Startup Europe Village
On April 20th and 21st of April, Net Futures 2016 will be hosting a matchmaking event in the Startup Europe Village at Net Futures 2016, in Brussels, Belgium.
The matchmaking event will be organised by Startup Europe Partnership (SEP), with the support of FIWARE and the Microsoft BizsPark ecosystem. During the event, selected startups will have a chance to meet and network one-on-one with corporates.
On the first day of the event, 25 startups selected from across Europe –including the most promising companies from FIWARE– will get the chance to have one-on-one closed door meetings with renowned corporates that are part of the SEP open innovation platform, like Microsoft, Enel, Telefonica, Telecom Italia, Unipol, BBVA, SKY, Cisco, Virgin and Daimler.
Day two will consist of an open panel discussion, which will be moderated by Mind the Bridge Chairman, Alberto Onetti. It will also involve senior execs and provide insights about opportunities and issues, giving startups a unique chance to interact and collaborate with large corporations. Following the panel, SEP will be presenting some recent data regarding the status of the European startup and scale-up ecosystem.
The Startup Europe Partnership is a platform where the best startups meet the best corporates, with a goal: to make things happen, whether that means procurement (corporates buy products and services from startups), strategic investments and, eventually, acquisition/acqui-hires.
Programme
April 20 2016
09:30-10:15 Welcome to Startup Europe Partnership
10:15-10:45 Corporate Session: Presentation of selected startups
10:15-10:45 Startup Session: How to deal with Corporates
11:15-12:45 SEP Matching: Startup-Corporates 1:1 meetings
11:15-12:45 SEP Peer Sharing
14:30-16:30 SEP Matching: Startup-Corporates 1:1 meetings
14:30-16:30 SEP Peer Sharing
April 21 2016
9:30–10:30 Panel: Startup-Corporate interaction: opportunities and issues
Anastasios Stilianidis, Program Manager for Product Development and Start-up Coordinator, Daimler
Tom Yoritaka, Global Managing Director, Cisco EIR
Jonathon Spanos, Virgin StartUp
Pierluigi Fasano, Director, Head Enterprise Architect Reinsurance, Swiss Re
Tom Braekeleirs, Director Microsoft Innovation Center Flanders
Moderated by Alberto Onetti, Chairman Mind the Bridge and Startup Europe Partnership Coordinator (presentation)
10:30–11:00 Evidence-driven startup policy
Alberto Onetti, Chairman Mind the Bridge and Startup Europe Partnership Coordinator (presentation)
Sidd Bannerjee, Researcher, Digital Startups, Nesta
11:00–11:30 Break
11:30–13:00 Net Futures Closing Plenary, including Startup Europe Village Award Ceremony
About
Startup Europe Partnership (SEP) is an open innovation platform launched by the European Commission. It is is managed by Mind the Bridge and its goal is to initiate qualified connections between top European scale-ups and medium and large corporations, in order to foster commercial and strategic partnerships.
http://startupeuropepartnership.eu
FIWARE is an open source platform easing the development of smart applications in multiple sectors. It lays the foundation of a whole ecosystem where entrepreneurs, industry, developers and cities can join in to capture the opportunities that are emerging with the new wave of digitalization. This ecosystem is growing, and has recently welcomed the creation of the FIWARE Foundation.
FIWARE open APIs are getting adopted as de-facto standards in several markets fostering a new generation of smarter applications and services, at a lower cost. The Foundation will ensure the long-term evolution of FIWARE and its availability for users, for free and forever.
https://www.fiware.org/
Startup Europe (SE) is an initiative supported by the European Commission that aims to strengthen the business environment for web and ICT entrepreneurs, so that their ideas and business can start and keep growing in the EU. SE works towards getting entrepreneurs more connected within the European ecosystem, where talent, investment and learning can be easily captured. SE believes that the growth of Europe will be determined by savvy startups, and wants to encourage this development.
http://startupeurope.eu/
Microsoft BizSpark empowers start-ups by providing them with software development tools and cloud services free of charge. Through BizSpark, Microsoft also helps start-ups build connections with key industry players and investors, supporting entrepreneurs to kick-start and scale-up their business.
https://www.microsoft.com/bizspark
The Korea Startup Challenge (or K-Startup Challenge) 2016 is a double-faceted global acceleration programme conducted and sponsored by NIPA (the National IT Industry Promotion Agency of South Korea) and taking place in Korea’s new Silicon Valley, Pangyo Techno Valley - just a few kilometres south of Seoul. The driving idea behind this project is to endorse the inflow of promising foreign startups/scaleups interested in the Korean or the broader Asian market through a global startup acceleration programme from August to November 2016 and then through a 6-month settlement programme from November 2016 to May 2017. Amongst many other things, this programme offers startups/scaleups collaboration opportunities with large Korean conglomerates (e.g. Samsung, Hyundai, LG, SK, Naver, …), free office space in Korea’s new Silicon Valley, an interesting financial support and many networking activities.
http://kiceurope.eu/k-startup
Speakers
Alberto is Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship at University of Insubria. In 2009 he has been appointed as Chairman of the Californian Mind the Bridge , its mission is to inspire, educate and stimulate a new generation of young entrepreneurs and create startups inspired by the methods and successes achieved in the Silicon Valley.
Since 2014 Alberto has been selected by European Commission to help drive the Startup Europe Partnership (SEP), the first integrated platform to support growth and sustainability of European companies.
Prior to joining Cisco, Tom held various executive & leadership positions at Yahoo! & Microsoft. He also worked as a strategy consultant at The Boston Consulting Group & McKenna Group. He holds a master’s degree from Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government, an MBA with honors from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business & an undergraduate degree in applied mathematics, statistics & economics with honors from Northwestern University.
He holds a master in Trade Sciences and in Industrial Corporate Management. He’s married and has 2 children.
His personal motto: “Change the world, or go home!”
He has more than 15 years of experience in R&D, and knowledge of a broad spectrum of technologies, most specifically in the field of optics, radar, and IT. This includes about 10 years managing R&I programmes, both in industry and in National and European funding public Entities, for a total budget of about 10M.
He has expertise identifying new uses and applications that lead to optimize the use of resources. He can detect good business opportunities expanding the use of innovations and current technologies to new sectors and industries where they were not previously used.