Fridays with Ignite

22 October 2021 12:00-13:00

October Guest: Céline Farcet (L'oréal - France)
Friday 22 October, 12:00-13:00 CEST

Fridays with Ignite is our series of sessions to share knowledge, tools and methods on how corporations implement innovation together with startups. Every month a new corporate guest will come on stage to inspire us with their stories.

Our second guest is Céline Farcet is Head of Technology Scouting in the Research Open Innovation Team at the world-leading cosmetics company L'oréal. During the one-hour session, she will share with you insights from how the Research Open Innovation team works in order to meet and collaborate with deeptech startups.

Some of the topics that will be addressed are:
- the sources of innovations they are exploring
- how they navigate into the startups ecosystems, including their learning expedition Sweden Innovation Week in 2020.
- the value proposition for a startup
- some of the key challenges we are focusing on.

Her presentation will be followed by a fire-side chat moderated by Stina Lantz (Ignite Sweden) where you will be able to make your own questions to our guest.

Please sign up for the event to receive the link and instructions to join the session. Free registration!

Meet our October Guest

Céline Farcet
Head of Technology Scouting, L'oréal

Céline Farcet holds a PhD in Polymer Chemistry and has worked for L’Oreal for 19 years.

She first joined Advanced Research working on designing new polymers for Make-Up and then managed the Polymer Chemistry group.

In 2011, she joined Open Research as the European Open Research Manager until 2017, focusing on academic collaborations across scientific areas. During this period, she started exploring sustainable innovations on the topic of water management.

In 2017, she created the Open Technologies team aiming at deeptech startups. In 2019, she joined the newly created Global Open Innovation for R&I as Head of Technology Scouting.

Organized by

Ignite Sweden

Ignite Sweden is a non-profit initiative that aims to foster innovation and accelerate commercialization by connecting startups to large companies and public organizations. The program is led by Kista Science City, LEAD, Minc, Sahlgrenska Science Park, Sting, THINGS and Uminova Innovation, and coordinated by SISP - Swedish Incubators & Science Parks. Ignite is funded by Vinnova and Energimyndigheten. Since 2017, Ignite has facilitated 4087 matchmaking meetings between 761 startups and 243 corporates & public organizations, which has resulted in 230+ commercial collaborations.