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(1) Discover new business opportunities (2) Learn from the innovation eco-system in China (3)Find collaboration with local innovation partners (4) inspire employees to engage in entrepreneurship
Oney Wake up call: a tailor-made journey to discover innovation from different angles, understand the entrepreneurial mindset, and see innovation best practices. With the ultimate goal of shifting the perspective of Oney employees to drive real change




XNode worked with OSRAM China BUs to scope and identify business opportunities. Together, 5 innovative ideas with clear pain points and opportunities were defined.
The goal of the X-Pioneer acceleration was to rapidly generate business impact for OSRAM. It also aims to leverage the speed and agility of startups in combination with the existing client network and resources of OSRAM to experiment with new business models.
XNode organized an ideation workshop with multiple BU teams to identify business challenges and opportunities for OSRAM.
At the end of the ideation session, outputs were:
On May 27th 2020, X-Pioneer demo day was held in Shanghai with over 40 participants from different business units including smart lighting, automotive, and smart city.




The challenge aims at making Ask Jerry – Pernod Ricard China’s nationwide WeChat Cocktail Platform, the next industry-standard marketplace with the largest community for bartenders, bar owners and cocktail lovers in China.
the most promising Startups with whom to set up cooperation agreements and create strong synergies in China
the top Startups into Xnode ”LaunchPad” Acceleration Program, in which startups can learn, shape and further grow their business
both online and offline with Pernod Ricard China experts to implement the solutions proposed at the end of the challenge.
The Agorize platform was used as a powerful digital tool to spot the best startups to co-develop the Ask Jerry WeChat Platform and making it the next industry-standard marketplace. The XNode ‘’LaunchPad’’ transformed the ideas in executable business cases.




On Nov 8, 2018, AEYE-GO received a capital investment from Sodexo Ventures as a direct result of the LaunchPad Program
“We are extremely excited to announce the first investment from Sodexo Ventures in China into AEYE-GO. We have always believed that combining the flexibility and creativity of local innovative startups with the fundamental know-how of Sodexo's will enable us to jointly build an ecosystem of digital and innovative services in China. We look forward to working with bigger, better and more powerful Chinese startups in the future to bring much higher value-added solutions and smarter experiences to our customers and consumers.”
Belen Moscoso Del Prado Lopez-Dóriga
Chief Digital and Innovation Officer, Sodexo








Scouting top-notch Chinese start-ups for collaboration on both business and tech development with the aim to become the partner and early adopting venture client of selected startups.
BMW did not have the connection with startups, entrepreneurs, community and network
Lack of experience in creating and managing Proof of Concepts, Pilots and Business cases together with startups
On Oct. 12th 2018, BMW Ideation Workshop was held in Beijing.
Together with colleague from 4 Bus(business unit), we helped to better clarify the challenges and pain points faced by BMW




XNode organized 1-1 pitching workshop with the startups to refine their pitches and decks in preparation for the final demo day.
On November 8th 2019, GAC-SOFINCO’s demo day was held in Guangzhou with over 30 participants from different business units, and China CEO was one of the judges together with other BU heads. XNode was also invited to give a sharing about corporate innovation.
Final Pitch & Demo Day: 3 startups, 1 winner




XNode teamed up with Le Wagon and co-delivered three 3-day Wechat Mini Program Hackathons for Sanofi.
The hackathon aimed to empower Sanofi's in-house innovators to
through a series of tailor-made workshop and coaching.
XNode offered end to end solution, which includes:
And won the award of Sanofi Innovation Community Partner