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Exponential Day 2024: Climate Crisis: The Ultimate Disruption

Exponential Day 2024: Climate Crisis: The Ultimate Disruption

29 de julio de 2024

By the editorial team (Original publication in Spanish)

Last week the Auditori AXA hosted the sixth edition of Exponential Day, an event organised by ACCIÓ where innovative solutions to face the challenges of the climate crisis were presented. This event has been a crucial platform to discuss and share ideas on exponential technologies and their application in various sectors.

Ideas for Change developed the Pentagrowth bootcamp for the 30 initiatives aspiring to be one of the 10 Catalonia Exponential Leaders 2024, which were presented at the event.

Behind the Catalonia Exponential Leaders 2024 initiatives

After analysing the most disruptive organisations that participated in this year's Catalonia Exponential Leaders, Javi Creus has identified four main motivations for companies to promote disruptive initiatives based on the adoption of exponential technologies:

  • Anticipating Changes in the Industry: Being a ‘supplier of the future’. Companies in mature markets adopt a defensive attitude in order to remain relevant as suppliers of the future. However, innovation is closely tied to the current business, making it difficult to explore new models.

  • Anticipating Legislative Changes: Being ‘future compliant’. Companies are forced to adopt new technologies to comply with new legal requirements. Startups explore these needs and build business models to respond to them.

  • Anticipate a New Standard: Be ‘future-compliant’. Defensive ambition is about watching for the generation of a new industry standard and ensuring compatibility. Disruptive ambition leads to active participation in the formulation of these standards, anticipating new areas of value and generating a supportive community.

  • Anticipating a New System: Being an ‘agent of the future’. The emergence of new competitors forces companies to accelerate experimentation. In parallel, disruptive ambition strikes with new value propositions, some of them critical to incumbents.

You can read the full report of this edition here

The main actors of disruption in Catalonia

The report presented by Javi Creus highlights the 30 initiatives participating in the 2024 edition of Catalonia Exponential Leaders, using the Pentagrowth methodology and other innovation frameworks. From this study, the 10 most disruptive companies in Catalonia this year have emerged:

Disruptive innovation in the spotlight

The event also featured presentations by leading experts such as Harald Friedl, senior advisor to the United Nations development programme, and Ivan Bofarull, director of innovation at Esade, among others. In addition, real cases of Catalan companies that are leading the way towards sustainability such as Pack2earth, Factor Energia, Veritas or CAYPI were presented. The Exponential Day has been, once again, an excellent opportunity to explore, reflect and recognise the most disruptive companies in Catalonia in 2024 with the focus on continuing to work together for a more sustainable, innovative and resilient future.

By the editorial team (Original publication in Spanish)

Last week the Auditori AXA hosted the sixth edition of Exponential Day, an event organised by ACCIÓ where innovative solutions to face the challenges of the climate crisis were presented. This event has been a crucial platform to discuss and share ideas on exponential technologies and their application in various sectors.

Ideas for Change developed the Pentagrowth bootcamp for the 30 initiatives aspiring to be one of the 10 Catalonia Exponential Leaders 2024, which were presented at the event.

Behind the Catalonia Exponential Leaders 2024 initiatives

After analysing the most disruptive organisations that participated in this year's Catalonia Exponential Leaders, Javi Creus has identified four main motivations for companies to promote disruptive initiatives based on the adoption of exponential technologies:

  • Anticipating Changes in the Industry: Being a ‘supplier of the future’. Companies in mature markets adopt a defensive attitude in order to remain relevant as suppliers of the future. However, innovation is closely tied to the current business, making it difficult to explore new models.

  • Anticipating Legislative Changes: Being ‘future compliant’. Companies are forced to adopt new technologies to comply with new legal requirements. Startups explore these needs and build business models to respond to them.

  • Anticipate a New Standard: Be ‘future-compliant’. Defensive ambition is about watching for the generation of a new industry standard and ensuring compatibility. Disruptive ambition leads to active participation in the formulation of these standards, anticipating new areas of value and generating a supportive community.

  • Anticipating a New System: Being an ‘agent of the future’. The emergence of new competitors forces companies to accelerate experimentation. In parallel, disruptive ambition strikes with new value propositions, some of them critical to incumbents.

You can read the full report of this edition here

The main actors of disruption in Catalonia

The report presented by Javi Creus highlights the 30 initiatives participating in the 2024 edition of Catalonia Exponential Leaders, using the Pentagrowth methodology and other innovation frameworks. From this study, the 10 most disruptive companies in Catalonia this year have emerged:

Disruptive innovation in the spotlight

The event also featured presentations by leading experts such as Harald Friedl, senior advisor to the United Nations development programme, and Ivan Bofarull, director of innovation at Esade, among others. In addition, real cases of Catalan companies that are leading the way towards sustainability such as Pack2earth, Factor Energia, Veritas or CAYPI were presented. The Exponential Day has been, once again, an excellent opportunity to explore, reflect and recognise the most disruptive companies in Catalonia in 2024 with the focus on continuing to work together for a more sustainable, innovative and resilient future.