outlook 2015 - Pioneers.io
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outlook 2015 - Pioneers.io
WELCOME TO OUTLOOK 2015 KEY FACTS & KEY STORIES MAY 28 & 29, 2015 HOFBURG IMPERIAL PALACE VIENNA, AUSTRIA OUTLOOK 2015 • KEY FACTS ATTENDEES. PIONEERS FESTIVAL IS STRICTLY LIMITED TO 2,500 PARTICIPANTS. WE DON’T WANT TO GROW IN QUANTITIY BUT IN QUALITY. STARTUPS ENTREPRENEURS INVESTORS CORPORATES GOVERNMENTALS & DECISION MAKERS DEVELOPERS & ENGINEERS DESIGNERS & MARKETERS U25 & HI-POTENTIALS INTL. PRESS & MEDIA 2 OUTLOOK 2015 • KEY FACTS MEDIA. 200+ ACCREDITED JOURNALISTS AND 16 BROADCASTING STATIONS, COVERED PIONEERS FESTIVAL LAST YEAR IN 1000+ ARTICLES WORLDWIDE, WHICH CAUSED 1,2 BILLION UNIQUE PAGEVIEWS ON ONLINE ARTICLES. 3 OUTLOOK 2015 • KEY FACTS ELEMENTS. THE FESTIVAL DAYS MAY 28 & 29, 2015 PROVIDE 100 HOURS OF HANDCRAFTED CONTENT & EXQUISITE NETWORKING. FOR UPDATED INFORMATION, PLEASE GO TO: pioneersfestival.com/Festival-Days 4 OUTLOOK 2015 • KEY STORIES At Pioneers Festival we host two main stages where we invite The Who’s Who of Tech & Sciencepreneurship to inspire and empower the audience of 2,500 Entrepreneurs and Innovators from around the world on disruptive Future Tech, as well as hands-on Startup Know-How. The following pages will give insights into highlighted stories and content of this years Pioneers Festival. EUROPEAN PREMIERES The Hyperloop STARTUP KNOW-HOW Building global Hardware Startups Athos Sales for Startups Robo Wiz-Kid from the Mid-West A perfect Investor Meeting ARENA HIGHLIGHTS ACADEMY HIGHLIGHTS A real pioneers: Anousheh Ansari Venture Design for Startups Health Data: from DNA to API How to crack AngelList Agtech, Food & Biotech ROASTED! INTERVIEW REQUESTS All our Top-Speakers will be available for interviews. For that we provide a dedicated Interview Area at Hofburg Imperial Palace. Please approach: Andreas Roettl [email protected] / +43 664 305 78 74 5 OUTLOOK 2015 • KEY STORIES A TRUE PIONEER AND LIVING LEGEND. Anousheh Ansari PRODEA SYSTEMS Anousheh Ansari – the fourth ever and first female private spaceflight participant live on stage. A serial entrepreneur, Anousheh Ansari is co-‐founder and chairman of Prodea Systems. She became the fourth ever, and first female, private spaceflight par>cipant when she flew to the Interna>onal Space Sta>on (ISS) in 2006. During her eight-‐day stay onboard the ISS, Ansari performed a series of experiments on behalf of the European Space Agency, including consequences of space radia>on on crew members and different species of microbes on the ISS. Ansari is now a “Space Ambassador,” seeking to create public awareness for space explora>on and promote peace and explora>on among na>ons. #livinglegend 6 OUTLOOK 2015 • KEY STORIES THE HYPERLOOP. Dirk Ahlborn HYPERLOOP TRANSPORTATION TECHNOLOGIES Disrupting the future of transportation – Dirk Ahlborn is a German-‐born American entrepreneur. He is the CEO and co-‐founder of JumpStartFund, an online crowdsourcing plaTorm for entrepreneurial projects. He is also the CEO of Hyperloop Transporta>on Technologies, a project ini>ated by Elon Musk and incubated using JumpstartFund’s crowd collabora>on process. #FutureTech 7 OUTLOOK 2015 • KEY STORIES EUROPEAN PREMIERE WEARABLE TECH FOR FITNESS. Dhananja Jayalath ATHOS What began as a passion for making smarter better connected prosthetics turned into a revolutionary wearable EMG fitness technology. The research DJ collected for prosthetics innovations paired with his sewing and engineering skills crossed over perfectly as he sought to seamlessly integrate bulky EMG models, previously limited to Olympian and professional athletes, into affordable, weightless training apparel. DJ reengineered lab sized technology and condensed it to the size of a credit card and literally built it into interchangeable garments. We have already seen it live in action. Instantly we had to push the “Order Now” button. #takemymoney #getinshape 8 OUTLOOK 2015 • KEY STORIES EUROPEAN PREMIERE FROM OPENSOURCE ARTIFICIAL LIMB TO UNLIMITED TOMORROW. Easton LaChappelle UNLIMITED TOMORROW The Wiz-Kid from the Mid-West. At 17, Easton founded his own company, Unlimited Tomorrow, which is developing a new concept of an exoskeleton to help paraplegics walk again. The company is also creating open source robotic arms that can be used from prosthetics to a robotics learning platform. But Easton is not only working on prosthetics, but some new innovations which he will unveil live on stage at Pioneers Festival! #robowizkid 9 OUTLOOK 2015 • KEY STORIES HOW TO ROCK ON ANGELLIST. Gil Penchina Investor Extraordinaire Gil? He is the investor you definitely want to talk to! Gil Penchina is a serial entrepreneur and prolific angel investor. He is the largest angel on AngelList where he runs 10 investment syndicates and is backed by over 2,000 other angels. He is a co-founder of Fastly, and board member at Vouch Financial. Previously he was CEO of Wikia, now a top 50 website and was a member of the pre-IPO team at eBay. Before eBay, Gil worked at General Electric, Bain & Co. and started two small technology companies. He has a Bachelors in Engineering from the University of Massachusetts and an MBA from Kellogg. In addition, Gil has been an active angel investor in 70 companies over the last 12 years including firms such as LinkedIn, Paypal, AngelList, Datanyze, Contactually, Indiegogo, Evite, ZipRealty, Plusmo, Couchsurfing, Songpop, Wealthfront and many others. #JoinMySyndicate! 10 OUTLOOK 2015 • KEY STORIES DISCOVERING NEW WORLDS. Bobak Ferdowsi NASA JPL Bobak Ferdowsi is a member of the Mission Engineering team on the Europa Clipper study at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. His prior positions have included Engineering Systems, Mission Planner and Integrated Launch and Cruise Verification and Validation Engineer on Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity, as well as Science Planner on the Cassini mission. In addition he served as Flight Director during Curiosity operations. Bobak became famous in 2012 when US President Obama put the spotlight on him during the Curiosity Mission due to his unusual mohawk hairstlye. “If my mohawk gets a few more people excited about science and the mission, that’s awesome” #mayhawk #YesWeSTEM 11 OUTLOOK 2015 • KEY STORIES INTERACTING WITH VIRTUAL REALITY. Michael Buckwald LEAP MOTION David Holz LEAP MOTION Prior to co-‐founding Leap Mo>on, Michael was the CEO of Zazuba.com, a business appointment service later acquired by a major na>onal yellow pages company. Addi>onally, he ran the first deployment of computers to Madagascar with the One Laptop per Child program. Michael earned his dual Bachelor's degree in philosophy and poli>cal science from George Washington University. David was pursuing his PhD in Applied Mathema>cs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill when he lea to co-‐found Leap Mo>on. David also contracted for NASA’s Langley Research Center and conducted neuroscience research while at The Max Planck Ins>tute. #TOUCHVIRTUALREALITY 12 OUTLOOK 2015 • KEY STORIES BITCOIN. Peter Smith BLOCKCHAIN Simon Levene MOSAIC VENTURES Crypto currencies are changing the financial landscape and Blochain is right at the spearhead of this movement. Peter is focused on making Bitcoin easy, safe and available to everyone on the planet. He is excited about leading Blockchain’s as it grows from 2 million users to 200 million users. He has a relentless drive and passion for cucng complexity and managing rapid expansion. Before joining Blockchain, he was an ac>ve investor in the space. Simon has been inves>ng in the European (and US) startup ecosystems with his own capital, oaen alongside his good friends at Index Ventures — where for a >me he had a desk and was affiliated as a Venture Partner. Notable investments in this period include ResearchGate, Number Four, Shapeways, Squarespace, and Appcard (all Series A); as well as Fotolia and Etsy (at growth stage). #BITCOINRULES 13 OUTLOOK 2015 • KEY STORIES HEALTH INNOVATION & BODY DATA. Tim Chang MAYFIELD FUND Carina Namih HELIXNANO Andrei Pop HUMAN API Tim will open this session with an overview on the health tech sector, the latest innovations and an outlook on the future. Carina will talk about what is happening inside the body and the possibilities on getting instant access to this information right at the emerging intersection of software and biomedicine. Backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Eric Schmidt, and others Andrei is tackling health data from a different perspective – building an API to integrate health data from everywhere. #fromDNAtoAPI 14 OUTLOOK 2015 • KEY STORIES ENVIRONMENT. Casey McNeil REECYCLE Casey has just recently been awarded as Forbes 30 under 30 – why? Because his company REEcycle has developed a profitable way to reclaim rare earth elements (REEs) from disposed electronic waste. The company acquires scrap e-waste and extracts rare earth elements using a patented solvent. REEcycle claims its process is less hazardous and cheaper than other reclamation processes. Cash raised: Competitions-$130,000 nonequity staked cash and $160,000 of in-kind prizes. At Pioneers Festival Casey will explain why his invention will help to improve the environment we are all living in. #letscreateabettertomorrow 15 OUTLOOK 2015 • KEY STORIES CONTROVERSIAL TAKES ON ROBOTICS. Jong Lee HANSON ROBOTICS Lior Susan FORMATION 8 Easton LaChappelle UNLIMITED TOMORROW Lior founded LabIX, a hardware investment platform with Flextronics and is now leading Formation 8’s hardware strategy. Live Showcase: ever heard about humanoid robots? Jong is bringing them to life at Hanson Robotics – definitely a jawdropper! Last but not least, Easton will surprise us with a European Premiere. #robolution 16 OUTLOOK 2015 • KEY STORIES GRAPHENE – THE MATERIAL OF THE 21st CENTURY. Catharina Paukner CAMBRIDGE NANOSYSTEMS As co-founder and Chief Scientist of Cambridge Nanosystems Ltd., Catharina is responsible for both the research strategy of the company and its technology roadmap. She leads her team in the production and development of high quality graphene flakes derived from hydrocarbon gases in a unique and industry leading atmospheric pressure plasma cracking process. Currently her industry research covers a broad range of application developments for both graphene flakes and carbon nanotubes in areas such as inks and polymer composites. With a background and Master’s degree in chemistry, her PhD research in Materials Science at the University of Cambridge focused on the development of a completely new system for the controlled continuous synthesis of carbon nanotubes. #NewMaterialsRule 17 OUTLOOK 2015 • KEY STORIES INNOVATIVE AI KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT. Ben Taylor RAINBIRD Ben is the CEO of - an artificial intelligence platform capable of applying reasoning to reach conclusions. It can solve a wide range of problems efficiently using knowledge supplied by authors and facts provided by users. RainBird learns more about the author’s field simply by being used and can solve problems beyond those the author visualised. #AIatWork 18 OUTLOOK 2015 • KEY STORIES NEXT LEVEL OF AGTECH. Jason Aramburu EDYN Rob Leclerc AGFUNDER Adam Anders ANTERRA CAPITAL Jason is an entrepreneur, scientist, and founder of EDYN – a smart garden system that monitors and tracks environmental conditions. Adam, Anterra Capital (Netherlands), and Rob, Agfunder (USA), will talk about the future of Agtech and its evolution in a fireside chat on the Arena stage. #SmartFields 19 OUTLOOK 2015 • KEY STORIES SUSTAINABLE ANIMAL-FREE MILK. Perumal Gandhi MUUFRI Cathal Garvey SOSVENTURES Perumal is the Co-founder and CTO of MUUFRI, a company focused on producing milk using cell culture instead of cows. No animals. Just proteins, fatty acids and a biolab. Cathal has been featured in the New York Times, MIT Technology Review, and others on Synthetic Biology and Independent Biology. He has recently joined Indie.Bio Ireland as its Scientific Director. As young, energetic, renowned biotech experts and entrepreneurs they will allow us a sneak peak behind the curtains of this rapidly growing tech vertical. #RiseOfBiotech 20 OUTLOOK 2015 • KEY STORIES HARDWARE KNOW-HOW. Benjamin Joffe HAX Dávid Lakatos Formlabs Building global Hardware Startups – with Ben: Ben is General Partner @HAX. Based in Shenzhen, HAX is the #1 global accelerator focused on hardware startups. Benjamin has 15 years experience across China, Japan, Korea and US and is a recognized expert on innovation ecosystems. Building SW Startups vs HW Startups – with Dávid: Dávid is now with Formlabs, co-founded the software startup Sold before (acquired by Dropbox), also co-founded the Fab Lab in Budapest, and has been active in the MIT Media Lab. #BuildingTheHardWay 21 OUTLOOK 2015 • KEY STORIES BUILDING SUCCESSFUL STARTUPS. Ethan Imboden frog design Tim Chang Mayfield Fund Venture Design – with Ethan: Ethan is Vice President, Head of Venture Design. frog’s newly created Venture Design practice will extend the company’s diverse portfolio of product strategy and design services to startup companies. Story Telling for Startups– with Tim: Tim Chang is a Managing Director at Mayfield Fund, focusing on venture capital invests in Mobile, Gaming, Digital Media, Social Media. eCommerce and AdTech in the US and China. #StartupSuccess 22 OUTLOOK 2015 • KEY STORIES MARKETING & SALES AT ITS BEST. Steli Efti Close.io Neil Capel Sailthru Sell it, baby!– with Steli: Steli is CEO and Co-Founder of Close.io and ElasticSales, where he helps thousands of startups succeed in scaling their sales efforts. He is an alumni of Y Combinator, and his company has received funding from Spark Capital, SV Angel, Start Fund and Omidyar Networks as well as several notable angel investors. Marketing for Entrepreneurs– with Neil: Neil is the CEO and founder of Sailthru. Prior to founding Sailthru, Neil was the Chief Technology Officer for MusicNation, an AlleyCorp company, ASmallWorld, and Money-Media (acquired by The Financial Times). Today, Neil is also an adviser to several startups, including Refinery29.com and Zootoo.com and is a Venture Partner at Bowery Capital, a seed stage venture fund. #AlwaysBeClosing 23 OUTLOOK 2015 • KEY STORIES VC‘s TIPS & TRICKS. Nicole Glaros Techstars Jon Bradford Techstars Fred Destin Accel Partners A perfect investor meeting, Jedi tricks for startups and handson know-how from one of the most important VCs in Europe. Fred, Jon and Nicole will take the chance to share their deep know-how and brilliant insights with all the entrepreneurs in the audience. Learn from those who know what they are talking about. The Academy Stage is the place to be. #ShowMeTheMoney 24 OUTLOOK 2015 • KEY STORIES FROM SCIENCE TO ENTREPRENEURSHIP. Megan Jones Lantern Dr. Megan Jones is a healthcare entrepreneur passionate about humanizing mental health through design. As clinical psychologist and internationally recognized researcher, Dr. Jones has developed evidence-based digital health programs for a wide range of mental health disorders. Dr. Jones is Chief Medical Officer at Lantern (golantern.com), an online and personalized service that allows anyone to strengthen his or her mental health with the care and support of a professional coach. Megan will share her story and insights – the way from Science to Entrepreneurship. #Sciencepreneurship 25 OUTLOOK 2015 • KEY STORIES ROASTED! Marvin Liao 500 Startups Scott Sage DFJ Esprit Eric Bovee SpeedInvest There is not much to explain: startups, judges, let’s get roasted. In other words – Roasted is not the usual pitching session in front of a jury, but a real clash of arguments and presentation skills. We created this format back in 2012 together with Dave McClure – until then investors from Qualcomm Ventures, Sequoia Capital, DFJ Esprit and others have already been with us live on stage! #Roasted! 26 SEE YOU AT MAY 28 & 29, 2015 HOFBURG IMPERIAL PALACE VIENNA, AUSTRIA www.pioneers.io