How can Companies collaborate to accelerate Innovation across Ecosystems?
Event description
How can companies collaborate to accelerate innovation?
How can innovation strengthen business ecosystems?
How can resources and expertise be connected for greater impact?
This panel explores how innovation drives collaboration across ecosystems, highlighting approaches that link insights with the capabilities and markets. Through concrete examples, it examines how businesses can create resilient, adaptive and impactful ecosystems that generate new opportunities.
On stage start-ups that will pitch in 2 minutes each
Speakers:
Sebastian Thomas, Key Partner Manager Ignite Nordic
Raffaele Giovinazzi, Innovation Ventures Leader Ikea
Silvia Celani, Head of Innovation PNO Digital
Sanna Bedi, Innovation Specialist UNICEF Venture Fund
Moderator:
Jessica Mansourati, Startup Advisor Uppsala Innovation Centre & Innovation Leadership Group
#cvc #venturebuilding #ecosystems
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Speakers in this Panel
Jessica Mansourati
Jessica Mansourati is a startup advisor and innovation leader in the Nordic startup scene, helping businesses turn innovative ideas into scalable reality. With experience from Nextory, Business Sweden USA, Spotify, and as the founder of two audio ventures, she combines deep market insight...Read more
Silvia Celani
Over 20 years of experience in research and innovation: my career began in the world of subsidized finance and the non-profit sector, coordinating and winning several European funding projects covering a variety of topics, from Smart Cities to the Circular Economy to Open Innovation...Read more
Sanna Bedi
Sanna is an Innovation Specialist with the UNICEF Venture Fund where she leads the Fund’s investment strategy as well as manages the UNICEF CryptoFund. Over the past five years, she led the Fund’s sourcing and due diligence for open-source, frontier technology start-up investments...Read more
Raffaele Giovinazzi Giovinazzi
Raffaele Giovinazzi is Innovation Ventures Leader at Inter IKEA, where he works at the intersection of corporate innovation, startups, and venture building. He leads collaborations with startups, universities, and investors to identify, test, and scale new solutions across sustainable...Read more
Sebastian Thomas
Sebastian Thomas is a Key Partner Manager at Ignite Sweden, where he drives collaborations between startups, corporates, and the public sector to accelerate innovation. A Swedish-American, he brings a background from Stockholm’s innovation ecosystem, both as a HealthTech founder and from...Read more