Opening speech by EIA President

1. 1 unicorn
10 centaurs
25 ponies
By 2020
Inception of innovation into
1 million entrepreneurs by 2020.

2. The extreme
accelerator
was developed
with professionals
from world-class
Silicon Valley
universities &
companies
Intercultural
communication

3. 2015: 500 Participants, Mentors & 78 Nationalities
60 sessions: speakers, professors, corporates from top institutions shape the acceleration

4. European Innovation Academy
6th edition 2016 July, Nice, France
Hosted by
University of
Nice Sophia
Antipolis

5. 15 Days of Intensive Training & Acceleration: 70 sessions
Speakers, professors & corporates from top institutions shape the acceleration
Ideation
Team Formation
Prototype & Launch
Business Model
Pitch to VCs = $€£
Get 1000 Customers
Week 1 Week 2 Week 3

6. “Idea without execution is
hallucination.”
― Thomas Edison

7. 20%
Data, AI & Travel
15%
Hardware-IOT
85%
Digital
Startups & future entrepreneurs:
join us in Nice
– Big Data, AI, Travel

9. A day by day execution manual to survive in EIA*
*The Playbook is 40 page manual with tasks & tools for students and mentors
to progress through the 3-week program.

10. Learn how to act as a team!
The most advanced approach to interdisciplinary study, work & innovation
All teams work together with 6 different mentors @ EIA
Up to 50% of mentors from Silicon Valley
Discovery &
delivery of a
new idea:
always the work
of a team.

11. Ca 100 student, startup
& corporate teams
develop new solutions
during 3 weeks
All teams use EIA
platform and mobile app
in cooperation with 5
different type of
mentors.

12. 60%40%
50%
IT
20%
Business
20%
Design
10%
Others*
* All innovation & entrepreneurial minded people

13. 1 unicorn
10 centaurs
25 ponies
By 2020
Inception of innovation into
1 million entrepreneurs by 2020.

15. AMBITION

17. Glass Cold Sound
Clean Time Light
Source: Steven Johnson, 2015

20. - To dream big is a matter of choice,
- Reaching that dream is a matter of discipline

22. TEAM &
CULTURE

23. WORK WITH SMARTEST PEOPLE
EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE!
PROOF-OF-CONCEPT LAB MENTALITY
BUILDING TOGETHER A RIGHT TEAM

24. DEVELOP NEW IDEAS FASTER THAN
ANYONE ELSE
EXPECT TO SOLVE IMPOSSIBLE
SET VERY AGGRESSIVE LARGE
SCALE GOALS

25. Follow The Innovation F-word!

26. „FAILURE IS AN OPTION
HERE. IF THINGS ARE NOT
FAILING, YOU ARE NOT
INNOVATING ENOUGH.“

28. "DON'T FEAR FAILURE.
NOT FAILURE, BUT LOW
AIM, IS THE CRIME.
IN GREAT ATTEMPTS
IT IS GLORIOUS
EVEN TO FAIL."

30. European Innovation Academy
6th edition 2016 July, Nice, France

31. Ken Singer
Managing Director,
Sutardja Center for
Entrepreneurship and
Technology, UC
Berkeley
Landry Holi
Head of Corporate
Innovation,
Amadeus
Jean-Christophe Martin
Vice-president for
International Affairs
Université Nice Sophia
Antipolis
Nicole Rebboh
Manager,
Le Village by CA
Provence
Côte d'Azur

33. We used Google Deep Dream python code with BVLC GoogleNet Model
on deep learning framework Caffe on cloud servers.
Dream Type: Neuron
Inception Depth: Deep
Neural Network Layer: inception_4A_pool_proj

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44. Ken Singer
Managing Director,
Sutardja Center for
Entrepreneurship and
Technology, UC
Berkeley
Landry Holi
Head of Corporate
Innovation,
Amadeus
Jean-Christophe Martin
Vice-president for
International Affairs
Université Nice Sophia
Antipolis
Nicole Rebboh
Manager,
Le Village by CA
Provence
Côte d'Azur

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49. Ken Singer
Managing Director,
Sutardja Center for
Entrepreneurship and
Technology, UC
Berkeley
Landry Holi
Head of Corporate
Innovation,
Amadeus
Jean-Christophe Martin
Vice-president for
International Affairs
Université Nice Sophia
Antipolis
Nicole Rebboh
Manager,
Le Village by CA
Provence
Côte d'Azur

50. European Innovation Academy
6th edition 2016 July, Nice, France