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SUMMARY:How the global agricultural system could be improved through blockchain technology.
DESCRIPTION:DLT4Agrifood is organized by the DLT4All to discuss how the global agricultural system could be improved through blockchain technology. \n \n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nAccording to the United Nations\, about 690 million people\, or 8.9% of the world population are hungry while 40% of the food in industrialized countries is wasted. With Covid 19\, the situation is worse and the effects on the food and agricultural sector asks for prompt measures to ensure that food supply chains are kept alive to mitigate the risk of hunger especially on the poor and the most vulnerable. DLT4Agrifood is an international online event organized by the DLT4All project partners from Cyprus\, Greece and Italy to discuss how the global agricultural system could be improved through the use of blockchain technology. Various use cases within the domain are presented\, including smart contracts used for Mediterranean fisheries. The event will close with a round table discussion involving all experts that will also answer questions from the public. If you want to get a deep dive into this topic\, do not miss our online event! \nAgenda: \n\n10.00 SDG2: Zero Hunger and Blockchain Technology\, Soulla Louca\, UNIC\n10.25 The use of smart contracts: MaxiBlue toy-project for Mediterranean fisheries\, Dimitrios Sfounis\, Gnomon\n10.45 Q&A\n10.50 Break\n11.00 Talks on field applications\n11.00 Food Drug Free project\, traceability and sustainability of agrifood value chains\, Paolo D’Elia\, DGS\n11.10 The Pinin Project\, a traceability system for agri-food products\, Claudio Schifanella\, UNITO\n11.20 The AgTech7 project\, on inter-disciplinarity in agro-education\, Dimitris Bibikas\, SEERC\n11.30 Round Table – moderated by Elisabetta Giromini\, ComoNExT\n11.50 Wrap-up and conclusions\n\nRegister Here \n\n  \n\n\n\n  \n 
URL:https://www.eban.ieempresas.com/event/how-the-global-agricultural-system-could-be-improved-through-blockchain-technology/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210916T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210916T140000
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SUMMARY:Hiring Strategies for Early-stage Startups and Small Teams Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Building scalable infrastructures with small teams and in the early stages of entrepreneurship brings along specific talent requirements and challenges. Former CTO and Snr Startup Solutions Architect Chris Adriaensen\, together with former Accelerator lead\, founder\, investor and Startup & Ecosystem Development Lead\, Anna C Mallon\, will be sharing strategies as well as personal tips (and mistakes) for hiring the right talent and setting up the business to scale. \nSession flow:\n– Introduction & Welcome (20mins)\n– Presentation – Technical Hiring Needs: Building scalable infrastructures with small teams – talent requirements (Chris Adriaensen\, Snr Startup\nSolutions Architect) (30mins)\n– Presentation – Business Hiring Needs: (Anna C Mallon\, Snr. Startup & Ecosystem Development) (30mins)\n– Common pitfalls and mistakes in the early stages\n– Strategies to diverse and inclusive hiring for innovation\n– Hiring the right talent to match your startup culture Q&A & Discussion (30 mins)\n– Wrap Up: how AWS can help and next steps (10 mins) \nAbout the speakers \nChris Adriaensen\, Senior Solution Architect\, Startups (BENELUX)\nChris is a former founder/CTO currently supporting early-stage startups at AWS as a senior architect out of Amsterdam. Before joining AWS\, he lead the solution architect team at sec/dev-unicorn Auth0 out of London and prior has been an architect at Norwegian scale-up ForgeRock as well as at US telco Verizon where he helped build out a new cloud-security unit. He holds a Master of Computer Science from the University of Leuven and specialized in cybersecurity. Passionate about technology he’s also a former founder/organizer of TEDxAntwerp. \nAnna C Mallon\, Senior Startup & Ecosystem Business Development (BENELUX)\nAnna has 20 years of experience transforming global startup innovation\, education and marketing businesses across Europe and Southeast Asia. She is a former investor and accelerator lead\, multiple founder\, pitch coach and startup mentor who was based out of Singapore for 15 years. Experienced in B2B\, sales\, corporate innovation and Angel scouting\, Anna delivered dozens of corporate and VC backed innovation and startup programs for companies including Daimler\, Facebook\, Bosch\, Shell\, Schneider Electric\, MUFG Bank\, Hewlett Packard\, MunichRE\, SCOR\, Denstu Aegis\, Investible\, Seedstars\, CSIRO\, Credit Suisse\, A*Star and more. As a Director of Southeast Asia’s first startup accelerator\, JFDI.Asia\, Anna facilitated corporate venture building with startups and contributed towards a portfolio of over 70 early stage technology startups worth USD 60m. \n  \nStartups can SignUp here: \nSignUp
URL:https://www.eban.ieempresas.com/event/hiring-strategies-for-early-stage-startups-and-small-teams-workshop/
CATEGORIES:Best Practise,Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210921T123000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210921T133000
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SUMMARY:SDG INVESTOR CORNER: HEALTHCARE AND WELLBEING
DESCRIPTION:EBAN and FASE are delighted to invite you to a new webinar series showcasing how promising impact ventures are tackling the SDGs\, starting with SDG3: Good Health & Wellbeing  \nCurious to hear how Careship and Buurtzorg are tackling the challenge of ageing societies while building strong business cases? \nDiscover the agenda and the speakers: \n\n12:30 – Welcome words – Laura Catana\, European Investor Relations Manager – FASE\n12:35 – Angel Investing in Healthcare: Tips& Tricks – Christine Bjarkby\, Chair EBAN Health \n12:45 – Pitch & Q&A: Careship (DE) – Brian Plackis Cheng\, CEO & Dagmar Bottenbruch\, investor in Careship\n13:05: Pitch & Q&A: Buurtzorg (DE) – Gunnar Sande\, Managing Director & Dr. Stephan Dyckerhoff\, investor in Buurtzorg\n\nAbout Careship\nCareship provides home care as a managed service matching elderly people and families in need of non-medical companionship care with a new category of caregivers consisting of local and vetted high-quality freelancers. With its fully digitised platform\, Careship has already served over 6\,000 families in Germany and arranged over 90\,000 hours of care in 2020 alone. The company is now raising up to EUR 4mn capital (of which EUR 2mn already committed by existing shareholders) to fund its German growth plans\, laying the groundwork for future European wide expansion. \nAbout Buurtzorg\nBuurtzorg (i.e. “neighborhood care”) is a German startup with Dutch roots which transforms the outpatient care market with a nurse-led model. Buurtzorg provides holistic elderly care by means of small\, self-managed teams of ambulant nurses\, thus enabling optimum efficiency\, increasing patient satisfaction as well as employee satisfaction\, translated into lower turnover and sickness rates. Today\, the model creates better working conditions for more than 15\,000 employees and is implemented in 24 countries\, including Germany. The German startup is now raising EUR 3mn\, of which 1mn is committed by existing shareholders. \nRegister Here
URL:https://www.eban.ieempresas.com/event/sdg-investor-corner-healthcare-and-wellbeing/
CATEGORIES:Events,Pitching,Sector Specific,Webinars
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210922
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210923
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SUMMARY:EU-South Asia Investor and Start-up Internationalization Focus
DESCRIPTION:EU-South Asia Investor Networking Platform \n The European Union in collaboration with stakeholders has initiated the EU-South Asia\nInvestor Networking Platform to connect the three major angel and investor networks of\nEurope\, India and Sri Lanka/South Asia with the objective to explore cross border\ncollaboration and connect opportunities between: \n● Investor: Investor\n● Start-up: Start-up\n● Start-up: Investor\n● EU-South Asia investor networking events\n● EU-South Asia start-up pitch sessions\n● Impact investments\n● Blended Financing and Risk Mitigation for Cross Border Investments\nThe platform is set up in close consultation with investor networks including the European\nBusiness Angel Network (EBAN)\, Lankan Angel Network (LAN) and Indian Angel Network\n(IAN). The platform would include a series of panel discussions\, investor connect events\,\nroundtables and start-up pitch sessions.\nThe platform would also provide global market access to the start-ups and investors alike.\nThis would be followed up by a couple more events in the month of October and November\nto bring continuity and facilitate further discussions and collaborations between the three\nregions and networks.\nWhile Europe and India has fair amount of growing action and transactions\, this platform will\nsteer to bring focus on emerging growth engines and frontier ecosystems in South Asia\,\nstarting with Sri Lanka.\nThis platform will enable trust and relationship building between European\, Sri Lankan and\nIndian investors. Through this platform the investor networks will be able to grow their\ninvestment portfolio and expand to new markets. The networks can also use the EU South\nAsia Start-Up Internationalization Help Desk to help their portfolio start-ups grow to new\nmarkets. The platform will also explore facilities to de-risk cross border investments and\ncreate a structure and understanding of tax and legal processes of investing internationally.\nFirst Event: September 2021 – EU-South Asia Investor and Start-up Internationalization\nFocus\nDate – 22 nd September 2021\nTime- 10:00am to 13:00pm (CEST)\, 13:30 to 16:30 (IST)\nPlatform – Zoom \nThe first event to be conducted in September will include eminent speakers from all the\ninvestor network partners and ecosystem stakeholders talking about the vast opportunity in\neach of the markets and also aim to raise awareness and instil confidence among investors\nand start-ups to look beyond their home territory for expanding their business. The session\nwill also focus on challenges and legal implications of venturing into a new country which help investors make better informed decisions. The event will showcase success stories of\ncross border investments from the networks and also successful start-ups who have scaled\ninternationally. Post the first event in September\, a Roadmap will be created for future\nactions and interventions.\nStrategy and Target:\n● Start-ups going global\, international market access\n● Investors leveraging global opportunities\n● Spotlight on frontier ecosystems in South Asia – Sri Lanka\n● Creating a platform to develop\, nurture and sustain relationships between global\ninvestors and start-ups \nClick here to register for the event – Registration link \nLooking forward to your participation!
URL:https://www.eban.ieempresas.com/event/eu-south-asia-investor-and-start-up-internationalization-focus/
LOCATION:Online by Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210930T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210930T180000
DTSTAMP:20260619T065149
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SUMMARY:DEPO Startup Pitch | Blockchain & FinTech
DESCRIPTION:A special edition of regular DEPO pitch events is here. This time FINTECH & BLOCKCHAIN edition with corporate partners and experts – FREE access for EBAN members \n\nAbout this event\n🤔 Why is Fintech and Blockchain attractive for investors? How can Europe become in Blockchain giant? What is the future of Blockchain and Fintech and what are the current issues? You will find out during the panel discussion at the DEPO Startup Pitch – Fintech & Blockchain edition.\n🦄 You will also see 10 promising startups that we selected from Central and Eastern Europe\, mainly the early stage funding round. Each startup will pitch for 3 minutes. This time we are using the HOPIN platform and you may schedule 1on1 meeting\, thus you can use this event more efficiently.\nAgenda\nWELCOMING\nPANEL DISCUSSION\nViktor Gresek – Business Development CEE from Mastercard\nJiri Skopovy – Lead of CS Seed Starter program\nJaroslav Horvath – Innovations & Insights at Raiffeisenbank\nJiri Kobelka – founder of TATUM\nJuraj Kralik from Fintech Hub Slovakia\nMichal Ciffra – co-founder of DEPO Ventures\nPITCH SESSION\n5 blockchain startups\, 5 fintech startups\n3 min pitch\nQ&A\nJury feedback\nNETWORKING\nThe Jury consists of\nViktor Gresek from Mastecard\nJiri Skopovy from CS Seed Starter\nJaroslav Horvath from Raiffeisen Bank\nJiri Kobelka from Tatum\nMichal Ciffra from DEPO Ventures\nJuraj Kralik from Fintech Hub Slovakia\nPatrik Juranek from Startup Disrupt\n👇 Details\nThursday\, September 30\, 2021\n4 PM (CET)\nOnline HOPIN platform \nSign up here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/depo-startup-pitch-blockchain-fintech-tickets-169900933265 \nEBAN members have free access – reach out to us for the code. 
URL:https://www.eban.ieempresas.com/event/depo-startup-pitch-blockchain-fintech/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20210930T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20210930T200000
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SUMMARY:Opportunities and Threats of Blockchain Integration into Supply Chain
DESCRIPTION:Blockchain: Friend or Foe? \n \nFind out along with EBAN and DLT4All on Thursday September 30th if integrating blockchain in the supply chain is a good idea or not – and no there is not going to be an easy answer to that question. \nTo guide us through this complicated discussion we will have Luca Ferrario\, Founder and CEO of Desktop Remoto\, Manuel Fernandez Grela\, llecturer and researcher at the Group of Analysis and Modelling in Economics (GAME) from USC\, Dimitris Sfounis\, Co-Founder & Software Engineer at Bluechain SCE\, and Iraklis Paraskakis\, Senior Research Officer at SEERC. \nThis session will be moderated by Professor Lenny Koh\, Senior Chair Professor of Operations Management at the Sheffield University Management School. \n  \nSign up here!
URL:https://www.eban.ieempresas.com/event/opportunities-and-threats-of-blockchain-integration-into-supply-chain/
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