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Startup Iceland 2015 Conference Agenda
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Event and Date Index
Date Event Page
5/23/15 Vodafone Startup Iceland Hackathon, Day 1 2
5/24/15 Vodafone Startup Iceland Hackathon, Day 2 2
5/26/15 Promogogo Party at KEX Hostel 2
5/27/15 Startup Iceland Conference Main Event 3 4
5/27/15 Startup Iceland Official Party 5
5/28/15 Startup Iceland Mentoring Sessions 5
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Vodafone Startup Iceland Hackathon - Saturday, May 23rd
Time Topic Duration
10:00 Welcome, logistics, schedule and theme introduction Bala Kamallakharan, James Robb and Gudmundur Kristinarson
5 min
Vodafone Startup Iceland Hackathon - Sunday, May 24th
Time Topic Duration
15:00 Hackathon Completion
15:00 Teams Present the Hacks 1.5 hrs
Promogogo Party
KEX Hostel - Tuesday, May 26th
Time Topic Duration
17:30 All you need is gogo! Promogogo invites all Startup Iceland guests and participants to a networking event at Kex hostel Tuesday the 26th of May between 17:30 and 20:00. Special musical guests Fufanu will entertain us, warming up for their warm up for Blur in Hyde Park on June 20th. Also, beer.
2.5 hrs
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Conference - Wednesday, May 27th
Time Topic Speaker Duration
08:00 Registration 30 min
Master of Ceremonies Jón Jónsson
08:30 Welcome to Startup Iceland 2015 Bala Kamallakharan 5 min
08:35 Opening Keynote Ragnheiður Elín Árnadóttir
10 min
08:45 The Ambassador will present our guests from the US
Robert C. Barber 10 min
Gender Gap, Citizen Journalism and other controversies
08:55 Empowering a Billion Women Ingrid Vanderveldt 15 min
09:10 How your idea can become a 'Unicorn' Keith Teare 15 min
09:25 WE+ Closing the Gender Gap Halla Tómasdóttir 15 min
09:40 3 Startups will do their 90 sec pitch Startup Pitch 1 5 min
09:45 Coffee Break/Networking 15 min
Design, Digital, Media and Press
10:00 Our digital dimension can save the world. But only if we let it
Darja Isaksson 15 min
10:15 How should a Startup engage with Press and Media
Charmaine Li 15 min
10:30 Escaping The Black Hole to get attention for your startup
John Biggs 15 min
10:45 3 Startups will do their 90 sec pitch Startup Pitch 2 5 min
10:50 Coffee Break/Networking 10 min
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Time Topic Speaker Duration
Scaling Startup from Iceland Globally
11:00 Scaling a Fintech Startup from Iceland The story of meniga
Kristján Freyr Kristjánsson
15 min
11:15 The Story of Alvogen TBD 15 min
11:30 The story of DataMarket in 5 simple charts Hjálmar Gíslasson 15 min
11:45 Announcing the Deloitte Initiatives in Iceland to support Founders
Sigurður Páll Hauksson
10 min
11:55 3 Startups will do their 90 sec pitch Startup Pitch 3 5 min
12:00 Lunch 60 min
FUD of Entrepreneurship
13:00 Round table discussion: The Journey of Entrepreneurship, Founding and Startups
Bala Kamallakharan, Brad Feld and Om Malik
15 min
13:30 Startups Fail Sean Power 15 min
13:45 Balancing the Entrepreneur's journey, Body, Food, Mind and Coffee
Sebastiaan Hooft 15 min
14:00 Business Angel support much more than money
Jaakko Salminen 15 min
14:15 Panel discussion: Founders who have transformed their Startups to fast growing companies with global customers. With Helga Waage, Pratik Kumar, Hilmar Gunnarson, Hjálmar Gíslasson, Þorsteinn Friðriksson and Kristján Freyr Kristjánsson, moderated by John Biggs
30 min
14:45 3 Startups will do their 90 sec pitch Startup Pitch 4 5 min
14:50 Vodafone Hackathon Winners Announcement Startup Reykjavik Class of 2015 Announcement
20 min
15:10 Closing Speech Bala Kamallakharan 15 min
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Startup Iceland Official Party
Wednesday Evening, May 27th
Time Topic Duration
22:00 Startup Iceland official party featuring DJ Sebastiaan Hooft and special guests
2 hrs
Startup Iceland Mentoring Sessions Reykjavik University - Thursday, May 28th
Time Topic Duration
09:00 Startup Iceland mentoring sessions with our distinguished speakers
3 hrs