Meetup: Connecting entrepreneurship and research

Join StartupAmsterdam and TTT-AI for a Meetup about connecting entrepreneurship and research on the 25th of January 2023 at 16:00 at LAB42.

Amsterdam has become one of the leading hubs for the development of AI technologies. This is in large part due to its strong academic community. That said, experts agree that more should be done with knowledge valorisation in the field of AI.

StartupAmsterdam and TTT-AI want to bridge the gap between AI academia and the entrepreneurial community. How can a researcher collaborate with different stakeholders? How do you find a business-minded co-founder? How do you assemble a winning team? These and other questions will be answered at the Connecting Entrepreneurship and Research Meetup on the 24th of November.

Who is this event for?

• AI researchers (thinking of) setting up a startup
• AI researchers looking to join a startup
• Entrepreneurs looking for technical co-founders

Created in 2015, StartupAmsterdam is an action programme run by the City of Amsterdam that brings the public and private sectors together to support the startups, scale-ups, entrepreneurs and other players in the local ecosystem. By taking part in dozens of projects and initiatives promoting innovative and sustainable entrepreneurship, it’s helped the Dutch capital become a major player in the global scene.

Thematic Technology Transfer Artificial Intelligence (TTT-AI) offers a specialized venture-building program and investment fund for knowledge/research-based AI startups. It unites eight Knowledge Transfer Offices (KTOs) of 10 knowledge institutions in Amsterdam, Utrecht, Nijmegen and Eindhoven, as well as their activities, instruments, and networks.

Programme

• 15:45 Walk-in
• 16:00 Welcome by StartupAmsterdam and TTT-AI
• 16:05 Talk #1: Initiating collaborations
• 16:25 Talk #2: Best practices from an AI spinoff
• 16:45 Break
• 17:00 Panel discussion: The importance of a balanced team

Talk #1: Initiating collaborations by ()

LAB42 offers space for students, entrepreneurs, businesses and researchers and collaborative spaces for other UvA disciplines with external parties in the field of Artificial Intelligence and digital information. LAB42 come to be due to the collaborative efforts of the municipality of Amsterdam and UvA. The goal of this collaboration is to create a space for co-creation, meet-ups and knowledge sharing between research, entrepreneurship, students and society.

Talk #2: Best practices from an AI spinoff by ()

Bart Geerts is founder and CEO of Healthplus.ai. Bart has a background as a biomedical scientist, anesthesiologist-intensivist and clinical pharmacologist. He has worked in several hospitals such as LUMC, UCLH, Amsterdam UMC and Spaarne gasthuis. In recent years, Bart specializes in creating, validating and implementing AI systems that should support the healthcare provider in her work. He has published in journals such as Nature Medicine and JAMA on this topic. Next year, Healthplus.ai's first tool, PERISCOPE, will be certified. PERISCOPE reuses EHR data to predict early risk of infectious complications.

Panel discussion: The importance of a balanced team by (), () and ()

It’s often being said that the quality of the team determines the success of a startup. While academics and entrepreneurship seem like a great fit on paper, there are challenges to overcome when bringing both worlds together. In this panel we will dive into these challenges and ask ourselves what are common pitfalls, how can we make it work and why is it essential to bring these worlds together.

Host or Publisher StartupAmsterdam & TTT-AI