One more year we are happy to announce that NGI Sargasso will attend 4YFN 2025, the startup side event of Mobile World Congress (MWC) Barcelona, with an agenda full of activities, especially in the morning of the second day of the event, on Tuesday the 4th of March starting at 11:15h. Keep reading to discover them, and save this location in Fira Barcelona: Hall 8.1 – Stand 8.1.B.55!

The NGI Sargasso Panel at 4YFN 2025

We have gathered some of our innovators and stakeholders from the Next Generation Internet (NGI) community in a panel titled “Next-Generation Internet: Bridging Continents, Innovating Together”. The panel will start at 11:15h on Tuesday, the 4th of March, in the Hall 8.1 – Stand 8.1.B.55, and four of our beneficiaries will explain how they are shaping transatlantic collaboration on NGI technologies and services.

SPEAKERS

  • Moderator: Emmanouil Detsis, NGI Sargasso Project Coordinator – ESF Foundation.
  • Keynote speaker: Stergios Tsiafoulis, NGI Sargasso Project Officer – European Commission.
  • NGI Sargasso Innovators:
    • Yuting Jiang, CEO at Agora / ZKorum – Project: Agora / EeDP – Empowering eDemocracy for Peace (Open Call 3).
    • Alex Bourlier, Co-Founder at Startin’blox – Project: RSFARosseta Stone for APIs (Open Call 2).
    • Christos N. Stefanatos, Project Lead at EV Loader / Parity Platform PC – Project: EVI US Pilot – Electric Vehicle Identity US Pilot (Open Call 3).
    • Erik Hieta-Aho, Senior Scientist at VTT – Project: HPQCSSI – Hybrid Post-Quantum Cryptography Self-Sovereign Identity Stack (Open Call 2).
  • Closing speaker: Monique Callisti, NGI Outreach Office – Martel Innovate

AGENDA

  • 11:15h – 11:20h → Opening keynote by Project Officer.
  • 11:20h – 11:25h → Brief project tagline by each NGI Sargasso Innovator on stage.
  • 11:25h – 11:45h → Open debate.
  • 11:45h – 11:50h → Q&A.
  • 11:50h – 11:55h → An brief intro into the NGI initiative.
  • 11:55h – 12:00 → Coordinator closing and opening of the following pitching session.

The NGI Sargasso Pitching Session at 4YFN 2025

Right after the NGI Sargasso panel at 4YFN 2025, we will start the second part of our session at 12:00h in the same location, in the Hall 8.1 – Stand 8.1.B.55: “NGI Sargasso Showcase: Pioneering Innovations for Europe’s Digital Future”, a one-hour pitch session and Q&A featuring some of the NGI Sargasso projects.

NGI Sargasso is proud to present some of the most outstanding projects funded during the course of our program. This dynamic one-hour session offers a platform for our beneficiaries to pitch their transformative ideas and share insights into the next-generation internet landscape. Each innovator will have the opportunity to walk the audience through their objectives, methods and achievements.

 SPEAKERS

  • Moderator: Emmanouil Detsis, NGI Sargasso Project Coordinator – ESF Foundation.
  • NGI Sargasso Innovators:
    • Yuting Jiang, CEO at Agora / ZKorum – Project: Agora / EeDP – Empowering eDemocracy for Peace (Open Call 3).
    • Alex Bourlier, Co-Founder at Startin’blox – Project: RSFARosseta Stone for APIs (Open Call 2).
    • Christos N. Stefanatos, Project Lead at EV Loader / Parity Platform PC – Project: EVI US Pilot – Electric Vehicle Identity US Pilot (Open Call 3).
    • Erik Hieta-Aho, Senior Scientist at VTT – Project: HPQCSSI – Hybrid Post-Quantum Cryptography Self-Sovereign Identity Stack (Open Call 2).
    • Jordi Mongay Batalla, Professor at Warsaw University of Technology – Project: EvORAN – Evaluation of Open RAN Network Equipment including Underlying (Open Call 1).
    • Marcelo Bagnulo, Professor at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid – Project: GMM – A Global Market Maker for Decentralized Token Exchanges (Open Call 3).
    • Julien Bringer, CEO at Kallistech SAS – Project: D3ICA – Democratizing Decentralized Digital Identity through Cloud Agents (Open Call 1).
    • Giovanni Pettorru, PhD Student at University of Cagliari – Project: POSIDONIA – POSition Information with Digital Twin Offloading in Trustworthy Next-Generation Internet Applications (Open Call 3).
    • Fernando José Gómez Gil, Co-Founder at Training Experience – Project: VeriRecruit – AI-Driven Interview Analysis for Precision Hiring (Open Call 2).

AGENDA

  • 12:00h – 12:05h → Pitching Session intro by Emmanuoil Detsis as continuation of the previous panel.
  • 12:05h – 12:25h → NGI Sargasso Innovators Pitches.
  • 12:25h – 12:45h → Q&A, closing and networking catering.

All the NGI Sargasso Innovators will also be during the four days (3-6 March) of 4YFN / MWC 2025 in the NGI Sargasso startup pods from 8.1 B63.4 to 8.1 B63.8 ready to network and connect with you!

More about 4YFN and Mobile World Congress Barcelona

4YFN is the event partner of MWC Barcelona, the world’s largest and most influential connectivity event, bringing together the latest innovations and leading-edge technology alongside today’s most influential visionaries in Barcelona from the 3rd to the 6th of March 2025.

This means this congress not only brings all the players you need for a winning digital startup together (like investors and corporate innovators), but it also springboards startups onto the radar of the most powerful decision makers in the connectivity ecosystem – such as CEOs from global mobile operators and frontier tech companies.

All this helps new business ventures sprout the wings they need for a breathtaking launch.

Have a look at what we did last year at 4YFN 2024, and see you soon in Barcelona to create an Internet of Humans together!