Startups & Innovation Day

During this event, Centrale Nantes will award an Innovation Prize to one of the selected startups.

On the programme for this student entrepreneurship morning:

A marketplace with 70 innovative French startups in the fields of:

• industry of the future
• health of the future
• energy transition
• social innovation
• digital sector
• artificial intelligence and the circular economy

► A dozen professional partners who support innovation and entrepreneurship.

► A job-dating "Startups are recruiting" organised by Les Entreprises s'engagent en Loire-Atlantique.

► Prize-giving and pitching of the winners: overall endowment of €30,000 + funding for a POC.

Centrale Nantes will present one of the winners with an Innovation Award

Conferences:

• 9.30-10.15 am: Student entrepreneurship
      Support systems and testimony from student entrepreneurs.
• 10.15-11.00 am: Benefits and challenges of Open Innovation
  EDF, DAHER, IDEA round table illustrated by examples of collaborative projects between companies and startups.
• 11.30-12.15 am: Manufacturing Factory: pitches by the winners of season 5

An "Apprentice Entrepreneurs" Escape Game workshop for students

An escape game led by the Nantes Université entrepreneurship team, from 10:30 to 11:45 am, register here
Times: 10.30am to 11.45am
Hosted by the Nantes Université entrepreneurship team.

Practical Information
Friday 7 October from 9.00 am to 1.00 pm at IUT de Nantes, Campus La Fleuriaye in Carquefou
► Public registration

The event is organised by AIRBUS Développement, EDF, Nantes Métropole, Nantes Université and Nantes IUT.
In partnership with: Agefiph, Armor Group, Atlanpole, BPGO, Centrale Nantes, Daher, IDEA, IMT Atlantique, Kimya, l'École de Design Nantes Atlantique, Le Journal des Entreprises, Les Entreprises s'engagent en Loire-Atlantique, Nantes Rezé Métropole Volley, Total Energies and WIS