Casa Valonia 2025 will be taking place for the first time in Malaga, fast-growing digital hub. Conceived as a meeting place where Walloon operators can exchange ideas and build new relationships with their foreign counterparts, Casa Valonia has established itself as a strategic event enabling Wallonia to extend its influence internationally. The theme of this 2025 Spanish edition, will focus on the digital and creative industries.
Casa Valonia is a 360° visibility operation, co-organized by the Wallonia Export & Investment Agency and Wallonie Bruxelles International to promote Wallonia under all its economic, scientific, cultural, academic, tourist and gastronomic facets. Initially set up in Madrid (2019, 2021 and 2023), then in Milan in 2022 and Turin in 2024, this traveling event is organized every two years in Spain, alternating every other year with Italy.
With a population of over 600,000, the city of Malaga was selected this year for its dynamic economy, its technological appeal and its international outlook, with more than 150 nationalities represented.
Creative and digital industries
The theme of digital and creative industries was already a great success two years ago in Madrid and this 2025 edition continues to explore these innovative digital technologies, this time applied to 3 specific sectors:
- Health and MedTechs
- Tourism and smart cities
- Entertainment, SportsTech, ArtTech and Culture Tech
The program
From March 26 to March 28, Walloon and Spanish companies, start-ups, research centers, universities and university colleges, cultural players, entrepreneurs and professionals will be sharing their best practices. As well as the traditional B2B sessions, there will also be visits to strategic infrastructures, such as Vodafone’s R&D center and its business lab. From visits to the Video Game Museum and the Giantx e-sport studio to meetings with major players in the Spanish digital sector, such as the Andalusian Technology Park, Casa Valonia 2025 promises a rich and immersive program at the heart of Spanish innovation.
Casa Valonia also intends to reinforce academic agreements between higher education establishments in Andalusia and the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, and to build bridges between research centers in order to have more power in Horizon Europe’s flagship programs. This action also aims to promote the Walloon Region to Spanish investors in the sector who would like to set up their company abroad.
An ambitious Walloon delegation of 25 companies
25 Walloon companies from the digital and creative industries will be presenting their products and their projects to Spanish partners from the sector.
- AKT: private organization representing companies from all sectors based in Wallonia
- Agent Double Productions: independent audiovisual company that develops, produces and finances series and documentaries for movies and television
- Arteam Interactive: serious games agency specializing in the design of awareness-raising, information and training tools using games techniques
- Be Revolution Pictures: audiovisual production company with the particularity of offering projects combining new technologies and traditional shootings
- Capsule Corp: specializing in the analysis and implementation of Web & IT projects
- Cluster Twist: Walloon media cluster whose mission is to reinforce innovation and growth in the Belgian media industry
- Comunicare Solutions: University of Liege spin-off incubated at WSL, developing and making available IT solutions for sharing and analyzing date in the healthcare sector
- Correia-Tintinger: a team of landscape architects based in Belgium and Portugal
- GIM Wallonie: creates its own software and apps to cross-reference geographical data with customer databases to create a digital twin of a reality on the ground
- Glooh Media: develops a range of IT/digital solutions for targeted, responsive media display, particularly in urban areas (bus shelters) or malls, using kiosks
- Igretec: inter-municipal organization for managing and carrying out technical and economic studies
- KIKK: this non-for-profit organisation works to build bridges between the arts, sciences, culture and technology, and organizes the international festival of the same name in Namur every year
- Lapino Albino: audiovisual creation/production studio (videos, 2D and 3D animation, motion design)
- Laurence Messina: offers language holidays with or without personal development in Spain for young adults and school groups
- Leansquare: an investment fund managed by Noshaq (60 % private – 40 % public) which helps start-ups in the “new economy” to reach their first round of financing
- Mi 12: creation, development and manufacture of electronics and virtual reality games for leisure centers (karting, laser game, etc.)
- Nomics: MedTech specializing in sleep apnea. Nomics provides qualitative ambulatory for the screening, diagnosis and measurement of the therapeutic effectiveness of sleep-respiratory disorder
- Noshaq: investment fund providing long-term financing for business projects in the province of Liege, with a focus on agri-food, life sciences, real estate, digital, industry 4.0, the cultural industry and sustainable development.
- OZ Consulting: consulting firm specializing in digital transformation in the healthcare sector
- Salamander U: offers innovative digital solutions to help biopharmaceutical companies improve the manufacture of their first batches of medicines, in particular through a voice-controlled batch registration system
- St’Art Invest S.A.: investment fund for cultural industries
- Stéréopsia: annual event dedicated to digital image technologies organised by IMAGE&3D EUROPE asbl in Liege and Brussels
- Telemis: a fast-growing company specialising in medical equipment, PACS/MACS (Picture / Multimedia Archiving & Communication System) solutions, digital pathology and Business Intelligence solutions for healthcare
- Timi: a specialist in Machine Learning, AI, Big Data and Business Intelligence, Timi designs data analysis and processing software with two core values: ethics and creativity
- Wallimage: public investment fund dedicated to the audiovisual and gaming sectors
Casa Valonia 2025, with its focus on innovation and creativity, is theplace to be this spring. Here for all the spanish who’d like to subscribe to the event! All Spanish wishing to register for the event can do so here!
Julie Hanssen
