AGENDA

Thursday 10 December 2020

10:00 – 10:45

Opening ceremony: 

Moderator: Yrja Oftedahl, Digital Creator

  • - 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 entrepreneurs and 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
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    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 
  • - Taryn Andersen, CEO -coFounder Impulse4women

18:00 – 19:00

Green Economy: From global to local:

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.

Moderator: Mike Richardson, Deep Tech Entrepreneur  

  • -  Herman Gyr, Principal at Enterprise Development Group, International speaker and innovation strategy wizard 
  • - Karin Huber-Heim, SDG Strategy & Business Innovation, Circular Economy Expert, Academic Programme Director Sustainable Finance
  • - Alice Schmidt, Global Sustainability Expert and Senior Health Advisor to the European Commission

19:00

Wrap up of the day

Friday11 December 2020
  • 9:30 – 10:00

Wake up show – recap of the first day

10:00 – 18:00

Start of the speed dating (all the way to the end of the day!

13:00 – 14:00

Public-private partnerships, impact and startups / event in collaboration with Impact Innovation Alliance

Partner’s stories:How does the private sector work with startups on social impact projects (in collaboration with Impact Innovation Alliance)

Moderator: Gabriella Marcelja, CEO and Co-Founder of SIRIUS GLOBAL - Academic Diplomacy 4.0 and President of Impact Innovation Alliance 

- Jim St. Clair, CTO at Dinocrates Group and Founder of Institute of Healthcare Financial Technology

  • - Marc Reverdin,  Secretary General of the Paris Peace Forum

  •  - Kambis Kohansal Vajargah, Head of Startups at Austrian Federal Chamber of Commerce 

  • - Marina Markezic, Lawyer in digital innovation at Unlawcked

16:00 – 16:45

EUvsVIrus success stories

17:00 – 17:30

Business Innovation: Hacking the Hackathon!

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 
  • - Julien Coustaury The Fil Rouge capital 

18:00

Closing remarks

Moderators: Yulia Matskevich & Urska Jez  

Speakers:

- Harald Friedl, 

- Daniel Boehi , Founder Institute Switzerland

Boštjan Videmšek, journalist and author of green topic - rewarded book PlanB  

- #EUvsVIrus Steering Committee

 

SPEAKERS

Isidro Laso

Cabinet Expert at Commissioner Gabriel cabinet for Innovation, Research, Education, Culture and Youth. at European Commission.

Violeta Bulc

Curator of ecocivilisation

Iza Sia Login

Login Establishment

Petra Arends-Paltzer

Dr.iur., European Woman of Legal Tech, Founder Davos Digital Forum, Rechtdigital.eu, Coach

Mali Baum

CEO & Founder of WLOUNGE ecosystem & MAGDA GROUP upcoming European fund of funds | Women's Influencer|#ImAmagda movement

Ekaterina Tsaranok

Founder - Modern Education & Research Institute

Tanya Kufner

Investor I Digital Innovation/Transformation

Stewart Rogers

Managing Editor at Grit Daily, Co-founder at Badass Empire, VentureBeat MC, public speaker

Michael Ionita

CTO, Board Member, Meetup Organizer, Co-Organizer #EUvsVirus, Team Builder

Elsa Papadopoulou

Legal / Financial Adviser at Research Executive Agency (REA), European Commission

Julien Coustaury

Managing Partner - Fil Rouge Capital

Bostjan Videmšek

Foreign correspondent at Delo

Gabriella Marcelja

Gabriella Marcelja, CEO & Co-founder at SIRIUS GLOBAL - Academic Diplomacy, President of Impact Innovation Alliance

Daniel M. Böhi

Member of Board of Directors | Chief Executive Officer

Alice Schmidt

Global Sustainability & Social Impact I Advisor I Thinker I Speaker

Marina Markezic

Innovation / Digitalisation / Sustainability / Blockchain / Token design

Jim St. Clair

Chief Technology Officer, Dinocrates Group and Founder, Institute of Healthcare Financial Technology

Kambis Kohansal Vajargah

Head of Startup-Services at Austrian Federal Economic Chamber | StartupNOW

Herman Gyr

Principal at Enterprise Development Group, International speaker and innovation strategy wizard

Marc Reverdin

Secretary General of the Paris Peace Forum

Harald Friedl

COP 26 Climate Champions Team | Circular Economy Leadership | Green Deal Circular Ambassador