The president of Uruguay was in charge of opening the meeting today and gave way to the presentations and round tables, in one of which Fran González will intervene tomorrow
The Cádiz Consortium participates with a stand in which it shows its industry 4.0 activity and Blue Economy projects and includes Marisma Biomed, one of the Incubazul startups, as a model.
The State delegate in the Free Zone of Cádiz, Fran González, its commercial director, Marta Domínguez, and the coordinator of Incubazul, Jose Manuel Fedriani, are giving visibility in Punta del Este in Uruguay to the strengths of the Cádiz Consortium, its industry 4.0 model and its Blue Economy, Incubazul and Blue Core projects, within the framework of the XXVIII Conference of Ibero-American Free Zones that was inaugurated today in the Uruguayan town.
The President of the Republic, Yamandú Orsi, was in charge of opening the conference, which concludes on Friday. The opening ceremony was also attended by national and international authorities, including the director of Tax Advisory of the Ministry of Economy and Finance, Álvaro Romano; the national director of Free Zones, Isabella Antonaccio; the president of the Chamber of Free Trade Zones of Uruguay, Enrique Buero; World FZO CEO Samir Hamrouni; and the president of the Association of Free Zones of the Americas (AZFA), Claudia Pellerano.
For three days, the conference will bring together more than 300 leaders, authorities, businessmen and experts from 23 countries around topics such as technology 4.0, sustainability and future employment. In addition to conferences and round tables, the program will include a networking fair, exchange spaces and the AZFA Affiliate Assembly, which will mark the closing of the event.
The Cádiz Free Trade Zone is also present at the meeting with a stand in the exhibitor area, where information is displayed on industry 4.0 in the Cadiz tax area and the growing incorporation of innovative companies and the ecosystem created around its Blue Economy, Incubazul and Blue Core projects. The stand of the Cádiz Free Trade Zone and Blue Core, which also includes the startup Marisma Biomed, has been visited by the Uruguayan president, who has shown great interest and has received explanations from those responsible for the Cádiz Consortium.
It is precisely one of the novelties with respect to other similar events that on this occasion participates together with the Free Zone and in its same stand Marisma Biomed, which will serve as a reference and model to show the good functioning of the acceleration program and the excellent development and consolidation of this firm.
It must be remembered that Marisma Biomed focuses on the creation of food products from different natural sources of the tidal marsh, such as salicornia. For their activity, they have transformed marshes into R&D spaces and have discovered species with unique benefits, in some cases even preventing diseases and improving people's well-being, especially around cardiovascular health.
The presence of Marisma Biomed, with Joan and Sara Montaner present in Uruguay, acquires greater value due to the fact that the health and pharmaceutical field is a very important sector in Uruguayan free zones such as Zonamérica, which offers infrastructure and services for this sector, including laboratories, distribution centers and offices, and has become a strategic platform for companies linked to health, with more than 60% of the movement of pharmaceutical products.
Fran González, on the panel “Free Trade Zones: Challenges and Opportunities in Disruptive Times”
During tomorrow's session, Thursday, Fran González will participate in one of the panels of experts, a round table titled “Free Trade Zones: Challenges and Opportunities in Disruptive Times”, in which they will participate together with the Cádiz-based Andrés Prada, director of Megalabs Globa, a large Latin American pharmaceutical company; Carlos Wong, executive director of the Coyol Free Zone of Costa Rica; and Luca Estebenet, representative of Epic Aerospace, an Argentine company that develops equipment for towing satellites; all of them moderated by Fernando Carazo, general manager of the La Lima Free Zone, also from Costa Rica.
Fran González will explain how the Cádiz Free Trade Zone has been able to adapt to changes, implementing a new industrial model with the Blue Economy as its axis and generating value around the sea with new industries such as marine energy, blue biotechnology, smart aquaculture, sustainable tourism or advanced management of the water cycle.
Today and tomorrow's sessions will be full of interesting presentations that combine technology and innovation with the ecosystem, infrastructure and the most traditional activity of free zones, such as alliances between entities, investments and data on the global economy of Latin America.