Startup AddVenture is a meeting place for startups and investors from all over Europe and the USA.

The conference will include a series of panel discussions with the participation of more than 40 “rock stars” of the venture business and serial entrepreneurship from Silicon Valley.



The Startup AddVenture conference program, which will be held in Kiev on December 4-5, consists of a mix of unique interactive workshops, specialized panel discussions, Startup Competition and Expo.
Startup AddVenture panel discussions reflect the most pressing topics of the startup industry and will be held with the participation of the best experts in their field. Each participant can register for the conference for free and select “his” topic.

VC PANEL will bring together key players of the international venture business and will be devoted to global trends in venture investment.
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Speakers:
• Dave McClure ( Dave McClure ) - the founder and managing partner of the largest venture seed fund and one of the largest start-up accelerators in the US 500 Startups ;
• What Sertoglu ( Cem Sertoglu ) - partner Earlybird Venture Capital ;
• Rupesh Chatwani ( Rupesh Chatwani ) - a venture capitalist in EBRD ;
• Marcin Heika (Marcin Hejka) - Managing Director of Intel Capital in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Russia;
• Alexander Galitsky - managing partner of Almaz Capital .

ANGEL PANEL will bring together the most active business angels in the USA and Russia and will focus on issues that every startup is keenly interested in, namely, how to attract the attention of business angels to your project and what are the features of making mutually beneficial transactions with them.

Speakers:
• Evan Nisselson (Evan Niselson) - partner of LDV Labs
• Kaushal Chokshi (Kosal Chokshi) - President of Cross Border Angels
• Igor Ryabenky - Altair Capital Management partner
• Maxim Gurvits (Maxim Gurwitz) is a Teres Capital partner.

INCUBATORS PANEL will gather representatives of the largest incubators from eight countries of the world: Mexico, Ukraine, Russia, Estonia, Poland, Turkey, Spain, Italy. Speakers will talk about what opportunities incubators offer to start-up entrepreneurs around the world, what a startup should pay attention to when choosing an incubator and how to qualify for acceleration programs.

Speakers:
● Cesar Salazar - partner 500 Startups , Mexico;
● Anna Degtereva - CEO Happy Farm , Ukraine;
● Piotr Wilam ( Piotr Wilam ) - partner of Innovation Nest , Poland;
● Paolo Lombardi (Paolo Lombardi) - CEO Tech Accelerator Peaks , Italy;
● Katya Gayka - Director of R & D at IT Cluster at Skolkovo Foundation , Russia;
● Eveline Buchatsky ( Eveline Buchatskiy ) - partner EastLabs Incubator, Ukraine;
● Burak Buyukdemir (Burak Buikdemir) - founder of Etohum , Turkey;
● Mike Reiner - founder of the Wise Guys Accelerator , Estonia.

Within the framework of MOBILE PANEL, specially invited stars will discuss the latest mobile market trends, reveal the secrets of mobile apps promotion in the AppStore, and will show with real examples how to not only get to this market, but also how to stay on it.

Speakers:
● Sridar Solur - technologist and founder of the Cloud / Mobile Printing division and head of the mobile application and software business incubator at HP ;
● Eric Litman (Eric Litman) - CEO Medialets ;
● Igor Zhadanov - CEO Readdle ;
● Michael Geer is the COO of Dream Industries .

E-COMMERCE
The best experts in the field of e-commerce will talk about what products are currently selling best and how to work with payments and delivery.

Speakers:
● Eric Litman (Eric Litman) - CEO Medialets ;
● Marvin Liao - consultant and thought leader, a popular mentor in the United States and Europe;
● Ralf Wenzel - CEO of Foodpanda .

FINTECH PANEL will be devoted to the evolution of on-line payments and practical advice on how to build relationships with banks. One of the panel’s speakers is Mike Sigal (CEO of Agile Credit ), who has 20 years of experience in building innovative technology businesses for existing and emerging companies. Previously, he was engaged in strategic consulting for large organizations, including the Fortune 500 and the government.

MEDIA PANEL
Startup AddVenture provides a unique opportunity to meet with leading global media experts. They will talk about what changes are taking place in the media world, how resources are being adapted and succeed in the new conditions. Separately, they will touch on the topic of news and in what news media resources are interested in from startups.

Speakers:
● Ben Rooney is a technology editor at Wall Street Journal , Europe;
● Mike Butcher - Editor Techcrunch Europe ;
● Robin Wauters - European The Next Web technical blog editor;
● Alexander Tkachenko - CEO of “ 1 + 1 media ”.

GROWTH HACKING PANEL will reveal questions about where to find traffic and how to turn it into customers, how to grow a startup from an idea to a successful business.

Speakers:
● Marvin Liao - consultant and thought leader, popular mentor in the US and Europe
● Paul Papadimitriou - Digital Intelligence Consultant;
● Alejandro Barrera - CEO and founder of Press42 , successful entrepreneur and strategy consultant;
● Alex Hunter - CEO Rushmore .

Learn more information and register for participation on the Startup AddVenture website www.venturesummit.eu