The most important euro mediterranean festival on innovation and business.

Heroes Prize Competition 2017 is the contest, organized inside the event, for the most innovative startup.

Heroes Maratea, which occurred from 21st to 23rd September 2017 in the beautiful Lucanian city, dedicated to national and international startup the Heroes Prize Competition 2017: 52 selected startup, and Agricolus was one of them, confronted each other in front of investors coming from Italy and abroad.

The five finalists presented their innovative solution while having lunch with lucanian families… it was a very original challenge!

Fluidia ranked first and won the prize of 20.ooo euros.

Fluidia is a solution able to develop, validate and trade new molecular test used for diagnosis and prognosis of human diseases. Axieme ranked second: it is a startup which allows to share insurance risk with other people. Pertinet, dealing with creation of engineering surfaces for stem cells production, ranked third.

 

3 days characterized by meetings and co-planning laboratories, but at the same time by relax on the beach and boat trips with some of  the main actors of economy and innovation.

The event aims to support the exchange of supply and demand about innovation, promoting collaboration and ideas nurturing.

The main themes of this edition were:

  • Industry 4.0
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Man-machine interaction
  • Augmented reality
  • Fintech
  • Cyber security
  • Technological transfer

Some of the most “eroic” characters of our time talked about them, aiming to take an active part in the creation of a better and sustainable future.

Here the name of the speakers: Amanda Bradford, Founder & CEO The League, Chris Walts, Associate Director at Ogilvy London, Leah Wald, Founder Veterati, Davide Venturelli, Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Computing, Nanosciences and Robotics (NASA, USRA, Archon), Janusz Marecki, Senior Research Scientist Google DeepMind, Savannah Peterson, Founder and Chief Unicorn of Savvy Millennial e Polina Raygorodskaya, CEO & Co-Founder Wanderu.