Last week marked the successful conclusion of our Femme Forward Startup Founders training program –  a transformative 9 week journey filled with valuable exchanges and insights.

At Femme Forward, our mission has been to give our participants the tools and skills necessary to embark on a career in technology, establish a digital startup, or succeed within the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem.

Throughout the course, we explored deeply into crucial topics surrounding women’s empowerment in the fields of technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Specifically, we initiated an exploration into the world of startups, drawing valuable lessons from success stories. The modules covered key aspects such as lean start-ups, business model canvas, circular economy, design thinking, marketing, legal fundamentals for startups, artificial intelligence, and much more.

A distinctive feature of our program was providing participants with the opportunity to apply these learnings through self-proposed projects, receiving valuable feedback from industry experts and mentors.

We are proud of  the achievements of our participants and are thrilled to have contributed to their professional and personal growth. A special thanks goes to all the teachers who shared their passion and vision with us during this journey. Their expertise improved the significance of the lessons, contributing to the overall success of the program.

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In 2023, women still represent a small percentage of corporate technical roles and technology start-up founders. The Femme Forward initiative aims to break down this gender gap. In the following few lines, we will explain the Future Start-up Founders training course: a unique opportunity for women aspiring to be part of the tech entrepreneurial world.

Tackling the gender gap in the technology sector

Astonishingly, only 8% of European companies’ technical roles in cloud computing are held by women [Src. McKinsey]. Furthermore, the number of women founders of tech start-ups in Europe remains shockingly low, below 15% [Src. Startup Genome]. This situation highlights the urgency of breaking gender barriers within the technology sector.

The Femme Forward opportunity

Femme Forward’s Future Start-up Founders course offers women the opportunity to receive free training in technology entrepreneurship: a 60-hour programme over 8 weeks with content delivered online in live and asynchronous mode.

What you will learn

You will have the opportunity to effectively conceive and present your business idea, from the field validation of assumptions to elaborating a solid business model, from refining product development strategies to marketing tactics and the necessary technical fundamentals. 

A comprehensive training experience

The training will not be limited to theoretical lectures. Through interactive workshops, live and asynchronous lectures, tutorials, customised mentoring sessions and participation in talks and networking events, you will acquire both technical and soft skills. This holistic approach will comprehensively prepare you for the challenges of the entrepreneurial world.

Femme Forward is supported by the EU

The Future Start-up Founders course takes place within Femme Forward, an EU-funded project under the Erasmus+ programme and has a consortium of 15 partners, including TOP-IX, from industry, technology and education in 8 European states. 

How to participate?

The training will start on 6 November and will welcome 30 participants. No specific entry skills or prerequisites are required other than curiosity, dedication and the ambition to build one’s future as a technology worker and entrepreneur. If you are interested in this transformative opportunity, you can get more information and apply for selection by filling out this simple form where you can leave your details to be contacted by our team. Training will be delivered mainly in Italian.

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The first phase of Impact Deal Acceleration Program ended with the Bootcamp at OGR, culminating in the Data Pitch on Friday, July 7.

The 15 participating enterprises had the opportunity to gather valuable suggestions, pieces of advice, and explore potential collaborations. Additionally, they took part in two different workshops. The first one “Data Value for Social Enterprises” was delivered by Federico Bartolomucci – POLIMI. The second one, “Pitching for Purpose”, was led by Alessia Gianoncelli – EVPA.

The Bootcamp reached its climax with the Data Pitch, where enterprises presented their pitches in front of Impact Deal Partners and particularly the Data Club Members.

The final natural goal for the startups was to secure the opportunity to enter the second stage of the program and therefore to further collaborate with the Data Club.

8 enterprises to the second phase

The 8 enterprises that have earned their spot in the second stage of the program are:

Bin-e Smart Waste Bin – Poland: “The World’s first AI-based smart waste bin”

Dedalo AI – Italy: “Helping companies measure and reduce the CO2 impact of their software”

Opt/Net – Netherlands: “AI platform that enables end-to-end monitoring, analysis and failure prevention of complex critical networks in real time”

ReLearn – Italy: “Making the waste-free life accessible to everyone”

Untap – UK: “Providing a pathogen monitoring service to reduce transmission of infectious diseases within your community”

Valuebin –  Italy: “Building the next generation’s sustainability algorithm, giving you the power to make more sustainable choices during your shopping”

Volvero – Italy: “Towards a more efficient and sustainable mobility”

Xnext – Italy: “Developing the most advanced real-time inspection system”

The Kick Off for the second stage of the Program is scheduled for September 14th.

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Impact Deal is back with its second edition. The Kock-off event promises a dynamic lineup of activities, including program introductions , stakeholder interactions, pitch sessions with investors, inspiring lectures on data and impact, exploration of the OGR Torino ecosystem, and a private visit to the captivating exhibition “Perfect Behaviors”.

The second day will feature team-building exercises , Agile approach training , and an opportunity to connect with the Impact Deal Data Club.

The journey of Impact Deal

The 15 chosen companies will dive into a series of online sessions over the upcoming weeks, immersing themselves in use cases and discovering best practices for data collaboration and impact.

This hybrid path is designed to prepare them for the Bootcamp scheduled for early July, culminating in the thrilling Data Pitch on July 7.

Following this event, a subgroup of enterprises will be selected to progress to the second stage of the program, spanning from September to November. We then move to the grand finale, the Demo Day , where these exceptional innovators will showcase their groundbreaking solutions.

The companies

For its second edition, Impact Deal selected 15 enterprises from 79 finalized applications coming from 20 countries.

Bin-e – The World’s first AI-based smart waste bin

Dedalo AI – Helping companies measure and reduce the CO2 impact of their software

Gocleer – Leading the transition to a more sustainable urban mobility

Kreios Space – Developing a fully electrical and sustainable engine for satellite

Mentessa – AI-powered peer learning platform for skill-based mentoring & collaboration

Opt/Net – AI platform that enables end-to-end monitoring, analysis and failure prevention of complex critical networks in real time

Paperbox Health – Overcoming accessibility barriers related to neurodevelopmental disorders

Planet Watch – Decentralizing, incentivizing and gamifying air quality monitoring, building the first immutable global air quality ledger

ReLearn –  Making the waste-free life accessible to everyone

XNext – Developing the most advanced real-time inspection system

The Predictive Company – SaaS solution for energy optimization & predictive maintenance based on AI

Untap – Providing a pathogen monitoring service to reduce transmission of infectious diseases within your community

Valuebin – Building the next generation’s sustainability algorithm, giving you the power to make more sustainable choices during your shopping

Virtuleap – Improving Brain Health with VR

Volvero – The app for sharing vehicles that leverages AI to improve user awareness.

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Thanks to the collaboration between the TOP-IX Consortium and the ENGIM Foundation, the AWS re/Start cloud computing training program is launched today in Italy.

AWS re/Starts a full-time, skills development program that prepares individuals for an entry-level professional position in the cloud. Through real-world, scenario-based learning, hands-on labs, and course work, learners gain the technical skills they need for junior cloud roles. The program’s mission is to build a diverse pipeline of entry-level cloud talent.

TOP-IX and the ENGIM Foundation, already partners in numerous training initiatives from software development to Big Data, will take care of the local organization, coordination, teaching and will support students, after the course, by putting them in contact with companies and potential employers.

The kick-off of the first Italian AWS re/Start edition is scheduled for May 24, 2021. The program will be full-time and, according to the health provisions in force, it can take place online, “blended” or face-to-face at the ENGIM Artigianelli headquarters in Turin.

Candidates can fill out the pre-registration form here: http://www.engimtorino.net/aws-restartprogram/

The deadline for applications is May 14, 2021.

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BIG DIVE is in the middle of its journey. The intensive training program about Data Science, Machine and Deep Learning, Data Visualization and Data Engineering is preparing to face the last two modules of the 2020 edition. Meanwhile, TOP-IX applied to become part of the Big Data Value Association (BDVA).

BIG DIVE main novelty has been the splitting of the course into four training modules, which replace the four consecutive full time weeks, that was the common feature in the previous eight editions. The new format has been appreciated by Divers. It allowed them to approach “step by step” the different topics of the constantly increasing Big Data theme, and to enter the program with different background and knowledge levels.

The BIG DIVE traveling companions were the same from beginning and as usual they contributed to the organization of the course. In addition to the TOP-IX consortium, Axant, the ISI Foundation and TODO are part of the team. We also confirmed the presence (someone in presence and others remotely) of guest lecturers, who brought their proven on-field experience to enrich the path of Divers.

Module 1 (“From Zero to Data Science with Python”), held on September, was taught by the TOP-IX team and covered the Python programming and Data Science, from the initial data explorations to the creation of data-driven projects. We hosted two lectures: “Geopandas and Geospatial data” by Maurizio Napolitano from the Bruno Kessler Foundation, “TimeSeries and KNIME”, curated by Daniele Tonini, partner in Target Research.

Module 2, organized in mid-October, was an intensive five- days deep on Machine and Deep Learning with a focus on computer vision. ISI Foundation researchers (Alan Perotti and Adnrè Panisson) were the resident teachers and we had three external lectures.
Alberto Danese, Head of Data Science at Nexi and Kaggle Grandmaster, spoke about the interpretability of Machine Learning models and shared his experience on the Kaggle platform, an online community of data scientists and Machine learning professionals based on challenges and awards promoted by international companies and organizations.
Marco Aldinucci and Iacopo Colonnelli, from the Computer Science Department at Università degli Studi di Torino, explored the connections between Machine Learning, Deep Learning and High Performance Computing and Cloud, based on the experience gained with academic research and with the HPC4AI project. Finally, Matteo Giaretti, senior data scientist at Glovo and ex-diver, after talking about machine learning processes in Glovo, offered a detailed excursus on the forecasting capabilities of yesterday, today and tomorrow, with specific reference to the world of Time Series (series historical data).

A total of 15 Divers took part in the first two modules, which rise to 22 considering who have enrolled in the third and fourth modules (the registrations are still open). Someone chose to participate in a single module, some others have picked modules according to their needs and someone decided to follow all the four modules.
The average age of the Divers is 33, the citizenship is predominantly Italian, except for a Cameroonian participant living here in Turin: on this side the health emergency had a strong impact by limiting international participation. In the first two modules, the divers followed the lessons mostly in presence, with the exception of one participant in Module 2.
Based on Covid-19 security rules and the evolution of the infections, we will decide whether the third and fourth modules will take place in the classroom or through video conference. In both cases, the training system is solid as well as the available teaching tools.

Module 3 will be held starting from November 16th and will focus on the theme “Communicating and Visualizing Data”. The resident teacher will be Fabio Franchino from TODO; guest lecture has been already confirmed: Matteo Moretti, co-founder at Sheldon Studio. BIG DIVE 2020 will close with Module 4, “Deep Dive into Data Engineering”, scheduled from November 30th to December 4th.

For modules three and four, registrations are still open (here the form).

To strengthen its role in the Big Data, Data Science and Data Engineering sector, the TOP-IX Consortium has recently applied to become part of the Big Data Value Association (BDVA), formed by a balanced mix of industries of large, small and medium-sized, which represents the private counterpart of the European Commission for the implementation of the Big Data Value PPP program.
In this way, TOP-IX places itself in a key role in the Turin scenario, where the Italian Institute for Artificial Intelligence (I3A) will be located.

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The TOP-IX Consortium organizes, on Thursday 11, from 11 to 12.30, the online webinar “Services and tools against DDoS attacks“, related to DDoS attacks, solutions to face them and services available on the TOP-IX marketplace on this.

Agenda:

11:00 Welcome & Update (TOP-IX)

11:20 What is DDoS and which tools against: blackholing, scrubbing and more (TBD)

11:40 am Solutions available on TOP-IX marketplace
– NaWas
– FiberTelecom

12:30 pm Q&A

Following registration on Eventbrite, you will receive a link to access the webinar.

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The month of September, for TOP-IX, starts with data, divided between sport and the third sector.

On September 18 we will be in Chiavari for the executive course “Football Data Analyst Training” powered by WyScout, in partnership with WyLab, which hosts the event, and TOP-IX, and with the collaboration of the University of Pisa / CNR. This is a non-technical course, aimed at concretely illustrating the potential of a data-driven approach in the football sector
After the “kick-off” centered on new professions in the world of football, TOP-IX will offer two food for thought: “From Data Hype to the new opportunities made possible by the use of Data and Algorithms” and “The tools, the environment and the workflow of Data Scientists”.

But already on 9 September, starts the course of CorDATA, a free training course conceived with the aim of developing awareness of the potential offered by the adoption of Civic Technologies and a Data-Driven approach in international cooperation organizations. The training course is organized by TOP-IX, ISI Foundation, Moxoff and HeartInData, and supported by Fondazione Cariplo and Compagnia di San Paolo, as part of the Innovation for Development project.
The course is structured in 7 non-consecutive days, of which 5 are training sessions, with interventions by national and international guests, and 2 laboratory sessions, led by tutors who are experts in the field. The class is formed: 35 students are participating, equally distributed between women and men, mainly coming from the sectors of International Cooperation and the Third Sector.

Still on the subject of data and the third sector, on September 19, TOP-IX will be in Trento, on the occasion of the sixth conference of the CUCS network (University Coordination for Development Cooperation), where he will be among the speakers of the afternoon session “Civic Technologies among Theory and Practice“.

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BIG DIVE 8 closed on 12 July with the presentation of the final projects of “divers”, during the final event held in the mezzanine hall of OGR Tech.
Before showing in a video the 2019 edition of the training course in BIG DATA and DATA SCIENCE (organized by TOP-IX, in collaboration with Axant, Fondazione ISI and Todo) we give you some numbers of BIG DIVE 8 / “Data from Space to Earth“: 16 “divers” from 7 different countries participated. Thirteen males, three females, with an age range ranging from 24 to 51 years. 22 techers were attended during the 105 hours of lessons; a week of work to carry out the Final Projects:

• “Atomic clocks and Space Weather” – data by: INRiM;
• “Polar: ice detection” – data by: ESA, TUD;
• “Earth Observation and Agriculture” – data by: ALTEC Space, ARPEA;
• “Earth Observation and Urbanization” – data by: ESA, SENTINEL HUB.

The story of what happened in the four weeks of BIG DIVE in four minutes and four seconds:

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Torino has become an open “laboratory of Innovation” thanks to Torino City Lab (TCL).

From autonomous driving to drones, from IoT and 5G to robotics.

Torino City Lab has created a perfect environment to support companies and startups to test innovative solutions in a real context. The initiative allows ideas to be developed and improved almost in real time to meet current urban challenges.

Torino City Lab is an initiative-platform where citizens, companies and public administration can explore and experiment together innovative products, technologies and services in order to test its functionality and utility for end users and assess the impacts on quality of life.

Torino offers the entire city for develop new solutions, providing a system of physical, technological infrastructures, relations and know-how to experiment and then scale up the proposed innovations.

Promoted by the City of Turin, it involves a vast local partnership of subjects from public and private sectors interested in supporting and growing the local innovation ecosystem. TOP-IX Consortium is part of TCL network.

Torino City Lab and TOP-IX

For the iniziative, TOP-IX makes his know-how available il proprio know-how to support the development of the projects. In addiction, it’s proposed to facilitate his consortium members in accessing the Torino City Lab.

TCL Platform

Visit Torino City Lab website to follow on going tests and to apply with your innovative projects.
There are always open call to companies and startups.

You can now apply to Educational Lab, an initiative born in the framework of Learning Technologies Accelerator to develop a space dedicated to innovation in the educational field, to allow the testing of solutions for teaching and learning environments (deadline: July 26, 2019).

For more info, visit www.torinocitylab.it

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