Open Innovation Meetup

Open Innovation Meetup is a community gathering where corporate leaders, entrepreneurs, startup founders, investors and innovation professionals come together to explore how AI is reshaping corporate innovation.Each session focuses on practical insights into AI adoption, new business and product development processes, and how startups can help organizations solve real business problems through open innovation.Our guest speakers share first-hand experience in building corporate innovation programs, working with startups, launching pilots, and creating successful collaborations between large organizations and next-generation technology companies.For the second edition of the series, our guest is Ecem Altıok, Investment Director at Yıldız Ventures. Together we will cover Yıldız Ventures' approach to corporate innovation and entrepreneurship, how corporates develop pilots, customer relationships and long-term partnerships with startups, what startups should keep in mind when working with large organizations, and how corporate–startup matching works around next-generation technologies, particularly AI solutions. The startup profiles Yıldız Ventures follows and its messages to the ecosystem are also on the agenda.Schedule16:00 – 16:15 Welcoming networking16:15 – 16:45 Fireside16:45 – 17:15 Q&A17:15 – 18:00 Networking