+ WHO WILL JOIN? We will gather up to 2,200 founders, startup enthusiasts, corporates, angel investors, VCs, and media from across Europe. It’s all about tech-based and tech-enabled startups with global ambitions!
+ NETWORKING! The event will provide great matchmaking and dealmaking opportunities, with a dedicated networking app, a networking area, networking drinks in the evening, topic-focused networking sessions, etc.
+ ON-STAGE PROGRAM: We’ll have fireside chats with internationally successful founders, insightful keynotes, and an exciting pitch competition on our main stage with some of Europe’s most promising startup teams – selected from over 1,500 applicants!
+ EXHIBITON HALL: In our buzzing exhibition hall 75 innovative companies will exhibit with a dedicated booth, but in total our participants will represent about 1,200 different companies and you’ll be able to connect face-to-face and via the app.
Aside of great networking opportunities, we’ll have two stages with exciting talks, panel discussion and insightful keynotes. Our line-up of roughly 80 speakers includes unicorn founders, CEOs, and some of the world’s most successful investors. The agenda can be found here.
Dr. Norah Patten
Aeronautical Engineer and Ireland’s first astronaut (Virgin Galactic)
Dr. Gero Decker
Co-founder & CEO of Signavio, who exited to SAP for over $1 billion
Daniel Gebler
Co-founder and CTO of the Dutch grocery delivery unicorn Picnic
Tamara Orlova
CFO at the European femtech unicorn Flo Health
Hristo Borisov
Founder and CEO of the spend management unicorn Payhawk
Dr Helen O’Neill
CEO and Founder of the femtech scale-up Hertility
Alexander Limpert
Founder & CEO of GuestReady - a leading global property management platform
Valentina Milanova
CEO and Founder of the femtech scale-up Daye
Ida Tin
Co-founder of Clue, one of the world’s most trusted female health apps
Gerhard Trautmann
Co-founder & CEO of atolls - the world’s largest shopping community
Aron Gelbard
Founder & CEO of Bloom & Wild, Europe’s #1 online flower retailer
Lora Jakobsen
Founding member and Chief Sustainability Officer at ZeroNorth
Michal Tresner
Co-founder and CEO of fraud prevention scale-up ThreatMark
Samuel Hassine
Co-founder and CEO of the cybersecurity scale-up Filigran
Madeline Lawrence
Co-founder and CBO of the application security platform aikido
Arthur Jordao
Executive Director of ESNA (European Startup Nations Allicance)
George Gregory
CEO of Malta Enterprise - the country's economic development agency
Sissel Hansen
Founder & CEO of StartupGuide
Amir Kaplan
Founder & CEO of ifeel, one of the world's fastest-growing mental health scale-ups
Bobby Healy
Founder and CEO of the drone scale-up Manna
Isabella Yamamoto
Investor at the VC firm Visionaries Club
Angelo Burgarello
Managing Partner at Look AI Ventures
Eoghan O’Neil
Senior Policy Officer at the European Commission
Alejandro Fernandez
Head of Public Sector at Barrabez.biz
Thijs Powel
Founder and Managing Director of Dealflow.eu and Ventures.eu
Thomas Kösters
Founder and CEO of Deep Ecosystems
Akansha Dimri
Founder and Editor of Tech Funding News
Robert Abela
Prime Minister of Malta
Michał Borkowski
Co-founder & CEO of the edtech unicorn Brainly
Richard Parker
Founder & CEO of Altitude Angel, a pioneering aviation technology company
Ekaterina Zaharieva
European Commissioner for Startups, Research and Innovation
Donnie Sc Lygonis
Innovation Strategist & Business Coach at KTH Innovation
Tanya Parfenyuk
Co-founder and CEO at the AI-based fitness startup Zing Coach
Dr Sai Shivareddy
Founder and CEO of Nyobolt, a fast-growing battery technology startup
Marcus Haberstroh
Managing Director of SpinLab
Conor Scanlan
Associate Partner at the VC firm Nauta Capital
Talia Rafaeli
Partner at the VC firm KOMPAS
Nuno Brás
Co-founder and partner at the data and AI company DareData
Rafie Faruq
Founder and CEO of the AI-based legal startup Genie AI
Charles Letourneur
Managing Partner of the VC firm Alven Capital
Iryna Krepchuk
Investment Associate of Trind Ventures
Igor Ryabenkiy
Managing Partner at the VC firm AltaIR Capital
Thomas Ohr
Founder of EU-Startups and CEO of Menlo Media
Zoltan Vardy
Founder and B2B sales expert of The Launch Code
Beth Susanne
Global Pitch Coach
Nora Szeles
Founder and CEO of the equity crowdfunding platform TOKE Portal
Giovanni Vaccari
Managing Director at the startup accelerator Startupbootcamp
Sean Evers
VP of Sales and Partner at the sales CRM giant Pipedrive
Arianne Alcorta
4x Emmy-nominated journalist, international event moderator, and media coach.
Mike Butcher
Editor-at-large at TechCrunch
Gregoire Touazi
Legal Council of the equity crowdfunding platform Crowdcube
Akansha Dimri
Founder and Editor of TechFundingNews
Kai Brandt
Founder and CEO of Genesy
Thomas Bigagli
Partner, EMEA Ventures at Plug and Play
Elsa Callini
Innovation & Startup Advisor, University of Bern
David Halvorsen Roeisland
Co-founder of the blue economy scale-up SmartOcean
Audrey Caruana
Head of Startup Support at Malta Enterprise
Pep Gomez
Founder of the unicorn Fever, and of the mobility scale-up Reby
Nina Dremelj
President of Business Angels of Slovenia and Vice President of the European Business Angel Network
Mindaugas Valiulis
EIC Board Member and Policy Officer at the European Commission
Ben Hornby
Director of SME and Growth at Airwallex
Sabrina Maniscalco
Co-founder and CEO of the quantum computing company Algorithmiq
Allard Luchsinger
Managing Director of Techstars Amsterdam
Victoria Hernandez Valcarcel
Non-Executive Director at CaixaBank Payments & Consumer
Tomasz Pawliszyn
CEO of AirHelp, the world’s largest legal-tech company specialising in air passenger rights, travel protection, and insurance
Gabriela Matic
enture Partner at Aerospace Xelerated, a global aerospace accelerator run in partnership with Boeing
Mantas Vaskela
Founder and CEO the advanced geospatial data company AISPECO
Serge Lemonde
Senior Director of the Startups Program at NVIDIA
Alpa Jotangia
Head of Regulatory Compliance at Ecommpay
Jonathan Bernwieser
Co-Founder & CEO, Everleaf (formerly Agrando)
Christian Rebernik
Co-founder and CEO of Tomorrow University, the global University for impactful careers
George Gregory
CEO of Malta Enterprise, the economic development agency of Malta
Ekaterina Gianell
Venture Partner at Calm/Storm, one of Europe’s most active early-stage digital health investor
JJ Miceli Demajo
CEO of M. Demajo Group, one of Malta’s most established business entities
Jennifer Woodard
The Vice President of Artificial Intelligence at Logically
Mark Bajada
Chairman of Bajada Group, a leader in renewable energy, engineering, manufacturing, and hospitality
Marie Latour
As European Affairs Director at Euro-Funding, Marie helps startups and organisations access and manage public funding
Meiran Galis
Founder and CEO of Scytale, a pioneering security compliance automation platform
Ian Coppini
Strategy, Risk and Transactions Advisory Leader, Deloitte Malta
Anthony Bellafiore
Investment Manager at Katapult Ocean, a venture fund focused on ocean impact startups
Viktorija Trimbel
Managing Director of Coinvest Capital, a public-private venture capital fund based in Lithuania
Keith Azzopardi
Founder & CEO of Smart Materials, a pioneering company specialising in advanced material technologies
Thomas Cuvelier
Partner at RTP Global, a leading early-stage venture capital firm investing in ambitious tech founders
Dr Natalie Getreu
Co-founder and COO of the femtech scale-up Hertility
Martin van Oyen
Head of Legal & Compliance at FINOM
Kos Stiskin
Co-founder of the fintech scale-up FINOM
Michael Cassau
Founder and CEO of SKROL, former Co-founder of Grover
Anca Albu
COO at the AI-focused VC firm QAI ventures
David Trayford
Moderator, Entrepreneur and Pitch Coach
Ansgar Kadura
CSO & Co-founder of Wingcopter
Quinten Selhorst
Partner at EWOR, a platform dedicated to transforming aspiring entrepreneurs into successful startup founders
Oana Popescu
Strategic Communication and Stakeholder Engagement expert at the EIC Business Acceleration Services (EISMEA)
David Seoane
David is the Head of Digital Business Development at FundingBox
We will have great networking opportunities with top investors via our networking app, in our networking area and during the networking drinks on both days of the event. We will also have an “Investors on Stage” session where each day 15 leading investors will present their VC firm/focus on the main stage. Here are some random examples of VC firms that will join us at the event.
We’ll once again host a big pitch competition with 15 of Europe’s most exciting early-stage startups – pre-selected from 1,500+ applications. The finalists will pitch 3 minutes each in front of our audience and a jury of well-known investors. The winning team will receive a lot of visibility, many new investor connections and a prize package worth €755k. The 15 finalists can be found here.
The main event will take place on April 24-25, from 9am to 6pm, at the beautiful Mediterranean Conference Centre in Valletta. Doors open at 9am and you can start the day with good coffee and networking. The on-stage program starts at 10am. In the evening of both event days we’ll have an buzzing networking party on the beautiful rooftop terrace of the MCC, with stunning sunset views.
EUROCROWD is an independent network organisation aiming to support and promote crowdfunding as an alternative funding mechanism for small and medium-sized enterprises and innovative projects. EUROCROWD promotes and supports the development of Crowdfunding mechanisms as a viable funding source to European entrepreneurs and funders.
Scytale is the global leader in compliance automation, helping startups get compliant and stay compliant with frameworks like SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, NIS 2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS and more, without breaking a sweat. Compliance experts offer personalized guidance to streamline compliance, enabling faster growth and boosting customer trust.
Airwallex is a leading global financial platform for modern businesses, offering trusted solutions to manage everything from payments, treasury, and spend management to embedded finance. With their proprietary infrastructure, Airwallex takes the friction out of global payments and financial operations, empowering businesses of all sizes to unlock new opportunities and grow beyond borders. Proudly founded in Melbourne, Airwallex supports over 100,000 businesses globally and is trusted by brands such as Brex, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, SHEIN and many more.
The M. Demajo Group is a leading business player in Malta, with a successful history spanning 115 years. The Group’s growth and diversification have resulted in a wide coverage of business sectors through a commitment to long-term results. M. Demajo Group’s workforce is 500 strong and their various activities have been developed through organic growth, acquisitions, partnerships, and startups. Its strong financial situation and ethical standards, its business reputation, and its renowned track record as a business partner are all key factors in its continued expansion.
The European Innovation Council (EIC) is a flagship initiative of the European Commission to turn disruptive European science into groundbreaking commercial propositions and accelerate the scale-up of “game-changing” innovations. It is a key building bloc of a reinforced European ecosystem and the New European Innovation Agenda, filling the gap between R&D support, private investors, and the market. With a budget of over €10 billion under the Horizon Europe Programme (2021-2027) it seeks to position Europe as a global leader in the current wave of deep tech innovation.