2021 | 6th INTERNATIONAL FORUM ON RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGIES FOR SOCIETY & INDUSTRY (RTSI)
2021 September 06 – 09
Location: Virtual
The theme of RTSI 2021 is innovation for a smart world.
This year’s special events section contains two events on startups and entrepreneurs, the Call for Best Entrepreneurship Activity Pitch Presentation and the Special Meeting on Innovative Startups and Entrepreneurs.
Without question, innovation in electrical, electronic, and information science and engineering has strongly transformed society in recent decades, which relates to the main goal of RTSI, which is to address these challenges and to foster excellence in technological innovation.
Call for Best Entrepreneurship Activity Pitch Presentation
Participation is free of charge.
This call is devoted to young Startups (TRL 1-3) and entrepreneurs to showcase successful entrepreneurship ideas in the field of interest of IEEE.
The competitors shall prepare a 5 minutes video: “My entrepreneurship idea in 5 minutes” in which will present their entrepreneurship idea and activity using slides, pictures, photos, graphics, lab demo, etc., to describe in the most convincing and attractive way their innovative idea, achievements, and field of application.
The participants at the IEEE RTSI START-UP AND ENTREPRENEUR VIDEO EVENT will be able to vote for their favorite video using a special application (i.e., Mentimeter) on their smartphones.
The competition will take place during IEEE RTSI 2021 “electronic virtual conference” (on September 6, 2021) and the participation is free of charge. See the program schedule on the web page of the conference to know the exact time. More details about: the platform to be used for the “live streaming event” and how to access, will be available on the conference web and sent to the video authors.
All competitors will receive a participation certificate and the best video will be awarded a customized IEEE certificate.
Entrepreneurs willing to participate in this competition shall send an e-mail to this address: rtsi2021@ieeesezioneitalia.it no later than 25 July 2021.
In the subject of the e-mail, the participant in this competition should write: Best Entrepreneurship Activity Pitch Presentation – name surname
In the text of the e-mail the participant shall include the following info:
- title of the video
- name and affiliation of the author
- e-mail of the author.
Details about uploading procedures will be sent to participants by e-mail. The deadline for the submission of the video is 10 August 2021. All videos shall have MP4 format, dimensions not larger than 100 MB and they shall not be longer than 5 minutes. A special commission will select the best videos (maximum 16 videos) that will be presented and voted by participants to the event.
All videos will be uploaded on the IEEE Italy Section web and media (depending on author permission.) Read More.
Special Meeting on Innovative Startups and Entrepreneurs
6 September 2021 – live video streaming
Attendance IS FREE
Objective
This special meeting is structured in two panels dedicated to:
– entrepreneurship financial and institutional supports, the importance of ethics in technology
– some examples of successful startups.
Program
14:00 – 14:10 – Welcome to participants – Tiziana Tambosso – IEEE Italy Section Entrepreneurship Committee & Vincenzo Piuri – IEEE R8 Director-Elect
Panel 1: Entrepreneurship Supports
The first panel will focus on entrepreneurship supports for success. Funding, organization, management, business strategies and planning, incubators, guidance, mentorship, and institutional supports will be discussed. A presentation of the recent advancement in the P7000 standard will describe the process for addressing ethical concerns during system design.
Moderators: Vincenzo Piuri and Tiziana Tambosso
14:10 – 14:25 – Joanne Wong – IEEE Entrepreneurship
14:25 – 14:40 – Giulia Zanotti – Invitalia
14:40 – 14:55 – Angelo Giuliana – Meditech Competence Center
14:55 – 15:10 – Filippo Ammirati, ENEA Direzione Innovazione e Sviluppo – Divisione Sviluppo Tecnologico
15:10 – 15:25 – Roberto Della Marina – Venture Factory
15:25 – 15:40 – Ali Hessami, Vega Systems – Ethical Considerations in System Design
15:40 – 15:55 – John Matogo & Mohammad Zaidan – IEEE R8 Action for Industry & IEEE R8 Entrepreneurship Initiative
15:55 – 16:15 – Q&A time
Ten-minute break
Panel 2: Successful Startups
The second panel will present some examples of successful and innovative startups with an accent on challenges during a time of pandemic and with illustrations of best practices, problems encountered, and solutions.
Moderator: Roberta Albanese – Business / Startup Consultant
16:20 – 16:30 – Flavio Farroni, CEO – Megaride
16:30 – 16:40 – Antonio Caraviello, CEO – Sophia High Tech
16:40 – 16:50 – Domenico De Luca, CEO – Tolemaica (www.tolemaica.it)
16:50 – 17:00 – David Cezon, CEO – Imok
17:00 – 17:10 – Ernest Vlacic, Founder – Danieli Systec
17:10 – 17:40 – Q&A
