EAIS Programme
October 28th
Opening Words
10:00 - 10:15
De Gasperi Auditorium
Speakers
Maive Rute - Deputy Director-General, DG GROW
Jacopo Losso - Director General, EBAN
Keynote Speeches
10:15 - 10:30
De Gasperi Auditorium
Keynote Speakers
Laurits Bach Sørensen - Senior Partner (Co-Founder) Nordic Alpha Partners
Philippe Tibi - Chairman, Executive Committee and Technical Committees of the Scale-UP Financing Project
How can the EU and angel investors support Europe’s companies in their green and digital transition?
10:30 - 11:00
De Gasperi Auditorium
Panel Discussion
Laurits Bach Sørensen - Senior Partner, (Co-Founder) Nordic Alpha Partners
Maive Rute - Deputy Director-General, DG GROW
Jesper Jarlbaek - President, EBAN
Europe’s Pension Funds Investing with VCs and Angels in Startups
11:15 - 12:30
De Gasperi Auditorium
Keynote Speakers
Alessandro Malchiodi - Deputy Head of the Asset Management Unit, DG FISMA, European Commission
Juste Packauskaite - Partner, Civitta
Panel Discussion
Christophe Verboomen - Head of Regulatory Affairs, Invest Europe
Audrey Soussan - Ventech, General Partner
Jana Golfman - International Partnerships Lead, UnternehmerTUM
Moderator: Christine Bjarkby - Founder, SweBAN
SportTech Revolution: Investing Across Verticals for Transformative Impact
11:15 - 12:30
Room Jenkins
Panel Discussion
Audra Shalla - EBAN Sports Co-Chair
Juan Fuentes - EBAN Sports Co-Chair
Marian Otamendi - World Football Summit CEO
Marion Reichel - Founder & CEO Athlete Ventures
Lunch Break
12:30 - 13:30
28th Regime – Removing Barriers for European Startup Founders and Investors
13:40 - 14:30
De Gasperi Auditorium
Panel Discussion
Robin Wauters - COO, European Startup Network and EU INC
Elena Martines - Member of Cabinet, Commissioner Ekaterina Zaharieva
Benoit Vandevivere - Founder, eu/acc
Serena Borbotti-Frison - Director General, Allied For Startups
28th Regime and European Innovation Act
14:30 - 14:45
De Gasperi Auditorium
Keynote Speaker
Ekaterina Zaharieva - European Commissioner, Startups, Research and Innovation
Public-Private Partnerships to advance Europe’s competitiveness in key technology areas: AI, Space and Defencetech
14:45 - 15:00
De Gasperi Auditorium
Keynote Speakers
Malgorzata Nikowska - DG CONNECT, Head of Unit A4, Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Policy Coordination
European Strategic Technologies – AI, Space and DefenceTech: Going beyond the status quo of public-private partnerships to advance innovation
15:00 - 16:00
De Gasperi Auditorium
Panel Discussion
Ricardo Marvão - Co-founder & Partner Beta-i
Charlie Müller - Futury, Managing Director
Risto Uuk - Future of Life Institute, Head of EU Policy and Research
Emanuela Girardi - Adra, President
Emmanuel Daugeras - Partner, Karista
Petr Sima - Founder, DEPO Ventures
1-1 Meetings
16:15 - 17:30
Networking Reception
19:00 - 23:00
October 29th
Opening Words
10:00 - 10:15
De Gasperi Auditorium
Speakers
Jesper Jarlbaek - President, EBAN
Jacopo Losso - Director General, EBAN
Giorgio Chiarion Casoni - Director Investment & InvestEU, DG GROW
Keynote Speeches
10:15 - 10:30
De Gasperi Auditorium
Keynote Speakers
Merete Clausen - Deputy Chief Executive, European Investment Fund (EIF)
Going beyond the co-investment models of the past
10:30 - 11:30
De Gasperi Auditorium
BAN Managers Track
10:00 - 11:30
Room Jenkins
Meet the BANs
Maximie Paradise:
Sinead Byrne:
Lisa Bennewitz:
Best Practices on Doing Cross-Border Deals and Supporting Angels in International Dealmaking
Niamh Sterling:
Tiina Puheloinen:
Marius Istrate:
Julian Von Hassel:
Grigor Hovhannisyan:
Cross Border Angel Investments and Why They Really Matter
11:45 - 13:00
De Gasperi Auditorium
Panel Discussion
Ian Sosso - Founder and Managing Partner at Monte Carlo Capital
Karin Künnapas - Managing Director, Estonian Business Angels Network EstBAN
Rita Sakus - co-founder of the Lithuanian Business Angel Network (LitBAN)
Girts Licis - Board Member of Latvian Business Angels Network (LatBan)