who was a Flickr director and worked at Google).

Galperín spoke about the history of his company, which began in 1999. "We went from 4 friends in a garage to 8,000 employees in Latin America," he said.

With regard to entrepreneurship, he said: "It is important to be persevering, almost stubborn. To change things, you must be a tough guy. AT to be able to retain very good people, we must give them the means to know how to work even better"

"Entrepreneurship is very chaotic. People see me as a success, but I've had a lot more failures over these 20 years than I've had successhe badured.

Young local talent

Before the king arrives at the event, Mariano Mayer, secretary of entrepreneurs and SMEs of the nation, has opened a panel of startups of BBVA, Caixa, Indra, Everis and Telefónica (with Wayra and Open future). The peculiarity is that the projects are run by young people.

They presented a smart fire project, the development of an organic fertilizer through vermiculture, a platform to find private lessons at school, a biotechnology project to treat injuries (with support Singularity University) and a purchasing and purchasing management application. sales for businesses and businesses.