Local Solutions
to Global Problems
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Ecosystems
The Startup Guide Summit brings together startups, investors, public sector representatives, community builders, and key stakeholders from 60 startup ecosystems.
The goal of the Summit is to foster exchange and collaboration between these diverse stakeholders to find and match solutions to our world's biggest challenges through innovation and collaboration.
Through this event, we hope to create a platform that encourages the exchange of ideas and helps to create meaningful partnerships that can drive real change.
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After 10 years of mapping innovation ecosystems across the world, we now know that entrepreneurship and innovation are absolutely everywhere! We have learned that local innovation plays a crucial role in solving some of the most complex issues of our time.
The problem is no longer how to find the next big idea, because to a significant extent, we have the solutions and the technology we need. We have mapped them, we have seen them; they are out there.
The challenge now becomes: How do we get them implemented quickly and sustainably?
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Building a strong innovation ecosystem
Matching city challenges with local solutions
Bridging the public and private funding gap
Building a strong innovation ecosystem
Matching city challenges with local solutions
Bridging the public and private funding gap
Building a strong innovation ecosystem
Matching city challenges with local solutions
Bridging the public and private funding gap
Building a strong innovation ecosystem
Matching city challenges with local solutions
Bridging the public and private funding gap
Program
Arrival & Welcome Coffee
9:00
Opening Keynotes
10:00
Pitch Competition & Breakout Session
Sessions:
BUILDING A STRONG INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM
MATCHING CITY CHALLENGES WITH LOCAL SOLUTIONS
BRIDGING THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE FUNDING GAP
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11:00
Sharing Lunch
12:30
Pitch Competition & Breakout Session
Sessions:
BUILDING A STRONG INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM
MATCHING CITY CHALLENGES WITH LOCAL SOLUTIONS
BRIDGING THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE FUNDING GAP
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14:00
Coffee break
15:30
Special Speaker
16:00
Closing Keynote
16:30
Sunset Drinks
17:00
Impact Leaders Dinner
19.00
Pitch Competition
Impact Shakers teamed up with Startup Guide for a pitching competition in Urban Impact! We are selecting the best Global Urban Impact Startups with diverse founding teams to come pitch and win investment at the Startup Guide Summit.
The best solutions will also get to participate in the Pitch,
Match & Implement Workshops the Co-Creators will help shape. The pitching competition will be a highlight of the Summit
and will attract best in class impact startups, creating more opportunities for underrepresented founders to thrive and for cities to connect with global solutions to their local challenges.
HOSTS
Startup Guide is a leading publisher of guidebooks and digital content for over 60 international startup ecosystems. Startup Guide mission is to leverage experience and diverse networks to connect local solutions with global challenges, driving impactful innovation on an international scale.
Impact Shakers is a global impact ecosystem tackling societal and environmental challenges through inclusive entrepreneurship.
Impact Shakers mission is to create impact at scale by evolving how we build businesses, for what purpose and who gets to build them.
Venue
Casa do Impacto is a Hub powered by Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa where all the major social and innovation players/initiatives in Portugal are gathered at a restored convent in Lisbon City Center. Combining experienced startups and projects with early-stage entrepreneurs, an incubation space, acceleration programs, events and a philanthropic fund for early-stage social and impact startups.