Forotech also hosts the Spanish edition of the Ada Byron International Award for Women in Technology to showcase women's work in science and technology, promote women's R&D careers and highlight the importance of technology as a value for economic growth and the future of society. The international importance of the award has been strengthened, as it will be awarded for the second time at the end of November in Córdoba, Argentina, taking over from last year's Mexican edition.

One of the innovations of Forotech 2020 was LabsLand, a startup that provides Internet access to educational labs for schools and universities. This technology allows schools and universities around the world to be connected remotely to the facilities and put online for the entire network. This project by a former student at the University of Deusto has laboratories in 14 countries on all continents.

Within Forotech 2020, schools (from Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa, as well as from other Latin American countries) could enter the LabsLand competition to learn the basics of programming and robotics and test their codes on real robots from home, but located in Bilbao, South Africa, Costa Rica or Colombia.
ForoTech 2020 is sponsored by: Microsoft, Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, Ejie (Basque Government IT Association), Emakunde, Bizkaia Provincial Council, Bilbao City Council, Bilbao, Ihobe, Vidrala, NTS, Spri Group, Innolab, DanobatGroup, Basque Government, Bilbao Ekintza, Fomento de San Sebastián and the Euskaltel Foundation; and other organizations: DeustoTech, Deusto FabLab, Deusto EarningLab, Innobasque, BasqueHealthCluster, Bilbao Youth Musicals. Alzola Water and LabsLand.

Ada Byron Award

María Ángeles Martín Prats, Professor of Electronic Technology, won the Ada Byron Award for Women Technologist at the University of Deusto.

The Ada Byron Award for Women in Technology seeks to reward and bring to the forefront the careers of today’s women technologists, who have been a benchmark for scientists and technologists who have made their contributions in many scientific disciplines over the centuries, such as Ada Byron.

The award is aimed at women with a degree or career in technology, engineering and scientific fields closely related to technology.

The objectives of the award are:

• Show women their place in the world of technology, recognizing important work that society as a whole does not know.
• Enriching society with events of technological expansion, showing new role models to new generations.
• Promoting technological vocations by bringing technological work closer to young people, emphasizing the positive aspects, especially in women’s vocations.
• Demonstrate the importance of technology in economic growth, as well as its future value to society.
• On the other hand, in the cloister next to the Auditorium, a technological exhibition was held on 28, 29 and 30 October. Anyone could pass by the place where the exhibition is located. More than twenty technological samples of all kinds were on display to show how local companies and research organizations, using engineering, are working on innovation, value and wealth.