Partners

Meet leading solution and software providers at the Summit Fall 2022

Diamond Sponsors

The Management Lab – by Capgemini Invent

The Management Lab by Capgemini Invent

The Management Lab by Capgemini Invent bridges the latest management ideas into practice. In a world of perpetual transformation, sustainable growth depends on a company’s ability to reinvent its business, organization and culture. We help companies reinvent themselves, by developing actionable frameworks designed to bring the frontier of management into the real world of business. We build our own research and collaborate with renowned academics from leading business schools, including Harvard Business School, MIT, IMD, LBS, and INSEAD. New ideas are tested and applied through strategic workshops with leaders, challenge sessions with academics, executive coaching.

capgemini.com

InvestBulgaria Agency

InvestBulgaria Agency (IBA) is a governmental organization, established to attract investment to Bulgaria, to assist project set-up and to ensure successful project development resulting in new jobs, exports and know-how transfer to the Bulgarian economy. We help potential and existing investors to explore the business environment and to develop their investment opportunities in Bulgaria. The mission of IBA is to promote all incentives to increase the inflow of foreign direct investment in Bulgaria, acting as a mediator between investors, state and local institutions in the implementation of investment projects. The vision of the agency is to be a reliable, long-term and competent partner of the foreign investors, enjoying institutional trust and authority in achieving its goals of attracting FDI in Bulgaria.

investbg.government.bg

yet2

yet2 operates at the hub of global technology innovation. Since 1999, we have been an Open Innovation services company and trusted partner with expertise harnessing OI to ignite innovation. yet2 provides hands-on technology transfer services in the areas of targeted technology scouting, strategic dealflow, Open Innovation portal management, innovation tours and anonymous deals - bringing our Open Innovation clients hundreds of millions of dollars in value. Domains of team and network strength include life sciences and health, chemicals/materials, consumer/OTC/food, sustainability, aerospace/defense, packaging, electronics, oil/gas and energy, digital/big data, industrial, and automotive.

yet2.com

innventure

innventure founds, funds, operates, and rapidly scales companies in strategic collaboration with Multinational Corporations (MNCs). Leveraging MNC market data, we seek to identify opportunities where well-protected, disruptive technology solutions address significant unmet market needs and have the potential to create $1B+ in new enterprise value. Our systematic, quantitative approach to founding and funding new companies is designed to mitigate many of the risks inherent in building and scaling high-growth ventures.

innventure.com

Prime Sponsors

Wazoku

Wazoku helps the world's largest and most complex businesses to successfully innovate at scale through our unique Innovation_360 operating system. It brings together all of your relevant activities and data in one place, giving you the global view required to manage and sustainably deliver innovation success from idea to impact. Built upon the AI powered, enterprise ready Wazoku Platform, supercharged by our global crowd of millions of proven problem solvers, the Wazoku Crowd. Innovation_360 supports your ability to innovate, regardless of the type of problem you have. The platform has been used by organizations to solve their most pressing sustainability issues, drive digital transformation, discover new uses for existing technology, and disrupt the market with new offerings.

wazoku.com

Strategic Allies

We are a team of technology and partnership scouts with extensive experience in the global search for innovative technologies, solutions, products, strategic alliances and other new business generating opportunities. We work for a small portfolio of international manufacturing clients who are actively seeking novel technological solutions. Embracing all aspects of Open Innovation and often looking in places our manufacturing clients do not even know exist, we also understand the issues of confidentiality and sensitivity required to bring the right opportunities in what can often be disguised or complex situations. Together with our network of personally known facilitators, we have developed an energetic and tenacious approach valued by many clients across a wide spectrum of industry.

strategicallies.co.uk

Edison365

edison365 is built for Microsoft Office 365 which leverages existing investments and works with all the applications you are already familiar with taking the platforms capabilities to new levels. Deployed and managed via the cloud, edison365 is built to work entirely on Microsoft Office 365, with data secured in the Office 365 tenant. With edison365ideas, businesses can identify areas of focus, and crowdsource ideas from employees to achieve specific, valuable problem-solving, while giving them a voice and platform to raise their ideas. Then, using the award-winning Microsoft PPM solution edison365 projects which builds upon the base functionality of MS Project Online, businesses can seamlessly execute projects through an intuitive, sleek interface, to generate measurable results based on insight from every level of the organisation.

edison365.com

Sagentia Innovation

Sagentia Innovation provides independent advisory and leading-edge product development services focused on science and technology initiatives. Working across the medical, industrial, chemicals and energy, food and beverage, and consumer sectors, Sagentia Innovation works with a broad range of companies from some of the world’s leading and best-known brands, to start-up disruptors, new to the market. It is part of Science Group (AIM:SAG), which has more than ten offices globally, two UK-based dedicated R&D innovation centres and more than 400 employees. Other Science Group companies include Leatherhead Food Research, TSG Consulting and Frontier Smart Technologies.

sagentiainnovation.com

Creax

Creax is an innovation partner for global companies in the manufacturing industry. We future-proof our clients by identifying technological and market opportunities, we outline the innovation strategy and conceive the next generation of tailored solutions. In addition, we map out balanced innovation roadmaps for the short, medium and long term.
Why Creax? Our clients say we are one of a kind. “The team, a unique mix of scientists and product designers, boosts our innovation process. Creax uses powerful AI tools and work with a unique data-driven future thinking framework. It ensures that we make strategic decisions with confidence. Moreover, their creativity enables us to create distinctive solutions for tomorrow's world

creax.com

Z_punkt

As a team of experts for trend and future research, we have been developing customer-specific foresight projects for multinational companies, innovative medium-sized companies and public clients for more than twenty years. In our projects, we make the future understandable, tangible and thus shapeable for our clients.

z-punkt.de

Planbox

Planbox is the pioneering agile innovation management platform software provider for full lifecycle Innovation Portfolio Management, Emerging Tech Empowerment and Ecosystem Enablement. As the top-ranking innovation management platform in the marketplace, we empower our clients to discover, collaborate, and capitalize on the best strategically aligned ideas with their ecosystem of employees, customers, partners, and startups to drive transformational growth on a continual basis.

planbox.com

Dimensions

Dimensions is a modern, innovative, linked-research-knowledge system that re-imagines discovery and access to research. Developed by Digital Science in collaboration with over 100 research organizations around the world, Dimensions brings together grants, publications, citations, alternative metrics, clinical trials, patents and datasets to deliver a platform that enables users to find and access the most relevant information faster, analyze the academic and broader outcomes of research, and gather insights to inform future strategy.
What makes Dimensions so different?
● A comprehensive database that doesn’t impose limitations on users ● Moving beyond citations to deliver a broader picture of impact ● Citation networks are an important discovery tool – and should be available to researchers ● Connected data that looks beyond publications to offer a 360° perspective ● A modern linked data architecture empowering users and data scientists ● One data platform to support discovery and analytics needs ● Those who provide the data should not develop and own the metrics ● The research community should develop and own the indicators

dimensions.ai

Mach49

With deep roots in Silicon Valley, we are a unique cadre of serial entrepreneurs, VC executives, and corporate innovators who are collectively responsible for creating a market cap of well over $50 billion. Mach49 partners with global businesses to create a pipeline and portfolio of new ventures and investments that disrupt existing markets and create new ones. We work with our clients to deliver the essential features of a successful growth engine: Venture Building, Venture Investing, Strategic Partnering, and Targeted M&A. Mach49 is 100% focused on execution. We have invested years in developing a teachable, repeatable, scalable methodology and library of processes, tools, templates, activities and more to build client capability — not dependency. Harvard Business Review Press has recently published our Founder/CEO, Linda Yates’ new book — The Unicorn Within: How Companies Can Create Game-Changing Ventures at Startup Speed . Linda’s goal is to truly democratize what Mach49 does by making Mach49’s methodology, and tools available to everyone who aspires to disrupt themselves from the inside out — to drive meaningful growth and positive change through venture building.

mach49.com

Sopheon

Sopheon partners with customers to provide complete Enterprise Innovation Performance solutions including software, expertise, and best practices to achieve exceptional long-term revenue growth and profitability. Sopheon Accolade solution provides unique, fully-integrated coverage for the entire innovation management and new product development lifecycle. For the first time, businesses can access a single source of the truth across: Strategic Innovation Planning and Roadmapping Idea and Concept Development Process and Project Management Portfolio and In-Market Management Resource Planning Sopheon solutions have been implemented by over 200 customers with over 60,000 users in over 50 countries, including P&G, Electrolux, Heinz, BASF, Bayer MaterialScience, PepsiCo, Philips, NASA and Merck

sopheon.com

PwC

PwC’s purpose is to build trust in society and solve important problems. We help companies to improve their efficiency, promote growth and to report reliably in a constantly changing environment. PwC also plays an active role in developing startup and scaleup ecosystems and supporting entrepreneurs as they work to get their ideas off the ground and build sustainable businesses. PwC operates in 156 countries and employs more than 295,000 experts worldwide. In Finland, we have 1 200 experts working around the country. Our services include consulting, deals, tax, legal, risk assurance, audit and other assurance services.

pwc.com

BIAC

BIAC provides a holistic approach to innovation management as a valuable partner for organizations to unlock their innovation potential locally / globally, as a proactive force for good in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Arab Gulf countries, supported by the full innovation network. BIAC enables innovation by designing, building, operating, supporting, and developing an innovation environment and technology transfer as well as managing projects in different industry sectors to help achieve innovation excellence. Since 2017, BIAC has started enabling innovation in Saudi Arabia for the public and private sectors as a government company affiliated with the Saudi Technology Development and Investment Company “TAQNIA", which is wholly owned by the Public Investment Fund ‘PIF’

biac.com.sa

Exhibitors

ABB Motion Services

ABB Motion Services helps customers around the globe by maximizing uptime, extending product life cycle, and enhancing the performance and energy efficiency of electrical motion solutions. We enable innovation and success through digitalization by securely connecting and monitoring our customers’ motors and drives, increasing operational uptime, and improving efficiency. We make the difference for our customers and partners every day by keeping their operations running profitably, safely and reliably.

abb.com

Sparkademy

Sparkademy supports corporate transformation and innovation globally, through an applied digital learning experience for cohorts of corporate teams (entry and mid-level employees). Corporates advance their initiatives and projects, while teams develop skills of the future, such as innovation, customer-centricity, creativity, leadership, etc. Our science-based method leverages the latest technologies and is designed for scalability, featuring world-class content from top universities and companies.

sparkademy.com

ITONICS

ITONICS is the only provider integrating the end-to-end innovation management process from environmental scanning to innovation portfolio management and roadmapping, ensuring that the return on innovation investment increases sustainably. The modular software suite combines strategy and innovation on a web-based collaboration platform. The advantage of linking trend management, technology management, idea management and strategic foresight: All innovation management activities are connected to the ITONICS Roadmap that serves as a strategic planning platform for the division-spanning product, technology and resource management.

itonics-innovation.com

innosabi

innosabi – based in Munich and part of the Questel group – is a leading provider of innovation management software. Companies of all industries and sizes are using our tools for end-to-end innovation processes. With one single, interconnected software suite, we cover everything from identifying emerging trends to managing your portfolio of innovation projects. The innosabi software suite lets you leverage one of the most comprehensive databases for technologies, patents, and competitive intelligence and has all the necessary tools to quickly turn insights into innovation. Among many others, innosabi’s clients are Allianz, Deutsche Telekom, Siemens, and Westinghouse. innosabi was founded in 2010 and has been part of the Questel group since 2020.

innosabi.com

mantro product sutdio

Whether technologies, products and services or even entire business models - our customers have a lot planned. They have concepts and ideas. However, the challenge often lies not in thinking up ideas or recognizing opportunities, but in implementing them; in building the product, in testing it on the market, or in scaling it to an independent solution. We are mantro product studio - the innovation supercharger for future-oriented companies. Together with our clients, we bring ideas and concepts to people and markets. Through pragmatism, contextual consideration, freedom and responsibility, we give ideas room for growth. Two things are particularly important to us: lean solutions and speed of implementation.

mantro.studio

rready

rready is a Swiss startup dedicated to making innovation in organizations measurable, manageable and visible. We help the entrepreneurial spirit find its way into large organizations by automating and streamlining their innovation funnel through a modular online B2B SaaS platform that is backed by a proven method. So far rready has empowered 1000+ intrapreneurs in global companies like Roche, Siemens Energy, or Implenia.

rready.com

NineSigma

NineSigma’s expertise is to find what may be unknown to you & to connect you to new partners, start-ups, academia, SMEs on a global basis. Through our worldwide presence and our global science & technology network, NineSigma helps our clients transform their business through technology and innovation in a faster, more agile way. The company manages your short term needs to quickly internalize solutions while we help you prepare for your long-term needs by identifying radical, disruptive key players and technologies for you.

ninesigma.com

Novable

The Novable AI-powered scouting platform is connecting companies with the best startups to drive innovation, growth and transformation – using artificial intelligence and human expertise. Novable engine finds perfect matches from our 1.75 million startups database in a matter of seconds, thanks to the DeepMatching™ technology. Furthermore, we are complementing our AI-powered matching engine (DeepMatching ™) with the expertise of a dedicated team to deliver you in-depth validation and vetting solutions. Collaborative journey, with the campaign based on your strategy and targeted topics or with a Real-Time Search option to get instant results, to reach corporate innovation.

novable.com

Cambridge Consultants

Cambridge Consultants develops breakthrough products, services and intellectual property, and provides business consultancy in technology-critical issues for clients worldwide. For more than 60 years, the company has been helping its clients turn business opportunities into commercial successes, whether they are launching first-to-market products, entering new markets or expanding existing markets through the introduction of new technologies. With over 800 team members, including engineers, scientists, mathematicians and designers, in offices in Cambridge (UK), Boston (USA), Tokyo (Japan) and Singapore, Cambridge Consultants offers solutions across a diverse range of industries including medical technology, industrial and consumer products, digital health, energy and wireless communications.

cambridgeconsultants.com

KAUST

KAUST Innovation is a catalyst for innovation, entrepreneurial development and impact. We provide access to world-class facilities, cutting-edge IP and technology, deep tech startup investment and acceleration, connections to the world’s brightest mindsand access to Saudi Arabia’s leading innovation hub. Our mission is to get research put to use, and, through our collaborations with industry, government, and startups, we are leading a growing deep tech ecosystem in Saudi Arabia.

kaust.edu.sa

iKNOW-WHO

iKNOW-WHO joins leaders of innovation in co-creation of extreme break- throughs to tackle their most significant innovation challenges together with the best-suited university teams and start-ups from all over the globe. Today, we have solved 33 out of 33 innovation challenges for clients like Nestlé, Porsche, Unilever, Kraft Heinz, Tetra Pak and BASF, and are the pioneer breakthrough co-creation partner in a wide range of businesses. We co-create novel breakthroughs, capture all relevant IP and facilitate transfer and transformation into patent applications having our clients as owners and the deserving researchers as inventors. We are not a conventional consulting company, but a global breakthrough co-creator. The unique network that iKNOW-WHO has developed and deployed since 1999 is visualized and quantified at here. Your mission is our challenge.

iknow-who.com

U+

U+ is a Corporate Venture Builder that provides stage-relevant InnovationOps teams with Startup DNA to deliver new business ideas to scalable revenue. We focus on commercialization, product, design, tech, and adoption across the innovation lifecycle.
Our all-in-house team has brought 100+ successful businesses to market, creating over $2 billion in new value for Fortune 1000s in the past 13 years. Our customers include Mozilla, Silicon Valley Bank, Bridgestone, Cisco, HSBC, T-Mobile, RBC, Aldar, and Swiss Re.

u.plus

PatSnap

PatSnap is the global leader in Connected Innovation Intelligence. We use artificial intelligence and machine learning technology to comb through billions of data points from patents, venture capital, clinical trials, mergers & acquisitions, technology news and more so that our customers can connect the dots, increase productivity, and innovate more effectively. With a team of more than 1,000 PatSnappers across three continents, and 10,000+ customers in 40+ countries, we are changing the way the world innovates.

patsnap.com

PARTNERS

Cvent
Technology Partner

Cvent is the global meeting, event and travel technology leader. Cvent offers software solutions to event planners for online event registration, venue selection, event management, mobile apps for events, email marketing and web surveys. Cvent provides hoteliers with an integrated platform, enabling properties to increase group business demand through targeted advertising and improve conversion through proprietary demand management and business intelligence solutions. Cvent solutions optimize the entire event management value chain and have enabled clients around the world to manage hundreds of thousands of meetings and events.

cvent.com

Ludic Group

Ludic Creatives is a world leading creative network that specialises in story. The network is made up of artists, photographers, filmmakers and writers with an eye for a story and an ear for business concepts. We are experts in sharing a business story globally, and engaging stakeholders in complex future states

ludiccreatives.com

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Partners

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Prime Sponsors

CoachHub

CoachHub is a leading global talent development platform that enables organizations to create a personalized, measurable and scalable coaching program for the entire workforce, regardless of department and seniority level. By doing so, organizations are able to reap a multitude of benefits, including increased employee engagement, higher levels of productivity, improved job performance and increased retention. CoachHub’s global pool of coaches is comprised of over 2,500+ certified business coaches in 60 countries across six continents with coaching sessions available in over 50 languages.

coachhub.io

RecRight

Founded in 2011 in Helsinki, Finland, Recright helps organizations hire the best candidates with an easy-to-use video interview platform available in 25 languages. Recright's platform is revolutionizing recruitment. On the one hand, it allows recruiters to screen and identify more good-fit candidates faster. On the other, it gives all candidates an equal chance to make a great first impression and show who they are beyond their CV. Part of Bravedo, a community of independent and collaborative companies, Recright employs 20+ talented people and proudly serves over 400 organizations and 38 000 users in 180 countries. Get started with video recruitment using our 14-day free trial on recright.com

recright.com

PARTNERS

Cvent
Technology Partner

cvent.com

Ludic Group

ludiccreatives.com

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Partners

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Diamond Sponsors

Sagentia Innovation

sagentiainnovation.com

Prime Sponsors

itonics

itonics-innovation.com

3DSE Management Consultants

3DSE is one of the leading independent management consulting companies for innovation and R&D in central Europe with sites in Munich and Linz as well as a partner company in Paris. Since our founding in 2001, we have successfully worked with over 60 international clients on over 600 consulting projects in the automotive, aerospace, defense, transportation, industrial, electronics, health tech, and energy sectors. With a focus on engineered products, complex services, and digital business models, we provide answers to the central challenges of digitalization, innovation, and increasing complexity in R&D.

3dse.de

Helbling Technik

The internationally operating Helbling Group, which was founded in 1963, positions itself as an interdisciplinary nexus of engineering and consulting expertise. The independent Group is run by 31 managing partners and employs 540 staff at locations in Switzerland, Germany, the USA and China. The Group’s main focus is on providing selected services in the fields of technological innovation and business consulting. Helbling Technik, a division of the Helbling Group, supports medium-sized companies and large corporations with product innovation and development, focusing particularly on the household appliance, medical technology, pharmaceutical, apparatus and laboratory equipment, transport and traffic, automotive, mechanical and plant engineering and energy systems industries.

helbling.ch

Pezy Group

Pezy Group offers you a community of highly experienced professionals and a large network, where you can co-create, build and deliver real, viable product innovations. With over 25 years of experience in product innovation for MNC, SME and scale-ups, we welcome you to come and accelerate your product idea into reality. Our innovators and engineers always go the extra mile to solve complex challenges, safeguarding the balance between technical feasibility and a valuable usability experience. Each day, more than a 100 passionate Pezian’s create desirable new concepts, smart demonstrators and ready for production consumer- and professional products. Together we create.

pezygroup.com

Z_punkt

z-punkt.de

Sopheon

sopheon.com

quantilope

quantilope is an Insights Automation company empowering brands to do high-quality research better, faster, and more efficiently. Our technology automates advanced quantitative and qualitative research methodologies empowering brands to unlock robust consumer insights for marketing and innovation in as little as 1 - 5 days.

Founded in 2014, quantilope is one of the fastest growing technology companies in Germany and ranks among the top 50 most innovative suppliers for insights worldwide (GRIT Top 50 Most Innovative Suppliers 2021, Greenbook).

quantilope.com

Monstarlab

Monstarlab is a digital consultancy established in 2006 in Tokyo, Japan. The company has 30 global offices powered by 1,200 strategists, designers and engineers who excel at strategy and delivery. Specialising in providing end-to-end enterprise-level digital solutions, the company has successfully delivered more than 2,200 projects. The core consultancy arm of the company engineers awesome solutions that perform for clients around the world. In addition, the company’s array of products and services ranging from co-working spaces, robotic process automation, game development, streaming services, HR tech and education programs empower thinkers and makers globally.

monstar-lab.com

BlueCallom™

BlueCallom is an innovation enablement firm harnessing the duality of brilliant ideation and relentless execution with their Neuro Innovation Management Solution. Highly influenced by neuroscience, the End-to-End Deep Innovation Design Framework spans the entire innovation journey, starting even before ideas get created until the solution is successfully scaling in its designated market. The company’s AI-driven platform has an intelligent user guidance system that amplifies ingenuity within any size of business and helps teams to create breakthrough innovation in a repeatable way. The intelligent KPI Framework with hundreds of innovation-specific performance indicators delivers a whole new level of innovation manageability. Artificial Intelligence manages the administration and reporting of the innovation journey, thereby allowing innovation teams to focus on creativity and providing management with innovation success predictability.

bluecallom.com

DoWell Research

True Moments User experience lab is a unique living lab organized by DoWell Research globally. We collect insights from user’s daily life from the rural and urban area of each country. DoWell do crowdsourcing using open innovation engagement model to interact with users. User interaction will be in Home, street, lab or office with consumer and business profiles. We have offices in Frankfurt, London, Singapore, Chicago and Helsinki for client support and managing projects. DoWell Have 20 years experience in UI Design & UX research.

uxlivinglab.com

Iprova

Based on Iprova’s unrivalled experience and in-depth research in the field of invention creation, our software enables companies to generate disruptive and commercially valuable inventions at least 10x more efficiently than by conventional methods. Iprova’s Invention Studio suite identifies and then connects relevant inventive signals from a huge array of technological advances and developments, even if they are very distant from the target invention area. As a result of its broad international client base, across many sectors, Iprova inventions touch around 80% of the world’s population.

iprova.com

Elsevier

As a global leader in information and analytics, Elsevier helps researchers advance science and improve outcomes. We support corporate R&D professionals across various industries with information, data and analytics that allow them to save time, make better decisions and innovate at the speed and scale society expects of them. Elsevier offers a wide range of information solutions and specialized databases and tools such as ScienceDirect, Scopus, Embase, Knovel, PharmaPendium. We also help corporations with their digital transformation through customized data solutions and data sets.

elsevier.com

Exhibitors

rready

rready.com

Hype

HYPE Innovation is a global leader in innovation management software and services, with over 16 years of experience, a wealth of best-practice expertise, and clients around the globe. Our powerful software platform provides the backbone for collaborative innovation and helps drive long-term repeatable success. It allows companies to scale and extend the reach of their innovation initiatives, in a secure and flexible way. We support a full life-cycle approach to innovation, taking ideas from conception to market, enabling our clients to transform the input from their audience into revenue for their business. Our client community is at the heart of everything we do. Helping innovation managers succeed is our primary goal.

hypeinnovation.com

mantro product sutdio

mantro.studio

Tata Consultancy Services

A purpose-led organization that is building a meaningful future through innovation, technology, and collective knowledge. We're #BuildingOnBelief. A part of the Tata group, India's largest multinational business group, TCS has over 500,000 of the world’s best-trained consultants in 46 countries. TCS' proactive stance on climate change and award-winning work with communities across the world have earned it a place in leading sustainability indices such as the MSCI Global Sustainability Index and the FTSE4Good Emerging Index.

tcs.com

AfCE

Verhaert | Academy for Corporate Entrepreneurship is a global innovation agency that develops entrepreneurial talent in organisations to validate & successfully launch new ideas. As a partner in scaling corporate innovation we deliver guided programs supported by senior mentors, rapid prototyping services and à la carte e-learning

afce.co

Edison365

edison365 is built for Microsoft Office 365 which leverages existing investments and works with all the applications you are already familiar with taking the platforms capabilities to new levels. Deployed and managed via the cloud, edison365 is built to work entirely on Microsoft Office 365, with data secured in the Office 365 tenant. With edison365ideas, businesses can identify areas of focus, and crowdsource ideas from employees to achieve specific, valuable problem-solving, while giving them a voice and platform to raise their ideas. Then, using the award-winning Microsoft PPM solution edison365projects which builds upon the base functionality of MS Project Online, businesses can seamlessly execute projects through an intuitive, sleek interface, to generate measurable results based on insight from every level of the organisation.

edison365.com

Startup Flow

Our mission is to change how large companies work with startups and access new business opportunities. Startup Flow is an open-innovation management platform for mapping, monitoring and working with innovation ecosystems at scale. Our SaaS solution leverages collaboration with startups, internal experts, and innovative partners so global enterprises can sustain innovation at a group level. At Startup Flow, we believe organizations are operating in a world that extends far beyond their own commercial walls, into a much wider ecosystem - and this includes the new and the unknown. Now, is the time to position yourself as an innovative leader!

startupflow.io

Innosabi

innosabi – based in Munich and part of the Questel group – is a leading provider of innovation management software. Companies of all industries and sizes are using our tools for end-to-end innovation processes. With one single, interconnected software suite, we cover everything from identifying emerging trends to collaboration with your ecosystem and managing your portfolio of innovation projects. The innosabi software suite lets you leverage one of the most comprehensive databases for technologies, patents, and competitive intelligence and has all the necessary tools to quickly turn insights into innovation. Among many others, innosabi’s clients are Allianz, Deutsche Telekom, Siemens, and Westinghouse. innosabi was founded in 2010 and has been part of the Questel group since 2021.

innosabi.com

Strategic Allies

strategicallies.co.uk

TTP

TTP is an independent technology company where scientists and engineers collaborate to invent, design and develop new products and technologies. Working across a wide spectrum of industries including health, telecoms, industrials and consumer, TTP creates breakthrough solutions that bring strong commercial value to clients and the benefits of technology to all.

ttp.com

Yumana

Yumana is a French leader in innovation and intrapreneurship management. Our mission is to provide solutions including software, expertise alongside proven methodology to deploy best in class innovation programs that deliver concrete and measurable results for our customers. Our software solution is the driver behind innovation ecosystems for 45 customers such as Orange, L’Oréal and Vinci and extends across all industries. At Yumana, creating value and unleashing team's potential is our main focus to support companies in their innovation journey.

yumana.io

Bold KBC Center for Innovation

We are innovation consultants. Applying a systematic approach based on empirical patterns and the newest methodologies we enable organizations to realize significant savings and build their future. By helping organizations to think & do differently, together we create radically new solutions – from start to finish. We have partnered with clients from Airbus, BMW to Siemens – in over 35 countries and in almost all industries.

bold-innovators.com

Innogym

Innogym is a new online innovation coaching & training program, designed exclusively for Innovation Managers in large global corporations. During 2 live sessions every month, we deep-dive into proven tools & techniques to help innovation projects be delivered bigger, better & faster. Innogym was created by Innovinco, a start-up that has helped over 25 global corporations to accelerate their innovation performance, and is led by Tom Pullen, former Global Innovation Director at Danone.

innogym.com

Evalueserve

Evalueserve is the world’s largest IP and R&D solutions provider. Our R&D direct framework empowers you to streamline your innovation pipeline at every stage of your innovation lifecycle. Our quality-focused, unique mind+machine™ approach combines human expertise, 400+ innovation intelligence specialists and domain specific AI to identify your innovation whitespace, benchmark R&D strategies and more. With offices in the United States, Switzerland, China, India, Chile, and more, our global footprint allows us to provide multi-lingual services.

evalueserve.com

OneUp

We build startups with emerging technology for big corporates. We have developed an integrated approach to building startups with emerging technology for big corporates. We call this Startup Thinking. It includes valuable processes and tools, and involves developers, designers, growth hackers, and bunch of other innovation experts. We help you with everything from coming up with new ideas, validating and testing them with real consumers, to creating a system for your organization to innovate all the time. Next to our day-to- day operations we focus on developing most promising emerging technologies in the oneUp Lab. Some people say we’re even a little obsessed with the amazingly unlimited potential of blockchain, dazzling wonders of data science, and astounding uses of chatbots. But what do they know?

oneup.company

Wazoku

Wazoku is your global home for all ideas, giving a voice and role to everyone in the innovation process. We are passionate about enabling organisations to engage and collaborate with their workforce, ecosystem, customers and the world – to generate new ideas as part of a wider innovation strategy. Wazoku was founded in 2011, and is used by organisations such as Waitrose, HSBC and UK central government to help them embed innovation as a core, strategic, everyday capability and change the world one idea at a time.

wazoku.com

PARTNERS

Cvent
Technology Partner

Cvent is a leading meetings, events, and hospitality technology provider with nearly 4,000 employees and more than 200,000 users worldwide. Cvent offers a comprehensive event marketing and management platform and a global marketplace where event professionals collaborate with venues to create engaging, impactful experiences. The comprehensive Cvent platform provides software solutions to event organisers and marketers for online event registration, venue selection, event marketing and management, virtual and onsite solutions, and attendee engagement. Cvent’s suite of products automate and simplify the entire event management process and maximise the impact of in-person, virtual, and hybrid events. Cvent solutions optimise the entire event management value chain and have enabled clients around the world to manage millions of meetings and events.

cvent.com

Ludic Group

ludiccreatives.com

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yet2

yet2.com

Mach49

Mach49 partners with global businesses to build their growth engines through venture building, venture investing, strategic partnering, and targeted M&A. We are 100% focused on execution, helping our clients disrupt existing markets and create new ones to drive meaningful growth.

mach49.com

Dimensions

Develop market-beating initiatives with insights from the world’s largest scientific research database. Dimensions provides the most comprehensive view of the whole research landscape, enabling technology forecasting and early stage research to help you create disruptive initiatives. It’s the only research intelligence service with data across the full research lifecycle. So you can speed up your research process and focus on growing your business.

dimensions.ai

27pilots

27pilots - a Deloitte Business is the leading provider of Venture Client solutions. These enable companies to effectively and purposefully buy from startups and to use them for their own benefit. 27pilots' services and solutions focus on building and operating world-class Venture Client Units and capabilities within companies. The Venture Client Model was developed by 27pilots founder Gregor Gimmy, who was innovation manager at BMW in 2015, where he set up the world's first Venture Client Unit - the BMW Startup Garage - and led it until 2018. In June 2018, he spun off 27pilots to enable more companies around the world to build and operate Venture Client Units with consulting, technology and data. In January 2023, 27pilots became part of Deloitte and is responsible for the global venture client solutions offering under the brand 27pilots - a Deloitte business. Well-known clients include Airbus, the BMW Group, Bosch Group, Siemens Energy and Holcim.

27pilots.com

Prime Sponsors

Strategic Allies

strategicallies.co.uk

Sopheon

Sopheon (LON: SPE) provides complete Innovation Management software and services to help customers achieve increased growth, mitigate new product risk, gain competitive advantage, and improve profitability.

The company is a market leader in the innovation market. Our leadership in innovation management was highlighted in the comprehensive MarketsandMarkets™ report on the Innovation Management Market where Sopheon was listed in the “Stars” category, the highest recognition. Sopheon’s solutions have been implemented by more than 250 customers with over 125,000 users in 50 countries.

sopheon.com

ITONICS

ITONICS provides the #1 Innovation Operating System (OS) for organizations seeking to operationalize innovation and drive growth systematically. Unlike traditional innovation management software, the ITONICS Innovation OS seamlessly connects foresight, ideation, and portfolio activities with your strategic goals in one collaborative system. Centralize your innovation intelligence, align efforts, and steer decision-making to move from strategy to execution with speed and agility.

itonics-innovation.com

Edison365

Built on Microsoft, edison365 is an enterprise platform offering end-to-end strategy, innovation, project and portfolio management with its sophisticated suite of tools. It’s now easier than ever for teams around the world to plan and orchestrate transformative change, their way. 🚀

And with ultimate configuration, anything is possible! edison365 equips teams with robust project and portfolio management, triage, reporting, powerful workflows, Gantt Charts and more. 💻

A central location for businesses to reach their goals, maximize their potential, and improve the ROI of every opportunity. 🏆

edison365.com

Z_punkt

z-punkt.de

Planbox

planbox.com

Cognite

Cognite is a globally recognized leader in industrial software with a clear vision: to rapidly empower industrial companies with accessible, trustworthy, and contextualized data and drive the full-scale digital transformation of asset-heavy industries. With its market-leading Industrial DataOps platform, Cognite Data Fusion®, and a comprehensive suite of Industrial Generative AI capabilities, Cognite AI, Cognite makes it easy for decision-makers to access and understand complex industrial data. Cognite Data Fusion® is a user-friendly, secure, and scalable platform that enables industrial data and domain users to collaborate quickly and safely to develop, deploy, and scale Industrial Generative AI solutions that deliver both profitability and sustainability.

cognite.ai

Wazoku

Wazoku is an innovation SaaS business that helps some of the world’s biggest organizations to innovate at scale. Whether it’s making the most of your employee's ideas, identifying new partners to collaborate with, or exploring the boundless potential of open innovation – or all three! – Wazoku makes innovation happen. We combine the tools, frameworks, and capability building that enables your organization to land and scale your innovation program. With AI-powered software, market-leading analytics, skills training, proven Challenge Driven Innovation® methodology and the world’s first accredited open talent crowd, Wazoku is the global home for innovation.
We believe innovation requires diversity to be successful and that everyone should have a voice and role in the innovation process. We are changing the world, one idea at a time.

wazoku.com

Sagentia Innovation

sagentiainnovation.com

Helbling Technik

The internationally operating Helbling Group, which was founded in 1963, positions itself as an interdisciplinary nexus of engineering and consulting expertise. The independent Group is run by 36 managing partners and employs some 620 professionals at locations in Switzerland, Germany, Poland, the USA and China. The Group’s main focus is on providing selected services in the fields of technological innovation and business consulting. Helbling Technik, a division of the Helbling Group, supports clients from idea inception all the way through market launch, mainly in the fields of household appliance, medical technology, pharmaceutical, apparatus and laboratory equipment, transportation and traffic, automotive, mechanical and plant engineering and energy systems industries.

helbling.ch

HYPE Innovation

HYPE Innovation is a leading provider of software and consulting in the field of innovation management, offering a comprehensive platform for the entire lifecycle of your innovation program. Our solutions encompass end-to-end Ideation, Technology and Trend Management, Startup Scouting, Innovation Partner Management, and Ecosystem Engagement. As a top-tier player in the innovation management landscape, we enable our clients to uncover opportunities, foster collaboration, and drive strategic goals, from growth to cost-saving and sustainable transformation, enabling them to Excel at Innovation.

hypeinnovation.com

MIRO

Miro is an online workspace for innovation that enables distributed teams of any size to build the next big thing. The platform's infinite canvas enables teams to lead engaging workshops and meetings, design products, brainstorm ideas, and more. Miro, co-headquartered in San Francisco and Amsterdam, serves more than 60M users worldwide, including 99% of the Fortune 100. Miro was founded in 2011 and currently has more than 1,800 employees in 12 hubs around the world.

miro.com

Creative Dock Group

The Creative Dock Group (CDG) is the leading independent corporate venture builder in Europe and the MENA region. With over a decade of experience, CDG partners with large companies to discover untapped revenue streams by launching new, innovative products and services. Operating primarily in Europe and the Middle East, CDG has established 100+ ventures across diverse sectors such as fintech, insurtech, e-commerce, retail, and more. Leveraging AI, cutting-edge innovation and entrepreneurial talent, CDG bridges the gap between corporate assets and capabilities. Trusted by notable clients, including Adidas, Ahold, Amadeus, Avast, Bekaert, Holcim, Mondelēz, Veolia, JTI and more, CDG consistently realizes new business opportunities.

creativedock.com

Qmarkets

With our AI-enhanced innovation management software you can easily define and manage intelligent crowdsourcing processes to identify, review, and implement the most lucrative ideas, trends, or insights, and deliver immediate ROI for your organization. With renowned clients like Ford, Intel, Coca-Cola, and UBS, we have a wealth of best-practices to help you achieve your goals. Whichever path you choose, we are obsessed with your success, and will be with you at every step of your innovation journey. Complex innovation, made simple.

qmarkets.net

Exhibitors

mantro

mantro is a seasoned innovator, offering a comprehensive range of services in business development, artificial intelligence, and software development for new business creation. With over two decades of experience, we have supported some of the most iconic companies, enabling them to excel in ever-changing markets.

mantro.studio

IDYL Consulting

We are a collective of technology scouting experts who live and breathe Open Innovation. We have an international network and global reach. Our team has vast experience across the consumer goods industry and lived on both sides of the “consultant/client fence”, which makes our contribution unique and different: We understand your world and the challenges to your business We approach problems from a different perspective, uncovering insights, technologies and alternative solutions from parallel industries

idylconsulting.com

rready

rready.com

innosabi

innosabi is a leading provider for innovation management software based in Munich. Large corporations use innosabi’s solutions to open internal processes and to sustainably tap into external potential for the development of new products, services and business models. The aim is to establish agile working methods and structures that make organizations faster, more innovative and more resilient. innosabi‘s customers include Bayer, Allianz, Daimler and Postbank. The company was founded in 2010, and is part of the Questel Group since 2021.

innosabi.com

U+

U+ is a corporate venture builder that delivers AI-powered digital innovation. We have brought over 120 successful businesses to market, creating over $2 billion in new value, focusing on commercialization, product, design, tech, and adoption across the innovation lifecycle. Notable clients include Mozilla, Bridgestone, Cisco, HSBC, T-Mobile, and Swiss Re. Our AI InnovationOps platform accelerates market research, venture discovery & validation from 5 months to 2 weeks. It's 100x faster and 10x cheaper than any consultancy. Learn more & book a demo via the website below!

ai.u.plus

WhatAVenture

WhatAVenture is a corporate venture builder with 10 years of experience guiding leading companies towards their innovation success. We are entrepreneurs who speak corporate, having built over 40 ventures and established innovation strategies at over 200 organizations across a wide selection of industries.

whataventure.com

Verhaert Innovation Academy

Many corporate venture building programs install a great journey for innovators from ideation to concept validation. However, the success of these campaigns is often scrutinized by management in tough times due to sub-optimal results. Resource priorities might shift, idea owners might not be the right profile to lead the development and budgets might not be secured for the full journey. Discover the building blocks of Carl Zeiss Ventures New Business Challenge program to deliver on their promise of value creation.

verhaert.academy

IDA Ireland

IDA Ireland is Ireland’s inward Investment Promotion and Development Agency. The agency partners with overseas companies to secure new investment in Ireland and collaborates to assist companies expanding their existing footprint in Ireland. IDA Ireland works with a portfolio of nearly 1,800 overseas company operations in Ireland across a myriad of industry sectors from Technology, Life Sciences, Engineering and Financial Services. Ireland is home to 9 of the world’s top 10 Pharmaceutical companies, 14 of the top 15 MedTech companies and 22 of the world’s top 25 Financial Services companies. IDA Ireland oﬀers comprehensive support for your company as you begin to consider how Ireland is the country best suited for your investment. Follow us @IDAIRELAND.

idaireland.com

BOLD KBC

BOLD KBC is a pure innovation consultancy with experience in more than 40 industries and 40 countries. For nearly 20 years, we support our clients revolutionise products, processes and business models to drive operational excellence. As sustainability is today's number one global challenge, our ultimate ambition is to use our knowledge and experience to help address humanity's greatest threat through radical innovation. To succeed, it will not be enough for any company to simply optimise its operations. Meeting the challenges we face will require all organisations to radically change the way they do business. We help our clients innovate their products, operations and business models for a successful and sustainable future.

bold-innovators.com

PwC

Our clients face diverse challenges, strive to put new ideas into practice and seek expert advice. They turn to us for comprehensive support and practical solutions that deliver maximum value. Whether for a global player, a family business or a public institution, we leverage all of our assets: experience, industry knowledge, high standards of quality, commitment to innovation and the resources of our expert network in 152 countries. Building a trusting and cooperative relationship with our clients is particularly important to us – the better we know and understand our clients’ needs, the more effectively we can support them.
PwC Germany: More than 13,000 dedicated people at 21 locations. €2.61 billion in turnover. The leading auditing and consulting firm in Germany.

pwc.com

Bridgemaker

We are Bridgemaker, the leading independent corporate venture builder based in Berlin. We build new business models alongside their core business for some of the most exciting hidden champions and mid-sized companies in Germany and Europe.

bridgemaker.com

Vlabs

As a leading venture builder in DACH we specialize in supporting established companies from various industries in conceiving and implementing innovative products and services. We drive radical innovation outside traditional structures, treating each venture as our own.

vlabs.at

Yumana

Yumana is the French leader in innovation and intrapreneurship management. Our mission: empowering our clients to drive their innovation portfolio from idea to value.Since 2006, Yumana’s software suite has been the driver behind innovation ecosystems for more than 100 customers such as Orange, L’Oréal and Vinci and extends across all industries. Combining a cutting-edge AI-powered innovation management software, an exclusive methodology and a team of dedicated experts, our unique approach has delivered concrete and measurable results for all our clients. Choose Yumana: innovate at scale.

yumana.io

Iprova

Iprova is pioneering the development of artificial intelligence and other technologies which augment and enhance the human ability to invent. Working with some of the world’s best-known companies, our Invention Studioevo invention platform enables the products of tomorrow to be invented faster and more efficiently than has previously been possible, helping companies to compete more effectively. We support our global client-base from our offices in Lausanne (Switzerland), London and Cambridge (UK).

iprova.com

Innovation Management

Innovation Management is a Japan-based consulting firm established in 2010 to improve the innovation performance of companies. We provide consulting services for end-to-end innovation processes from strategic planning to seamless execution, mainly for R&D organizations in manufacturing companies. Our commitment is to provide total support for your success

innovationmanagement.co.jp

Fero Labs

Fero is factory optimization software that enables manufacturers to stay ahead of ever-changing production conditions. With intuitive software guiding them, your engineers can confidently take informed action that gets results without wasting time or resources. Powered by machine learning that makes decisions clearer, Fero gets leading global manufacturers – including Covestro and Celsa – better production results in less time. With Fero, you see every situation – and every solution – more clearly.

ferolabs.com

ABB Motion Services

abb.com

QVEST

Qvest advises and supports organizations and companies worldwide on all requirements for technology implementations in the context of digital transformation and is a world-leading systems architect, ICT integrator and developer of software products in the innovation-driven media industry. The company’s service range aligns to the opportunities emerging from an increasingly digital media value chain such as multi-platform content delivery, AI, data & analytics, multi-cloud management, and IP infrastructures. Qvest clients include renowned media networks, telecommunication providers, broadcasters as well as companies from the industrial and public sector. Headquartered in Cologne, Germany, the globally connected Qvest Group operates further locations in Europe, the USA, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and Australia.

qvest.com

Gen5 Group

Over the past 25 years, Gen5 Group has built a reputation for solving complex technical problems to help clients develop new products or processes and improve profitability. The firm excels when the business pain is real, but the pathway to solution is unclear. Each client engagement is hand crafted and attacked with a start-up mentality.

Gen5’s expertise lies within its disciplined methodology and problem-solving tools that have been applied across a wide range of businesses. The company offers a deliberate framework for problem framing that is particularly effective at early stages of the innovation cycle and uses its laboratories for proof of principle testing and prototyping of new ideas.

gen5group.com

HYVE

HYVE is the leading innovation company in Europe and supports businesses in the customer-centric development and transformation of new products, services, and business models. HYVE supports its clients in deriving strategic and sustainable future scenarios and oversees the implementation of the resulting innovation roadmaps, including the individual product innovations defined therein. Through its diverse team, HYVE's strength lies in its ability to holistically develop innovative products at the interface of software, service, and hardware products. Over 70% of DAX companies, public institutions, associations, and research centers trust HYVE's innovation expertise, which the company has been steadily expanding since 2000. Since 2023, HYVE has been part of the Qvest Group.

hyve.net

UIDP

UIDP is a solutions-oriented global network where academic and industry representatives find better ways to work together. Our membership, comprising top-tier innovation companies and world-class research universities, identifies issues affecting university-industry relations and seeks new approaches to partnership and collaboration. Together, we produce tools and resources to help members make a greater impact. We don’t just talk about problems. We solve them.

uidp.org

PARTNERS

Swapcard
Technology Partner

Born out of a lucky (re)encounter, our journey began when three friends reconnected after years of walking on very different paths. With diverse interests from law and finance to technology and digital innovation, together they realized they shared a common passion–human connections. That’s why Swapcard was created.

Today, we’re sparking new connections with our evolving technology and helping to build empowering relationships that bring people and communities together.

We are committed to helping create meaningful connections that grow into authentic, long-lasting relationships.

swapcard.com

IMPROV

At IMPROV, we specialize in designing and curating workshops and courses centered around 'Applied Improvisation.' Our unique approach empowers both teams and individuals with a 'Yes, And' mindset and equips them with essential verbal and non-verbal communication techniques for both personal and professional situations. Our tailor-made sessions cater to diverse needs, including management training & development, company culture enhancement, personal presentation technique refinement, and team building, for both small and large-scale events.

improv.eu

Ludic Group

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Prime Sponsors

Strategic Allies

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Sopheon

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ITONICS

itonics-innovation.com

Edison365

Z_punkt

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Wazoku

Sagentia Innovation

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Helbling Technik

The internationally operating Helbling Group, which was founded in 1963, positions itself as an interdisciplinary nexus of engineering and consulting expertise. The independent Group is run by 36 managing partners and employs some 620 professionals at locations in Switzerland, Germany, Poland, the USA and China. The Group’s main focus is on providing selected services in the fields of technological innovation and business consulting. Helbling Technik, a division of the Helbling Group, supports clients from idea inception all the way through market launch, mainly in the fields of household appliance, medical technology, pharmaceutical, apparatus and laboratory equipment, transportation and traffic, automotive, mechanical and plant engineering and energy systems industries.

helbling.ch

HYPE Innovation

hypeinnovation.com

MIRO

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