Open Innovation Talks – Details, episodes & analysis

Tune in to the latest episode of our "Open Innovation Talks" series! 
This time, our Chairman, Alberto Onetti, interviews Kyle Basler-Reeder, Global Open Innovation Lead at ExxonMobil. 

Kyle shares his unique approach to fostering external innovation within a large organization. He explains his go-to questions for anyone looking to embrace open innovation: How much time and budget do you have? What about IP and TRL? Do you have an implementation plan? What is the projected value at scale? What are the chances of success? Top tips include aiming high, involving Business Units from day one, starting with ready units, and streamlining processes. He also emphasizes the importance of internal landscaping, as solutions often exist within the organization. 

Learn how leading Open Innovation is about leading cultural change in this new episode!

Procurement is often perceived as highly boring and bureaucratic. But it is a massive opportunity. Public sector spending, in the UK only, is about 400 billion pounds a year. In Europe we are talking about trillions of euros.

Nowadays the public sector is facing more challenges than ever before (after Covid, climate emergence, child and social care, security, …) and it has to do it with tight finances. Public organizations have to deliver better, cheaper, and quicker outcomes.

How does the public sector spend money? In the UK 21% of tenders have a single bidder. Why? It is really hard to engage with the public sector, particularly if we refer to innovation.
Rather than prescribing, public organizations should be much more open to the market with the problems they want to solve. They should lower the barriers to entry, bring innovation in and work with diverse suppliers (startups, scaleups, academic span-outs, corporate open innovation depts, …). Public Procurement is not about being first, being an inventor, rather be an intelligent client. 

If you try to do something from scratch, it always costs more. On the contrary, you can derisk by bringing innovation from outside.It Given the budget they have, the Public Sector can really help shaping the innovation ecosystems.

That’s the reason why the Innovation Procurement Empowerment Centre (IPEC) – a Connected Places Catapult project - introduced a Special Award as part of Startup Ecosystem Stars Awards 2024 aimed to recognize and celebrate the most innovative initiatives within the public sector.

This and more in this Mind the Chat with Rikesh Shah - Head of IPE and former Head of Open Innovation at Transport for London (TFL), interviewed by our Chairman Alberto Onetti. 

Tamara Steffens, managing partner of Thompson Reuters Ventures, brings a wealth of experience and a unique perspective to the world of investing. With over two decades of expertise, she has been instrumental in driving growth and facilitating successful exits for early-stage consumer and enterprise startups.In this Mind the Chat,together with our CEO Marco Marinucci, she delves deep into the realm of CVC, discussing how the landscape of innovation - in particular in the changing news and media industry - has evolved and welcoming a surge of diversity, with an increasing number of female participants.

Telstra Ventures, started in 2011 as an initial extension of Telstra Communications investment arm, has now developed into a multinational CVC fund with multiple third party LPs, and ~$570M invested (and notable wins such as Snap, Docusign, CrowdStrike, …).
Most interestingly, Telstra Ventures developed an internal process for constantly measuring the incremental revenues their activity as an active shareholder is able to bring to their portfolio companies. Spoiler, it’s in the hundreds of millions of $.This and more in this conversation between Marco Marinucci and Matthew Koertge, Managing Partner at Telstra Ventures

What is the Techstars startup accelerator model and terms? How does it compare with other Tier1 accelerators? Why in Sydney today? What’s the role of local government (NSW) in order to promote the local ecosystem of innovators as the main driver for economical growth? These and other topics in the interview of Kirstin Hunter (Techstars Sydney) with Marco Marinucci (Mind the Bridge) as part of the Mind the Bridge Scaleup Summit Australia 2023.

Join us as Alberto Onetti and Marco Marinucci go through the major milestones of the evolution of the French tech ecosystem with Nicolas Brien, Chairman at EuraTechnologies and Former CEO of France Digitale. Explore how today Paris leads innovation in tech investment.

In this episode we’ll explore how a company like the 80+ year-old group Pelliconi approaches the innovation challenges to adapt to today's demands. Pelliconi CEO, Marco Checchi shares his plans and best practices in this chat with Marco Marinucci.

Google is known for its tendency to support entrepreneurship. For years, through its funds; Google Ventures, and Google Capital, they have been investing in startups and have realized that it is necessary to refine open innovation practices and build a holistic engagement with startups. In today's episode Uttam Tripachi, Head of Startup Accelerators and DevRel at Google.

Sapphire, previously known as the financial arm of the German Multinational SAP, today operates as a fully independent and separate VC fund. In this discussion between our CEO Marco Marinucci and Sapphire Ventures’s Managing Director Rajeev Dham, we get a good pulse of where we stand in today’s VC investment trends. Specifically we address 3 hot topics: Do portfolio companies need to stay private longer?
What’s the impact of AI in today’s processes of growth VCs?
What would be a killer feature that is still to be developed?

Join us in this episode as we explore Ash Fontana's journey from AngelList to Zetta Venture Partners, his pioneering work in democratizing startup investments, and his vision for the AI-driven future. Discover how he is shaping the landscape of intelligent software investment with a steady commitment to technological innovation.