Vienna, 29-31 October 2012
The Pioneers Festival
The Skolkovo Foundation will participate in the “Pioneers Festival”, the key autumn event of the European start-up community, which will take place at the Hoffburg Palace, in the center of Vienna. IT projects will be mainly presented. Startups and investors from all around the world will take part. Participants from 43 countries have already registered for the event. They will meet there to find investment resources for their projects, decide on prospects of development of their ventures, attend master classes by leading business coaches, talk to business gurus and network with foreign partners.
The Skolkovo Foundation invites the participating companies to join our team! Number of seats is limited to just 20.
The deadline for application is September, 9, 2012, by 12:00, Moscow time!
The program of the Festival can be found at www.pioneersfestival.com
For more information, please contact Skolkovo clusters representatives: Anton Voropayev (avoropaev@sk.ru), Lilia Boyko (lboyko@sk.ru).
To get a feeling of the festival’s atmosphere, check out the video about the “Pioneers Fest” - 2011
Helsinki, 21-22 November 2012
Slush is the largest and most popular conference of startups from Russia, the Baltic States and Northern Europe. It’s also the most visited event in Finland. The conference has been held since 2008 and has established itself as a right platform for communication, establishing partnerships, recruiting talent and rare specialists, exchange experiences and find investors. In 2011 the five most active participants with the best presentations were able to collectively raise $15M of investments. This year, 2,500 participants are expected.
Please, see details at http://slush.fi/en/.
This year the Skolkovo Foundation has partnered the “Slush”. There will be Skolkovo’s booth at the conference, working as a meeting point for our members and their potential partners and investors. The final version of the program is to come and details will be announced a bit later.
All of us will find a lot of interesting things there, including evening events. We are sure that each conference participant will get useful and invaluable experience.
The deadline for applications is October 31, 2012.
For more information, please contact the clusters representatives: Anton Voropayev (avoropaev@sk.ru), Lilia Boyko (lboyko@sk.ru).