IT Startup konferencijos „Going International“ pranešėjai

IT Startup Conference  "Going International" speakers

 

Mindaugas Rutkauskas - UAB  „Mokipay Europe” Executive director, „Antigravity ventures” Project director

Experienced  business manager with background of MBA and Law. Most of his carreer developed new products or services, started few businesses. Mindaugas serves as a judge and mentor in many local and international start-up contests, events and other initiatives.

Mokipay is one of the most innovative and prominent project in Lithuania this year. It is an NFC (Near Field Communication) based system of mobile payments. The NFC technology identifies users when their phones, which have Mokipay stickers on them, are placed on a reader. This project attracted enourmous attention not only from early adopters in Lithuania but also from serious foreign venture capital funds and companies, because mobile payments  are now  one of the hotest topics among innovation and technology professionals.

Audrius Jankauskas -  is co-founder of ImpressPages CMS . He made a career at GetJar, already has built and sold his web startup, developed and sold web development business with 2 other ImpressPages CMS co-founders. Studied Economics and Business Management but worked with the Web ever since. He's a web developer, too.

 Audrius will share his personal experience in building web startups. He will tell what you need to be prepared for when doing business globally. Audrius will explain what it means to be "born global", why sometimes you need to forget your native language and when being local really helps. You will hear advantages and disadvantages of building business from a small country, where you should start if you want to build your own web business.

 

Thomas Solupajev-Ronlev - Chairman of Danish Chamber of commerce (DCC). During the Conference he will speak about:  

• What is the real level of ambitions? – working on my project mainly for fun or for to be a global success?
• Do my project have a global potential?
• How do I utilize the potential?
• How do I plan my project global from day 1?
• How do I prepare myself for going abroad – how do I break through?
• Can I do it myself, or who could help?

 

Zenia Worm Francker - National Manager Venture Cup

Britta Bendix Jensen -  Regional Manager Venture Cup

Venture Cup is a business plan competition in which entrepreneurs with unique business ideas compete for investment capital. Run by non-profit organizations in Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland, Venture Cup competitions are the largest business plan competitions in the world. Used to promote entrepreneurship within Scandinavian universities and to generate high-growth start-up companies within Scandinavian society, the various organizations award more than half a million euros across Scandinavia on a yearly basis.

 

Thorlindur Kjartansson - Innovit Entrepreneurship Center - Chairman of the board

Thorlindur Kjartansson  also is the founder of i2, consulting and marketing strategy company. Thorlindur has a bachelor degree in economics from the University of Iceland.

Innovit Entrepreneurship Center was founded in 2007 in Reykjavik, Iceland. Innovit is a privately held, non-profit company who helps enthusiastic individuals and startups to manage their business ideas. Innovit works closely with the University of Iceland and University of Reykjavik to inspire Icelandic students to the world of entrepreneurship.

Thorlindur will speak about  "Road Map for Success – Icelandic startups"

 In recent years, increased attention has been devoted to building a fostering environment for innovation in Iceland. The main institutions and policy objectives include R&D funding programs, reasearch institutions, financial institutions, universities, incubator- and entrepreneurship centers and tax credit for R&D cost. The country’s mission is to increase innovation, productivity and competitiveness of Icelandic businesses on both national and international level.