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Barcelona Activa celebrates a successful conference about employment opportunities in the audiovisual sector

Throughout 2021, online conferences will be held in order to analyse trends around the city’s different strategic sectors

Barcelona, 29 Jan 2021

“The audiovisual sector in Catalonia is becoming stronger under the framework of creativity and technology in an increasingly digital scenario. Barcelona is becoming the technological capital of South Europe”. These words of the Cluster Manager of the Catalan Audiovisual Cluster, Eduard Gil, marked the launch of the conference regarding trends and opportunities in the audiovisual sector this Wednesday, which was held online and saw the participation of more than 100 users.

The goal of the session was to analyse the most sought-after professional profiles in terms of businesses and current trends in the audiovisual sector. In fact, currently in Catalonia there are more than 1,100 businesses which form part of the audiovisual industry which employs more than 26,600 people.

The HR Manager of Grupo Livinia, Elena Estévez, confirmed in the second inaugural speech that Covid-19 has prompted a rise in online audiovisual consumption, generating a constant need for new content. These new habits of consumption have caused the demands of companies to change, now opting for more technical profiles which specialise in technical competencies, or in other words, profiles which are able to manage this new digital environment and its tools.

In the same vein, the experts who participated in the roundtable discussion pointed especially to the need to incorporate web programmers and film marketing profiles in a market which is increasingly demanding and whose international cooperation demands the ability to speak English at a professional level.

At the end of the conference, a dynamic session of networking was held, where various participants were encouraged to give an elevator pitch to businesses in a virtual space of interaction and connection which was very useful to create new professional synergies. Visit this Twitter thread to relive the conference.

More sectoral conferences in the coming months

Throughout the year of 2021, Barcelona Activa has designed an itinerary of sectoral conferences to analyse the employment market of the city’s different strategic sectors in depth. The conferences which will be celebrated next will be about the silver economy, commerce, the creative industries, sports, the digital economy, logistics, the green economy and design.