YES for Europe Ευρωπαϊκή Συνομοσπονδία Νέων Επιχειρηματιών

ΔΕΛΤΙΟ ΤΥΠΟΥ

1ο Ευρωπαϊκό Συνέδριο Νεανικής Επιχειρηματικότητας:

Η υπέρβαση του εμποδίου του κατακερματισμού στην Ευρώπη

καθώς και η δημιουργία της κοινής Ευρωπαϊκής

επιχειρηματικής ταυτότητας

Οργανωτές Συνεδρίου στην Ελλάδα:

Υπό την Αιγίδα των:

Ελληνική Προεδρία

Συμβουλίου Ε.Ε.

Ευρωπαϊκή Επιτροπή

Δήμος Αθηναίων

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Αθήνα,

23 Ιουνίου 2014

Δελτίο Τύπου

26-28 Ιουνίου στην Αθήνα το 1ο Ευρωπαϊκό Συνέδριο Νεανικής Επιχειρηματικότητας

Στις 28 Ιουνίου το 5ο Φόρουμ Ελληνικών Νεοφυών Επιχειρήσεων

Από την Πέμπτη 26 έως και το Σάββατο 28 Ιουνίου θα γίνει στην Αθήνα το 1ο

Ευρωπαϊκό Συνέδριο Νεανικής Επιχειρηματικότητας, ένας νέος θεσμός που εισήγαγε η

Ευρωπαϊκή Συνομοσπονδία Νέων Επιχειρηματιών - YES και θα πραγματοποιείται ανά

εξάμηνο στη χώρα που έχει την Προεδρία του Ευρωπαϊκού Συμβουλίου.

Οργανωτές του Συνεδρίου στην Ελλάδα είναι ο Σύνδεσμος "Νεανική

Επιχειρηματικότητα", ο οποίος εκπροσωπεί την Ελλάδα στην Ευρωπαϊκή

Συνομοσπονδία Νέων Επιχειρηματιών, το INNOVATHENS - πρωτοβουλία του Δήμου Αθηναίων για την ενίσχυση της νεοφυούς επιχειρηματικότητας - και το Orange Grove,

θερμοκοιτίδα νεοφυών επιχειρήσεων που λειτουργεί από την Ολλανδική Πρεσβεία

στην Ελλάδα.

Παράλληλα με το 1ο Ευρωπαϊκό Συνέδριο Νεανικής Επιχειρηματικότητας και

συγκεκριμένα το Σάββατο 28 Ιουνίου θα λάβει χώρα το 5ο Φόρουμ Ελληνικών

Νεοφυών Επιχειρήσεων που οργανώνεται από την Ελληνική Ένωση Νεοφυών

Επιχειρήσεων στο INNOVATHENS.

Τη δεύτερη μέρα του Συνεδρίου, Παρασκευή 28 Ιουνίου στο Orange Grove και με τη

συμμετοχή της Αντιπροέδρου της Ευρωπαϊκής Επιτροπής κας Neelie Kroes, θα γίνει η

παρουσίαση του Greek Startup Manifesto, ενός σχεδίου δράσης που εκπονήθηκε από ομάδα Ελλήνων ιδρυτών νεοφυών επιχειρήσεων και σκοπό έχει να αποτελέσει ένα

κείμενο αναφοράς για την ενίσχυση της επιχειρηματικότητας ταχείας ανάπτυξης,

εξωστρέφειας και καινοτομίας στη χώρα.

Τα δυο κεντρικά θέματα του 1ου Ευρωπαϊκού Συνεδρίου Νεανικής

Επιχειρηματικότητας είναι η υπέρβαση του εμποδίου του κατακερματισμού στην

Ευρώπη καθώς και η δημιουργία της κοινής Ευρωπαϊκής επιχειρηματικής ταυτότητας.

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Στη δημόσια αυτή συζήτηση θα συνεισφέρει μεγάλος αριθμός διακεκριμένων ομιλητών από όλη την Ευρώπη αλλά και από χώρες όπως ΗΠΑ, Βραζιλία, Αυστραλία, Γκάνα και

Αίγυπτος, συνεισφέροντας σε έναν πραγματικά διεθνή διάλογο πάνω στα ζητήματα

αυτά.

Το 1ο Ευρωπαϊκό Συνέδριο Νεανικής Επιχειρηματικότητας θα αναδείξει περιοχές

δυνητικής Ευρωπαϊκής ηγεσίας, όπως το 3D printing, η Βιοτεχνολογία και η

διαστημική επιχειρηματικότητα, με ομιλίες διακεκριμένων επιχειρηματιών και

επιστημόνων στην περιοχή. Παράλληλα θα θιχτούν όλες οι αναγκαίες αλλαγές σε Ευρωπαϊκό επίπεδο σε τομείς όπως η εκπαίδευση, η νομοθεσία και η φορολογία για

την ενίσχυση της επιχειρηματικότητας ταχείας ανάπτυξης και εξωστρέφειας.

Την Παρασκευή 27 Ιουνίου θα λάβει χώρα συνέλευση των ηγεσιών νεανικής επιχειρηματικότητας των χωρών μελών της ΕΕ αλλά και άλλων Ευρωπαϊκών χωρών με

σκοπό τη συμφωνία σε πανευρωπαϊκό σχέδιο δράσης για την ενίσχυση και προώθηση

της νεανικής επιχειρηματικότητας ως κεντρική επιλογή για την αύξηση της ποιοτικής

απασχόλησης και τη βιώσιμη έξοδο από την κρίση.

Τέλος, στο 5ο Φόρουμ Ελληνικών Νεοφυών Επιχειρήσεων θα γίνει μια μεγάλη δημόσια

συζήτηση σχετικά με το φαινόμενο των startups στην Ελλάδα και συγκεκριμένα για τις

κατηγορίες του Venture Capital, των Angel Investors και των Incubators καθώς επίσης και θα γίνει παρουσίαση πετυχημένων ελληνικών νεοφυών επιχειρήσεων. Στο πλαίσιο

αυτό θα γίνει και workshop από την Κοινοπραξία του έργου "Future Enterprise" το

οποίο θα οδηγήσει σε συγκεκριμένες προτάσεις προς την Ευρωπαϊκή Επιτροπή για δράσης ενίσχυσης της νεοφυούς επιχειρηματικότητας, για καλύτερη σύνδεση έρευνας

και επιχειρηματικότητας και για πιο στοχευμένα και αποτελεσματικά προγράμματα

χρηματοδότησης.

Οι οργανωτές του 1ου Ευρωπαϊκού Συνεδρίου Νεανικής Επιχειρηματικότητας και του

5ου Φόρουμ Ελληνικών Νεοφυών Επιχειρήσεων, θέλουν να ευχαριστήσουν θερμά την

Ευρωπαϊκή Επιτροπή και τους χορηγούς του συνεδρίου, χάρη στην πολύτιμη βοήθεια

των οποίων μπορεί να πραγματοποιηθεί.

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Περισσότερες πληροφορίες για το συνέδριο:

http://www.youthentrepreneurship.eu

YES for Europe: http://www.yes.be, http://twitter.com/YESforEurope

Σύνδεσμος Νεανική Επιχειρηματικότητα: http://www.neaep.gr INNOVATHENS: http://www.innovathens.gr, http://twitter.com/innovathens

OrangeGrove:

http://www.orangegrove.biz, http://www.facebook.com/orangegroveathens

Επισυνάπτονται:

1) Λίστα ομιλητών

2) Προφίλ οργανωτών

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ΛΙΣΤΑ ΟΜΙΛΗΤΩΝ

Neelie Kroes (Netherlands), Vice President of the European Commission

Jan Versteeg (Netherlands), Ambassador of the Netherlands in Greece

Kiriakos Mitsotakis (Greece), Minister of Administrative Reform & e- Governance

Georgios Kaminis (Greece), Mayor of Athens

Dimitris Tsigos (Greece), President YES for Europe

Yiannis Giannarakis (Greece), Executive Director HAMAC – Hellenic Association of Mobile

Applications Companies and Σynergies – Connecting Changemakers

Viorel Peca, European Commission - DG CONNECT F2

Philipp Brinkmann (Greece), Co-founder and CEO at Travelplanet24/Tripsta

Varvara Roza (Greece) President, Hellenic Youth Entrepreneurship

Ann Mettler (Belgium) Executive Director Lisbon Council

Josephine Green (UK), Founder at Beyond20:21st Century Stories

Marco Veremis (Greece) Founder & CEO at Upstream, Vice President at HAMAC – Hellenic

Association of Mobile Applications

Maria Pinelli (Italy), Global Vice Chair, Ernst & Young

Dimitris Drakoulis (Greece), Founder & CEO Telesto Technologies, Leader of the Greek

Startup Manifesto Team

Candace Johnson (Luxembourg), President at EBAN – The European Trade Association for

Business Angels, Seed Funds and other Early Stage Market Players

Yigal Erlich (Israel), Founder & Chairm at YOZMA Fund of Funds

Peter Madsen (Denmark), Founder, Copenhagen Suborbitals

Giannis Papadopoulos (Greece), Chairman at the Hellenic Venture Capital Association, CEO

at Attica Ventures

Maxim Lobovsky (US), Founder & CEO at Formlabs

Bastiaan Zwanenburg (Netherlands), Founder at Woodify, award-winning teenage

entrepreneur

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Glynn Pegler (UK), Founder & CEO at Culture Group

Nikolaos Maniatis (Greece) Founder & CEO at Museofabber, Advisor to the Hellenic Start-up

Association

Maria Vlachou (Greece), Co-founder & CEO Fereikos Gefsis

Fotis Talantzis (Greece), CEO at EVNEO and BoD Member at the Hellenic Start-up

Association

George Papadopoulos (Greece) Secretary General at the Hellenic Start-up Association

Pavlos Stampoulidis (Greece) CEO at Psycholate and BoD Member at the Hellenic Start-up

Association

Spiros Kapetanakis (Greece) Founder & CEO at CoLab Workspace, Advisor to the Hellenic Start-

up Association

Apostolos Apostolakis (Greece) Serial Tech Entrepreneur & Early Stage Investor

Sotirios Papantonopoulos (Greece)CEO at MoneyMarket

Jerome Zois (Luxembourg) Managing Director, Europe4Startups, Prinicpal, Data4 Ventures

Victor Soto (Belgium) Vice-President of JADE - European Confederation of Junior Enterprises

Matthieu Schiffmann (Belgium) Communication Manager at Think Young

Mario Paladini(Germany) Founder & CEO at GLOBALS

Luca Donelli (Italy), President Italian Delegation at G20 YEA - Responsible for International

and European Relations at Confindustria Young Entrepreneurs

Alex Mitchell (UK), President at Young Brits

Nils-Erik Jansson (Sweden), President at YEOS

Sándor P. Mohácsi (Germany), President German Delegation to the G20 YEA

Euchar Sultana (Malta), Founder, Young Business Entrepreneurs

Eduardo Platon (Brazil),International Relations Chair, Brazilian Confederation of Young

Entrepreneurs

Hany Elhabibi (Egypt), Head of EJB international relations

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Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah (Ghana) Ghanaian Entrepreneur & Broadcaster

Socratis Ploussas (Greece) Vice President at the Hellenic Start-up Association

Panos Zamanis (Greece), Vice President at the Hellenic Start-up Association

Vangelis Antoniadis(Greece), Co-founder at Cytech

Nadia Cheng (US) Director of Research and Development Empire Robotics

Stewart Youngblood (US), ex. Program Director, Tech Wildcatters incubator, Dallas

Nathaniel Peat (UK) Founder at The Safety Box Ltd

Michael McGeary (USA), Co- founder and Chief Political Strategist, Engine

Nick Gonios (Australia), Pollenizer Startup Studion

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Keynote Speakers

Neelie Kroes

Vice-President of the European

Commission

I was born 1941 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, where I also

attended school and helped to build my family's transport

business. I studied economics at Erasmus University, before

working there for six years as an Assistant Professor.

My political career started on the Rotterdam Municipal

Council, and in 1971 I was elected as a Member of the Dutch

Parliament for the liberal VVD party. From 1982-1989 I

served as Minister for Transport, Public Works and

Telecommunication in the Netherlands.

After politics I was appointed President of Nyenrode

University from 1991-2000, and served on various company

boards, including Lucent Technologies, Volvo, and P&O

Nedlloyd.

My charity work included advising the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund and World Cancer Research Fund, and I have

an ongoing interest in mental health issues.

Since 2004, I have worked for the European Commission, as

one of the 27 Commissioners working to maintain a peaceful

and prosperous Europe. From 2004 to 2009, I was

Competition Commissioner, responsible for ensuring a level

playing field for business in Europe, and fair prices and wide choice for consumers.In 2010, I became Vice-President of

the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda

for Europe. This portfolio includes the information and

communications technology (ICT) and telecommunications

sectors. For example: ensuring trust and security for the

Internet and new technologies; ensuring competitive

communications, such as in the mobile roaming market;

building world-class European research and innovation in

this sector; and above all getting every European Digital, with access to fast broadband, so we can make the most out

of the Internet to support our economy and society.

My current role is Vice President of the European

Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda for Europe.

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Georgios Kaminis

Mayor of Athens, Greece

Mr. Kaminis was elected Mayor of Athens in November 2010

and re-elected to a second term in May 2014.

Prior to his election as a Mayor of Athens, Mr. Kaminis

served as Greek Ombudsman. From 1998 to May 2003, he

was Deputy Ombudsman for Human Rights at the Greek

Ombudsman. In 2003, he was unanimously elected Greek

Ombudsman by the Greek Parliament, and he was re-elected

for a second term in 2007. In August 2010, Mr. Kaminis resigned from the post of the Greek Ombudsman in order to

stand as an independent mayoral candidate for the City of

Athens. In the 1990s Mr. Kaminis worked as a lecturer and

assistant professor of constitutional law in the Faculty of Law

at the University of Athens.

Mr. Kaminis studied law at the University of Athens, and

holds a doctoral degree (Doctorat d’ Etat) from the

University of Paris II. He was born in New York City and he

has also lived in Osaka, Paris, Madrid and Heidelberg. In addition to his native Greek language, he speaks fluently

English, French, Spanish and German. Mr. Kaminis is married

and has two children.

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Josephine Green

Founder at Beyond 20:21

st Century

Stories

Through refreshing terms and paradigms, Josephine explores

and articulates this dramatic period of transformation that

we as a human society are experiencing. Using her

frameworks of Pyramids to Pancakes and Scarcity to

Abundance, she challenges us to think and to act differently.

Josephine regularly delivers international presentations and

is an advisor to European Futures and Research platforms.

She is Visiting Professor at the University of Northumberland

in the faculty of Art and Design and Social Sciences and she

lectures at a number of European Universities and Design

Schools.

Josephine was appointed Senior Director of Trends and

Strategy at Philips Design, in the Netherlands, in 1997.

Philips published her manifesto ‘Democratizing the Future’ in 2007. She left Philips in 2009 to return to the UK and her

company, Beyond20: and 21st Century Stories explores our

present Change of Age. She has lived in the UK, Italy Holland.

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Ann Mettler

Executive Director of The Lisbon

Council

Ann Mettler is executive director and co-founder of the Lisbon Council, a Brussels-based knowledge economy think

tank and innovation policy network. In addition, she serves

as executive director of the European Digital Forum, a new

think tank spearheaded by the Lisbon Council and Nesta, in

collaboration with the Startup Europe Partnership and the

European Commission.

From 2000-2003, Ms. Mettler worked at the World Economic

Forum, where she last served as Director for Europe. Prior to

this appointment, she was responsible for the World Economic Forum’s activities in the United States and Canada.

From 1997-2000, Ms. Mettler held positions on the

Governmental Affairs Committee of the United States

Senate, a strategic advisory firm in Washington, DC and the

Foreign Policy Division of the European Commission,

Brussels.

Ms. Mettler is widely published and quoted in key media

outlets, such as the Financial Times, The Economist, Wall Street Journal Europe, International Herald Tribune, Business

Week and Newsweek. She has provided analysis of current

affairs on CNBC, Bloomberg TV and BBC, and is a frequent

speaker at high-level conferences across Europe. Ms. Mettler

is also a member of the

World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Europe

and serves on the international advisory boards of the

Telefónica 'Think Big' initiative and the Flemish Council for

Science and Innovation. In 2006, she was named a young

leader by the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt.

A dual citizen of Germany and Sweden, Ms. Mettler has lived

and worked in Greece, the United States, Switzerland and

Belgium. She holds Masters degrees in political science and

European law and economics, and graduated with distinction

from the University of New Mexico, USA, and the Rheinische

Friedrich-Wilhelms-University in Bonn, Germany.

http://be.linkedin.com/in/annmettler

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Maria Pinelli

Global Vice Chair

Strategic Growth Markets at EY

Global, London, United Kingdom

Maria Pinelli is Global Vice Chair of Strategic Growth Markets for

EY Global. She oversees EY’s business unit that is the world leader

in advising, guiding and recognizing entrepreneurs and high-

growth companies. She advises clients who are focused on

accelerating growth and achieving market leadership. Having more

than 25 years of experience providing professional services to both

private and public companies, Maria has led more than 20 IPOs in

three continents.

Maria has briefed members of the G20, The World Economic

Forum, the London Stock Exchange, the US Senate Banking

Committee and the US Securities and Exchange Commission, as

well as the US, Russian, European Union and African governments,

on the trends that are driving global activity in the IPO market,

entrepreneurship and innovation, and economic growth. She has

also testified before a subcommittee of the US House Financial

Services Committee about the key findings of EY's annual Global

IPO Trends Report. Maria has been quoted in publications such as

The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Forbes, Financial Times, as

well as news services such as Reuters and Dow Jones Newswires.

She has appeared on CNBC, Bloomberg and other related

television stations to discuss her viewpoint on the economic

climate. She has authored several reports and White Papers

including leading EY’s renowned EY G20 Barometer 2013 Report,

which ranks the G20 countries on their ability to foster

entrepreneurship.

Maria is truly passionate about supporting entrepreneurs and is

heavily involved in creating a support network for such business

enterprises and founded the Strategic Growth Forum which

convenes high-growth companies to share insight and expertise of

the market. She also oversees EY’s renowned Entrepreneur Of The

Year® program worldwide and founded EY’s Entrepreneurial

Winning Women™

program in 2008, designed to accelerate the

growth of high-potential female entrepreneurs.

At the World Economic Forum (WEF), Maria is a Member of

Advisory Board, WEF Global Growth Companies, and a member of

the Steering Council, WEF Fostering Entrepreneurship. She also

supports Endeavor as a Senior Advisor. EY is a Strategic Partner to

Endeavor. Maria is Chair of the Board of NFTE – Network For

Teaching Entrepreneurship – which is committed to helping youth

develop an entrepreneurial mind-set.

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Marco Veremis

Founder & CEO at Upstream, Vice

President at HAMAC – Hellenic

Association of Mobile Applications

Marco is Upstream’s CEO and co-founder and has been

Chairman of the Board since 2002. Marco sets Upstream’s

strategic direction and spearheads business development as

the company continues its expansion into new geographical

and product areas. As an experienced marketing strategist at

leading advertising agencies Grey Advertising, McCann-

Ericsson and DDB in London, Marco developed global and

Pan-European communications strategies for brands such as

Nestlé, Coca-Cola, Sony and SmithKline Beecham. Marco is a mentor at Endeavor and Openfund, Vice-Chairman of the

Hellenic Association of Mobile Application Companies

(HAMAC) and an angel investor and board advisor to

Workable HR. Marco holds a Bachelor’s degree in Politics

and International Studies from Warwick University and a

Master’s in European Studies from Oxford University.

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Viorel Peca

Head of Innovation Unit

European Commission DG CONNECT F2

Viorel Peca is Head of the Innovation Unit with the European

Commission, DG Connect. His unit's mission is to develop

and inspire a new vision on ICT innovation and entrepreneurship. This addresses, in particular,

entrepreneurship and innovation support actions and

policies, access to finance, inducement prizes, innovation

procurement, ICT innovation vouchers and coordination of

standardisation activities (including the ICT multi-

stakeholder platform).

He joined the European Commission in 2008 and DG Connect in 2011 as Head of Unit for Networked Media; previously he

was Project Manager and Chief Business Analyst for the eFP7

team of DG DIGIT.

Viorel started his career in R&D at Alcatel Romania in 1996,

and then moved to Belgium in 2000 where he worked for

several Alcatel products spanning all the layers of the network. Later he worked as feature development team

leader, then as IPTV project manager.

Viorel holds an MSc in electronics and communications from

University "Politehnica" from Timisoara, Romania and has a

Master in Industrial Management from KU Leuven

University, Belgium.

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Nadia Cheng Ph.D.

Director of Research and

Development Empire Robotics, Inc

Nadia Cheng is the Director of Research and Development at

Empire Robotics, a hardware startup in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Empire Robotics is developing a highly

adaptive robotic gripper for industrial automation.

Nadia received her Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical

Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

and a B.S. degree in Aerospace Engineering from the

University of California, San Diego. She was also a National

Defense Science and Engineering Research Fellow, has

worked at the MIT Media Lab, and has held internships at

various government and private institutions. Nadia has

publications in robotics, air traffic management, tangible user interfaces, and nature-inspired cocktail garnishes, and

has also worked in areas including medical devices, assistive

technologies, and 3D printing.

https://www.linkedin.com/pub/nadia-cheng/61/53a/14a

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Maxim Lobovsky

Co-Founder at Formlabs

Maxim launched a successful career as an entrepreneur and

start-up founder by age 23. As a master’s student at MIT’s

Media Lab, Lobovsky enjoyed access to three-dimensional

printers to create necessary components for his projects,

designed and printed to spec. Lobovsky could see the

potential applications of 3D printing for designers, architects, engineers, and other small businesses; however, the

machines he used were prohibitively expensive.

After graduating, Lobovsky worked with two of his friends to

create the first small-scale, affordable 3D printer

for prosumers and thus was born his start-up, Formlabs.

Once they had a prototype, called the Form 1, Lobovsky and

Formlabs’ co-founders began a Kickstarter campaign, using

the power of crowdsourced funding to finance the

production of commercial models. Formlabs raised nearly $3 million overall—30 times their

original fundraising goal. Formlabs has since raised $19

million in venture funding and continues to lead the high-

resolution desktop 3D printing market.

http://formlabs.com/ @maxlobovsky

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Bastiaan

Zwaanenburg

Founder at Woodify

Bastiaan (17 yrs) started his first company when he was 9

years old. He sold bottles of sauce from his dad's company

via a website he made by himself. He continued making

websites for tens of clients, including one of the biggest law

firms in The Netherlands, and a telecom provider for

youngsters, which is actually being run by youngsters: bliep.

At bliep, he met Robert, who was marketing manager at the

time.

Together, they started Woodify, a webshop in which they

sell Wooden Sunglasses, purely just to find out what it takes

to start a webshop. It went quite well, they sold almost 5000

pairs of glasses in 2013, generating €200,000 in revenue.

Besides from that, he advises the Dutch government on

topics concerning the internet. He visited the IGF (Internet

Governance Forum, organised by the UN) in Bali, Indonesia

in 2013, as part of the Dutch Delegation. He also advised EU-

Commisioner Neelie Kroes on young entrepreneurship.

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Eduardo Platon

Founder and President at BBOSS

BBOSS founder and president. Graduated in Business

Administration from UFBA in Brazil with MBA in Finance &

International Business and Academic Masters in Political

Philosophy from Tulane University in the United States.

Eduardo Platon lived 12 years in the U.S. working for the Louisiana International Trade Center, World Trade Center,

and World Affairs Council of New Orleans as its Executive

Director where he developed a global network with talented

people. Upon return to Brazil, Platon worked at the

Odebrecht Foundation in charge of international relations

and planning for large and small enterprises.

Current Chairman of the World Affairs Council of Brazil, Head

of Innovation and international services of Rotary

International District 4550, international relations chair of CONAJE - Brazil National Confederation of Young

Entrepreneurs, Eduardo has provided advisory services to

private, government, and NGO initiatives. Member of the

Brazil American Chamber of Commerce, Portuguese

Chamber of Commerce, Eduardo Platon aims at creating a

global platform of services based on solid business principles

to support investors, management teams, partners, and

clients to do business in Brazil. Eduardo is a Yoga practitioner

and enthusiast of a simple, healthy, and prosperous lifestyle.

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Stewart Youngblood

ex. Program Director, Tech

Wildcatters incubator, Dallas

Stewart Youngblood is a 27 year-old entrepreneur, mentor,

and speaker based in Dallas, Texas. He has been heavily

involved in the creation and growth of the Dallas startup

ecosystem since 2009, during which time Dallas has

leapfrogged many other metro areas to now be recognized

as one of the fastest growing startup ecosystems in the United States.

Stewart was most recently Program Director of Tech

Wildcatters in Dallas, TX. Tech Wildcatters is a Forbes Top

Ten-ranked seed fund and startup accelerator that has

graduated over 40 companies since 2010. Stewart has

presented to crowds of over 500 attendees on topics such as

startup ecosystems, investor pitches, mobile development,

and many more.

While at Tech Wildcatters, Stewart was responsible for and

accomplished:

- Raising a $600k+ investment fund from individual angel

investors each year (no government or university funding)

- Supporting the graduate companies in raising over $3mm in

follow-on funding

- Helping companies to land over $1.5mm in customer deals

while still in the program

- Being the go-to resource for companies during the program (help with biz dev strategy, operations,

talent/customer/fundraising pipeline)

- Analyzing company applications to get into the program

(hundreds of applications for 10-15 spots)

- Running the mentorship program (over 75 mentors and

experts)

- Adding new key mentors from Dallas and beyond

- Adding new resources and relationships (Sponsors, freebies

such as free hosting from Amazon, etc) - Expanding awareness for Tech Wildcatters in the press

- Defending startups and technology companies from

unnecessary government intervention (Uber, Lyft, and more)

- Being a voice for the Dallas startup community both within

Texas and at industry events worldwide

http://www.linkedin.com/in/stewyoungblood

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Philipp Brinkmann

Co-founder and CEO at

Travelplanet24/Tripsta

Philipp is half German half Greek and he was born in 1980

close to Munich. After receiving a Diploma in International

Business Administration from the Munich Business School in

2005, he decided to move to Greece to co-found

travelplanet24.com with Kristof Keim. Currently he is still

acting as the CEO of Tripsta/travelplanet24.

The company started in 2005 as one of the first “Online

Travel Agencies” (OTAs) in Greece.

In 2010 in the middle of the financial crises in Greece, the

company set the goal to expand abroad and to become one

of the five leading OTAs in South-Eastern-Europe.

Travelplanet24 currently employs more than 160

professionals working in several departments (Development,

Design, Marketing, Operations, Finance, HR,..) in its three

offices in Athens, Bucharest & Sao Paolo.

• Since September 2012, he is a member of the board

of PETAGA (Greek Union of Air Travel agencies)

• Since July 2013, he is a member of the board of

Spitogatos.gr a Greek website for real estate ads

He loves his work; he is a tech enthusiast, an optimization

junkie and a good old wine lover.

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Peter Madsen Founder of Copenhagen

Suborbitals

Peter Madsen is one of a kind submarine and space

entrepreneur. Peter Madsen's story is about pursuing a

childhood dream against all odds. It is about starting out, with scarse resources, but a lot of healthy ideas and

succeeding with them. Furthermore it is about cutting

corners to an extreme extent in order to make something

happen that normally would seem completely impossible. In

other words it is about extreme innovation, visions and

dynamics, that makes realizing a dream possible.

Peter Madsen will take you from your everyday live, deep

into his dream, underwater, and ultimately into space.

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David Beijer

Founder & CEO at Dignify

After a bachalor's degree in Electrical engineering, David got

his Master's degree in Systems & Control Engineering. He did

his graduation research at Epyon, a Dutch start-up active in

fast-charging of Electric Vehicles. After graduation he did

global sales support for EV chargers at ABB (which had

acquired Epyon by then) for about 2 years. He co-founded Dingify together with two of the former Epyon founders.

During his studies he held various board positions at NPO's.

nl.linkedin.com/pub/david-beijer/10/912/38/

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Dimitris G.E. Tsigos

President of YES for Europe

Founding Chairman of HSA

CEO at StartTech Ventures

Dimitris Tsigos is the President of YES – European

Confederation of Young Entrepreneurs (www.yes.be), the

Brussels-based organization representing young

entrepreneurs of the European Union. YES also represents

the EU at the G20 Young Entrepreneurs’ Alliance

(www.g20yea.com), the international network of young

entrepreneurs from the G20 Countries. An Athens-based

serial tech entrepreneur and early stage investor, he also is

the Founding Chairman of the Hellenic Start-up Association

(http://hellenicstartups.gr) and a Board Member at EBAN –

The European Trade Association of Business Angels, Seed

Funds and other Early Stage Market Players

(http://www.eban.org). Having co-founded Virtual Trip

(http://www.vtrip.net), the first student start-up in Greece,

and then co-founded or invested in a dozen of high-tech

companies, he currently is the CEO of StartTech Ventures

(http://www.starttech.eu), a next generation venture

incubator in Athens, Greece. Dimitris is an active citizen

strongly believing in faster and deeper European integration.

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Alex Mitchell

Founder, Causarma

Co-Founder, Young Brits Network

Co-Founder, Kit Us Out

UK President, G20 Young

Entrepreneurs Alliance

UK Representative, European

Confederation of Young

Entrepreneurs

Alex is the Founder and Director of Causarma (a social

enterprise agency that works with organisations to develop

their enterprise strategy), Co-founder and Director of the

Young Brits Network (a social enterprise focused on

prompting the views and interests of young entrepreneurs

from Britain internationally), he is the current UK President of the G20 Young Entrepreneurs Alliance (a global network

of young entrepreneurs and the organisations that support

them) and he is the UK representative on the European

Confederation of Young Entrepreneurs (the major

association of young entrepreneurs throughout Europe).

Alex is also Co-founder and Director of Kit Us Out, a charity

setup during the London 2012 Olympic & Paralympic Games

with a focus on providing key sports equipment to

Paralympic athletes from developing nations.

Additional roles Alex currently holds is a Leadership Mentor

for the Commonwealth Secretariats Asian Alliance for Young

Entrepreneurs (creating a platform for entrepreneurs from

Commonwealth countries in Asia to share best practice and

develop trade ties), a Member for the Institute of Directors

London Committee (the IoDs largest region with the

committee representing over 6,000 business leaders in the

capital) and he is a member of the Advisory Board for

Tasksquad by Vinspired (the UKs national youth volunteering charity).

Prior to setting up on his own, Alex held senior roles at the

Institute of Directors (Europe's largest professional body for

company directors) the Confederation of British Industry

(Europe’s leading independent employers' organisation) and

the Association of MBAs (the international impartial

authority on postgraduate business education).

You can follow Alex on Twitter here:

www.twitter.com/AlexDMitchell

You can visit Alex’s blog here: www.mynameisalex.co.uk

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Luca G. Donelli

President Italian Delegation at G20

YEA - Responsible for International

and European Relations at

Confindustria Young Entrepreneurs

Born in 1982, he graduated in International Economics and

Management at Bocconi University in Milan. After an

experience in McKinsey&Co. as a Business Analyst, Luca has

started working with his family business, incorporated in

1911 and specialized in coating, maintenance & finishing

services for Oil&Gas, industrial plants and building

construction.

Luca joined Confindustria Y.E. Alto Milanese Chapter, where

he has held the VP position and he is now President. As part

of the International Relations Committee, Luca has

contributed to the establishment of MAME YE Network, a

network of Young Entrepreneurs of Mediterranean, Africa

and the Middle East. From 2011 to 2014 he served as Sherpa of the Italian delegation at G20 Young Entrepreneurs’

Alliance (@G20_YEA). He has recently joined the

Confindustria Young Entrepreneurs Presidency team in

charge of “International and European Relations – Strategic

Alliances”.

His decision to become an entrepreneur took place from a

mix of sense of responsibility and willingness to have a

riskier, but more rewarding life. He is learning how to be a

fourth generation entrepreneur. He is reshaping part of the

concept of the company through internationalization,

establishing branches in the Balkans, and innovation,

introducing energy saving services and more

environmentally friendly technologies. His next challenge is to further introduce and promote the use of an innovative

technology, already identified and currently being tested,

which would revolutionize the way the company carries out

maintenance projects offshore. Ad astra per aspera is his

motto as well as that of the State of Kansas, where Luca was

an exchange student in High School.

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Euchar Sultana

Founder & CEO at Young Business

Entrepreneurs

Euchar Sultana is a graduate in the Bachelor of Science in

Business and Computing and Bachelor of Commerce (Hons.)

Management from the University of Malta. His main stream

of specialisation are Information and communications

technology and Management with great interest on

Entrepreneurship. He is currently also reading for a Masters degree in Creativity & Innovation at the Edward De Bono

Institute for the design and development of thinking at the

University of Malta.

Euchar is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Young

Business Entrepreneurs, a non governmental organisation

based in Malta that work towards empowering and assisting

young adults to develop their ideas into business

opportunities. He is also the founder of Vaultspot, a web based start-up company. Euchar’s main interest include

youth entrepreneurship, start-ups, health care, web business

opportunities and EU public affairs in relation to

entrepreneurship and trade.

Euchar’s Quote: “Determination is the motivation that

keeps every Entrepreneur going”

Email - euchar.sultana@gmail.com

Twitter - @eucharsultana

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Nils – Erik Jansson

President at YEOS,

Founder of Jansson & Norin

Alongside serving as president of Young Entrepreneurs of Sweden Mr Jansson is the founder of Swedens

leading tech-driven law firm Jansson & Norin.

Passionate about automating and disrupting the very

industry he is a part of Jansson has built a firm renowned for challenging traditional fee arrangements

and addressing transparency whilst being the go-to guy

for some of the the hottest startups out of Sweden.

Bridging the gap between Sweden and scaling on a

global level Jansson has founded the legal-tech startup

Precisely to create a lean way for companies to handle legal documents and contracts and as a result cutting

costs and thus making legal advice for startups more

accessible.

Serves as President and on the board of several high-

growth companies both as co-founder and advisor

including Überhead, Bitcoin.se, Keycrunch, Metapic and

Oddwork but also with a focus on sustainability at Global Focus and Unleash.

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Yiannis Kotsis –

Giannarakis

Executive Director HAMAC –

Hellenic Association of Mobile

Applications Companies and

Σynergies – Connecting

Changemakers

Yiannis Kotsis-Giannarakis is an entrepreneur, active in

electronic publishing and digital content since 1985. He was

one of the founding members of the Greek leading internet

portal www.in.gr where he acted as Managing Director for

the first five years, from conception till its establishment as a

major media factor. Among others he was Director of the

Greek edition of National Geographic books and videos,

newspaper collumnist and editor of various electronic and

paper publications. He is founder and shareholder at

Magenta Ltd. Born 1959 in Alexandria, he studied Biology in

Athens, never finished his PhD in Bioinformatics, and spends

some weekends hiking and mountain-top communicating

with very low power in radiowaves. He is currently General

Manager at Hellenic Association of Mobile Application

Companies (HAMAC-SEKEE).

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Socratis Ploussas

Vice President at the Hellenic Start-

up Association, founder and CEO of

MELLON Advisory

Socratis Ploussas is the founder and CEO of MELLON

Advisory, an investments advisor firm with international

presence and a holding company for global brands that enter

the East Med market like HORWATH, Hickey & Associates,

FANS etc. Also, he is Managing Partner in IPMC Partners, an

international business development company. He is also co-founder in a start-up that is launching equity crowdfunding

site.

He is active in the fields of Food and Beverage, technology,

Energy and tourism.

He is also founding Vice-president in Hellenic Start-up

Association and member or Hellenic Business Angels

Network.

He has been working in the commercial departments of

Greek multinationals – Hellenic Bottling Company (Coca Cola licensee for 26 countries) and Fourlis group (master

franchisee of IKEA and Intersport and sole distributor of

SAMSUNG). For the last years, he is advising companies that

go global and is raising money for investments, especially at

the Eastern Med area.

His bachelors’ degree is from DEREE in business and his MBA

in International business from HENLEY management school,

where along with other Alumni academics, he initiated

HENLEY Emerging Markets and International Business Forum.

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Nathaniel Peat

Founder of The Safety Box Ltd

Nathaniel is serial Entrepreneur and man of many talents and

achievements, his most compelling trait being his dedication to

helping young people rise above crime and make a positive

difference in their own lives as well as in the lives of others in their

community. He is the Co-founder of Gennex - an innovative

renewable energy company, he is the Chairman of Jamaicans

Inspired UK (Jamaica Diaspora Future Leaders ) and is also the CEO

of the multiple award winning enterprise, The Safety Box Youth

Services, which since 2006 has since grown the company from

strength to strength with ambitions to reach schools worldwide. In

2007 he was the first double award winner of the Enterprising

Young Brits competition. 2008 saw him feature on the BBC’s The

Last Millionaire TV series, which took 12 of Britain’s most

successful young entrepreneurs and dropped them into six of the

world’s most exciting and demanding cities, to make money from

scratch in just five days. Nathaniel was very successful and created

a business in Egypt starting with only 30 Egyptian pounds that by

the end of the week had made a profit of nearly 3,000 Egyptian

pounds making him and his business partner the winners for that

week.

In 2009 Nathaniel was drafted into the Courvoisier Observers

Future 500 Next Generation List and later that year he travelled to

Jamaica along with 30 young people from the UK where he spoke

at Jamaica’s first Youth Diaspora conference which was attended

by former Prime Minister Bruce Golding. In 2010 Nathaniel

represented Great Britain as a youth delegate for the G20 Toronto

Young Entrepreneur’s Summit in Canada and was also featured in

the under 40’s section of the 2011 JP Morgan / Powerful Media T h

e Black Power List of Britain’s most influential black people.

In July 2011 Nathaniel received an honourary medal from Brunel

University as the Alumnus of the year for outstanding

achievement. In 2012 Nathaniel’s business networking skills was

mentioned in Sir Richard Branson’s book “Like a Virgin, the secrets

they don’t teach you at business school”. In 2013 he was invited to

become a Fellow of The Royal Society for the Encouragement of

Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, later that year he was awarded

the Precious Man of the Year Award and the UN/UPF Youth

Achievement Award for his company Gennex. In 2014 Nathaniel

became the youngest Trustee to the Ernst and Young Foundation.

As a qualified pilot, engineer, entrepreneur, martial arts expert,

professional speaker, mentor and academic his life continues to

inspire many wishing to further themselves in life.

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Nick Gonios

Director / Investor / Advisor/

Corporate Vetnuring

Nick Gonios, currently the Head of Corporate Venturing Program at Pollenizer, resides in Sydney, Australia and is an

experienced executive, advisor and early stage investor with

over 22 years in the online & technology markets

internationally. He has extensive corporate experience

working in large multinationals including Gartner Group,

OpenText, Microsoft and Fujitsu globally, has been the

cofounder of several technology startups and has worked with executive teams that have subsequently raised over

$58m in early stage funds over the last 13 years.

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Micheal McGeary

Co-founder and Chief

Political Strategist, Engine

Michael McGeary is the co-founder and Chief Political

Strategist of Engine Advocacy, a non-profit based in San

Francisco, working to connect startups with government to

effect change on issues important to high-growth

entrepreneurial tech businesses. Previously, he worked with

Silicon Valley startup TuneIn as their social brand ambassador and evangelist, as well as stints with two

Presidential campaigns, and work with a leading California

law firm specializing in political compliance and disclosure. A

Gloucester, Massachusetts native, he holds a bachelor's

degree in political science from Tufts University, and resides

with his wife, Sarah, and son, Jack, in Alameda, California.

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Kojo Oppong-

Nkrumah

Ghanaian Entrepreneur &

Broadcaster

Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah is a Ghanaian Entrepreneur.

He holds a Bachelors of Commerce Degree, an MBA in

Marketing, an LLB and is a Fellow of the Henry Crown

Fellowship of the Aspen Institute.

Kojo started his career as a treasury analyst at British American Tobacco. Between July 2006 and December 2013,

he took up a broadcasting job at JOY-FM in Accra-Ghana,

hosting flagship programs including the Super Morning

Show, Newsfile and the 2012 Presidential and Vice-

Presidential debates of Ghana.

In January 2014, Kojo was appointed as Chief Operating

Officer of Investment and Advisory Firm - Brownstone

Capital. BROWNSTONE operates three (3) subsidiaries and

offers Business Coaching Services to scores of other entrepreneurial ventures in Ghana. The company’s vision is

to become one of Africa’s leading indigenous Investment

firms, building profitable businesses that solve problems,

create jobs and deliver sustainable value for Africa.

Prior to this appointment, Kojo had served as a resource

person to many corporate organizations including Standard

Charted Bank Ghana, Barclays Bank Ghana, Friedrich Ebert-

Stiftung Foundation, The University of Missouri, TIGO Ghana,

Enterprise Life, the Springboard Roadshow Foundation and TED Talks.

He consults on Business Process Modeling, Sales, Marketing

and Performance Management.

He is married to Akua Oppong-Nkrumah and has two

children Kwaku and Afua.

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Glynn Pegler

Founder & CEO at Culture

Group

Glynn is the founder and CEO of Culture Group, a strategy

and content company whose clients include Google, Virgin

Group, Red Bull and Comic Relief.

Glynn serves as a Business Champion for the Welsh

Government and sits on an Editorial Advisory Board for BBC Worldwide. He co-founded Young Brits as a social enterprise

to champion young business talent from the UK to the rest

of the world and is a UK Ambassador for the European

Cultural Parliament's Youth Network. He is the UK’s Lead

Entrepreneur delegate at the G20 Summits and served as a

Director of UnLtd - a £100m Foundation for social

entrepreneurs - for six years.

Glynn works across private and public sectors; producing &

marketing formats that entertain, inform and inspire.

He started his career by establishing a leading youth

consumer magazine at the age of 15. His content initiatives

have been consumed by millions of print media readers, by

tens of millions of television viewers and over a billion

internet visitors. Glynn has worked with a 'who's who' of the

entertainment industry and his core areas of expertise span

entrepreneurship, youth market engagement and brand

development.

Twitter: @GlynnPegler

Website: www.CultureGroup.co.uk

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/glynnpegler

Biography: www.GlynnPegler.com

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Sándor Mohácsi

German President at G20 YEA Managing Director at commlab

GmbH

Born in 1980, he graduated in Business Administration at St.

Gallen in 2004. Sándor made his first experiences in

Management and economy when he was still at school. It

was his former decision to become an entrepreneur. His

willpower and awareness, that he can only change anything;

Sándor started his own business at the age of 18, when he founded his first business for movie and television

production. He was responsible for Business Development

and especially of the Business Unit „Corporate Film“. Since

2004 he is the owner and Managing Director of commlab

GmbH – a international production company for film, online

and events.

Over the past 10 years he has taken the responsibility for

several enterprises. At the same time he has enhanced the

commitment of his volunteer activities. Sándor was national president of JCI Germany – Wirtschaftsjunioren Deutschland

- the largest association of young entrepreneurs. Sándor

accompanied the campaign "Youth strengths: 1000 chances"

to encourage disadvantaged young people to make a high

school diploma and to get a perspective for their future

career. In 2012 he became the President Germany at G20

Young Entrepreneurs’ Alliance. His aim is to use the

synergies between the Member States for example in order

to counter the shortage of skilled workers.

Entrepreneurship is a mindset.

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ΟΡΓΑΝΩΤΕΣ ΣΥΝΕΔΡΙΟΥ

� YES

Η Ευρωπαϊκή Ομοσπονδία Νέων Επιχειρηματιών στεγάζεται στις Βρυξέλλες και είναι ο

κύριος οργανισμός των νέων επιχειρηματιών σε όλη την Ευρώπη εκπροσωπώντας

40.000μελη και με σκοπό να υποστηρίξει και να βελτιώσει τις οικονομικές και

κοινωνικές επιδόσεις των νέων επιχειρηματιών στην Ευρώπη. Με άξονα αυτή την πολιτική το YES επεκτείνει το φάσμα των δραστηριοτήτων του σε όλα τα επίπεδα της

κοινωνικής και επιχειρηματικής ζωής στην Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση με στόχο να προωθήσει

λύσεις όσο αφορά την πρόσβαση των νέων επιχειρηματιών σε κεφάλαια, στις αγορές,

την προώθηση της επαγγελματικής κουλτούρας και την υπερκέραση των νομικών εμποδίων.

� ΝΕ

Η οργάνωση Νεανική Επιχειρηματικότητα αποτελεί μέλος της Ευρωπαϊκής

Συνομοσπονδίας Νέων Επιχειρηματιών και απευθύνεται σε όλους τους νέους και

μελλοντικούς επιχειρηματίες της Ελλάδας. Ο στόχος της είναι να φέρει

σε επαφή νέους ανθρώπους που επιχειρούν ή θέλουν να επιχειρήσουν σε κάποιον τομέα έτσι ώστε να ανταλλάξουν τις απόψεις τους για διάφορα θέματα γύρω από την

επιχειρηματικότητα καθώς και να δημιουργηθούν νέες καινοτόμες ιδέες και

συνεργασίες μέλη της μπορούν να λάβουν μέρος σε πλειάδα από δράσεις όπως

σεμινάρια , ημερίδες , συναντήσεις και άλλα που θα βοηθήσουν να δικτυωθούν και να γνωρίσουν και άλλα άτομα με ίδια ενδιαφέροντα.

� Orange Grove

Το Orange Grove είναι ένας ευέλικτος χώρος εργασίας όπου Έλληνες και Ολλανδοί

επιχειρηματίες μπορούν να εργαστούν για τις επιχειρήσεις τους, να δικτυωθούν και να

μοιραστούν γνώση. Το Orange Grove βρίσκεται στο κέντρο της Αθήνας απέναντι από το

Καλλιμάρμαρο Στάδιο. Το Orange Grove είναι μια πρωτοβουλία της πρεσβείας του Βασίλειου της Ολλανδίας

στην Αθήνα και τους Έλληνες και Ολλανδούς συνεργάτες τους. Σκοπός του είναι να

αντιμετωπίσει τα προβλήματα που δημιουργούνται εξαιτίας της μετακίνησης του

νεανικού ελληνικού δυναμικού στο εξωτερικό και της ανεργίας των νέων.

Η πρεσβεία εργάζεται με ένα μεγάλο γκρουπ από ολλανδικούς και ελληνικούς

οργανισμούς όπως: Ολλανδικές Εταιρείες με μακρά παρουσία στην ελληνική αγορά,

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ελληνικές επιχειρήσεις ,εκπαιδευτικά ιδρύματα. Ενδεικτικά συνεργάτες είναι: Αθηναϊκή Ζυθοποιία, , Philips, InterAmerican, Coco-Mat, KLM, University of Amsterdam, Delft

University of Technology and Athens Universitity of Economics and Business.

� INNOVATHENS

Στο INNOVATHENS υποστηρίζουμε κάθε νέα ιδέα και κάθε απόπειρα ομάδων

επιχειρηματιών και της δίνουμε την ώθηση που χρειάζεται για να σταθεί στην αγορά

της καινοτομίας. Το INNOVATHENS γεννήθηκε από τη συνεργασία του Δήμου Αθηναίων με 6

συνδέσμους καινοτόμων επιχειρήσεων. Είναι, όμως, ένα σχήμα ανοιχτό σε κάθε

συνεργασία που προέρχεται από τον ακαδημαϊκό και τον επιχειρηματικό κόσμο. Η

ομάδα του INNOVATHENS καθημερινά δικτυώνεται και μεγαλώνει για να φέρνει κοντά σου όλους τους επαγγελματίες που μπορούν να σου προσφέρουν βοήθεια.

Που στεγάζεται:

Στο κτίριο αεριοφυλάκιο 2 της Τεχνόπολης, το οποίο διαμορφώθηκε ειδικά για να αποτελεί χώρο έμπνευσης και ερεθισμάτων. Το INNOVATHENS είναι εξοπλισμένο με

προϊόντα State-of-art / τελευταίας τεχνολογίας και γρήγορο ίντερνετ.

Πώς χρηματοδοτείται: Το INNOVATHENS εντάσσεται στο ΠΕΡΙΦΕΡΕΙΑΚΟ ΕΠΙΧΕΙΡΗΣΙΑΚΟ ΠΡΟΓΡΑΜΜΑ

«ATTIKH 2007-2013», στον Άξονα Προτεραιότητας (2): «ΑΕΙΦΟΡΟΣ ΑΝΑΠΤΥΞΗ ΚΑΙ

ΒΕΛΤΙΩΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΠΟΙΟΤΗΤΑΣ ΖΩΗΣ» του Π.Ε.Π. «Αττικής 2007-2013», το οποίο συγχρηματοδοτείται από το Ε.Τ.Π.Α. (Ευρωπαϊκό Ταμείο Περιφερειακής Ανάπτυξης).

Εντάσσεται στο πλαίσιο του αναπτυξιακού προγράμματος «Έργο Αθήνα» του Δήμου

Αθηναίων.

Στο INNOVATHENS συμμετέχουν οι εξής σύνδεσμοι:

• Εταιρεία Κινητών Εφαρμογών Ελλάδος (ΣΕΚΕΕ)

• Ένωση Ελληνικής Βιομηχανίας Ημιαγωγών (ΕΝ.Ε.Β.Η.)

• Ελληνική Ένωση Βιοτεχνολογίας (Hbio) • Ένωση Ελληνικών Βιομηχανιών Διαστημικής Τεχνολογίας &

Εφαρμογών (ΕΒΙΔΙΤΕ)

• Εταιρεία Ελεύθερου Λογισμικού / Λογισμικού Ανοιχτού Κώδικα (ΕΕΛ/ΛΑΚ)

• Ελληνική Ένωση Νεοφυών Επιχειρήσεων (ΕΕΝΕ)

Που απαριθμούν 317 καινοτόμες επιχειρήσεις.

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Και o στρατηγικός συνεργάτης και χορηγός του INNOVATHENS:

• Samsung Electronics, πρωτοπόρο παγκοσμίως εταιρεία στην ανάπτυξη

προϊόντων υψηλής τεχνολογίας, με δυναμική παρουσία στην Ελλάδα και στόχο

την ενεργή και ουσιαστική συνεισφορά της στην ελληνική κοινωνία.