Technology startup ecosystem
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Caroline Chopinaud
Caroline Chopinaud is the Chief Executive Officer of Hub France IA, the national federation uniting France's artificial intelligence ecosystem with over 300 member organisations and 160+ AI startups. In her role she leads advocacy, working groups, and European partnerships for France's AI community. She is a prominent AI ecosystem figure and serves on the Advisory Board of Big Data & AI Paris 2026.
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Carpathian Startup Fest 2026
Two-day festival at the intersection of business, technology and innovation near Rzeszów, bringing together 1,500 participants, 50+ investors and 150 speakers for keynotes, panels and a startup competition with a PLN 150,000 prize pool.
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Change Ventures
Founded in 2017, Change Ventures is the largest pan-Baltic pre-seed and seed fund, backing ambitious founders across Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania as well as Baltic diaspora entrepreneurs worldwide. Managed by Andris K. Berzins and a team with over 45 years of combined operating experience, the firm closed its €49M Fund II — the largest seed VC fund ever raised in the Baltic States — supported by the European Investment Fund's Baltic Innovation Fund. The firm invests €400K–€3M in B2B and SaaS technology startups, with a strong focus on the Baltic region's next-generation founders. Fund III of €20M doubled down on pre-seed, cementing Change Ventures as the defining early-stage regional franchise.
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Christian Bruch
Christian Bruch is President and CEO of Siemens Energy, a global technology company focused on the energy transition with revenues exceeding €35 billion and approximately 100,000 employees across 90 countries. He assumed the CEO role in 2020, guiding the company through its spin-off from Siemens AG and subsequent restructuring efforts including challenges within the Siemens Gamesa wind turbine business. At ONS 2026, he chairs the Strategic Conference Committee, shaping the programme agenda for one of the world's largest energy forums in Stavanger.
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co-matter
co-matter is a Berlin-based research-driven creative studio that develops strategies, media, and publications at the intersection of technology and culture. It co-founded Techfestival Copenhagen in 2017 alongside Thomas Madsen-Mygdal and a team of designers and entrepreneurs, and produced the Copenhagen Letter — a manifesto for humane technology signed by over 5,000 tech leaders. The studio works with clients including Mozilla Foundation, WeTransfer, IKEA/SPACE10, and Samsung on cultural intelligence, community strategy, and editorial projects.
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CodeBase
CodeBase is the UK's largest technology incubator, founded in Edinburgh in 2014 and now operating across 27 locations throughout the UK, including a hub in Glasgow. It delivers the Scottish Government's £42 million Techscaler programme, supporting over 1,400 startups with world-class education, mentorship, and networking. Companies supported by CodeBase have collectively raised over £4 billion in funding, making it one of the most impactful startup accelerator organisations in the UK.
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Comune di Milano (Milano Digital Week)
The Municipality of Milan, with implementation partner TIG – The Innovation Group, organises Milano Digital Week, a city-wide festival on digital innovation, AI and smart-city themes. It curates hundreds of largely free events spanning business, technology, digital citizenship, culture and education across the city.
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Cory Doctorow
British-Canadian author, journalist and digital-rights activist, a special advisor to the Electronic Frontier Foundation and prolific commentator on technology, platforms and the open internet. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 TEDAI Vienna conference.
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Creandum
Creandum is one of Europe's leading early-stage venture capital firms, founded in Stockholm in 2003 and now operating from Stockholm, Berlin, London and San Francisco. It backs technology companies from seed to Series A and has been an early investor in category-defining businesses including Spotify, Klarna, Bolt, Kahoot, Depop and Pleo. In 2024 it closed its seventh flagship fund at around 500 million euros to continue backing European founders.
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Credo Ventures
Credo Ventures is a Prague-based early-stage VC focused on Central and Eastern Europe. The firm manages about EUR 250m across four funds and is currently investing out of Fund IV, writing initial checks up to roughly EUR 5m. Credo backs founders from pre-seed to Series A and has supported breakout CEE companies including UiPath, Productboard, and ElevenLabs. Key partners include Ondrej Bartos and Vladislav Jez, alongside partners such as Tomas Burian and Michal Cernocky. The firm is known for hands-on support and long-term follow-on capital in the region.
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Dan Lupu
Venture Partner at Earlybird focused on Central and Eastern Europe. He co-built the Earlybird Digital East franchise (now Bek Ventures) that produced the UiPath and Trendyol outcomes, and continues to bridge Earlybird with the CEE founder ecosystem.
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Dana Lawson
Dana Lawson is the Chief Technology Officer at Netlify, the leading web development and deployment platform powering millions of modern sites and applications globally. Prior to Netlify, she held senior engineering leadership roles at GitHub, where she was recognized for scaling engineering teams and culture at high-growth developer platforms. She is a prominent speaker at major developer conferences and a widely respected voice on engineering culture, developer experience, and platform scalability.
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Dawid Urban
Serial entrepreneur and angel investor, Dawid is known for co-founding CHIC Group, which was acquired by British American Tobacco in a landmark transaction. He actively backs consumer-facing and technology-enabled brands, combining growth strategy support with capital. Notable startup involvements include TakeDrop and investments across lifestyle and tech ventures, including co-investments in projects such as Samurai Labs.
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DEV.BG
DEV.BG is a leading Bulgarian online community platform and job board serving IT professionals across Bulgaria, with its office in Sofia. It connects developers and other IT specialists with employers through job listings, company profiles, articles, and regular user group meetups. DEV.BG organizes the annual DEV.BG All in One conference, which in 2026 celebrates its 10th anniversary under the theme 'AI: Adopted or Addicted', expecting over 2,000 participants and 50+ IT companies at the Inter Expo Center in Sofia.
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Digital Jungle
Member-only coworking space for startups, remote teams, and digital professionals, opened in 2023 at University Street 17a in Tbilisi. The space spans multiple floors with private offices, hot desks, podcast and video production studios, and a 1 Gbps fibre connection. It targets the technology and creative community and runs community events for its members.
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DIGITALEUROPE
DIGITALEUROPE is the leading trade association representing digitally transforming industries across Europe, headquartered in Brussels at Rue de la Science 37. It represents over 56,000 businesses through 134 global corporate members and 45 national trade associations spanning 35 EU countries plus Ukraine, Moldova, the UK, Norway, Switzerland, and Turkey. The organization engages EU institutions across 15 policy priority areas including artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, connectivity, data governance, and digital skills. It organises the annual Summer Summit as its flagship policy convening event, bringing together senior representatives from member states, the European Commission, and leading global technology companies.
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DigithON 2026
DigithON is Italy's largest digital and startup pitch marathon, held annually in the coastal town of Bisceglie in Puglia. The 2026 edition brings around one hundred selected startups for 48 hours of pitches, mentoring and networking in front of investors, venture funds, business angels and institutions, with a total prize pool of roughly €50,000.
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Dimitris Kyriakou
Founder of EFEVRE TECH, a Cypriot technology company. He is an announced speaker at the INSPIRE 2026 Entrepreneurial Festival in Cyprus.
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DLD Munich 2027
DLD Munich 2027 brings together 1,500+ pioneers from tech, business, science, and culture for three days of ideas and connections in Munich. The annual flagship conference runs immediately before the World Economic Forum in Davos, making it a key gathering point for global leaders. The 2027 edition dates are publicly announced on the official site with attendee notifications opening shortly.
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Earlybird
Earlybird Venture Capital is one of Europe's longest-standing and most active venture firms, founded in Berlin in 1997 by Hendrik Brandis and Christian Nagel. It manages roughly €2.5bn across two active platforms — the flagship Earlybird technology fund (Fund VIII closed at €360M in 2026, its largest to date) and Earlybird Health (€173M second fund, 2024) — from offices in Berlin, Munich and London. Earlybird writes initial tickets up to €12M, concentrated at pre-seed and seed with follow-on into Series A and beyond. The firm targets Western Europe — Germany, the UK, France, Italy, the Nordics, Austria and Switzerland — with CEE coverage via a dedicated venture partner. Its focus has shifted toward AI and foundation models, software infrastructure and deep tech (space, fusion, photonics, quantum), alongside its independent health platform. LPs include the European Investment Fund, sovereign wealth funds, global pension funds and British Patient Capital. Across 29 years Earlybird has produced landmark outcomes including Peak Games (sold to Zynga for ~$1.85bn, 2020), UiPath (NYSE IPO 2021, from the Digital East franchise that later spun out as Bek Ventures), Trendyol (Alibaba, 2018) and ImCheck Therapeutics (up to €1bn, 2025), and counts N26, Aleph Alpha, Isar Aerospace, Aiven, Payhawk and Wefox among its portfolio. In 2026 it introduced a perpetual active-ownership governance model keeping ownership with active partners.
