
Mechanical engineer turned software founder. I started out designing aerospace manufacturing facilities in VR at DAHER, then founded Konfigear in 2019 to bring the same visualization tools to the way configurable products are sold. Today the platform serves more than 200 organizations across 20+ countries, and Konfiwear applies it specifically to custom apparel.


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Yassine Ait Oufkir


[MWC Barcelona](https://www.mwcbarcelona.com/) is sold as a mobile show. Walk the halls in 2024 and it was an AI show with phones attached. I started the year there with Konfigear — less to collect brochures than to see what the rest of the industry had decided was no longer optional.

I was there because [ASTUREX](https://www.asturex.org/) and [CEEI Asturias](https://www.ceei.es/) put a regional delegation on the floor: Asturias Startup Paradise next to the Spain Pavilion. That is the useful version of a trade fair. You do not wander 100,000 people hoping to get lucky. You stand with people who already know why you are in the building.

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  <img src="/images/yassine-ait-oufkir-mwc-2024-barcelona.jpg" alt="Yassine Ait Oufkir, founder of Konfigear, at Mobile World Congress 2024 in Barcelona between the UK and Spain flags" width="768" height="1024" loading="lazy" decoding="async" />
  <figcaption>MWC 2024, Fira Gran Via, Barcelona.</figcaption>
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  <img src="/images/mwc-2024-barcelona-entrance-fira-gran-via.jpg" alt="Crowd of attendees outside the MWC 2024 entrance at Fira Barcelona Gran Via" width="768" height="1024" loading="lazy" decoding="async" />
  <figcaption>The plaza outside Fira Gran Via — MWC still looks like a city arriving at work.</figcaption>
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  <img src="/images/mwc-2024-asturias-startup-paradise-pavilion.jpg" alt="Asturias Startup Paradise pavilion at MWC 2024, with ASTUREX, CEEI Asturias and SEKUENS branding" width="1024" height="1024" loading="lazy" decoding="async" />
  <figcaption>Asturias Startup Paradise — ASTUREX, CEEI Asturias, SEKUENS.</figcaption>
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  <img src="/images/mwc-2024-spain-pavilion-barcelona.jpg" alt="Spain Pavilion at Mobile World Congress 2024 in Barcelona, viewed from above the hall" width="768" height="1024" loading="lazy" decoding="async" />
  <figcaption>The Spain Pavilion on the MWC floor.</figcaption>
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  <img src="/images/mwc-2024-connected-industries-stand.jpg" alt="Connected Industries stage at MWC 2024 in Barcelona, lit in blue with presentation seating" width="1024" height="1024" loading="lazy" decoding="async" />
  <figcaption>Connected Industries — the part of the show that was no longer about handsets.</figcaption>
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I came back with a shorter list than I expected. AI was not a side stage. It was in every demo that mattered, including the industrial ones. For Konfigear that confirmed the same bet we started after Lisbon: configuration software that cannot reason about a product will look dated faster than the hardware around it. 2024 was for making that real, not announcing it.


Yassine Ait Oufkir at MWC 2024 in Barcelona — Konfigear with the Asturias delegation, and what a week of AI-heavy product demos changed in how we think about configuration.

MWC 2024: Konfigear at Mobile World Congress Barcelona


[Web Summit](https://websummit.com/) 2023 in Lisbon is still the largest room I have stood in as a founder. I was there with Konfigear, as a partner, on the Spanish Pavilion — talking to people who already sell configurable products and were trying to decide what AI actually changes in that work.

The pavilion exists because of the Asturias and Spanish trade stack behind us: [CEEI Asturias](https://www.ceei.es/), [ASTUREX](https://www.asturex.org/), [ICEX](https://www.icex.es/), and [Cluster TIC Asturias](https://clustertic.net/). They do not just book a stand. They put you next to operators who will tell you, in ten minutes, whether your product is a demo or a tool.

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  <img src="/images/yassine-ait-oufkir-konfigear-web-summit-2023-lisbon.jpg" alt="Yassine Ait Oufkir, founder of Konfigear, wearing a Web Summit 2023 Partner badge in the Lisbon arena" width="1024" height="1024" loading="lazy" decoding="async" />
  <figcaption>Web Summit 2023, Lisbon — Konfigear, Partner badge. <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/aitoufkiir_websummit2023-ai-innovation-activity-7130857062032392192-F_M-" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Original post on LinkedIn</a>.</figcaption>
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  <img src="/images/web-summit-2023-spain-pavilion-delegation-lisbon.jpg" alt="Spanish delegation group photo at the Spain Pavilion, Web Summit 2023 in Lisbon, including Konfigear" width="1024" height="1024" loading="lazy" decoding="async" />
  <figcaption>The Spanish Pavilion delegation at Web Summit 2023.</figcaption>
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  <img src="/images/web-summit-2023-spain-pavilion-networking.jpg" alt="Conversations at the Spain Pavilion green-wall stand during Web Summit 2023 in Lisbon" width="1024" height="1024" loading="lazy" decoding="async" />
  <figcaption>On the floor at the Spain Pavilion — the useful part of the week.</figcaption>
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The conversations kept landing in the same place: configuration is still a reasoning problem. A CPQ system that only stores options is not enough when the customer wants a product that does not exist yet. After Lisbon I started putting more AI into how Konfigear builds those paths — not as a slogan on a slide, as part of the configurator itself.


Yassine Ait Oufkir at Web Summit 2023 in Lisbon — representing Konfigear at the Spanish Pavilion, and why we started putting more AI into CPQ and product configuration.

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MWC 2024: Konfigear at Mobile World Congress Barcelona

Web Summit 2023: Konfigear at the Spanish Pavilion