Learn about the startups ecosystem
Chris Georgiev - the co-founder of Imagga, image recognition startup developing image tagging platform. Board member of StartUP Foundation, the first startup grass-root organization for entrepreneurship in Bulgaria. Co-organizer of StartUP NEXT Conference in Sofia, annual startup conference in English focussed on CEE startups. Blogger. Startup Weekend Sofia lead organizer & facilitator. Startup Digest curator for Sofia, BG.
Eliza Kruczkowska - CEO of Startup Poland, a grassroots organization with the goal to help build better conditions for Polish startups by influencing policy-makers, educators, academics and the media. Prior to her present position Eliza has worked for both, the ICT (Huawei, Mozilla) and NGO sector (ePaństwo Foundation including Code for Poland project).
Nikolay Savin - the managing director at GrowthUP Business Accelerator. He has been a part of Ukrainian startup community from its early stages, and he is familiar with both local market players and specifics of the region.
Agata Kukwa - Agata is a multi skilled entrepreneur, talented in communications, CEO, non-exec director, startup mentor. She is the CoFounder & Communiations Leader 150sec.
Giorgi Kintsurashvili - has joined the process of building innovative and knowledge-based Georgia from it’s very beginning stage. During his work with the Ministry of Economy, he took big part into the establishment of Georgia’s Innovation and Technology Agency (GITA), which has become a main institution to build knowledge-based economy in the country. After founding Youth Innovation Center and managing Google Developers Group in Tbilisi, he has played big role in building young community around innovations and technologies.
Adrian Pica - the founder and editor at 150sec.com, Product Manager at Telenav and Co-founder at Oblico. He is the global facilitator for Startup Weekend.
Catalina Brauchle - currently Director of Communications Start-Up Chile. She is a specialist in communication and community building in South America.
Eva Piperevska - currently works as a product and marketing specialist at G6 solutions, but she is also involved in freelance projects like organizing the most awesome events in Macedonia – Digital Seminars, Silicon Drinkabout and StartUp Weekend Skopje. She is member of the Macedonian association for digital marketing education – InformaEdu and the macedonian PR association, and also involved in developing the macedonian startup ecosystem.
18:30 - 19:00 Welcome and Socializing
19:00 - 20:00 Panel Discussion with Representatives from Top regional Organizations
20:00 Post networking and Drinks at a Local Bar or Restaurant
This event is paid to attend.
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