Event Agenda

Wednesday, 2 April 2025

10:00 - 10:30

Plenary

In-personPlenary room

10:30 - 11:15

Accessing specialist research and technology infrastructures

In-personWorkshop room 1

EIC Scaling Club: How to make your board work for you?

In-personWorkshop room 3

Importance of IP for building a deep tech business

In-personWorkshop room 2

10:30 - 17:30

MeetingsIn-person

Networking meetings

Networking tables

Meeting duration:15 minute time slots

11:15 - 12:00

Accelerate Your Business with Innovation Procurement

In-personWorkshop room 3

Express your view on the future Start up Scale up strategy

In-personRound Table room 1

Navigating Regulatory Pathways for Emerging Health Technologies

In-personWorkshop room 2

Shaping the Future of the EIC: Open Dialogue with Stakeholders

In-personRound Table room 2

Transitioning from Technology to Market – changing hearts and minds

In-personWorkshop room 1

12:30 - 13:15

AI Innovation: Beyond the hype and behind the regulations

In-personWorkshop room 1

Co-investing with the EIC Fund

In-personWorkshop room 2

Corporate Venturing – Lessons from the EIC Corporate Partnership Programme

In-personWorkshop room 3

14:30 - 15:00

ARPA style management for technology breakthroughs

In-personWorkshop room 1

EIC Business Acceleration Services: Discover EIC support beyond funding!

In-personWorkshop room 3

Seeding Success: Strategies for Early Stage Investment

In-personWorkshop room 2

15:00 - 15:45

EIC Pathfinder breakthrough technologies nurturing European successes in science, innovation and creation of new markets

In-personWorkshop room 1

International expansion: Scale in Europe & beyond

In-personWorkshop room 3

Navigating the Path to Investment: Strategies for Closing an Investment Round

In-personWorkshop room 2

16:15 - 16:45

How to best use the NCP and EEN networks?

In-personWorkshop room 1

Innonext: Next Generation Innovation Talents, what is it for beneficiaries

In-personWorkshop room 2

Why the infamous “glass ceiling” cannot be broken by women alone - it needs to be opened “from above”

In-personWorkshop room 3

16:45 - 17:30

European Innovation Procurement Award Ceremony

In-personPlenary room

Thursday, 3 April 2025

09:15 - 09:45

Advanced Nuclear Energy Pathways: Fusion and Fission at the EIC Accelerator

In-personWorkshop room 3

Bridging Innovation Gaps in Europe

In-personWorkshop room 1

StartupEU in Action: Real Stories of Growth from Widening Countries

In-personWorkshop room 4

Stories of Women in Tech: challenges & opportunities

In-personWorkshop room 2

10:00 - 10:15

Welcome

In-personPlenary room

10:15 - 10:30

Opening Speech - The EIC as a Driving Force for Startups and Scaleups

In-personPlenary room

10:30 - 11:00

Keynote / Fireside chat - Europe as a global Tech Leader

In-personPlenary room

11:00 - 11:15

Testimonials on EIC impact

In-personPlenary room

11:00 - 17:00

MeetingsIn-person

Networking meetings

Networking tables

Meeting duration:15 minute time slots

11:45 - 12:30

Panel Discussion - What should an expanded EIC look like?

In-personPlenary room

12:30 - 13:00

Award Ceremony - EU Prize for Women Innovators

In-personPlenary room

14:30 - 15:15

Panel Discussion - The forthcoming EU Startup and Scaleup Strategy: what’s in it for the EIC community?

In-personPlenary room

15:15 - 15:30

Testimonials on EIC impacts + Tech talk

In-personPlenary room

16:00 - 16:30

Panel Discussion - Scaling European Digital Technologies

In-personPlenary room

16:30 - 17:00

Policy Reflections - Reflections on discussions of the day as input to startup strategy and future EIC

In-personPlenary room

17:00 - 17:05

Closing

In-personPlenary room

Wednesday, 2 April 2025

Networking meetings

Thursday, 3 April 2025

Networking meetings