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it promoted sales in the trade fair venue but it also
generated about a hundred more operations in the
stores on the following days.
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Seafood Barcelona
The Global Seafood Market
15-17/10
GRAN VIA. 1ST EVENT
Area:
12,000 m
2
Exhibitors:
300
Type:
professional
Organised by
Diversified Business
Communications and Alimentaria Exhibitions
60%
international exhibitors
The new international show devoted to seafood in
Barcelona replicated one of the most important
trade fairs in the world, the European Seafood
Exposition, which takes place annually in Brussels,
attracting more than 300 exhibitors, 60% of which
were international.
Seafood Barcelona specialises in sea products (fresh
fish and seafood, frozen processed fish, prepared and
dehydrated), in marketing, processing and packaging
equipment and technology. The show brought together
companies, associations and business federations in
the sector from Spain and from more than other 30
countries. Its program centred on key purchasers, with
the aim of affirming itself as the benchmark trade fair
for southern Europe and Maghreb.
Spain is not only a major fishing power, but also
the third largest importer of fish, making purchases
worth 7,100 million dollars in 2009, and the ninth
largest exporter, with sales of 3,465 million dollars.
Fish is eaten in 70% of households and the annual
level of consumption per person is 37 kilograms,
one of the highest levels in the European Union.
The countries that consume the most fish per capita
are Japan, Iceland, Korea, Portugal and Italy. Spain
is also the third largest manufacturer of preserves,
surpassed only by China and Thailand, with a
production of more than 350,000 tonnes, worth
2,200 million euros in 2010. Spain also exported
almost a million tonnes of sea and aquiculture
products, leading the European market.
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SIL
International Logistics and Maintenance Exhibition
5-7/06
GRAN VIA. 14TH EVENT
Area:
31,855 m
2
Exhibitors:
600
Type:
professional
Activities:
lectures, technical seminars, awards
and business meetings
Organized by
CZF-Consorcio de la Zona Franca
100
new products
The new edition of SIL was the most international
to date. With more than 500 companies, 100 new
products, 200 business events and a 45% degree
of internationalization, it reaffirmed its position
as the leading trade fair in the logistics field in
southern Europe. Delegations from countries such
as Algeria, China, India, Russia or Taiwan, among
others, took part in this event in order to build
business relations and exchange their knowledge
about logistics management.
With an important presence of visitors,
SIL managed to reach very important business
figures, thanks to more than 1,500 commercial
transactions between visitors and exhibiting
companies.
Among the more than 300 activities hosted
during three days, worthy of mention are the
sessions about the socioeconomic impact of the
Mediterranean Corridor, featuring Artur Mas, Alberto
Fabra, Ramón Luis Valcárcel and José Ramón
Bauzà, presidents of Catalonia, Valencia, Murcia,
and the Balearic Islands, respectively.
Likewise, more than 3,500 professionals
attended the congress, featuring 15 parallel
sessions that completed the offer of the show.
According to its organizers, SIL is the leading
professional meeting point in the field of logistics
in southern Europe, and its prestige has been
progressively achieved.
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Smart City Expo World Congress
Solutions for bettercities
13-15/11
GRAN VIA. 2ND EVENT
Area:
17,300 m
2
Exhibitors:
140
Type:
Professional
Activities:
Gala Dinner, World Smart City Awards,
Business Bridge, Smart City Plaza
60
sessions de treball
317
ponents
The second event of Smart City Expo World
Congress established Barcelona as the leading
world capital of smart cities. More than 7,000
professionals from 82 countries met at the Gran
Via venue to discuss the main challenges that cities
will meet in the near future, to present available
solutions and to explore business opportunities in
this new field.
Cities will definitely be at the centre of world
development during the next decade, and most
of the planet’s population will live in them.
How new cities are built and how current
ones are transformed will be a key aspect
in the future of humankind, as the lectures
and discussions held during the three days
of the event made evident.
The transformation of current cities into smart
cities is not only and objective need from the
environmental and economic standpoint, but it has
also opened a new market for small and medium-
sized companies in several different sectors, for
most of which Smart City Expo has been the perfect
meeting point, as they took advantage of the
networking areas to do business and start new and
innovative projects.
Among the 317 speakers in more than 60
sessions, worthy of special note are Carlo Ratti,
head at the SENSEable City Lab at Massachusetts
Institute of Technology; Charles Landry, economist,
urban development specialist and founder
of Comedia; Robert Puentes, infrastructures
and urban mobility specialist at the Brookings
Institution in Nova York; Thomas Barrett, head of
technical services and financial counselling at the
European Investment Bank; and Ricky Burdett,
architect and city planner, and professor at the
London School of Economics.
One of the new features of this second event was
Smart City Plaza, a little portion of a city which
visitors could experience, a smart city equipped with
several of the urban technologies available today,
implemented and fully functioning. In an area of
1,200 m
2
, different urban spaces were replicated,
such as an official building, a garden area, a parking
lot and an office building. The streets and buildings
showed to what extent this innovations might
improve the citizen’s quality of life, and decrease
the environmental impact of human activity and the
high costs of the maintenance of services.
Barcelona, city of cities
In the congress, cities were of special
importance. Cities from the five continents took
part in specific sessions were current and future
projects were discussed. Some of the participant
cities were Birmingham, Bogotá, Boston,
Buenos Aires, Copenhagen, Durban, Fukushima,
Guangzhou, Haifa, Helsinki, Kansas City, Nova
Delhi, Nova York, Rio de Janeiro, Santander,
Shenzhen, Sydney, Tokyo, Vancouver, Vienna,
Yokohama and Zapopan.
The attendance of official delegations from different
countries was also remarkable, including Argentina,
Brazil, China, Colombia, Denmark, Israel, Japan,
Kazakhstan, Malaysia and the United Kingdom.
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SWAB
International Contemporary Art Fair Barcelona
23-26/05
MONTJUÏC. 5TH EVENT
Area:
5,000 m
2
(rough)
Exhibitors:
64
Type:
professional and public
Activities:
concerts, colloquiums,
performances, exhibitions
Organised by
Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo
Diez y 7
16
more galleries than the 2011 event
Swab appeared in 2006 with the aim of
introducing emergent international contemporary
artists, and it has established itself as one of the
most interesting cultural events. It is the only
contemporary art fair founded by a collector,
whose intention is to make this kind of art more
accessible to wider audiences.
That is the reason why its selection committee,
formed by gallery directors and art professionals,
not only makes a selection of received applicants.
At Swab, process of election is based on searching
