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Accelerator Assembly Events


The Accelerator Assembly Conference 

 Salamanca, September 9-11th, 2015

The event will take place during 

The main event of the network is the Accelerator Assembly Conference, in September 2015, in Salamanca.  This event aims to bring together the members of the Accelerator Assembly network to share best practices, understand global accelerator trends and reflect on future models for supporting entrepreneurs.  

 

The Salamanca AA Conference was organised in three tracks developed to make the most out of the event: 

1.Talks about AA and funding opportunities - added value.

2. Hot Topics.

3. Pitching slots for accelerators and related initiatives.

1.Talks about AA and funding opportunities - added value.
This track is aimed at presenting the many funding opportunities that this accelerator network can provide in order to support and foster startups/accelerator ecosystems in Europe.

It also presented the added value of Accelerator Assembly, as a network gathering the most important accelerators in Europe brought together with the common goal of turning Europe into the biggest entrepreneur/startup ecosystem in the world.

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Isidro Laso

Startup Europe

European Commision

Agnieszka Stasiakowska

Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME)

European Commision

Emilio Corchado
WELCOME Project - 

Bisite Accelerator

 

Oscar Farrés

European Investment Fund

2. Hot Topics:
During Accelerator Assembly Conference 2015, amazing speakers could talk about different interesting topics. Some of these speakers were: 

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Andrés Saborido

Wayra España

Carmen Bermejo

Tetuan Valley

Christopher Haley

Nesta

Rafael Aguado
Bolt Accelerator

Sofia Benjumea

Google Campus Madrid

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Aneesh Zutshi

Digitstart

Álvaro Cuesta

Sonar Ventures

Borja Breña

Open Future Telefónica

Igor Tasic

Startup Scaleup

Luigi Campitelli

Lazio Innova

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Yatam Blumenthal

Betahaus

Augusto Coppola

L Venture

Lars Iversen

Springfellow

Edite Cruz

Beta I

Jeremy Bamberg

Factory

3. Pitching slots for accelerators and related initiatives:
Accelerator's Time was the space for accelerator programmes were presented. In the section 'Programmes', some presentations are available.

Event agenda: 

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

9.00 - 9.30 

PRESENTATION OF ACCELERATOR ASSEMBLY

Isidro Laso -STARTUP EUROPE (European Commission)

Emilio Corchado - BISITE ACCELERATOR

10.00 - 10.30

EUROPEAN INVESTMENT FUND

Oscar Farrés - EIF

10.30 - 11.00

EXECUTIVE AGENCY OF SME

Agniezska Stasiakowska - EASME (European Commission)

11.00 - 11.15

Going global: from Salamanca to the World

Andrés Saborido - WAYRA ESPAÑA

11.15 - 11.30

Advices for raising venture capital for startups with traction

Rafael Aguado - BOLT ACCELERATOR

12.00 - 12.30

Current stage of the "Acceleration Phenomenon"

Igor Tasic - CLOUD INCUBATOR HUB

Philippe Thiltges - WHATAVENTURE

Edite Cruz - Beta I

  12.30 - 13.00 

Idea stage Acceleration and how these new accelerators are affecting university students 

Aneesh Zutshi - DIGISTART 

Carmen Bermejo - TETUAN VALLEY 
Edite Cruz  - BETA I

13.00 - 13.15

Alternative Models to Incubators & Accelerators

Jeremy Bamberg - FACTORY

13.15 - 13.30

 

Advices for raising venture capital for startups with traction

Rafael Aguado

15.00 - 15.30

 How to create a Unicorn? Disrupting the management

Eladio Delgado - IE BUSINESS SCHOOL

Gianluca Dettori - DPixel
 15.30 - 16.00

Startups & Accelerators & Corporates

Christopher Haley - NESTA

Yatan Blumenthal - BETAHAUS

  16.00 - 16.30

Building a successful accelerator

Luigi Campitelli - LAZIO INNOVA - Moderator

Adrien Fatibene - EURA TECHNOLOGIES

Lars Iversen - SPRINGFELLOW

Augusto Coppola - LVENTURE

9.00 - 10.30

ACCELERATOR's TIME

Extremadura Open Future - Agrotech StartUp

EU Startup Accelerator
Sonar Ventures
Eleven Accelerator Venture Fund
BETA I - Lisbon Challenge
WhatAVenture GmbH

STARTUP PIRATES

10.30 - 11.00

PRESENTATION OF STARTUP EUROPE WORKPROGRAMME 2016-17

Isidro Laso - STARTUP EUROPE (European Commission)

12.00 - 12.30
ACCELERATOR's TIME

OPEN AXEL - TELEFONICA OPEN FUTURE
ODINE- TELEFONICA OPEN FUTURE

 

12.30 - 13.00

Pre-Accelerate towards the future! - Insides, trends and upcoming actions

Rafael Pires - STARTUP PIRATES

Alvaro Cuesta - SONAR VENTURES

Borja Breña - TELEFONICA OPEN FUTURE

13.00 - 13.15

Google Campus Madrid

Sofia Benjumea - GOOGLE CAMPUS MADRID

 



 

  

Venue:

Palacio de congresos
Cuesta de Oviedo, s/n
Salamanca, Spain
37008

 

 

 

If you have any questions, please contact the Accelerator Assembly team here.