Great news from Brussels

BY Aina Soler

The Atomium is the most visited monument of Brussels. Yearly more than 600.000 people visit the 165 billion times enlarged iron crystal. Created in 1958 for the World Fair, this building stays until today Belgium’s landmark. At 102 meters high you’ve got a beautiful view over Brussels and the nearby royal park. The nine connected hemispheres house permanent and temporary exhibitions.

We are very proud to announce that this month, the Atomium will start using CloudGuide to let their visitors explore the inside. Since the Atomium building is entirely made of steel, it acts as a Faraday cage and prevents any mobile connection. Fortunately, CloudGuide has an offline option and it came out as the most suitable solution to overcome this shortcoming. From now on, the app will be used by many of the visitors attending daily to the Atomium.

The trip to Silicon Valley

BY Aina Soler

CloudGuide has returned home after taking part of the Immersion Program of Spain Tech Center (STC) that hosted for two weeks ten Spanish technology startup companies in order to make contact with capitalist investors in addition to legal and financial advisers.

The ten participating startup companies belong or are linked to the technology sector, in particular, to applications development, open source tools, Big Data, online education platforms and solutions for revenue management, among others.

During two intense weeks they have been in the Californian city using the services of Spain Tech Center, which provides support to Spanish technology companies in their process to internationalization and establishment on the American market. The Spanish entrepreneurs participated in 35 workshops which counted with sessions about business communication, banking and credit in the United States, Venture Capital in emerging markets, international marketing strategies and customer experience. Besides assisting these workshops, participants visited the headquarters of Google, Plug and Play, GSV Labs and Evenbrite, as well as Stanford University.

After the experience, participants come back to Spain with new knowledge and perspectives to apply in their companies.

CloudGuide at the Fundació Joan Miró!

BY Aina Soler

Yesterday CloudGuide was at the Fundació Joan Miró and we are very happy to share this experience with all of you. We stayed there the whole morning  introducing the app and all the featured guides to their visitors. It was great!

Visitors were delighted with the possibility of enjoying the guide of new Miro's Foundation exhibition, 'Miró and the Object'. Also, users were able to do the self guided tour around the sculpture garden that is surrounding the museum.

CloudGuide will travel to Silicon Valley!

BY Aina Soler

CloudGuide has been chosen by the Spain Tech Center to participate in the third Immersion Program created by Icex, Red.es and Banco Santander, and managed by Opinno, which consists in a two-day training in Madrid and two intensive weeks in San Francisco.

During the Immersion Program, companies will attend over 35 workshops and will conduct visits to the most advanced technology companies in the area, including Google, Dropbox or Eventbrite. They will also have the opportunity to meet a network of experts in innovation and entrepreneurship, as well as entrepreneurs and executives with extensive experience in Silicon Valley.

The program's objective is helping 10 companies to take a strategic decision on whether it is the place and the right time for their company to be established in the US market.

These companies will accompany Cloudguide in this adventure: BeOnPrice, Ezzing, FonYou, LeanXcale, Mint Labs, Start & up America, Subtix, TechRules and Yosko, which have been selected from more than 95 applicants. They all have a product or service that stands out for its technological prowess, a business model that works and market acceptance.

Agenda CloudGuide Week October 5th-11th

BY Azucena Lozano

Here we come again with our CloudGuide Agenda to spot your days with the most interesting and suggestive art events and cultural appointments.

Check what we have chosen this time for you:

• Why Not Judy Chicago? Is opening next October 8th. Curated by Xabier Arakistain, the exhibition Why Not Judy Chicago? at Azkuna Zentroa presents a selection of works and documents that provide an overview of over 50 years of production by this pioneer of feminist art. By looking at the close relationship between her work as an artist, art educator, and writer, the exhibition proposes a holistic approach to her career, inasmuch as it retains, with the intention of transforming, the different instances that structure art institutions.  
• Goya. The Portraits is another top exhibition you shouldn’t miss this season at londonier The National Gallery. Striking and often unforgiving, Goya’s portraits demonstrate his daringly unconventional approach and remarkable skill at capturing the psychology of his sitters. It will be opening next Thursday 7th.
• Danh Vō (Banish the Faceless / Reward your Grace) is the surprise of the week. As it is warned in the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía website, Danh Vō utilises 21^st-century industrial exhibition typology to portray the unique architecture in the Palacio de Cristal, encapsulating the nostalgia of a nineteenth-century palaeontology and archaeology museum inside a large display cabinet.  But this is just a clue. Find out the whole puzzle at Palacio de Cristal at El Retiro Park in Madrid and you will fall in love with it just like we did!
• And our last call this time goes to 'Agnes Martin' exhibiton at the Tate, this is the last week to visit it!

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Have a great and arty week with CloudGuide!