Jaro is a co-founder and investment manager at Neulogy Ventures, Slovak largest venture capital firm. He currently serves as the member of supervisory board of several companies, including InHiro, Vectray and CropTech. He also works as an external expert employed by the European Commission, to select the most promising European high-tech startups for the Horizon 2020 program. In 2011, Jaro co-founded StartupAwards.SK, the annual competition for Slovak high-tech startups, which soon turned into the largest startup event in Slovakia. Jaro also managed the first Slovak incubation program in Silicon Valley at the Plug&Play Tech Center.
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Startup Weekend Košice 2017
Friday, May 12 - 14, 2017
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Startup Weekend Košice 2017
Friday, May 12 - 14, 2017
Friday, May 12 - 14, 2017
Event starts at 4:30 pm
Technical University of Košice, Faculty of Civil Engineering
Vysokoškolská 4
Košice,
Slovakia
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Show your skills and introduce your world changing idea.
Startup weekend is coming back to east side of Slovakia fifth time in a row, when many of promising entrepreneurs will test their endurance and enthusiasm during 54 hours.
Startup weekend Košice 2017 has opened the doors. Whoever can join and share ideas, build the team and start real startup. No matter the age or the profession everyone is welcome. Only one thing is important - zeal for now things and desire to learn. Silicon Valley isn´t the only one place on Earth where its possible to start great business. Lets prove together to the world that Košice as the metropolis of the East harbors a huge potential.
Startup weekend Košice 2017 has opened the doors. Whoever can join and share ideas, build the team and start real startup. No matter the age or the profession everyone is welcome. Only one thing is important - zeal for now things and desire to learn. Silicon Valley isn´t the only one place on Earth where its possible to start great business. Lets prove together to the world that Košice as the metropolis of the East harbors a huge potential.
EVENT SCHEDULE
Friday May 12th
4:30 pm
Registration
Arrive at the venue and get checked in. End of registration at 6pm!!!
5:30 pm
Dinner & Networking
Eat food, share ideas, practice pitches, get to know fellow participants
6:30 pm
Welcome & Speakers
Review agenda for the weekend and introduce speakers, coaches, and community leaders
7:00 pm
Pitches Start
Optionally line up to give your pitch
8:00 pm
Voting
Attendees vote for the top pitches
8:30 pm
Form Teams
Teams start forming and discussing ideas
9:30 pm
Work/Icebreaking
Start to formalize teams and take an inventory of skills. Be honest, and direct about what resources and skills are needed for the weekend. You may stay and work as late as the venue will allow
Saturday May 13th
8:00 am
Breakfast
Arrive, simple breakfast & coffee
9:00 am
Begin Work
Teams formed and setting up workspace for the weekend
10:00 am
Workshop 2BCognitus
12:30 pm
Lunch
Lunch in the canteen.
1:00 pm
Check-In
After-lunch check-in, status reports, call for help
1:30 pm
Coach Meetings
Coaches help teams one-on-one. They are here to help!
6:30 pm
Dinner
10:00 pm
Work/ Sleep/ Fun
Finished for the day. You may stay and work as late as the venue will allow
Sunday May 14th
8:00 am
Breakfast
Arrive, simple breakfast & coffee
9:00 am
Check-In
Coaches arrive. Final opportunity to ask questions
12:00 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm
Coach Meetings
Coaches arrive… ASK QUESTIONS
2:00 pm
Presentation Prep & Tech Check
Final hours of worktime should be focused on perfecting your presentation, tech-check for final presentations also takes place
3:00 pm
Final Presentations
4:30 pm
Judging & Awards
5:00 pm
Wrap-Up
5:30 pm
Dinner
7:00 pm
Go Home!
Event Judges
Soňa Nyitrayová
KPMG
Soňa predstavuje spojenie medzi startup ekosystémom a odbornými znalosťami a skúsenosťami zo siete KPMG. Jej úlohou je zabezpečiť, aby všetky vedomosti, zručnosti a kontakty prispeli k rastu podniku najefektívnejším možným spôsobom.Sona vyrástla na Cypre a študovala Communication Studies v Belgicku. Počas štúdií stážovala a ukončila študijný program v nemeckej v automobilovej spoločnosti. Po dokončení štúdia, spolu s bratom založila startup, kde bola zodpovedná za marketingovú stratégiu, potom pôsobila ako komunikačný špecialista pre top marketingovú športovú značku.
Soňa disponuje veľa nápadmi a miluje ich prepájanie. Je neustále kreatívna a otvorená.
Soňa disponuje veľa nápadmi a miluje ich prepájanie. Je neustále kreatívna a otvorená.
Juraj Girman
Head of Board at KEITVA
- absolventom Fakulte Elektrotechniky a Informatiky v Kosiciach
- prve pracovne skusenosti zbieral v Novitech, potom presiel do RWE
- V TSSK je od roku 2008, kde presiel roznymi manazerskymi poziciami
- od roku 2014 je Viceprezidentom pre Telekom IT
- od januara 2017 sefuje spravnej rade KEITVA
- prve pracovne skusenosti zbieral v Novitech, potom presiel do RWE
- V TSSK je od roku 2008, kde presiel roznymi manazerskymi poziciami
- od roku 2014 je Viceprezidentom pre Telekom IT
- od januara 2017 sefuje spravnej rade KEITVA
Coaches and Mentors
Tigran Aleksanyan
Program for Starting Entrepreneurs, Slovenská sporiteľňa
Tigran is coordinating the program of Slovenská sporiteľňa aimed to support starting businesses (www.zacinamepodnikat.sk). Together with regional specialists he helps starting entrepreneurs to plan their business and finances, verify customers and suppliers, as well as test ideas and products on very first clients. Since 2015 hundreds of businesses have received bank financing, while many other have been advised not to start their business at all or close it down. Previously Tigran coordinated various projects, competitions and events to support development volunteering, NGOs, and SMEs (SBA, Slovak NGDO Platform, GLEN Slovakia, European SME Week, Global Education Week, Development Day to name some).These are the topics that he could be useful with.
Radovan Ondáš
Elastic
Rado is working for Elastic (https://www.elastic.co/),
the company behind the popular open source projects Elasticsearch,
Kibana, Logstash, and Beats. He is working as an Engineer supporting
customers around the world with their projects and ideas. Working in an
open and distributed company with employees in 32 countries can help you
to understand how sucessfull opensource company can work and its
software suceed.
He
can also help you with the design of your application architecture
using his previous experiences in Middleware world and Development past.
He is contributing to open source projects in his free time.
Ask him anything, because he can :)
Martin Hasiček
Tatrabanka a.s.
Martin works as enterprise architect in Tatrabanka. During his carrier
Martin took several leading technical positions in ICT and software
development area in Europe, US and Asia.
Martin will be able to support you in consult your initial idea, trough design and development of your application, up to topics of deployment, security and sizing of your production environment.
Martin will be able to support you in consult your initial idea, trough design and development of your application, up to topics of deployment, security and sizing of your production environment.
Michal Kacerik
CTO at SaferPass
Michal as CTO at SaferPass (US founded startup) leads the product and distribution team. He is also co-founder of BeeSafe - personal mobile safety application, which won Startup Weekend Zilina 2013.
Active in the Slovak startup scene, regular Startup Weekend mentor and mentor at Pioneers festival.
Has experience in digital marketing, consumer software distribution, performance marketing, software engineering and digital security.
Can help you with: how to win SW, market research, customer interviews, marketing, presentation, validation.
Active in the Slovak startup scene, regular Startup Weekend mentor and mentor at Pioneers festival.
Has experience in digital marketing, consumer software distribution, performance marketing, software engineering and digital security.
Can help you with: how to win SW, market research, customer interviews, marketing, presentation, validation.
Lenka Strmeňová
Lenka worked as a project manager and coordinator in
several private companies, but also as a project manager and head of
marketing department at Slovak Investment and Trade Development Agency.
She is skilled in the Project Cycle Management, planning, management,
implementation, monitoring and evaluating of the projects as well as in
networking, consortia negotiation and coordination of EU projects.
Can help you with: idea validation, networking, project development
Can help you with: idea validation, networking, project development
Peter Šoltés
Promiseo
Peter Soltes started his on-line start-up when he was
18 and was working on on-line marketing even sooner. He combines on-line
marketing knowledge with entrepreneurialism. He is now CEO of on-line
marketing agency Promiseo, that delivers services to wide range of
companies from small start-ups in their beginnings to large stock-listed
companies.
Can help you with: Communication, presentation, marketing, acquisition and retention, attracting the masses or just getting the first customers on board.
Can help you with: Communication, presentation, marketing, acquisition and retention, attracting the masses or just getting the first customers on board.
Michal Hladký
Creative Industry Kosice
Was born in Košice, Slovakia in 1981, graduated architecture in 2007 at the Technical University of Košice, Faculty of Arts. Where he now teaches as well. He is concept author of the Interface 2013 project and he also collaborated on the winning bid document of Košice 2013 European Capital of Culture. From 2008 he works for Košice 2013, NGO where he was responsible for investment projects and creative industries development projects. Since 2014 he is director of the Kosice 2013, NGO which now is concidered as legacy project of ECoC 2013. He is executive board member of European Creative Business Network and founding partner of the Insitute for Creative Economy. He represented Slovakia in OMC groupe for export and internationalistion of culture and creative sectors. In 2009 he has co-founded and became Minister of panic in civic association Východné Pobrežie, which operates in the field of culture, urban life and development. It organizes such events like Pecha Kucha Night Košice, public debates, lectures and also published alternative guide for Košice KSC Code.
Daniel Harcek
CTO @ Azet
Daniel
acts as a CTO for Ringier Axel Springer Slovakia. In the past, he built
and led the development team of the German company Adlodge / Novosense,
which developed online advertising solutions and sophisticated user
targeting. He also participated in the launch of the Bratislava branch
of the British company VisualDNA. He believes in the agile way of
managing - designing and implementing Internet systems and services. He
is fascinated by people and technology - they bring unseen
opportunities, their equality and thus the possibility to improve
people's lives. In addition to software development, he is interested in
data sciences, behavioral economics, and psychology. He likes good
books and skiing. In his free time he is co-organizer of SWZA and
organizer of the community meetings WebUP in Žilina.
Barbora Ruščin
Deutsche Telekom
Barbora works as a Employer Branding Senior Consultant @ Deutsche Telekom for Slovakia & Czech Republic. Having spend most
of her professional life in PR/mark-comms and project management, she
has experience in crafting communication strategies, doing market
research & leading projects. Having been also extensively exposed to
the world of the IP rights, competitive forensic debate, political
science & diplomacy, highly diverse markets and communities, as well
as the entertainment industry, she claims to be able to help you dig to
the very bottom of your capabilities and assist with creating all forms
of disruptive strategies for pitching, shall the quality of your
business endeavour create a shadow of a doubt over your entrepreneurial
self.
On a less crazy side, she can help with: presentation, target group identification and segmentation, market research, customer / user experience review, business case & logic, shaping your narrative, stakeholder management, strategy.
On a less crazy side, she can help with: presentation, target group identification and segmentation, market research, customer / user experience review, business case & logic, shaping your narrative, stakeholder management, strategy.
Steven Sudy
NN Insurance Hungary
Steve is Entrepreneur in Residence at NN Insurance Hungary, in charge of fostering innovation within the company. He is head of Sparklab, an incubator that aims to find and mentor startups that can potentially be a partner for NN. Steve has 6 years experience with startups as a startup founder and mentor in many events including Pioneers Festival, WebSummit and The World Bank Investment Readiness Program, among others.
Dušan Kocurek
Agile@Slovakia
Head of agile consultancy unit and chief product owner at ScrumDesk.
Mentor
who helps implement Agile, Scrum, Kanban and Lean practices. He
designed and supported dozens of agile adaptation/transformation
programs in CEE, UK and US companies. As part of such transitions He
does training, (de)mentoring and coaching of agile teams, product
owners, ScrumMasters and management teams.
Founder of Agile@Slovakia group, local Slovakian group that supports agile movement and community. Events manager, trainer. Active speaker.
His top projects are:
- National crises management system for Slovak Republic
- ScrumDesk, scrum management system
- Cognitive eLearning application for banks.
Founder of Agile@Slovakia group, local Slovakian group that supports agile movement and community. Events manager, trainer. Active speaker.
His top projects are:
- National crises management system for Slovak Republic
- ScrumDesk, scrum management system
- Cognitive eLearning application for banks.
Ján Majoroš
Siemens Healthcare
I have 20+ years experience in software development on management position, 16+ years in healthcare domain. I'm agile/Lean coach in software development. I'm certified Scrum Master since 2008. I have experience in managing global software engineering teams. I got strong capabilities in requirement engineering and solution architecture. I have strong background in software engineering and various technologies. My main focus is healthcare domain (X-Ray Products, Radiotherapy and Particle Therapy) and document management domain. I own TUV Certification for ISO 13485 and ISO 9001. I got international work experience in Germany and USA. I participated on numerous professional trainings in SW Engineering and Project Management.
Slavomír Hruška
Investment Manager at Investeers
Slavomir comes from a corporate background, having worked for Fortune 500 companies. He is a seasoned entrepreneur and co-founder of an innovative localization compan. His focus is on new technologies, evolving markets and business development, especially on thinking outside of the box and disruptive innovations. Currently he works in the CEE ecosystem as an investment manager of the venture capital fund - Fund of innovations and technologies.
Ľubomír Lukič
Lawyer
Expert on intellectual property law, software
law, protection of personal data, computer crime, law related on electronic
data transmission, telecommunications, e-commerce and cyber security, human
rights and freedoms, protection of personality. Has rich experiences with legal advice for startups,
entrepreneurs as well as analyzing various business opportunities or potential
business partners.
Founder,
consultant and lecturer at the European Information Society Institute, o.z.
(EISi) - a non-governmental organization dealing with the penetration of
technology, law and the information society. Actively strives to protect the
rights and freedoms of Internet users, consumers and service providers.
Former judge of
Arbitration Center for Intellectual Property and Information Technology (ACIPiT).
Expert and Coordinator of the Arbitration Center for Alternative Domain Dispute
Resolution.
Peter Múčka
M&A Analyst
Peťo
has joined KPMG in 2016 as Trainee at Valuation services team while
still attending on City University of Seattle, in Bratislava. He was COO
in Virtual Enterprise class while studying
in USA winning best promotional strategy and during his studies, he
co-founded event company, co-founded Klub Investorov club and attend to
various business competitions. Peťo as part of the KPMG has been
involved in preparing financial models, management
presentations for several companies in various industries. Recently, he
works mostly in M&A and Valuation
team as direct support on transactions and deals.
Oto Karas
M&A Analyst
Oto
has joined KPMG in 2016 as an Assistant at Audit for various industries
and since 2017 is at M&A services as member of
Selling side team. Oto as part of the KPMG has been involved in
preparing financial models and pitch-decks. Before KPMG, Oto has been
working as Key Account Manager at Procter & Gamble where was
responsible for fulfilling revenues targets.
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Facilitators
Marek Lavčák
Marek is young and enthusiastic startup lover. He 's been working with startup community at the eastern part of Slovakia since 2013 as a co-founder of startup incubator in Košice and organizer of startup weekend Košice. As a mentor he is skilled at areas of marketing and business development. Currently is working as a communications projects manager with focus on employer branding and CEO of startup Floppy.
