South Summit Madrid 2024, co-organised by IE University, continues to bring together world leaders and experts from the entrepreneurial and innovation ecosystem for its 13th edition, which will be held from June 5 to 7 at La Nave in Madrid under the slogan 'Human by Design'. The main meeting for startups, investors and corporations has announced its content programme in which nearly 500 speakers – 60% of them of international origin – 121 investment funds and 24 unicorns will unravel the keys for innovation and technology to be developed to improve the quality of life of human beings.

Banking and insurance companies are undergoing an unprecedented digital transformation process that is revolutionising customer experience, risk management practices and operational efficiency. In fact, just two years ago, banking in Spain was positioned as the most digitally mature in the world. Technologies such as blockchain, artificial intelligence or the Internet of Things are being implemented on the rise to democratise operations and advance in a new industry paradigm. In this regard, market reports reveal that 47% of banks worldwide are already planning to integrate AI in order to respond to the growing demands of their users in optimising processes.

Whether you're already running a business or just sketching out your blueprint, how you scale up your venture is probably on your mind.

Tom Biggs, Partner at Wellers, a firm of small business accountants, discusses the tax changes you need to know to efficiently plan for your next tax return.

Employee share schemes are an increasingly popular way for businesses to recruit, retain, and motivate their teams but a number of competing priorities around valuations, proceeds and timeframes can scupper the raft of benefits founders expect to see.

Enterprising Women, a free business support programme for aspiring female founders, has launched for its fourth year.

In the exhilarating world of entrepreneurship, the focus is often on the journey, the hustle, and the grind. The idea of having an exit strategy can sometimes feel like an admission of defeat or a concession that the grand vision might not pan out as expected.

This Mental Health Awareness Week, new research from BT has uncovered widespread anxiety among business leaders about the pace of technological change in the workplace.

AstroLabs, the Gulf’s leading business expansion platform, is pleased to announce the launch of a comprehensive guidebook that shines a light on the thriving Saudi tourism industry and the Kingdom’s ascendancy as a global tourist destination.

ORCA Computing, a prominent quantum computing startup, and Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC), a globally recognised research and development supercomputing centre, have announced a collaboration with NVIDIA.

According to MHFA England, poor mental health accounts for over half (51%) of workplace related illness. Research by Deloitte also shows that poor mental health costs UK employers up to £56 billion annually.

Reed Global – the family-run group of companies committed to improving lives through work – has acquired Code Nation, one of the UK’s fastest-growing independent digital and technical training providers.

I was reading something recently about semantic satiation, a term for when a word or phrase is repeated so often it loses all sense of meaning.

New research from the Cloud Industry Forum (CIF) has found that 100% of organisations are now accessing Cloud-based services to meet their needs, with the most common motivation being its potential to offer greater flexibility of IT spend, and its ability to make them more agile as a business.

Tech-enabled childcare startup, tiney.co, set up by the founder of Teach First, has raised a £7.2m ($9m) Series A round led by Mustard Seed Partners and joined by PortfoLion, Sparkmind, and Rubio.

The UK economy has emerged from a recession fuelled by stronger-than-expected growth between January and March, according to official figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS).

Currently, oncology staff must manually search thousands of patient health records to find the right trials or care pathways for their patients. Triomics is announcing it has raised $15M to help cancer centres streamline these workflows and process oncology data at scale by applying their framework to build, institution-tuned large language models (OncoLLM) and use case-specific software.

Superfy, the AI-powered social networking platform catering to Gen Z, has successfully raised a further $2.2m in its latest funding round, bringing its total funding to $6.7m.

ICONE, a project by GIZ (German Agency for International Cooperation) promoting the competitiveness of Cambodian businesses, and Eatable Adventures, a Foodtech accelerator, collaborate to drive innovation in the agri-food sector in northwest Cambodia.

As part of the Innovate UK BridgeAI programme, Digital Catapult has announced that seven companies from across the country will join its High Growth AI Accelerator for transport, to drive adoption of AI and machine learning (ML).