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Programme of Wolves Summit Vienna 2024

 

DAY 1: 6 November 

08:00-09:00
RECEPTION

Coffees and Conversation

09:00 - 9:30
MAIN STAGE

Wolves Summit's plans for 2025

Overview of Agenda for these 2 Days

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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

 

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)

12:00 - 12:40
MAIN STAGE
Introducing 3-4 Success Stories
StartUps growing fast and building traction

 

12:40 - 13:40
LUNCH BREAK
11:20 - 11:35
STAGE II

Workshop

Legal Issues and Structuring for StartUps

 

 

11:40 - 11:55
STAGE II

Workshop
SoftDev at Speed... Building your Techstack

 

12:00 - 12:40
STAGE II
Workshop
Pre-reserved
13:40 - 15:00
MAIN STAGE

CVC Sector-specific Showcases (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

  • Fintech and Financials (Banking, Insurance, etc.) - pre-reserved
  • AI/Tech/Automation

  • Energy/Renewables and Climate Tech

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

  • HealthTech/MedTech

 

 

 

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

 

18:00 - 21:00

VIP Opening Reception

(limited to Investor VIP ticket-holders)

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 - 09:00

Coffees and Conversation

09:00 - 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:

 

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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
  • pre-reserved
  • tba
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Roger Dorsch
Partner, Jet Ventures 

10:30 - 11:00
MAIN STAGE

Conversations over Coffees

11:00 - 11:30
MAIN STAGE

Hybrid VCs:

Why VCs run by highly-successful Entrepreneurs might be worth a closer look.

3 panelists

11:30 - 12:15
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 

 
 
12:15 - 12:45
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
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Grzegorz Ambroziewicz
Deputy Head of Unit, EIC Accelerator

12:45- 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
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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 – 10:15
STAGE II

Workshop
TBA

 

 

 

 

 

 

10:15 – 10:30
STAGE II

Workshop
TBA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

11:00 – 11:15
STAGE II
Workshop 
TBA
11:15 – 11:30
STAGE II
Workshop
TBA
11:30 – 12:10
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: Open to any sectors (4 pitches)

Moderator: tba

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

Closing Reception, in cooperation with WeXelerate