Wolves Summit is a fast-paced action-packed B2B networking event where companies, VCs, start-ups and scaleups make the best use of everyone’s time by absolutely cramming high-value meetings over only a couple of days. The outcomes can be as big as the effort, if you play it right. UK start-up Pynk recently described the Wolves Summit B2B experience as ‘relentless’, with high-potential meeting scheduled after high-potential meeting, with only a few minutes between each. If you’re serious about innovation, there’s no question you need to be at Wolves Summit. The only question is, how will you make best use of the event, for you and your company? We’ve got some general networking tips, and some particular to Wolves Summit, from event insiders. Ready? Let’s take a look!

We spoke to Medtech investor Christian Kumar of Capital Kinetics about what sparks his interest when considering startups (spoiler alert; it’s not the pitch!). In his LinkedIn Live interview, he gives us some insider tips and tells us about a £40,000,000 Medtech fund. He gives an inside view on how he creates business connections and finds his next startup to back at Wolves Summit, and all about his training programme for startups. See the full interview here, and check out our summary of it below!

The decade you went to school in greatly alters the sort of technology you experienced while there, from typewriters to floppy disks, perhaps hiding games of Snake on your Nokia from the teacher, or having to do maths homework on your iPad. But technology at school is about more than updating software and addressing bullying in chatrooms. Used right, Artificial Intelligence (AI) can mean better targeting of education, so kids are learning what they need to when they’re ready to, and better use of teachers’ time and school resources. If you’re ready to learn about the seismic shift AI is making in education, it’s time you put your phone away and listened to the teacher (err, that’s us).

“Smart Cities” – there’s a lot of buzz about them right now, and rightly so. Wondering what exactly a smart city is? Let’s look at what makes a smart city, which countries are making the dream a reality, and some of the startups making them possible.

The Central & Eastern European (CEE) region is one to watch for startup trends. The reason? Investment in the region grows 150% year on year; they must be doing something very right. Let’s look at six trends in CEE startups in 2019, and what you can do to be a part of the growth in 2020 and beyond. In 2019, we saw six trends we expect to continue in 2020 - except bigger, better, faster, stronger. Here we go:

In October of 2019, we rocked the tenth edition of Wolves Summit. We saw 400 startups and scaleups pitch their disruption to 200 investors, amidst 1,500 participants at the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw. This was an edition of the Wolves Summit with strong themes on the digital economy, innovations in the CEE market, and the digital economy – including increasing access to it. If you weren’t there, there are four big things you missed out on. But, we’ve got your back. Sit back, relax, and let us get you all caught up (so you’ll be ready for Wolves Summit 11th edition!).

The end is coming. Well, the end of 2019 at least. The New Year rests on the horizon, still perfect, still gleaming. Still full of possibilities. What you make of it, rests largely upon you, and upon the things you choose to do. And the things you choose not to do. So what will you be doing in 2020, and what will 2020 make of your startup? Here, we’ve got a list of New Year’s Resolutions to get you from pitch to payday in 2020. The first of them begins with just that, the pitch. Let’s take a look.