On May 9, 10 and 11, the Startup Weekend Santiago entrepreneurship contest was held in the city of Santiago, an event that runs in 478 cities around the world, with the mission of inspiring, educating and empowering individuals, teams and communities in the creation of innovation processes and technological development.

The director of the Business Administration Engineering program, Mg., participated in the activity. Andrés Álvarez, with the aim of applying, in practice, together with other professionals, the work system and the cutting-edge methodologies implemented in entrepreneurship.

The essential idea of ​​the Startup system is to form a global network of entrepreneurial leaders, which is why it also has the sponsorship of important companies such as Google and Microsoft, among others.

The dynamics of the event consisted of an intensive 54-hour work, in which entrepreneurs form teams around an innovative idea, with the aim of turning it into a technological and digital-based company.

''This type of competition has the particularity of linking multidisciplinary teams, which greatly strengthens the development of high-impact projects. At our University we have been working for some time with the same methodologies, which is a considerable advance, thinking that our future professionals at some point will be able to be part of this type of instances," said Álvarez.

The event included a keynote talk by Steve Blank, one of the most important authors in the development of startup methodologies, and the participation of important national and international mentors for project monitoring and support.

The participants also had the opportunity to see the facilities of the UC Anacleto Angelini Innovation Center, located on the San Joaquín Campus, a building that will be inaugurated soon and will house important companies for the development of innovation and entrepreneurship worldwide.