BII Summit is one of the top Blockchain Events in the Middle East and is currently the most specialised for Blockchain Investments. Moreover, the event currently attracts thousands of delegates from the region (mainly Dubai) and is continuing to attract more VIP Investors and Venture Capital Firms as it solidifies…>

September 27 – October 2, 2020

Started as founders breakfast with 80 participants, Bits & Pretzels developed into the Burning Man Festival of startup conferences.
The spirit of supporting founders continues in 2020 with the Bits & Pretzels Networking Week.

A virtual conference from founders for founders, that really…>

Optify is looking for talent to strengthen our deep-tech startup! As we are about to enter the third and final phase of HighTechXL’s venture building program, we are looking to expand our team. Optify is a startup making its way in the radiation dosimetry market.

Always wanted to join a deep-tech startup? This i…>

W PLAYER NEEDS A SOFTWARE ENGINEER
We’ve written a lot about JW Player because this is one of Eindhoven’s best-kept secrets. JW Player and founder Jeroen Wijering laid the foundation for the embedded video technology that became YouTube. Now JW Player has clients for its proprietary video technology that include Ama…>

This will be the 16th year for Sunandbass, which includes eight days of artists coming from across the globe to this sun-and-sea festival. There’s only one small problem … they haven’t released the lineup for the festival. And this is organized by a German firm based in Berlin!

Doesn’t matter because Sunandb…>

With low barriers to entry, things like app-based concepts and digital media don’t take a huge amount of early stage investment. But deep tech, manufacturing and healthcare … well, those are hugely capital intensive from the giddy-up.

HighTech Venture Days puts 40 high-tech startups and growth companies from the…>

This “let’s all gather in the great outdoors” concept is becoming a thing with startups. Seaside Startup Summit takes it to the next level in Armenia, an exotic locale on the very eastern edge of Europe most of us have never visited.

Armenia ain’t exactly The Valley, London or Berlin. Nonetheless, SSS is expecti…>

From 3 July to 7 July, a huge lake in rural Hungary is the setting for what is arguably (we’re arguing with ourselves because we tend to call every big festival “the biggest”) the biggest festival of 2019.

We’ve hesitated to recommend Hungary this year because of the politics. But this 12-year-old festival has the…>

File this under “too good to be true” … though it’s totally legit. This is the second year econ-dev group Work Estonia is offering superstar tech talent a free 5-day VIP career trip to Tallinn, one of Europe’s most innovative cities

Here’s the deal: Work Estonia wants you to explore Estonia like a local and c…>

Another mega summer festival with Name acts, Garorock runs from 27 thru 20 June in Marmande southeast of Bordeaux.

Let’s get right to the Names (live acts and DJs), which are semi-huge in the 12th year for this festival: DIMA, Marshmello, Charlotte de Witte, Vici Vici, Ben Harper, Macklemore and DJ Snake, with s…>

Along with Berghain, one of the most famous (and packed, even with a capacity of 4,000 people!) super-clubs in Europe, with the best video, light and sound systems. Trance, techno and hardstyle drive the energy.

The next big FABRIK date is Raul Ortiz with the Resistencia event on…>

RFM Somnii, scheduled for 5 thru 7 July, bills itself as “the largest beach festival in Europe.” And there are seriously big names for 2019 including Afrojack, Radical Redemption, DJ Snake, Jay Hardaway and American rapper Tyga (assuming he’s not in jail) to break up the Dutch monop…>

The founder and director of EDIT Napoli http://www.editnapoli.com (June 6th – 9th, 2019), the innovative design fair debuting this year, focusing on the rise of the designer-maker, reveals her home in Rome, for the first time.

Emilia Petruccelli’s home is set within the secret Quartiere Coppedé, a hidden treasure of a ne…>

Another mega summer festival with Name acts, Garorock runs from 27 thru 20 June in Marmande southeast of Bordeaux.

Let’s get right to the Names (live acts and DJs), which are semi-huge in the 12th year for this festival: DIMA, Marshmello, Charlotte de Witte, Vici Vici, Ben Harper, Macklemore and DJ Snake, with s…>

Cauterets, France – Garosnow: This ski/music event 29 thru 31 March is in the Pyrénés, not the Alps. It’s the winter version of the larger Garorock Festival (see below), but instead of summer in a French meadow, Garosnow is a ski all day, party all night thang in a charming resort. Expect House, techno and disco at la…>

SHIFT, 29 & 30 August in Turku, Finland – Two things jump out at us here. First, who said there are no conferences in August? Second, all anyone wants to talk with us about is artificial intelligence … and this is an AI for industries conference. The 2019 speaker list isn’t public yet, and his is mostly for the theor…>