How can artificial intelligence address the main challenges facing your sector? What opportunities exist to collaborate with other organizations in designing and validating innovative AI-based solutions?
During this workshop's plenary session, will be shared the main progress achieved by the hubs, the activities carried out so far, and the project's next steps. In-person attendees will also be able to take part in a networking space designed to encourage the exchange of experiences and generate new collaboration opportunities among organizations in the AI ecosystem.
In the second part of the workshop, in-person attendees will take part in collaborative sector-specific activities to review and validate the main challenges identified during the first workshop, prioritize them, and work together to define high-impact use cases based on artificial intelligence.
The activities will be organized around the following sector-specific hubs:
- Health, Pharma & Biotech
- Agriculture, Climate & Blue economy
- Energy
- Finance and Legal
- Media & Communications
Who should attend:
- SMEs looking to identify opportunities for applying AI to real-world challenges.
- AI-specialized startups interested in collaborating on the development of new use cases.
- Sector clusters and associations representing the needs and challenges of their sectors.
- Public administrations, technology centers, and innovation entities.
- Heads of innovation, digital transformation, technology, AI, and data.
- Professionals interested in collaborating on the development of high-impact AI solutions.
Agenda
14:15 - 15:00
Networking lunch: an informal gathering between companies, startups, public administrations, technology centers, and innovation stakeholders
15:00 - 15:30
Plenary session and presentation of the progress and upcoming activities of the BSC AI Factory's Sectoral Hubs
15:30 - 17:15
Sectoral activities (in-person)
- (5 min) Introduction, presentation of the participants, objectives, and methodology
- (10 min) Presentation of the challenges identified so far by the participating sectoral entities, and their prioritization
- (80 min) Parallel sectoral activities
Table 1 – Development of 2 use cases: delve deeper into the two challenges selected during the June 2026 workshop, specifying the need, the provision of the necessary data, and how to carry out the validation process. Identify entities that can contribute expert knowledge, datasets, technology, or prior developments.
Health, Pharma and Biotech
- Intelligent Knowledge and Simulation Platform for the Microbiota-Gut-Immunity Axis.
- Explainable multimodal AI model for predicting lung functional capacity and identifying the regions and radiological findings that determine its progression.
Agriculture, Climate and Blue economy
- Design of routes and work orders for field workers to minimize heat exposure.
- Conversational assistant specialized in agronomy, aimed at providing expert support and access to sector-specific knowledge.
Energy
- Solution for optimizing energy generation and storage, aimed at improving the management of energy resources and supporting decision-making across different types of infrastructure.
- Assistant for querying and analyzing public energy data, aimed at facilitating access to, interpretation of, and use of energy information available from open sources.
Finance and Legal
- Intelligent validation prior to the digital filing of annual accounts.
- Regulatory intelligence: detection of regulatory changes and obligations.
Communication and Media
- Automatic audio description system for audiovisual content, with special attention to regulatory and accessibility requirements.
- Subtitling and translation platform for co-official languages, considered a second priority for incorporation in later development phases.
Table 2 – Identification and prioritization of new initiatives: identify new challenges, needs, or opportunities by subsector or along the value chain; complement initiatives already identified; group and consolidate similar initiatives; prioritize them according to criteria such as scalability, market potential, technical and operational feasibility, innovative component, and contribution to the ecosystem; and explore possible solution paths for the prioritized initiatives.
(10 min) Conclusions
17:15
Next steps and closing of the workshop