Corporates & Startups: Unlocking the Synergies w/ Bosch & Founder Institute

Are you working in Corporate or in Startups? Are you curious to learn more about Corporate Innovation, Corporate Ventures and Spinoffs? Bosch Digital and Founder Institute brought together the innovation leaders from both worlds to speak about the synergies between Corporates and Startups and share what's next in 2023.

Don't miss out on an insightful evening of dicussions and startup pitchings, hear from the tought-leaders of today and meet inspiring like-minded people. Register here to save a spot! The location will be announced soon.

Agenda

• 18:00 Doors Open & Welcome Drink
• 18:30 Opening
• 18:35 Keynote by Dr Andreas Nauerz: From Disruptors to Collaborators: The Art of Innovation and How Startups Can Ignite the Fire of Progress
• 18:50 Bosch Startup Harbour Demo Day
• 19:10 Panel: The 360 View on Corporate-Startup Synergies in 2023
• 19:40 Founder Institute All-Stars Pitching
• 20:00 Closing
• 20:05 Networking, Drinks & Finger Food w/ the community

Keynote Speaker & Panelists

• Ulrike Hetzel: President at Bosch Digital
• Dr. Andreas Nauerz: Member of the Board | CTO & Executive Vice President | Chief Expert Distributed & Cloud Computing at Bosch Digital
• Veronika Brandt: Head of Co-Innovation & Bosch Startup Harbour at Bosch
• Iskren Krusteff: Partner at VC LAW FIRM
• Aleksandar Hinkov: Community Evangelist at BESCO - The Bulgarian Startup Association
• Max Gurvits: Managing Partner at Vitosha Venture Partners 
• Ivan Guberkov: VP & GM, Hybrid Work Division at OfficeRnD 

 Startups

• Efemarai & Svet Penkov
• Circonomit & Dana Aleff
• QuarkXR & Krasimir Nikolov
• Umni AI &  Elitza (Elly) Stoilova
• VRtual Space & Vencislav Lukanov
• Cyrcl & Enriko Marinov

Moderators

• Sinisha Djukic - General Manager, Bosch Digital Bulgaria
• Janet Todorova - Director, Founder Institute Eastern Europe
• Ivaylo Ivanov - Director, Founder Institute Eastern Europe

Who should Attend?

• Anyone who wants to learn more about Corporate Innovation
• Anyone who has a startup idea or an early-stage startup and wants to learn how to partners with big orgranizations
• Anyone who works in corporate and would like to learn how to engage with startups
• Anyone who wants to network with the startup and innovation ecosystem in Sofia

Your Hosts

Founder Institute Eastern Europe: Founder Institute is a global pre-seed startup accelerator with chapters in 200+ cities in 90+ countries, a global network of 25000+ Mentors and a portfolio of 6500+ portfolio companies. The accelerator is the #1 place in the world to turn startup ideas into fundable startups, and startups into global businesses. Application are open until March 26th, 2023: https://fi.co/program/sofia

Bosch Digital: Bosch Digital's mission is to shape the digital future of Bosch together with all business divisions. Their goal is to invent, code and create digital products, services and solutions that spark enthusiasm and improve quality of life. Bosch Digital is home to more than 10,000 unique and diverse talents around the world. Their agile mindset and working culture are a key driver of digital transformation at Bosch and gives both our associates and their ideas room to grow.  The company's inititive Bosch Startup Harbour enables early-stage technology startups to work together with Bosch Group experts and gain access to innovations, technology and business know-how, as well as contribute to the development of real business projects. The program, created in Berlin, Germany, has been successfully growing over the last four years and is now expanding to open the doors for startups from other regions, like Bulgaria in 2022.

For more information about the investors, accelerators, incubators, and tech events available in Sofia, see our list of Startup Resources.