Tag: Global Webit Congress

We are getting closer to the Global Webit Congress. You have been wondering who the Speakers at the Leaders of the Future Tech Summit are. We have the pleasure to announce who they are. Moreover, they are a lot and very qualified professionals from leading companies changing the tech scene. They are so many and every day we are adding more and more. Nevertheless, just to give you a glance at these fine professionals here are some of them: Justin Kan (Co-founder Ycombinator/Twitch/Justin.tv) Mark Shuttleworth (Founder Ubuntu & Canonical) Tony Conrad (Co-founder and CEO of about.me, Founder/True Ventures) Nicolas Burton (Founder BlaBlaCar) Brady Forrest (Highway1) Diede van Lamoen (Stripe) Linus Dahg (Partner, Wellington-Partners) Bakhrom Ibragimov (EBRD) Jason Ball (Investment Director, Qualcomm Ventures) Max Niederhofer (Partner, SunStone Capital) Cem Sertoglu (Partner, EarlyBird Venture Capital) Ben Medlock (Co-founder/CTO SwiftKey) Pat Phelan (CEO & Co-founder Trustev) Peter Fredell (CEO, Seamless) JP Rangaswami (Chief Scientist, Salesforce.com) Yossi Vardi (Prominent Investor) Tzahi (Zack) Weisfeld (Co-Founder, Head of Microsoft Ventures Europe & Global Accelerator Program) Dmitry Chikhachev (Co-founder & Managing Partner at Runa Capital) Sina Afra (Co-founder of Markafoni & Investor) Tomasz Czechowicz (Founder and CEO at MCI Group) Eric Van der Kleij (Founder & Head of Level39) Ayelet Noff (Founder and CEO, Blonde2.0) Alexander Galitsky (Managing Partner, Almaz Capital Partners and Skolkovo Board Member) ... And many more   Hurry up! Get an early bird ticket while they are still available.

To succeed at the early stage startups need wide exposure, solid contacts, a chance to meet potential investors and a marketing budget to promote their idea. You have a great idea, a wonderful product, a strong team, the market and timing is right but you need exposure. A chance to pitch your idea at potential investors and customers. You need to market at scale and a dedicated marketing budget for the seeding stage. Does your startup need all this? Then the Founders Games at the Global Webit Congress is exactly for you. The Global Webit Congress created the 1 Million EUR Marketing Grant for startups to give them a special market advantage and to boost the business and the opportunities to success. That is right! 1 Million EUR marketing budget for startups. The founders of the Global Webit Conference have allocated 1 million Eur for up to 200 startups from EMEA and Asia. Apply and get your free expo stand at the Global Webit Congress, over 600 free Webit tickets worth over 2000 Euro each and advertising budgets in some of the major EMEA media. Build contacts; meet potential partners and clients. Promote your startup in front of the CEOs, CMOs and CTOs of the world largest and most innovative companies. That is what the Founder Games at the Global Webit Congress is all about. A chance to pitch your idea to the world. Hurry up; the application window is closing soon. Apply for the Founders Games.

Trustev is one of the Top 10 Global Startups by Forbes and the winner of Europe’s Top Technology Start-up by EU Commisison the CEO Pat Phelan is one of the 200 top speakers of the Global Webit Congress 2014

Pat Phelan has lots of difficulties in the past starting as a butcher becoming chief and now he is recognized internationally as one of the most connected men in the technology industry. Over the past 15 years he has built a number of successful businesses in the Internet, mobile and telecoms sectors. After he figured out his problems he started making money. First he started hospitality recruitment company, then he open an internet cafe for the workers. It turned it into a world group called Fonegome. After a few months he started prepaid phone card company, turned it into a successful business, he sold everything in 2007. The next business was Cubic Telecom, the company raised more then $12M for a few years. Cubic Telecom was sold to the other shareholders. The last business project of Pat Phelan is Identity verification platform called Trustev. In 2013 Trustev was awarded the coveted title of Europe’s Top Technology Start-up by the EU Commission and in December 2013 Trustev was named one of the Top 10 global technology start-up companies by Forbes magazine. What is the key to every successful businesses founded from Pat? He credits his success to having mentors, such as long-time friend Liam Casey, the multi-millionaire founder of PCH International and working with smart people. “Everyone, including my partner Chris Kennedy, is smarter than me,” Phelan said. “I’m a great team builder and I think that’s the key to it all.” You may take advantage of the special Early bird prices of the Global Webit Congress and book your ticket for the Leaders of the Future Tech Summit (Blue Ticket) for as low as 160 EUR - the most democratic ticket price for a premium Tech event in the world. Find out more: http://www.webit.org/en/2014/price.html