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What a great event it was! The intimate and beautiful chapel of the Grauwzusters Convent of the university of Antwerp turned out to be the perfect ambiance for a constructive, enjoyable and inspiring pitch event with 10 new academic spin off projects in the human health.
A special thank you to the 20 projects of this 16th edition, the many volunteers, the university of Antwerp and our sponsors who helped us turning this edition to an inspiring and successful event.
It consisted of:
– Webinars: As always we kicked of our journey to guide researchers in their transition to market oriented entrepreneurs by yet another outstanding session on Resonating with Investors, given by Jeff Skinner from London Business School. Soon after Arnold&Siedsma followed up with a session on IP strategy for startups from lab to market.
– Successful Quickfire sessions: Guided by our volunteer-experts, 10 early stage ideas or venture proposals not pitch ready yet presented their projects and got valuable insights and feedback from investors, venture builders, industry partners and KTO-experts during 10 online quickfire sessions.
– Pitch event:
- Under the dynamic and very knowledgeable moderation of Jeff Skinner, 10 new start ups presented their proposition at an interactive and enjoyable live pitch event in Antwerp.
- After the break we continued with a great presentation given by Arne Smolders, CEO of Academic Labs, a global AI-driven Early-Stage Research & Innovation Scouting Platform. Arne shared with us his journey from quitting his PhD and setting up this platform that could have spun out from all Flemish universitites.
– 3rd KTO Meet up: after the pitch esssion, 25 KTO professionals gathered and entered into a lively conversation on the CEO gap. A short summary will follow soon.
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