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Programme of Wolves Summit Vienna 2024

 

DAY 1: 6 November 

08:00-09:15
RECEPTION

Coffees and Conversation

09:15 - 9:30
MAIN STAGE

Wolves Summit 2.0. How our plans for 2025 will help you build your Network and build your Business.

Overview of Agenda for these 2 Days

ThomLI-2024
Thom Barnhardt
CEO, Wolves Summit
09:30 - 10:10
MAIN STAGE

Keynoter: "Go Big or Go Home!"

10:10 - 10:50
MAIN STAGE
Accelerators and Incubators: Do they add value to StartUps?
A debate

 

WeXelerate_AwiLifshitz

Awi Lifshitz
ceo, WeXelerate

10:50 - 11:20

Conversations over Coffees

11:20- 12:00
MAIN STAGE

Tapping into Top Angel Networks across western Europe, Scandinavia, and UK

Panelists (3) (tba)

BlueLake_LyubovGuk2

Lyubov Guk

Founding Partner
Blue Lake Syndicate (UK)

Stefania3

Stefania Ingannamorte

Angel Investor (Italy)

Growth Advisory & Investment

12:00 - 12:40
MAIN STAGE
Introducing 3 Startups accelerating growth
These 3 StartUps have recently-landed pre-Seed or Seed financing to fuel their growth. We'll hear their stories.

 

Petsy_BartekSobota

Bartek Sobota
Co-Founder, Petsy 

12:40 - 13:40

LUNCH BREAK

 

13:45-14:15

"How Secondary Funds Can Create Liquidity for Founders and VCs: Lessons from the Nordic Secondary Fund".

NordicSecondary_Frank Lyhne Hansen

Frank Lyhne

co-Founder, Nordic Secondary Fund

11:00 - 11:40
STAGE II

Workshop for Founders

"Pitch-Deck Tips for Startup Founders" 

DesignDecks_Samuel Eisenberg

Samuel Eisenberg
Co-Founder, Design for Decks

 

11:40 - 11:55
STAGE II

Workshop
SoftDev at Speed... Building your Techstack

 

12:00 - 12:20
STAGE II
Workshop
"Venture Debt Financing". Insights into the no-equity debt financing options for Startups & ScaleUps.
14:15 - 15:00
MAIN STAGE

CVC Sector-specific Showcases (3 x 15 min each)

CVC execs will give a brief insider-views of key factors  shaping a specific industry and how they can help StartUps/ScaleUps build their business

  • Insurance, Fintech, & Financials
  • AI/Tech/Automation

  • Energy/Renewables and Climate Tech

  • Aviation, Aeronautics, Space, Defense, Mobility and Automotive

  • HealthTech/MedTech

 

Uniqa_AndreasNemeth1

Andreas Nemeth
CEO, UNIQA Ventures

 

 

15:00 - 15:40
MAIN STAGE

Expansion into UK and w. Europe

Connecting to new Clients and new Capital. 

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Russell Dalgleish

Scottish Serial Entrepreneur and Investor

Exolta Capital Partners

15:40 - 16:00
Main Stage

Lessons in Teamwork from the Animal Kingdom

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Łukasz Długowski


Founder
Wolves Foundation

16:00 - 16:30
MAIN STAGE

Closing Keynoter

 

17:30 - 19:30

Opening Reception

(for all Guests)

13:45 – 14:15
THE GREAT PITCH CONTEST STAGE

GREAT PITCH CONTEST 1

Focus on: Fintech (4 pitches)

Moderator: tba

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

14:15 - 14:45
THE GREAT PITCH CONTEST STAGE

GREAT PITCH CONTEST 2

Focus on: Energy, Renewables. ClimateTech (4 pitches)

14:45 – 15:15
THE GREAT PITCH CONTEST STAGE

GREAT PITCH CONTEST 3

Focus on: Industrial Startups (4 pitches)

Moderator: Roger Dorsch, Jet Investment

15:15 - 16:45
THE GREAT PITCH CONTEST STAGE

GREAT PITCH CONTEST 4

Focus on: Mobility (4 pitches)

Moderator: tba

15:45 - 16:15
THE GREAT PITCH CONTEST STAGE

GREAT PITCH CONTEST 5

Focus on: Open to any sector (4 pitches)

Moderator: tba

                               DAY 2: 7 November

08:00 - 09:15

Coffees and Conversation

09:15 - 09:30
MAIN STAGE

Welcome to Day 2.  Overview of today's Agenda.

ThomLI-2024

Thom Barnhardt
CEO, Wolves Summit

09:30 - 10:00
MAIN STAGE

Opening Keynoter:

 

Tomasz_Czechowicz_MCI-4
Tomasz Czechowicz
MCI Capital
Founder and Managing Partner
10:00 - 10:30
MAIN STAGE

VC Reverse Pitches:
Introducing 3 New funds and unique Strategies

  • Roger Dorsch, Jet Ventures ("Industrial-Tech")
  • Andreas Barthelmes, G+D Ventures ("TrustTech")
  • pre-reserved
RogerDorsch2

Roger Dorsch
Partner, Jet Ventures 

GDVC_AndreasBarthelmes

Andreas Barthelmes
Investment Manager

G+D Ventures

10:30 - 11:00
MAIN STAGE

Conversations over Coffees

11:00 - 11:45
MAIN STAGE

"Top Female-Founded Startup Contest" Finalists
8 Pitches (5 min each)

Thanks to support of: Female Founders and WomenTechEU !

Ideal_MartaDaina

Marta Daina
Founder, iDEAL Rent (Italy)

Qorby_JuliaPengg

Julia Pengg
Founder, Qorby (Austria)

Intriq_JessicaLiew

Jessica Liew
Founder, Intriq (UK)

Geddid_ChristinaSchaub

Christina Schaub
Founder, Geddid (Germany)

Boolee_JasminHadrany

Jasmin Hadrany
Founder, Boolee (Austria)

Redeco_LisaJerahtina

Lisa Jerahtina
Founder, Redeco (UK)

Suuplay_AgnesVilarrubia

AgnesVilarrubia

Co-Founder, Supplaay

FactoryMaker_MariaZahlbruckner

Maria Zahlbruckner
Co-Founder, factorymaker

FemaleFounders_Fanny Springer

Fanny Springer
Community Manager, Female Founders

11:45 - 12:30
MAIN STAGE

How Investors can find deep-value in CEE

by tapping into the region's Angel Networks

Panelists of 4 CEE-based Angel Networks:

  • Transylvania Angels Network (Romania), Mircea Vădan, Co-founder
  • Cobin Angels (Poland)
  • HunBAN (Hungary), Peter Csillag, President
 
 
TAN_MirceaVadanPNG

Mircea Vădan
Transylvania Angels Network

HunBAN-PeterCsillag2

Peter Csillag
President

HunBAN

12:30 - 13:00
MAIN STAGE

EU Funding sources for Seed and early-stage rounds. 

2 Panelists:

  • Seed-funding from EIC Pathfinder and Accelerator programs for DeepTechs. Grzegorz Ambroziewicz, Deputy Head of Unit
  • tba
EIC_Ambroziewicz

Grzegorz Ambroziewicz
Deputy Head of Unit, EIC Accelerator

13:00- 14:00

Lunch Break

Sponsored by Itelence

Itelence website (1)
14:00 - 14:45
MAIN STAGE

How to reach DACH VCs and Angel Investors

Moderator: tba

Panelists (3: tba): (VCs, and Angel Investors from DACH)

  • Selma Prodanovic, EBAN and 1Million Startups
Selma Prodanovic-InvestAustriaANGELS

Selma Prodanovi

14:45 - 15:30
MAIN STAGE

Advice to early-stage companies from European CVCs:

Insights from 3 top CVC execs

 
15:30 - 16:00
MAIN STAGE

Great Pitch Contest Finals

16:00 - 16:30
MAIN STAGE

Closing Keynoter

 

16:30 - 17:00
MAIN STAGE

Great Pitch Contest Awards

10:00 – 10:40
STAGE II

Workshop: Applying AI and Big-Data analytics to the Startup Ecosytem – at-scale

A Workshop exploring opportunities to filter in-depth investment analyst reports on startups at large scale. And vastly-improving the process and success-rates of connecting investors with startups.

Introducing IncubatorIQ, a new JV powered by Wolves Summit and Hotspur (UK). 

Hotspur_ChrisBrannigan

Christopher Brannigan
Founder, Hotspur

10:40 – 10:55
STAGE II

Workshop
Legal Issues and Structuring for StartUps

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

11:45 – 12:45
The Great Pitch Contest Stage

GREAT PITCH CONTEST 6

Focus on: Aviation/Aeronautics/Space and Defense (4 pitches) 

Moderator: tba

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

14:00 – 14:40
The Great Pitch Contest Stage

GREAT PITCH CONTEST 7

Focus on: Fintech (4 pitches)

Moderator: tba

14:45 – 15:00
The Great Pitch Contest Stage

GREAT PITCH CONTEST 8

Focus on: MedTech/HealthTech

Moderator: Andre Lonne, Navispace

15:00 – 15:15
STAGE II
Workshop 
TBA
15:15 – 15:30
STAGE II
Workshop
Pre-reserved
17:30 - 20:30
WeXelerate

VIP Investors Reception, in cooperation with WeXelerate

(exclusively for Investors and VIP ticket holders)