SXSW 2019

The Golden Ticket to Innovation Through Startups

Description:

Corporate innovation by collaborating with startups is a rising trend. But what is the winning formula to drive innovation and create a beneficial partnership for both parties? B. Building Business - Europe’s biggest startup incubator, based in Amsterdam and New York - is joined by Sodexo and Manpower Group to explain in a few cases how startups and corporates can work together to improve their business. B. Building Business provides offline and online tools for companies to grow and innovate their business. With Sodexo, B. has a global partnership to create concepts around the future of work. With Manpower Group, B.´s startup school works towards a new digital way to improve education and to find a scalable solution for the rising skill gap.


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Takeaways

  1. Collaborations between Startups and Corporates are not always easy. With our case studies, we show how to handle these problems.
  2. Learning when and how working together is interesting for both the corporate as for the startup. It´s not about acquisitions, but about partnerships.
  3. Cases on how the future is changing; the rising skill gap that will make millions of people have to re-educate and about the future of the workspace.

Speakers

  • Ricardo van Loenen, CEO & Co-founder, B. Building Business
  • Sylvia Metayer , CEO, Corporate Services Worldwide Segment, Sodexo
  • Stefano Scabio, President Northern Europe and Mediterranean & Eastern Europe Operations. , Manpower Group

Organizer

Rahel de Vriend, Strategic Assistant to the CEO, B. Building Business


Meta Information:

  • Event: SXSW
  • Format: Podcast
  • Track: Entrepreneurship & Startups
  • Track 2
  • Level: Intermediate


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