Introduction
The financial crisis is amongst us and will affect everyone in
some way. Nonetheless, this event is not about discussing all the
bad things around us, it is about providing a high-level, positive
and casual platform for people in the technology/ internet industry
to exchange ideas, experiences and create new business or
collaboration opportunities.
Outline
The event is organized by
twidox
and anyone is invited to purchase a
ticket (please note, guests also need to purchase a ticket). The
event will start at around 19:00. At around 19:30, there will be a
number of short presentations about forthcoming challenges and
opportunities in 2009. Afterwards, everyone will be able to discuss
possible thoughts & experiences, synergies and collaboration
opportunities, in a casual setting
Presenters
There will be a number of people giving presentations; so far
these include:
-
Terry von Bibra (
Managing Director Yahoo! Germany
& Vice President Advertising Operations
Yahoo
!
Europe
)
-
Stephan Uhrenbacher (Founder of
Qype
)
-
Felix Haas (Co-founder of
amiando
)
-
Nicolas Kirschner
(Investment Manager at High-Tech
Gruenderfonds )
-
Constantin Gonzalez (Principal
Field Technologist at
SUN Microsystems
)
-
Nico Lumma (Director Social
Media at
Scholz & Friends
)
-
Dr. Ingo Dahm (Head of
Academic Relations at
Microsoft
)
-
Axel Schmiegelow (CEO at
Sevenload
)
Each presentation will be about
5 minutes long and centre on either a challenge or opportunity in
2009.
Date, time and location
The event will take place at
Lounge2
, the premium event location in
Munich, on the 18th of February. The event will start at
19:00 and the presentations at around 19:30.
News and updates
Deutsche-startups
is the official media partner and
will feature news and information about the event. Updates will also
follow via
twitter
and on the twidox
blog
.
Sponsorship
We are extremely thankful to the
sponsors of this event, which help make it possible in the first
place. It is a non-for-profit event and the sponsors money covers
the expenses of renting a location, promotion, cleaning of venue,
technical set-up fee etc.
The sponsors are:
If you are interested in supporting
this event, please contact
Nicholas
MacGowan von Holstein
