May 21, 2025, 14:00-15:00 CET
“With great power comes great responsibility” said once a famous Marvel character, but our superheroes in YEAR’s RTOs could add “with great ideas come great businesses”!
On May 21st, our speakers will give you a great overlook on how new start-ups and spin-off companies recently took off from some of our RTOs members. This is a great opportunity to understand better the path from ideas to new businesses work, while going from the academic world to marketing inventions and new products. We will also have some examples of first-hand experience on the development of some new ventures which would give you great insights if you had an idea in your mind that you want to bring to the market and be the next successful company coming out of your institute!
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WEBINAR OVERVIEW
- Talk 1: Nils Wuytens
Nils’ presentation will focus on the different elements of venturing that they have installed within VITO over the past years, entrepreneurship culture, incubation of high-potential spin-offs ideas, after-care for spin-offs, the accelerator program for startups and the “do’s and don’ts” in implementing.
- Talk 2: Christina Weiss
Christina will give us a quick introduction to AIT entrepreneurship, how AIT brings founders from research to business, our new spin-off creation process and a brief case study of a successful AIT spin-off.
- Talk 3: Kariem Fahmi
Kariem will tell us about his journey from Tyndall to the company that he has recently brought to the market, highlighting the highs and lows of bringing to life his new venture.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Nils Wuytens is Program Director at VITO, where he supports the creation of internal spin-offs and leads the corporate startup accelerator VITO4STARTERS. He is also responsible for the internal ideation program, which stimulates intrapreneurship throughout the organization and empowers employees to turn innovative ideas into impactful ventures. With a PhD in knowledge management and innovation from Hasselt University, Nils combines academic insight with practical experience in entrepreneurship and technology transfer. He is passionate about bridging the gap between research and real-world impact by guiding deep-tech ventures from ideation to market.
Christina Weiss is a Business & Startup Coach at AIT, working to create and scale spin-off companies and promote entrepreneurship throughout the institute. With degrees in psychology and computer science, she has served as a leader, coach and consultant to early-stage startups and venture-building organizations across the EU and US.
Kariem Fahmi is co-founder and CTO of HyperPath. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Trinity College Dublin and has over a decade of experience in computer networking and software development. Previously, at Nokia Bell Labs, his research in multi-connectivity became the foundation for Nokia’s Train-to-Ground and industrial communications solutions. He holds eight patents in the domain of computer networking and wireless technologies. HyperPath is a SaaS solution focused on delivering fibre-like connectivity to businesses, transportation and places, where the deployment of fibre infrastructure is impractical or cost-prohibitive. Using its patent-pending Peer-to-Peer multi-connectivity architecture, it bonds multiple wireless/wired links into a single high-speed, high-reliability and low-latency connection.