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The Accelerator Assembly Conference  2016

 Salamanca, September 7-8th, 2016



 

  

Venue:

Hospederia Fonseca
Calle Fonseca 2
37002 Salamanca, Spain

 
 


The event took place during:

Check out this short report on what happened @ AA Conference 2016:

The main event of the network is the Accelerator Assembly Conference, in September 2016, 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 as well as connect the accelerators with the European Commission.

 

The Salamanca AA Conference activities included:


1. Panels:

    Latest Acceleration Trends

    Why are corporates into startups?

2. Accelerator pitching session

3. Accelerator office hours

4. Accelerator Assembly workshops

1. Panels:

Latest Acceleration Trends
7th of September: 11:30 - 12:00 in auditorium

This panel will present and discuss the latest trends for accelerators across Europe and what this means for startups.

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Christopher Haley

NESTA

Head of New Technology


CRISTINA FANJUL

CEEI Asturias

Director

Angel Garcia Rivas
Startupbootcamp IoT & Data Tech

Founding Partner

 

Sebastian Muller

Impact Accelerator

Director

Dilyan Dimitrov

Eleven Accelerator Venture Fund

Co-Founder

Why are corporates into Startups?

7th of September: 12:00 - 12:30 in Auditorium

Corporates have become increasingly interested in reaching out to startups through various ways, such as corporate accelerators. In this panel, we'll be discussing the different motivations for corporates and what opportunities are there for entrepreneurs to take advantage of.


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Oscar Cantalejo

IBERDROLA

Investiment Manager


Paloma Castellano Sanz

Wayra Madrid
Director

Jorge Calderon

ZED

Board of Directors


Tomas Coca

Repsol Foundation

Head of Entrepreneurs Evaluation

Christopher Haley

NESTA

Head of New Technology


2. Accelerator pitching sessions

7th of September - 12:00-13:30 in Future Room


Slot 1: 12:00 - 12:30

Startupbootcamp IoT & Data Tech - Angel Garcia
Industrio - Jari Ognibeni
hardware.co - Iva Jankovic

Metxa - Laura Unzueta


Slot 2: 12:30 - 13:00

IMPACT Accelerator - Daniel Twal

Spain Startup Factory - Bruno Dureux

NUMA Barcelona

ADE - Javier García Díez


Slot 3: 13:00 - 13:30

EuraTechnologies - Anh-Tai HOANG
BIND 4.0, Startup!! Basque Industry Accelerator Program - Juan Manuel Esteban
Startup Braga - Miguel Amador

StartUp Europe Accelerator by Finnova - Juan Manuel Revuelta



3. Accelerator office hours

7th of September - 15:30 - 19:30 in the Accelerator Assembly corner

Participating accelerators:

EIT Digital
Metxa
Startupbootcamp IoT & Data Tech
Cloud Incubator HUB
Startup Scaleup
EuraTechnologies
IMPACT Accelerator
Startup Braga
Eleven
NUMA Barcelona
StartUp Europe Accelerator by Finnova

Technoport


4. Accelerator Assembly workshops
Accelerators – Why? How? What?

8th of September - 11:00 - 11:30 in Future Room

Learn about: the value of accelerators, finding the right programme for your project and how to get into one.

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Angel Garcia Rivas
Startupbootcamp IoT & Data Tech

Founding Partner

 

Accelerator Q&A session

8th of September - 11:00 - 11:30 in Future Room

AMA session with participating accelerators

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Bernardo Martinez

Conector Startup Accelerator

Director

Dilyan Dimitrov

Eleven Accelerator Venture Fund

Co-Founder

Juan Manuel Esteban Gorostiola

Basque Government
Head of Service in entrepreneurship area

Josetxu Silgo

Metxa

Founder & Partner

Miguel Amador

Startup Braga

Program Manager for Nano Health & Health Tech


Presentations of accelerators:


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Attending Accelerators:


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