Wanted: startups!

Building the digital city together:ACPaaS, Antwerp City Platform-as-a-service

Living Lab ‘City of Everything’

Common goal

Living lab ‘City of Things’City of Things connects

200.000 citizens

with 34.000 smart devices

forming the biggest IOT- Living lab

offered to developers

and companiesCopyright foto: iMinds

The Antwerp City Platform as a Service

ACPaaS

Hybrid Cloudinfrastructure layer

CITIZEN COWORKER SOCIAL WELLFARE

LOCAL POLICE

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backend of the backendsAPi

ManagerSDK

The first ACPaaS backlog was simply the intersection of the backlogs of the 4 major platforms, prioritized by demand

ContextLooking for innovative solutions

Stimulate local economy

Co-creation, agile, modular, service oriented…

Lean & mean government tenders

Digipolis, where ideas and innovation create opportunities

Board of advice Evert Bulcke (SA/OS/B&I), Davor Meersman (iMinds), Karen Boers (Startups.be,) Ingrid Willems (iMinds), Kenny Willems (iMinds) Omar Mohout, (Startups.be, lecturer AMS)

• Prepare small challenges for startups

• Design a small IT-ecosystem with challenges via web & meetup group

• Prepare communication via social mediaLooking for startups!

Ecosystem Digipolis• Looking for swift and innovative solutions• Together aiming for the optimal method or procedure • Case by case• Community digital Antwerp> Opportunities and challenges: antwerpen.digipolis.be> DigAnt Café meetup group - meetup.com/DigAnt-Cafe/

Digipolis, where ideas and innovation create opportunities

Buy from startups

Buy from startups PreparationAnnouncement

• antwerpen.digipolis.be

Set candidacy• prepare pitch• schedule slot

Pitch• select candidates

Request for quotation• publish lean RfQ• prepare offer• schedule slot

Offer• present offer + evaluation• BAFO + evaluation

Contracting• contract negotiation• project kick-off

Buy from startups Preparation

• business analysis (2 weeks)

• transform requirements and expectations into innovative/starting solutions

• 7-page lean RfQ

Announcement

Set candidacy

• brief startups

• prepare pitch

• schedule slot

Pitch[next slide]

Candidate pitchOne simple question

Why are you the best fit for the job?

skills and experience☑☑solution concept

Outcome: 3 to 5 candidates for the RfQ

Buy from startups

Preparation

Announcement

Set candidacy

Pitch

Request for quotation

❏ publish RfQ

❏ prepare offer

❏ interact with startups

❏ schedule slot

Offer [next slide]

Buy from startups

max. 2 hours

‘Straightforward’ offer is a slidedeck

• max 2 hours to present your offer

• 4 criteria : ① pricing model & commercialization ② solution design & principles ③ sprint plan with monthly releases ④ technology & innovation

• First Shippable Product included?• Negotiation• BAFO : mainly to review pricing

Straightforward offerbuy from startups

What’s in it for startups & Digipolis? Digipolis? Access to innovative ideas

Flexibility all around

Infused by entrepreneurship

Extreme customer-oriented approaches

Startup? A customer with lots of challenges

Proof of concept & a big reference

Financial compensation for shippable product

IPR negotiable

Easy access to other challenges/cities/governments

Startups sign in!We want you

Startups sign in!We want you

145STARTUPS

281ENROLLMENTS

118PITCHES

93OFFERS

26CONTRACTS

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