Eugenia Forte is a Scientific Board Member & Senior program manager at Takeoff Accelerator, the first Italian Accelerator dedicated to Aerospace and Advanced hardware. She started her career working at CNH Industrial where she was involved for several years in Industry 4.0, Agile development and Open Innovation strategies managing relationships between startups and corporations in the Digital area. With a passion for the startup ecosystem, she took on the role as a mentor and advisor at several entrepreneurial entities and later on becoming Business Developer at a social impact startup accelerator before joining Plug and Play with the role of Program Manager at Takeoff Accelerator.