Speakers
A line-up to startle your innovation spirit
Meet the speakers who are building what's next:
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All topics
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Startups
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Investment
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Engineering
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Product + UX
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Marketing + Sales
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Team
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Business
David
Peterson
Partner @ Angular Ventures
David is a Partner at Angular Ventures. Before joining Angular, David was employee #16 at Airtable, where he led growth and partnerships – developing full-stack GTM strategies for Airtable’s many use cases and building relationships with product, channel and startup ecosystem partners.
Els
Aerts
Co-Founder @ AGConsult
Els helps companies better understand their customers and generates improved online experiences for them, relying on User Research and solid data. Over time, Els has moderated over 3,500 Usability tests for companies such as AtlasCopco, Orange, Daikin, Yoast, and Bridgestone.
Adelina
Peltea
CMO @ Usercentrics
Adelina is a SaaS and Product-Led Growth expert with 12 years of experience in leadership positions in Europe and Asia. She focuses particularly on the SMB market, leading marketing, growth, and operations for subscription-based businesses in AI, fintech, big data, commerce, and business.
Ondrej Bartos
General Partner @ Credo Ventures
Early stage investor, with investments in UiPath, PriceFX, Productboard and many more.
Andrew
Michael
Host @ CHURN.FM
Andrew Michael is a SaaS leader with a deep focus on retention-led growth. With over 14 years of experience spanning marketing and product development, he has co-founded multiple venture-backed startups and played key roles in hyper-growth companies like Hotjar.
Zuzanna
Czapinska
Investment Manager @ HV Capital
Zuzanna is an early-stage investor at HV Capital, one of the leading European VC funds. She focuses on fintech & software infrastructure investments across Europe.
Akis
Bratsos
Principal @ Lakestar
Akis focuses on investment opportunities in enterprise software and digital health. Based out of Lakestar's London office, Akis has been involved in Lakestar's investments in Builder.ai, Neko Health, Nelly, Validio, Pitch, Accurx and Tesseract among others.
Ivan Brezak Brkan
Director of Developer Content @ Infobip
Director of Developer Content at Infobip, Ivan is also the Founder and Editor of Netokracija, the ‘Techcrunch of the Balkans’, acquired by the Croatian unicorn Infobip in 2022.
Karol Lasota
Principal @ Inovo Venture Partners
Ex-founder and operator of VC-backed B2B marketplace and deep tech startups now joined the VC side.
Enis
Hulli
General Partner @ 500 Startups Istanbul
Investor and advisor in early-stage technology companies and the host of cc:, a podcast on growth journeys.
Borys Musielak
Founding Partner
@ Smok Ventures
Early-stage investor in CEE, previously engineer turned entrepreneur.
Eva
Arh
Venture Capital Investor @ 3VC
Eva Arh is a venture capital investor. Prior to 3VC, she was a startup consultant in Austria’s biggest high-tech incubator INITS, supporting early-stage tech companies with business modelling, fundraising and business development. She has been also part of management teams at tech startups.
Nico
Schoenenberger
Early Stage Investor @ 10X Founders
Nico joined 10x Founders as its first employee and enjoys spending time with the founders building early-stage B2B SaaS and fintech. After working in private equity, corporates and consulting, he discovered his real passion for the early-stage venture world.
Remus Radvan
Head of Venture Strategy @ Wayra UK
Remus helps high-growth ventures scale by investing capital and facilitating commercial and distribution opportunities with corporates. He is part of the teaching staff of the venture capital module at UCL, offering future entrepreneurs and VCs a hands-on and insightful experience about the venture
Alexander
Agureev
VC @ Northzone
Alex focuses on growth-stage companies across enterprise, fintech, and infrastructure & developers both in Europe and on the East Coast. He is particularly interested in verticalized solutions that cater to underserved market niches and have the potential to disrupt sleepy market incumbents.
Csongor
Biás
Managing Director @ Startup Hungary
Csongor Biás is the Managing Director of Startup Hungary, spearheading efforts to invigorate the local startup ecosystem. Before this role, he founded two coworking spaces and gained experience with venture capital firms and accelerators. He also contributed to launching Vacuumlab's operations in HU
Vlad Andriescu
Editor-in-Chief @ Start-up.ro
The editor-in-chief of start-up.ro —the coolest place to find out about the most interesting startups. He has 10 years of experience in the media landscape and he's constantly looking for founders who are not afraid of making mistakes and changing the world.
Iulia
Porneala
Product Advisor @ MyGenie
Iulia is passionate about product management, solving problems and bringing people together. Customer-centric and entrepreneurial-minded product leader, she has a proven track of success in 0 to 1 setups. Iulia is driven by customer excellence and innovation, and high-quality results.
Elena Vrabie
Country Lead @ The Recursive
Country Lead at The Recursive with over +10 years of experience as a storyteller based in Bucharest, Romania. She is forging connections among the regional pioneers, and propelling CEE into the global spotlight as the dynamic tech hub that it is.
Bojan
Stojkovski
Editor-in-Chief @ IT Logs
Bojan is a versatile reporter, currently exploring AI, defense tech and fintech, but always open to covering diverse and exciting topics in the Western Balkans countries. Currently Editor in Chief at IT Logs, his work has been featured in magazines, journals, and outlets such as Foreign Policy, WSJ.
