Apple invites for the second time a student of La Salle-URL to its world conference, WWDC 2016

Apple has selected for the second time a student of La Salle-URL, Pau Vila, to attend one of the world’s biggest events, the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2016 (WWDC), where the novelties of the American company are presented to be held from June 13 to 17 in San Francisco. Pau Vila is currently studying third course of the Degree in Organization of ICT (OTIC) in La Salle-URL, pioneering studies training engineers that combine management and engineering knowledge, encouraging innovation and entrepreneurship, which makes it a very defendant profile in the business environment.

Apple's goal is to find young people who will be influential in the sector in the coming years. Apple selects 350 students from around the world to participate in its annual convention, attending various conferences, workshops and networking sessions with travel and accommodation included for up to 125 of them, as has been the case with Pau Vila. To be selected, Pau had to design an iPhone application that summarizes his academic and professional life, fill out a form about his abilities and future interests, and present a letter of recommendation. This year only four of all selected students are from Spain In addition, the selected group has been invited by a number of Silicon Valley companies as Twitter or Linkedin, to other workshops and visits during those same days.

Pau is 20 years old, and he is currently working in the department of technological risks in the consulting industry. Two years ago, with only 18 years of age, he created with some colleagues his first business project, the Clipcare startup. It was about an application of technical assistance that generates an automatic response according to the request for information or query received through an algorithm.

Pau Vila participation will be the second of a student of La Salle-URL in the WWDC since in 2014 Marc Expósito who is currently at MIT in Boston also had the chance to attend an Apple world conference.