Tech Summit
AUDIENCE
- 67% Enterprise, CTOs, CIOs;
-
25%
Entrepreneurs /
Start-ups - 08% Government
- 56% Central & Eastern Europe
- 29% Rest of Europe
- 06% USA
- 05% Asia
- 04% Rest of the World
Agenda includes:
Stage Chair Mark Turell
Day 1:
Date: 19 April
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Investment Landscape Track
11:30 - 11:45 50 Shades of Scaling
Mark Turrell Orcasci / Founder
11:45 - 12:00 Bootstrapping: Going from limited opportunities to limitless success
Evan Luthra Serial Entrepreneur
12:00 - 12:15 The Opportunity in European Venture Capital
Cem Sertoğlu Partner at EarlyBird Venture Capital
12:15 - 12:45 Discussion panel: CEE investment opportunities
Ondrej Bartos Partner at Credo Ventures
Maciek Sadowski Co-founder and President, Startup Hub Poland Foundation
Kirill Cehoval Regional Director Russia/CIS/CEE, Intel Capital
Svetoslav Stefanov Investment Manager, 3TS Capital Partners
Philipp Meixner Investment Director, ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE
Rafal Plutecki Head of Google Campus for Central & Eastern Europe
12:45 - 13:00 Regional Challenges in buliding global innovative companies. Why we as a CEE are not using our potential and how to overcome barriers
Bartek Gola General partner, SpeedUp Group
13:00 - 13:30 Discussion panel: The Future of VCs
Yavuz Kaynar Principal Banker at EBRD Venture Capital Investment Programme
Suneel Bandhu Member of Mumbai Angels
Gleb Davidyuk Managing Partner, iTech Capital
Paul Dowling Co-founder & CEO, Dreamstake; Co-founder, HoxTech Angels
Hussain Al Hilli Co-founder & COO, Byoot
Alexander Turkot Founding partner, Maxfield Capital
13:30 - 14:10 Discussion panel
Vassil Terziev Co-Founder, Telerik Academy
Lyubomir Yanchev CEO, Melissa Climate
Angel Kelchev Managing Director, Endeavor Bulgaria
Dobroslav Dimitrov Co-founder, Imperia Online
14:10 - 14:25 Eastern Europe investments and fresh new trends for startups
Dmitry Chikhachev Co-founder and Managing Partner at Runa Capital
14:25 - 15:25
Lunch Break
(+ Leaders Lunch for Platinum Ticket Holders)
Fintech, Money & Payments Track
15:25 - 15:40 Revolutionising how europeans pay for higher education
Brian Norton Co-founder & CEO Future Finance; Co-founder, Ridge Road Partners
15:40 - 15:55 Rapid Innovation on a Secure Network
Andrea Fiorentino Head of Mobile Market Readiness, Business Strategy & Innovation, Visa Europe
15:55 - 16:10 The end of the branch
Svetoslav Moldovansky Executive Director & Board Member, First Investment Bank
16:10 - 16:25 Will “pull transactions” become the new Fintech?
Michel Stuijt CEO, Eurogiro
16:25 - 16:40 The Future of Money
Nicolas Cary Co-founder, Blockchain
16:40 - 17:55 Assessing Bitcoin's scalability struggle to address the global financial market
Frank Schuil Co-founder & CEO, Safello
16:55 - 17:10 Building a digital single market for European depositors
Dr. Tamaz Georgadze Raisin / Co-founder & CEO
21:30
Official Webit Party
(open to all delegates - bring your badges)
Day 2:
Date: 20 April
9:30-9:40 Welcome
Space Track
09:40 - 09:55 New Space and Down to Earth Impact
Lluc Diaz Technology Transfer Engineer and Coordinator of the Brokers Network, European Space Agency (ESA)
09:55 - 10:10 The future of space / aerospace and transportation: flying electric cars and the associated trends
François Chopard Founder & CEO, Starburst
Brain Hacks Track
10:10 - 10:25 What neuroscience teaches us about changing, and how you can use it in your business and in yours/others behavior
Moran Cerf Prof. of Neuroscience and Business, Kellogg School of Management
Transformation Track
10:25 - 10:40 Going global quickly and cheaply with Estonian e-Residency for KYC compliance
Kaspar Korjus e-Residency Program Director, Enterprise Estonia
10:40 - 10:55 Large Scale Digital Transformation done right!
Anosh Thakkar Vice President, CTO, Philips
Big Cloud, Big Data, Security & Privacy Track
10:55 - 11:10 The Flaws in Moore's Law: Why the Enterprise Needs a New Paradigm for Moving Big Data
Eric Klinker co-Founder and CEO of Resilio Inc.
11:10 - 11:25 Free Internet or Free Lunch
Metodi Drenovski CEO & Founder, SuperHosting.BG
11:25 - 11:40 Changes and disruptions in mobile ecosystem
Mika Uusitalo CTO, Director of Technology, Europe, Nokia Networks
11:40 - 11:55 Achieving information immortality with optical data storage
Prof. Peter Kazansky Professsor Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton
11:55 - 12:10 The Bizarre Economics of Cybersecurity
Nader Henein Regional Director, Advanced Security Solutions – Advisory Division, BlackBerry
12:10 - 12:25 Security concerns in a virtual and cloud world
Rik Ferguson Trend Micro / Global VP Security Research
12:25 - 13:25
Lunch Break
(+ CEOs' Lunch for Platinum Ticket Holders)
IoE Track (part 1)
13:25 - 13:45 Discussion panel: IoT - our connected live, benefits and risks of this approach
Asier Sarasua Chief Marketing Officer, MainTool
Domagoj Simecki Senior M2M Consultant, Telekom Austria Group M2M
13:45 - 14:00 Wearable Technology Design Trends
Annina Verkkomäki CEO & Founder, Omuus
14:00 - 14:15 How technologies like eSIM and LPWAN are transforming IoT
Shawn Sanderson IoT Industry Advisor
14:15 - 14:30 Networking Break
IoE Track (part 2)
14:30 - 14:45 Keynote
Uwe Diegel CEO Europe, iHealth Labs
14:45 - 15:00 Digital Health - how mobile technologies redefine healthcare
Dr Johannes Jacubeit Founder & CEO, Connected Health
15:00 - 15:15 Next generation wearables
Dr. Andreas Caduff Biovotion / Founder
15:15 - 15:30 Going Digital: The Next Chapter in Teaching & Learning
Christine Major Director Global Solutions, Discovery Education
15:30 - 15:45 What does optimal learning look like in the modern “tech” age? Blended Learning, Mobile Learning, Video and more.
Stefan Wisbauer CFO, Lecturio
15:45 - 16:00 Keynote
Jessica Federer Chief Digital Officer, Bayer
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