Speakers from Silicon Valley. 3000 participants from all over Europe. The most innovative companies in their fields. Be a part of the biggest startup event in the Baltics.
October 11-12th, 2014
Vilnius, Litexpo
Emily LaFave is a passionate food enthusiast and entrepreneur who just launched her second food + tech startup, Forage to help you recreate restaurant dishes at home. Previously, she founded and sold one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Food Companies, Foodzie.com an online marketplace and monthly tasting box subscription for artisan foodmakers. Emily has been named Inc Magazine's Top 30 Under 30 Entrepreneurs and Food & Wine Magazine's 40 Big Food Thinkers Under 40.
×Sridhar Solur is a serial intrapreneur, technologist and a business leader focused on all things Mobile and IOT. He has over 20 years of experience in Consulting, Operations and Corporate Venturing creating new products and Services. He was the founder of HP's Cloud and Mobile Printing business (commercialized as HP ePrint) and Head of Mobile Applications and Platforms for the Mobility Global Business Unit. He is now the Managing Director and General Manager of the Wearables and IOT business in HP. He not only has several patents but is also an avid speaker, marathon runner and has lived and worked in all three geographies. In his spare time he is a Mentor to 500 Startups and on the advisory board of several incubators.
×Damian is the architect and creator of Wise.io’s core machine learning technologies. He has a fascination of how to make early-stage start-ups succeed in discovering scalable businesses and grow them. Good tech, a smart team, and hard work are necessary, but they are not sufficient. With an unstructured approach, the chances of success for building a massive business are low. At an early stage, as strong as a start-up is in technology, it must be in rapid hypothesis testing and customer discovery via a data- and metric-driven process. By knowing your potential customers well, you can surface technology into a product that meets the highest value needs of a sufficiently large customer base. As this matures, the focus becomes developing processes to define, enable, and optimize scalability.
×Peter, former Talent Scout of Prezi, is the Co-Founder and Chief Social Evangelist of IseeQ, a professional match-making company with an international exposure that is willing to disrupt the recruitment industry as it is today. His ultimate goal is to strongly contribute to the creation of a better integrated European startup ecosystem by building bridges in between people from different countries, regions and continents, that is why he co-founded Central European Startup Awards and the Nordic Startup Awards, while actively being involved into more then 30 other events all across Europe.
×Managing Partner at Alchemist Accelerator, Faculty at Stanford University
5 reasons to attend Ravi's presentation:
1. Ravi has been analyst for six years in Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ), a leading venture capital firm
2. Alchemist raised $ 22,070,380 of funding in 2 years
3. The accelerator has funded such companies as Group Tie and FeeX
4. Backers of accelerator are Cisco Systems, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Khosla Ventures, Salesforce.com
5. Ravi will tell what makes a good idea stick in B2B field
Designer at Fountain
As a product designer with strengths on the visual side, Michael has set the look and feel as well as the interaction of various web and mobile products. Michael was hired as the first designer for Yelp in 2004, designing everything from the logo to the marketing materials to the UI for the product. Since leaving Yelp in 2009, he has worked on the design for a handful of early stage startups, in both consulting and full-time roles. Currently he is leading design at Fountain, a mobile app that connects you with experts using real time video chat to help you solve home repair issues.
Software engineer with Uber, managing their Core Infrastructure teams in the US and Lithuania
5 reasons to attend Oliver's presentation:
1. Uber has raised $1,2 bn this June
2. Started only 5 years ago!
3. Uber is now available in over 100 countries
4. Oliver is also a former engineering manager of Yelp
5. Uber's valuation is over $18 bn, which is 2,5 more than the market capitalization of all Nasdaq OMX Baltic companies combined
Entrepreneur and technologist. he's the founder and chairman of neo, a leading global product innovation company.
5 reasons to attend Ian's presentation:
1. Neo provides agile software development and lean design services to large enterprises, startups and governments.
2. Neo worked with ThreadSuite, eBay, Time Inc., etc.
3. In 2013 Neo applied lean methodology to launch a fund to invest in about 10 companies
4. Ian was a chief architect at Friendster (social network considered as the beginning of social media)
5. In SV2B Ian will reveal how to start the building of a valued company
Managing Director of Airbnb in Russia, CIS and Baltic countries
5 reasons to attend Michael's presentation:
1. Airbnb started with renting extra bed and in 6 years became the world's largest community-driven hospitality company
2. Airbnb has over 600,000 listings in 190 countries
3. Airbnb is valued at $10 billion
4. When Airbnb was only 5 years old, it was already filling more rooms than... Hilton hotel chain!
5. Michael has 8+ years of experience in both, traditional and digital businesses.
Managing Director of Airbnb in Russia, CIS and Baltic countries. Airbnb, whose website rental listings range from private rooms to manors and islands, has become one of Silicon Valley’s most successful start-ups in the five years since it was founded by a trio of graduates from the Rhode Island School of Design and Harvard. Airbnb now has over 600,000 listings across nearly 200 countries. As per media report, its revenues in 2013 was about $250 million, more than double what it made the year before.
Online home-rental marketplace Airbnb Inc has closed a $450 million round of funding, led by private equity firm TPG, at a $10 billion valuation, according to a report in TechCrunch citing unnamed sources.
Community Builder; Startup Enthusiast; Angel Investor
5 reasons to attend Ligaya's presentation:
1. Ligaya was instrumental in growing Airbnb from 10 to over 750 people in 18 months
2. Experienced working on multiple high growth companies in the past 10 years
3. Ligaya worked for Yelp, Soundcloud and Skillshare
4. 37 Angels seeks to raise the percentage of women investors from 13% to 50%
5. At SV2B Ligaya will share her experience on designing and strategy for a winning culture
An active angel investor and community architect, helping companies build passionate, loyal followings through product engagement, buzz marketing, offline efforts, and social media. Ligaya Tichy loves the early stages of startups. She launched new markets for Yelp in their early days, built the Airbnb community from the ground up. She now advises and invests in startups including Skillshare and Threadflip, and serves as a mentor for 500 Startups. Her angel investment portfolio includes Circa, True&Co., Microryza, and more. She is passionate about social mission of startups, emerging technologies and education.
×Come here and hear some crazy ideas
The closest you will get to experiencing Silicon Valley vibe without leaving the country. Companies which are driven by constant innovation promise to show you what Google has only been dreaming of. Both established companies and startups will be present. Get ready, because this will forever change how you do business!
Without the help of these guys the conference would not happen. Cheer them, applaud them – they are the best
Event will take place in Litexpo, Vilnius on October 11-12th.
Contact info - info@sv2b.com
