Our goal is to foster a sustainable and global entrepreneurial ecosystem. Our programs and activities focus on bringing startups and corporates together to enhance the growth of all parties, and to bring new value to enterprises through innovation.
Mind the Bridge is an international team with experience and a presence in multiple ecosystems.
Mind the Bridge has been running a non-profit foundation since 2007. It was established by Marco Marinucci with the support of a group of entrepreneurs passionate about entrepreneurship education.
Mind the Bridge was established in 2007 by then Googler, Marco Marinucci. Marco now serves as the company’s CEO with Italian university Professor Alberto Onetti as its chairman.
The Scaleup Summits are highly curated, invitation only, formats where international corporates can explore the world’s most interesting tech hotspots, benchmark their open innovation approaches, spot technology trends, and meet targeted scaleups offering solutions to their innovation challenges
| 09:00 AM – 10:00 AM | Welcome & Introduction Hideyuki Takahashi, Executive Director, JETRO New York |
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10:00 AM – 11:00 AM | Corporate Startup Stars Panel
Moderated by: Marco Marinucci & Alberto Onetti |
| 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM | Open Innovation Roundtable (closed-door session among Corporate Innovation Execs) Moderated by: Marco Marinucci & Alberto Onetti |
| 12:00 PM – 13:30 PM | Networking Lunch |
| 13:30 PM – 14:00 PM | Report & Directory Launch: Japanese Corporate Innovation Outposts on the East Coast |
| 14:00 PM – 14:30 PM | Japanese Corporates: Reverse Pitching |
| 14:30 PM – 17:00 PM | Matching Corporate <> Startups |
| 17:00 PM – 18:00 PM | Networking Cocktail Reception |
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