World Innovations Forum

Accelerating Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurs Acceleration

We are looking to discover the qualities of a Alfred Escher, Andrew Carnegie, Carl Benz, Elon Musk, Ferdinand Porsche, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg… We know that they exist in every nation on the planet. They just need to be empowered.

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Innovation Capital Network

Organizing a network of international accredited investors, interested to invest in emerging markets.

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Seeding Innovation Initiative

Our goal is to assist entrepreneurs from developing and emerging countries who have the drive to build innovative enterprises, create lots of jobs and contribute to a self propelled economy.

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The World Innovations Forum is an independent, Swiss based foundation.

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Live a Life with a Purpose

Whether you join us or any other organization that tries to tackle some of the biggest challenges of humankind doesn’t matter at all. The only thing that matters is to stand up and contribute a tiny fraction of your amazingly lucky life you are born into – and help others who are just born into another life to come up as equals.

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There are three kinds of homo sapiens:

those who identify major problems and have to power to communicate them, asking people to find solutions. People like Paul Polman (about 0.001%)
those who find solutions and attract other to help solving them. People like us in the World Innovations forum (less than 2%)
those who just can’t decide what to do and remain silent, inactive and one day ask themselves what values will I leave behind. (~98%)

We’re helping innovative entrepreneurs in developing countries (about 170 out of total of 200 countries) bring their own ideas forward, build sustainable solutions, create jobs, and solve some of the biggest world problems.

Initiatives

The main purpose of initiatives is to create awareness for specific topics
and typically engage the entire entrepreneurs ecosystem.
Initiatives may support our core goal: acceleration of innovation
and entrepreneurship or just feature a specific engagement.

Seeding Innovation

Seeding Innovation is an initiative to empower entrepreneurs to become truly innovative, and also creating awareness for the local entrepreneurs networks globally. To do so, the WIForum team supports entrepreneurs by a whole set of programs and supportive events. Starting April 6, we are kicking off a series of online events, followed by local meetups in your country, combined with investor sessions and accelerator programs. Each month we address a different topic from idea validation to fundraising, from innovative thinking to going global. Our objective: Empowering 1,000 teams to get IPO ready by 2030. We seek to empower entrepreneurs building mayor companies that will create thousands of jobs and export their wares into global markets.

World Innovations Day

April 21st, 2020

Celebrating great innovative minds from around the globe.
Creating awareness for the world’s most active entrepreneurs and those who needs the most support to thrive. Sharing the concept of innovation and entrepreneurship in the context of economic development. It’s a day where entrepreneurs shall actively introduce themselves and get shared and promoted by the ecosystem.

Programs

All our programs are primarily focused on the
active support of accelerating innovation and entrepreneurship.
We also provide programs supporting ecosystem members to then support
entrepreneurs to thrive and become successful.

Entrepreneurship Acceleration (EAP)

As an entrepreneur you will build a business, hire teams, raise funds for growth and can become an important pillar of your economy. We want to support you in the very same way like we have been supported in Silicon Valley: Guidance, inspiration, education and all the freedom you need to build an amazing company. Moreover we will support you with your most critical challenges, help you raise capital for growth, provide mentorship and whatever else you may be needing.

Innovation Capital Network (ICN)

The Innovation Capital Network (ICN) is a young global network of investors. Main purpose: augment the local capital with international capital. We connect local with foreign investors, help investors synchronize on due diligence best practices and more. We help entrepreneurs prepare their business plans, financials and other documentation to be acceptable for international investors. ICN members will always co-invest with local investors.

One Space – One World

Entrepreneurs need to roam the world to gain experiences and and an understanding for international businesses. One Space – One World is a program for co-working spaces to unite globally and make it easy for international entrepreneurs to find a space in foreign countries. Programs will be developed and distributed for those organizations, entrepreneurs and corporate innovators, who seek to develop the next generation of collaborative office environment.

Events

We are organizing local and global events locally and globally.
The main purpose of physical events is to foster relationships, provide a way for entrepreneurs
to compare notes and network with other entrepreneurs and guests from the supporting ecosystem
like investors, technology and service providers, universities and so forth.
Our online events are typically focused on education and key information sharing.

Monthly Meetups

The local monthly meetups are hold to foster relationships among entrepreneurs and build a Silicon Valley Style innovation culture. Each month will have a special them and topic that is supported by global webinars and other means of communication. The meetups are a good place to discuss the topics and share ideas. The intellectual exchange is the main “food” for the brain to create innovative ideas and as such those meetups should be seen as strategically important.

WIForum Digital Event

June 23rd – 25th, 2020

An innovative way to organize a global tech conference with over 1,000 attendees from around the world with zero Co² emission, nearly no energy consumption, zero travel expenses, least time allocation, yet top speakers, great interaction, lots to learn and lots to share. And yes, networking as well – digitally. And if nothing else take it as a digital experience of a different kind. If you have been at our first event, you already know what we are talking about. If you have a topic that you think we need to address or something innovative you want to talk about let us know here!

Africa Road Tour 2020

July 7th – Aug. 15th 2020
Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Nigeria, Ghana

The tour planning is almost finished. We will be in Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Nigeria and Ghana for one week each country. The main purpose is to meet entrepreneurs face to face and learn where they need help the most. We will organize entrepreneurs events, innovative thinking workshops, share our entrepreneurial experiences from around the world, meet also with enablers such as co-working spaces, investors, mentors, universities and government representatives.

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Be a part of an innovative foundation looking to create prosperity for all nations.

ENTREPRENEURS

The World Innovations Forum is created to help you, entrepreneurs to thrive, build your company and create jobs in your country. You will receive all the support we can give. Today our support includes an intrapreneurs academy program that was born from our accelerator program, we help you with deep innovation design support, monthly programs, mentorship, connections to investors and a global entrepreneurs ecosystem. Create an account and get access to all kinds of resources.

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INVESTOR

As an investor in entrepreneurs from fast emerging countries, you will catch to birds with one stone: 1) attractive investment opportunities in fast growing markets and 2) helping entrepreneurs that need the help most. We developed a program called Innovation Capital Network, where savvy investors co-invest with local lead investors rather than taking the risk of ‘remote try and error’. The ICN program is co-developed with an investor network in Vietnam and a partner of the World Innovations Forum. Create a free account to get involved and then decide yourself.

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ENABLERS

Mentors, Co-Working Spaces, Technology Providers, Universities, Government Agencies are key enablers to help entrepreneurship and innovation develop in a country. Joining the World Innovations Forum will provide you with connections to peers in countries around the globe and more access to entrepreneurs, initiatives, events and programs. Many of the programs and events are created with getting all stakeholder networked together. Just create a free account and take it from there.

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MEMBERSHIP

Join the World Innovations Forum community of innovative minds. Entrepreneurs help entrepreneurs across the world. International investors are looking for opportunities and supporter find ways to optimize their offering.

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VOLUNTEER

As a volunteer you work with innovative entrepreneurs, investors and supporter of the startup ecosystem. It’s a great opportunity to work on the edge of innovation and create a positive impact on one of the biggest challenges of humanity.

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PARTNER

Entrepreneurial industry partners and economic development oriented NGOs find with the World Innovations Forum a unique approach in creating prosperity, jobs and innovation in developing countries.

Successful Growth Accelerator Programs

Countries

172

Participants at Entrepreneurs Workshops Worldwide

10,824

Meetup Members