15 & 16 of June 2012 Lisbon, Portugal

Our Speakers

Insights and inspiration from key players across industries, representing respected companies, and undiscovered talent.

Nuno Pereira

DaPowa

Nuno was designed and materialized in Porto. The design process was long and the materialization missed the deadline, it took 10 months to make! They really wanted to make it perfect, or perfectly unperfect! he doesnt like cataloging but you [...]

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Gonçalo Silva

Traveller / FLL

Gonçalo Azevedo Silva is an eighteen-year-old living in Carregal do Sal, Portugal. He comes from the scientific area and he was accepted in ISEG, in the business course. During high school he was secretary and president of the Students Association, [...]

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Danielle Morrill

Head of Marketing @ Twillio

Danielle Morrill - Danielle is Head of Marketing for Twilio, the industry leading cloud communications company offering tools that unlock the black box of telecom for more than 85,000 developers and businesses worldwide.  She is also a Mentor in Residence for 500 Startups [...]

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João Vasconcelos

Director @ StartupLisboa

Joao Vasconcelos founded and managed several companies, from design to real estate and tourism. He always had a strong involvement in community andassociations, particularly in ANJE where he was Vice President. He supports national entrepreneurship for many years and now adds to his business life the position of Executive Director of Startup Lisboa, Lisbon City incubator, a projectsponsored by the Municipality of Lisboa, Montepio Bank, IAPMEI, Portugal Telecom, Microsoft, KPMG and several universities.

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Jess Erickson

Head of PR @ FourSektor

Managing Director at Four Sektor responsible for the PR branch. She secures press coverage in the US, Europe and Asia for Berlin-based startups.
Jessica builds successful and meaningful relationships with consumers, business partners, potential investors and other industry influencers. As [...]

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Announcing SWITCH Open Talent

While preparing a lineup me, as every organiser in the world, faces the dilema of how to balance having a conference that actually sells tickets and one that features speakers that although not so famous are worth of having on [...]

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Kevin Hartz

Eventbrite

Kevin Hartz is Co-Founder & CEO of Eventbrite, a company that enables event creation, promotion, and ticket sales; while also helping people discover events that match their passions. Kevin was previously Co-Founder and CEO of Xoom Corporation, an international money transfer company, [...]

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Robin Wauters

TheNextWeb

Robin Wauters is the European Editor of tech blog The Next Web and lead editor of Virtualization.com. He was a senior staff writer at TechCrunch untilhis departure in February 2012.
Aside from his professional blogging activities, he’s an entrepreneur, event organizer, occasional board adviser and angel [...]

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Thomas Madsen-Mygdal

Podio

At the age of 17 Thomas co-founded Denmark’ first internet company, Mondo. Since then he has been involved in numerous growth companies and is currently involved in 8 companies including Podio, 23 and Kinetik. Thomas is a converging point for digital pioneers, has a [...]

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Andrew Keen

TechCrunch

Andrew Keen is an Internet entrepreneur who lives in Santa Rosa, California. Andrew founded Audiocafe.com in 1995 and built it into a popular first generation Internet company.
He is currently the host of “Keen On” show, the popular Techcrunch chat show, a columnist for CNN and [...]

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João Lopes Martins

muchBeta

Coming from Law area, it weren’t the first computers that actually impressed him. Actually the turning point came to light with internet’s arrival and “the smell” of it’s potential to change and transform nearly everything.
With one single step he [...]

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Elizabeth Varley

TechHub

Elizabeth Varley is a communicator, connector and entrepreneur with a background in technology, content and events. She is Co-founder and CEO of TechHub – the space bringing together the global technology startup community, with its first launch in London’s Silicon [...]

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Roxanne Varza

TechBaguette

Originally from Silicon Valley, Roxanne is the former Editor of TechCrunch France. Prior to TechCrunch, she worked for the Invest in France Agency in San Francisco, helping Silicon Valley startups develop activities in Europe/France. During her time at TechCrunch she [...]

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Luca Sartoni

Calypso 12

Luca is a media professional with a 10+ years of technical and communication background, with an extensive experience on different business environments, from local companies to large global projects. Highly specialized on Social Media and communication techniques, he’s a proficient [...]

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