OPENING CEREMONY
Learn first hand from the industry's brightest and most experienced minds. Hear from academics, government officials, investors, and executives as they discuss new business opportunities and trends in the post-COVID era.
OPENING CEREMONY
Martin Ring
Strategic Director
Wolves Summit
Eliza Kruczkowska
Chief Innovation Officer
Polish Development Fund
Michal Olszewski
Deputy Mayor
City of Warsaw
Ms Anna Clunes OBE
Her Majesty's Ambassador to Poland
British Embassy
Israeli Startup Magic
Rena Thomas
CTO & Co-Founder
VeganNation
Yoav Fisher
Head Of Technological Innovation and Digital Health
HealthIL
Tal Catran
Accelerators Guru, International Keynote Speaker, Startup Ecosystem Builder
Laly David
Partner, Head of Business Development
OurCrowd
Assistant of Deputy Ambassador at Embassy of Israel in Poland
How to make it as an entrepreneur
Tanja Sternbauer
Co-Founder
the female factor
Tzufit Herling
Owner
Connecteur
Noor Sugrue
Founder & CEO
Vintro
Pavlina Zychova
CEO, Co-Founder
MyStay
GREAT PITCH CONTEST SEMIFINALS
50 ambitious startups will be pitching on stage in Warsaw for a chance to be selected to join the Finals of the Great Pitch Contest.
Tune in online to support your favourite startup or join us in the Palace of Culture to watch them live.
Katarzyna Pac-Malesa
Investment Director
3TS Capital
Markus Vogt
Director Segment Healthcare
EBV Elektronik
Aleksandra Byrka
Investment Director
LT Capital
Dmitry Smirnov
Investment Director
Flashpoint Ventures
Angelo Burgarello
BusinessDevelopment Director
AI Startup Incubator
Responsible tech: How can we design technology with respect to humanity?
From facial recognition systems tracking every move, personal assistants like Siri or Alexa listening in on our conversation at home, to social media platforms collecting tons of personal data, modern technology is becoming smarter, faster and more powerful each and every day. Join this fireside discussion to explore what responsible technology is and why it is important.
Henry Dobson
Managing Director
Institute of Technological Ethics
Sasha Lipman
Co-Founder
tech2impact
Accelerating business in the UK
Tom Britton
Co-Founder
SyndicateRoom
Preferential financing for entrepreneurs in the EU programmes
Arkadiusz Lewicki
Director of the National Contact Point for Financial Instruments of the EU Programmes
Polish Bank Association
Digitization Roadmap in the Construction, Infrastructure and PropTech Industries in COVID-19 Times – powered by BIM World MUNICH
The outbreak has made the demand for many types of space go down, perhaps for the first time in modern memory - consumers shopping more online, students studying online, people working remotely.
This talk will explore some of the new service models and technologies in real estate that will emerge as a result of this change.
Dietmar Bernert
Vice President Hexagon Geosystems Service AG & President BIM World MUNICH
Christian Stammel
CEO & Co-founder
BIM World MUNICH
How to deliver true business impact with startup collaboration - Insights from BSH Home Appliances Group
For big corporations working with startups has become necessary to stay at the forefront of innovation and retain competitiveness. However, often both sides fail to extract full value from their partnerships. This talk will explain how BSH Home Appliances, a global leader in the home appliance industry, creates real impact with startup collaboration and share success stories, learnings, and how to partner with BSH.
Lars Roessler
Co-Founder & Venture Partner
BSH Startup Kitchen
Building and scaling products for Emerging Markets
How to scale new technologies in emerging markets taking into account multicultural differences and various management styles.
Michael Lawal
CEO
Sendit.Money Ltd
Stephen DeMeulenaere
Co-Founder
Qoin Foundation
Maureen Ada-Leonard
CEO
EtiNard Consulting Lt
Democratizing Space: The next frontier
The Space economy is already worth hundreds of billions of dollars. What are the models and applications that will democratize this economy and allow companies and individuals around the world to participate in it both commercially and financially?Grant Blaisdell
Co-Founder
CopernicSpace
Chris Jones
Director
NBV Limited
Simon Drake
Managing Director, Co-Founder, and Partner
Space Ventures Investors
Marco Romero
Space System Engineer
Humbitec
How to scale up your startup globally via the UK
The UK is the third-best country in the OECD at starting businesses and is home to more billion-dollar start-ups than anywhere else in Europe. What are the factors behind its growth? What should a CEE founder know if they want to scale in the UK?
Bartosz Kozinski
Director - Foreign Direct Investment
DIT (British Embassy)
A new era of venture capital
In 2019 only 0.9% of small businesses in the USA are funded by VCs — this means thousands if not millions (worldwide) of startups that deserve funding don’t get it. The industry needs to change and be more inclusive in the way capital backs enterprise, especially at the early stage. Some would say we need an angel investor revolution.
In this talk, we’re exploring how the venture capital industry could reshape itself, especially at the early stage and what financing instruments we can expect when we go beyond equity.
Omar Christidis
CEO & Founder
Arabnet
Kelvin Tan
Co-Founder and Chief Investment Officer
GTR Venture
Robert Lugowski
CEO Cobin Angels
Organisational culture that supports growth
Matt grew his software development company from 1 to 90 people. Join this session to find out how to tackle some of the challenges in building an organizational culture that supports growth.
Matt Kurleto
CEO
Neoteric
Aleksandra Pszczoła
CEO
Bee Talents
AI, The BIG Opportunity
Since 2012 computing power behind AI algorithms has been growing seven times faster than Moore’s Law. In 2019 AI needed 44 times less computing power compared to solving the same tasks in 2012. This talk will explain and showcase why AI has become the most significant technology shift in modern times.
Mathias Åsberg
CEO
NextGrid
The State of Tech in CEE
CEE has become the fastest emerging region in Europe in terms of venture capital invested, growing well over twice as fast as Western Europe. In 2015 there was only €300m invested in this region, last year, close to €2bn.
How can we explain this incredible growth? What about the different industry verticals? What are some notable success stories? What should we expect from the CEE region in the future?
John Courtney
Founder & CEO
Boardroom Advisors
William de Gale
Portfolio Manager
BlueBox Wealth Management
Michał Kramarz
Head of Google for Startups, CEE
Josef Seidl
Co-Founder & Managing Director
INNOSPOT GmbH
Startups Exits Strategy from Corona Pandemic
Coronavirus has pushed fundamental questions about the way our society operates at the forefront of discussions. Which tech clusters are the most affected by COVID-19 and how can these industries adapt to the current market conditions? How can we harness the Digital transformation to our advantage?
Tal Catran
Startup Nation & TEDx Speaker,
Ecosystem Builder
Sales and acquisition in CEE based on decades of experience at Microsoft
How do startups scale? This track will look at the fastest growing unicorns, high-growth scale-ups, and the challenges in maintaining momentum as well as the amazing opportunities for the investment they present.
Robin Wauters
Co-Founder
Tech.eu
Justin Alderson
Technical Lead, One Commercial Partner Group, Central and Eastern Europe
Microsoft
Lessons from Investing in 414 Startups
Learn investing and operating lessons from an active seed investor from Silicon Valley. The goal of this session is to share what some of the best practices are when fundraising, operating, and hopefully thriving during pandemic times.
Marvin Liao
Investor
Ex-500 Startups
Ahmad Piraiee
Director
Startup Grind, Warsaw
Why do European companies buy so few startups?
Saba Karim
Global Startup Pipeline Manager
Techstars US
Paolo Privitera
CEO
Evensi
City of Warsaw - WarsawBooster'20
Maciej Sadowski
CEO
Startup Hub Poland
Jan Kaczmarek
Chairman of the Board
Fundacja MOST
Startup Finalists Announced
The top eight startups will be shortlisted to pitch in the Finals on October 7 for a chance to win the Great Pitch Contest Prize.
Networking Event (Startups & Investors)
DeepTech – When corporates and start-ups join hands for meaningful engineering innovation
When corporates and startups choose their partners wisely and get aligned on the highest possible level, these collaborations become a catalyst for growth, faster than either party can achieve on their own. But way too often working together comes with pitfalls, and suddenly the prospects take a bleak trajectory.
This talk offers some great inspiration and advice for innovative companies in the Deeptech space willing to embrace a collaborative approach to solve some of the world’s most pressing problems.
Sonja Sulzmaier
Managing Partner
Navispace GmbH
Andreas Warta
Key Account Manager
VARTA Microbattery
Markus Vogt
Director Segment Healthcare & Personal Devices
EBV Elektronik
Thomas Waldmann
Start-up and Venture Manager
Würth Elektronik Group
Markus Beier
IoT Evangelist
Microtronics Engineering GmbH
The Foodtech revolution is here
Ahmad Piraiee
Director
Startup Grind
Marcin Poplawski
Business Executive Officer
Nestlé Poland
Michał Piosik
Co-Founder
Foodtech.ac
Henry Shelonzek
Co-Founder
MadDriver
Mateusz Kloc
Partner
Heyka Capital Markets Group and Lucet Capital R&D Consulting
3D Bonding: Transforming the footwear complex business
As more customers are demanding transparency and fair attitude to workers’ rights, manufacturers and conglomerates have to be brave to act accordingly and focus on these beneficial factors of producing locally. But can we produce in Europe and locally at the same cost as we do in Asia?
Simplicity works founder, Adrian Hernandez, talks about how 3D technology could benefit the footwear market helping local manufactures bring the costs down and make local production affordable again.
Adrian Hernandez
CEO and Founder
Simplicity Works Europe
Romain Girard
Senior Head of Innovation
PUMA Group
Webinar: Pricing for Startups with Movens Capital
Dr. Maciej Kraus
Managing Partner
Movens Capital
The Entrepreneur’s Secret:
Why some thrive while others barely survive
What is The Entrepreneur’s Secret? How do successful companies manage to overcome the odds and survive the uncertain launch period to build a long-term, successful, and profitable business?
Zoltan Vardy
Founder & CEO
The Launch Code
SexTech - Europe’s $30bn industry
Ola Miedzynska
CEO & Founder
Sx Tech.eu
Dominnique Karetsos
CEO & Founder
The Healthy Pleasure Group
Georgia di Mattos
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder
iPlaySafe App
Heather Montgomery
Founder & CEO
PleazeMe.com
Startup vs. Corporate: which culture suits you best?
Launching a startup isn’t for everyone. But would you work for one? There are benefits and downsides to both the startup and the corporate world, so how do you pick between the two? The key is finding a work environment in which you can thrive.
Diana Florescu
Head of Marketing
Wayra UK
Karolina Dabrowska
Team Leader & Business Development Manager
HubHub
Moving to the UK to scale impactful businesses
Olivia Sibony
Department for Int. Trade / SeedTribe
Dealmaker / CEO
Mobility as a Service 2020 - what happened after pandemic?
The future of mobility during and post-crisis through the lens of consumers. We will be touching on areas such as the car-sharing economy and how this sector will be impacted by the crisis in the year ahead.
Piotr Mieczkowski
Managing Director
Digital Poland Foundation
Michał Jędraszak
CEO
Straal
Igor Zacharjasz
Engagement Director
VISA
Circular economy in the world’s 2nd most traded commodity
As the level of consumption and waste has grown, the vision of a “circular economy” — a closed-loop system where waste and pollution are designed out — is inspiring businesses and environmentalists alike.
This new movement opens up a myriad of opportunities for brands to connect with consumers at a much deeper level. In this talk, we explore how the coffee industry has been engaging with the circular economy revealing best practices adopted by ETNO, one of the largest coffee houses in Poland and a very successful startup, TooGoodToGo who already saved millions of meals from going to waste.
Karolina Woźniak
PR Manager
TooGoodToGo
Diana Florescu
Head of Marketing
Wayra UK
CEO & Co-Founder
ETNO CAFE
How fintech can help SMEs recover from the impact of COVID-19
Ercin Eksin
Co-Founder / Co-CEO
Lidya
How can startups and corporations collaborate to achieve impact at scale?
We will dive into the successful and challenging partnerships, and how they collaborate with smaller, agile organizations to discover and explore concepts and prototypes that can help accelerate the industries of the future.
Sarah Missen
Partnerships Director
Plus X
Ion Hauer
Venture Partner
BSH
Carlos Rubal
Business Development Advisor
EIT Digital
Maria Hahn
CEO & Founder
Nutrix
Pawel Kulon
President
OMGKRK
How to establish your startup’s marketing foundations properly from the very beginning
Join this workshop with Shawn Segundo, the Marketing Director from SpinLab - The HHL Accelerator in Leipzig, and Gaia Amatteis, The Program Manager from RootCamp - A SpinLab Incubator, in Hanover. Here we’ll go over how to establish your startup’s marketing foundations properly, and how to avoid common marketing pitfalls we see startups experience.
Shawn Segundo
Marketing Director
SpinLab - The HHL Accelerator
AccelUp Demo Day - 1st & 2nd batch
19 startups that have completed the first and second batch of the acceleration program will present their unique #fintech #insurtech and #telco solutions to the broad audience and investors. Accelpoint accelerator organises the programme in cooperation with Santander Bank Polska, AXA Partners, Santander Consumer Bank, and Orange Polska.
Startups from the 1st batch: Vizum Lab / Tricks / NMT CO LTD / Escoral / NuDelta / Limitless / AI Busters / Alphamoon / Symmetrical.ai
Startups from the 2nd batch: Clinic Hunter / Nextep Technologies / Loyalty Tool / Revdebug / Billtech Group / Quantum CX / Plenti
Inbound customer acquisition to accelerate sales
Building an awesome product is great, but now you need customers to actually buy it! How do you build a marketing engine that will not only help you to get traction in the early days but will also allow you to scale and grow? Join this session to get an insight into inbound marketing techniques and take away practical tips to not only grow faster but also better.
Kaythlin Das
Startup Growth & Partnerships, HubSpot for Startups
GREAT PITCH CONTEST FINALS
Startup Grind, Hosting events in the age of coronavirus
The global events industry was valued at more than $1.1B in 2018 and was expected to grow at a CAGR of 10.3% to reach $2.3B in 2026. But, after the COVID-19, those projections have clearly changed. What's going to happen to the events industry after coronavirus? How can we use technology to our advantage to rebuild this sector?
Michael Chaffe
Vice-President
Wolves Summit
Ahmad Piraiee
Director
Startup Grind Warsaw
CLOSING CEREMONY & WINNERS ANNOUNCED
Our Investors Evening is an exclusive, invite-only networking event for a limited number of carefully curated guests. It provides an opportunity to gather in an informal setting to discuss trends, practices, and the challenges of investing. The event takes place in the sophisticated and renowned Hotel Warszawa and consists of two parts: panel discussions and networking.
It’s the Wolves Summit tradition that after the first day of the conference we organize an evening networking party in a nearby club, open for all the participants of the event. It is a good chance to meet and network in a less formal way, as well as to enjoy drinks, good music and the city.
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