Startup Sweden and GITEX Future Stars are hosting this session to tackle the hard questions about expanding in the Middle East North Africa or MENA region. Emerging markets are often overlooked by startups in the West because it’s not always easy to understand the dynamics nor see the potential. Most GDP growth today comes from emerging markets so we would argue that the future of market capitalisation grown for tech companies globally is within these markets. Scaling in MENA is not impossible, our guest startups will share their strategies on how to make expansion in MENA a success.

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You can build the best product in the world — but if your customers don’t trust you, no one will buy it.

85% of consumers* say they’ll only consider a brand if they trust it. This means it’s more important than ever to build an authentic reputation with customers through purposeful marketing. But what does this really mean for startups trying to grow?

For this Sifted Talks, we’ll be discussing:
•  Why is building trust so important?
•  How can startups turn intangible things like ‘responsibility’ and ‘values’ into actionable marketing plans and OKRs?
•  Does being ‘trustworthy’ really make your company more money?

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ViennaUP’21 is an international mega-event, which will take place in April/May 2021. It will be created by Vienna’s diverse and fast-growing startup community to bring together the people who are shaping the future of business and technology. All sessions will take place online.

No longer just ‘the other part of Europe’, the innovation ecosystems in Central and Eastern Europe have matured to a point where its startup and investment communities are finally getting the attention they deserve. In many ways, they are still in the early stages of development, but category-leading companies are already coming out of the region, with many more in the pipeline.

With tech success stories in the making across the region, from the Baltics to Poland, Romania and Ukraine, we are getting ‘to the point’ about what needs to happen for the CEE-based innovation ecosystems to advance to the next level.

During this free online event, expect insightful data from Tech.eu, combined with sharp observations from the best entrepreneurs, investors and ecosystem insiders the CEE region has to offer.

Already confirmed are:

•  Kaidi Ruusalepp, co-founder and CEO of Estonia’s Funderbeam
•  Kinga Stanisławska, general partner/founder of Experior Venture Fund and member of the European Innovation Council
•  Dan Lupu, a partner at Earlybird Venture Capital
•  Ana Wolsztajn, VC Investor & Head of Platform at KAYA VC

We’ll announce more speakers soon.

Find out more and register to attend here.

Taking place from the 12th – 14th May, EMERGE is billed as the top tech conference in Eastern Europe and Central Asia!

Simply not to be missed, find out more and get your tickets from https://emergeconf.io/.

Join us online for our 3rd webinar session “Tackling Covid19 with Workplace Innovation: The Macedonian Experience” We will explore the lessons learnt from Covid19, with llcho Efkoski from CDI, Community Development Institute in Macedonia, who will present how Covid19 challenges were tackled through workplace innovation. The focus will go on the Health & Safety perspective and how companies had to adapt the workplace to the new situation. As the COVID-19 pandemic began, social distance has become one of the principal means to fight transmission of Sars-Cov-2. Working systems were adapted to the use of technologies that monitored social distancing, to measure how closely and for how long individuals come into contact by monitoring the time in signals between units. These devices can also trigger alerts and real-time feedback via large base or cloud platform to identify those at risk of COVID-19.

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This European private market webinar will uncover how the industry performed in the first quarter of 2021, including overviews of venture and private equity deals, exits and the fundraising landscape.

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Generation Z has become a battleground for fintechs, with a wave of new players now looking to tap into this lucrative and under-served market. Among the contenders are well-established fintech giants alongside smaller, specialised newcomers.

This Sifted Talks will feature a curated panel of experts discussing what it will take for new fintech players to win the hearts (and the wallets) of the world’s youngest customers.

We’ll be discussing:
•  What does ‘Gen Z’ finance look like — what are the emerging trends?
•  Are these digital native customers showing brand loyalty?
•  What do fintechs need to consider when developing services for children — such as extra privacy and security concerns?
•  What does the path to profitability look like for newcomers?

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he Nordics have a strong reputation for creating innovative startups working to create a sustainable impact in the world. But what’s the real state of play? Do Nordic countries really over-index for impact innovation? What is an impact startup anyway? And can they offer investment returns as well as real world change?  Every year Danske Bank supports the creation of a report examining in detail development of the Nordic impact startup scene, to assess and nuance the common perception of the ecosystem. Predictably, not all myths hold true.

With this report we wish to bring data and facts about the Nordic Impact startups to the table, with an added focus on ‘Green Growth’ startups. By doing so we hope to shed light on the challenges and opportunities in the Nordic and broader Impact ecosystems.

For this event, we will go through some of the key findings from our research and share insights about the State of the Nordic Impact Startups.

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Calling all changemakers to gather and act, NOW for 3 days of collaborative action for the planet

The accelerator event for a better world
Over 3 days, discover the most concrete and innovative solutions to face the World’s biggest challenges and interact with changemakers, to accelerate change. Now.

Find out more and get your tickets here.

Sustainable fashion is gaining momentum as a process of fostering change to the fashion system towards greater ecological integrity and social justice. Join us online on June 2, 10:00 CET as we dive into the fashion industry to explore opportunities of sustainable collaboration within creative industries and innovative entrepreneurship. Our guests from Greece will be presenting the European project “S4Fashion” around the topic of sustainable and circular fashion. They will as well introduce the new created European platform that will aim at gathering all interested key players of circular fashion. The name of the speakers will soon be confirmed.

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The European Cyber Security Organisation (ECSO), together with the National Cybersecurity Centre of Portugal (CNCS), ScaleUp Porto, Bright Pixel, Maxive and S21sec, have the pleasure of inviting you to the 9th edition of the Cyber Investor Days, scheduled on 15-16 June 2021 in Porto, Portugal.

The most promising European cybersecurity startups and SMEs will have a chance to pitch their innovative cybersecurity solutions and hold B2B meetings with the leading investors and corporates from Europe and beyond. 9th Cyber Investor Days will be organised as a virtual event, allowing remote attendance.

Two best cybersecurity companies participating in the Porto edition of the Cyber Investor Days will be nominated to compete for the ECSO’s European Cybersecurity STARtup Award. Nominees will be selected by the local jury. During the final ceremony of the Award, nominated companies will pitch in front of the European jury and will have a unique opportunity to present themselves to high-level investors, corporate executives and cybersecurity experts. For more information, click here.

It’s Where Business Gets Done! Fintech Spring Meetup is an online meetings event that connects the payments, banking and financial services community for new opportunities, potential partnerships, networking, professional development and other meaningful collaboration. Join to:

• Reach over 1,000 fintech industry professionals: share and hear how to work together
• Participate in an average of 8-12 double opt-in 15-minute meetings per participant (during 24 time slots) and up to two 55-minute peer group conversations called Tabletalks
• Get up to 8 post-event introductions for high priority matches that weren’t scheduled as meetings

Fintech Spring Meetup takes place on June 15-17, 2021 from 9:30 am-12:15 pm PT (12:30 pm-3:15 pm ET).

Register to attend here.

If we are to call the 2020s the Digital Decade, we must unleash the power of data. Europe has set itself ambitious goals for 2030, such as doubling the number of its unicorns, boosting uptake of artificial intelligence and cloud services to 75% of EU companies, and digitalising 90% of small and medium enterprises. All of these will rely on making use of the data that is all around us and ensuring that businesses of all sizes can truly participate in the data economy.

The international dimension is just as crucial: we know from our latest survey that 9 out of 10 businesses in Europe are transferring data out of the continent, including 7 out of 10 SMEs. Cross-border data flows are already the bedrock of business models in sectors as diverse as manufacturing, retail and agriculture.

2021 is a pivotal year for data policy, with the recent proposal on AI, the Data Governance Act, and the expected launch of European data spaces. We also have an unprecedented opportunity for investment with the EU recovery funds and new budget – the most digitally-focused ever.

This June, join us as we tackle the challenges and opportunities ahead together with Europe’s top policymakers and industrial leaders. How can we ensure that Europe’s approach to data allows our continent’s innovators to flourish? What do we need to do to help our fellow citizens take advantage of these new possibilities? How can we improve the resilience of our companies for the next crisis? What will Europe look like in 2030?

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GOTO is the enterprise software development conference designed for team leads, architects, and project management and is organized for developers, by developers. As software developers and architects ourselves, we wanted to craft the ultimate conference.

The result is a high quality conference experience where a tremendous amount of attention and investment has gone into having the best content on the most important topics presented by the leaders in our community, staged in an intimate environment needed to support as much learning and networking as possible.

Find out more and get your tickets here.