San Francisco (CA)
16-17 September | 2025
Join us at the Scaleup Summit San Francisco 2025, an exclusive, invitation-only gathering at the
Mind the Bridge Innovation Center, where global corporates, government innovation entities, and
top-tier Scaleups converge to explore new business opportunities, uncover cutting-edge technology trends, and benchmark their open innovation strategies
The 2025 edition will focus on:
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2025: the year of Physical AI. Deepdive in best in class startup solutions and corporate use cases
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Parallel tracks of deeper conversations for Corporates and Policy Makers/Government organizations
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Launching partnership with Qualcomm: help developers and startups innovate with new Software/Hardware platform
Agenda
| MAIN HALL | WORKSHOP HALL |
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| 9.30AM | Opening: Welcome and Introduction Marco Marinucci, Mind the Bridge |
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| 10.00AM | Market Review with Crunchbase Gene’ Teare, Crunchbase |
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| 10.30AM | “Is Physical AI the new holy grail?” launch and presentation of Report | |
| 11.00AM | The best in class: Physical AI Startup Showcase Pitching Session and Showcase: |
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| 11:30AM | Fireside chat: From 0 to $1B: the incredible Nozomi Networks story (just acquired) fireside chat with Andrea Carcano, Nozomi Networks co-founder |
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| 11.50AM | Keynote: Empowering developers: Building in the Era of AI Uttam Tripathi, Qualcomm |
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| 12.20PM | Keynote: EIC (European Innovation Council) lands in Silicon Valley: why & what Francois Brizard, EIC |
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| Lunch Break | |
| CORPORATE BREAKOUT SESSIONS | INNOVATION BUILDERS BREAKOUT SESSIONS |
| 2.00PM | Corporate Innovation Outposts in SV: Who’s Who Marco Marinucci, CEO, Mind the Bridge |
2.00PM | Government Innovation Outposts in SV: Who’s Who Andrea Sguazzi, Head of New Ventures, Mind the Bridge |
| 2.30PM | New kids (corporate outposts) on the Block: Introducing a few Innovation Corporate Outposts that landed recently in Silicon Valley |
2.45PM | Fireside chat: From government-sponsored program to thriving in Silicon Valley. What’s the secret? Fireside chat with Nayul Lina Kim, CLIKA Founder&CEO |
| 2.45PM | Use Cases on Physical AI: implementation & corporate reverse pitching: How are established corporations using Physical AI today? What are the practical current use-cases, and what are they looking for?
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3.15PM | Panel: Beyond Accelerators: Redefining Global Startup Support Deeply established Innovation Builders share their best practices Jesus Buenafuente, Accio |
| 3.30PM | Corporate<>Startup Matching Pre-organized 1:1 meetings between corporates & startups |
4.00PM | Panel: From Small to Global “Smaller” regions share their plans on how to approach the global Innovation marketplace Anna Hight, CzechInvest |
| 5.00PM | Cocktail Networking sponsored by Qualcomm |
Speakers
Head of Silicon Valley Office, KISED
Head of US West Coast, Enterprise Ireland
Trade Commissioner, Consulate General of Canada in San Francisco
Director of West Coast Operations, CzechInvest
Chief Executive Officer, Future Unicorns Accelerator
Innovation Manager, Catalonia Trade & Investment
Austrian Trade Commissioner, ADVANTAGE AUSTRIA in San Francisco
Senior Data Editor, Crunchbase
VP DevRel & Product, Qualcomm
CEO Office Infrastructure & Chief Innovation & Digital, ACCIONA
Innovation Hub Manager, Enel North America
Consul General of Italy in San Francisco
CEO & Founder, Mind the Bridge
Head of Venture Builder and Startup Programs, Mind the Bridge
Lead MTB for Governments & Innovation Advisory, Mind the Bridge
Innovation Director, ACCIONA
CTO, NTT Research, Inc.
CEO, CTO, Co-Founder, Bedrock
Director of Partnerships, General Robotics
Founder & CEO, CosmicBrain AI
Co-Founder, Haply Robotics
Co-Founder, RoboForce
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