South Summit Madrid 2025 brings together 400 speakers, 140 investors, and 17 unicorns from around the world
South Summit Madrid 2025, co-organised with IE University, it will hold its fourteenth edition from June 4 to 6 at La Nave. Under the theme “In Motion,” this event solidifies Madrid’s position as a global capital of innovation and entrepreneurship. #SouthSummit25 will feature more than 430 speakers, 140 investors – 68% of whom are international – and 17 unicorns from around the world who will share their experiences, challenges, and opportunities for global growth.
South Summit Madrid 2025 will bring together world-class speakers such as Marc Randolph, co-founder of Netflix; Greg Hoffman, the mind behind Nike’s global brand evolution; and Dennis Hong, UCLA professor and one of the world’s leading authorities in robotics. The event will also feature prominent female entrepreneurs, including Marci Zaroff, one of the earliest sustainability experts in the fashion industry and founder and CEO of ECOfashion Corp; Adriana Pereira, co-founder and CMO of The Fabricant, a pioneer in AI-powered digital fashion; and Pinar Demirdag, co-founder and CEO of Cuebric, a groundbreaking venture merging film and generative AI technology.
In the Fintech ecosystem, a standout participant is Pedro Conrade, founder of Brazilian digital bank and unicorn Neon, among many others. On the investment side, key figures include Paul Murphy, partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, which manages an $8 billion fund focused on artificial intelligence.
One of the event’s core pillars, the Startup Competition, has broken participation records this year, featuring 100 finalist startups from 22 different countries.
New Content Pillars: Four Perspectives to Understand Global Innovation
The content of #SouthSummit25 will be structured around four major pillars, offering a cross-cutting and interconnected perspective on the challenges facing today’s entrepreneurial and innovation ecosystems. The first of these, Growth, will address how to scale businesses sustainably by fostering collaborative ecosystems and attracting talent in an environment marked by uncertainty and constant change. This track will focus on the keys to growth: investment, organisational culture, collaboration, and team evolution.
For its part, the Sustainable Action axis will be based on a clear premise: there is no lasting innovation if it is not aligned with the rhythms of the planet. Solutions linked to the energy transition, Climate Tech, efficient resource management, as well as challenges and opportunities in fields such as food or sustainable agriculture, will be explored.
The Humanity 2.0 track will place the human being at the centre of innovation, with content focused on the social impact of technology. From inclusion to digital ethics, speakers will discuss how to ensure that technological advancement benefits people. Topics such as the application of AI in everyday life, digital education (edtech), new financial solutions, technological regulation or the generation of trust in the digital age will be addressed.
Finally, the Tech Horizons axis will offer a window into the future, with a focus on emerging technologies that are transforming entire industries. From advanced Artificial Intelligence and neurotechnology, to quantum computing, biotechnology or new realities such as the metaverse, this block will serve to anticipate the next great technological leaps and their implications for society and companies.
