We've spent years running innovation events. Most of them taught us what not to do.
Between us, we've facilitated over 20 hackathons, innovation labs, and leadership off-sites — inside large organisations, across EU-funded acceleration programmes, and with multinational teams throughout Europe. The formats changed. The outcomes often didn't.
Teams would show up, put in real work, leave energised. Two weeks later, nothing had changed. The problem was never the people. It was the design: passive agendas, vague briefs, no one owning follow-up. Events optimised for experience, not output.
Outset is what we built to fix that. Every event starts with a specific outcome in mind. Every session is actively facilitated. And every team leaves with something concrete — not just a good memory.
Three things we've never compromised on
Outcomes over experience
A great event isn't one where people had fun. It's one where something actually changed. We design every session around a specific output — and we hold the process accountable to it.
Facilitation is a craft
Managing energy, redistributing airtime, knowing when to slow down and when to push — these are learnable skills that make the difference between a session that works and one that doesn't. We've spent years developing them.
Your team already has the answers
Our job isn't to bring ideas. It's to create the conditions where your team finds ideas it didn't know it had. The best outputs from our sessions surprise the people who generated them.
Who you'll work with
Eraldo Federico Acchiappati
Eraldo spent over a decade leading innovation projects across Europe. He managed a large-scale SME acceleration programme for the European Commission, then built and ran the innovation team at PwC Luxembourg — designing workshops, hackathons, and strategy off-sites for some of the country's largest organisations. He brings process rigour and a precise understanding of what leadership teams actually need from a facilitated session.
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Giovanni Binello
Giovanni has led more than 20 hackathons, open innovation challenges, and ideation sprints with multinational companies. Before joining PwC, he managed Italy's first EdTech accelerator, running cohort programmes that turned early-stage ideas into product-market-fit. He brings energy, facilitation instinct, and a direct understanding of how creative processes break down — and how to fix them in real time.
LinkedIn →Outset is part of BLDRS Ventures — A Luxembourg-based product studio that builds companies and runs programmes at the intersection of strategy, technology, and design.
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