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Accenture reinvents productive and business models from its new hub in Barcelona

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Accenture plans to add 100 professionals to its new Agentic AI Innovation Hub in Barcelona next year, which currently employs 200 people.

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Albert Tort and Mercedes Oblanca at Accenture. DISRUPTORES Accenture has inaugurated the Agentic AI Innovation Hub in Barcelona, focused on reinventing productive and business models through agentic artificial intelligence. The hub seeks to accelerate the transformation of organizations, promoting collaboration between people and AI agents to achieve greater productivity and sustainable growth. Cybersecurity, ethics, traceability, and technological governance are priorities in the development of solutions at the new hub. The center, with 200 professionals and plans to expand its workforce, is working on about thirty projects and fosters collaboration among companies, institutions, and the local and international innovative ecosystem. Accompanied by representatives of the Catalan government and the Barcelona City Council, and a good number of agents from the technological and business ecosystem of the Catalan capital, Mercedes Oblanca, CEO and president of Accenture in Spain and Portugal, presented last Friday the Agentic AI Innovation Hub that the company has installed in its Barcelona offices, located in the iconic La Rotonda building, in the upper part of the city. "At a particularly relevant moment for companies, with technological changes traveling at full speed and an increasingly complex geopolitical environment, where the pressure for competitiveness, technological...

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The new Barcelona hub has 200 professionals, to whom a hundred more will be added next year, who are currently working on about thir

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Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

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Sep 28, 2026
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