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Programme:

Wolves Summit Warsaw

 

08:00-09:00
RECEPTION

Coffees and Conversation

(plus 1-on-1 meetings all-day, set up via Brella event app)

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09:00 - 9:20
MAIN STAGE

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

09:30 - 10:30
MAIN STAGE

Opening Keynote Panel: 

Introducing 2 successful startups, lessons-learned and strategies for raising capital.

  • Krzysztof Brodowski, Co-Founder and CEO of Solea.it.  Recently raised oversubscribed $2.3 million seed round from investors including 1984 VC, Allison Pickens, HOF Capital, Antigravity Capital and Plug and Play Ventures. 

  • 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.

     

 

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09:20 - 10:15
CINEMA STAGE II: Startups - Great Pitch Competition

GREAT PITCH CONTEST (I) - SEMIFINALS

Sector: Sector-Agnostic/Other - I

Moderator: tba

7 Startup Pitches X 8 min each:

  • AP PLASMA
  • AR2VR
  • Ark Wisdom
  • FiduciaEdge Technologies
  • Godspeed IT Service
  • SolarSDGs
  • Two-Shoulder AI

 

 

10:30 - 11:00

Conversations over Coffees

11:00- 11:30
MAIN STAGE

2 Pitches:

  • Nevomo
  • Widmo

 

 

 

 

11:30 - 12:30
MAIN STAGE

Expanding to UK and US markets.

A "Go To Market" panel, highlighting Lessons and Learnings from Successes and Failures.

(followed by a "Go to Market" Masterclass on 7 May, led by Steve Standring, Chief Revenue Officer, Newfound.Global)

 

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Armen Kherlopian
Founder, Covenant Venture Capital (New York), and BAJ Accelerator

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Peter Gillingwater
CEO, Newfound.Global

 

 

 

10:15 - 11:15
CINEMA STAGE II: Startups - Great Pitch Competition

GREAT PITCH CONTEST (II) - SEMIFINALS

Sector: HealthTech/MedTech/Well-being - I

Moderator: tba

7 Startup Pitches X 8 min each:

  • AcuSense Biomedical
  • MedFluid
  • Fluidiconic
  • KolibriLab
  • Pikralida
  • Unlock Biology
  • MY OVU
11:15-12:15

GREAT PITCH CONTEST (III) - SEMIFINALS

Sector: FinTech/Finance/Law

Moderator: tba

7 Startup Pitches X 8 min each:

  • Aeromond
  • Renvio
  • Crespect
  • EasySales
  • VValy
  • Basck
  • CrowdUkraine
12:15 - 13:15
CINEMA STAGE II: Startups - Great Pitch Competition

GREAT PITCH CONTEST (IV) - SEMIFINALS

Sector: HealthTech/MedTech/Well-being - II

Moderator: tba

7 Startup Pitches X 8 min each:

  • ST Medical
  • RespireLabs
  • Walk15
  • SemiRobotics
  • EFM S.A.
  • MedMetrix
  • VR-World

 


 

12:30 - 13:45

LUNCH BREAK

12:30 - 13:45

LUNCH BREAK

13:45 - 14:45
MAIN STAGE

Bridging Eastern & Western Europe in Financing Women-led Deep-tech Startups

Speakers will showcase success stories from CEE, and best practices and opportunities to improve funding of women-led businesses in CEE and across Europe. 

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Moderator:

Panelists:

  • Iwona Cymerman, Managing Partner, Fundingbox Deep Tech Fund
  • Miroslav Beblavy, CEO, CB ESPRI
  • Noemi Zabari, Co-Founder, Astroteq.ai

 

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Miroslav Beblavy

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Noemi Zabari

 

 

 

14:45 - 15:45
MAIN STAGE

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

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Michiel Scheffer

President, European Innovation Council (EIC) Board

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Tomasz Ciamulski

Founder, Fibritech

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Kinga Stanislawska
Co-Founder, Experior VC

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Hristo Hristov

Founder, Dronamics

15:50 - 18:00
MAIN STAGE

Taiwan Tech & Toast

  • Taiwan Startup Resources, by Startup Terrace.
  • Taiwan Can Fund: The CEE Experience, by Taiwania Capital
  • Introducing 15 Taiwanese tech-startups (3-min each). 

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18:00 - 21:00

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), with special Mariachi Mexican music band!

18:00-22:30

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13:45 – 14:45
CINEMA STAGE II - Startups: Great Pitch Competition

Great Pitch Contest (V) - SEMIFINALS

Sector: Industrial Tech/Manufacturing/IoT

Moderator: tba

8 Startup Pitches X 8 min each:

  • Hao Juen Technology
  • Strong and Wise Material
  • Viezo
  • TuringSpace
  • FaradaGroup
  • FibriTech
  • Is-Wireless
  • Si-Lib

 

14:45 - 15:45
CINEMA STAGE II - Startups: Great Pitch Competition

Great Pitch Contest (VI) - SEMIFINALS

Sector: AI/Saas/Automation/Services

Moderator: tba

7 Startup Pitches X 8 min each:

  • Eslitec
  • Lumina Apps
  • Toii Games
  • LivaRava
  • Flowtly
  • DealogX
  • Cogita
15:45-16:45
CINEMA STAGE II - Startups: Great Pitch Competition

Great Pitch Contest (VII) - SEMIFINALS

Sector: Sector-Agnostic/Other - II

Moderator: tba

7 Startup Pitches X 8 min each:

  • SportVisionTech
  • SONR
  • Agro Contracts
  • AI Lingua
  • CollabMesh
  • SalveInno
  • Probs (PBS IT)
08:00 - 09:00

Coffees and Conversation

(plus 1-on-1 meetings all-day, set up via Brella event app)

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07:00-07:45
HEALTH IS WEALTH!

Morning Run: Join Roger Dorsch from JetVentures, with an easy 3km morning run, through Warsaw's Old Town, Nowy Swiat, and al. Ujazdowskie.

Meet at entrance of Hotel Hilton (ul. Grzybowska 63) at 7am! Start the morning strong!

09:00 - 09:15
MAIN STAGE

Welcome to Day 2.  Overview of today's Agenda.

1-min Teaser about each Industry-Insights, BreakOut Sessions, and Workshops.

 

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Thom Barnhardt
CEO, Wolves Summit

09:15 - 10:00
MAIN STAGE

Opening Panel: Innovation Programs at large Corporates. How Startups and Corporates collaborate best.

Panelists:

  • Ricardo Marvao, co-founder, Beta-I.

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10:00 - 10:30
MAIN STAGE

Hospitals at the Heart of Poland’s MedTech Revolution
Discover how a groundbreaking alliance of 16 hospitals is transforming the future of healthcare by accelerating AI and medical innovation across Poland’s health system.

Lead Panelist:

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Nikoletta Buczek
Innovation Manager

Institute of Mother & Child (Poland)

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Wiktor Strzelczyk
CEO

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Wojciech Kukwa
Head of Otolaryngology Department, Medical University of Warsaw 

10:30 - 11:00
MAIN STAGE

Conversations over Coffees

11:00 - 11:45
MAIN STAGE

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

Panelist: Roman Seniv, Founding Partner, Fintech Future Studio

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Roman Seniv

11:45-12:00
MAIN STAGE

Using AI Workers, Code Audit, and Performance Marketing to boost your Startup's success.

Oleksii Sytar, Chief Innovation Office, WWG Italy.

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12:00 - 12:30
MAIN STAGE

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.

3 Panelists:

  • Deutsche Borse
  • Bulgarian Borse
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Victor Manev

Managing Partner

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Petar Kemalov

Head of Corporate Development
Bulgarian Stock Exchange

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Michael Rieß

IPO & Growth Financing

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12:30- 13:45

Lunch Break

Sponsored by Fundraising Bootcamp

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14:00 - 14:10
MAIN STAGE

How the Startup World Cup can open fund-raising doors in Silicon Valley.

Insights from Pegasus Ventures and SUWC Ambassador Alex Lubnevskiy.

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14:10-14:30
MAIN STAGE

"Go to Market" Masterclass.

Steven Standring

Chief Revenue Officer, Newfound Global

Steven Standring has spent the last 25 years as a CRO in companies from early stage through to mature. Five of those successfully exited for over $100m and one achieved Unicorn status. As CRO, he has defined and driven the whole go to market strategy including building elite (without being elitist) sales teams, sales support and proactive focussed marketing. 

14:30 - 14:40

Showcase Presentation:

  • CRespect (5-6 min)
 
14:40 - 16:00
MAIN STAGE

10 Finalists on-stage Pitch for Great Pitch Competition:

  • FiduciaEdge Technologies

  • MedFluid

  • Kolibri Labs

  • Easy Sales

  • EFM

  • IS-Wireless

  • Eslitec

  • Sonr

  • Viezo

  • FibriTech



 

16:00 - 16:45
MAIN STAGE

Awards Ceremony! Top European Startup Awards and Great Pitch Contest Winners.

Categories:

  • Top 3: 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place
  • Fundraising Bootcamp
  • The Incredibles!
  • StartUp World Cup
  • StartUp Terrace (Asia expansion)
17:00-19:30
Reception - Norblin

VIP Investors Reception

(closed to Investors and VIP Ticket holders)

 

 

 

9:30 - 11:00
Cinema Stage II: Workshop

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.

 

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Francois Mazoudier

Fundraising Bootcamp


 


 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

17:00 - 22:30
Blue Cactus (ground floor, Norblin)

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