Innovation Through Startup-Corporate Collaborations

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In this meetup we will host Gilad de Vries (https://www.linkedin.com/in/giladdv/), SVP of Strategy at Outbrain (https://www.linkedin.com/company-beta/147120/), for a Q&A session with Hillel Fuld (https://www.linkedin.com/in/hillelfuld/). Gilad will touch on the different ways Outbrain seeks and adopts innovation, tips for startups that want to work with large corporations, dos and don'ts for collaborating and more. This will be a great chance to get insight into what corporations look for in partners and how to best reach-out and communicate.

Gilad will be ready and willing to answer your toughest questions on these matters, so come prepared.

Agenda

• 18:30 - Arrival - food, drinks and networking
• 19:05 - Welcome & Introductions
• 19:15 - Q&A Session with Gilad de Vries
• 20:00 - Mingling and More

About Gilad de Vries

Gilad is the SVP of Strategy at Outbrain and is in charge of the corporate development unit. He has been working as an exec at Outbrain for the past 6 years, in which he has lead various groups including product management, product marketing and business intelligence.

Prior to that he was Principal and Vice President of Digital Media in Carmel Ventures, one of the leading VCs in Israel, leading investments in the mobile, internet and the digital media space. Gilad provided extended assistance to the portfolio in business development, marketing and strategy and was greatly involved in the development of the fund's ecosystem. Carmel's digital media portfolio includes leading companies such as eXelate, Kontera (acquired by Singtel), Outbrain, LiveU, Amadesa (acquired by LivePerson), MyThings, SundaySky, Clarizen, Payoneer, Kampyle, PicApp (acquired by Ybrant Digital) and Snaptu (acquired by Facebook).

About Hillel Fuld

Hillel is the Co Founder and Chief Marketing Officer at ZCast, a company taking on the pain of modern audio broadcasting. He blogs for many influential sites including TechCrunch, Mashable, The Next Web, Business Insider, The Huffington Post, Venturebeat, and others.

Additionally, Hillel mentors startups across Israel in different accelerators including The Google Launchpad, the Microsoft Ventures accelerator, Techstars, The Junction, and more. He has been named Israel's top marketer, has been featured on CNBC, Forbes, and many others and was recently added by Google to its marketing experts program.

About prooV

prooV is an end-to-end ecosystem for executing proof-of-concept (PoC) pilots. The prooV platform enables enterprises and startups to discover each others' needs, solutions and opportunities, connect and easily run PoCs on secure and remote testing environments.

prooV's testing environments are an exact simulation of the enterprise's production environments and consist of an entire PoC package needed to run a viable PoC. Startups get access to data, APIs, systems specs with which they can present their solution and enterprises get reliable insights, comparison and analytics of the performance of each solution.