Coffees and Conversation
(plus 1-on-1 meetings all-day, set up via Brella event app)
Coffees and Conversation
(plus 1-on-1 meetings all-day, set up via Brella event app)
Morning Run: Join Roger from JetVentures, with an easy 3km morning run, through Warsaw's Old Town, Nowy Swiat, and al. Ujazdowskie.
Welcome to Wolves Summit and Warsaw.
Thom Barnhardt, CEO, Wolves Summit
Overview of Agenda for these 2 Days
Wolves Summit 2025 plans and Event plans
1-min Teaser about each of our 6 Pitch-Prizes
1-min Teaser about Industry-Insights, BreakOut Sessions, and Workshops
Opening Keynote Panel:
Introducing 3 successful startups, lessons-learned and strategies for raising capital.
Alisa Lynn, a serial tech entrepreneur and investor . Alisa founded and grew Game Insight to 800 employees and $140 million. For GOSU Data Lab, she's raised $8.5 million in 3 investment rounds.
Przemek Paczek, founder and CEO of Nevomo - a deep-tech company developing next-gen high-speed railways. Experienced raising capital globally and via equity crowd-funding.
Scaling Green Impact: Ventures, Partnerships & Lessons from Eastern Europe and Central Asia
How UNDP's BOOST Programme accelerates impactful ventures. BOOST - in partnership with Polish MFA - is an Impact-acceleration programme for startups in Poland, Ukraine and Moldova working on innovative green solutions (clean energy, resilience, and circular economy)
Ben Thompson Coon
Accelerator Lead
UNDP BOOST Accelerator Program
GREAT PITCH CONTEST (I) - SEMIFINALS
Moderator: tba
7 Startup Pitches X 8 min each:
Conversations over Coffees
How to reach wealthy, Super-Angel Investors – and why they can move faster than institutional investors.
Panelists: EBAN, 1 Angel Network, 1 Angel, and 1 Founder who have built their business with Angel investment.
Fundraising Bootcamp: “Flipping the script: regain control of your funding process in this new 'investor-friendly' market.”
An intensive Workshop: Master fundraising, Pitch effectively, and Secure investment from the right investors.
Francois Mazoudier
Founder, Fundraising Bootcamp
Venture Debt Financing options for early-stage companies
How to use debt-financing to reduce dilution, bridge valuation disagreements, and build to the next stage.
GREAT PITCH CONTEST (II) - SEMIFINALS
Moderator: tba
7 Startup Pitches X 8 min each:
GREAT PITCH CONTEST (III) - SEMIFINALS
Moderator: tba
7 Startup Pitches X 8 min each:
LUNCH BREAK
LUNCH BREAK
Supporting Female Entrepreneurs
Why female-founders are getting funded faster now. Hear from BPIFrance, and advice from 2 top Female founders:
Moderator:
Panelists:
Iwona Cymerman
Miroslav Beblavy
FinTech meets Crypto
The deeply-entrenched financial services sectors are increasingly embracing not only disruptive Fintech ideas, and Crypto is gaining credibility. Opportunities in the disruption.
Moderated by: Fintechfuture.Studio
Panelists: tba
European Innovation Council and Deep-Tech Investment in Europe
How the EIC is backing DeepTech startups, and encouraging their European and global expansions:
Panel led by EIC
Michiel Scheffer
President, European Innovation Council (EIC) Board
Tomasz Ciamulski
Founder, Fibritech
Kinga Stanislawska
Co-Founder, Experior VC
Taiwan Tech & Toast
Presenting 15 Taiwanese tech-startups (5-min).
(hosted by Taiwan's Startup Terrace program)
VIP Reception for Investors and VIP ticket-holders (limited to 150 people)
18:00 - 20:00
and
Open Reception: "Welcome to Wolves Summit" opening party (for all InPerson guests).
Hosted by: Blue Cactus (Norblin)
18:00-22:30
Great Pitch Contest (IV) - SEMIFINALS
Moderator: tba
7 Startup Pitches X 8 min each:
Great Pitch Contest (V) - SEMIFINALS
Moderator: tba
7 Startup Pitches X 8 min each:
Coffees and Conversation
(plus 1-on-1 meetings all-day, set up via Brella event app)
Welcome to Day 2. Overview of today's Agenda.
1-min Teaser about each Industry-Insights, BreakOut Sessions, and Workshops.
Thom Barnhardt
CEO, Wolves Summit
DeepTech and Commercialization cooperation between Medical Universities, Hospitals, and Investors.
How an alliance between 15 hospitals is driving AI Innovation inside Poland's medical system.
Lead Panelist:
Nikoletta Buczek
Innovation Manager
Institute of Mother & Child (Poland)
Conversations over Coffees
Series-A primer: How to get ready to Scale up for growth.
Lessons-learned from Founders who have grown from pre-seed to ScaleUp. How to overcome obstacles as you expand globally.
Panelists:
3 ScaleUp Finalists
Introducing Eurobridge - an alliance between Deutsche Borse and Bulgarian Borse.
How Startups across CEE can benefit from this alliance between Europe's deepest capital market and young exchanges across the region.
2 Panelists:
Lunch Break
Sponsored by Fundraising Bootcamp
Advice to early-stage companies from European CVCs:
Insights from 3 top CVC execs
Finalists last-pitch for Awards:
Top European Startup Awards and Great Pitch Contest Winners. Top European CVC Awards.
Categories:
VIP Investors Reception
(closed to Investors and VIP Ticket holders)
Armen Kherlopian
Founder, Covenant Venture Capital (New York), and BAJ Accelerator
Reverse Pitches: VCs and CVCs
Insights into strategies of 3 new VCs and CVCs (10 min each)
Showcase Presentations
Two Presentations (15 min each):
Reception for all Guests