The European Pirate Summit - Cologne, August 26-27th 2013

Here’s a listing with short descriptions of events where you can run into a Pirate in November, at places you probably haven’t considered yet as startup/tech conferences’ spots but definitely worth visiting. The organizers of all the events are handpicked Pirates and some of them you might have already met at one of our events.

How to Web in Bucharest
Started in 2010 by our ambassador Bogdan Iordache, How to Web has become a top event for European tech innovators. For 2 days, How to Web puts you in front of leading innovators, entrepreneurs and professionals for a feast of hands-on talks on global web trends, product & business innovation and new technologies. Hurry up, it’s happening on coming Wednesday & Thursday.

4iX Istanbul Innovation 2012
Bootcamp Ventures is bringing international investors to Istanbul on the 13th&14th at  the 4iX 2012 to meet with the hottest Turkish startups. On board are leading investors from Atomico, Endeavour Vision, IG Expansion, Intel Capital, Credo Ventures, Vodafone Ventures, Pond Ventures,  RedAlpine  3TS Capital and many more. Keynote speakers are among others Klaus Hommels (2011 Investor of the Year), early investors in Skype, Facebook & Spotify as well as Baris Karadogan of HIP Digital.

SVC2LX | Silicon Valley comes to Lisbon
Silicon Valley Comes to Lisbon (15th&16th) is a non-profit event organized by our partner Beta-i (you might have seen their president Pedro Rocha Vieira reverse pitching at the EPS 2012). Its purpose is to promote intercultural and intellectual sharing and networking of people from diverse backgrounds – academics, students, entrepreneurs and businessmen. It is a very networking-oriented event with the explicit objective of promoting learning experiences to its participants through private mentoring, speed networking, discussion panels and master classes.

Startup Weekend Stuttgart & Poznan Startup Weekend
Startup Weekend recruits a highly motivated group of developers, business managers, startup enthusiasts, marketing gurus, graphic artists and more to a 54 hour event that builds communities, companies and projects. The weekend starting with Friday 16th is your chance to see the talents from Southern Germany in Stuttgart and Western Poland in Poznan.

Balkan Venture Forum (BkVF) in Belgrade, Serbia
The Balkan Venture Forum is the leading regional investment and innovation forum. It showcases innovative companies to active investors and promotes innovation, entrepreneurship, investment readiness and access to finance in the Balkans. After the 1st one in Skopje (which we were attending), this time it’s happening in Belgrade on the 22nd & 23rd.
Btw here you’ll find Till on a panel discussing the development of movements.