19 to 20 October 2019, Vilnius
to participate in Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs
The invitation to participate in Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs program: opportunity to improve entrepreneurship/ business development skills in a lot of foreign countries
Join Edtech Hackathon 2019 and spend the weekend hacking and reshaping the way children, teens, and adults learn about the world around them
Participate and win amazing prizes established by our partners!
1Experts from different fields will share their knowledge and insights, introduce the basics of business
3Event brings together people of different professions to generate ideas and develop solutions
2Teams will meet professionals to get a hands on mentoring to shape and successfully develop an idea
4Director of the Bengis Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation and CEO of Inno-Negev technology accelerator at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Keynote Talk "How to pitch perfect?"
A lot of startups have a great idea, but fall short when they try to wow investors. In this short hands-on workshop, you will learn how to sell your idea on pitch events and in front of investors. The workshop will cover many important topics such as the pitch structure, storytelling, slide design, basics of effective communication and most important – how to immediately put all your gained knowledge into practice and make your presentation a memorable and winning one.
BIO
As part of his role at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), Yossi is the director of the Bengis Center, the first academic entrepreneurship and innovation center in Israel. Under this umbrella Yossi is leading many frameworks designed for the promotion of entrepreneurship, innovation and technology including 4 communities for developers and entrepreneurs, two international open innovation competitions, more than 150 events each year, heading a group of over 50 leading mentors and more. Furthermore, Yossi is the founder and CEO of Inno-Negev, BGU’s technology accelerator and Innovation Gateway technological hub. All of these programs are being led in cooperation with leading organizations such as Google, Amazon, Intel, Mercedes, a variety of service providers, governmental organizations, other academic institutions etc.
In addition to his role at Ben-Gurion University, Yossi is the founder and CEO of Yozma Consulting, an international business consulting firm, which supports its customers from the public sector (cities, regions and governments), investors and multinationals in formulating and executing projects, crafting innovation encouraging strategies and in strengthening their innovative eco-systems while becoming a vital part of it.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
How to pitch perfect?
A lot of startups have a great idea, but fall short when they try to wow investors. In this short hands-on workshop, you will learn how to sell your idea on pitch events and in front of investors. The workshop will cover many important topics such as the pitch structure, storytelling, slide design, basics of effective communication and most important – how to immediately put all your gained knowledge into practice and make your presentation a memorable and winning one.
Digital Innovation Lead @ LSBU Business School, Chief Growth Catalyst @ Upflux
Keynote Talk 'Game-Changing Technologies and The Future of Learning'
"Exponential technologies like AR/VR/XR and augmented intelligence are gearing up to change everything we know about learning and education. We are accelerating towards the most significant disruption of the educational sector since Gutenberg's printing press, or even since the invention of writing ca 3000 BC! Of course this also means massive opportunities for the creative pioneers and trailblazers who will emerge as innovation leaders in education. Most exciting times!"
BIO
Vijak Haddadi (PhD, MBA, MA, LLB) is a coach, strategist, and educator whose work focuses on accelerating human potential through a combination of mindset training and empowering use of techniques and technologies like AR/VR/XR, multisensory-design, augmented intelligence, and design thinking. He is a digital innovation strategist & lecturer at London South Bank University, and is Chief Growth Catalyst at the experiential growth agency Upflux. Over his career he has helped over +500 entrepreneurs, startups, and executives, accelerate their potentials through designed learning experiences and has delivered workshops, programmes and keynote addresses in London, Toronto, Berlin, NYC, and Middle Eastern innovation ecosystems.
BDO @ Baltic Sandbox
Keynote Talk "Ideas are cheap, but how not to freakin fail?"
Nowadays it's easy to get inspired. You open a TEDX speech, wander across loads of websites stating the huge loads of funding available. And then you decide to drop everything you do and straightforward jump into the startup world. During this short presentation, I will disclose the key things needed in order to build a sustainable project. Funding possibilities. And what not to do.
BIO
Andrius is a marketing and communication expert with 12+ years experience working with corporate products (MTV Networks Baltic, Olympic Casino, Akropolis). Andrius has launched numerous products on different markets (Baltic States). Organized various events and conferences - LOGIN (Biggest ICT conference in Baltics), What’s Next (Creative industry conference), Cultural Night (Theatre, Art and visual festival). Today Andrius is a board member of Lithuanian Marketing association and continues with consultations for startups and SME. Starting with 2018, Andrius has cofounded a first private accelerator in Lithuania - Baltic Sandbox. The company focuses on accelerating innovative solutions, M&A deals, investment consulting.
Head of Fintech and Innovation @ the Bank of Lithuania
Keynote Talk "Building Fintech conducive environment: Towards greater connectivity without compromising trust"
Lithuania created favorable environment for financial technology industry with more than 200 Fintech companies operating in the country so far. What factors attract companies to Lithuania and how Lithuania is accelerating the growth of Fintech.
BIO:
Jekaterina takes part in developing policies for the fintech industry in Lithuania. She is the coordinator of Bank of Lithuania Fintech strategy and Head of Innovation Committee. She also leads the Bank of Lithuania LBChain project (blockchain sandbox/accelerator).
She has been working as a lawyer in various divisions of the Bank of Lithuania, with the areas of responsibility that included insurance, payments, lending, peer-to-peer lending, and crowdfunding regulations.
She has been awarded as a Public Sector Lawyer of the Year for developing the concept of the crowdfunding regulation in Lithuania and preparing the draft law on crowdfunding and was acknowledged by Lattice80 as one of the Top 100 Women in Fintech.
Event Host and Director @ VU Business School
Board member of the Lithuanian Business angel network
Martynas Kandzeras is an experienced investor and business developer who boasts more than fifteen years’ experience developing ventures in Lithuania as well as many other European countries. Currently, a managing partner in the investment company ‘Blue Flight’, Martynas oversees early-stage investments in startups and their ongoing development. In addition to this, he is a co-founder of the largest recruitment company in the Baltics – ‘Biuro’ and the private school ‘Pažinimo medis’. Martynas is also a board member of the Lithuanian business angel network, which unites more than seventy business angels and invests in a wide range of business projects. As an avid and active supporter of entrepreneurship, Martynas is always open to discuss and undertake new exciting opportunities and challenges.
Trade Marketing Manager Baltic @ L'Oreal Baltic
As trade marketing manager, I'm responsible for activities in retail stores, all beauty and information on leaflets, stoppers, wobblers, posters must be created in collaboration with marketing and sales teams by company rules and guidelines.
Partner @ BeeUp GmbH Project Manager @ Digital Academy
For 8 years, Olga has been simultaneously engaged in professional, business, and academic activities as a management consultant, researcher, and educator. Having selected to combine and deliver these activities at a competitive level, she pursues a challenging mission that provides her with nerdy excitement.
Olga believes that business can fuel science and science can substantially contribute to the business. While continuously working on an international level, she makes it happen through leading projects, advising businesses and individual professionals, producing research, and coaching all those willing to build their acumen in entrepreneurship and management. As a proponent of full engagement in consulting that includes research, advisory and, on demand, implementation services, she commits to every business case as if it was her own. Leadership, family business, and entrepreneurship topics are her cup of tea, with an additional track record in marketing, brand management, and community building.
Fund manager @ CTICIII LLP Verslo angelų fondas II
D.Rakauskaite, CFA, is a fund manager of CTICIII LLP Business angels fund II and LLP Business angels fund I, investing together with business angels.
Since 2010 together with partners team have invested close to 20 mio EUR to more than 30 start-ups.
She has more than 18 years of experience in private equity fund investing activities. Main focus of professional activity is financial budgeting and deal structuring.
Co-founder and CEO @ Cloudvisor
Julius with Cloudwisor is an official partner of Amazon AWS in Baltic states. 15 years of experience in IT industry and tech business consulting on infrastructure optimization. Certified AWS Solutions Architect and Google Cloud Architect Professional.
Founder and CEO of ChangeMakers‘ON
Simona's character, combined with her expertise and PhD studies, based on business success factors analysis and modeling, makes her one of the most marketing-savvy people in Lithuania! 🇱🇹
📣 Serial entrepreneur and visionary in the startup ecosystem
📣 Training expert and a business consultant with over 20 years of practical experience in sales and marketing. 👩💼
📣 The best part of Simona is not her skill set, but the ability to inspire people around her.
Head of Business Development @ Montonio Finance
Antanas Bernatonis is Head of Business Development at Montonio Finance and International Business bachelor student at Vilnius University.
Having 5 years of experience in project management, business development and sales, Antanas worked with companies in various fields as well as with the events and projects for youth empowerment in the countryside. After summer internship in New York at World Youth Alliance, organisation that worked on promoting the dignity of the human person in bodies like United Nations and European Parliament, Antanas joined Turing Society as co-founder and lead at Turing Students - Vilnius. After that he began to work with renewables at the company Nectar Sun, which specialised in solar innovations and led the B2B sales team towards company expansion in Europe. Today Antanas is taking role as head of business development at Estonian startup Montonio Finance, working with Fintech PoS solutions.
Entrepreneur, Business Angel
Digital Art Director
Ievas' experience scope looks more like a Pantone color palette: from local advertising agencies to worldwide financial services.
Overseeing, guiding and coaching an international team of designers is not less familiar to her than working with a creative team in order to create concepts for advertising campaigns.
However, apart from taking care of aesthetics of design, Ieva also ensures it meets the technical criteria - good design is not just about beauty. It also has to be functional.
Digital Marketing Consultant
Ignas is involved in the marketing and communications sphere for about ten years.
Ignas is an experienced marketing and communications consultant, a lecturer at Vilnius University, and the PhD candidate. His expertise covers strategic communication and digital marketing fields.
Co-founder @ GoodPeople.lt
Co-founder of training company GoodPeople.lt, Leadership Professor at Vilnius University Business School
Mantas has 15+ years of experience in employee & management training, including 4 years of experience as human resources (HR) manager in international business. He has deep understanding and practice of adult people training (andragogy), follows the trends of modern organizational training methods and experiential learning. In addition to that Mantas has built wide network in the Lithuanian HR community, he is a board member at Association of HR Professionals (PVPA).
For the last 4 years, Mantas together with his team have been running their own training company GoodPeople.lt
Founder @ Spark lab, digital learning company
For the past 10 years, Šarūnas has been working in the digital learning field. He spent his career working with large corporations and leading an international team of truly creative learning designers. This gave him a unique opportunity to learn from very experienced professionals in the market, work with various digital learning projects ranging from super-short micro-learning pieces to global multi-lingual training programs.
Šarūnas has a unique skill to extract knowledge from experts in various fields and convert it into engaging and effective learning journeys. Earlier this year he found digital learning company Spark lab.
Event Moderator @ Edtech Hackathon
HR generalist, lecturer
Event Host and Director @ VU Business School
Board member & co-founder @ LitBAN
Completed High-tech MBA program at Northeastern University in Boston, has experience working at tech Fortune 500 companies including in corporate investments for a global telecommunication equipment manufacturing firm, where Rita was director of Investments for Israel. Country Manager for Transcom Worldwide in Lithuania, shortly thereafter began to delve into angel investing reawakening my venture capital past, but now with more concrete hands-on business experience. Currently, a limited partner of several Baltic area VC firms, advise an accelerator who specializes in young, innovative local and international start-ups.
CEO @ Swedbank Asset Management
Tadas has more than 13 years of experience in asset management and life insurance and areas. He is a board member at Lithuanian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (LT VCA) and also Review Board Member at Baltic Financial Advisors Association.
He has a PhD in Economics from Vilnius University and also a part-time professor at Vilnius University Business School.
BDO @ Baltic Sandbox
Keynote Talk "Ideas are cheap, but how not to freakin fail?"
Nowadays it's easy to get inspired. You open a TEDX speech, wander across loads of websites stating the huge loads of funding available. And then you decide to drop everything you do and straightforward jump into the startup world. During this short presentation, I will disclose the key things needed in order to build a sustainable project. Funding possibilities. And what not to do.
BIO
Andrius is a marketing and communication expert with 12+ years experience working with corporate products (MTV Networks Baltic, Olympic Casino, Akropolis). Andrius has launched numerous products on different markets (Baltic States). Organized various events and conferences - LOGIN (Biggest ICT conference in Baltics), What’s Next (Creative industry conference), Cultural Night (Theatre, Art and visual festival). Today Andrius is a board member of Lithuanian Marketing association and continues with consultations for startups and SME. Starting with 2018, Andrius has cofounded a first private accelerator in Lithuania - Baltic Sandbox. The company focuses on accelerating innovative solutions, M&A deals, investment consulting.
Digital Innovation Lead @ LSBU Business School, Chief Growth Catalyst @ Upflux
Keynote Talk 'Game-Changing Technologies and The Future of Learning'
"Exponential technologies like AR/VR/XR and augmented intelligence are gearing up to change everything we know about learning and education. We are accelerating towards the most significant disruption of the educational sector since Gutenberg's printing press, or even since the invention of writing ca 3000 BC! Of course this also means massive opportunities for the creative pioneers and trailblazers who will emerge as innovation leaders in education. Most exciting times!"
BIO
Vijak Haddadi (PhD, MBA, MA, LLB) is a coach, strategist, and educator whose work focuses on accelerating human potential through a combination of mindset training and empowering use of techniques and technologies like AR/VR/XR, multisensory-design, augmented intelligence, and design thinking. He is a digital innovation strategist & lecturer at London South Bank University, and is Chief Growth Catalyst at the experiential growth agency Upflux. Over his career he has helped over +500 entrepreneurs, startups, and executives, accelerate their potentials through designed learning experiences and has delivered workshops, programmes and keynote addresses in London, Toronto, Berlin, NYC, and Middle Eastern innovation ecosystems.
GET EXPERIENCE
Education transformation growths rapidly. Learn what opportunities business has over the innovation in education system while hacking your way into Edtech.
VU Business School is committed to making participation in the event a harassment free experience for everyone.
Registration, Networking and Coffee
Vytautas Mitalas
Welcome speech, Rules&Agenda
Vijak Haddadi
"Exponential technologies like AR/VR/XR and augmented intelligence are gearing up to change everything we know about learning and education. We are accelerating towards the most significant disruption of the educational sector since Gutenberg's printing press, or even since the invention of writing ca 3000 BC! Of course this also means massive opportunities for the creative pioneers and trailblazers who will emerge as innovation leaders in education. Most exciting times!"
Andrius Milinavičius
Nowadays it's easy to get inspired. You open a TEDX speech, wander across loads of websites stating the huge loads of funding available. And then you decide to drop everything you do and straightforward jump into the startup world. During this short presentation, I will disclose the key things needed in order to build a sustainable project. Funding possibilities. And what not to do.
Jekaterina Govina
Lithuania created favorable environment for financial technology industry with more than 200 Fintech companies operating in the country so far. What factors attract companies to Lithuania and how Lithuania is accelerating the growth of Fintech.
Yosef (Yossi) Shavit
A lot of startups have a great idea, but fall short when they try to wow investors. In this short hands-on workshop, you will learn how to sell your idea on pitch events and in front of investors. The workshop will cover many important topics such as the pitch structure, storytelling, slide design, basics of effective communication and most important – how to immediately put all your gained knowledge into practice and make your presentation a memorable and winning one.
Sauletekio ave. 22, Vilnius
Lithuania
Email: info@vm.vu.lt
Hackathon will take place on Saturday to Sunday.
The venue will be open:
07:00 – 22:00 Saturday
07:00 – 19:00 Sunday
Public transport
Bus 4G and 5G;
Trolleybus 2, 10, 19 and others
Bus Stop: Vilniaus Gedimino technikos universitetas
Bike
Bike lockers outside the venue
Car
Car parking will be provided for the participants