SEI torino forum 2019

Inspiring the next
generation of
entrepreneurial
leaders in Europe
27th
& 28th
June 2019
Turin, Italy
Edition 2019
#SEItorinoforum

Welcome to the second edition of the SEI Torino Forum, an
initiative we launched last year with the creation of School of
Entrepreneurship & Innovation (SEI) in Turin, Italy.
In the last 20 years we have been witnessing an increasing
role of technology in transforming the landscape of business
and society worldwide, similar to what happened during the
industrial revolutions of the past centuries but faster.
Europe is not yet at the forefront of this very important and
deﬁning tech revolution even though it has the potential to
do so, especially in deep-tech where we think Europe is
globally competitive thanks to founders like you.
As talented entrepreneurs based in Europe, here at SEI Torino
Forum you have the opportunity to share thoughts and get
inspired from some of the most prominent global tech
leaders and learn directly from their valuable experiences.
We, as SEI, are committed to inspire deep tech talents
like you to dream big and to enable you to
build great businesses in Europe.
John Elkann
Exor & Fondazione Agnelli

Day I Agenda
June, 27th June
Fondazione Agnelli
Via Giacosa, 38
10125 Torino, Italy
13:00
14:00
15:00
16:00
17:00
18:00
19:00
20:00
REGISTRATION
Theme I Theme III Etc.
ROUND TABLE SESSION I
Theme II
NETWORKING
KEYNOTE - Daniel Ek
(Founder of Spotify)
DINNER & PARTY
Theme I Theme III Etc.
ROUND TABLE SESSION II
Theme II
NETWORKING
BREAK
Transfer to OGR
WELCOME

Day II Agenda
June, 28th June
Ofﬁcine Grandi Riparazioni
Corso Castelﬁdardo, 22
10138 Torino, Italy
MAIN SESSION
John Elkann (Exor) & Daniel Ek (Spotify)
REGISTRATION
SEI PIONEERS
OPENING KEYNOTE
Fabiola Gianotti (CERN)
CLOSURE
INTRODUCTION
M. Lapucci (CRT/OGR) & A. Griva (SEI)
PANEL TALKS
J. Wolfe
Investor
S. Buono
Unicorn
B. Tremmerie
Enabler
09:00
09:30
10:00
10:30
10:50
11:45
12:30
12:45

ALAN MOSCA - nPlan
London, UK - Big Data & Analytics
“Co-founder and CTO of nPlan. PhD in Machine
Learning, and previously worked as a quant in macro
finance and HFT (Wadhwani, Jane Street).
Construction projects are consistently late and over
budget, due to the complexity and risk involved in
each activity. We learn from completed projects to
project the risks of future ones.”
ENTREPRENEURS
ALESSANDRO OFNER - Microcaps AG
Zurich Switzerland - BioTech
“As a CEO & co-founder of Microcaps, we implement
our technology for specific drug carriers. The biotech is
used for cancer treatment or to coat implants. Driving
the industry forward, we continue to pursue a new
standard for drug development and delivery and to
aim to leave our imprint on biotech.
Advancing personalized medicine, Microcaps realizes
a future in which targeted drug delivery is the norm.
Scaling up production, our advanced tech is able to
generate size-controlled microcapsules 1000 times
faster than current devices.”
ALEXANDER BLEY - sewts
Munich, Germany - Robotics
“4+ years research experience in the field of fiber
reinforced plastics and the handling of limp materials
We offer a fully automatic gripper system, which is
capable of smoothing down limp materials, like
textiles, leather goods or foam. Our vision is the fully
automated production of cloth.”
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ENTREPRENEURS
AYMERIC DE PONTBRIAND - Scortex
Paris, France - Big Data & Analytics
“Driven by Industry 4.0, Scortex deploys artiﬁcial
intelligence at the heart of factories. Our solution is an
end-to-end platform that enables the automation of
complex visual inspection for quality control.
By providing a connected vision solution, we are able
to give a deep & global insight into the quality of the
production in real-time. With Scortex’s solution,
manufacturers take control over their quality.”
ALEXANDER MURER - Kilobaser
Graz, Austria - BioTech
“I studied molecular biology but soon decided to
found a community lab instead of ﬁnishing my
studies. There I could pursue my interest for lab
instruments which soon became my profession.
Genetic engineering requires DNA code. Most labs
today relay on out-sourced provider, slow turn-around
times delay their experiments.
That’s why we’ve built Kilobaser, the
Nespresso-machine for DNA.”
BENITO ZACCONE - Intuendi s.r.l.
Florence, Italy - Big Data & Analytics
“Software Engineer and Data Scientist; co-founder of
Intuendi s.r.l. We launched intuendi.com in 2017, a
Demand Sensing and Investment Optimization SaaS
platform which helps companies to better estimate
the inventory needs and get a higher return of the
investments (inventory, marketing).
Commerce and manufacturing companies require
new skills to quickly react to demand changes. They
need to improve Inventory and Supply Chain
Management, by leveraging a new intelligence.”
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ENTREPRENEURS
CECILE VILLETTE - ALTAROAD
Gentilly, France - Smart cities
“Cécile VILLETTE, graduate of Telecom Paristech and
the MBA of HEC, piloted multiple launches of new
services and connected products at Accenture and
PWC, in France and internationally. In 2017, Cécile
co-founded with 2 other women engineers ALTA.
Today, it’s complicated to weigh heavy trucks and
trace their contents. So, ALTAROAD creates a new
generation of connected roads to optimize the ﬂows of
trucks of industrial sites and transportation sector,
thanks to a platform collecting data from the
intelligent road.”
CINZIA SILVESTRI - BIOND Solutions BV
Delft, Netherland - BioTech
“Cinzia is co-founder & CEO of BI/OND. She is a
microelectronics engineer by training with over six
years of experience in R&D. With her technical
background, she saw an opportunity to transfer the
endless possibilities of microelectronics into the
pioneering biological ﬁeld of the Organ-on-ch.
Biologists must choose between animals studies or in
vitro screening to test new drugs, with some
limitations. BI/OND aims at changing millions of
patients’ livesby providing to biologists avatars of
human organs for enabling personalized medicines.”
DANIEL METZLER - Isar Aerospace
Munich, Germany - Aerospace
“Co-Founder and CEO of Isar Aerospace, developing
orbital space launch vehicles that drastically lower
costs for space access. Previously led a team of 40
people at the rocketry research group WARR
developing sounding rockets.
Satellite services enable sustainable progress for
humanity in a multitude of applications, from
providing internet to the most rural areas to analyzing
climate change. Isar Aerospace is lowering the entry
barriers to space through low-cost launch solutions for
satellite constellations.”
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ENTREPRENEURS
DAVID GORGAN - Nostos Genomics
Berlin, Germany - BioTech
“I’m passionate about diagnosing genetic diseases as
I’m experiencing the problem personally with my
partner. I worked on digital health applications at a
ETH Zurich lab, applied AI to medical imaging at
Merantix.com, was a Medic in the Swiss Army, and
founded two tech startups in the past.
Recently, genetic testing is being introduced as a
routine test to diagnose them – but currently over 70%
of these tests fail. Nostos Genomics empowers medical
labs to diagnose genetic diseases using CRISPR and
machine learning.”
DOMINIC ROTH - stenon GmbH
Potsdam, Germany - AgriTech
“I hold a bachelors and masters degree in industrial
engineering and started my career in consulting,
followed by two engagements in fast growing startups
(one of which I was on the founding team). Before
founding stenon, I was in digitization consulting with
EY.
We are making soil analysis, which used to take weeks
to perform, available in real-time through combining
sensor-fusion and AI. This is laying the foundation for
precision agriculture.”
EILISH MIDDLEHURST - ConcR LTD
London, United Kingdom - BioTech
“As co-founder and CEO of ConcR Eilish has built
relationships and collaborations with leading clinician
researchers and research bodies, and has secured
observational feasibility studies in clinical trials with
international academic partners for the company.
One in 7 people will die of cancer treatment
resistance. There is no current way to predict or
combat this. ConcR is developing an evolutionary
model of cancer which allows doctors to predict and
prevent treatment resistance in speciﬁc patients.”
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ENTREPRENEURS
ELAD SCHILLER - Castor
Kfar Hes, Israel - 3D Printing
“Elad Schiller, CTO, and Co-Founder of Castor. After
many years of developing enterprise software on my
own, and leading teams to do the same. I founded
Castor together with my friends and now co-founders
to try and solve a problem and really make a
difference.
Deciding what, where and how to manufacture using
3D-Printing is hard. It takes a lot of effort, time and
knowledge. Castor makes this process fast easy and
effortless.”
ERIC LANGENSKIOLD - Spacept
Stockholm, Sweden - Aerospace
“Serial Entrepreneur, Investor, Public Speaker &
Digitalization Expert. Most recently founded, scaled up
and sold two companies, one in digital B2B
communication and one in Marketing Automation.
Spacept uses satellite images and computer vision AI
to automatically and recurringly inspect infrastructure
like powerlines. We can help prevent deadly fires,
outages and storm damages, replacing inspection
helicopters with a global 0% carbon emission
solution.”
FRANCESCO GATTO - Elypta
Stockholm, Sweden - BioTech
“I am the co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of
Elypta, a Swedish molecular diagnostics company. My
research during a Ph.D. in Bioinformatics led to the
invention of the tech behind Elypta. For this, I was
enlisted among the MIT 35 Under 35 Europe in 2019 in
GEN A-List Top 10 Under 40 in 2019.
Former cancer patients are at continuous risk of
recurrence. To boost the survival chances, Elypta is
developing the first liquid biopsy based on
metabolism to enable convenient, cost-effective and
early monitoring using a simple blood or urine test.”
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ENTREPRENEURS
GABRIELE GIUGLIANO - Tutored srl
Milan, Italy - EdTech
“I am 27 y.o., I founded tutored 4 years ago and my life
is devoted to this project. I work passionately to
change the market we work in. During the weekend, I
pursue an Executive MBA at the Politecnico to get the
skills to deliver a higher value to our stakeholders.
Tutored is the meeting point between students and
companies. We aim at resolving main problems in this
market: students struggle to take on their tasks and
responsibilities to be competitive in the job market;
whereas companies strive to find the best young
talents in line with their needs.”
GEORG PÜSCHEL - Wandelbots
Dresden, Germany - Robotics
“Wandelbots is a german startup that enables
non-programmers to teach industrial robots faster
and cheaper using smart clothing. Based on sensors
attached to clothes, the Wandelbots software
backend tracks human motion to live-control
industrial robots. Operators can teach automation
tasks by demonstration. The software backend builds
a machine learning model based on several
demonstrations and generates automation
worklfows. They can be refined and optimized with the
software tool.”
GIORGIA LONGOBARDI - CAMBRIDGE
GaN Devices
Cambridge, United Kingdom - Advanced Materials
“A young motivated, charismatic and self-challenging
engineer that has set as her mission to bring to
market her innovative ideas on how to deliver efficient
and miniaturized power devices.
There is an increase need to reduce carbon emissions
and deliver compact and reliable electronics. The
efficient material called Gallium Nitride combined
with our proprietary IP can deliver 100 times faster
power transistor, 5-10 less heat dissipation, and 4
times smaller circuits than competitors.”
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ENTREPRENEURS
GIORGIO DELL’ERBA – FLEEP
Technologies
Milan, Italy - Electronics
“Technology enthusiast. Stuff dismantler/reassembler
since I was a kid. CEO of a mind-blowing company.
Ph.D. in Electronics. Fulbright Scholar and Master in
Entrepreneurship.
Integration of electronics into products and
sustainability of its manufacturing. At FLEEP we
fabricate microchips that are flexible, transparent and
recyclable. And we print it like a magazine! If the IoT
wants to integrate electronics in every object, this is a
clever way to do it.”
GIOVANNI CAVOLINA - 9T Labs
Zurich, Switzerland - 3D Printing
“Carbon fiber composites have always either been
expensive to create and have been restricted by
geometric limitations. We’ve invested years to create
the technology that enables the industry to print high
volume carbon fiber composites.”
GIULIO COLUCCIA - ToothPic s.r.l.
Turin, Italy - Cybersecurity
“I’m the CEO of ToothPic. I have worked for 10+ years
as a Post-doc researcher at Politecnico di Torino. I
followed the Technology-Transfer process of ToothPic
since 2016, then I moved full-time to ToothPic since
2017.
ToothPic solves the security/usability trade-off of
current 2-factor online authentication systems. With
ToothPic a user is recognized by the possession of its
phone, identified by a unique unclonable pattern of
imperfections of its camera sensor. The procedure is
automatic and runs in seconds.”
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ENTREPRENEURS
GRANT AARONS - FabricNano
London, United Kingdom - FabricNano
“Grant Aarons is a former Economics PhD at London
Business School where he taught microeconomics,
markets and econometrics. Grant has studied systems
engineering and developed the mathematical
modelling behind the nowcasting platform released
by the Federal Reserve in New York; cited FT &
Bloombe
FabricNano designs artiﬁcial cells that produce
chemicals 100x faster, enabling manufacturers to
scale output, reduce costs and discover new
molecules.”
ILANA WISBY - Oxford Quantum Circuits
Oxford, United Kingdom - Quantum Tech
“I am the CEO of Oxford Quantum Circuits. Before, I
supported 2 startups in their early stage growth into
successful, investible positions—including as COO for a
software startup with an AI/ bot focus. I hold a PhD in
quantum physics.
We build quantum computers. To become
commercially useful, quantum computers must
develop in scale, quality and system control. OQC’s
approach introduces a novel and patent-protected
component to meet these challenges, building the
world’s most scalable quantum computer.”
IVAN CABALLERO - Citibeats
Barcelona, Spain - Big Data & Analytics
“I’m a tech serial entrepreneur working in pursuit of a
better society through people’s inclusion and
empowerment. I accumulate more than two decades
developing successful disruptive tech startups with
impact in the society.
Social unstructured data is growing exponentially due
to digital transformation. Companies and
governments are struggling to add it into their
workﬂows. Citibeats is a social data intelligence
platform. Fastest and easiest way to turn text data
into insights, using NLP and machine-learning”
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ENTREPRENEURS
JACOPO SECCO - Omnidermal
Biomedics
Turin, Italy - BioTech
“Jacopo Secco, Ph.D, MBA, co-founder of Omnidermal
Biomedics, has focused his research background in
the development of neural networks for biomedical
purposes. Moreover he detains a two year experience
as business control manager fo one of the largest
hospital group in Italy. Chronic wounds affect around
1% of the world population. Nowadays, monitoring
methods are primitive & non-reliable increasing
healing times and costs. Therefore, Omnidermal
developed the Wound Viewer, a device able to monitor
chronic wounds through AI.”
JAKE SCHOFIELD - Labstep
London, United Kingdom - Process Digitalisation
“I am an entrepreneur with experience both in the in
academic and research. We have been through
Oxford university launchpad, Seedcamp and Google
residency.
Labstep uses a unique approach to capturing
real-time scientiﬁc process data, tackling the
reproducibility crisis where currently over 50% of all
results published cannot be reproduced. We do this by
automatically capturing a record of research progress,
connecting the devices in the lab via an API”
JEAN-C. LAMBERT - Ascendance Flight
Technologies
Paris, France - Aerospace
“Engineer with a MBA diploma, I spent most of my
career at Airbus working on complex projects like the
E-FAN, a full electric aircraft that crossed historically
the Channel in 2015. Enthusiastic, creative & curious, I
consider the team is the most valuable asset for the
company.
Current transportation network is showing its limits
generating trafﬁc and disconnecting rural territories
from cities at a fast pace. No satisfying solutions exist
so far to overcome these issues and aerial mobility is
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ENTREPRENEURS
JOANNE KANAAN - Omini
Paris, France - BioTech
“After defending my PhD in biochemistry, I joined
Entrepreneur First and met my cofounder Anna. Using
our expertise in bioelectronics and biochemistry, we
are building a new generation of biosensors to enable
portable quantitative blood testing. Omini develops a
new generation of Point of Care devices to enable
decentralized blood testing where and when it is
needed. Our core technology is built around
electrochemical sensors that provide instantaneous
measuring of target biomarkers at an affordable
price.”
JOSE VIDEIRA - Synbiosys
London, United Kingdom - Advanced Materials
“Founder/CEO of Synbiosys. Physics PhD. I’ve been
involved in deep tech disruption since the age of 15,
being in startups ranging from micro-hydroelectricity,
to Oil&Gas and Security sensing technologies. True
material engineering innovation has stagnated as
cutting edge materials fail to be commercialised out
of academia and big industry does not have the
mindset to embrace paradigm shifts. We pioneer a
symbiosis between academia, industry, government
and startup mentality to achieve true innovation.”
JOSE MARIANO LOPEZ-URDIALES
Zero 2 Inﬁnity
Barcelona, Spain - Aerospace
“Our mission at Zero 2 Inﬁnity is to provide easy access
to Space. We are specialized in the elevation to the
Edge of Space of all kind of payloads that require
testing and certifying in Space conditions. We are also
working on sending small satellites into orbit through
our launcher Bloostar and have plans to send people
to Near Space for science and leisure with Bloon.”
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ENTREPRENEURS
JUAN BARRAGAN - leakmited
Paris, France - Big Data & Analytics
“Forever a geek. Studied Mathematics up to PhD and
been working on teaching, ﬁnance and ML before
funding Leakmited.
We are copping with water losses on the distribution
network. According to the OECD three billions people
live on a water stressed country. They consume almost
all that is available. Yet 45 Billions litres of water are
lost on the distribution network every single day.”
JULIAN LEE - Airmee
Stockholm, Sweden - Smart Logistics
“Founder & CEO of Airmee. Graduated Stockholm
School of Economics and studied at Harvard
University. Experience as an entrepreneur in US,
Sweden and Korea, launched what became the
leading biosimilar drug in the Nordics for biotech
startup Celltrion. Last-mile delivery is increasingly
becoming a frustration in people’s daily lives as
e-commerce is growing. We solve this by delivering
e-commerce products exactly when and where people
want cost efﬁciently by leveraging our proprietary
research-based technology.”
KAMIL TAMIOLA - Peptone Ltd.
“Physicist, PhD in Applied Physics and Molecular
Dynamics.
AI- and Quantum- Driven Protein Engineering”
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ENTREPRENEURS
KIRSTY LLOYD-JUKES - Latent Logic
Oxford, United Kingdom - Mobility
“Previously an exec director at the Automobile
Association, also invested in and incubated start-ups
in digital motoring and Connected Car. Before that, a
principal at global management consultancy Oliver
Wyman.
Proving that self-driving cars are safe. We work with
autonomous vehicle (AV) developers, regulators and
insurers to build simulations of road environments
which can be used to develop and test AV tech before
it goes out on the road. These virtual worlds reduce
risk and accelerate AV development.”
LEONARD WOSSNIG - Rahko
London, United Kingdom - Quantum Tech
“Leonard is the CEO of Rahko, a quantum machine
learning company, a theoretical computer scientist,
and Google PhD Fellow. He has conducted research in
various areas like numerical linear algebra or
machine learning and quantum algorithms and done
research for companies like Microsoft or Google.
Rahko is using quantum machine learning to solve
quantum chemistry problems. Such include the
design of novel materials, the discovery of better drugs
or designing batteries with better capacity.”
LETIZIA GIONFRIDA - Arthronica
“Letizia, Ph.D. in bioeng at Imperial, is the CEO of
Arthronica, spin off from Imperial. She worked in
computer vision dept. across the globe, including New
York University and Nanyang Technological University.
While at Imperial, she has managed >£5mil European
grants and founded Arthronica in fall 2018. Arthritis
affects 100mil people in Europe and US and current
assessment are expensive, infrequent and inaccurate.
Arthronica’s tech can be conducted remotely, using
deep computer vision models to rapid access objective
data.”
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ENTREPRENEURS
LORENZO FERUGLIO - AIKO
Autonomous Space Missions
Turin, Italy - Aerospace
“Founder and CEO of AIKO.
Autonomous space missions. We use Artiﬁcial
Intelligence to automate spacecraft operations,
evolving from a human-controlled mission to a fully
autonomous one. With our technology, satellites live
longer (increased ROI) and operations cost less (lesser
OPEX).”
LOUIS HAUVETTE - SiteFlow
Paris, France - Process Digitalisation
“Co-Founder and CEO of SiteFlow. Passionate about
construction and entrepreneurship I developed a new
BU for Vinci in their nuclear subsidiary. This is where,
together with my partner, we realized that companies
didn’t have the proper tools to execute and
industrialize their operations. Engineers and operators
spend 70% of their time working on paper-based
documentation. SiteFlow transforms this tedious
documentary approach into a simple and
collaborative SaaS platform that unleashes their
productivity and enhance quality of execution”.
MARIGA PERLONGO - OCORE Srl
Palermo, Italy - 3D Printing
“Self-starter, energetic, with extensive experience in
Business Administration & Deal Making across
different industries. Dynamic, strong business and
project leader.
Making it possible to create high-strength and
high-stiffness parts with an impressive geometrical
design freedom and a limited loss of material during
production, using the OCORE additive manufacturing
technology (HW and SW) and optimized carbon ﬁbre
reinforced composite material.”
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ENTREPRENEURS
MARINE VALTON - BIO-F
London, United Kingdom - AgriTech
“Biological Engineer, I am focusing my PhD studies at
Imperial College London on developing bio-fertilisers
based on microbes, to improve the sustainability of
our food production. Aiming to bring this work outside
of University for the final end-users, I have founded
Bio-F.
Current options for farmers to fertilise their crops are
inefficient, polluting and too expensive. Bio-F is
developing eco-friendly and cost-effective
bio-fertilisers based on microbes including algae, that
can be directly isolated from the farmers’ fields.”
MASSIMILIANO CLAMER -
IMMAGINA BioTechnology srl
Trento, Italy - BioTech
“I’m interested in improving the translation of cutting
edge science from the lab to the commercial arena. I
have a hybrid background between biotech and
business. I’m the founder of IMMAGINA BioTechnology,
the first "ribosome company".
Life relies on protein factories (ribosomes) to read
genetic information encoded into RNA molecules and
to translate that information into proteins. A severe
problem today is the poor availability of efficient tools
to measure which and how many proteins are
produced in disease and healthy states.”
MATHIEU MUNSCH - Qnami
Basel, Switzerland - Quantum Tech
“I am an engineer and scientist by training with 10+
year experience in quantum technologies. I
co-founded Qnami and have led the business
development for the past 3 years.
To produce both energy efficient and high
performance devices the semiconductor industry
faces a major challenge. New designs, including new
materials now accompany the miniaturization trend.
We provide the technology the industry needs to
perform quality control of the next generation
electronics.”
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MATTEO BIASI - FlashBeing
Bolzano, Italy - Process Digitalisation
“I’ve always followed my own path and view for the
future. I’ve closed an angel round, dropped out of
university and founded my company immediately
after high school. Technical IT background, started
coding at 14, now with 9+ years experience in web and
app development, always focusing on UI/UX.
Freelancers and small companies still struggle to get
organised: there are too many tools to understand
and use everyday. We are helping them providing an
all-in-one platform to organize and monitor their
workﬂow.”
MAXIMILIAN MOEHRING - Keyp GmbH
Munich, Germany - Cybersecurity
“Building Europe’s fastest growing digital identity
ecosystem | Serial techpreneur | Focused on building
digital infrastructure | Biohacker | Keynote Speaker
and Evangelist for Self-Souverin Identities
Integration of trusted identities is still a manually
implementation process which takes up to 36 months.
This creates a huge opportunity for Keyp. We can
capitalize on both, the identity provider and the
integrating enterprises.
KEYP MAKES TRUSTED IDENTITIES PLUG‘N‘PLAY FOR
THE DIGITAL WORLD.”
MICHAEL PEITHER - Voltstorage GmbH
Munich, Germany - Energy Storage
“I have a background in Electrical Engineering (B.Sc.)
and Industrial Engineering (M.Sc.), with former
experience at BMW (USA) and some other startups,
where I worked on battery technologies. Started the
company in 2016, followed by 6 months in Shenzhen.
We are solving the problem of storing renewable
energy (e.g. solar power to use at night) with a novel
battery technology (redox ﬂow battery) that does not
require rare materials and is much more
environmentally friendly, long-lasting, safer and
cheaper than lithium-ion batteries.”
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MLADEN MARKOVIC - Uhura Solutions
London, United Kingdom - Legal Tech/FinTech
“I have more than 10 years of experience in banking as
head of digital unit in one mayor Europe bank
Problem: One of the greatest challenges that financial
companies face is manual
processing of contracts and agreements. It is slow,
inefficient,costly.
Solution: We help financial institutions speed up
review and decision-making processes significantly by
using an AI platform.”
MORITZ MITTERBAUER - Curratec
Wien, Austria - Advanced Materials
“Moritz carried out his PhD thesis at the Institute of
Applied Synthetic Chemistry in Vienna. Being an
integral part of Curratec, he is an expert in the
initiation of curing reactions of synthetic materials,
such as epoxy resins.
Conventional curing of epoxy resin systems (e.g.
carbon fiber composites) is often cumbersome and
very time- and energy consuming. The patented
technology offered by Curratec circumvents all those
issues at once by providing on-demand curing of
storage-stable one-component monomer systems.”
NIKOS KARIOTOGLOU - Seervision AG
Zurich, Switzerland - Robotics
“I am trained as an engineer, always interested in
breadth-first over depth-first. I have a PhD in control
systems and practical experience on vision & robotics. I
come from an entrepreneurial family with
family-started business that grew to international
success. Producing high quality video out of live events
is an human and cost intensive process. We create
software that turns robotic camera systems into
intelligent autonomous cameramen that can be
directed remotely by a single operator sitting
anywhere in the world.”
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NINA PATRICK - MiProbes
Berlin, Germany - BioTech
“CEO & Co-Founder of MiProbes, based in Berlin.
Before MiProbes, I developed detection tests for large
chemical, synthetic biology and beverage companies.
From this work, I have two relevant biosensors patent
applications ﬁled in the US. I received my Ph.D. from
the University of Arizona.
In the past 10 years food recalls have doubled with
47% due to microbial contamination. MiProbes
provides rapid and easy-to-use detection methods of
microbes in food and water in real-time to allow early
intervention.”
NUNO PEREIRA - Holy Grail.ai
Mountain View, USA - Advanced Materials
“Product design and engineering.
We are accelerating materials development by 1000
times to build batteries that outperform fossil fuels.”
PARIKSHAT SINGH - The Engineering
Company
London, United Kingdom - 3D Printing
“After building small businesses to fund a video game
addiction at 12, I began looking for impact. I lead a
national charity and at 16 where I learnt the power of
leading teams for massive impact. Imperial College
Mechanical Engineer, former BAE Systems Future
Technologies division and BP. Designing hardware is
slow, costs billions and reduces inventors to be CAD
and spreadsheet executors. Our tools democratises
hardware design, enabling a single engineer to design
complex mechanical hardware in days.”
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PAULO REFINETTI - REM Analytics
Lausanne, Switzerland - BioTech
"The maturity of a science is given by the precision of
its measurement tools." Around this quote from Louis
Pasteur, I have built my beliefs and career. I am
engineer by training, statistician by vocation, and
biologist by necessity. Probiotics are live bacteria
being sold as having potential health benefit.
However, there are currently no clinical evidence of
their effect, or known mechanisms of action. REM
analytics enables probiotic companies to
demonstrate the effect of their products through
accurate microbiome analysis.”
PETER XIONG - ami Lab
Stockholm, Sweden - Big Data & Analytics
“Experienced machine learning engineer with a
demonstrated history of working in the Fintech
unicorn Klarna. Super curious and fast learner.
ami Lab enables companies to make data-driven
selection of professional models. Using computer
vision and machine learning, ami Lab unveils key
facial features and identifies the ideal model,
matching client to the perfect fit via our global
marketplace for models.”
RON SHAFRAN - Corvid
Nir Zvi, Israel - Security Tech
“I am a serial entrepreneur from the age of 16 starting
by building my high school radio by myself. I have
exited with my first startup, Corr.BI and Corvid is my
second. I have served 15 years in an Elite IDF unit and
10 years as Vice President of ISDS. Current video
surveillance systems in cities are inefficient, expensive
and suffer from multiple blind spots. We eliminate
these limitation by building an AI based autonomous
software, controlling squadrons of micro drones that
perch on walls on demand and send live video from
anywhere in the city.”
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ENTREPRENEURS
ROWINA WESTERMEIER - Antiverse
Cambridge, United Kingdom - BioTech
“Rowina has obtained her PhD in Biochemistry from
Cambridge University before working in drug
discovery and co-founding Antiverse. She secured a
collaboration with a Global Top 10 Pharma within two
months of incorporating Antiverse and investment.
Developing new drugs against diseases such as
cancer is slow and costly. Antiverse is disrupting the
antibody therapeutics ﬁeld using AI. We are
developing a technology to vastly accelerate the
speed at which antibody therapeutics are discovered
through intelligent design.”
SARA RAMOS - Greenvest
London, United Kingdom - Energy
“Sara is an Aerospace Engineer in Aerodynamics.
Currently she is a research assistant at London
Business School. Previously she worked in the
aerospace industry in Toulouse, and won several
awards for designing a swarm of intelligent drones for
disaster relief. 20,600 MTOE is the energy that we will
consume in 2050 globally. So, we need to rise our
energy production by more than one third in just 30
years. Clean energy should supply this growing
demand. But it can take more than a year before the
construction of a solar or wind farm begins.”
SHAHAN LILJA - Mavenoid
“Shahan Lilja is the CEO and Cofounder of Mavenoid,
a venture-backed company that automates technical
support and troubleshooting with an AI bot. Prior to
Mavenoid, he was the ﬁrst deployment strategist in
the Nordics for Palantir Technologies, and a research
intern at Microsoft Live Labs. Solving technical issues
in customer service is repetitive and time-consuming.
Mavenoid lets companies put their technical support
on autopilot. We help customers troubleshoot and get
advice about their products with a bot that provides
instant self-service.”
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ENTREPRENEURS
STEFANO ALBERTO RUSSO - Sharpsense
Trieste, Italy - Big Data & Analytics
“MSc in computational physics with a thesis on Big
Data at CERN and a BSc in Computer Science with a
thesis on High Performance Computing. Entrepreneur
First London cohort member, head of data at an
energy intelligence startup and CERN researcher.
Engineers are overwhelmed by sensor data due te IoT
revolution, but they still analyse data manually. We
want to help them to automate, at scale, their
analyses.”
SVEN VON ALEMANN - rfrnz GmbH
Munich, Germany - Legal Tech
“I’m an attorney-turned-entrepreneur with 10+ years of
experience in IT and technology law, both in biglaw
and legal departments. I co-founded rfrnz in 2017 and
continue to publish and hold lectures on innovation
and technology in Law, especially Legal AI. Contract
analysis today is costly, time-consuming and
error-prone because every single step is done
manually by human experts. We automate many of
these manual steps with ML and NLP algorithms,
thereby supporting legal professionals in law firms
and legal departments to save time and costs.”
THOMAS CROUZIER - Cirqle Biomedical
Copenhagen, Denmark - BioTech
“I am the CSO of Cirqle Biomedical and pioneer in the
emerging field of mucus engineering. I currently lead
a research group at the Royal Institute of Technology
(KTH, Stockholm). My work within the field started 8
years ago during a postdoc at MIT.
We are creating a new non-hormonal contraceptive
for women that is on demand and convenient to use.
We give women choosing to move away from the pill.”
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ENTREPRENEURS
TOM STUBBS - Chronomics Ltd
“Dr Tom Stubbs is the CEO & Founder at Chronomics.
Prior to this Tom conducted research at the University
of Cambridge. Here, he developed methods for the
assessment of epigenetic information and epigenetic
predictors of lifestyle factors on ageing. People don’t
have access to personalised information about the
largest risk factors for age-related diseases. We are
using the latest in epigenetics combined with
machine learning to show people how these risk
factors are manifesting so they can avoid future ill
health.”
TOMÁS SABAT - Grakn Labs
London, United Kingdom - Big Data & Analytics
“Tomás is the COO of GRAKN.AI. He founded his ﬁrst
company after graduating in Politics from the
University in Cambridge. He then started his second
company, before coming to Grakn. In 2018, Tomás was
selected by the Royal Academy of Engineering as one
of the UK’s top entrepreneurs. Grakn is a database
that serves as the knowledge base foundation to
intelligent systems. Grakn allows to interpret complex
datasets as a single body of knowledge that can be
logically reasoned over - a critical process in human
cognition.”
SHAHAN LILJA - Mavenoid
“Shahan Lilja is the CEO and Cofounder of Mavenoid,
a venture-backed company that automates technical
support and troubleshooting with an AI bot. Prior to
Mavenoid, he was the ﬁrst deployment strategist in
the Nordics for Palantir Technologies, and a research
intern at Microsoft Live Labs. Solving technical issues
in customer service is repetitive and time-consuming.
Mavenoid lets companies put their technical support
on autopilot. We help customers troubleshoot and get
advice about their products with a bot that provides
instant self-service.”
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ENTREPRENEURS
YANNICK MALTHA - Dutch Analytics
The Hague, Netherlands - Big Data & Analytics
“Yannick Maltha is Co-founder/CEO of Dutch Analytics.
At Delft University of Technology he graduated cum
laude in Systems Engineering. Yannick has been
involved in the incubator YES!Delft during his studies.
After graduating Yannick started Dutch Analytics. We
help industrial clients overcome the problem of data
’plumbing’: 75% of data science tasks are
infrastructure related. The platform automates the
part of model hosting and data
management/integration for industry agnostic
problems.”
YASSIR AL-REFAIE - Seyo
London, United Kingdom - Robotics
“I have a BSc in Electronics Engineering from
Southampton, and an MSc in Integrated Circuit
Design Engineering from HKUST before working in
Tokyo for 3 years ﬁrst as an engineer and then as the
head of a new department launching products in SE
Asia, Japan and China. We solve the problems with
coordinating autonomous machines. How can
machines shift from egocentric to coordinated
automation in the absence of infrastructure? At Seyo
we solve this problem through time-independent
synchronisation.”
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ALLISTER FUREY
ENTREPRENEUR FIRST
London, United Kingdom
“Allister Furey is the Managing Director of
Entrepreneur First's Europe programmes in London,
Berlin and Paris. THe programmes take top technical
talents and domain experts and help them build deep
tech companies from scratch. Their most recent
cohorts include companies working in energy, ﬁntech,
biotech, autonomous vehicles, quantum, aerospace,
medtech and education. To date, they have helped
over 1000 individuals build 150 companies with a total
valuation of over $1.5 billion. Their major exits to date
include Magic Pony, which was acquired by Twitter for
a reported $150m only 18 months after the Founders
met on the Entrepreneurs First’s programme. He has
also been CTO and now is the non executive director of
KPS, a UK based airborne wind energy R&D company.”
MENTORS
CHRIS HITCHEN
GETPRICE, NEW COMMERCE,
AUDIENCE TV, HYNT
Munich, Germany
“Chris Hitchen is a Munich-based Australian
entrepreneur and angel investor. Chris co-founded
Australian price comparison business Getprice in 2005
and sold it to News Corp in 2010. He then formed Next
Commerce sold in, August 2016, to UK-listed Future
PLC. Chris also co-founded Hynt, an advertising
platform for brands and retailers, which he sold to
Zalando in 2017 and a programmatic video advertising
business AudienceTV. He’s been an active angel
investor since 2007 and has been a venture partner of
venture capital funds Square Peg Capital from
Australia, EQT Ventures in Stockholm and Project A in
Berlin. Chris is the founding investor and chairman of
vacation rentals platform Holidu and investor and
Executive Chairman of Artisense, a start-up building
computer vision products for autonomous vehicles.”
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MENTORS
GEMMA MILNE
SCIENCE: DISRUPT
“Gemma Milne writes about science, tech and the
broad cultural issues surrounding their advancements,
with a focus on deep tech (biotech, agriculture, energy,
space, health, quantum computing, AI) - essentially
everything that comes out of science labs and into the
real world. She is a science startup advisor - scouting
them for funds, and helping them tell their stories. She
also co-founded Science: Disrupt, a media org
connecting and showcasing those innovators,
iconoclasts and entrepreneurs creating change in
science. Science: Disrupt runs a series of London-based
evening events, with on average 100-120 attendees,
featuring themes such as Future of Health, Future of
Energy and Advanced Computing.”
JEAN DE LA ROCHEBROCHARD
KIMA VENTURES
Paris, France
“Jean de La Rochebrochard is Partner at Kima
Ventures, the venture capital arm of Xavier Niel,
founder of Free. He has raised more than €100 million
for more than 30 startups and closed several deals per
week. They invest, from seed to Series A, mostly as lead
investor but also working alongside other investors;
backing ambitious founders who work hard to build
awesome things that more and more people use
everyday. They expect entrepreneurs to build a great
team, to learn very quickly, to keep the right focus and
execute towards growth. He is member of several
boards. He holds a Master in International Strategic
Management from the Sorbonne University and a
Master in Corporate Finance from European Business
School Oestrich-Winkel and Sorbonne University.”
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JOSH WOLFE
LUX CAPITAL
New York, USA
“Josh co-founded Lux Capital to support scientists and
entrepreneurs who pursue counter-conventional
solutions to the most vexing puzzles of our time in
order to lead us into a brighter future. Josh is a Director
at CTRL-Labs (brain machine interface), Shapeways (3D
printing), 3Scan (digital pathology), Aira (augmented
reality for blind and visually-impaired), Variant (ﬁnding
genetically rare individuals globally) and Kallyope
(gut-brain axis). He’s a founding investor and board
member in Kymeta, making cutting-edge antennas for
high-speed global satellite and space
communications. Josh co- founded and funded Kurion,
using advanced robotics and state-of-the-art
engineering and chemistry to clean up nuclear waste.
He has been a columnist with Forbes and invited to
The White House and Capitol Hill to advise on
nanotechnology and emerging technologies.”
MENTORS
MARK HAMMOND
DEEP SCIENCE VENTURES
“Founding Partner at Deep Science Ventures (DSV)
where they build ventures to solve major global
challenges at the convergence of the sciences. After
his PhD in neuropharmacology and artiﬁcial
intelligence, he founded Imperial’s high tech
accelerator whilst shaping early strategy on the board
of academic spin-outs across engineering and
healthcare, including key roles in numerous funding
rounds and exits. DSV’s mission is to scale up the
impact of science by systematically identifying venture
scale opportunities across sectors, from oncology to
energy storage, understanding the challenges and
what the ‘holy grail’ would look like and bringing
together the right people to build it.”
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MENTORS
PEP GOMEZ
REBY & FEVER
Barcelona, Spain
“Pep Gomez is a 25-year-old 3x tech entrepreneur and
investor. He is General Partner at Mobile World Capital.
He is also a board advisor for PRISA and ASICS
Corporation. Previously, he founded Fever, the leading
event discovery platform in the world. He has raised
over $25m from Accel Partners, Fidelity and 14W
Ventures. He started his first company at the age of 14.
Later on, he became one of the organizers of Campus
Party, the largest tech festival in Europe and Latin
America. At the age of 16 he moved to Silicon Valley to
work in venture capital as an Investment Partner for
Solon Ventures. He also co-founded Jóvenes con
Futuro, a program backed by Fundación Rafael del
Pino and Fundación Banco Sabadell that encourages
young engineers to work for startups. He founded
Reby, a European-based micromobility startup, in late
2018.”
SIRAJ KHALIQ
THE CLIMATE CORPORATION
Zurich, Switzerland
“Siraj Khaliq is a partner at Atomico. In 2006 he
co-founded and was the Chief Technical Officer of the
Climate Corporation, which pioneered the use of
machine learning in helping farmers optimize crop
yield. He was an early engineer at Google in 2001, and
was on the founding team for the Google Book search
project. Khaliq, who taught himself to code in C at age
13, wrote and sold his first piece of software, a database
for medical research, at 15. He holds a B.A. with honors
in computer science from the University of Cambridge
and a master's in computer science from Stanford
University.”
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MENTORS
STEFANO BUONO
ADVANCED ACCELERATOR APPLICATIONS
Turin, Italy
“Stefano Buono is an accomplished physicist and
alumnus of CERN. Until January 2018, Mr. Buono
served as Chief Executive Officer and board member of
Advanced Accelerator Applications, an international
radiopharmaceutical company he founded in 2002,
until it was acquired by Novartis for $3.9 billion. Mr.
Buono is also a director of Abeona Therapeutics, a
Nasdaq Listed biopharmaceutical company focused
on developing novel gene and cell therapy approaches
for potential treatment of individuals impacted by
life-threatening genetic rare diseases and Chairman of
Planet Holding LTD which is currently building in Brazil
the first two Smart City for Affordable Housing in the
world. Mr. Buono is Chairman of LIFTT whose goal is to
stimulate and support technology transfer from
research institutions and founder of Elysia Capital
focused on social impact investments.”
THOMAS OEHL
VITO VENTURES
Munich, Germany
“Tommy founded his first company in university and
successfully exited it in 2013. His entrepreneurial
mindset made him join Uber as one of the first
employees in Germany. He developed a native
attraction to innovative ideas and business models and
has been an active business angel for the past years.
Tommy holds a Bachelor degree in Business
Administration and is a certified beer brewer. When he
is not busy hunting for deals, you’ll find him surfing at
Munich’s riverside spot Eisbach or challenging himself
and others at Muay Thai.”
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SPEAKERS
DANIEL EK
SPOTIFY
Stockholm, Sweden
“Daniel Ek is the founder, Chief Executive Officer, and
Chairman of the board of directors of Spotify. As Chief
Executive Officer and Chairman, Mr. Ek is responsible
for guiding the vision and strategy of the Company
and leading the management team. He has been a
member of the board of directors since July 21, 2008,
and his term will expire on the date of the general
meeting of shareholders to be held to approve the
annual accounts of 2019. Prior to founding Spotify in
2006, Mr. Ek founded Advertigo, an online advertising
company acquired by TradeDoubler, held various
senior roles at the Nordic auction company Tradera,
which was acquired by eBay, and served as Chief
Technology Officer at Stardoll, a fashion and
entertainment community for pre-teens.”
JOHN ELKANN
FONDAZIONE AGNELLI & EXOR
Turin, Italy
“Born in New York in 1976, Mr. Elkann obtained a
scientific baccalaureate from the Lycée Victor Duruy in
Paris, and graduated in Engineering from Politecnico,
the Engineering University of Turin. While at university,
he gained work experience in various companies of the
Fiat Group in the UK and Poland (manufacturing) as
well as in France (sales and marketing). He started his
professional career in 2001 at General Electric as a
member of the Corporate Audit Staff, with
assignments in Asia, the USA and Europe. He is also a
board member of PartnerRe Ltd. and The Economist
Group. Mr. Elkann is a member of MoMA and Chairman
of the Giovanni Agnelli Foundation, a philanthropic
institution supporting education and
entrepreneurship.“
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MENTORS
SPEAKERS
FABIOLA GIANOTTI
CERN
Geneva, Switzerland
“Fabiola Gianotti received PhD in experimental particle
physics and since 1998 she is a research physicist at
CERN. She was leading the ATLAS experiment at the
Large Hadron Collider between 2009 and 2013. On the
4th July 2012, she announced the discovery of the
Higgs boson in an historical seminar at CERN. She’s a
corresponding member of the Italian, French and US
Academies of Sciences and was made a Grand Cross
Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. She
has 12 honorary degrees and she received the Special
Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics and the
Enrico Fermi Prize of the Italian Physical Society. Fifth
person of the Year 2012 by Times Magazine and among
100 most powerful women by Forbes in 2013 and 2017.
Currently a member of the External Science and
Technology Advisory Group to the IMF. From 2016, she
is Director-General of CERN, ﬁrst woman ever.”
BJORN TREMMERIE
EUROPEAN INVESTMENT FUND
Luxembourg, Luxembourg
“Bjorn Tremmerie is Head of the ICT and Business
Angel Investments division at the European
Investment Fund (EIF). He leads the EUR 3.2bn
ERP-EIF Dachfonds programme that EIF is
implementing on behalf of the German Ministry of
Economic Affairs and Energy, an initiative dedicated to
the German VC market. He also oversees the European
Angel Fund co-investment programme, the Dutch
Venture Initiative fund-of-funds where he is an
investment committee member, and the LfA-EIF
Facility, a EUR 150m fund-of-funds for the Bavarian
region. His team invests & monitors investments in
venture capital funds in Europe as well as manages
co-investments alongside business angels. Their
portfolio includes some 150 European VC funds. Before
joining EIF, Bjorn worked for a globally active VC fund
& started his career at ING in investment banking.”
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ANDREA GRIVA
SCHOOL OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP
& INNOVATION
Turin, Italy
“Andrea Griva is a professional journalist with 20+ years
of experience in media relations and communications
in the automotive and ﬁnance industries. He studied in
France and in Italy, where he received a Maîtrise en
Information et Communication (Lyon and Paris) and a
Master’s Degree in Communications (Turin).
He is the VP of SEI, the entrepreneurship school
established in Turin by the Agnelli Foundation and 9
other public and private partners, which has four
action-learning programs, 200 students/year, and a
growing pool of talents and ideas. He is among the
promoters of the Italian Tech Week, Italy’s largest event
on innovation and technology.”
SPEAKERS
MASSIMO LAPUCCI
CRT FOUNDATION
Turin, Italy
“Massimo Lapucci is CEO of “CRT Foundation”, a
foundation of banking origin based in Turin and
Secretary General of “CRT Foundation for Growth and
Development”, a foundation primarily focused on
venture philanthropy and impact investing. He is also
Chair of the European Foundation Centre (EFC) in
Bruxelles, the network of institutional philanthropy
which unites over 350 members (eg. Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation, Rockfeller Brothers Fund) from
nearly 40 countries, including the USA. As EFC chair
Massimo has been recently part of the core team that
published the “Manifesto for European Philantropy”.
Massimo is also Managing Director of OGR, an SPV
created to transform a former large industrial building
in the centre of Turin into the largest Venture
Philanthropy initiative in Europe. Massimo is also Vice
President of the Social Impact Agenda for Italy. He has
been a World Fellow at Yale University since 2006.”
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NOAM OHANA
EXOR SEEDS
New York, USA
“Noam Ohana is a Managing Director at Exor. Prior to
managing Exor Seeds, Noam was managing partner of
Conegliano Ventures, a venture capital fund. Noam
was also Partner of BeaconLight Capital, a global
equity long-short fund he co-founded in 2010. Noam
started his investment career in 2007 at Atticus Capital,
where he managed a fund-of-funds. Noam graduated
from Sciences Po (Public Affairs) in 1999 and from
Stanford University (MA), where he was a Fulbright
Scholar, in 2001.He served in an elite IDF unit during
the second intifada and published the War Diary
(Denoël Publishing, 2007). He has been writing and
intervening on the Israeli-Palestinian conﬂict since
2005.”
KEVIN MARTELLI
MARTEK PARTNERS
Lausanne, Switzerland
“Currently Kevin Martelli runs Martek Partners, an
investment advisory company focused on advising
Endurance Value fund, a Luxembourg-based fund,
which uses a long term value, concentrated approach
to invests globally in publicly listed companies (no
particular geography / industry preference).Prior to
setting up Martek Partners, he has worked as Principal
in the investment team of Exor, which he joined in
March 2008, where he was responsible for monitoring
Exor’s portfolio of companies as well as evaluating
investment opportunities in both private and publicly
listed companies. Prior to Exor he has worked in
investment banking in Credit Suisse and Rothschild,
working mainly on mergers & acquisitions, leveraged
buyouts and strategic advisory mandates.”
ADVISORS & TEAM
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CHARLIE SONGHURST
KATANA CAPITAL
Washington, USA
“Charles Songhurst runs an investment portfolio. He is
a founding partner of Katana Capital, a long-short
equity hedge fund. He also runs the Songhurst Group,
which holds assets in a variety of private companies.
Charles ran corporate strategy for Microsoft and
focused on partnering and M&A. He was involved in
the Yahoo acquisition and commercial deal, and the
Skype acquisition. Before running corporate strategy,
Charles was focused on the emergence of Google and
the growth of the search industry. Prior, Charles was an
analyst at McKinsey & Company in London. Charles
received a bachelor’s degree in politics, philosophy,
and economics at Oxford University. While at university
he was an entrepreneur, founding and running an
auction trading company.”
VINCENZO IOZZO
CROWDSTRIKE
New York, USA
“Vincenzo is an entrepreneur and investor. He currently
serves as a Senior Director at CrowdStrike following the
sale of his company Iperlane in 2017. Vincenzo is also a
Network Leader at Village Global, a seed stage VC fund
based in Silicon Valley. In addition, Vincenzo is an
Associate Researcher at the MIT Media Lab and serves
as a committee member on the Black Hat Conference
board. Vincenzo co-authored the “iOS Hacker’s
Handbook” (Wiley, 2012) and the winning attacks
against Firefox, iOS and Blackberry OS at Pwn2Own
between 2010-2012.”
ADVISORS & TEAM
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ADVISORS & TEAM
RAGHU MOVVA
SCHOOL OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP
& INNOVATION
Turin, Italy
“Background in informatics & Nanotechnology from 6
different countries. After a brief stint in consulting,
dived into entrepreneurship by co-founding three
startups over the course of 5 years. Since 2014, he has
been working with CDI as the lead for Innovation &
Entrepreneurship where he developed programs like
I4C, CDILabs and SEI. His passions include futurism,
education, technology, entrepreneurship & science
ﬁction“
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An European institution of excellence for
merit based management education
with an international MBA to engineers
and scientists that is entirely ﬁnanced by
industry www.cdi.eu
Fondazione Agnelli is a philanthropic
institute contributing to the progress
of Italian society with a focus on
education and training
www.fondazioneagnelli.it
Europe’s leading diversiﬁed holding
controlled by the Agnelli Family and
the majority owner of Partner Re, Fiat
Chrysler Automobiles, CnH Industrial,
Ferrari, Juventus, etc www.exor.com
The organizing institutions with a long-term vision for
Innovation, Industry & Education
History: SEI Torino Forum was started in 2018 by John Elkann to launch SEI -
School of Entrepreneurship & Innovation - the leading school for tech
entrepreneurship in Italy providing action learning based education to a
selected cohort of 200 students annually from Politecnico di Torino,
Politecnico di Milano, Università di Torino & Bocconi.
Mission: SEI Torino Forum is the annual gathering of the most promising
deep tech entrepreneurs in Europe for two days dedicated to learning,
mentoring and networking.
An action learning school of excellence
for tech entrepreneurship education
to university level students in north
west Italy and the organizer of SEI
Torino Forum www.sei.it/en
INSTITUTIONS
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School of Entrepreneurship & Innovation – SEI
Via Giacosa 38, 10125, Turin, Italy
www.sei.it - info@sei.it

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