Daily Archives: 10 July 2021

Special meeting on Innovative startups and entrepreneurs

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6 September 2021 – live video streaming

Objective

This special meeting is structured in two panels dedicated to:

  • entrepreneurship financial and institutional supports, the importance of ethics in technology;
  • some examples of successful startups.

The first panel will focus on entrepreneurship supports for success. Funding, organization, management, business strategies and planning, incubators, guidance, mentorship, and institutional supports will be discussed. A presentation of the recent advancement in the P7000 standard will describe the process for addressing ethical concerns during system design.
The second panel will present some examples of successful and innovative startups with the accent on challenges at times of pandemic and with an illustration of best practices, problems encountered, and solutions.
 

Program

14:00 – 14:10 

Welcome to participants

  • Tiziana Tambosso – IEEE Italy Section Entrepreneurship Committee
  • Vincenzo Piuri – IEEE R8 Director-Elect

Panel 1: Entrepreneurship supports

Moderators: Vincenzo Piuri and Tiziana Tambosso

 

14:10 – 14:25            Joanne Wong (General Partner | REDDS Capital) – IEEE Entrepreneurship  (https://entrepreneurship.ieee.org)

14:25  – 14:40            Giulia Zanotti – Invitalia Government funding and support services for startups in Italy (https://www.invitalia.it/eng)

14:40 – 14:55            Angelo Giuliana – Meditech Competence Center  (https://meditech4.com)

14:55 – 15:10            Filippo Ammirati – ENEA Direzione Innovazione e Sviluppo – Divisione Sviluppo Tecnologico  ( https://industria.enea.it/, http://een.portici.enea.it/ )

15:10 – 15:25            Roberto della Marina – Venture Factory – Startup and Venture Capital: fostering innovation (https://www.venturefactory.tech)

15:25 – 15:40            Ali Hessami – Ethical Considerations in System Design (https://standards.ieee.org/project/7000.html)

15:40 – 15:55            John Matogo & Mohammad Zaidan – IEEE R8 Action for Industry & IEEE R8 Entrepreneurship Initiative (https://www.facebook.com/IEEER8Entrepreneurship)

15:55 – 16:15             Q&A time

Ten minutes break

Panel 2: Successful startups

Moderator: Roberta Albanese – Business/startup Consultant

 

16:20 – 16:30          Flavio Farroni, CEO – Megaride (https://www.megaride.eu)

16:30 – 16:40          Antonio Caraviello, CEO –  Sophia High Tech  (http://www.sophiahightech.com)

16:40 – 16:50          Domenico De Luca, CEO – Tolemaica (www.tolemaica.it)

16:50 – 17:00          David Cezon, CEO –  Imok  (https://www.imok.fr/en/home-english/)

17:00 – 17:10          Ernest Vlacic, Founder – Danieli Systec  (https://danieli-systec.com)

17:10 – 17:40          Q&A

Call for Best Entrepreneurship Activity Pitch Presentation

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This call is devoted to young Startups (TRL 1-3) and entrepreneurs to showcase successful entrepreneurship ideas in the field of interest of IEEE.

 

The competitors shall prepare a  5 minutes video:  “My entrepreneurship idea in 5 minutes” in which will present their entrepreneurship idea and activity using slides, pictures, photos, graphics, lab demo, etc., to describe in the most convincing and attractive way their innovative idea, achievements, and field of application.

 

The participants at the IEEE RTSI START-UP AND ENTREPRENEUR VIDEO EVENT will be able to vote for their favorite video using a special application (i.e. Mentimeter) on their smartphones.

 

The competition will take place during IEEE RTSI 2021 “electronic virtual conference” (on September 6, 2021) and the participation is free of charge. See the program schedule on the web page of the conference to know the exact time. More details about: the platform to be used for the “live streaming event” and how to access, will be available on the conference web and sent to the video authors.

 

All competitors will receive a participation certificate and the best video will be awarded a customized IEEE certificate.

 

Entrepreneurs willing to participate in this competition shall send an e-mail to this address: [email protected] no later than July 25.

 

In the Object of the e-mail the participant in this competition should write:

 

Best Entrepreneurship Activity Pitch Presentation – name surname

 

In the text of the e-mail the participant shall include the following info:

  • title of the video
  • name and affiliation of the author
  • e-mail of the author

Details about uploading procedures will be sent to participants by e-mail.  The deadline for the submission of the video is August 10, 2021. All videos shall have MP4 format, size not larger than 100 MB and they shall not be longer than 5 minutes. A special commission will select the best videos (maximum 16 videos) that will be presented and voted by participants to the event.

All videos will be uploaded on the IEEE Italy Section web and media (depending on author permission).