Join our session to explore the global state of corporate-startup collaborations and exchange perspectives on how to effectively manage these collaborations, leveraging the insights of Match-Maker Ventures' recent Age of Collaboration Report. Participants will learn about the most common challenges, as well as demonstrated best practices and success factors for maximizing success in future partnerships. Attend and discover how leading corporates are overcoming roadblocks to derive impact from their business partnerships with startups, also known as Corp-Up. Come get inspired to take your collaborations to the next level.

Rebecca Van Pamel is the Head of Marketing and Communications at Match-Maker Ventures, which connects high-growth, high-tech scaleups with established corporations in the telecommunications and banking industries. Originally from the United States, she now lives and works in Vienna, Austria, where her work includes researching and publishing insights related to startup-corporate collaboration, as well as powering Match-Maker Ventures' highly selective portfolio of high-tech scaleups and innovative corporate customers to joint success.

Ruth Armalé, an electrical engineer from Barcelona, has been active in the Swiss corporate and startup scene for 20 years - ten of them at firms such as McKinsey and in leadership positions in the telecom and insurance industries. She spent another ten years working in the entrepreneurial environment, from a dotcom unicorn to co-founding a global social innovation incubation program and a series of leadership roles at Kickstart Innovation in Zurich. At the House of Insurtech Switzerland (HITS), a subsidiary of Generali (Switzerland) Holding Ltd, she is responsible for open innovation, creating collaboration opportunities with other corporate partners in the ecosystem and working with startups to jointly develop innovative solutions.