EIT CONNECT 2015 AGENDA

Budapest, Hungary 5-7 May
AGENDA OUTLINE
The EIT Innovation Forum
Day 1
Tuesday 5 May
Timing
Day 2
Wednesday 6 May
Day 3
Thursday 7 May
09:00
EIT Innovations in Practice: Spotlight on our cities
09:30
Inspirational Keynote
Coffee Break
10:00
10:30
EIT Alumni Connect Event
EIT Stakeholder Forum I
( by invitation only)
11:00
EIT Innovations in practice: Virtual City Tour
11:30
Coffee Break
12:00
EIT Stakeholder Forum II
12:30
13:00
GRAFFITI
Developing
ideas for
innovation
13:30
Lunch break
14:00
14:30
INNOVEIT 2015 Opening
Innovation in Europe
EIT
Roundtable:
Education
(by invitation
only)
15:00
15:30
Innovating with Knowledge and Innovation Communities
(KICs)
Learning from a unique approach to innovation in Europe
16:00
Coffee break
Coffee Break
16:30
17:00
17:30
Parallel session 1:
Innovating with
Knowledge and
Innovation
Communities (KICs)
Session for EIT community
Parallel session 2:
Innovating with
Knowledge and
Innovation
Communities (KICs)
Session for external
stakeholders
EIT ALUMNI
CONNECT
Event
How to get involved with KICs:
The EIT Regional Innovation Scheme
(by invitation only)
(EIT RIS)
18:00
18:00
EIT Awards Pitches
EIT CHANGE Award, EIT Innovators Award and EIT Venture Award
EIT
Roundtable
Investors
(by invitation
only)
Good practices and new questions
18:30
19:00
19:30
20:00
20:30
21:00
21:30
22:00
Networking dinner
EIT Awards Celebration dinner
EIT
Roundtable
Knowledge
Triangle
(by invitation
only)
INNOVEIT 2015 Closing
EIT ALUMNI CONNECT @ INNOVEIT2015 - DRAFT AGENDA
5 MAY
08:45 – 09: 00 EIT CONNECT Registration
09:00 – 09:30 Welcome by EIT
09:30 – 12:30 EIT CONNECT – Interdisciplinary group work
The objective of the session is to facilitate the collaboration among students and alumni from Climate-KIC, EIT ICT Labs
and KIC InnoEnergy. Students and Alumni are encouraged to bring topics, ideas or their specific projects to the session to
share, discuss and work on them with others. Topics/ideas/projects should be broad enough to be shared among the
interdisciplinary group of participants
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch and Networking
14:00 – 15:00 INNOVEIT2015 OPENING: Innovation in Europe Plenary (Participation of students and alumni in the
session)
15:00 – 15:30 INNOVEIT 2015: Innovating with KICs Plenary (Participation of students and alumni in the session)
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 – 17:30 EIT CONNECT –The EIT Alumni Community
The objective of the session is to build on the collaboration among students and alumni from Climate-KIC, EIT ICT Labs
and KIC InnoEnergy and discuss the next steps of the EIT Alumni Community together.
17:30 18:00 INNOVEIT 2015 : Feed-back on EIT CONNECT to Plenary (Participation of students and alumni in the
session)
EIT Alumni will report the highlights of the EIT Connect event and the next steps for the EIT Alumni Community to the
INNOVEIT 2015 plenary.
19:00 – 21:00 INNOVEIT 2015: Networking dinner
6 MAY
09:00 – 10:00 EIT Innovations in Practice – Spotlight on our cities
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 – 12:30 EIT Innovations in Practice – Virtual City Tours
12:30 – 14: 30 Lunch and Graffiti
14:30 – 16:00 EIT AWARDS Pitching session
EIT Venture Award, EIT CHANGE Award and EIT Innovators Award
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 – 18:00 Matchmaking & Networking @ EIT
Community corner
16:30 – 18:00 EIT Regional Innovation Scheme
EIT Connect participants have the possibility to use
space at the “EIT community corner“ for specific
match-making between alumni (e.g. those alumni
who have start-ups and are searching for
collaborators, …etc)
19:30 – 22:00 EIT Awards Celebration and Dinner
The EIT Award winners will be announced at the celebration dinner.
7 MAY
09:30 – 10:30 Inspirational keynote
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30 EIT Stakeholder Forum
The EIT will present its future strategy and plans and will open the floor to INNOVEIT 2015 participants for their
feedback and recommendations.
12:30
Closing and Lunch