Kickstart Innovation
Leila Toplic is the Chief Communications and Trust Officer at Carbonfuture, where responsibilities include leading global communications and partnerships in the carbon removal market. In addition to this role, Leila serves as a Board Member for the Negative Emissions Platform, which focuses on accelerating permanent carbon removal to achieve European Climate Goals. Current involvement also includes membership on the Expert Committee for the Swiss Digital Initiative's Digital Trust Label, aimed at enhancing trust in digital services. Leila has provided strategic advice to climatetech startups through Kickstart Innovation and held senior roles at Salesforce and NetHope, where leadership focused on ethical technology use and collaboration among global NGOs. Additional board memberships and advisory group participation have been undertaken in various organizations to advance technology ethics and education connectivity. Leila holds a BA from Wellesley College, with a focus on Media Arts and Sciences and Peace and Justice Studies.
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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.