Leading technology event in Eastern Europe 9-12 June 2018 1
The emerging Eastern European technology ecosystem The technology sector in Eastern Europe is at an inflection point, with an enormous chance to influence the way we work, live and prepare for the future, globally. The talent pool in the region makes it a major player in technological innovation, which consistently ranks Eastern Europe in the top of the world regarding educational achievement in math, science, and technology. Last year, high-tech exports in Eastern Europe totalled € 63 billion according to the World Bank. Romania is one of Europe’s fastest growing economies in 2017, with a growing fraction of the GDP being generated by the IT&C sector. Now, more than ever, it is essential for business and technology leaders to understand how the Eastern European technology boom fits into the global economy and why it’s important to create more local technology companies. Techsylvania seeks to provide answers. The fifth edition, taking place June 9-12 in Cluj- Napoca, will once again gather key stakeholders, tech leaders and curious minds from all over the world to explore the technology opportunities across Eastern Europe. 3
2017 Facts Event numbers: Event communication: Media: 4 7436 46 day event fans media partners 10 877.358 221 team members people reached press mentions 46 24.989 25 speakers unique website visitors TV appearances 35 > 6.5M 90 total Facebook reach from volunteers radio commercials partners’ pages 16 12 projects developed newsletters during the hackathon 1.500 6.065 happy participants newsletter subscribers 22% 4 growth from 2016 press releases 7 217 journalists received the workshops press releases 4
Attendee Pro f le Industry Job Title Heard of Techsylvania from Employee / Team member Friend, word of mouth IT / Web/ Telecommunication 70% 41% 66% Entrepreneur Press / media Media / Communication / Entertainment 8% 17% 15% Manager / Senior manager Facebook Financial / Consulting / Accounting / Legal 4% 16% 8% Consultant / Independent / Freelancer Google Services 4% 7% 2% Senior Executive (CxO, Founder, Chairman...) Twitter Education 3% 7% 0.3% NGO / International Organizations Student Other 10% 1% 7% Journalist / Blogger Art / Architecture / Design First Time at Techsylvania 1% 1% Investor Manufacturing / Construction YES 1% 1% 54% Others Others NO 6% 4% 46% 5
Past Speakers Technical Experts Mark Shuttleworth Peter Halacsy Peter Yared Andreas Ehn Chad Fowler Harsh Sinha Founder of Ubuntu & Canonical Co-founder and CTO of Prezi CTO at Sapho (Former CTO CBS Co-Founder of Wrapp (Spotify’s Divisional CTO at Microsoft Vice President of Engineering Interactive) First Employee & CTO) Wunderlist at TransferWise Representatives from Top Companies Andy Piper Martin Wezowski Newton Howard Alison Lowndes Marcus Segal Ioana Cozmuta Developer Advocate at Twitter Chief Designer at SAP Director at MIT Synthetic Artificial Intelligence DevRel at Senior VP at Industry Innovation and Intelligence Lab NVIDIA Operations at Zynga Microgravity Lead at NASA 6
Past Speakers Inspirational Entrepreneurs Ste ffj Czerny Tariq Krim Johannes Reck Jerry Kenelly Florin Talpes Gentry Underwood Managing Director at Founder of Jolicloud & CEO at GetYourGuide Chairman and CEO at Riverbed CEO at Bitdefender Co-founder of Mailbox DLD Media Netvibes Technology World Class Investors Tim Draper Alexis Bonte Semyon Dukach Felix Peterson Stefan Glaenzer Frank Meehan Founder of DFJ Executive in Residence at Managing Director at Managing Director Europe at Founding Partner at Passion Co-founder of SmartUp.io & Atomico Techstars Boston Samsung NEXT Capital Partner at SparkLabs Global 7
Connected Devices Hackathon Some of the gadgets we provided Innovative winning projects coming out of the Hackathon Arobs Green Box First aid kit app with short Green Box is a product that training lessons on CPR. Using estimates how e ffj cient a solar a smartwatch as an input, the power panel would be if installed. app aims to connect various The product is mainly designed smartwatches like Garmin or using a solar panel and a series Pebble and o fg er you CPR rules of detectors connected to a as motion notifications on the Raspberry Pi 3. DJI Oculus Parrot wearables, as well as automatically calling the emergency number and put the phone on speaker so that the rescuer is well guided iBlocks This team wants to reinvent the way code is written for IoT devices used for home automation. SecurEye Their project is an editor that generates new blocks of codes, Amazon Microsoft Onyx Using The EyeTribe Tracker for aimed for non-tech people. For its Echo Hololens Beacon introducing your pin code into development, they used Arduino the ATM and JavaScript code. 8
Startup Avalanche Launched in 2016, Startup Avalanche is an icebreaking international competition for startups that speak business, organized in partnership with Risky Business. The criteria for the accepted startups consisted in: Launched and validated products, Scalable business model, Company valuation target: $500K – $2M, Currently fundraising, Great pitch, Functional live demo. The winners have been rewarded with a 9 days fully-funded trip to Silicon Valley. Results: • 180+ qualified applicants • 33 startups accepted • 15 countries (Estonia, Bulgaria, Spain, Columbia, Italy, Moldova, UK, France, USA, Russia, Denmark, Serbia, Egypt, Greece, Romania) • industries such as: 3D printing, contextual recognition, artificial intelligence, music, SaaS, IoT, media, advertising, agritech, biohacking fintech, and more • 1 startup was acquired • 1 startup was accepted into Draper University and then Techstars London, with a $120k investment. • 14 investment oers resulting from the conference and connections made there • 17 partnership and other collaboration discussions resulted
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Partner Testimonials “ “ “ “ It was a mix between The statement that Now that’s what we call an It’s been a real pleasure to be entrepreneurship and IT, with Techsylvania is inspiring IT community gathering! It part of this year’s edition. Once a lot of discussions on how entrepreneurship and tech was a pleasure to be one again, the organizers shown that to improve lifestyle through investments in Cluj-Napoca of the Techsylvania’s Gold they know what professional technical innovations. From is no longer an assumption, Partner. Our culture is to work means. It’s one of the best communicating through but already a data proven fact. with talented and passionate conferences in technology brainwaves to fuel-extraction We saw it in the increasing people and this is exactly where you met very interesting stations in space, all of the number of investments in what we encountered at this people from all over the world. topics seemed to be extremely tech start-ups that we were event. We believe that the We definitely want to be part of relevant, given the speed at happy to assist, we saw it in power of the community is next year edition. which society evolved. After the significant number of one of the best tools to move two days at Techsylvania we VC representatives which forward, innovate and change can frankly tell you that we attended this last edition of the future and this is what felt that our eyes were opened the Techsylvania conference. Techsylvania manages to do and were brought to the point Congratulations for inspiring every yea where “thinking outside of innovation and developing our the box” is a necessity and an startup ecosystem! obligation towards the future. 19
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