Omar Ali has over 15 years of experience in quantitative finance and structured finance. He holds a PhD in Quantitative Finance from Imperial College London and has worked at major banks like Citigroup and Royal Bank of Scotland. Currently, he specializes in originating, structuring, and executing securitization transactions in emerging markets, with a focus on the Middle East and Africa. Some of his recent deals include securitizations of utility receivables, SME loans, residential mortgages, and distressed portfolio receivables.
This document lists 35 discussion groups for actuaries, actuarial analysts, and entry level actuaries. The groups cover a wide range of actuarial topics from various professional societies to networking and career opportunities. They include international groups as well as country specific groups for places like the UK, Netherlands, and India. Many of the groups have an online forum platform while others are on social media like Facebook.
A brief overview of some great Innovation Centers in London, Paris, and Copenhagen. Lessons Learned and Best Practices are outlined for the benefit of advancing innovation efforts globally. Innovation is key to a prosperous future.
The document discusses key considerations for technology startups, including 6 questions entrepreneurs should answer about their product, market, team, investment requirements, and exit strategy. It emphasizes the importance of solving a significant problem, clearly defining the target market size and competition, trusting the capabilities of the founding team, and doing thorough homework before approaching investors to secure funding. Entrepreneurs are advised to advance their idea into a product and prove its potential without funding if possible, as it builds credibility and reduces dilution of the founder's ownership.
AI-SDV 2020: How to know the patent applicants better? Emmanuelle Fortune (In...Dr. Haxel Consult
This case study provides an example of how to know better patent applicants at the French Patent Office using the French patent database.
Key questions for this applicants’ analysis are:
What are the different types of patent applicants?
What are the geographical localisations of patent applicants?
What are the technological domains of applicants and do they have several domains?
Do patent applicants often extend their French patent applications?
What are the links between applicants’ types and technological domains, international extension, or geographical localisations?
Do you have the next big commercial idea that will disrupt the ICT industry and conquer the world? Are you looking for money for your start-up, without giving up equity? Do you want to find out what Open Disruptive Innovation, FI-WARE or COSME mean? Compared to traditional investors from the private sector, EU funding provides support with minimal strings attached and does not require Entrepreneurs to surrender any ownership of their idea or shares of their start-up. This presentation was part of the workshops sessions in ID-GC 2014 event held in Athens Concert Hall (15 Novermber 2014).
Paris innovation district callfor project 2019UrbanLabParis
This document outlines the specifications for a call for experimentation projects in the ChapelleS Innovation District in Paris. It details the topics of focus, including improving public space usage, accompanying urban development projects, and better managing flows in constrained areas. Experimentation fields could include public spaces, buildings, urban objects, underground areas, or groups of residents. The submission process and selection criteria are provided, along with the general terms and conditions of the program. The goal is to support innovative solutions in testing in real-world conditions while also learning lessons to inform future urban development.
A personal view of the SME Instrument from an Evaluator's Role, based on the experience of 2 years, since 2014, as expert evaluator working for the European Commission (EC).
Omar Ali has over 15 years of experience in quantitative finance and structured finance. He holds a PhD in Quantitative Finance from Imperial College London and has worked at major banks like Citigroup and Royal Bank of Scotland. Currently, he specializes in originating, structuring, and executing securitization transactions in emerging markets, with a focus on the Middle East and Africa. Some of his recent deals include securitizations of utility receivables, SME loans, residential mortgages, and distressed portfolio receivables.
This document lists 35 discussion groups for actuaries, actuarial analysts, and entry level actuaries. The groups cover a wide range of actuarial topics from various professional societies to networking and career opportunities. They include international groups as well as country specific groups for places like the UK, Netherlands, and India. Many of the groups have an online forum platform while others are on social media like Facebook.
A brief overview of some great Innovation Centers in London, Paris, and Copenhagen. Lessons Learned and Best Practices are outlined for the benefit of advancing innovation efforts globally. Innovation is key to a prosperous future.
The document discusses key considerations for technology startups, including 6 questions entrepreneurs should answer about their product, market, team, investment requirements, and exit strategy. It emphasizes the importance of solving a significant problem, clearly defining the target market size and competition, trusting the capabilities of the founding team, and doing thorough homework before approaching investors to secure funding. Entrepreneurs are advised to advance their idea into a product and prove its potential without funding if possible, as it builds credibility and reduces dilution of the founder's ownership.
AI-SDV 2020: How to know the patent applicants better? Emmanuelle Fortune (In...Dr. Haxel Consult
This case study provides an example of how to know better patent applicants at the French Patent Office using the French patent database.
Key questions for this applicants’ analysis are:
What are the different types of patent applicants?
What are the geographical localisations of patent applicants?
What are the technological domains of applicants and do they have several domains?
Do patent applicants often extend their French patent applications?
What are the links between applicants’ types and technological domains, international extension, or geographical localisations?
Do you have the next big commercial idea that will disrupt the ICT industry and conquer the world? Are you looking for money for your start-up, without giving up equity? Do you want to find out what Open Disruptive Innovation, FI-WARE or COSME mean? Compared to traditional investors from the private sector, EU funding provides support with minimal strings attached and does not require Entrepreneurs to surrender any ownership of their idea or shares of their start-up. This presentation was part of the workshops sessions in ID-GC 2014 event held in Athens Concert Hall (15 Novermber 2014).
Paris innovation district callfor project 2019UrbanLabParis
This document outlines the specifications for a call for experimentation projects in the ChapelleS Innovation District in Paris. It details the topics of focus, including improving public space usage, accompanying urban development projects, and better managing flows in constrained areas. Experimentation fields could include public spaces, buildings, urban objects, underground areas, or groups of residents. The submission process and selection criteria are provided, along with the general terms and conditions of the program. The goal is to support innovative solutions in testing in real-world conditions while also learning lessons to inform future urban development.
A personal view of the SME Instrument from an Evaluator's Role, based on the experience of 2 years, since 2014, as expert evaluator working for the European Commission (EC).
Presentation France Digital Day | Clipperton - Go 4 venture | Festival French...LaFrenchTech
France has a strong innovation financing ecosystem, with $1B invested across 235 deals in 2013. While the number of deals is lower than the UK, average deal sizes are growing and include notable French tech successes raising substantial funding from US investors or being acquired. However, France has yet to achieve its potential, with fewer large late-stage rounds and M&A exits compared to countries like the UK. With a stable government support system, strong engineering talent pool, and more experienced investors, France is well positioned to produce more global tech leaders.
The document discusses the growth and success of the French startup industry, known as "French Tech". It describes how French Tech has shown incredible dynamism in recent years, driven by entrepreneurs, investors, engineers and others. It provides examples of highly successful French startups that have been acquired by major companies or become unicorns. It also outlines the supportive ecosystem that exists for French startups, including incubators, accelerators, co-working spaces, tax benefits, and public investment funds. Finally, it discusses efforts to expand this ecosystem globally through initiatives like French Tech Hubs and French Tech Tickets, including a specific initiative to support startups in the Philippines through collaboration between French and Philippine entrepreneurs.
The document provides an introduction to the London startup community. It discusses that London is the third largest tech cluster in the world but has fewer large startups than San Francisco and New York. It then profiles some major London startups and exits, top sectors, investors, coworking spaces, events, jobs resources and newsletters to stay informed. The summary highlights London's active startup scene while noting it has slower growth than Silicon Valley but a strong community.
Short presentation i gave to the 'Circle of Influence' of StartupDelta providing an overview of the Dutch tech-entrepreneurship ecosystem. Views expressed are my own.
The document discusses E-MED TEX-NET, a cluster for developing a Euro-Mediterranean partnership network in the textile-clothing sector. It aims to facilitate technical/commercial dialogue between manufacturers, distributors, service providers, and training institutions. The cluster provides online business intelligence, contacts, performance benchmarking and training to help textile companies upgrade their knowledge, evaluate their performance, and train their employees. It involves partners from 10 countries and has benefited many textile companies.
Group III nitride semiconductors are recognized as having great potential for short wave length emission (LEDs, LDs, UV detectors) and high-temperature electronics devices. The field of III-N semiconductors has shown an intensive patenting activity since early 1990s, with a substantial increase during the past decade. Today, there are more than 27,000 patent families filed all over the world. The most active companies are Panasonic, Toshiba, Samsung, Sumitomo and Hitachi. The patents related to LED technology account for more than 40% of filings, followed by those related to GaN substrates (5%) and RF & Advanced Electronics (<5%).
More than 1,570 new patent families were published between early April 2012 and late March 2013. They were filed by about 350 patent applicants mainly located in Japan, Korea, USA and China. The main patent applicants are Sumitomo, Toshiba, Samsung, Sharp and Mitsubishi which represent together almost 25% of the patents published the last 12 months. The academic organisms account for almost 15% of new patent filings and they are mainly located in China. The data set was segmented by type of application (Substrates, Epi-wafers, LED & Laser, Power Devices, RF & Advanced Electronics, Photovoltaics, Sensors-Detectors-MEMS). About 45% of new patent families published the last 12 months are related to LED technology.
They were mainly filed by Toshiba, LG and Samsung, while Chinese companies are increasing their patent activity (Tongfang, Sanan Optoelectronics). The patents claiming an invention related to III-N Substrates and Power Devices represent 20% and 14% of new filings respectively. The patents dedicated to Substrate technology were mainly filed by Sumitomo, Hitachi and Mitsubishi, while University of California and Soitec filed 15 and 8 new patents respectively. The patents dedicated to Power Devices were mainly filed by Advanced Power Device Research Association, Samsung and Sumitomo and the patent filings remain dominated by Japanese companies. Numerous patent applications published this year are offered for sale or for license. This year, the most relevant offers are the ones from the University of California (e.g. Ammonothermal growth technique, CAVET for High Power Application, Defect reduction of semi-polar III-N, GaN substrates, III-N tandem solar cells .
TechEvent Digital Business Transformation Journey-a_pragmaticapproachTrivadis
The document discusses digital business transformation and provides tools and approaches for organizations undergoing this process. It outlines areas to consider like processes, culture, products and data. Tools include using a digital checkup, trend radar and idea factory to develop strategies, identify innovations and optimize processes. The key is having a customer focus, digital mindset, end-to-end thinking and full leadership support to adapt the organization as customer expectations change in a digital world.
This document provides a statistical analysis of new patent applications related to acne treatments that were published between May 2012 and June 2013. It contains an overview of the patent landscape including segmentation by technology type (e.g. natural products, formulations, devices), statistics on patent applicants and inventors, summaries of the main patent classes and subclasses, and analyses of the countries of filing and legal status of patent filings. The document contains information on over 800 new patent families filed by over 400 patent applicants located mainly in China, Korea, USA and France.
Capsule Endoscopy Patent Landscape Flyer 2014
Olympus and Given Imaging are leading intellectual property in the capsule endoscopy industry, but for how long?
KEY FEATURES OF THE REPORT
The report provides essential patent data for capsule endoscopy. It identifies more than 30 major holders of capsule endoscopy related intellectual property. It provides in-depth IP analysis and industrial key players including:
-Time evolution of patent publications and countries of patent filings.
-Current legal status of patents.
-Ranking of main patent applicants.
-Joint developments and IP collaboration network of main patent applicants.
-Key patents.
-Granted patents near expiration.
-Relative strength of main companies IP portfolio.
-Overview of patent litigations.
-Matrix applicants/technology issues for more than 15+ companies.
The “capsule endoscopy IP” profiles of 15+ major companies is presented, with key patents, technological issues, litigations, licenses, partnerships, and IP strength and strategy.
The report also provides an extensive Excel database with all patents analyzed in the report.
OBJECTIVE OF THE REPORT
•Understand the IP landscape for capsule endoscopy.
•Identify key patents.
•Understand trends in capsule endoscopy IP.
•Identify the major players in capsule
endoscopy IP and the relative strength of
their patent portfolio.
•Identify new players in capsule endoscopy IP.
•Identify IP collaboration networks between key players (industrial and academics).
•Identify main patent litigations.
Invest in Paris Saclay, the French Silicon ValleyVincent GOLLAIN
Paris Saclay is a major innovation hub located southwest of Paris that is home to over 60,000 students, 350,000 jobs, and numerous top global companies and research institutions in fields such as life sciences, aeronautics, engineering, and IT. The Paris Saclay region offers businesses significant tax incentives for R&D investments and access to a large pool of highly skilled talent and world-class research facilities. The Paris Saclay Alliance assists companies that seek to start, expand, or relocate their business activities in the region by providing customized advice, connections, and support through the entire business setup and location process.
Can europe create_billion_dollar_tech_companies_-_the_factsPawel Chudzinski
This document provides a summary of billion-dollar ("unicorn") tech companies founded in Europe since 2000. It finds 30 such companies, compared to 39 in the US over the same period. Most European unicorns are in eCommerce, founded by co-founders in their 30s, and it takes an average of 8 years to reach a liquidity event. While rare, European entrepreneurs have demonstrated the ability to build huge billion-dollar companies.
Communiqué de Presse IMCAS - PB Communication - Février 2012pbcom1998
This document is a press kit for the IMCAS conference to be held on January 26th, 2012 in Paris, France. It provides information about the conference organizers and directors, as well as an agenda for the international press conference that will take place at the event. Topics to be covered at the press conference include facial and neck rejuvenation trends, body shaping techniques for 2012, and using the IMCAS conference to monitor cosmetovigilance. Key speakers are named.
OW2 Open Source Accessibility Initiative presentation, OW2con'16, Paris. OW2
New Session this year with presentations related to open and compliant digital solutions for people with physical or cognitive difficulties. This session is linked to the recently established OW2 Open Source Accessibility initiative (OSAi) aiming at providing a neutral forum to identify, discuss, develop and integrate quality open source solutions for Accessibility.
The recent OW2 OSAi initiative is fostering collaboration within seven domains, identified by the seven initial participants. La Poste, DINSIC, Worldline, Smile, Océane consulting, Atalan and Orange are sharing open source tools and best practices to offer all citizens an easier access to information and web services. For all organizations addressing a large audience today, this is not only an HR concern, to hold aging employees in place. There is a clear business justification in such an initiative, as the information systems are now open to more and more partners and to more and more customers.
This document discusses IP portfolio pruning and the Questel IP Pruning solution. It provides an overview of the IP Pruning workflow which allows users to audit their patent portfolios, rank patents based on multiple metrics, and identify the most valuable patents to maintain versus those that can be abandoned to save money and resources. The solution computes metrics for each patent and provides detailed reports on the portfolio analysis to help companies make strategic decisions about their IP assets.
Ultrasound Solutions GmbH & Co. KG is presenting their ultrasound water treatment solutions. They are developing a Ballast Water Management System (BWMS) for ships and acquiring an existing product line from Harsonic that uses ultrasound to prevent biofilm buildup. USS believes their ultrasound technology can treat water more effectively than current methods. They are seeking $17 million in funding to develop the BWMS, acquire Harsonic's products, and establish production facilities. Their strategy is to target the global shipping and industrial markets directly and through distributors.
2014.05.09 MC3 Crafting Innovation Deals between Large and Small CompaniesNUI Galway
Professor Wim Vanhaverbeke, University of Hasselt, Belgium, presented this InterTradeIreland Innovation master class entitled "Crafting Innovation Deals between Large and Small Companies" at the Whitaker Institute on 9th May 2014
Crypto Coinference 2018 - Start-ups, Venture Capital e tecnologia blockchain:...Crypto Coinference
Relatori:
William Pividori, CEO & Co-Founder at SeedVenture
Sergio De Prisco, Co-Founder & Strategist at SeedVenture | Co-Founder & Scientific Board Member at Decentra – Distributed Ledgers Academy
L’innovazione nel mondo del Venture Capital, in particolare nella fase iniziale denominata “seed”, è una sfida complessa: l’incontro fra il Capitale (angels investors e venture fund) e le idee (start-ups) pone oggi all’attenzione diverse problematiche da affrontare: da un lato l’elevata mortalità della start-ups che si traduce in un altissimo rischio per chi investe, dall’altro lo scarso o non qualificato presidio/affiancamento ai team (promotori) di sviluppo dell’idea, che spesso genera defocalizzazione e dispersione di energie. In sintesi una mancata, o inefficace, convergenza degli obiettivi di tutti gli attori della filiera, che limita la spinta e la crescita in questo settore.
La piattaforma SEED Venture, fondata sulla combinazione tra l’utilizzo della tecnologia Blockchain e l’innovazione della filiera, si propone come strumento sia di distribuzione del rischio e liquidabilità del capitale, sia di valorizzazione (e maggiori ritorni) per tutti coloro che saranno in grado di dimostrare il raggiungimento dei risultati, ognuno nel proprio ruolo.
TRADING WEALTH & TECHNOLOGY DISTRIBUTION AGAINST ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND EXPLOI...iQHub
The document discusses challenges around balancing environmental protection and wealth distribution with deep sea mining exploitation. It proposes three suggestions: 1) Reduce required disclosure of technical details in mining applications to limit what's necessary for assessing environmental impacts. 2) Allow contractors an initial "lead time" to exclusively use innovations before disclosure/transfer is required. 3) Offer mining royalty incentives for innovative, environmentally-friendly technology to attract investment and compensate for lost profits from licensing. The goal is to address industry concerns around intellectual property while encouraging environmentally sound practices.
The document provides a market analysis of the Directional Passive Air-quality Sampler (DPAS) invented at Lancaster University. It finds that the most attainable market is dust flux monitoring, though competitors exist. It recommends the DPAS be priced between £250-£400, develop another unique selling point over competitors, initially target environmental consultancies, and modify the device to reduce its size.
An extract of the 90-pages CallforEurope Weekly Report on Calls for Proposals for funding from European Institutions and Agencies, with open deadline from now for the next 6 months.
Presentation France Digital Day | Clipperton - Go 4 venture | Festival French...LaFrenchTech
France has a strong innovation financing ecosystem, with $1B invested across 235 deals in 2013. While the number of deals is lower than the UK, average deal sizes are growing and include notable French tech successes raising substantial funding from US investors or being acquired. However, France has yet to achieve its potential, with fewer large late-stage rounds and M&A exits compared to countries like the UK. With a stable government support system, strong engineering talent pool, and more experienced investors, France is well positioned to produce more global tech leaders.
The document discusses the growth and success of the French startup industry, known as "French Tech". It describes how French Tech has shown incredible dynamism in recent years, driven by entrepreneurs, investors, engineers and others. It provides examples of highly successful French startups that have been acquired by major companies or become unicorns. It also outlines the supportive ecosystem that exists for French startups, including incubators, accelerators, co-working spaces, tax benefits, and public investment funds. Finally, it discusses efforts to expand this ecosystem globally through initiatives like French Tech Hubs and French Tech Tickets, including a specific initiative to support startups in the Philippines through collaboration between French and Philippine entrepreneurs.
The document provides an introduction to the London startup community. It discusses that London is the third largest tech cluster in the world but has fewer large startups than San Francisco and New York. It then profiles some major London startups and exits, top sectors, investors, coworking spaces, events, jobs resources and newsletters to stay informed. The summary highlights London's active startup scene while noting it has slower growth than Silicon Valley but a strong community.
Short presentation i gave to the 'Circle of Influence' of StartupDelta providing an overview of the Dutch tech-entrepreneurship ecosystem. Views expressed are my own.
The document discusses E-MED TEX-NET, a cluster for developing a Euro-Mediterranean partnership network in the textile-clothing sector. It aims to facilitate technical/commercial dialogue between manufacturers, distributors, service providers, and training institutions. The cluster provides online business intelligence, contacts, performance benchmarking and training to help textile companies upgrade their knowledge, evaluate their performance, and train their employees. It involves partners from 10 countries and has benefited many textile companies.
Group III nitride semiconductors are recognized as having great potential for short wave length emission (LEDs, LDs, UV detectors) and high-temperature electronics devices. The field of III-N semiconductors has shown an intensive patenting activity since early 1990s, with a substantial increase during the past decade. Today, there are more than 27,000 patent families filed all over the world. The most active companies are Panasonic, Toshiba, Samsung, Sumitomo and Hitachi. The patents related to LED technology account for more than 40% of filings, followed by those related to GaN substrates (5%) and RF & Advanced Electronics (<5%).
More than 1,570 new patent families were published between early April 2012 and late March 2013. They were filed by about 350 patent applicants mainly located in Japan, Korea, USA and China. The main patent applicants are Sumitomo, Toshiba, Samsung, Sharp and Mitsubishi which represent together almost 25% of the patents published the last 12 months. The academic organisms account for almost 15% of new patent filings and they are mainly located in China. The data set was segmented by type of application (Substrates, Epi-wafers, LED & Laser, Power Devices, RF & Advanced Electronics, Photovoltaics, Sensors-Detectors-MEMS). About 45% of new patent families published the last 12 months are related to LED technology.
They were mainly filed by Toshiba, LG and Samsung, while Chinese companies are increasing their patent activity (Tongfang, Sanan Optoelectronics). The patents claiming an invention related to III-N Substrates and Power Devices represent 20% and 14% of new filings respectively. The patents dedicated to Substrate technology were mainly filed by Sumitomo, Hitachi and Mitsubishi, while University of California and Soitec filed 15 and 8 new patents respectively. The patents dedicated to Power Devices were mainly filed by Advanced Power Device Research Association, Samsung and Sumitomo and the patent filings remain dominated by Japanese companies. Numerous patent applications published this year are offered for sale or for license. This year, the most relevant offers are the ones from the University of California (e.g. Ammonothermal growth technique, CAVET for High Power Application, Defect reduction of semi-polar III-N, GaN substrates, III-N tandem solar cells .
TechEvent Digital Business Transformation Journey-a_pragmaticapproachTrivadis
The document discusses digital business transformation and provides tools and approaches for organizations undergoing this process. It outlines areas to consider like processes, culture, products and data. Tools include using a digital checkup, trend radar and idea factory to develop strategies, identify innovations and optimize processes. The key is having a customer focus, digital mindset, end-to-end thinking and full leadership support to adapt the organization as customer expectations change in a digital world.
This document provides a statistical analysis of new patent applications related to acne treatments that were published between May 2012 and June 2013. It contains an overview of the patent landscape including segmentation by technology type (e.g. natural products, formulations, devices), statistics on patent applicants and inventors, summaries of the main patent classes and subclasses, and analyses of the countries of filing and legal status of patent filings. The document contains information on over 800 new patent families filed by over 400 patent applicants located mainly in China, Korea, USA and France.
Capsule Endoscopy Patent Landscape Flyer 2014
Olympus and Given Imaging are leading intellectual property in the capsule endoscopy industry, but for how long?
KEY FEATURES OF THE REPORT
The report provides essential patent data for capsule endoscopy. It identifies more than 30 major holders of capsule endoscopy related intellectual property. It provides in-depth IP analysis and industrial key players including:
-Time evolution of patent publications and countries of patent filings.
-Current legal status of patents.
-Ranking of main patent applicants.
-Joint developments and IP collaboration network of main patent applicants.
-Key patents.
-Granted patents near expiration.
-Relative strength of main companies IP portfolio.
-Overview of patent litigations.
-Matrix applicants/technology issues for more than 15+ companies.
The “capsule endoscopy IP” profiles of 15+ major companies is presented, with key patents, technological issues, litigations, licenses, partnerships, and IP strength and strategy.
The report also provides an extensive Excel database with all patents analyzed in the report.
OBJECTIVE OF THE REPORT
•Understand the IP landscape for capsule endoscopy.
•Identify key patents.
•Understand trends in capsule endoscopy IP.
•Identify the major players in capsule
endoscopy IP and the relative strength of
their patent portfolio.
•Identify new players in capsule endoscopy IP.
•Identify IP collaboration networks between key players (industrial and academics).
•Identify main patent litigations.
Invest in Paris Saclay, the French Silicon ValleyVincent GOLLAIN
Paris Saclay is a major innovation hub located southwest of Paris that is home to over 60,000 students, 350,000 jobs, and numerous top global companies and research institutions in fields such as life sciences, aeronautics, engineering, and IT. The Paris Saclay region offers businesses significant tax incentives for R&D investments and access to a large pool of highly skilled talent and world-class research facilities. The Paris Saclay Alliance assists companies that seek to start, expand, or relocate their business activities in the region by providing customized advice, connections, and support through the entire business setup and location process.
Can europe create_billion_dollar_tech_companies_-_the_factsPawel Chudzinski
This document provides a summary of billion-dollar ("unicorn") tech companies founded in Europe since 2000. It finds 30 such companies, compared to 39 in the US over the same period. Most European unicorns are in eCommerce, founded by co-founders in their 30s, and it takes an average of 8 years to reach a liquidity event. While rare, European entrepreneurs have demonstrated the ability to build huge billion-dollar companies.
Communiqué de Presse IMCAS - PB Communication - Février 2012pbcom1998
This document is a press kit for the IMCAS conference to be held on January 26th, 2012 in Paris, France. It provides information about the conference organizers and directors, as well as an agenda for the international press conference that will take place at the event. Topics to be covered at the press conference include facial and neck rejuvenation trends, body shaping techniques for 2012, and using the IMCAS conference to monitor cosmetovigilance. Key speakers are named.
OW2 Open Source Accessibility Initiative presentation, OW2con'16, Paris. OW2
New Session this year with presentations related to open and compliant digital solutions for people with physical or cognitive difficulties. This session is linked to the recently established OW2 Open Source Accessibility initiative (OSAi) aiming at providing a neutral forum to identify, discuss, develop and integrate quality open source solutions for Accessibility.
The recent OW2 OSAi initiative is fostering collaboration within seven domains, identified by the seven initial participants. La Poste, DINSIC, Worldline, Smile, Océane consulting, Atalan and Orange are sharing open source tools and best practices to offer all citizens an easier access to information and web services. For all organizations addressing a large audience today, this is not only an HR concern, to hold aging employees in place. There is a clear business justification in such an initiative, as the information systems are now open to more and more partners and to more and more customers.
This document discusses IP portfolio pruning and the Questel IP Pruning solution. It provides an overview of the IP Pruning workflow which allows users to audit their patent portfolios, rank patents based on multiple metrics, and identify the most valuable patents to maintain versus those that can be abandoned to save money and resources. The solution computes metrics for each patent and provides detailed reports on the portfolio analysis to help companies make strategic decisions about their IP assets.
Ultrasound Solutions GmbH & Co. KG is presenting their ultrasound water treatment solutions. They are developing a Ballast Water Management System (BWMS) for ships and acquiring an existing product line from Harsonic that uses ultrasound to prevent biofilm buildup. USS believes their ultrasound technology can treat water more effectively than current methods. They are seeking $17 million in funding to develop the BWMS, acquire Harsonic's products, and establish production facilities. Their strategy is to target the global shipping and industrial markets directly and through distributors.
2014.05.09 MC3 Crafting Innovation Deals between Large and Small CompaniesNUI Galway
Professor Wim Vanhaverbeke, University of Hasselt, Belgium, presented this InterTradeIreland Innovation master class entitled "Crafting Innovation Deals between Large and Small Companies" at the Whitaker Institute on 9th May 2014
Crypto Coinference 2018 - Start-ups, Venture Capital e tecnologia blockchain:...Crypto Coinference
Relatori:
William Pividori, CEO & Co-Founder at SeedVenture
Sergio De Prisco, Co-Founder & Strategist at SeedVenture | Co-Founder & Scientific Board Member at Decentra – Distributed Ledgers Academy
L’innovazione nel mondo del Venture Capital, in particolare nella fase iniziale denominata “seed”, è una sfida complessa: l’incontro fra il Capitale (angels investors e venture fund) e le idee (start-ups) pone oggi all’attenzione diverse problematiche da affrontare: da un lato l’elevata mortalità della start-ups che si traduce in un altissimo rischio per chi investe, dall’altro lo scarso o non qualificato presidio/affiancamento ai team (promotori) di sviluppo dell’idea, che spesso genera defocalizzazione e dispersione di energie. In sintesi una mancata, o inefficace, convergenza degli obiettivi di tutti gli attori della filiera, che limita la spinta e la crescita in questo settore.
La piattaforma SEED Venture, fondata sulla combinazione tra l’utilizzo della tecnologia Blockchain e l’innovazione della filiera, si propone come strumento sia di distribuzione del rischio e liquidabilità del capitale, sia di valorizzazione (e maggiori ritorni) per tutti coloro che saranno in grado di dimostrare il raggiungimento dei risultati, ognuno nel proprio ruolo.
TRADING WEALTH & TECHNOLOGY DISTRIBUTION AGAINST ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND EXPLOI...iQHub
The document discusses challenges around balancing environmental protection and wealth distribution with deep sea mining exploitation. It proposes three suggestions: 1) Reduce required disclosure of technical details in mining applications to limit what's necessary for assessing environmental impacts. 2) Allow contractors an initial "lead time" to exclusively use innovations before disclosure/transfer is required. 3) Offer mining royalty incentives for innovative, environmentally-friendly technology to attract investment and compensate for lost profits from licensing. The goal is to address industry concerns around intellectual property while encouraging environmentally sound practices.
The document provides a market analysis of the Directional Passive Air-quality Sampler (DPAS) invented at Lancaster University. It finds that the most attainable market is dust flux monitoring, though competitors exist. It recommends the DPAS be priced between £250-£400, develop another unique selling point over competitors, initially target environmental consultancies, and modify the device to reduce its size.
An extract of the 90-pages CallforEurope Weekly Report on Calls for Proposals for funding from European Institutions and Agencies, with open deadline from now for the next 6 months.
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2. The overall process: how it happened
● Launched initiative on Feb 8th in Paris
● Five “sharks” identified.
● 1:1 briefings with the five sharks; What are your biggest headaches?
6. The journey
INBOUND/OUTBOUND:
- 20 APPLICATIONS
- CO:CUBED DATABASES
- VCs, ACCELERATORS ETC
- EXPLORING ADJACENCIES
- ENGAGING UNIVERSITIES
SHORTLISTING:
- REVIEWED FOR BRIEF FIT, SCALABILITY AND
INNOVATIVENESS
- RANKED GREEN / AMBER / RED TO STREAMLINE
DECISION MAKING
THE LONG LIST
FINAL
THE MEDIUM
LIST
FINAL CUT:
- SHOWCASE BROAD VARIETY OF SOLUTIONS
- ALIGNED ACROSS JUDGES, WITH AT LEAST ONE
COMPANY YOU’D BE INTERESTED IN PILOTING
500,000+
200
20
10. FRICTIONLESS
CHECKOUTS
Story telling & resource
planning
Risk prediction
Stock detection
Big Data analytics
FRICTIONLESS
CHECKOUTS
COLLEAGUE
SAFETY
LEVERAGING
DATA
Brief four
12. Top 20 join for speed-dating
60 retail leaders meet 20 innovative startups across all five briefs.
13. Startup speed dating feedback
● Start ups very happy with the quality of delegates
● Found value in meeting both existing and new clients
● Over a third made 5 or more strong leads
● 100% of respondents would take part in the process again
● Opportunity to network informally at drinks well received
● Venue and logistics could be improved
14. Top five final pitch session
The chance to pilot with 5
major retailers