Katarzyna (Kate) Wszoła

Deep Tech Corporate Toolkit: Getting Your Organisation Ready to Work with Deep Tech Start-ups

Emerging technologies are advancing faster than most organizations can adapt to. From AI to advanced manufacturing and new business models, large companies face growing pressure to innovate. Learn how corporations are working with startups, research institutions, and technology partners to remain competitive.

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• Katarzyna (Kate) WszołaPMC DA VINCIKatarzyna (Kate) WszołaFounder, PMC DA VINCIKate helps large organisations make innovation executable, turning strategy, new technologies and R&D ambition into decisions, processes and projects that actually run inside corporate structures within fast changing environment. She brings 14+ years of hands-on innovation leadership across corporate, start-up and academic ecosystems, including director-level roles at regional and group level, most recently as Director of Innovation at Veolia Energia Polska. Earlier, among others, she headed the R&D Club, connecting more than 60 large corporations and SMEs in Poland around joint innovation initiatives. Today, as an independent consultant, facilitator and trainer, she works with corporate innovation teams, R&D departments and leadership boards on innovation management and corporate readiness within innovation, deep tech commercialization and corporate–start-up collaboration. Kate is a Fellow of the Leadership Academy for Poland and a World Economic Forum Global Shaper, with specialised training at the Fraunhofer Institute, Max Planck Institute, TU Dresden, IBM New York and Lund University. She works in Polish, English and French.

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