Daria Batukhtina

In 2019 Kubota Corporation established Innovation Centers in Japan and Europe as organs for the creation of new business ventures, products, and services in Kubota’s fields of business including agriculture and construction. Working together with external partners, the Innovation Centers will advance open innovation for proactive engagement with ICT, AI, and other advanced technologies, and accelerate the creation of new business, products, and services.

Chino.io Platform is the first service in EU, that helps developers to solve both legal and technical issues related to the storage and management of health data in compliance with the existing regulations. Currently, Chino.io is supporting 50+ companies in 15 EU countries. More information at www.chino.io.

Nowadays innovation challenges in cities can be solved only through collaboration between different players: government, business, citizen and finally SMEs. The purpose of the Startup4City initiative is to help cities and territories to increase results out of their innovation programs through involvement of tech entrepreneurs into 'smart sustainable city development' and citizens’ life experience.

For several years I was involved, as external expert and contractor, in number of EIT Digital' projects. I was responsible for matchmaking/access-to-market activities for current portfolio of scale-ups from EIT Digital Accelerator - Digital Infrastructure Action Line. As an contractor and Business Development Manager I drive deal flow and initiatives for the further growth of start-ups on European markets.

SpeedUp Europe is a collabocative platform for European projects. It's a Pan-European Consortium accelerating "Future Internet" - related business ideas, start-ups and SME. 100 projects will be granted €50,000 each for software and equipment, travel expenses, rent of facilities and accommodation costs. An additional €20,000 can be requested during project implementation to bring in another project member at a later stage. This is a grant with no repayment, nor do you need to give away shares.

As a part of Product Development Team at Tech Peaks I'm involved in the Program strategic planning, support of partnereships with market experts (talent development, design, tech), corporates and local start-up ecosystems, mentors and entrepreneurs-in-residence. Also I'm executing Tech Peaks marketing/communication strategy in Europe and Russian speaking countries, while arranging cover in tech media, blogs and social networks to find/attract relevant talents for the Program.