If you are an EIC beneficiary – regardless of the stage of development of your activities – you should not miss the EIC beneficiaries day at the EIC Summit 2025, Europe’s prime event where deeptech meets policy! Contrary to its flagship event – held on 3 April 2025 at Tour & Taxi (Brussels, Belgium) – which is open to all interested stakeholders, the EIC beneficiaries day’s workshops – held on 2 April 2025 in the same location – will be exclusively dedicated to EIC beneficiaries and will cover a diverse range of topics, such as investments, IP, and scaling up your company.
For this purpose, at the occasion of the EIC beneficiaries day – taking place on Day 1 of the EIC Summit 2025 – Workshop room white will be reserved to workshops on EIC Business Acceleration Services (BAS), the tailor-made services and support you can benefit from as an EIC-backed innovator.
Register now to the 2025 edition of the EIC Summit!
EIC beneficiaries day - 2 April 2025, Tour & Taxi, Brussels (Belgium)
Flagship event - 3 April 2025, Tour & Taxi, Brussels (Belgium)
EIC Business Acceleration Services Track: Agenda
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10:30 - 11:15, EIC Scaling Club: How to make your board work for you?
Did you know that only 40% of European deep-tech companies have non-executive directors on their boards and only 35% of executives believe their boards effectively contribute to growth? Join this session to learn how European deep-tech companies can better leverage a strong and productive board.
Moderator: Teresa Cunha - EIC Scaling Club coordinator
Speakers: Josemaria Siota - Executive Director of IESE Business School's Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center, Mikko-Jussi Suonenlahti - Business Builder, Chairperson of privately held tech businesses
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11:15 - 12:00 - Accelerate Your Business with Innovation Procurement
Spotlight will be placed on the EIC Innovation Procurement Programme, whose goal is to faciliate the access of EIC Awardees to procurement markets in the public and private sectors in Europe and worldwide. To that end, case examples from EIC Awardees that benefited from this programme will be presented along with cases of procurers that modernised their services through Innovation Procurement following a win-win approach.
Moderator: Bart Becks - EIC Board Member
Speakers: Vassilis Tsanidis - Innovation Procurement Advisor, European Innovation Council and SME Executive Agency (EISMEA), George Brik - CEO and co-founder of Hydrovolta, EIC Ambassador, Cornel Amariei - CEO & Founder of .lumen, Armand Raudin - Head of Video & Innovation Program of SNCF Security Directorate, Katarzyna Lenart - Deputy Director in the Department for Development of Innovative Programme Management Methods of the National Centre for Research and Development (Poland)
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12:30 - 13:15 - Corporate Venturing – Lessons from the EIC Corporate Partnership Programme
Corporate Venturing has become a powerful model for fostering innovation, bringing together the agility of startups with the resources and market access of large corporations. Since 2017, the EIC Corporate Partnership Programme has engaged 100+ major European firms and 1,400+ EIC-backed startups in driving impactful innovation. Attendees will gain valuable takeaways on how to navigate the challenges of corporate-startup engagement, build win-win partnerships, and leverage corporate venturing to accelerate growth and innovation.
Moderator: Anita Krohn Traaseth - EIC Board Member, EIC pilot Advisory Board Member
Speakers: Vincent Clot, Ana Casaca, Andre Convents
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14:30 -15:00 - EIC Business Acceleration Services: Discover EIC support beyond funding!
Join this session and learn how EIC Business Acceleration Services will help you access Corporates, Investors, Innovation Procurers, connect you with best accelerators, incubators, venture builders or business partners at International Trade Fairs. One stop shop session to discover all EIC Business Acceleration Service in a pill.
Moderator: Agnieszka Stasiakowska - Head of Sector of EIC Business Acceleration Services Global Offer, European Innovation Council and SME Executive Agency (EISMEA)
Speakers: Yousef Yousef - EIC Board Member, Sarah Verhulst - Professor at Ghent University
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15:00 - 15:45 - International expansion: Scale in Europe & beyond
The session will feature insights from international partners, EIC officials, and successful European innovators with global ambitions. The challenges and opportunities presented by the global innovation landscape will be analysed and strategies for strengthening the EIC's position as a global leader in supporting high-impact deep-tech innovation will be discussed.
Moderator: Mali Baum - CEO & Founder at WLOUNGE one of the biggest and most influential German tech networks. Founder of MAGDA GROUP.
Speakers: Miguel Arias, Alberto Onetti, Eliza Kruczkowska
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16:15 - 16:45 - Why the infamous “glass ceiling” cannot be broken by women alone - it needs to be opened “from above”
The session challenges conventional ideas of "women empowerment" by proposing a refreshing alternative: what if women don’t have to become louder, tougher, or more ambitious to succeed in leadership roles? Join the session to learn how the leaders in top positions can become true bridge-builders by opening the glass ceiling "from above".
Moderator: Sara Jud - Project Adviser, European Innovation Council & SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA)
Speakers: Helene Banner - Founder of "Let's Just Be Imperfect, Ladies", Veronica Orvalho - EIC Ambassador
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16:15 - 16:45 - Innonext: Next Generation Innovation Talents, what is it for beneficiaries (workshop room red)
Moderator & speaker to be announced.
Find other details about the EIC beneficiaries day at the EIC Summit 2025 on the dedicated page.
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About the EIC Summit 2025
Don’t miss the opportunity to connect with key players shaping Europe’s deeptech landscape. Join us on 2 and 3 April 2025 for two dynamic days featuring exclusive workshops, pitching sessions, unparalleled networking opportunities and groundbreaking projects!
Explore groundbreaking EIC projects and discover how the EIC can support your innovations on their path to market.
Stay tuned for the updated agenda of Day 2, the EIC Summit’s flagship event, and discover all the details about the EIC Summit 2025 satellite events (EIC Community Training - Artificial intelligence tools for innovators, the EIC Partners' Day and the Pathfinder Challenges Info Day) in the article we published in the EIC Community Platform!
DISCLAIMER: This information is provided in the interest of knowledge sharing and should not be interpreted as the official view of the European Commission, or any other organisation.