- Isidro Laso, Cabinet Expert at Commissioner Gabriel cabinet for Innovation, Research, Education, Culture and Youth. at European Commission.
- Violeta Bulc Former EU Commissioner, Curator of the emerging eco-civilization
- Iza Sia Login, ex-CEO and Founder at Outfit7 , founder of Login5
- Lubomila Jordanova, Founder and CEO of Plan A
- Robin Wauters, Editor in Chief at Tech.eu
- Organizers: #EUvsVirus Community Steering committee
11:00 – 19:00
Start of the speed dating (all the way to the end of the day!
16:00 – 17:00
Women entrepreneursand crisis leadership: During the recent crisis of COVID19, the top countries that have responded best to the crisi have been led by women. To name a few, New Zealand, Iceland, Germany, Norway, Taiwan, Finland and Denmark. The COVID19 crisis contributed to highlighting the successful traits of women leadership in medicine, business, politics and other areas. So how did the COVID19 crisis contribute to highlighting the successful women leadership and is there a new economy emerging due to the COVID19 based on women entrepreneurship?
Moderator: Stewart Rogers, Editor in Chief at Dataconomy Media
- Petra Arends-Paltzer, Founder Davos Digital Forum, EU woman of Legal Tech
- Mali Baum,CEO & Founder of WLounge, EIC Program, Investment Committee Member, GDW winner 2020 - Ekaterina Tsaranok, Founder of the Modern Education & Research Institute; Head of the International Business Development Section of the World Business Alliance of Russian-speaking female entrepreneurs - Tanya Kufner, Expert Advisor to the European Commission Fund
COVID19 imposed new trade practices globally. With the closing of frontiers nations were forced to find new local trade ventures discovering their local treasures and contributed in reducing the carbon footprint. This has led to positive consequences ecologically and created the opportunity to discover a green economy. How could the Green economy contribute to finding the balance between the well-being of the planet and the economic well-being.
Recently many solutions emerged from innovative events, such as: Hackathons, sprints, and challenges, where many innovative solutions were able to be released to the market. These events offered new solutions to stimulate the entrepreneurship economy while coping with the COVID19 confinement and crisis. So is the role of these collaborative short events and could this be the future of economic stimulation and business innovation?
Moderator: Elena Poughia, Founder at Data Natives, Community Advisor at EIC, EUvsVirus
- Michael Ionita, Board Member at Austrian Startups
- Elsa Papadopoulou, Legal / Financial Adviser at Research Executive Agency (REA), European Commission
- Björn-Sören Gigler, Senior Digital Innovation Specialist at the Digital Innovation and Blockchain Unit at the European Commission's Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology