Cyril will share with you all his knowledge and experience about one of the most disruptive technology: The Blockchain.
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Techstars Startup Weekend Geneva - Fintech Impact
Friday, December 1 - 3, 2017
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Techstars Startup Weekend Geneva - Fintech Impact
Friday, December 1 - 3, 2017
Friday, December 1 - 3, 2017
Event starts at 6:30 pm
Fusion
Av. de la Praille 50
Carouge,
Geneva
1227
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No Talk, All Action... Launch an Impactful FinTech Start-up in 54h.
- You have an idea and are looking for talented team members?
- You've got talent and want to contribute to implementing an idea?
- You want to learn how an idea turns into a business model in the Lean Startup way?
Come join us and build your Idea into an Impactful & Disruptive Startup! We are delighted to announce a star-studded line-up of sponsors, judges, and coaches for the much awaited Startup Weekend FinTech at Fusion accelerator on the first weekend of December 2017!
We are proud to have Symbiotics, theScreener and Walder Wyss Attorneys at law as headline sponsors, followed by other big names or emerging startups in finance, the blockchain, tech, innovation, and design - including IBM, Fintech Fusion, Investir.ch, Swissborg, Satoshirt.co and Axium. Of course, as well our global sponsors which are Google for Entrepreneurs, Techstars and .co domains. These awesome sponsors will offer swag, mentoring, great prizes and assets that will help make the weekend a great success for all our participants.
The startup movement has accelerated growth in many cities and global industries, and fintech is one the most exciting and rapidly developing industries in the world! The time for entrepreneurs and innovators to work together and invest in their ideas is now. The industry in Switzerland is more susceptible to ideas now than ever before. Our goal for this event is to connect people who are passionate and want to tackle the tough challenges in the financial and fintech industries, all while learning-by-doing, firsthand, what makes a business and an idea successful.
How does Startup Weekend work:
All Startup Weekend events follow the same basic model: anyone is welcome to pitch their startup idea and receive feedback from their peers. Teams organically form around the top ideas (as determined by popular vote) and then it’s a 54-hour frenzy of business model creation, coding, designing, and market validation. The weekends culminate with presentations in front of local entrepreneurial leaders with another opportunity for critical feedback.
Why will this Startup Weekend be awesome?
We are really happy to have super great sponsors which would provide to our participant's super cool and efficient tools/process/tips for any Fintech Startups.
- Symbiotics' mission is to positively impact low- and middle-income households in emerging and frontier economies in areas such as job creation, food and agriculture, housing, and energy. As a leading investment company dedicated to inclusive and sustainable finance in emerging and frontier markets, Symbiotics has originated over USD 3,890 million of impact investments since 2005. Today, Symbiotics are joining us to find and develop new innovative solutions to keep on making the finance industry more sustainable and responsible. Symbiotics
- theScreener will give us the chance to access to independent and objective analysis over financial markets and to create smart and accurate WealthTech or RoboAdvisor applications. With the evaluation of more than 6,000 equities and 15,000 funds, theScreener is the European leader in independent equity analysis with more than 7 million end-users. theScreener
- 7 full (and delicious) meals over the course of the weekend + Drinks
- Prizes for the winners
- Benefits and discounts from our global partners
- One-on-one time with amazing mentors
- A new network of developers, designers, and entrepreneurs eager, like you, to change the world.
- All the coffee, Beer, RedBull you can consume....
Event language is English.
"Fintech rocks: Make Finance sustainable...
We can't wait to welcome you there"
EVENT SCHEDULE
Friday December 1st
Saturday December 2nd
Sunday December 3rd
Speakers
Cyril Lapinte
CTO @ SMEx
Cyril will share with you all his knowledge and experience about one of the most disruptive technology: The Blockchain.
Michael Ambass
CTO @ hello-izi.com
Coding since the age of 12, he's a full stack Tech guru, active from Developement to Design. He is the asset you need form User Experience to powerful Algorithms.
Event Judges
Fabio Sofia
Head of Portfolio Advisory @ Symbiotics
Hubertus Hillerström
Attorney at law, MBA @ Walder Wyss
He is specialised in national and international financings and mergers & acquisitions, including structured finance as well as private equity and venture capital transactions. He has accompanied numerous private equity and venture capital firms investing in Switzerland and regularly advises star-ups on their financing rounds.
Hubertus Hillerström was educated at Fribourg University (lic. iur. 2003 including special mentions European Law Licentiate and Bilingual Licentiate) and he holds an MBA from IE Business School (Instituto de Empresa, MBA 2013) in Madrid focused on entrepreneurship. He has working experience as trainee in law firms and banks in Zurich, Geneva, London and Madrid and as a secondee in the legal departments of banks in Geneva and Zurich specialising in financing transactions.
Diane Freymond
Digital Marketing / E-commerce
Omar Bawa
Co-founder and Head of Product @ Goodwall
Sam Johnson
CTO @ Smartlink SA
Adela Villanueva
Executive Director @ Fusion
Adela is Fusion’s Executive Director in charge of Corporate Innovation and the FinTech, PropTech & Smart City and LifeTech accelerators.
Coaches and Mentors
Pascal Allot
Regional Manager West Switzerland & Startup ecosystem Devt @ IBM
Alexandre Callea
CTO @ clearmatics
David Douek
Digital Strategy Consultant
Eric Gregoire
Global Industry Head @ Google
Peter Horvath
UX - Digital Strategist
Cyril Lapinte
CTO @ SMEx
Cyril will share with you all his knowledge and experience about one of the most disruptive technology: The Blockchain.
Paul Loeffler
Startup Coach and VP @ NEEO
His focus is on FinTech, IoT, eCommerce and Blockchain based applications.
Specialties: Entrepreneurship • Pitching/Presentation • Investment • Business Development • Sales & Marketing Strategy • Contract Negotiations • Team Building • Alliances • Relationship Management • Languages • Territory Development • International Partnerships • Contract Negotiations • Prospecting • Technology Licensing • Integration Design • Communications • Sales & Marketing Strategy • Fluent English, German and Italian languages
Christophe Pian
Design Strategist
Jérémie Wagner
Head of Sales & Marketing @Business&Decision
Ekaterina Sirotyuk
Portfolio Manager Investment Solutions and Products, Credit Suisse
Prior to joining Credit Suisse in 2014, Ms. Sirotyuk was a manager at a German investment company responsible for sourcing and evaluating energy related investments as well as deal structuring. Prior to that, she was an associate at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in London in the Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities department doing cross asset class structuring for European pensions and insurers.
Ms. Sirotyuk started her career as an investment analyst at UBS Alternative and Quantitative Investments, based in New York and Zurich. Ms. Sirotyuk received her B.Sc. in Economics and Management (1st class honors) from the University of London (lead college - London School of Economics) and her MBA from INSEAD, where she also did her doctorate coursework in Finance.
In addition, Ms. Sirotyuk has been a leader at the Swiss Finance + Technology Association.
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