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As former Global Director of Innovation + Entrepreneurship at The Coca-Cola Company, Carie developed programs to increase the speed at which ideas move through the innovation pipeline and created partnerships with entrepreneurs to develop transformational growth opportunities. She is now the Managing Director for the BridgeCommunity Atlanta, a startup commercialization program in partnership with seven Fortune 500 companies that accelerates the application of new technologies offered by startups to core business challenges faced by these large organizations.
10 Teachings from the Startup Commercialization Trenches
The BridgeCommunity is a startup commercialization consortium of seven corporations including Coca-Cola, Cox Enterprise, Suntrust & Intercontinental Hotels Group. the program has developed a
reliable process for corporations to partner with well-vetted startups. Hear best practices on how corporations can accelerate the application of new technologies offered by startups to solve core business challenges and examples of pilots created from the program.
Corporate + Startup Field Notes Panel
Commercialization and collaboration from the perspective of the business owner and startup. this session will give the panelists, representing corporations and startups in the BridgeCommunity program, time to share specific stories and lessons from their experience working together in the market.