This Explore program is initiated by Amsterdam Public Health research institute (APH), Innovation Exchange Amsterdam (IXA), and executed by ACE Incubator (ACE).
Program
The program offers a combination of interactive lectures and workshops, and provides the opportunity to interact with seasoned speakers, passionate founders and likeminded researchers. Participants will be pre-matched in teams of 3-4. Each team will work on their business idea, which preferably (but not necessarily) is based on an opportunity/innovation from your own research (product, service, process etc). At the end of day 2, the participants will get the opportunity to pitch their business idea in a “Dragon’s Den” format to a jury panel and they will award 500 euros to the team with the best pitch.
Day 1: June 10, 2022 (09:00-17:30 hrs)
Day 2: June 17, 2022 (09:00-17:30 hrs)
Key learnings
After completing the completing the program, we are confident that you will:
- Have an understanding of the first steps in impact creation and venture building (idea generation and validation, business modelling, commercialization, and more);
- Gain insights and practise with idea creation, stakeholder analysis and problem validation, startup collaboration opportunities with relevant stakeholders, and developing a business model;
- Learn how to structure and deliver your best pitch;
- Get inspired and learn from societal impact entrepreneurs to get you started!
Preparations
Participants are encouraged to come up with a business idea before the course starts. Possible idea sources: your own research (product, service, process, etc), a need/gap identified in the market, etc. However, you don’t need to have an idea to participate - you will be challenged to come up with one during the program!
More information
For more information about this program, visit our event page.