for change innovation in partnership with

Young Talents | Global Challenges | Emerging Tech

InnovationFor Change

In partnership with

CDI, Politecnico di Torino & CERN - All rights reserved ®

Knowledge partner

http://www.cdi.eu/it/

http://www.polito.it/?lang=en

http://ideasquare.web.cern.ch/


I4C | Agenda


Introduction I

In a Nutshell II

Value Proposition III

Organizers & Locations IV

Challenges V

Alumni Projects VI

Media Coverage VII

Pedagogy & Schedule VIII

Contacts IX

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I4C | Introduction

Please click on the picture or this link for watching the I4C video - https://youtu.be/vgCHuxnees0

From Challenge Experts

Leading companies who are looking to find innovative solutions to challenges within

their domain of global impact

These companies will be challenge & market experts to the teams during I4C

Global ChallengesYoung Talents

From Institutions of Excellence

MBA fellows from Collège des Ingénieurs Italia, a merit only business school for

engineers & scientists

PhD fellows handpicked from Scudo -Politecnico di Torino's doctoral school

Emerging Tech

From Top Research Centres

High tech research, prototypes & patents from – CERN, Politecnico di Torino, INFN

& IIT

Support from engineers & scientists to help incorporate emerging tech

Interdisciplinary teams of young talents are bombarded by

global challenges & emerging tech. They are then supported

by advanced entrepreneurial educational methodologies and

international mentors to develop breakthrough solutions

with relevant impact.

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https://youtu.be/vgCHuxnees0





I4C | In a NutshellEmpowering future change makers and emerging tech

to solve global problems.

Numbers

50 Talents work with 8 Challenges as teams

● 20 days of Workshops

● 20 weeks of Teamwork

● 20 months of Go-to-Market

● 20 years of Vision

I4C Demo-Days

Bottom Picture from I4C 2019 – Jury composed of Mr.

John Elkann (President of Fondazione Agnelli), Dr.

Fabiola Gianotti (Director General of CERN), Mr. Guido

Crespi (Managing Director of BCG Italia).

Names are read from right to left

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I4C | Value PropositionWorking together with leading companies to identify

global challenges and to support the development of

innovative tech solutions.

Impact & Sustainability

Challenges with a global impact used for internal purposes (e.g., sustainability report)

Innovative Projects & Startups

Projects that can either be spun-in or inspire internal ideas and impact startups of interest

Branding & Communication

Communication exposure to media, partners, participants, investors and public

Technology & Talents

Technology and talent network of interest for partnerships and joint collaborations

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I4C | Organizers & LocationsOrganizers

Innovation for Change is a joint collaboration between CERN

Ideasquare, Collège des Ingénieurs Italia and Politecnico di Torino to

bring together their respective expertise of fundamental research,

management education and technology education towards the

common goals of empowering the future change makers and to

enable technology for positive global impact.

Knowledge partner

LocationsInnovation for Change is an international program that will take place

in Turin (Italy) in TAG Fondazione Agnelli which is the headquarters

of CDI Italia and in Geneva (Switzerland) where the teams will have

the opportunity to use spaces of Ideasquare, the experimental

structure of CERN dedicated to research and development projects

and interdisciplinary programs.

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I4C | The ChallengePartners propose a challenge that is relatable to the UN

SDGs - United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Challenge Points

An ideal challenge has the following characteristics:

● Has a long term perspective

● If resolved, has a global impact

● Usually not covered by market

● Is relevant to the company

● Related to one or more UN SDGs

Example Previous Challenges

● Tackling the reactive Nitrogen Emissions

● Finding solutions to climate change

● Solving gender imbalance in STEM education

● Microplastics pollution in water sources

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I4C | Previous ChallengesLeading corporations and institutions have worked together with us as challenge sponsors in the past.

Create value from the waste

Making plastics circular

Tackling the reactive Nitrogen Emissions

Workplace psycho-physical well-being

Technology transfer to developing countries

Applying circular economy to the textile industry

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http://www.unido.org/unido-united-nations-industrial-development-organization.html



I4C | Alumni ProjectsWhile some of the projects develop into startups post

I4C and raise funding, most of the projects are later

continued internally by the sponsor companies &

institutions.

• Aquasmart (2016) is working with Acquedotto Asp

Asti and has a partnership with Maddalena

• SoundBubble (2017) is developing the industrial

product version in support with ENEL

• Aria (2018) is working with the Turin City Lab to

deploy their sensors for a pilot project

• Ctrl N, Hubvance, impActo and Spectrum (2019)

have been selected to present at the Global Grad

Show in Dubai in Nov 2019

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http://www.aquasmart.io/

http://www.asp.asti.it/

http://www.asp.asti.it/

https://www.maddalena.it/en

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4paUsGo1G1Y

https://www.enel.com/en.html

https://www.linkedin.com/company/aria-torino/

https://www.torinocitylab.it/en/

http://www.globalgradshow.com/

http://www.globalgradshow.com/



I4C | Alumni Projects

SpectrumLab (2019)

Spectrum, a reflective thermochromic paint, is an energy efficiency solution for buildings which tackles

global warming

Aria (2018)

Aria collects real-time data about pollutants through a pool of proprietary sensors to assess

the air quality in the entire urban area.

Soundbubble (2017)

Soundbubble combines sound source separation, noise cancellation and speaker recognition

techniques to solve the problem of noisy working environments.

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Effectively communicating sustainability and impact

commitment of sponsoring institutions in traditional

and digital media.

I4C | Media Coverage

Press releases

Press coverage in national media co-ordinated together with sponsors for launch & demo-day

Social Media

Regular mentions in social media of the organizers – CERN, CDI & Politecnico di Torino

Demo-day

I4C demo-day is an exclusive event for sponsors & organizers and is a part of Italian Tech Week




https://www.repubblica.it/tecnologia/2018/12/18/news/nasce_l_italian_tech_week_a_torino_quattro_giorni_per_riunire_e_lanciare_il_tech_italiano-214545696/

https://corriereinnovazione.corriere.it/2018/06/28/innovation-for-change-ecco-start-up-futuro-570251be-7a55-11e8-ba35-e8c3b24a78bc.shtml

http://www.repubblica.it/rubriche/startup-stories/2017/02/01/news/otto_idee_d_impresa_su_cibo_e_salute_50_giovani_al_lavoro-157382146/?ref=search



I4C | Pedagogy & Schedule

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Mission: To develop an innovative and viable solution to solve a global challenge in 20 weeks

Key Points of I4C: Future Thinking, Interdisciplinarity, Tech to Market, Impact Innovation & Communication

This intensive 20 weeks program is structured in 5 modules spread over 20 days.

• User feedback

• Pitching and branding

• Demo Day & expo

• Basics of innovation

• Team building

• Challenge selections

• Challenge research

MVP in 20 weeks

Preparation Virtual Ideation

Team formation

Validation Execution Presentation

9th, 12nd - 15th

February

11 th

March4th - 8th April

16th – 20th May 20th , 21st, 23rd June

• Vision creations

• Ideation phase

• From idea to solution

Solution Ideation

• User & market research

• Business model research

• Go-to-market strategy

Solution Validation Prototype Development

• Maker workshops

• Technology studies

• Fast prototyping

Project Presentation





I4C | Program ContactsTo join as a partner in I4C

[email protected]

Raghu MovvaHead of Innovation, CDI Italia

+39 320 455 9820

[email protected]

Silvia PetocchiCEO, CDI Italia

+39 335 122 1688


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