European Startup Festival 20.-22.09.2019
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Sanderson Jones
In 2008 Sanderson Jones left his job as an advertising salesman to become a stand up. In 2012 he sold out the Sydney Opera House. Incredibly, he did this by selling every single ticket to the show by hand. What’s more, the technology loving geek researched the audience and incorporated their online lives into his show.
In January 2013 Sanderson, alongside comedian Pippa Evans, started up a non-religious church called the Sunday Assembly, it celebrated life through talks, comedy and songs. The concept went viral and there are now 28 Assemblies across the world. They started a global movement within a year and it is now even included in the GCSE syllabus for Religious Education! Earlier this year Sanderson talked on BBC Radio 4 about the phenomenon of ‘swapping Psalms for pop songs’.
Sanderson isn’t your normal comedian, he knows about how to start a business from scratch and all that goes into it, he also researches his audience before the event and builds there online profiles into his routine (something which developed off the back of him selling his tickets by hand!). So his comedy is multifaceted, a bit inspirational, interactive, and not to mention eye wateringly funny.
In order to accommodate such a vast array of talents, Sanderson can be booked in several capacities. He can be booked as a comedian, a business speaker or as a representative of the Sunday Assembly. All three of his acts combine his unique wit and hilarious approach to any given situation.
Jones’ cocktail of talents means he flourishes at a wide range of events conferences, away days and award ceremonies for a variety of sectors including:
- Sales
- Technology and start ups
- Advertising and marketing
- Anything digital
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Sanderson Jones
Kajsa Bengtson
Kajsa has a background within startups, marketing, communication and community building for the city of Malmö and IKEA. She is one of the founders of Minc, a startup platform (incubator, accelerator & startup lab) that started in Malmö 2002. Minc was the hub from where the startup community and the strong startup culture grew in the early 2000s in the south region of Sweden. With a long experience as a business coach for startups and entrepreneurs, she's been working close to more than 200 startups in the Malmö region. Kajsa developed open innovation and co-creation programs for IKEA of Sweden 2016-2017 and is now supporting investment companies with business development and innovation.
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Kajsa Bengtson
Emma Löfgren
Emma Löfgren is the deputy managing editor of The Local's European network of nine news websites and the editor of its Swedish edition, writing about Swedish news in English for international talent in Sweden.
The Local reaches more than five million readers a month and its Swedish site is read by more than one million a month. It has developed a closer relationship with its audience since rolling out a successful Membership scheme in 2017, increasingly focusing on engaged and solutions-oriented journalism.
Emma started her journalism career in Scotland before moving back to her native Sweden to take up a position at The Local in 2015. Prior to that she worked on the news desk of the Evening Express in Aberdeen and as editor of English-Gaelic community newspaper Am Pàipear in the Outer Hebrides.
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Emma Löfgren
Mikkel Skott Olsen
Mikkel Skott Olsen is heading the two digital platforms, +impact and theHub helping start-ups grow their business. +impact connects impact start-ups with experts, whereas theHub helps with talent recruitment and investment. Mikkel is part of Danske Bank's Growth & Impact team.
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Mikkel Skott Olsen
Henrik Siepelmeyer
Henrik’s passion is to combine academic expertise with entrepreneurial drive to leverage nudging and behavior change for sustainability. He holds a BSc in Environmental & Sustainability Studies and an MA in Leadership for Sustainability. Henrik has experience from working at the San Francisco Department of the Environment and the multinational Boehringer Ingelheim, and has co-founded his own start-up in the food retailing industry: “Plietsch” integrates a section of package-free, organic, regional products into a full-range supermarket, thereby making sustainable grocery shopping simple, affordable and accessible to a broad customer group. The plietsch-concept is pilot-implemented in a department store of Germany’s largest food-retailer, EDEKA, and Henrik currently works on bringing it to other supermarkets across the country.
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Henrik Siepelmeyer
Bill Barber
Mr Barber is a California Serial Entrepreneur, impact investor, executive-advisor, innovation ecosystems architect and technology developer and has personally advised over 3000 tech companies. He has designed systems that deliver projects through their entire lifecycles; from concept to ROI. That includes the linked subsystems that support the needs of all stakeholders: entrepreneurs, private investors, institutional investors, service providers, corporates, and Investment banks. An early career as a biologist included marine science and then 10 years on the early scientific staff of AMGEN, was followed by more than 20 years developing, founding, and funding new technology and investment organizations as an investor, CEO, Board Member, and advisor to entrepreneurs, intra-preneurs, executives, universities, and investors. He has been heavily involved as an educator, advisor, and consultant to international startups and turn-arounds at the request of corporate executives, banks, and private funding sources.
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Bill Barber
Alexander Savoy
Alexander Savoy is a Swedish American lyricist and choreographer born in South Florida who has a passion for dance, music, and dogs. While living in South Florida for the majority of his life, he graduated from Florida International University with a BA in Hospitality Management. After working as a social media manager and content creator for a professional women's networking company called Suits, Stilettos, and Lipstick, he moved to Sweden in 2018 to study at Lund University School of Economics and Management (LUSEM). He graduated from MSc in Entrepreneurship & Innovation with a focus on "New Venture Creation" while working on a business idea called "Flow: Find Yours," a social game that utilizes music improvisation to explore player creativity and confidence in self-expression.
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Alexander Savoy
Jenny Ruth
Jenny is a Founding Partner at Crowberry Capital, a seed and early stage Nordic venture fund. Jenny has served on number of startup boards. Prior to becoming VC she headed Business Development at BionX, a Boston based Health Tech startup, exited to Otto Bock HealthCare GmbH in 2016. Earlier Jenny was a Product Manager at Össur OSSR:DC and CEO at Krumma ehf. Jenny earned her Dipl.-Ing. in engineering from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Robotics and MEMS. She holds B.S. in Mechanical and Industrial engineering from University of Iceland and registered IPs.
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Jenny Ruth
David Kinsella
With over 17 years of experience as a legal practitioner both in private practice and in-house in technology, media and entertainment, David has worked for Taylor Wessing, Siemens, Fujitsu, Sony and most recently held the position of Senior Director, IP Transactions & Legal Affairs at Dolby in London. He is qualified as a lawyer in multiple jurisdictions (England & Wales; Ireland; and New York and California, USA) in addition to his registration as a European lawyer with the Munich Bar Association, Germany. David also holds an MBA and acts as General Counsel for Silicon Castles and affiliated companies and retains his own legal practice for independent legal consultancy.
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David Kinsella
Katarina Scott
Has over 25 years’ experience within the cultural and creative sector, private sector, education and municipality. Her background is as an economist but her passions are value driven entrepreneurship and coaching and she is a serial entrepreneur. She was one of the creators of the cultural incubator ‘The Creative Plot’ in the Skåne region of Sweden, she is now working at the Innovation Future Platform of Lund.
Her driving values are hope, curiosity, and creating. Beside culture and entrepreneurship, sustainability has always been important for Katarina, which actually led to a Guinness World Record in "Free Standing Pet Bottle Sculpture", one of the outcomes from working with plastic pollution in our oceans.
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Katarina Scott
John Auckland
John Auckland is a crowdfunding specialist and founder of TribeFirst, a global equity crowdfunding communications agency that has helped raise in excess of £17m for over 50 companies on platforms such as Crowdcube, Seedrs, and Seedinvest – with a greater than 90% success rate. TribeFirst is the world's first marketing communications agency to provide dedicated equity crowdfunding support. John is also Virgin StartUp's crowdfunding trainer and consultant, helping them to run branded workshops, webinars and programmes on crowdfunding. John is passionate about working with start-ups and sees crowdfunding as more than just raising funds; it's an opportunity to build a loyal tribe of lifelong customers.
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John Auckland
Susanne Birgersdotter
Susanne Birgersdotter, a Swedish self-made entrepreneur and author, shares her inspirational entrepreneurial journey to becoming the founder of Igotcha, SthlmAppLab, SBDM, Birgersdotter Innovate within seven years. Working from her kitchen table and using only online help, Susanne took it upon herself to create a math app to help her daughter practice her multiplication tables.
Susanne's keen instincts and intuition have helped her grow and expand her companies. Susanne shares her experiences including her setbacks and challenges while revealing the truth about the tech and start-up world and how she has stayed motivated to succeed as a female entrepreneur.
Susanne is dedicated to sustainably growing her business and works actively to support other women entrepreneurs, encouraging more women to start companies and helping them get access to funding opportunities.
Susanne is an active mentor and member of Founders Institute, FemTech, Female Founders as well as on several other boards and is an editorial advisor for Veckans Affärer Women's entrepreneurial venture. As a global speaker, Susanne gives lectures and workshops on entrepreneurship, women in tech, venture capital, and start-ups. Recent highlights include Mobile World Congress Barcelona & Americas, TEDx Wilmington, and European Women in Tech.
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Susanne Birgersdotter
David Bell
David is a highly accomplished, multi award-winning company director, entrepreneur, executive business coach & motivational speaker. He is passionate about helping others succeed and driving businesses forward to achieve their full potential.
Starting his entrepreneurial journey back in 1995 at the tender age of seventeen, David Co-founded APC Solutions – now recognised as a leading provider of wireless communications solutions. Twenty-years on it’s now a multimillion-pound company delivering projects in the UK, Europe, South Africa, North America and the Middle East.
David has a vast experience and knowledge in communications, IT solutions and technology, backed with a solid understanding of business management and leadership.
In 2013 David founded Simboc Limited, a business consultancy and management company providing bespoke services to other organisations. Motivated by his passion to see others reach their potential, David takes particular pleasure when mentoring and coaching others to help them realise their dreams and business goals.
David frequently receives public speaking requests and has vast experience presenting at awards ceremonies, universities and corporate events.
David Founded The Speaker Expert in early 2015 to help coach and train individuals who want to learn how to speak and present like an expert. The Speaker Expert is now the go to speaking organisation for many business owners and their teams.
David volunteers a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) ambassador for STEMNET, helping to inspire young people and encourage them to enjoy STEM subjects.
In 2015 David was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Institute of Enterprise and Entrepreneurs for his contribution to UK enterprise.
In June 2017, David was awarded Fellowship (FCIM) status as a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM).
As an aside, you’ll have lots of fun and laughter working with David. He’s warm-hearted and gets a real buzz out of seeing others succeed. David lives in Essex with his family and exuberant (and at times insane) Springer Spaniel. In his spare time David likes to play squash, indulge in a glass of fine wine or tackle the downhill on a pair of skis. He’s partial to a game of golf, but he’s not any good at it.
Well, you can’t be a success at everything!
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David Bell
Prof. Dr. Petra Meyer
Founder & Managing Partner; Senior Consultant on Emotional Intelligence, Culture & Organizational Development; Innsbruck, Austria; Professor, Department for Human Resource Management and Leadership, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences; Author; Speaker; Certified Assessor for Emotional Intelligence and Vital Signs in Organizations (6seconds, San Francisco); Senior Advisor to Silicon Castles & Faculty Member of the Silicon Castles Startup Executive Academy, Salzburg, Austria What's the glue that holds teams and startups together, what makes them really tick, what’s the "one" thing? Is it purpose, culture, leadership, EQ? Answering these questions has shaped my professional career, leading me to develop a process to optimize Change and growth in organizations. This process is driven by my passion for people and organizations experiencing change and people related challenges. I focus on an organization’s culture and development, including the future of work. I am a Professor for Emotional Intelligence and Social Skills at the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Department for Human Resource Management and Leadership, in Business Management and Entrepreneurship. I am also founder and Managing Partner of a Consulting and Training Company. Over the last 17 years my team and I have worked with Startups. SMEs and international organizations, and I have gained experience in consulting and training with boards, leaders and in organizational development. I have often worked with innovative startups, but they were challenged by weak development or dysfunctional teams. Supporting people and startups in their sustainable holistic development, in their growth and in their success has become my core professional focus. My background is in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management. I earned my Master’s degree at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration and my Ph.D. in Management and Marketing at the University of Wollongong, Australia. As 6seconds certified Emotional Intelligence Assessor I am currently working on vital signs in organizations. Now I have 17 years of experience as a practitioner in this field. I believe that the biggest concern for any organization should be when their most passionate people become quiet. Therefore I focus with a systemic approach to people, their personal development, and their role in the social and corporate world. My purpose is to achieve innovative, sustainable long-term results that can benefit the individual, the organization, and the community.
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Prof. Dr. Petra Meyer
Gautam Ramdurai
Gautam Ramdurai spends his weekdays thinking about growing various products at Google and how they might add value to people’s lives. He does so by understanding people, following culture and connecting ideas to solve business problems. He has deeply engaged with the Android partner ecosystem in Asia Pacific and built consumer/media strategies for products such as YouTube and Chromecast. He’s a software engineer by education and a strategist by experience. He grew up in small-town India and and has lived in Singapore, Bangalore, New York and Virginia.
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Gautam Ramdurai
Catherine Ogilvie
With more than 30 years experience in global marketing and communications Catherine has worked with blue chip businesses around the world and lived both in Europa and US. Her roles have included senior international management positions with Harrods, Motorola, Napster, Edelman, Almond Board of California and Dolby. Most recently she has held leadership positions within higher education at the University of Leicester. Her experience in building and mentoring teams, developing corporate/brand narrative and effective marketing strategy in a range of industry sectors from start-ups to multi nationals provides invaluable support to business leaders and entrepreneurs alike. Currently a member of Authentic Vision’s European Advisory Board, she also works with C-suite executives on crisis, marketing and communications strategy and leads highly effective, results orientated "Brand Bootcamps" which help businesses develop brand frameworks and tools to align their position and messaging.
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Catherine Ogilvie
Hakob Hakobyan
Founder of Startup Armenia Foundation and Seaside Startup Summit.
Changemaker with more than 15 years of experience in business activation and social development. Successfully led and managed a number of projects in social, cultural and entrepreneurial fields across Armenia and worldwide. As one of the key representatives of Startup Community in the region, I am responsible for creating Startup Clubs in the countryside that enable young people to be more educated and informed about the business sphere. Author of a number of social projects that create a unique platform for all stakeholders of international business community.
Changemaker with more than 15 years of experience in business activation and social development. Successfully led and managed a number of projects in social, cultural and entrepreneurial fields across Armenia and worldwide. As one of the key representatives of Startup Community in the region, I am responsible for creating Startup Clubs in the countryside that enable young people to be more educated and informed about the business sphere. Author of a number of social projects that create a unique platform for all stakeholders of international business community.
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Hakob Hakobyan
Dr. Anica Zeyen
Anica Zeyen is a Senior Lecturer in Strategy and Sustainability at Royal Holloway University of London (UK). She further leads the Royal Holloway Enterprise Hub, a College-wide initiative that supports students in their entrepreneurial activities. Anica has previously founded a similar platform for student social entrepreneurs at a German university. Over the last 10 years, Anica has supported many student entrepreneurs, some of whom went on to win national awards. Anica is passionate about sustainability - the link between economic, social and environmental aspects. With her PhD on social entrepreneurial ventures, she turned this passion into a career and is now teaching and researching sustainable entrepreneurship. Within the field of sustainability, Anica is particularly interested in equality and inclusion. In her free-time, Anica works with children with learning disabilities and volunteers as a speaker & fundraiser for Guide Dogs for the Blind Association UK
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Dr. Anica Zeyen
Hampus Jakobsson
Hampus Jakobsson is one of the leading angel investors in the Nordics with over 90 investments. Apart from investing, Hampus has founded two companies (TAT and Brisk.io) and three startup organisations (Malmö Startups, The Ground, Malmö Civic Lab). He blogs at www.hajak.se and is an active public speaker.
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Hampus Jakobsson
Joanna Cruickshanks
Jo is the founder of Bare Collective, a rapid-prototyping brand, story and marketing collective with a unique framework that helps brands who are looking to stand out and up for something in the world. Over the past 20 years, Jo has worked with a diverse range of start-ups and brands to lead them into the digital age: from launching digital-first brands like Pretty Green by Liam Gallagher into the world, to re-thinking the digital era for the likes of heritage brands such as Wedgwood and Gieves & Hawkes. After 15 years in the traditional agency-client paradigm, Jo's mission today is to create awake, authentic leaders in alive, aligned brands. She does this by applying a blend of frameworks that bring every aspect of their brand into coherence.
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Joanna Cruickshanks
Alasdair Ben Dixon
Alasdair is an architect and founder of Collective Works, an innovative design studio underpinned by flexible working. He has long held a commitment to finding a better way for businesses to balance the needs of the wider world with the needs of their clients. During his career he has advised on ethical issues within a large established company, a charity and in the day to day running of a small business. He has been recognised for his work and is now contributing to the RIBA Commission on Ethics and Sustainable Development as well as speaking on topics such as responsibility and social value.
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Alasdair Ben Dixon
Yvonne Fuchs
Yvonne Fuchs has 22 years of experience as a successful business coach, originally at Business Link and over 40 years in total working in the business world. She founded The Branding Workshop in 2004 in order to bring corporate brand strategies to small and medium-sized businesses. She works with creatives and designers as a mentor and business adviser and is an energetic speaker on leadership, branding and creativity in commercial and social enterprises. Clients describe Yvonne as an insightful and astute adviser, being at turns challenging and provoking, while never ceasing to nurture and guide the individuals at the heart of each business or organisation. She has worked with everyone from startups to those with a turnover of up to £30million
in social enterprises as well as the commercial world.
www.yvonnefuchs.com
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Yvonne Fuchs
Hari Kalymnios
Hari Kalymnios consults, writes and speaks on mindset, resilience and wellbeing, having been in the field for over 10 years. After being awarded a First-Class degree in Physics with Astrophysics, Hari went on to work for Accenture, Sainsbury’s and The London Stock Exchange. Following a decade in the City, he forged a new path helping professionals improve their health, wellbeing and energy levels, after succeeding in transforming his own life. Hari has spoken on the TEDx stage and is a visiting lecturer at the European Center for Executive Development (CEDEP). Hari is sought-after by clients including large multinational blue chip, media and financial companies to universities, schools, community interest groups and the world’s fastest Formula One team, as well as billionaires and CEO’s. Hari also is a prolific content creator, regularly posting videos and blogs and shares his ideas and philosophies to thousands worldwide via his active social media outlets and online courses. He can be reached on all social media channels via his handle thethoughtgym.
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Hari Kalymnios
Harpal Dhatt
Harpal Dhatt is an award winning Chartered Occupational Psychologist, founder of Glow at Work since 2011 and Kindness Cafés since 2016.
Passionate about compassion, self-compassion, mindfulness, gratitude and kindness. She created Kindness Cafés a metaphorical café for the mind, body and soul. To spread the message of kindness globally and to show the importance of self-kindness and kindness to others for positive mental wellbeing.
She is also an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society and on the Register of Coaching Psychologists. She is accredited in a wide variety of personality psychometrics, and combines her knowledge of organisational culture and diversity to design interventions in the workplace for people to thrive.
She has 16 years experience working in leadership development with individuals, teams and organisations, and she has worked at different levels in organisations from senior managers to frontline employees. Working with the National Health Service, Wormwood Scrubs Prison Healthcare, HMRC, VisualDNA, Red Ant, United Health UK, EDF Energy, University College London, Local Government Association, Creativenessfest, TEDxCovent Garden Women, Museum of Happiness and SONY.
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Harpal Dhatt
Alex Silleras Villamayor
I study politics, philosophy and economics. I am a magician. I do feminist magic because feminism and stages once taught me how to create myself. At the moment I travel with my show “queer of hearts”, that I have displayed in Sweden, Spain, England, Ecuador and Mexico in the past year. I deeply believe in the power image has to tell stories and shape realities, which is why I am now directing and producing a movie from talento x talento: a social platform that I created four years ago to celebrate diversity. Euphoria is my new trick, with which I am aiming to share testimonies of trans* people from around the world.
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Alex Silleras Villamayor
Shamash Alidina
Shamash Alidina has been a mindfulness and meditation teacher with over 20 years experience. He's author of 5 books including Mindfulness for Dummies. He's been in business for over 7 years, and is co-founder of the Museum of Happiness, Teach Mindfulness and the Happier World Conference. He's spoken at conferences all over the world, on the topic of mindfulness, kindfulness and how we can create a happier, kinder world together. He's a big believer in empowering changemakers to make a positive difference to transform both themselves and society. He's currently writing a book on Zen of Business with business mentor and coach Yvonne Fuchs.
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Shamash Alidina
Allisa Lindo
Originally from New York City, Allisa is currently the growth marketing manager for Malmö-based startup Brandox. Since moving to Sweden, she has become fully immersed in the startup community in southern Sweden and often refers to it as her "home away from home". She works specifically with growth marketing strategies but is also interested in the role of ethics and sustainability within innovation. She also enjoys freelance copywriting and content marketing for small businesses in Sweden and the United States.
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Allisa Lindo
Federico Martire
Proudly Italian-born, Spanish-resident European, Federico Martire has been working in the field of international cooperation for over 10 years. His interests vary from inclusive to sustainable development, with particular interest to social innovation and social responsibility, aligned with the SDGs and the 2030 Agenda. He currently directs the EU-funded programme Bridging the Gap, aimed at enhancing the inclusion of persons with disabilities in low- and middle-income countries.
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Federico Martire
Andreas Spechtler
CEO and Founder of Silicon Castles. Andreas has more than 25 years experience in global technology and licensing business, digital entertainment, international marketing, sales and operations in Europe, US, Russia, Middle East and Africa. Andreas worked for American, German and Japanese companies and looks back to many years of startup and incubation experience inside and outside of corporations. Andreas served as executive in global technology companies such as Sony, Nemetschek, Real Networks and Dolby. The last years Andreas was President of Dolby Laboratories International based London and Amsterdam. With the new year 2017 Andreas left the corporate world and is now fully dedicated to help startups to grow and startup executives to become world class performers.
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Andreas Spechtler
Russell Copley
Russell Copley is owner and Director of Greenborough Management, a business development and project management company with a team of eight across central England, founded fifteen years ago. He is also Chief Executive of the East Midlands Incubation Network; Regional Manager of Angels Den (Europe’s largest network of business angels); and has been managing a number of business support initiatives across England in recent years, including the Lincolnshire Investment Network (LIN) and a range of various grant funds. He has worked with a large number of companies to help them to raise investment from business angels and equity funds. In addition to helping others, Russell is also a private equity investor having invested in a few early stage businesses himself.
He is currently the Chair of the Regional Advisory Board of the Midlands Engine Investment Fund, a new £250M debt and equity “fund of funds” designed to support business growth across the midlands region of the UK.
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Russell Copley
Alex Bacardit
CMO & co-founder at MarsBased, and Regional Director at Startup Grind for Southern Europe.
MarsBased is a full-remote development consultancy from Barcelona specialised in web and mobile applications developed with Ruby on Rails, Angular and other Javascript frameworks. Alex runs the sales/marketing area and is in charge of communications & growth of the company.
MarsBased is a global first company, with International clients from USA, Germany, Spain, Singapore, UK or Finland just to name a few.
In 2015, Alex became responsible for the expansion of the Startup Grind brand in Southern Europe (Portugal, Spain, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Malta, Gibraltar, Andorra) and his Startup Grind Barcelona chapter, one of the strongest of the world, was selected as Chapter of the Year in 2016 among 300 other contenders.
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Alex Bacardit
Umesh Kumar
Umesh is a passionate advocate of entrepreneurship. He is a serial entrepreneur who has founded 4 startups to date and he has a strong interest in start-ups, innovation, social enterprise and charitable initiatives. He is currently the Director and CEO at Peel Foods, an exciting food startup based in London providing delicious, healthy and Michelin star quality food to office workers across the city. Umesh is also a freelance consultant, public speaker, charity trustee and business mentor.
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Umesh Kumar
Alex Chisnall
Alex Chisnall is an entrepreneur who helps other entrepreneurs make a full time living turning their passion into profit, and doing what they love. He started out working for Virgin Atlantic Airways and transitioned into the business world after being inspired by his boss, Sir Richard Branson, to start his own business. He ended up launching three, including becoming Chief Starter-Upper at startupu.co.uk regional delivery partner for Virgin StartUp. He is host of “Screw it, Just do it” an iTunes Top 40 weekly podcast and also ‘live’ events programme where he interviews both the world’s top entrepreneurs and business leaders as well as exciting new startups. He’s also a Virgin StartUp mentor who helps entrepreneurs with starting, funding and scaling their businesses.
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Alex Chisnall
Seaside Summit
We are happy to announce that in Scope of the European Startup Festival we are joining our efforts with Seaside Startup Summit (SSS). SSS will be our prize sponsor. One of the winners of the Growth stage Pitching at the European Startup Festival will get an opportunity to participate in Sevan Startup Summit 2020 to be held in Armenia in July 2020. Sponsor will cover flight and admission tickets for 2 members of the winning team.
Seaside Startup Summit is an outdoor campsite-based Global Forum with a footprint in UAE & India that fosters intensive deal-making and immersive conversations about the hottest current topics in entrepreneurship since 2016. The event attracts leading angels, VCs, entrepreneurs, and policymakers willing to join their peers in an intimate setting to think, act and transform their environment via entrepreneurship. Please refer to this video for an introduction to the unique SSS format.
Over the past three years, the Seaside Startup Summit platform has attracted over 450 vibrant startups, 350 mentors, speakers and investors, 15000 guests and 200 business from more than 45 countries. Over $200,000 grants were provided, and the raised investments reached $2,500,000.
Sevan Startup Summit 2020 includes a week-long international level micro-acceleration program supplemented by a series of workshops for qualified startups, introductory sessions for aspiring entrepreneurs, and dialogues with inspiring leaders.
Each year, Sevan Startup Summit works with leading Ecosystem Partners who drive the growth of their local innovation ecosystems through advocacy, facilitation and learning development. As a Summit participant, you will have an opportunity to connect, learn and collaborate with likeminded ventures, investors, mentors, and institutions and find some interesting opportunities for investments.
Seaside Startup Summit is an outdoor campsite-based Global Forum with a footprint in UAE & India that fosters intensive deal-making and immersive conversations about the hottest current topics in entrepreneurship since 2016. The event attracts leading angels, VCs, entrepreneurs, and policymakers willing to join their peers in an intimate setting to think, act and transform their environment via entrepreneurship. Please refer to this video for an introduction to the unique SSS format.
Over the past three years, the Seaside Startup Summit platform has attracted over 450 vibrant startups, 350 mentors, speakers and investors, 15000 guests and 200 business from more than 45 countries. Over $200,000 grants were provided, and the raised investments reached $2,500,000.
Sevan Startup Summit 2020 includes a week-long international level micro-acceleration program supplemented by a series of workshops for qualified startups, introductory sessions for aspiring entrepreneurs, and dialogues with inspiring leaders.
Each year, Sevan Startup Summit works with leading Ecosystem Partners who drive the growth of their local innovation ecosystems through advocacy, facilitation and learning development. As a Summit participant, you will have an opportunity to connect, learn and collaborate with likeminded ventures, investors, mentors, and institutions and find some interesting opportunities for investments.
Seaside Summit
Malmö
Destinationssamverkan Malmö AB is an organisation with a board composed of representatives from the private business community and the municipality of Malmö. The organisation is 30% owned by the municipality of Malmö and 70% by the private business community.
Malmö
Event in Skåne
Event in Skåne is the centre of event expertise and a collaborative partner of events in Skåne. They work to attract more, larger and better events, exhibitions and conventions to the region.
www.eventinskane.com
Event in Skåne
Creative Start-Up Academy
The Creative Start-Up Academy offers support with online courses, workshops, 1:1 support as well as an online community for start-ups and small businesses.
Creative Start-Up Academy
Panion
Panion is a keyword-searchable social app that connects like-minded people through common interests, goals, values, and experiences. You can explore those who share your interests nearby or within your networks, and then reach out to organize in-person meetups. With Panion it’s easy to turn online interactions into real life friendships. Join the European Startup Association community on the Panion app!
Panion
Venture Cup
enture Cup have supported tens of thousands of entrepreneurs and helped nearly 15 000 ideas to blossom since the start in 1998. We are Sweden's no. 1 competition and the competition where ideas become businesses. We arrange two competitions yearly. STARTUP is all about startups in an early phase, and the IDEA competition during the fall is all about ideas. The two different tracks enable us to support first-time entrepreneurs as well as more mature ones. For more information follow this link http://www.venturecup.se/
Venture Cup
Digital Nomad Town
Digital Nomad Town - A place to connect, work and relax. Our mission is to create a sustainable, self-sustaining community in Meina with new job opportunities and new people to repopulate the area. To reach this goal, we offer everything that a Digital Nomad needs. We involve the local community for a sustainable development of the local economy and fulfill UN Sustainable Development goals. More info here: www.digitalnomadtown.com
Digital Nomad Town
Altitude
At Altitude Meetings, we work with meaningful projects. We want to make a difference – both for society and for our clients. We have our own conference arena at STUDIO Meetingpoint in Malmö. Here you will find 10 warm, welcoming and special designed meeting rooms with sea view – the best meeting rooms in the whole region. Besides running STUDIO Meetingpoint, we help clients with conferences, meetings, workshops and other events – and we arrange our own meetings around topics that matters to us.
We are experts at creating, shaping and producing creative content. We do lectures about hot social topics, facilitate workshops that leads to real results and we create our own educations. We also have our own Altitude Academy – where we help young leaders to grow.
We put pride in arrangements that are well thought through, were nothing is left to chance.
We work towards clear goals everyday to create greater meaning for our customers.
And we never forget to have fun as we go along.
Altitude
Malmö
Destinationssamverkan Malmö AB is an organisation with a board composed of representatives from the private business community and the municipality of Malmö. The organisation is 30% owned by the municipality of Malmö and 70% by the private business community.
Malmö
Invest in Skåne
Invest in Skåne is the official regional business promotion agency for Southern Sweden. Invest in Skåne is part of the marketing organisation called Business Region Skåne, which is owned by the regional council - Region Skåne - and the municipalities of Skåne. Invest in Skåne’s role is to connect international companies with business opportunities in Southern Sweden as well as help Swedish companies to internationalise their business.
Invest in Skåne
Event in Skåne
Event in Skåne is the centre of event expertise and a collaborative partner of events in Skåne. They work to attract more, larger and better events, exhibitions and conventions to the region.
www.eventinskane.com
Event in Skåne
EEUK
Enterprise Educators UK is the leading independent membership network for enterprise educators. We enable excellence by connecting educators and practitioners to learn from and inspire each other to develop their practice.
EEUK
IAAD
IAAD is our partner and location for the first European Startup Festival. IAAD believes that design is culture of the project, is a system capable of linking production with end users dealing with research and innovation to provide social value, cultural significance to goods and services: meaning, form and function are the cornerstones of a conscious design. For more information about IAAD go to iaad.it
IAAD
Our first European Startup Festival 2018 in Turin was a great success! We had over 1000 ticket orders and were sold out. Participants said they made new friends for life, learned a lot of new things and were inspired. Click below to see what it was all about and who was there.
You can get involved with the European Startup Festival in different ways.
Sponsor
We have a great audience that you will benefit from. Start-ups, investors, businesses and institutions from across Europe will get together to network, inspire and connect. We have different sponsor packages that you can choose from or we tailor a sponsor package with you. Click the button to read more.
Pitching to investors
You can pitch your start-up to investors at our events throughout the year. The events will be the selection process to be able to pitch at our European Startup Festival in September 2019. If you would like to pitch please fill in the form below.
If you would like to be one of our investors and judges at our events, please fill in the form below.
Volunteering
Want to get volunteering experience at a great event, make new friends for life, have fun and network? We appreciate your support. Fill in the form to read more about it and apply.
