TechCrunch
Europe will host its 3rd TechCrunch Nordic event - joining
Seedcamp on their European tour in Copenhagen at the end of
May 2010.
Venue:
coMinds
Vesterbrogade 95A
1620
København V (Copenhagen)
http://cominds.dk
SCHEDULE
14.00 Registration
14.30 Opening
remarks
Mike Butcher, Editor, TechCrunch Europe
14.35 keynote
Arican Wegter –
co-founder, LOVEFiLM & CEO GlibHippo
“Redefining success: Entrepreneurship in the Great Recession”
Arican Wegter is a
European serial entrepreneur specialized in consumer
internet and digital media. Ari has more than a decade
executive experience in the online entertainment industry,
including movies, music, video games and advertising. As
co-founder and Managing Director of LOVEFiLM.com, Europe’s
largest online DVD rental and Video-on-Demand service, Ari lead
the company from start-up to a €20M turnover business.
Lovefilm was acquired by Amazon in 2008. Today, Ari is Managing
Director of GlibHippo – his latest disruptive venture. He
also advises technology start-ups and is a regular panelist and
venture coach at web-related conferences
14.55 presentation
Jimmy Maymann, Chairman /
co-founder, Goviral.com
Jimmy Maymann has 15
years of managerial experience within advertising,
marketing and new media, now as executive chairman for
goviral, specialists in branded content distribution,
which he co-founded in 2005. His career stated with the
establishment of the Internet consulting business Neo
Ideo in 1995, where he served as the CEO until it was sold to
Leo Burnett in 2001. He continued as strategic director in Leo
Burnett. In 2004 he moved to Arc Worldwide, as a Global
Discipline Head overseeing global accounts and developing new
competences in emerging media. Jimmy has a Master in
International Marketing and an Executive MBA from London
Business School and he is a “regular” speaker at the
Cannes Lions – presenting at the conference in 2007, 2008
and 2009.
15.15 Investor panel
& pitches
Jacob Bratting Pedersen.
Northcap Partners
Jacob has been
working in the venture capital business for six years.
He is specialised in investment management, transactions
and development of technology companies. He has been
involved in seven exits and invested and attracted more than 60
million dollars for technology start-ups. Jacob has founded
several successful technology companies and has been member of
several boards focusing on building and developing businesses.
Prior to joining NorthCap Partners, Jacob was based in New York
attracting American technology investments for Danish companies
and worked three years in Israel focusing on technology exchange
and venture capital. Jacob holds a M.Sc BA from Copenhagen
Business School and additional financial and entrepreneurial
education from Harvard Business School, INSEAD and MIT.
Tine Thygesen, Director of
Venture Cup
Tine joined Venture
Cup after selling her own startup company mid 2008. She
comes from a background of branding, experiential marketing and
private banking from a career in the UK, New Zealand and
Australia. Tine is passionately interested in ideas and
innovation and strives to help young entrepreneurs partaking in
Venture Cup turn their ideas into solid start-ups. Tine is
originally from Aalborg.
Nikolaj Nyholm, Sunstone Capital
Nikolaj Nyholm is
General Partner at Sunstone Capital, a Nordic early-stage
technology venture capital firm with €400 million under
management. Nyholm most recently served as CEO of the
people-photo-tagging service Polar Rose. He was previously the
co-founder of Imity, an open-source mobile social networking
platform sold to Zyb/Vodafone, of Organic Network (creators of
OpenWRT), and of Speednames/Ascio, Scandinavia’s largest
domain name registrar sold to London AIM-listed GroupNBT. Nyholm
spent a year as O’Reilly’s European Conference
Program Chair, co-chairing EuroOSCON and CustomMade in 2006, and
co-produces the annual technology/culture conference in
Copenhagen, reboot.dk.
SHORT PITCHES,
TBC
(email Mike Butcher to be considered)
15.50-16.20 coffee break
16.20 presentation
Martin Ferro-Thomsen, Issuu.com
“Growing and managing a community from 1 people to 13 million”
Martin Ferro-Thomsen
is Co-Founder and Communications Manager at Issuu. He
holds an MA in communication and culture, and has worked
with publishing, editing and writing in a variety of contexts.
16.40 ENTREPRENEUR
PANEL – “What are the challenges of 2010?”
Christian Lanng, Tradeshift
Christian Lanng is
founder of Tradeshift.com. Previously he was Head of the
Center for Service oriented Infrastructure in the Danish
National IT and Telecom Agency. Christian has 10 years
of experience working with mobile-services, e-business,
SOA and large scale payment systems. He managed the
roll-out of service oriented infrastructure in the Danish public
sector and supervised the next generation of SOA e-business
infrastructure for all Danish companies and the public sector.
He is an active member of a number of European e-business and
infrastructure initiatives. He holds a bachelor degree in
Sociology and is currently writing his master on emergent social systems.
Peter Engelbrecht.dk, Bifrost
Engelbrecht has
global startup experience with Netop, WireCache, Soonr and
NeuString. A former executive with Intel. Global network and
expertise in products, sales, business development and marketing
he is a seasoned executive with 15+ years of global high tech
experience. He has deep background in Product Management across
a broad selection of areas including: Enterprise Software,
Telecom, Networking, Wireless, Mobile and Web. He is also an
accomplished business development and sales experience,
including being point person for closing numerous complex
business deals with partners such as Telco Carriers, OEMs/TEMs,
F500 enterprises and the public sector.
Alex Farcet, Founder of Startupbootcamp
Co-founder and
Managing Director of Startupbootcamp (www.startupbootcamp.dk), a
Northern European accelerator inspired by Techstars.
Natasha F Saxberg, Webcom
& Mentory
Partner in Webcom
– a social web agency and founder of Mentory – a
global mentorship community produced by Webcom Labs. Natasha has
been in the tech industry since 1996, working as a manager and
change agent in large international and national (Danish)
organisations for a decade. Besides being an entrepreneur, she
advises organisations on how to transform the social web into
corporate value. Affiliated at Copenhagen Institute for Futures
Studies and co-author of the Danish Twitter book.
Steffen Tiedemann
Christensen, refresh.dk
Steffen Tiedemann
Christensen is a co-founder and CTO
of
23, a Danish, bootstrapped startup building product for
visual sharing. At 23, Steffen has helped launch the
personal photo sharing service
23
in 2005 and
23 Video
, an organizational video hosting
service, in 2009.
17.00
Tommy Ahlers, Zyb and Vodafone
“Exit: The How, When And Why Of Exiting Your Startup”
Tommy Ahlers (born
1976) is a Danish serial entrepreneur best known for the
social networking and mobile backup site ZYB, launched
in 2005 and sold to Vodafone Europe BV for nearly $50m
in May 2008. Before founding ZYB, where he has held the position
of CEO since the company’s inception, Ahlers spent six
years in strategy and management, partly in the mobile industry.
He was previously with McKinsey & Company for more than four
years, where he served as an engagement manager working with
mobile operators to shape their strategies. In addition to ZYB,
he also founded another start-up which provided a global
SMS-service to mobile users.
Ahlers holds a
masters degree in law from the University of Copenhagen,
graduating in 2000. Ahlers is a regular on the technology
startup conference circuit, speaking at the likes of Mobile 2.0
Europe, DLD, the European Directory Marketplace Conference and
TheNextWeb, where he was an award winner in 2007.
In conversation with
Mike Butcher and…
Anil Hansjee, Google
Anil joined Google in
September 2006 as Head of Corporate Development for
Europe, Middle East and Africa, based in London. Prior
to joining, Anil was a Principal with the venture
capital firm IDG Ventures, where he was board director
of one of their portfolio companies, the mobile music
company, Shazam Entertainment. Between mid 2000
and
end of 2001, Anil was a Vice President for corporate finance
with Bear Stearns International in London. Between mid 1997 and
mid 2000, Anil was a member of Chase Manhattan Bank’s
corporate finance group both in New York and London. Anil joined
Chase’s corporate finance team after spending the first 7
years of his professional career as a software engineer first
with UBS then Chase. Anil has a BSc.(Hons.) in Artificial
Intelligence and Computer Science from Edinburgh University and
has an MSc. in Finance at London Business School.
17.40 closing remarks
19.00 Networking
drinks co-located with NordicMeetup at Central Copenhagen location
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Event partners
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