Program (to be confirmed) Day 1 AUDYTORIUM 10.00 10.30 Opening Andrzej Arendarski, President of Polish Chamber of Commerce Artur Kurasiński, Aula Polska Michał Olszewski, Vice President of Warsaw Maciej Fijałkowski, Director of the European Funds and Entrepreneurship Development Office, Warsaw City Hall 10.30 11.30 European funding 2014-2020 Poland will once again be the biggest beneficiary of the EU cohesion policy. This time, 73 out of 325 billion Euros will find its way to our country. The money spigot, however, will be soon turned off. According to the postulates, in 2020 Poland will become a developed country and will be rich enough to benefit from the cohesion policy in significantly smaller scope. Representative of Ministry of Infrastructure and Development Krzysztof Kurzydłowski, Director of the National Centre for Research and Development Radosław Stępień, Vice President - First Deputy of the President of the Management Board, BGK 11.30 12.00 Coffee Break 12.00 13.00 Young Innovative Young European Marcin Beme, Audioteka.pl Janusz Bujnicki, scientist, ERC Starting Grants winner Jacek Męcina, Secretary of State, Ministry of Labour and Social Policy 13.00 13.30 Forecasts for the market Meeting hosted by EY
13.30 14.30 Meeting with global investor Meeting hosted by Polish Agency for Enterprise Development Dawid Wiener, Cogision Anna Walkowska, Homplex, Leszek Czech, web.gov.pl/parp 14.30 15.30 Lunch 15.30 16.30 Social financing (crowdfunding) There are over 600 social platforms in the world which allow to describe the project, define the prize for supporters, goal of financing and resource collection in order to accomplish own business, social and cultural endeavours. Deloitte estimates that in 2013, due to mechanism of social financing, Internet users will finance projects worth approximately 3 billion dollars. Karol Król, Polish Crowdfunding Society Misia Furtak, singer Kamil Adamczyk, Interclinic 16.30 17.30 Business angels & venture capital Poland has the best investment opportunities in the East-Central Europe for Venture Capital and Private Equity says the Ernst&Young report. What are the plans of the largest Polish players? What has new happened on the market? Tomasz Czapliński, LMS Invest/SpeedUp Group Piotr Koral, Investin Michał Bańka, Polish Agency for Enterprise Development Jakub Probola, hub:raum 17.30 18.30 You, the Audience!
Day 2 AUDYTORIUM 10.30 Opening Richard Weber, President of EUROCHAMBRES 11.15-11.45 Presentation of Point Nine Capital s Venture - Paweł Chudziński 11.45-12.15 Presentation of SpeedUP Group - Bartek Gola 12.15 12.45 Presentation of Consulting Jakub Probola 12.45-13.45 Polish-German cooperation discussion panel (Bartek Gola, Paweł Chudziński, Jakub Probola, Benjamin Mateev, Tytus Cytowski) 13.45-15.00 Lunch 15.00-17.00 Polish-German cooperation case studies: 15.00 15.30 WirKaufens - Chris Wolf 15.30 16.00 Delivery Hero - Lech Kaniuk 16.00 16.30 MyTaxi - Krzysztof Urban 16.30 17.00 Wunderlist - Benjamin Mateev 17.15-18.30 Aulery Awards Artur Kurasiński, Aula Polska Andrzej Arendarski, President of Polisch Chamber of Commerce Bożena Lublińska-Kasprzak, President of Polish Agency for Enterprise Development
ROOM 1: THE POLISH SECTION 10.00-10.30 How and what to invest in Germany? - Thomas Grotto, Deutsche Telekom 10.30-11.00 How to build a global company in Germany? - Benjamin Mateev, Wunderlist 11.00-11.15 Coffee Break 11.15-11.45 German startup: issues, challenges - Daniela Schiffer, Changers 11.45-12.15 German company In Poland Marcin Szałek, DaWanda 12.15-12.45 Accelerating IT companies - hub:raum Kraków 12.45 13.15 German startups and barcamps - Nikolas Woischnik 13.45-15.00 Lunch 15.00-15.30 How to live and survive In Berlin Jonas Piela 15.30-16.00 What to invest In Germany? - Paweł Chudziński, Point Nine Capital 16.00-16.30 Geek Girls Germany - Nicole Simon 16.30-17.00 German company in Poland Chris Wolf, WirKaufens
ROOM 2: THE GERMAN SECTION 10.00-10.30 Polish and German startup scene: similarities and differences - Andrzej Targosz 10.30-11.00 How to look for partners In Poland? Netguru 11.00-11.15 Coffee Break 11.15-11.45 Startup City Warszawa - Borys Musielak 11.45-12.15 Why Polish programmers are so good? - Jarek Potiuk, Polidea 12.15-12.45 Investing in Poland Lech Kaniuk 12.45-13.15 Startup City Poznań - Mateusz Belattaf 13.15 13.45 Startup City Kraków - Chris Moose 13.45 15.00 Lunch 15.00-15.30 Startup City Trójmiasto - Mirek Wąsowicz 15.30-16.00 Company law in Poland Tomasz Snażyk, Cytowski LLC 16.00-16.30 Best startups in Poland review by Marcin Sierant 16.30-17.00 Geek Girls Poland - Kamila Sidor