The European Pirate Summit - Cologne, September 10-11th 2012

Fred Oliveira

Fred Oliveira is a designer/developer hybrid, a startup advisor, author and speaker (check out his website). He is a cofounder of Webreakstuff, a product think-tank and is a mentor at 500 Startups, a startup accelerator in Mountain View, California. He was previously at Techcrunch, the founder of the now extinct Web 2.0 Workgroup and he recently wrote a technical book on Redis for O’Reilly Media. He tweets as the single character @f.

Andreas Ehn, CTO at Wrapp

As Spotify’s first CTO Andreas established a world class tech team that built the platform and product for the music service. Previously he worked for the successful Swedish internet company Stardoll. Andreas is a board member of several companies and he is frequently hired as an advisor for promising internet start-ups as well as for venture capital funds.

Frank Thelen, CEO doo & e42 Ventures

During his study at the Fraunhofer University, Frank started his first company Softer Solutions. This enterprise created an innovative Multi-Media framework that enabled companies like AGFA and 1&1 to distribute interactive information via CD-ROM. As the Internet became mainstream, Frank developed a Linux based communication-server and received his first 7-digit venture capital funding.
After launching bilder.de and hallo.de as one of the first big community sites in Europe, he developed the APL MVC Framework for PHP long before Ruby on Rails. His continuous passion for the latest Software-Technologies is documented in a case study of Microsoft for the .net platform and in several innovative open-source projects. In 2003 Frank founded ip.labs and led it as the CEO from a startup to an established worldwide market leader in digital photo service software with 300M+ consumers using his IPS platform.
In his role as a seed-investor Frank enjoys working with dedicated, visionary founders to create innovative products and business models. He provides money and brain to companies such as 6Wunderkinder, kaufDA, myTaxi and Robot Media.
frank@sk8.de / @frank_thelen / sk8.de

Ville Simola

James Whelton

James Whelton (@jwhelton) has been hacking and coding since he was 9. Growing up he did everything from wiring toasters to motherboards (and melting them) to coding monitoring platforms to writing fun bots and more. Holding disdain for how much the education system sucked for young people interested in coding, he co-founded CoderDojo with Bill Liao in his final year of school in June 2011 when he was 18. CoderDojo is a global movement of running free, non-profit coding clubs on a regular basis for young people, with 50+ Dojos around the world.

Pia Henrietta Kekäläinen

Henrietta (@phenriettak) from Helsinki, Finland has been working all around, from welcoming ministers to Finland to ordering elephants for weddings in India. Aalto Entrepreneurship Society got her in to organize Steve Blank’s visit to Finland, where she leaped into the tech world and never looked back.
Henrietta pushes entrepreneurship and start-ups in Europe by organizing Rails Girls programming workshops and Pioneers, a vibrant young start-up festival in Vienna.
Her passion is to do things that have an impact and she loves to have smily, energetic people around. Her aim in life is to save (some of) the world through women, education and tech.