EXHIBITION
Blockchain startups and sponsors will have an opportunity to set a booth in the Exhibitor Hall for further networking opportunities
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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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.
BLOCKCHAIN SPEAKERS AND INVESTORS
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.