IEEE PoliTO Start-up Connect - III Edition

The IEEE PoliTO Student Branch, in collaboration with IEEE Young Professionals, WIE PoliTO and the CAS Student Chapter, is organising the third edition of IEEE PoliTO Start-up Connect, an event aimed at fostering interaction between students, researchers and innovative start-ups. The event will take place on Friday, 15 May 2026 at 10:00 am.

The initiative aims to create opportunities for dialogue and collaboration on topics related to technological innovation, entrepreneurship and research transfer, also featuring the participation of the PoliTO Technology Transfer Office.

Programme
The event will include:

• Introduction
• PoliTO Technology Transfer Office presentation
• Start-up pitches
• Start-up stands & Lunch Break session: an informal networking moment with the start-up teams during the light lunch

Participating start-ups

• Next G Cloud - innovative solutions for secure cloud, confidential computing, and sovereign edge-to-cloud infrastructures
• Synphonya - open, vendor-agnostic digital twin platform for optical networks
• Supair - autonomous aerial systems for critical missions
• Ecosmic - reliable intelligence to scale and secure space operations

The event creates a space where startups can showcase their work to a wide academic audience, opening the door to meaningful connections that may evolve into collaborations, master’s thesis opportunities, internships, and future career paths.

Registration is required at the following link.