Rey Buckman - How Airbus drives and systematizes innovation with both intrapreneurs and startups

Michel Gagnon

CEO of Stun&Awe

It’s time for a new podcast episode, this time we get into the aerospace industry. What if your startup could potentially win Airbus as a new customer?

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We got a good news for you! Our guest will walk you through the exact steps and process to follow to join Airbus' accelerator program and potentially become one of the aerospace giant’s future suppliers or partners.

Rey Buckman is Airbus BizLab Campus Leader in Hamburg and will be speaking at the Wear It Innovation Summit in Berlin on June 25-26. In addition to his roles and responsibilities, Rey has an incredibly interesting personal, academic, and professional background. During our talk, he explains how Airbus encourages and structures innovation both internally with its own employees and externally with startups.

Although many corporate accelerators seek innovation by only looking outside their company, I was pleasantly surprised by the focus and effort Airbus also puts into the ideas of its own employees. A variety of engineering, human resources, and marketing projects are implemented and treated with the same rigour and support than technologies developed by startup participants.

Rey explains in details the participant selection process and discuss some of the cool technologies that are coming out of the accelerator. Hope you enjoy the conversation!

To make it easy for you, we’ve highlighted some parts of the show and added some useful links for you to refer to.

Enjoy and make sure you give us some feedback and ideas for our next episodes.

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