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Attendees

2000+

Speakers

60+

Senior management

72%

Еxhibitors

80+

Countries

23+

EXHIBITION

Blockchain startups and sponsors will have an opportunity to set a booth in the Exhibitor Hall for further networking opportunities

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Project stage

Your startup / project will be reviewed and you will be notified within 7 business days after registration if it is accepted. To participate you need to pay a fee of €400 which includes:

Exhibition space (Area unit– 4 sq.m. One power socket & one boot included. Wifi in the whole hall.)
The opportunity to pitch to selected investors
The opportunity to win €10,000 in cash prize and investments worth €200,000
Two full event tickets to the conference
Exposure in Innowave Summit pre and post-marketing campaigns

3 Reasons to Get Involved!

Networking

Meet potential clients, partners and investors face to face. All visitors will pass through your booth and see your products.

Pitch

Pitch your startup and product to selected investors and compete for 10,000 euros in cash and 200,000 investments. By having a boot you also receive the opportunity to meet with all interested investors in a private room.

Showcase

Demonstrate your products and skills. Explain personally why your products are revolutionary.

PITCH YOUR BLOCKCHAIN STARTUP

The "Pitch Your Blockchain Startup" competition is a unique opportunity for Summit attendees to hear from the founders about the newest and hottest upcoming Blockchain Startup's. Each team will have 5 minutes of the main stage prime time to present their Blockchain Startup, answer questions and hear feedback from world-class jury panel. All teams will compete for 210 000€ prize fund - 10 000 € cash and 200 000 € investments.

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Project stage ICO Status? Desired funding attracted at ICO:

The chosen Blockchain Startup will be announced and invited 7 bussinnes days after submited registration. The chosen one must to pay 250€ fee that include:

The opportunity to pitch to selected investors
The opportunity to win €10,000 in cash prize and investments worth €200,000
Two full event tickets to the conference
Exposure in Innowave Summit pre and post-marketing campaigns

Application Deadline – September 1, 2018
Blockchain Startup Competition – October 20, 2018 – Varna, Bulgaria

Pitch your blockchain startup and have the chance to be rewarded with cash and investments. €10,000 in cash prize and investments worth €200,000

BENEFITS

Two complimentary tickets to the conference
Exhibition space (not included in the Pitch Only Pass)
The opportunity to pitch to selected investors
Exposure in our pre and post-marketing campaigns

TIMELINE

September 1 – Deadline for applications
September 19 - Top 25 startups will be announced and invited
September 19 - All other applicants will be offered a refund or 25% discount to attend the conference
October 20 - Pitch Competition (winners will be announced at the end of the conference)

ELIGIBILITY

The Project must be revolutionary and must bring VALUE to the blockchain community.

FORMAT

After each 5-minute pitch, the panel will engage in a 5-minute Q&A and share their insights and advice to each budding company. Judging criteria is based on White Paper, Pitch Deck, Team & Advisors and mainly invest-ability.

REQUIREMENTS

To participate in the Blockchain Startup Pitch you need to:

Present a startup that is utilizing the Blockchain or other DLT
Reserve a booth or register for the pitch only
We will select the best startups for the pitching event
Prepare 5 minutes pitch deck and present it on the pitch day

AWARDS

Innowave Award - €10,000 in cash prizes for the top 3 startups
Investment Options – €200,000 in investments opportunities from VCs and private investors

JUDGING CRITERIA

Business model. Scalability
Team
Investor Terms/Liquidity
Solution of the problem
Token model/ token and proceeds distribution

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CONFERENCE

Innowave Summit 2018 (19-20 October, Varna) is the biggest and most important tech conference in Southeast Europe. For a second year decentralization and the blockchain technologies will be one of the main topics. And for a first time there will be a special expo zone for blockchain startups and a startup pitch competition with high prizes. Other topic will be FinTech, IoT, AI, Virtual Reality, Big Data, eHealth and more. The 2-day conference will gather at one place some of the top Digital leaders of top companies like Facebook, Google, Alibaba, Amazon and Mozilla.

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BLOCKCHAIN SPEAKERS AND INVESTORS

Andrew Weld-Moore

Manager Global Marketing Solutions at Facebook

Andrew Weld-Moore is Head of Digital Business for the CEE region at Facebook’s Europe, Middle East and Africa headquarters in Dublin and oversees general management responsibilities while serving as a cross functional liaison, working with product, engineering, sales, business development, marketing and finance to drive Facebook’s most important strategic priorities within the region. He joined Facebook after a number of years at UTV Radio, where he was responsible for strategic sales & marketing policies, driving revenue across the company’s portfolio of radio stations. In that role he helped build UTV’s radio network into one of the largest in the UK/IRE marketplace. He also sits on the board of UNICEF Ireland.
Vasil S. Denchev

Chief Quantum Software Architect at Quantum AI Lab, Google [USA]

Dr. Vasil S. Denchev is the Chief Quantum Software Architect of the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab at Google. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Purdue University. Vasil`s PhD research gave impetus to the founding in 2013 of the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab by pioneering important techniques allowing for the successful application of quantum annealing to statistical machine learning and computer vision problems. Currently Vasil is studying the computational effects of quantum tunneling and many-body delocalization via experimentation with existing quantum processors as well as distributed large-scale numerical simulations of various quantum and classical computational models. Most recently, in recognition of his overall contributions to the computing sciences, Vasil received the prestigious John Atanasoff Award from the President of Bulgaria.
Robert Neivert

Venture Partner at 500 Startups

Robert is a venture partner at 500 startups focusing on B2B enterprise software and a veteran of nine companies. Twice as CEO, and multiple times as CFO, COO, and heads of sales and marketing organizations. Рreviously held the position of Executive in Residence at Quest Venture Partners. Robert is also mentor and advisor for Cardinal Ventures, Stanford iFarm, and Stanford`s Treehacks program as well as an executive advisor for over 15 funded startups.
Marius Ghenea

Partner, 3TS Capital

Marius is serial entrepreneur and business-angel with successful investments in many CEE countries, ranks in Forbes fortune Romanian survey. He is Co-Founder at VentureConnect and SchoolforStartups Romania, president of the Romanian Association of Online Stores. Also he is the author of “Entrepreneurship”, first Romanian entrepreneurship book, one of the Romanian Dragons from the TV show Dragons’ Den; Co-organizer of the BusinessDrive mini-MBA program, professor of Entrepreneurship. Marius is awarded with “Investor of the Year Romania 2016” by Central European Startup Awards.
DESIGAN CHINNIAH

Director of Open Innovation & Emerging Technologies atMozilla

Desigan Chinniah is the Director of Open Innovation & Emerging Technologies atMozilla, the makers ofFirefox. As a seasoned firestarter, Dees drives strategy and outreach forMozilla technologies thinking about Web Next. He is a champion for all things open internet. Dees possesses a Swiss Army Knife of talents including being a veteran Dot-Com Firestarter and Futurist, a Non-Exec Advisor, an early stage Startup Mentor as well Board Member. Most recently he's been assisting Mozilla'sEmerging Technology andOpen Innovation groups explorations into the Virtual/Augmented/Mixed Reality, Voice/Speech, Internet-of-Things, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain and Bots space. Prior to this, Dees has worked within the world wide web as a Designer, Developer, Technical Evangelist, Product Architect, Community Manager & Business Development professional for 15+ years, including check-ins atAsk Jeeves,Skype,BBC,eBay,PayPal,Gumtree andMozilla Labs.