Rehumanizing Leadership in the Age of AI: Why Your Story Is the Edge
As AI accelerates faster than human adaptation, many leaders feel the growing gap between optimization and meaning. In this talk, Celinne Da Costa — executive coach, brand story strategist, TEDx speaker, and trusted advisor to global leaders — reveals why authentic storytelling is the most overlooked competitive edge of our time. Drawing on a decade of coaching founders and executives through identity shifts, she will show how story can rehumanize leadership, restore trust, and provide the compass leaders need to navigate disruption without losing themselves.
Fireside chat: Carolina Rodríguez, CEO of ENISA & Alister Moreno, Chairman of EsTech
ENISA has become a key public institution for any entrepreneur building an innovative project in South Europe. Its funding role goes beyond due to its task enforcing the Spanish Startup Law and certifying the scaleups of the future.
Carolina Rodríguez is not only the CEO of ENISA, she has been a key public official in the effort to connect a common vision of public and private entities in the way to create a national startup culture.
Carolina will talk with Alister Moreno, not only the Chairman of EsTech, also a key serial entrepreneur committed to boost Spain as the best emerging companies territory.
Top 50 - VDS Startup Competition
Pitch session by startups belonging to the semifinalists of the VDS 2025 competition:
- Hotel Treats
- Dana Assist
- EVR Motors
- Key2enable
- PowerUp Energy Technologies
- Bluease.io
-FoodFix
-iPremom
-Ainwater
-BreakEvent
Presenting GSIC Powered by Microsoft Testing Lab in Valencia
Presentation of GSIC Powered by Microsoft Testing Lab in Valencia, a new center in applied tech for sports, entertainment, media, and health, driven by the Generalitat Valenciana and the City of València through València Innovation Capital.
GSIC Testing Lab hosts sports tech startups to validate cutting-edge technologies, for startups testing products ,dynamize the sports tech community in the region and also provide softlanding spaces and strategies for startups testing new markets, aiming to attract talent and investment, and strengthen and internationalize the local ecosystem, leveraging GSIC global networks.
This unique phygital hub blends physical and virtual innovation to accelerate breakthrough solutions.
By fostering public-private collaboration and technology transfer, it positions València as a global sports innovation hotspot.
PCUV Startups Pitch Session
Pitch session for startups belonging to Parc Cientific of Valencia University delegation.
The following startups will participate:
- Ajax Biosciences
- Asesoria Co2zero
- Cucare Diagnostics
- Datipic
-Evolving Therapeutics
Scaleups: From Micro-Economics to Competitiveness and Economic Security3
In recent years a brand new actor has emerged as a key element in the process to build a European economy based on competitiveness, social and environmental impact, technology and innovation. Boosting European tech champions is the way to have companies with the same philosophy of Airbus.
Although Scaleups are growing in similar numbers like other regions, they still have to face a non comprehensive single market, regulatory burdens and an art & craft way to get investment and talent. The main European platforms promoting the ecosystem or continental scaleups are going to discuss how these companies are the present and future of Spain and Europe.
