EBAN, CorkBIC and the European Investment Project Portal and key partners Cork City Council, Cork County Council and EY are pleased to invite you to the Changing Worlds Online Webinar, an afternoon event on Thursday June 11th including: Deep Tech Dive Panel Discussion on Disruption Across Sectors due to COVID-19 with a focus on Data & AI and Medtech Fireside Interviews with Leading Entrepreneurs, Investors and Corporates Global Investor Challenge – pitching event for Startups & Scaleups Speakers Include: Hermann Hauser – Entrepreneur & Angel Investor Julian Costley – Entrepreneur & Angel Investor Edna Conway – VP & GM, Global Security, Risk & Compliance, Azure at Microsoft Neil Gibson, Chief Economist, EY Thursday June 11th 2020 13:00 – 15:50 (Irish Time) 14:00 – 16:50 (CEST Time)

17 June at 14:00 PM CEST DLTs & Blockchain are as powerful as they are mysterious: knowledge of the technology often fails to reach interested parties, and its applications are largely unexplored. Join us on June 17th at 14:00 CEST with Edward Vali – General Partner at Accelerate Venture Partners – and Soulla Louca – Professor and Director of the Blockchain Initiative at the University of Nicosia – who will offer key insights about DLTs education and investing, and on how investors, innovators and businesses can achieve relevant know-how to tackle opportunities in the field. The webinar is organised as part of the DLT4All project.                 Speaker: Edward Vali General Partner at Accelerate Venture Partners Edward Vali is general partner at Accelerate Venture Partners, a boutique venture investment and advisory specialized in technology investments - is a blockchain expert, cryptocurrency enthusiast, and a venture investor. He is one of the early adopters of digitalized assets supporting and utilizing technologies for decentralized economies. Edward has also been a part time associate professor of accounting and finance at Copenhagen Business School for several years. His research and teaching focused predominantly on capital market studies. Edward has been a contributor to the European Commission’s PRISM project on Intellectual Capital in venture-backed investments. He is currently engaged with advising several blockchain projects, ranging from payment and exchange to distributed general artificial intelligence.     Speaker: Soulla Louca Soulla Louca is one of the first academics to get involved in blockchain technologies (2014) when she assumed the responsibility of the Blockchain Initiative at the University of Nicosia. The Blockchain Initiative has designed and developed the first MSc worldwide in Digital Currency, the technology for publishing academic certificates on the blockchain and organized several events including Decentralized 2017. She is a professor in the Management & MIS Department as well as the Director of the Blockchain Initiative at the University of Nicosia.  

The Climate-KIC Investor Marketplace has launched the #Dealstream series where investors from all over the world can tune in to see the latest startups featured on the Investor Marketplace platform. The initiative presents some of the sharpest minds and teams with the lastest cleantech investment opportunities from across Climate-KIC's pan-European community of entrepreneurs. The next episode in the series will take place on the 17th of June at 15:00. EBAN members are invited to join the stream at the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WP0dK2ZM_U. The first episode of Deal stream featured 5 teams from Imperial College London and can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1GhFS5Hnm8&t=133s. Read more about the 5 teams in the marketplace here: https://www.climate-kic.org/marketplace/find-startups/?event=dealstreamuk

18 June at 15:00 PM CEST The European Green Deal is the Union’s new growth strategy for the next decade, aiming to create new businesses and jobs, and to trigger more investment. It is designed to build a European market which will allow Europe to become the first climate-neutral continent by 2050. It is fundamental that reaching this goal will not exclude anyone, guaranteeing a socially fair and just transition for all. During this webinar we will hear how the European Union wants to guide the transition towards climate-neutrality while safeguarding social inclusion, and which financial mechanisms will encourage this. Moreover, we will uncover which role the investors for impact can play in the Just Transition. Finally, we will learn why and how the European Green Deal, which puts both people and planet at its core, should also be the European long-term answer to the ongoing Corona crisis.

Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud services arm of Amazon, works with startups globally to help them launch and scale. Through EBAN's partnership with the AWS Activate program, startups in our community are eligible for $10,000 in AWS Promotional Credit, along with all other benefits of the program. During this webinar, Startup Mentor Anna C Mallon will be introducing the AWS Activate program and how to claim all the perks that your startup is entitled to. Anna will share how to claim the free credits and get support for Go-To-Market, Co-Marketing and more. Solutions Architect and former founder, Anton Popovine, will then do a technical on-boarding session during which he will share ideas and inspiration on scalable startup infrastructures and how best to leverage the free credits for AWS technologies - spanning computing and storage all the way to security, compliance, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and app development.       Speaker: Anton Popovine Startup Solutions Architect for Amazon Web Services Anton Popovine works as a Startup Solutions Architect for Amazon Web Services. Having had experience both being a Founder & CTO and working as a software engineer for larger companies, he is now helping startups to build awesome products in the cloud..    

  The 16th EVPA Annual Conference will be a highly engaging, virtual event centered around Building Alliances for Impact together with you and hundreds of participants from across the world between 21 - 24 September 2020. The Annual Conference remains the leading interactive event for foundations and impact funds. It will give participants a unique opportunity to co-create content, engage in networking and participate in meaningful discussions about the future of investing for impact. The event will start on 21 September with the virtual edition of the Venture Philanthropy crash course. Over the course of four days, you will be able to interact with practitioners and experts from the impact ecosystem through workshops, Ask Me Anything sessions, roundtables and facilitated design sprints. EBAN provides our members with a special offer – contact info@eban.org for more information.

For many years Infoshare has been a place where the world of new technologies and innovations meets the world of business. Every year more and more startups are interested in attending the conference and taking part in the Startup Contest. Last year there were 601 of them, so it's a high chance that one of them could be your unicorn! This year it will take place online 23th-25th  and 28th-30th of September and streamed from the city of Gdańsk. Infoshare 2020 for investors covers: Infoshare Startup Contest for seed and early stage projects with a total pool of 30k euro cash prizes Investor Meetup; which will allow you to Meet 150+ different stage investors at dedicated investors online meetup. Online Matchmaking 11 stages, with Growth Stage dedicated to startups and investor Virtual Startup Expo; Infoshare Startup Expo 2019 hosted almost 100 projects, start-ups and scaleups from over 15 different industries at various levels of investment readiness. Besides, there is a 15% discount code available for EBAN members. Contact info@eban.org for further information.    

For many years Infoshare has been a place where the world of new technologies and innovations meets the world of business. Every year more and more startups are interested in attending the conference and taking part in the Startup Contest. Last year there were 601 of them, so it's a high chance that one of them could be your unicorn! This year it will take place online 23th-25th  and 28th-30th of September and streamed from the city of Gdańsk. Infoshare 2020 for investors covers: Infoshare Startup Contest for seed and early stage projects with a total pool of 30k euro cash prizes Investor Meetup; which will allow you to Meet 150+ different stage investors at dedicated investors online meetup. Online Matchmaking 11 stages, with Growth Stage dedicated to startups and investor Virtual Startup Expo; Infoshare Startup Expo 2019 hosted almost 100 projects, start-ups and scaleups from over 15 different industries at various levels of investment readiness. Besides, there is a 15% discount code available for EBAN members. Contact info@eban.org for further information.    

Join EBAN and hundreds of investors, selected startups, policymakers and corporates at the European Angel Investment Summit, taking place online on October 28th-29th! The Summit aims to put business angels in the spotlight and highlight how they bring economic dynamism by financing innovation and taking risks early on. EBAN is partnering with the European Investment Project Portal, the European Commission DG GROW and DG ECFIN, as well as the Enterprise Europe Network for the event.

  REGIONAL ECOSYSTEMS SHAPING EUROPEAN INNOVATION 3 – 4 NOVEMBER 2020 in BRUSSELS The annual EBN congress will take place in the heart of Brussels, with two concentrated days of debates, BtoBs, workshops, networking sessions, pitches and matchmaking activities. PROGRAMME EBN Congress 2020 renewed itself with a new format! 2 days with a networking dinner on Tuesday 3 and a closing cocktail on Wednesday 4