Everyone will still be talking about football on June 18th but we want to use the EURO 2012 championships as an opportunity to highlight links between Polish and Irish startup communities, and to discuss opportunities for the startups in their respective export markets. Enterprise Ireland, the Guinness Enterprise Centre and Huge Thing (the leading accelerator for start-ups in Poland) have teamed up to host a video conference event to give Irish and Polish start-ups a chance to learn from each other and participate in a pitching competition.

Date: Monday 18th June

Time: Lunch at 12.30 followed by the video conference at 1 pm;

Venues: Guinness Enterprise Centre in Dublin and Centrum Konferencyjne POLSKA 13 in Poznań

If you are interested in participating, please register via email to naghmeh.reilly@enterprise-ireland.com, and please feel free to pass this invitation on to others who may be interested. If you’re not able to make it we’ll be providing extensive coverage on Twitter, hashtag is #startupbridge.

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Agenda

12.30 – Lunch, GEC Conference Room 3

13.00 – Welcome and introductions, Eamonn Sayers, Manager at the Guinness Enterprise Centre

13.10 – “Huge Thing in Poznan – preparing startups for global success”, Arek Hajduk, Co-founder and CEO at Huge Thing

13.25 -“Ireland’s Startup Ecosystem, EI’s role”, Naghmeh Reilly, Senior Marketing Executive, Overseas Entrepreneurship at Enterprise Ireland

13.40 - Dawid Piaskowski, CEO and founder of Booklikes.com, “Doing a global startup from Poland”

13.55 – “Assistance for Startups in Ireland”, Richard Morton, Venture Consultant at DBIC

14.05 – “Polish startup’s experience in Ireland”, Mike Sikorsky, CEO and founder of Huggity

14.20 – Q&A

14.30 – Pitch Contest

• 6 teams (3 Dublin, 3 Poznań)
• Dublin: TextMeADrink; Cluey; 45Sound
• Poznań: Lorneta; Moodup; Pocademy; Sellbox

15.20 – “Seed Investing in Poland”, Bartek Gola, Managing Partner at SpeedUp Venture Capital Group

15.40 -“Scaling for Global Success”, Benetel

16.00 Wrap-up