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On-Demand Workshop:
The Fundamentals Of Data & Ecosystems

How To Turn Ecosystem Data Into A Competitive Advantage

Overview

Successfully growing your innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem requires that you truly know multiple dimensions accurately related to entrepreneurs, startups, supporting organizations, etc.

Fueling your ecosystem development team and the different actors with the right data leads to ecosystem insights that empower everyone to make informed decisions that drive predictable outcomes and growth.

Data architecture evolutions benefit cities to do more with the data they collect. Revolutions in technology around artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing are also getting cities talking about their data initiatives.

Discover the strategies, foundations and tools for the transition towards a data-driven innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem. We will help you to answer your critical ecosystem questions and in a collaborative format we will build your case so you can walk away feeling confident about the missions that you must prioritise now and in the medium/long term. This is like giving your team a roadmap for ecosystem growth and scale.
Take The Lead And Put Your Ecosystem In The Future Path

Workshop Curriculum

Module 1: Introduction to ecosystem data

  • Problems with data in the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem "industry"
  • Root cause: culture, processes and technology
  • Practical experiences from countries, industries and institutions
  • Solution: what is EcosystemOS?
  • What You Get: A clear understanding about the value of your ecosystem data and how to properly treat it as a key asset to generate more innovations and growth faster in your territory

Module 2: Ecosystem Data Strategy

  • Elements of an ecosystem data strategy: market trends, value stream of your ecosystem, strategic challenges, data vision, data opportunities, data capabilities, data objectives and KPIs, roadmap
  • What You Get: A high level ecosystem data strategy specifically for your ecosystem by uncovering your key ecosystem needs and aligned with your goals

Module 3: Foundations

  • Open Standards
  • Data repository
  • Data access controls
  • Data governance
  • Data management
  • Data skills
  • What You Get: Understand and manage the data lifecycle

Module 4: Building your use case

  • Uses of data: improving decision making, understanding of your ecosystem actors, providing more intelligent services, improving ecosystem development processes
  • Monetizing ecosystem data
  • Defining your data use case
  • Sourcing and collecting the data
  • Turn data into insights
  • What You Get: Get value from data as quickly as possible

Module 5: Looking ahead

  • Look to the future of data, discovering what’s possible in data science, AI, and different analytic approaches that can inform your ecosystem decisions and automate processes in ways never before possible
  • What You Get: Emerging trends and technologies, inspiration and innovative ideas for your ecosystem's challenges and collaboration opportunities with other ecosystems
“It’s through interoperability that startup ecosystems will begin to break down their silos, use open standards to harmonize its fragmented and incompatible systems and data sharing, to achieve better outcomes.”
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Who Should Attend

This workshop is designed for those organizations, in their different forms (governmental agencies, economic development agencies, PPP type of entities, foundations, associations, etc.), with the clear mandate to develop the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem and bring all ecosystem actors together into one single hub, create better linkages in the ecosystem, analyse ecosystem data to discover insights and in general for orchestrating the whole ecosystem more effectively.

The workshop will be beneficial for technology leaders, IT managers, and data managers who want to develop data strategies that align with their ecosystem goals, more specifically for: 
  • Innovation and entrepreneurship unit director
  • Senior leaders in technology seeking to develop and implement sound data strategies to create value and drive ecosystem gains through data
  • Data and IT managers
  • Wide representation of ecosystem actors (incubators, accelerators, investors, entrepreneurs, etc.)

Meet Your Instructor

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Valto Loikkanen - International Serial Entrepreneur, Digital Ecosystem Expert and Digital Finance Innovator

As a digitally native global entrepreneur:
  • Close to 25 years as global serial & portfolio entrepreneur (US, EU, Asia), with deep personal experience from successes & failures
  • 19 years experience in developing digital applications to support various business processes
  • 10 years for Startup Ecosystem development combined with online support tools, platforms & metrics

As a business advisor & ecosystem developer:
  • 10+ years of startup mentoring & advisory with hundreds of startups & scaleups around the world, at various development stages and industries
  • 12 years developing business support services & funding instruments for digital businesses
  • 8 years of “living lab” development for Digitalizing Startup Ecosystems around the world
  • 6 years in European Commission Advisory role.

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