TOMORROW STREET
“ Tomorrow Street ’ s goal is to identify young companies able to support Vodafone ’ s strategies and Luxembourg ' s tech goals ”
KENNY GRAHAM CEO , TOMORROW STREET
“ Together with Vodafone , we spend a lot of time navigating the scale-ups , with the end goal being bringing their innovation to Vodafone . We support their procurement processes , sales enablement and productisation processes , and also provide both project management support and technical support .
“ We ' ve got a dynamic team with a diverse set of backgrounds and experiences , and we apply that to whatever challenge or opportunity we face to help advance that company into the Vodafone ecosystem .”
Growing Vodafone and Luxembourg ' s tech ecosystem is a key goal Growing and strengthening Vodafone ' s tech scaleup ecosystem – and that of Luxembourg – is the main purpose of one of Tomorrow Street ’ s most important undertakings : its annual Arch Summit event , first established in 2018 .
It established Arch as a means to bring the two groups together and further close the gap between corporates and scale-ups , while adding leading technologists , entrepreneurs , and thought leaders to the mix . The purpose of the event is to create new opportunities through human contact , of which there was precious little during the pandemic .
Unsurprisingly , what with the past two years , the last event took place in 2019 , when 5,000 people attended over the course of two days – around 40 % of whom were entrepreneurs and senior leaders - mixing with people from industry and specialist organisations .
In all , there were around 100 corporate exhibitors , and roughly the same number of start-ups . And then came COVID-19 , which saw Arch Summit shelved for two years .
Rhys Astoralli is the Arch Summit Lead at Tomorrow Street , and oversees the Arch Summit events .
Those delivering keynotes at the 2022 Arch summit include the Prime Minister of Luxembourg , Xavier Bettel , who has also attended past events .
Also speaking is Sophia Kianni , the noted Iranian-American environmentalist and climate activist , who is the youngest female appointed to the UN ' s youth climate change group . Then there is Rana el Kaliouby , an AI thought leader and author of the book , Girl , Decoded .
2022 Arch Summit is ‘ keenly anticipated ’ “ We are massively anticipating this year ’ s Arch ,” he says . “ The whole purpose of the event is to use networking as a way to close the gap between the world of corporates and the organisations in the start-up and scale up ecosystems , and everyone has missed that these past two years .”
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