1. Check-in:
   1. Imagining the innovation ecosystem
2. Update:
   1. Aim of the ecosystem
3. To-do:
   1. Creation of high-level pathways to create an ecosystem
   2. Steps to take Monday morning
   3. Fun
4. Next steps

1. Imagining the innovation ecosystem:

• Free flow: Ice wants to have fun. Break some of the ice. A lot of initiatives like this, what would make this different - Hitendra. Need structure.
• Innovation club
• Best practices of ecosystem: Comps here, because of the ecosystem, but don’t use ecosystems. Not a tech push comp, don’t have a manufacturing plan.
• Funding attraction
• Training
• Innovating by combining ideas: Blur the lines of companies
• Exposing to other ideas: Best results of innovation: exposure to other influences
• Become better known (comp) in the us labour market
• Drive return on innovation
• Different perspectives
• Labor market attractiveness
• Create jobs
• Prosperity of the local economy
• It can be bigger than all of us

2. Aim of the ecosystem:

• Fix ecosystem
• Innovation breakthroughs through new insights
• Funding attraction and sustaining for innovation
• Increasing labor market attractiveness
• Prosperity of local economy

Aim of founders:

• Learn something new
• Connect the dots
• Want to be around people who want to change something
• Broaden network

3. Actions:

• Help with talent attraction
• Marketing: Go into labour market as a group

4. Steps to take:

• Small event - to talk about a certain topic of interest (Escape room; Just social event)
• Workshops
• Design sprints with founders
• Bring additional people (1-2 each)
• Name the group
• Website

Problem: Ecosystem broken: no flow from Unis to companies

Worries: Putting company name on a big publication