{"id":21318,"date":"2019-11-01T18:33:21","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T16:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/?p=21318"},"modified":"2019-11-01T20:34:13","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T18:34:13","slug":"join-us-event-city-sofia-market-innovative-products-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/join-us-event-city-sofia-market-innovative-products-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Join us for the Event \u2018The City of Sofia &#8211; Market for your Innovative Products and Solutions\u2019\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21319 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/FBEvent-DigitalCitiesChallenge-01.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/FBEvent-DigitalCitiesChallenge-01.png 1920w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/FBEvent-DigitalCitiesChallenge-01-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/FBEvent-DigitalCitiesChallenge-01-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/FBEvent-DigitalCitiesChallenge-01-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/FBEvent-DigitalCitiesChallenge-01-600x338.png 600w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/FBEvent-DigitalCitiesChallenge-01-260x146.png 260w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/FBEvent-DigitalCitiesChallenge-01-50x28.png 50w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/FBEvent-DigitalCitiesChallenge-01-133x75.png 133w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After 18-months of work the <\/span><b>Digital Transformation Strategy for Sofia<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is ready.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>The goal <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is to turn Sofia into a market for innovative products and solutions by strengthening the local ICT and start-up ecosystem and enabling local companies (small and big) to supply digital products to the city.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are now looking to enlarge the 100-people-strong community of supporters and ambassadors who worked on the Strategy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Join us for the event <\/span><b>\u2018The City of Sofia &#8211; Market for your Innovative Products and Solutions\u2019 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to learn about the vision for digital transformation of Sofia and share your thoughts with us!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Topics:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>We want to turn the city into a market-creator <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by getting the local start-up community involved in solving local challenges and using the city as a test ground for new digital services.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>We want to get organised <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by establishing an office that will stay in touch with you and keep track of the products you develop, while identifying the needs of the local market and managing the process of digitalisation in the city.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Come and meet:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vladimir Danailov &#8211; CEO\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Iskra Yovkova &#8211; Investment &amp; Business Development Department<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mark-Aleks Evtimov &#8211; Investment &amp; Business Development Department<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tuesday, 5 November 2019 from 18:30-20:00<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/493863444538666\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Puzl CowOrKing<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, bul. Cherni Vrah 47, floor 4, 1407 Sofia, Bulgaria<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is no entrance fee or need to register.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>&#8212;&#8212;-<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Factsheet about the Digital Transformation Strategy for Sofia:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; In January 2018 Sofia Investment Agency on behalf of Sofia Municipality won a place in the Digital Cities Challenge Project of the DG Grow of the European Commission, along with 40+ EU cities.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; The Strategy was developed following a methodology provided by the EC and it aims to map the road to the digitalisation of Sofia by turning the city into a platform for the digital products created in the city.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; As identified in the Strategy, the city should create opportunities for the local ICT sector to get involved in solving local challenges and to use the city as a test ground for new digital services.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; 18 operational goals and 14 activities were identified in order to create a specific action plan for digitalisation.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For more information, please visit our webpage <\/span><a href=\"\/?page_id=16885\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Digital Sofia<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; After 18-months of work the Digital Transformation Strategy for Sofia is ready.\u00a0 The goal is to turn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":21319,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}