Russian startups and other internationally-oriented tech players are welcome to participate in the sixth edition of DigitalK, a major regional event which will be held on May 19-20 in Sofia, Bulgaria.
This two-day conference will bring together founders of world-leading tech companies, unicorns and startups, as well as investors and digital marketing gurus from South Eastern Europe and beyond. In total some 2000 attendees, more than 50 speakers and over 30 investors will come to share their experience and network.
Featured in the agenda will be the DigitalK startup competition. The finalists will pitch to the representatives major international accelerators and venture funds, as well as to tech journalists for €10,000 equity-free funding in cash.
Among the expected speakers are the following experts: Stefan Siegel, founder and CEO at Not Just A Label, Matthew Drinkwater, the Head of Fashion Innovation Agency, Qasar Younis, partner and COO at Y Combinator, Renaud Visage, co-founder and CTO at Eventbrite, Claire Burge, CEO at This is Productivity, Stefan Glaenzer, founding partner at Passion Capital, Robin Wauters, founding editor at Tech.eu, Mike Butcher, editor at TechCrunch Europe, Michael Shmilov, COO at Viber Media, Reno Marioni, director of digital services at BMW, Marina Haydn, SVP circulation and retail marketing at The Economist, Carsten Kritscher, commercial director at VICE Media, as well as Benjamin Wörner, senior manager tech expansion at Zalando.
The event is organized by Capital, an influential Bulgarian weekly business newspaper, as well as by such venture funds as NEVEQ and LAUNCHub, in partnership with East-West Digital News.
- East-West Digital News readers enjoy a 30%-discount on registration fees. To benefit from this offer, please use ewd2dk30 as a promo-code while registering. The registration deadline is May 17.
