The “who’s who” of digital descend on Valencia for Campus Party
Valencia will make way for thousands of the worlds most influential and budding technology experts Campus Party kicks off on July 26 at the City of Arts and Sciences. Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, will officially open the seven-day event, which is hailed as the biggest online meeting for innovation, creativity, digital culture and electronic entertainment in the world. It’s at Campus Party where the youth of the technology industry can share their creations and interests, participate in workshops and gain insight into new technologies and communications through presentations hosted by the key innovators of the digital industry.
Now in its 13th year, Campus Party is the trendsetter for many disciplines such as electronic entertainment, robotics, software creation, digital culture, modding, security and networks and digital creativity. Human-robot interaction is a key focus this year; engineers from Spanish company AISoy Robotics will present to the world AISoy1, a new type of robot for in-house use that can feel, learn, play, listen and talk to humans. Bram Vanderborght from the University of Brussels will discuss how robot applications can make life easier, and Bob Allen from Silicon Valley will be informing guests about the robots they are developing in OLogic Inc.
Campus Party has grown into a necessary calendar appointment for members of the tech community, and last year more than 6,000 visitors attended the Valencia event, held in the City of Arts & Sciences.
Campus Party Valencia Director, Miguel Angel Exposito said: “Steve Wozniak’s support of Campus Party confirms again that our event is recognised as one of the most important and influential for the technology sphere. Each year we continue to bring the best worldwide professionals to Valencia to share and impart their knowledge with the future generation of technology professionals to listen and take from the knowledge and experts’ experiences with them”.
Campus Party in Valencia will be held from July 26 to August 1 in the Museum of Sciences Principe Felipe within The City of Arts & Sciences. This modern, 21st-century design museum is surrounded by over 13,000 square metres of water curtains and has built a reputation for hosting activities and initiatives related to the evolution of life and the dissemination of scientific and technological information.
For anyone interested in attending the Valencia Campus Party or would like more information visit: www.campus-party.org and the Valencia Tourism website for what to do and where to stay while in Valencia: www.turisvalencia.es
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For further press information:
Megan Whiteside
McCluskey International
Tel: 0208 237 7979 or email valencia@mccluskey.co.uk
About Campus Party
Campus Party started in 1997 as an event for internet enthusiasts but today has grown into an event for anyone interested to be informed about computers, new technologies and communications. There are four annual editions of the event in: Valencia, Sao Paulo, Bogota and Mexico City.
See Steve Wozniak’s announcement about Campus Party:
About the City of Arts & Sciences
The City of Arts and Sciences is a cultural entertainment centre with stunning architecture and great capacity to entertain, teach and excite by promoting public participation.
Situated along almost two kilometres of what was formerly the bed of the River Turia, with a surface area of 350,000 square metres, the City of Arts and Sciences is a huge open space.
Offering cultural and intellectual leisure, it has given Valencia the best centre of this type in Europe.
The outstanding role of its architecture was made possible thanks to the work of two Spanish architects of international renown, who have contributed the very best of their work to this area: the Valencian Santiago Calatrava, who designed the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía, the Hemisfèric, the Príncipe Felipe Science Museum, the Umbracle, the Ágora, and Félix Candela, designer of the unique roofing of the main Oceanográfico buildings. Visit the official web of the CAC www.cac.es
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