Plamen Russev

The Webit Awards' shall be presented at glamorous ceremony followed by the traditional Chairman's Black Tie dinner during the upcoming 10th anniversary edition of Webit.Festival Europe 2018 on 26-27 June in Sofia. This year one of The Webits - a special recognition award goes to the King of Bollywood - Mr. Shah Rukh Khan for voicing children's and women's rights Under the 2018 theme re:Inventing Europe's Future,  Webit.Foundation along with the EU Commissioner Digital Agenda and Society, Mariya Gabriel set a focus on empowering women in tech and politics setting special events and providing 1000 free tickets for women. There is also a special Ladies Lounge at Webit, powered by FiBank.

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Webit hosts Prime Ministers, global innovators, industry, civil society, policy and academia leaders from 110 countries. The Awards Ceremony and the Black Tie Dinner are the place to meet the leaders of the Europe's digital and tech ecosystem along with top policy makers and regulators.

The other Webit awards Industry categories include:

- Best Use of Digital Innovations in Health - Best Security and Anti-fraud Solution - Best Smart Cities Mobility Solution - Women in Tech Award - Outstanding Contribution to the Digital Industry - Sustainable City Award - Best Use of Digital for Accessibility & Inclusion - Best Implementation of AI - Best Innovation for Education - Most Innovative Smart Cities Platform - Best Smart Mobility Award This year over 2800 startups applied and among them a global jury of investors, enterprise leaders, media and founders selected Europe's top 200 Startups/Scaleups. During a special event and a ceremony at Webit's Plenary Stage on 27 June the top 5 companies shall make a final pitch and the winner shall be selected and awarded a 200 000 EUR investment cheque. Looking forward to meeting you at Webit.Festival Europe! Warm regards, the Webit team

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Only today (29 May) you can join Europe's tech and digital policy event for 2018 and have access to 10+ independent summits and 50+ meetups with 1 ticket at half price! Webit is welcoming this new era of data privacy by providing all our subscribers a special "DATA present” - 50% off from all tickets for Webit.Festival Europe 2018 only today - 29 May.

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to join Prime Ministers, EU Commissioners and EU top policy makers, global innovators and enterprise executives, Ministers,  Mayors, investors, media and Europe's top 200 startups and scaleups - all at Webit.Festival Europe with a special discount of 50% on all tickets with code: GDPR 6000 global experts (67% senior attendance) join Webit from 110 countries.

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Over 200 exhibitors and sponsors join Webit this year. A warm welcome to the group of new partners who join Webit including Microsoft, SAP, Samsung, Fox, Novartis, VISA, UBB, part of KBC Group, Superhosting . BG, VMware, FOX, Turner, Novartis, Bayer, Amgen, Generali to name a few. Special thanks to our General partner MasterCard and our strategic media partners Nova TV and NetInfo.

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With only one month till the 10th edition of Webit.Festival Europe 2018 (25-27 June '18) we are excited to share that we have added a new special lounge for your successful business networking at the Festival! As you know, we had to move to a new venue because Webit.Festival 2018 doubled in size.

With all the space we need now - we decided that it is time go wild!

All the 6000 attendees from global enterprises, through SMEs to scaleups/startups, academia leaders and policy makers come to Webit for 4 main reasons:- to see the future (check the speakers and Europe's top 200 startups) - to establish their place in the future (policy makers and business leaders discuss digital policy initiatives) - to connect with the right people (see who attends) - and to make successful business with them and expand their networks So we take business networking at Webit very seriously!

Thus today we present to you the new Webit Fountain Networking Lounge!

Yesterday we have commissioned a company to build a brand new Dancing Webit Fountain and a water mirror around which you shall have one more unique lounge for your successful networking. The magic is that after Webit this fountain shall be no more! A fountain built for only 3 days and only for your eyes! >GET YOUR WEBIT TICKET TODAY (prices go up this week)< The New Fountain Lounge adds to the number of other special lounges you may join and have your 1:1 or group business meetings while at Webit, including: - the AI Lounge - the Cybertech Lounge - the Cities 4.0 Lounge - the Blockchain Lounge - Innovate! Lounge - the Ladies Lounge - the Platinum Lounge Looking forward to welcome you @ Europe's tech, innovation and digital policy event for 2018!

Girls' Power! + 1000 free tickets for women

A few months ago when the European Commissioner for Digital Agenda and Society, Mrs. Mariya Gabriel accepted to Chair the Plenary Session of Webit.Festival Europe, she shared that it is a mission for her to empower women in business and politics. My wife and executive director of Webit Global Series - Aniela Russeva is an inspiration for how the combination of education, will, passion, direction and tender power can make miracles. I am also fortunate to work and partner with so many female leaders from all around the world! So when Commissioner Gabriel spoke so passionate about empowering women it was imminent her mission to become Webit.Foundation mission too! Today I am glad to announce 1000 free* tickets for Webit.Festival Europe for women: - 250 free tickets for women-coders - 250 free tickets for women-in-tech (general business, innovation) - 250 tickets for women in academia and research - 250 tickets for women in politics. * 10 EUR handling and transaction fee applies per ticket

> APPLY OR NOMINATE A FEMALE FRIEND FOR A FREE TICKET <

The applications shall be accepted on first come - first served bases and based on the info provided. All approved applicants shall be empowered by some of the most inspirational and impactful women in tech, business, politics, academia and civil society. On a personal level as investor - I am looking to support more and more female founders and to help them to proof success is not a matter of gender, but equal opportunities, education and hard work.

Webit.Festival Europe is also building a special Women's Lounge, which is powered by FiBank.

I am proud to share that Bulgaria is a great example and a global role model of gender equality in business and especially tech. According to the official statistics by Eurostat, Bulgaria is the leader in Europe with with 31.02% women in ICT.  The average for EU is almost 2 times less - 16.7%! I am so grateful all these global leaders - amazing ladies accepted our invite to join Webit! See you on 25-27 June in Sofia @ Webit.Festival Europe where the girl's power shall help to re:Invent Europe's Future! Warm regards, Plamen Russev Executive Chairman, Webit.Foundation

Most of the hotels in Sofia are already booked for the upcoming Webit.Festival Europe 2018!

As of today (40 days before Webit) Sofia is booked at almost 87% for the days of both - the Festival and the Digital Assembly, the two major events, part of the EU Digital and Innovation Week in Sofia. If you plan to join Europe's tech, digital and media festival and the unparalleled EU digital policy gathering for 2018, you'd better hurry up! There are only 6 available hotels for which you may use the special Webit discounted prices in Sofia - the Digital Capital during the festival - 25 - 27 June, 2018. One ticket for all events! Prices Go Up This Week

Exhibitions opportunities

As Webit doubled in size and we have moved to a much bigger venue, there are new available exhibiting slots. Join the 200+ exhibitors of Webit.Festival Europe 2018. Webit.Festival was among the first events in the world to introduce the multi content tracks (parallel independent summits) as part of the conference agenda 10 years ago.

4000 already booked their tickets to Webit

So far over 4000 influencers have registered for Webit.Festival Europe. They come from all over Europe and rest of the world (a total of 103 visiting countries so far). See who from your network is already booked for Webit.

Some statistics:

Over 68% of all attendees are senior-level decision makers. Over 70% are from Europe (38% from CE Europe, 32% W Europe). Next largest attendees groups come respectively from North America, followed by Asia and Africa

It is not about the size (although Webit is BIG), It is about the experience and your KPIs!

In order for our sponsors, exhibitors and attendees to better focus on their business goals and to experience unparalleled top level networking we have expanded the floorplan and built special networking and 1:1 meeting zones around each of the parallel summits.

10 separate events under one roof

Webit hosts 6000+ attendees but each parallel summit and expo welcomes between 300 and 800 of the leaders in the particular domain. Thus you join an intimate, highest level possible business networking while enjoying the benefits of a global large scale event.

Catch the opportunity to host or attend one of the over 50 Meetups of the Night Urban Summit of Webit.Festival Europe 2018!

The Night Urban Summit (25-27 June) is powered by the City of Sofia and is under the patronage of the Mayor of Sofia! Webit.Meetups are a great way to host, invite or join the people you want to mingle with at Webit out of over 7000 attendees. Also you can attract like-minded attendees and guests of the city with common interest and to expand your network. > Apply to host / join a meetup <

WEBIT UNPARALLELED NETWORKING! It starts when the lights go up!

Webit is introducing a brand new way of meeting like-minded people while bar crawling along the best bars and restaurants in Sofia (some of the best in Europe). Enjoy a unique way of meeting amazing people and making friends from over 100 countries with shared interests and common goals  while having a drink. And surprise, surprise - all bars and restaurants included in the Night Urban Summit provide a free welcome drink to all Webit attendees. The Vitoshka Street becomes a gigantic stage for the best artists and talents from Bulgaria - life concerts, art installations and amazing experience. YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS THIS! Joining a meetups (as part of the Night Urban Summit) does not provide you with access to Webit.Festival Europe. In order to join Webit you would need your ticket. See you on 25-27 June in Sofia @ Webit.Festival Europe!

The General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation joins Webit to discuss how to re:Invent Europe’s Future!

Burrow underlines the necessity of female participation in organized labour

Sharan is well known for her international advocacy on labour standards, corporate responsibility, climate change, investment in infrastructure and the green economy, investment in the care economy, women, equality and diversity, global migration and employment. She has represented workers and civil society groups in global policy discussions in United Nations bodies, including ECOSOC (United Nations Economic and Social Council), on the Governing Body of the International Labour Organization as well as at the G20, World Bank and International Monetary Fund.

The world of work has to refocus on the fundamentals

On the matter of the priorities for governments and social partners to build the future of work Sharan Burrow thinks that we must repair the foundations and social partners have to say what will work for business and for people. We can reshape the world of the economy and the world of the future of our children and our grandchildren. Burrow is one of the B Team leaders, a commissioner on the Global Commission on Business and Sustainable Development and the New Climate Economy Global Commission on the Economy and Climate. She was a Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos for 2015, 2016 and also joined this year’s all-women co-chair team. The ITUC is a supporter of the UN Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI). Under Sharan's leadership the ITUC's Workers’ Capital Committee has been strengthened. More than US$ 13 trillion of retirement funds are under joint trustee management and the ITUC and its affiliates are active in both trustee education, corporate governance and shareholder activism.

"We have a vital role to play to protect jobs in existing workplaces and industries by demanding and bargaining for industrial transformation, to organize new quality jobs in the emerging green economy and to fight for the ’Just Transition’ measures that ensure we leave no one behind. This means work for our pension funds too. It means investing for the long term."

Here you can see a full list of the confirmed speakers at Webit.Festival Europe 2018, while here you can get all the information you need about the tickets for the event.

Here you can see a full list of the confirmed speakers at Webit.Festival Europe 2018, while here you can get all the information you need about the tickets for the event. Removing the fiction from science-fiction, the UK-based inventor has thrown away the rule book with his suit powered by six small jet engines. Founder of human propulsion technology start-up, www.Gravity.co, Richard (The real-life Iron Man) has pioneered his innovative idea into a reality, taking flight in Spring 2017.

“The dream was to re-imagine an entirely new authentic form of human flight leaning on an elegant collaboration of mind and body augmented by leading edge technology. Gravity has to date been experienced by over a billion people globally with video views alone running at more than 60M within 7 days of launch.”

Richard's vision is to build Gravity into a world class aeronautical engineering business, challenge perceived boundaries in human aviation, and inspire a generation to dare ask ‘what if…’. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JinhIHIF8Eo

“The way you have to balance is pretty much the same stance Tony Stark has in the film,” Browning says.

Richard also broke the record for fastest speed in body-controlled jet suit – he reached 32.02 mph and made his mark in the pages of Guinness World Records. He hopes that in the future he will smash it again.

“As the engine starts pulling up, it starts to build you can sense the energy and the moment the ground leaves your feet and you’re actually in the air it’s a pleasure and joy.”

Browning says that this is just the beginning of this technology journey. The next big thing his company is planning is adding wings to the suit, that will allow the person wearing it, to fly further, faster and higher and also use a lot less fuel than now.