Startup AddVenture is a meet up point for startups and investors from Europe and the US

40 Silicon Valley rock stars of serial entrepreneurship and venture business will hold Panel Discussions at the conference.

Startup AddVenture will be held in Kyiv on 4^th and 5^th of December and will consist of a mix of unique interactive workshops, specialized Panel Discussions, Startup Competition & Expo.

Startup AddVenture Panel Discussions will focus on the hottest topics of startup industry featuring top experts. Everyone can register for the conference free of charge and find a hot topic for themselves.

VC PANEL will bring together key players of the world’s venture business to discuss its global trends.

Speakers:

• Dave McClure – Founding Partner of the largest venture seed fund and one of the largest startup accelerators in the US – 500 Startups;
• Cem Sertoglu – Partner at Earlybird Venture Capital;
• Rupesh Chatwani – Technology VC at EBRD;
• Marcin Hejka – Managing Director at Intel Capital Eastern Europe, Middle East, Africa & Russia;
• Alexander Galitsky – Managing Partner at Almaz Capital.

ANGEL PANEL will bring together the most active business angels from USA and Russia and will be devoted to hot questions that every startup wants to know: “How to get your project noticed by business angels?” & “How to make deals that are mutually beneficial?”

Speakers:

• Evan Nisselson – Partner at LDV Labs
• Kaushal Chokshi – President at Cross Border Angels
• Igor Ryabenkiy – Partner at Altair Capital Management
• Maxim Gurvits – Partner at Teres Capital.

INCUBATORS PANEL will bring together representatives from the largest incubators of Mexico, Ukraine, Russia, Estonia, Poland, Turkey, Spain and Italy. Speakers will explain what opportunities incubators provide entrepreneurs with, what startups need to pay special attention to when selecting an incubator and how to qualify for the acceleration program.

Speakers:

• César Salazar – Partner at 500 Startups, Mexico;
• Anna Degtereva – CEO Happy Farm, Ukraine;
• Piotr Wilam – Partner at Innovation Nest, Poland;
• Paolo Lombardi – CEO Tech Accelerator Peaks, Italy;
• Katia Gaika – Director R&D at IT Cluster, Skolkovo Foundation, Ukraine;
• Eveline Buchatskiy – Partner at EastLabs Incubator, Ukraine;
• Burak Buyukdemir – Founder of Etohum, Turkey;
• Mike Reiner – Founder of Wise Guys Accelerator, Estonia.

Within MOBILE PANEL specially invited stars will discuss the latest tendencies of mobile market, share the secrets of promoting applications in AppStore, and will show on real cases how to get on top and how to stay there.

Speakers:

• Sridar Solur – Director of Apps & Services at HP;
• Eric Litman – CEO at Medialets;
• Igor Zhadanov – CEO at Readdle;
• Michael Geer – COO at Dream Industries.

E-COMMERCE

Leading professionals in e-commerce will speak on what products sell best today and how to go about payments and delivery.

Speakers:

• Eric Litman – CEO at Medialets;
• Marvin Liao – Consultant and Thought Leader, popular mentor in USA and Europe;
• Ralf Wenzel – CEO at Foodpanda.

FINTECH PANEL will be dedicated to evolution of online payments and practical advices on how to build relationships with banks.

One of the speakers of the panel is Mike Sigal (CEO at Agile Credit), who has over 20 years of experience in building innovation technology businesses for existing and emerging companies. He also used to work as a strategy consultant with large organizations including Fortune 500 and the government.

MEDIA PANEL

At Startup AddVenture participants will get an opportunity to meet the world’s leading media experts. They will talk on the recent changes in the world of media, how businesses adapt and gain success in the era of new media. They will also talk about the news and what type of news from startups media resources are interested in.

Speakers:

• Ben Rooney – Technology Editor at Wall Street Journal, Europe;
• Mike Butcher – Editor Techcrunch Europe;
• Robin Wauters – European Editor at The Next Web;
• Александр Ткаченко – CEO at 1+1 media.

GROWTH HACKING PANEL will cover such hot topics as where to find the traffic, how to convert it into customers as well as how to grow a startup from just an idea into a successful business.

Speakers:

• Marvin Liao – Consultant and Thought Leader, popular mentor in USA and Europe;
• Paul Papadimitriou – Consultant at Digital Intelligence;
• Alejandro Barrera – CEO and Founder of Press42, successful entrepreneur and strategy consultant;
• Alex Hunter – CEO at Rushmore.

General info: Startup AddVenture - Europe Venture Summit will be held on 4^th and 5^th of December at NSC “Olimpiysky” in Kyiv. It’s the first international freemium startup conference that allows all of the registered participants to visit panel discussions for free as well as giving an additional opportunity to take part in interactive workshops. Our event is going to connect over 3,000 IT entrepreneurs, business angels and incubators from Ukraine, the CIS, Europe and USA.

Get more information and register on Startup AddVenture website: www.venturesummit.eu