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1-3 october in Athens, Greece
2nd FIWARE Startup
Bootcamp
3 days of targeted workshops, world-class panels, one-to-one coaching,
pitching sessions, lively networking, and a wealth of other activities

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Boost your business idea

Advance your concepts and businesses and engage in-person with active investors
from all over the world and seek funding.

Venue

Plenty of space for ideas and business to grow.

Technopolis is an industrial museum and a major cultural venue at the very center of Athens, in Gazi next to Keramikos. It has been in operation since 1999 and is situated in the city's former gasworks which were founded in 1857, occupying an area of about 30.000 m2. Numerous exhibitions, seminars, music concerts and other cultural activities take place in the grounds, bringing out the lively and creative atmosphere of the space and area!


Coaches & Experts

Boost your startups with the help of international market experts and startup coaches.


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Joaquin Soucheiron
bwcon
Germany

Multilingual Lean thinker and entrepreneur: 2 Exits, one as founder (AlphaSol) and one as coach (enbreeze). Accredited coach for hi-tech startups (hardware and software). Expert continuous improvement (Toyota Production Systems) applied to sales, startups and innovative companies.

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Cynthia Mackey
Winning Strategies LLC
Ireland

Cynthia Mackey has over 20 years experience in the fields of manufacturing, telecommunications, Internet services, product marketing, digital marketing and entrepreneurship. She has 2 primary areas of focus: digital marketing for start-ups and small/medium businesses, as well as learning strategy and training development.

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Robert Koning
VC Ventures GmbH
Germany

Founder and CEO of VC Ventures GmbH is an award winning Entrepreneur and has more than 23 years of international experience gained in the USA, UK, Holland and East Europe. Robert develops innovative and successful companies and supports young entrepreneurs who plan to build up their own Startup.

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Carmen Hughes
Ignite PR

With more than fifteen years experience, Carmen Hughes has honed her expertise counseling technology-focused companies and organizations of all sizes in the area of public relations, content marketing and social media. She helps companies scale their business by expanding company awareness and product visibility in the market.

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Charles Legrand
CN L & Associates

Charles Legrand has 40 years experience in Banking working in Europe, ME, Africa, India, Asia and Australia. He has worked for Barclays, Citibank and Swift and managed Mentoring and Coaching programs for Citibank. He is now managing his own Training Co in Cash Management, Sales, Customer Excellence and building teams.

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Prof. Dr. Mark Harris
innova.ventures

Seasoned, highly effective, extremely networked executive with over 30 years of experience in the high-tech and entrepreneurship industry with a distinguished career of advancement and achievement.

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Corinna Voss
bwcon GmbH

Responsible for the coordination of European projects in the field of technology transfer, commercialisation and access to finance Corinna is responsible for the project management of the FP7 project European Investor Gate which bridges the gap between public research funding and private investment, and for the Horizon2020 project InvestHorizon which aims at making SMEs investment ready.

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Audra Shallal
BOSS Consulting

Audra Shallal is currently a founder and Managing Director of an International Strategic Management Firm, Audra maintains two streams of specialization: Entrepreneurship-Business Planning and Pitch Coaching-Investor Ready Programs.

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Myrto Papathanou
Action Finance Initiative (AFI)

Myrto Papathanou has 11 years of work experience in the fields of finance and entrepreneurship, and has also been involved in several non-profit projects around the world. She headed Business Development and Service Operations for CPI, a listed Greek ICT company, and since 2010 has been involved in technology start ups, co-founding an e-commerce and a clean tech company.

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Investors

Find investment from international business angels, vc companies, public funds and banks.


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Prof. Dr. Mark Harris
innova.ventures

Seasoned, highly effective, extremely networked executive with over 30 years of experience in the high-tech and entrepreneurship industry with a distinguished career of advancement and achievement.

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Leopold de la Prida Esteller
Fundació CP'AC

With a master's degree in both Economic and Politic Sciences, he had a worthy global experience as International Marketing Manager at a leading Spanish Food Company. He has also started his own IT consulting company specialized in IBM mainframes and Microsoft technologies.

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Haim Volinsky
Independent

Serial entrepreneur being a co-founder in 4 startups with proven track record of successfully growing technology businesses rapidly. Haim has a lot of experience in mergers and acquisitions, leading a company (HyNEX), to its acquisition by Cisco. He has been into executive positions in large corporations, such as Motorola and Cisco. He has also deep involvement in startups as a Mentor and Investor.

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Karsten Wenzlaff
Institut für Kommunikation in sozialen Medien

Karsten Wenzlaff is the founder of the Institute of Communications for Social Media (ikosom), a Berlin-based research facility for new forms of electronic technology.

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Christophe Bodin
CBO Consulting

Christophe Bodin is an independent consultant specialised in Strategy, Finance and Development, supporting innovative companies in the Telecom Industry and the Digital Economy.

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Miguel Henriques
FNABA

Miguel Henriques has been involved with the creation of new ventures for a long time now. From traditional industry to IT, health science, services or energy, he has always been an active part in the process of launching new companies, both as entrepreneur and investor.

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Audra Shallal
BOSS Consulting

Audra Shallal is currently a founder and Managing Director of an International Strategic Management Firm, Audra maintains two streams of specialization: Entrepreneurship-Business Planning and Pitch Coaching-Investor Ready Programs.

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Andreas Koupparis
CYBAN Cyprus Business Angels Network

With degrees in Computer Engineering and Business Systems Analysis & Design from the City University in London, he has founded, expanded and finally sold 3 IT startups including Cylink, the first Internet Service Provider and Infospec, the first e-learning platform in Cyprus.

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Isabel Neves
Lisbon Business Angels Club

Isabel Neves is a founding partner of ISABEL NEVES & ASSOCIADOS- Law Firm RL'. She is also a businesswoman and a partner shareholder in several companies in different sectors: food; logistics and transport; consulting investment.

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Robert Koning
VC Ventures GmbH

Founder and CEO of VC Ventures GmbH is an award winning Entrepreneur and has more than 23 years of international experience gained in the USA, UK, Holland and East Europe. Robert develops innovative and successful companies and supports young entrepreneurs who plan to build up their own Startup.

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Sponsors & Partners

Thank you very much to all of your sponsors and partners that belive together with us in the vision to boost the European startup environment and to create sustainable innovation in cutting-edge fields.

Location

  • 100, Pireos str. | 118 54 Athens
  • fi-business-bootcamp@fi-ppp.eu