The document describes partnership opportunities with the Kairos Society, an organization that connects student entrepreneurs globally. It discusses how Kairos helps entrepreneurs overcome barriers bringing disruptive solutions to market. Partners can mentor fellows, shape areas of focus on challenges like healthcare and education, and gain access to top talent and startups. Various sponsorship levels are outlined for the Kairos Mobile Summit, offering partners visibility, networking opportunities, and engagement with students developing innovative ventures.
2. “The next billionaires will solve our
world’s most urgent needs, create
tools to fundamentally transform
people’s lives, and will be financially
compensated in exchange.”
Through new organizations like the Kairos Society, entrepreneurs are able to bridge
the worlds of innovation, government, and industry to overcome many of the barriers
they would otherwise face when bringing such disruptive global solutions to market,
and in the process create billions of dollars in value.
Ankur Jain, Founder of the Kairos Society
3. Uniting a Global Community of Student Entrepreneurs
Caroline Pugh | VirtualU
VirtualU builds scanners to digitalize human bodies,
bringing 3D modeling to the masses, allowing users to
accurately track their training through their phones.
Riley Ennis | DiagnosMe
DiagnosMe analyzes a user’s sweat to monitor levels of
biomolecules linked to chronic illnesses such as
Alzheimer’s and diabetes through comfortable sensors
Inigo Rumayor | Regalii
Regalii enables Latino immigrants in the U.S. to send gift
cards via text message back to their families in Latin
America for groceries, utility bills and other goods.
What if today’s most influential leaders were friends 30 years
ago, working together to solve the world’s problems?
the kairos society
54+
Countries
Represented
700+
Active
Fellows
100+
Partner
Universities
4. Connect Grow Inspire
The Kairos Society allows our fellows
to tap into a global community of
entrepreneurs, exposing them to
new cultures, market opportunities,
and business partners.
Through our K50 program we
select the top student ventures
from around the world and
connect them with resources to
accelerate their businesses.
By partnering with industry leading
companies like Johnson & Johnson
and Autodesk, we challenge our
students to tackle big problems like
healthcare and education.
creating impact
We've taken in $4.5 million in revenue in 30 days of
being in production. Kairos, really, over the years
has been the pivotal thing that's helped me get to
this point.
Ben Gulak. Founder, BPG Werks
5. Health Care
Education
Sustainability
Mobile Apps
3D Printing
Payments
Big Data
Enterprise
Travel
Accounting
Research
Capital
Legal
High
IMPACT
VENTURES
Committed
Entrepreneurs
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Focus Areas
Healthcare, education and sustainability are
global challenges with tremendous opportunity
for both impact and profit
Platform Solutions
Introduce emerging platforms and innovative
technologies that will create new opportunities
across the focus areas with the help of partners
Resource Partnerships
Resource partnership provide our
entrepreneurs with access to the various tools
that they will need to effective launch and scale
their business
Results
By giving our fellows clear market entry points
into these complicated global challenges, Kairos
Society will create a generation of
entrepreneurs committed to creating high
impact ventures
Incubating Innovation
Inspired, Kairos Fellows will commit to
building businesses in one of our three focus
areas using new found market insights
provided by our platform partners
tackling global challenges
6. Thought Leadership
Talent Acquisition
Deal Flow
Incubate or invest in companies coming out of
Global and Regional Kairos events and our K50
Shape how the next generation of entrepreneurs
will tackle these billion dollar market opportunities
Mentor our fellows so they conduct research and
build businesses on your platforms
engaging partners
We are excited to work with the
Kairos Society to inspire some of
today’s best and brightest
young minds to use 3D printing
to push the manufacturing
industry forward.
Carl Bass, CEO, Autodesk
2013 partnerships
7. An exclusive event that will give access to the
latest mobile technologies and applications
with outstanding networking opportunities.
The event will be hosted in the iconic
Telefónica building (Mobile World Center) in
Plaça Catalunya, Barcelona.
8. a global gathering
Day 1 – Innovation Sessions
A Mobile Innovation Challenge with top-student
entrepreneurs from all around the globe, big-thinkers,
game changers, and innovators that will be working
together to solve the worlds biggest problems. The best
ideas from the ideation sessions are brought to market by
students with the guidance of mentors.
Day 2 – Kairos Society Mobile Summit Demo Day
The founders of the most innovative mobile startups,
coming out of universities world wide, will pitch their
long-term plan to tackle a global challenge in front of the
industry’s most powerful investors and distinguished
press. The best mobile startups from the Demo Day will be
awarded with a spot for the Mobile World Congress 2014.
Kairos Society Mobile Summit Keynotes
An exciting lineup of eminent speakers, including Eric
Litman CEO & Chairman of Medialets, will share their
latest views and address the latest developments and
disruptive influences of exponentially growing mobile
technologies over the course of two days.
9. kairos society mobile startups
Archit Bhise
TEDMED '13
Wellframe is using artificial
intelligence to translate clinical
protocols into personalized,
adaptive to-do lists, made available
to patients from their mobile
device- helping them take control
over their recovery process.
wellfra.me
Spencer Hewett
Thiel 20 under 20
NoQ develops RFID technology
that together with a location
aware smartphone application
will revolutionize the way we
shop, allowing customers to skip
checkout lines and walk right out
of stores with their goods.
noq.io
Rebecca Hinds
Alchemist Accelerator
Stratio is developing the world's
first portable infrared sensors
unlocking the potential for non-
invasive glucose monitoring in
smartphone and other handheld
devices.
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Khaled Naim
StartX Accelerator
Addy is developing technologies
that help people find, describe,
and communicate precise
locations around the world
focusing on emerging markets
where street and mapping data
are often unreliable.
addy.co
10. AWARDS&
RECOGNITIONS
1st Place - University of Pennsylvania
Wharton School Maveron’s Consumer Start-Up
Pitch Event
1st Place - Claremont McKenna Drucker
School
Kravis Concept Plan Competition
Aaron Goldstein and Collin Hill
UPENN ‘17
success stories: life patch
COLLIN CONQUERS CANCER
While battling Stage 4 Lymphoma, Collin discovered a need for a
comfortable persistent temperature monitoring device. Current
technology required him to wake up hourly disrupting his healing
KAIROS GLOBAL SUMMIT
After talking with key executives from Johnson & Johnson, Collin and
Aaron confirmed a market opportunity for a disposable bluetooth
temperature monitoring patch
PITCH COMPETITION
Partnering with engineering students from Harvey Mudd that they met
through Kairos, Aaron and Collin refined their concept and created a
business plan that won multiple pitch competitions beating MBA teams
PROTOTYPE
With the capital from the pitch competition, Aaron and Collin are
developing a prototype patch that can be tested in market under the
guidance of mentors they met at the Kairos Summit.
11. “To think that a fresh set of
entrepreneurs are listening to
the problems we are trying to
solve and might come up with
some new solutions and
proposals is just really
exciting, we need to partner
with some of the brightest
minds around the world to
inspire us”!
Ashley McEvoy
Company Group Chairman
J&J Vision Care, Inc.
12. GET IN AT THE GROUND LEVEL WITH
THE NEXT GENERATION OF ENTREPRENEURS
Join us for two days of innovation, excitement and impact, as the next !
generation of entrepreneurs joins forces to tackle some of the world’s greatest problems. !
As a sponsor and partner at the Kairos Mobile Summit you will be directly involved in shaping !
the innovation challenge and can mentor and accompany the students as they transform exceptional ideas
into real companies.!
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How else does becoming a Kairos Mobile Summit sponsor benefit you?!
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Showcase your company as a supporter of the next generation of entrepreneurs!
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Gain exclusive access to a wide range of top student entrepreneurs and established founders alike!
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Expose top young talent to targeted internal opportunities within your company!
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Opportunities to interact with the most innovative mobile startups during the Mobile Demo Day!
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Brand exposure and promotion through our website, social channels and future partners!
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13. 5,000 €
FOUNDERS CIRCLE
Our partners lead and define one of the focus areas at the Mobile Summit, developing a specific
question that inspires our students to develop innovative new venture solutions. They will work !
hand-in-hand with our distinguished mentors and experts from Founders Circle companies to create
and refine new disruptive ventures that can push our world forward. Founders Circle partners can
continue to engage with these students and ventures throughout the year as Kairos works to
accelerate these businesses. !
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Further benefits include:!
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Invitation to any Regional Kairos events taking place until summer 2014 (up to 5 participants)!
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Partner will be recognized as a main sponsor at the Barcelona Mobile World Capital Foundation HQ
signage and in all promotional materials for the Kairos Mobile Summit showcase!
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Video opportunity to be shown during breaks within Kairos Mobile Summit showcase!
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Capped at 2 partners!
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14. 2,500 €
INNOVATION PARTNERS
Opportunity to give a company presentation and feature your product, service, or platform at the !
Mobile Summit, and educate our fellows and student ventures about how they can leverage your
business to develop or accelerate disruptive ventures!
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Secondary logo placement at the Barcelona Mobile World Capital Foundation HQ signage and in all
promotional materials for the Mobile Summit!
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Opportunity to offer services and/or invite our students to collaborate with you beyond the Mobile
Summit !
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Sponsor of Mobile Summit Keynotes !
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Invitations for select executive team members to attend the Mobile Summit (up to 5)!
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15. 1,000 €
SUMMIT PLATINIUM PARTNERS
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Set up a stand and feature your product or service at the Summit to our fellows and Kairos Mobile
ventures !
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Secondary Logo placement at the Barcelona Mobile World Capital Foundation HQ signage and in
all promotional materials for the Kairos Mobile showcase!
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Opportunity to offer services and/or invite our students to collaborate with you beyond the Mobile
Summit !
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Sponsor of Kairos Mobile Summit coffee breaks!
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Invitations for select executive team members to attend the Mobile Summit (1-2)!
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16. joining the movement
We need creativity and innovation to continue to
push the world forward and who better to
challenge the status quo than the next generation
of entrepreneurs? This is why some of the world’s
most influential leaders, individuals and
corporations alike, are looking to Kairos fellows
for a fresh prospective on how to tackle the next
generation of global problems.
Richard Branson, CEO, Virgin Group
Carl Bass
CEO, Autodesk
Bill Clinton
Former President
Steffi Czerny
Founder, DLD
Beth Comstock
CMO, GE
Zeid Al-Hussein
Prince of Jordan
Duncan Niederauer
CEO, NYSE
Paul Stoffels
Chief Scientist, J&J
PAST MENTORS
17. For Customized Partnership Proposal Requests, Please Contact:
Alex Lopera
President Kairos Society Spain
alex.lopera@kairossociety.org