4/13 Little States, Big Innovation | District Hall Providence | RI
Need some assistance? Meet SOLO, your new well-being assistant and Penny, an AI grocery assistant who is a one-stop shop for all your grocery needs! Each month we'll introduce you to some of Israel’s most exciting entrepreneurs who are looking to expand to the US and collaborate in business, academia and research in Rhode Island. This month we're introducing you to SOLO, an interactive contactless way to ensure the mental and emotional health of your community residents, all without relying on the physical presence of staff or family members. You'll also meet Go Consumer, who is creating new cutting-edge technology focused on meeting the consumer grocery consumption needs like Inventory management, recipe recommendations, and also automatic shopping. Join our next session for the opportunity to interact and connect with the ‘Startup Nation’s Best and Brightest’.
Recorded: April 13, 2021
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Series Introduction
(01:01) Announcements from RIIC
(03:10) Meet RIHub and what they have to offer
(04:26) SOLO - Your Emotional Wellbeing Assistant
(19:43) SOLO Q&A
(28:38) Go Consumer - A new grocery and consumption experience
(44:24) Go Consumer Q&A
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This event series is in partnership with the RIIC and RIHub:
RIIC: The Purpose of The Rhode Island-Israel Collaborative (RIIC) is the Promotion of Commerce, Academics and Science. The collaborative is a not-for-profit organization that fosters and strengthens trade, business, academic exchange and research between Rhode Island and Israel to benefit the economy and community of each location. The Rhode Island-Israel Collaborative (RIIC) does so by building and strengthening the relationships between government organizations, businesses, entrepreneurs, investors, members of academia and the research community in Rhode Island and Israel.
RIHub: Rhode Island’s first Innovation Campus. Started in 2019 under Governor Gina Raimondo, we enable and accelerate entrepreneurial ventures that have a potential to become high impact businesses. We help turn ideas into startups and startups in to scalable growth companies. We work to build an engine of growth for Rhode Island by connecting Entrepreneurs, inventors, students, investors and corporate leaders. We offer the community three global accelerators: MassChallenge, IBM Alpha Zone and CoWrks Foundry. In addition, we provide mentoring services via MIT developed Venture Mentoring Services. RIHub provides incubation space, an online community portal as well as numerous programs to enable growth for entrepreneurs such as Customer Discovery and Entrepreneur’s Journey Map. We provide curated startup introductions to investors and corporate innovation teams to help our startups find a pathway to growth and success.
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Want to watch more of Israel’s exciting entrepreneurs? Check out our playlist Little States, Big Innovation: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVk9XNDlNbPmAvgQgXBZn5wksPHJjITML
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Connect with our speakers:
— Rhode Island Israel Collaborative: https://www.theriic.org/
— RIHub: https://rihub.org/
— SOLO: https://www.imsolo.ai/
— Go Consumer: https://www.go-consumer.com/
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