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Connectory

The Connectory is a community of professionals dedicated to exploring new frontiers of technology and business through partnerships with startups, universities, and corporations. The Connectory does this in two ways:

Connectory Ecosystem & Spaces:
Five global spaces in Chicago, USA; Guadalajara, Mexico; Stuttgart, Germany; Shanghai, China and Curitiba and Campinas, Brazil. These are physical spaces and innovation incubators with state-of-the-art technology and security, specialized programming, and guidance from leading experts in IoT, digitalization, and innovation.

The Connectory Innovation Portfolio and Services:
More than just co-innovation spaces, The Connectory offers partners a co-creation model that promotes collaboration, networking, problem solving, collective innovation, and a new way of working in the age of connectivity. Connecting people, communities and technology, and offering a wide range of innovation services.

 

Curitiba Connectory

The Curitiba Connectory is the first Connectory location in South America, and it has a partnership with Habitat Senai. The mission is to build a connected world, promoting connections and partnerships that will accelerate the innovation process and will generate an impact on the creation of innovative solutions between startups, companies, universities and the community.​

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Campinas Connectory

Campinas Connectory was founded in 2023 and represents the expansion of The Connectory successful model throughout Brazil and Latin America, going beyond the physical spaces to offer a range of innovative services, boosting new partnerships and businesses. Its main purpose, besides promoting the development of the innovation ecosystem in the region, is to leverage the generation of new digital businesses.

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Our Name

The name Connectory is a combination of the words “connection” and “factory,” two central elements of Bosch’s vision for the future. It is a space where connections happen – among devices, people and ecosystems – as the world evolves through a digital transformation. The Connectory becomes a physical space, designed to connect and co-create around the topic of IoT for startups, universities or other corporations.

Our Team

The Connectory team in Brazil is made up of dedicated people with a wide range of expertise and different backgrounds. What all of them have in common is the motivation to support our members to make their IoT development a success.

The Bosch Group is a global leader in providing innovative technology and services across four business sectors: Mobility Solutions, Industrial Technology, Consumer Goods, and Energy and Building Technology. With a focus on sustainable, safe, and exciting mobility, Bosch leverages its expertise in sensor technology, software, and services to offer connected, cross-domain solutions to its customers. Bosch’s strategic objective is to facilitate connected living through innovative products and solutions, including those developed with artificial intelligence.

Habitat Senai, a business unit of the Fiep System, serves as the Partner for Curitiba Connectory, providing a collaborative space for innovative companies to exchange experiences and develop solutions to meet industry demands. The Fiep System is committed to sustainable industrial development, coordinating, protecting, legally representing, and defending the interests of various industrial segments in the public and private sectors. With Habitat Senai, companies can turn their ideas into reality in a specially designed environment that fosters innovation and productivity to increase competitiveness in the industry.