Join this year’s *ship Startup Festival, the startup event for starting entrepreneurs!

Taking place for the fifth year, *ship brings together entrepreneurs in Kotka, Finland for 3 days – and this year’s hybrid, online/offline event promises to be extra special.

Consisting of a Mentor Programme and the Pitch Captain Competition (PCC), the Mentoring Programme and the PCC until the semifinals will be online programmes.

The top 10 teams will be invited to compete for the grand prize of 5 000 € to the Market Square in Kotka, with the PCC Finals being held on 14th of August.

Find out more here.

https://www.shipfestival.org/

Join B-Hub’s webinar on 31st August to learn about:

• Current European Commission initiatives for startups and exclusive insights on what is next in the agenda with Massimiliano Dragoni, Senior Policy Officer, Digital Innovation and Blockchain, DG CONNECT of the European Commission
• B-hub acceleration opportunities for blockchain startups: free, expert, customised go-to-market consulting; a European network of businesses, public actors and startups; and visibility opportunities for winning startups. Presentation delivered by Silvan Jongerius from the leading German accelerator Connect Global.

Find out more and sign up here.

The Dublin Tech Summit is a two-day global conference that brings together some of the most influential tech and business leaders to share inspiring stories of growth, best practices for business development and the latest trends expected for 2020 and beyond. All this and plenty of opportunities for networking!

With 10,000 attendees from 70 countries, 200 guest speakers and 300 global media representatives, DTS has become “Europe’s fastest growing tech conference” and a fantastic opportunity for the world’s leading brands and companies to accelerate growth within the Irish market.

Topics that will be covered include emerging technologies, diversity, scaling for startups and much more.

You can find out more information here.

Startup Olé is one of the biggest tech-entrepreneurial events in Europe and acts as a meeting point for the international tech-entrepreneurial ecosystem. With more than 20,000 participants from 120 countries, more than 850 startups, scaleups and spinoffs, and more than 650 key players and 500 speakers, the event is a fantastic opportunity to learn, network and grow your business. An investment portfolio of more than €50 million will also be present. Can you afford to miss out?

At Startup Olé, attendees, startups, accelerators, corporates, investors, universities and public institutions will meet to develop synergies, secure financing opportunities and boost the digital transformation through a series of activities like matchmaking, roundtables, workshops, networking app and of course networking the Spanish way! 

Find out more information here. 

In the past few years, the rest of the world has been sprinting forward while we’ve sat watching. No wonder the US and China are now home to over eighty percent of the world’s unicorns. It’s time to do something about it! From keynote speakers, to mentoring sessions, to the European Continental Finale of the Startup World Cup, the Startup World Cup & Summit is all about getting Europe back on track.

The SWCSummit is where Europe’s most promising founders meet investors, learn from each other, and start relationships that can change the trajectory of their businesses. It’s also a place where sharing a great idea in a casual networking session often leads to immediate investments. This is, after all, the biggest startup competition in Europe.

Find out more here.

On the 1^st to 3^rd of December 2020, the European Commission, German Presidency and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research are hosting a high-level policy conference on the importance of Europe taking a leading role in shaping the digital age. The conference, hosted in Cologne, is being held as a part of the Commission’s goal of making Europe and Europeans fit for the digital age. ICT 2020 will be a conference where interactive exhibitions of EU-funded projects will be displayed and 5000 researchers, innovators, engineers, policymakers, investors and venture capitalists will come together.

Collaboration opportunities offered by the Digital Europe Programme (DEP) and Horizon Europe (HE) will be presented during the conference.

More information on the event can be found here.

EU-Startups Summit is the annual flagship event of EU-Startups.com – the leading online magazine about startups in Europe. The 2021 edition will gather over 1,500 founders, startup enthusiasts, corporates, angel investors, VCs, and media from across Europe. There will be fireside chats with famous Internet entrepreneurs, an exciting pitch competition, great networking opportunities and much more.

You can find out more here.