Kickstart Innovation
Ana-Maria Manda is a seasoned professional in innovation management and legal counsel, currently serving as a Senior Global Innovation Management Consultant at SAP since November 2020. With a strong background in business and intellectual property law, Manda has held various roles at Bristol Myers Squibb and other organizations over a decade-long legal career. In addition to consulting, Manda is actively engaged as a Start-up Coach at Techstars and an Advisor at Kickstart Innovation. Manda has specialized in development and delivery of soft skills training and workshops since 2016 and has made significant contributions to women's leadership networks within SAP. Educational credentials include multiple master's degrees from renowned institutions such as Stanford University and ETH Zurich, complemented by extensive training in entrepreneurship and law.
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Kickstart Innovation
Kickstart is one of Europe's largest zero equity, multi-corporate ecosystem innovation platforms that runs a scale-up program for later-stage startups with a goal to accelerate deep tech innovation. Science and engineering driven technologies have the potential to solve humanity’s biggest challenges. They require unprecedented collaboration between established organizations and the most audacious entrepreneurs out there. Thereby, Kickstart is committed to building an innovation ecosystem that brings high-growth startups, corporates, cities, foundations and universities together. Each year Kickstart brings around 100 startups to Switzerland to collaborate with key players for proofs-of-concept, pilot projects and other innovation partnerships. The program provides exceptional access to the executives and decision-makers of Kickstart’s partners. Being an initiative of Impact Hub Zürich and launched by digitalswitzerland in 2015, Kickstart runs 5 verticals (New Work & Learning, Finance & Insurance, Food & Retail, Smart Cities and Health & Wellbeing), an Intrapreneurship Academy and the Circular Economy Initiative.