Kickstart Innovation
Oana Ria is a seasoned professional with extensive experience in project management and new work innovation. Currently serving as Regional Manager at SINGA Switzerland and Special Projects Manager at Kickstart Innovation, Oana has a notable history as Chapter Co-Lead for Big & Growing New Work Ideathon Zürich and Project Lead at NOW Opera. With a strong background in leading innovation journeys and managing community engagement, Oana has successfully curated events and workshops, while also mentoring startups and contributing to various initiatives promoting intercultural education and global citizenship. Oana holds a Master’s Degree in Security and Diplomacy from Scoala Nationala de Studii Politice si Administrative and a Bachelor's degree in Political Science from the University of Bucharest.
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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.