Are companies prepared to turn Challenges into Growth?
Event description
How can companies stay ahead in an era of constant change?
Are companies truly leveraging Innovation to drive business growth?
This session explores the emerging opportunities that shape the future of businesses: from new technologies to evolving markets, we ask how organizations can innovate strategically, unlock untapped potential and turn challenges into growth for a sustainable competitive edge.
On stage start-ups that will pitch in 2 minutes each
Speakers:
Marc Janes, CEO Co:Cubed
Luca Cosentino, GM, Agentic Economy & Digital Assets Cross River
Reid Hamilton, Managing Director Founders Institute
Jonathan Meléndez-Davidson, Director of Strategy Newlab
Roberta Angelilli, Vice President - Regional Councillor for Economic Development, Trade, Artisan Business, Industry and Internationalization Lazio Region
Victor Bistritzki, Senior Innovation Associate SOSA
Moderator:
Francesco Ricigliano, Managing Director Siena Lane Partners
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Speakers in this Panel
Jonathan Meléndez-Davidson
Jonathan Meléndez-Davidson is Director of Strategy at Newlab, where he leads a portfolio of industry and civic engagements focused on addressing critical challenges by structuring partnerships between corporations, governments, and best-in-class startups. He works across regions including...Read more
Victor Bistritzki
Victor designs and leads open innovation engagements for SOSA's global roster of corporate clients. With deep roots in innovation research and several years of startup consulting in Brazil, Germany and the U.S. across various industries, Victor delivers end-to-end advisory services on CVC...Read more
Luca Cosentino
Luca is a general manager at Cross River Bank, the fintech-infrastructure bank behind companies like Stripe, Coinbase, and Intuit. He leads the bank's work on programmable money and agentic payments.Before this, he ran the company's Product team, covering payments, banking, and lending....Read more
Reid Hamilton
Reid Hamilton is Managing Director of Founder Institute New York, a pre-seed accelerator supporting early-stage founders and a consultant to Columbia Business School. Previously, he worked with KPMG’s Venture Studio and led startup programs for Verizon focused on deep tech. He...Read more
Francesco Ricigliano
Francesco Ricigliano is a business development expert specialized in US market entry for Italian companies. Prior to joining Siena Lane Partners, Francesco worked for Advance Connecticut, the State’s economic development organization, where he was responsible for attracting businesses...Read more
Mark Janes
Mark Janes has spent a decade getting large companies into rooms with the right startups. Coca-Cola, Adidas, Tesco, AstraZeneca, British Airways, Citi. The brief is usually some version of: we have a problem, we don't have time to build it, find us someone who's already solving it. What he...Read more
Roberta Angelilli
Roberta Angelilli is Vice President of the Lazio Region, where she is responsible for economic development, industry, trade, tourism, and internationalization. She previously served as a Member of the European Parliament from 1994 to 2014 and was Vice-President of the European Parliament...Read more