- September 15, 10-11 CET
- Online webinar
The easiest ways to use data in innovation
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What you will take away from this webinar:
You’re going to see how you can utilise data effortlessly and make data-driven decisions. As one example, we’re going to give a live demo of the Innopipe platform.
Additionally, we’ll have a discussion with one of our partners. During the discussion you will learn from their experience and reflections on the topic.
The easiest ways to use data in innovation
What you will take away from this webinar:
You’re going to see how you can utilise data effortlessly and make data-driven decisions. As one example, we’re going to give a live demo of the Innopipe platform.
Additionally, we’ll have a discussion with one of our partners. During the discussion you will learn from their experience and reflections on the topic.

Who's talking?

Dr. Chen Zhang
Ecosystem management
The guest speaker
Ecosystem management, Europe at Continental
Dr. Chen Zhang is highly experienced in the startup & innovation scene.
Since 2021, he’s worked as the Head of Startup Ecosystem Management Europe (Executive) at co-pace GmbH.
co-pace is the catalyst for new technologies and business models with startups at Continental. co-pace catalyses new product directions for Continental. They create partnerships with entrepreneurs and thought leaders to explore and create new contexts for innovation.
Prior to his role at co-pace, Dr. Zhang had already worked at Continental for over 10 years in various roles, including working with AI, machine learning and automation.
In his current role, Dr. Zheng and his team are heavily reliant on data in order to find the best solutions for Continental to partner with.
About the speaker
Learnings from both worlds: the corporate kingdom and the startup hustle.
Paavo Beckman is an internationally recognised serial entrepreneur, business executive consultant, public speaker and a startup coach. In the past 20 years, Paavo has been building and leading tech companies in Europe and Silicon Valley.
On a mission to help large companies undergo digital transformation and develop internal innovation culture, Paavo has coached business executives and collaborated with 300+ industry-leading corporates across Europe.
Nowadays, Paavo Beckman is a CDO at Catapult – #1 partner for corporate venture teams to find the best tech companies, innovations and startups as well as understand the market trends and fastest growing verticals.
Paavo believes that it’s “survive, die or thrive” momentum for most corporates across the globe as we are stepping onto the era of rapid technological shift and the rise of new industry front-runners.
Paavo Beckman
Serial entrepreneur

Who's it for?
This webinar is for you if you're...
- looking for a way to utilise data in innovation
- struggling with many data points and sources to proceed with innovation projects
- in charge of finding new business opportunities and promising cases
- spending a lot of time, resources and effort exploring and validating growth companies, technologies, innovations and startups
- constantly improving and expanding your corporate innovation and venture activities and want to learn concrete strategies to improve operations
- interested in innovation scouting, discovery, and deal flow management in general
What's it about?
In this webinar, we're going to be talking about the easiest ways to use data in innovation.
Many companies struggle with finding the best and easiest ways to use data in innovation. Where to look from? How many data points to involve? How to correctly budget the whole process?
Once you have all the data in place, the next question is how to manage it efficiently and eventually utilise it to make data-driven decisions in the innovation process.
Crafted with years of experience, this webinar aims to help you make that decision.
Not convinced?
This practical webinar is rooted in years of experience in the tech and innovation scene across 20+ industries and through discussions and collaboration with 300+ corporates in Europe.
Who's behind this?
Organised by Catapult (a trusted enabler for corporate innovation). Catapult’s data-driven and AI-powered solutions have been enabling smart decision making for corporate front-runners:



