By Enrico Aillaud, Founder & Lead Engineer — Yameveo
4YFN 2026 runs at Fira Gran Via from 2 to 5 March, and we will be there. If you are attending MWC or 4YFN this week, you will find us at stand 8.0E41.3, Hall 8.0, in the 4YFN startup area.
MWC and 4YFN — Two Events, One Floor Plan
A quick clarification worth making: MWC Barcelona is the main mobile and connectivity congress (100,000+ attendees, telco operators, enterprise vendors). 4YFN — 4 Years From Now — is the startup-focused track that runs alongside it, same dates, same venue, but with its own entrance in Hall 8 and its own programme built around founders, early-stage companies, and the investors who back them.
Stand 8.0E41.3 puts us squarely in that startup space. That is intentional. Yameveo is not a large systems integrator looking for procurement conversations — we are a technical team building AI-driven cybersecurity tooling, and 4YFN is where the relevant conversations happen.
Why 4YFN 2026 Is Worth Attending This Year
This edition introduced a dedicated Cybersecurity track for the first time. The framing around it is not abstract: global information security spending is forecast to reach $244 billion in 2026 — roughly 13% growth year-on-year. The previous 4YFN edition brought together over 900 investors with a combined €60 billion in funds. That is the environment we are walking into.
The 2026 theme is “Infinite AI.” That phrase lands differently when you are already building multi-agentic AI systems in production, not writing pitch decks about it.
What We Are Working On
Yameveo is one of 14 partners in the VANTAGE project — Vulnerability Assessment aNd Testing Automation for Global Enhancement — a €7+ million EU-funded initiative under the Digital Europe Programme (Grant No. 101249800). We lead WP5, which covers system architecture, integration, and functional and operational requirements. We also contribute backend development across WP2 (AI), WP3 (incident investigation), and WP4 (VAPT).
In practice, that means API design connecting AI modules, LLM integration via LangChain, and building the plumbing that lets a multi-agent system — covering vulnerability assessment, penetration testing, OSINT, dark web monitoring, and SOC automation — actually hang together across 14 organisations in 6 EU countries.
VANTAGE kicked off in Athens on 26–27 February 2026 — just days before MWC opened. We arrived at 4YFN with the consortium fresh out of its first meeting and the initial sprint of the project underway.
Who We Want to Talk To
Three types of conversations are worth having at stand 8.0E41.3:
- SOC teams and CISOs looking at what AI-assisted vulnerability assessment and penetration testing looks like when it is built on multi-agent architecture — not a single-model wrapper.
- Potential VANTAGE pilot partners — the project targets European SOCs and CSIRTs. If your organisation fits that profile and you want to understand what pilot participation involves, come by.
- EU project and consortium partners — if you are working in the Digital Europe Programme ecosystem, or adjacent EU funding programmes in cybersecurity or AI, we are interested in the conversation.
We are not running demos of finished product — VANTAGE is 36 months, and we are in month two. Early enough that the architecture is still being validated and the research questions are still being sharpened, but far enough in that we have a clear read on where this is going. What we can talk through precisely is how the system is designed to work and what problems it will solve when it is built.
Find Us
Stand 8.0E41.3, Hall 8.0, 4YFN area, Fira Gran Via — 2 to 5 March 2026.
If you want to schedule time rather than take your chances on the floor: hello@yameveo.ai. Short email, specific ask, and we will find a slot.
Funded by the European Union under the Digital Europe Programme. Views and opinions expressed are those of Yameveo and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Cybersecurity Competence Centre (ECCC). VANTAGE — Grant Agreement No. 101249800.