European Startup Festival 20.-22.09.2019
Join us in Malmö, Sweden at this exciting startup festival! Days full of inspiring talks, pitching for investment, networking, masterclasses and fun! We believe that a successful start-up is not only dependent on investment but on the network you build, knowledge you acquire and the team you are setting up. We give you all! Sign up to stay up to date with upcoming news and events the European Startup Association is doing.
There are so many reasons to join the movement. Here are a few:
> build a European network connecting with all stakeholders involved of a start-up ecosystem > attract new talent to your city > learn from and share best practice > meet start-ups to invest in > connect with fellow entrepreneurs > meet investors > find new customers > make new friends for life > get inspired > have fun > and much more
Christine Michaelis
Christine Michaelis is a Business Coach, author, public speaker and workshop facilitator. She has worked in marketing and advertising for more than 10 years before she decided to start her own business as a Marketing and Creative Start-Up Coach. Now she is mentoring start-up students at universities throughout Europe as well as working with individuals and small businesses. With her hands-on approach, she has helped hundreds of individuals validating their business idea and creating a successful start-up. She is also the founder of the Creative Start-Up Academy, online courses for start-ups and small businesses and founder of the first Digital Nomad Town in the world.
Christine Michaelis
Adriano Travaglia
Adriano Travaglia is a lawyer, start-up and EU Project Manager. He supported a lot of start-ups through smart capital, defining business strategies and searching for funding opportunities as well as investing directly into them.
He is interested in anything that is creative, that supports welfare and new smart services for communities and citizens. Amongst other things, he is the General Director of Torino 3.0, a digital platform of participative democracy and of AFGE, an association that provides high level training courses for companies in legal and economic matters. He wrote about different topics and he focuses his research on big data and privacy.
Adriano Travaglia
Luna Nguyen
Luna Nguyen - young, enthusiastic with an entrepreneurial mindset. She is passionate about creating better social communication where everyone could find what they need and who they want to meet. She loves meeting new people and sharing experiences through continents. She has been working for Erasmus Student Network, Finnish Entrepreneurship Society, TEDxBologna... and now European Startup Organization is her new home, with startup atmosphere, all lovely and joyful faces around, to spread kindness everywhere together.
Luna Nguyen
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
Sanderson Jones
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
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
Joel Burke
Joel is a serial entrepreneur who founded his first business at 18 years old. By the time Joel was 21, he was working with the U.S. Small Business Administration advising small businesses ranging from Native American Reservations to Drone companies. At 22 Joel became CMO of a startup in Silicon Valley, and shortly after moving to Palo Alto, he began working with StartX, the accelerator for Stanford founders. In 2015 Joel launched his own startup developing a hardware device that used ML and a range of sensors and connected devices to optimize sleep. However, the venture didn't take off and Joel moved to venture capital for a short time until moving to Gigster pre Series-A as employee number 9. Joel continues to stay actively involved with early stage startups mentoring through MIT Launch, Startup Weekend, and various Accelerators/Incubators. After helping build several teams at Gigster and the series B fundraise with investors like Michael Jordan and Andreessen Horowitz, Joel relocated to Berlin to help build launchcircle, a Rocket Internet venture focused on creating the future of work starting with custom software development with top freelance engineers from places like Google, McKinsey, and Oracle. After working with Rocket Internet, Joel moved to work in government innovation and now leads the Business Development team at the e-Residency program for the government of Estonia, one of the most forward thinking nations in digital.
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Joel Burke
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
John Aukland
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 Aukland
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.
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