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				<h2>Startup &amp; Biz</h2>
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          Numerous events for Startups, Professionals, Investors and
          Businessangels will take place Monday through Friday. We're
          starting off the week on Monday with the <a href="#hgnc">HGNC
          Finanzierungstag</a>, just before the Warmup Party. The main
          event, <a href="#startup-conference">Startup Conference</a>,
          takes place Tuesday &amp; Wednesday, followed by <a
          href="#web-de-cologne">Web de Cologne</a> on Thursday.  And
          finally <a href="#c-n-b">C'n'B</a> finishes off the event on
          Thursday and Friday.

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				<h2><a href="#startup-conference" name="startup-conference">Startup Conference</a></h2>
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					<strong>What:</strong> Conference, VCs, Startups, Finance, Business, Lightning Talks<br/>
					<strong>Date:</strong> June 18th - June 19th<br/>
					<strong>Time:</strong> 8 AM - 11 PM<br/>
					<strong>Where:</strong> Trinitatis Church, Cologne // Trinitatiskirche, Filzengraben 6, 50676 Köln<br/>
					<strong>Entrance:</strong> 25 EUR per participant ticket / 50 EUR visitor ticket
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				<h3>What's it About?</h3>
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          Startups, techs, investors and entrepreneurs will meet in a
          creative atmosphere to network and discuss hot topics with
          other technology industry professionals sharing similar
          passions and social interests.

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				<p>The following items are part of the Startup and Biz program:</p>
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					<li><a href="#keynote-and-speakers">Keynote and Speakers</a></li>
					<li><a href="#startup-breakfast">Startup Breakfast</a></li>
					<li><a href="#Lightning talks">Lightning Talks</a></li>
					<li><a href="#biz-talks">Biz Talks &amp; Panel Discussions</a></li>
					<li><a href="#business-model-talks">Business-Model Talks</a></li>
					<li><a href="#finance-talks">Finance Talks</a></li>
					<li><a href="#technical-talent-talks">Technical-Talents Talks</a></li>
					<li><a href="#dates-and-pitches-talks">Startup, Money and CTO Pitching</a></li>
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				<h3><a href="#keynote-and-speakers" name="keynote-and-speakers">Keynote and Speakers</a></h3>
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					<img class="speaker" src="assets/images/speaker/joerg-binnenbruecker.jpg" alt="Jörg Binnenbruecker"/><a href="#joerg-binnenbruecker" name="joerg-binnenbruecker"><strong>Jörg Binnenbrücker</strong></a><br/>Jörg earned a degree in law and economics from the University of Bonn and is a licensed lawyer. He was a senior investment manager at High-Tech Gründerfonds investing in early-stage companies from the ICT sector. Prior to that, he worked as a manager for PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Jörg successfully led the investment business of M. DuMont Schauberg as founding partner and CEO, thereby significantly contributing to the development of digital strategy at the publishing house. At the end of 2012 he founded the Multi- Corporate Fund Capnamic Ventures which he leads as managing partner.<br />An active business angel and entrepreneur himself Jörg is constantly striving to improve the conditions for startups and strengthen the entrepreneurial spirit in our society. Being an expert within early stage investments he was awarded the title „Investor of the Decade“  by the German magazine Gründerszene in 2011.
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					<img class="speaker" src="assets/images/speaker/sebastian-deutsch.jpg" alt="Sebastian Deutsch"/><a href="#sebastian-deutsch" name="sebastian-deutsch"><strong>Sebastian Deutsch</strong></a><br/>Sebastian Deutsch is one of the founders of 9elements. He started hacking at a young age on a Commodore Amiga computer. From then on he developed software on various platforms - but he loves the web the most. He enjoys programming Ruby on Rails and loves to create new interfaces using technologies like HTML5 and JavaScript. Sebastian has a university degree in Computer Science from the Technische Universität Dortmund. When he is not hacking he loves to ski in the alps. His talk: <em>KPIs for Nerds - All about KPIs you ever wanted to know (but was always afraid to ask)</em>.
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					<img class="speaker" src="assets/images/speaker/nicolas-dittberner.jpg" alt="Nicolas Dittberner"/><a href="#nicolas-dittberner" name="nicolas-dittberner"><strong>Nicolas Dittberner</strong></a><br/>Nicolas represents many years of hands-on experience in the startup space including performance marketing, e-commerce and social media. Today he is heading operations for Elance in Germany and beyond, a leading market place for Online Work. Previously, he was a consultant at Telekom Innovation Labs and co-founded Ondango, a SaaS startup in the field of e-commerce. Nicolas holds an MBA of Technical University of Munich and UC Berkeley.
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					<img class="speaker" src="assets/images/speaker/konstantin-ewald.jpg" alt="Konstantin Ewald"/><a href="#konstantin-ewald" name="konstantin-ewald"><strong>Konstantin Ewald</strong></a><br/>Konstantin Ewald is Head of Osborne Clarke’s Digital Business sector specialist group, which covers the full spectrum of digital media, technology and communications. He is specialised in eCommerce and mCommerce, as well as IT and data protection law. Osborne Clarke has recently be named as Law Firm of the Year for IT and Media.
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					<img class="speaker" src="assets/images/speaker/ingo-franz.jpg" alt="Ingo Franz"/><a href="#ingo-franz" name="ingo-franz"><strong>Ingo Franz</strong></a><br/>Ingo Franz is partner at Creathor Venture, an European venture fund with offices in Germany, Switzerland and Scandinavia, investing in all VC situations with particular focus on early stage. Ingo is venture investor in IT/ Internet/software companies for 15 years. Prior to joining Creathor Venture, Ingo was Investment Manager at Technologieholding VC and later Investment Director with 3i. He has served as a director on boards of German, French, US companies and has a successful track record including IPO and trade-sale transactions. Ingo has spent several years abroad working in industry on software, engineering and strategy consulting assignments. Ingo holds a master degree in engineering from the Technical University of Darmstadt and a master degree in Business Administration (lic. Oec.) from the University of St. Gallen.
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					<img class="speaker" src="assets/images/speaker/nicolas-gabrysch.jpg" alt="Nicolas Gabrysch"/><a href="#nicolas-gabrysch" name="nicolas-gabrysch"><strong>Nicolas Gabrysch</strong></a><br/>Nicolas Gabrysch is a partner in the Cologne office of Osborne Clarke and advises investors and emerging growth companies on financing, growth capital and M&A. Lately Nicolas has advised DailyDeal on the sale to (and repurchase from) google and casacanda on the sale to fab.com as well as investments made by b-to-v, Shortcut Ventures and Holtzbrinck.
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					<img class="speaker" src="assets/images/speaker/klemens-gaida.jpg" alt="Klemens Gaida"/><a href="#klemens-gaida" name="klemens-gaida"><strong>Klemens Gaida</strong></a><br/>Klemens Gaida is a telecoms engineer with a PhD in mobile communication systems & services. After being partner at a management consultancy from 1993-2001 and manager at a global mobile network operator from 2001-2009 he founded the Internet incubator & seedfund 1stMOVER in Düsseldorf together with Peter Hornik. In summer 2012 Klemens established a strategic partnership with full service mobile solution provider Appseleration and gave 1stMOVER a new focus on the mobile internet market.  Klemens and Peter have previously built several web companies in the areas of e-commerce, web-to-print and online video amongst others.
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					<img class="speaker" src="assets/images/speaker/michael-gebert.jpg" alt="Michael Gebert"/><a href="#michael-gebert" name="michael-gebert"><strong>Michael Gebert</strong></a><br/>Michael Gebert is one of Germany’s leading crowdsourcing expert and thought leader. PhD thesis : crowdsourced innovations and risks involved. He is a Keynote speaker and panelist at Crowdsourcing week 2013 Singapore, Crowdconf San Francisco, Crowd-Summit Berlin,Crowdfunding Future 2013 Berlin, Crowd Symposium Cologne, “The Future of Work” at International Management Forum 2013. He is board member of the german crowdsourcing association and contributing author at Crowdsourcing.org
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					<img class="speaker" src="assets/images/speaker/ulrich-hafenbradl.jpg" alt="Ulrich Hafenbradl"/><a href="#ulrich-hafenbradl" name="ulrich-hafenbradl"><strong>Ulrich Hafenbradl</strong></a><br/>Ulrich Hafenbradl is the co-founder and Managing Director of Trusted Shops GmbH. He graduated in economics from the universities of Mannheim and Cologne. Before founding Trusted Shops GmbH he was an E-commerce consultant.
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					<img class="speaker" src="assets/images/speaker/till-hardy.jpg" alt="Till Hardy"/><a href="#till-hardy" name="till-hardy"><strong>Till Hardy</strong></a><br/>Till Hardy is Cluster Manager at the Mediencluster NRW and media consultant on digital content in the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW. In this position, he advises on funding, business development and creates networks with potential partners. Previously, he was head of the European transmedia network First Motion and responsible for digital media at the Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein. He holds a diploma in business administration and a master's degree in cultural studies and deals theoretically as well as practically with the economic and aesthetic aspects of digital media.
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					<img class="speaker" src="assets/images/speaker/thomas-herzog.jpg" alt="Thomas Herzog"/><a href="#thomas-herzog" name="thomas-herzog"><strong>Thomas Herzog</strong></a><br/>Thomas Herzog studied Corporate Management and Economics at Zeppelin University with a strong emphasis on Innovation Management. After extensive work experience as a product manager (Affinion International) and consultant for the financial industry (zeb/rolfes.schierenbeck.associates) he left the corporate world 2009 and started to built startups. Besides some own bootstrapped projects he was one of the first employees for SponsorPay and worked for well known companies like Jamba. At Innovestment he is responsible for Business Dev and Product.
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					<img class="speaker" src="assets/images/speaker/matthias-hornberger.jpg" alt="Matthias Hornberger"/><a href="#matthias-hornberger" name="matthias-hornberger"><strong>Matthias Hornberger</strong></a><br/>As CFO of Kizoo Technology Ventures Matthias is together with two colleagues in charge of their Investment Business. KIZOO (www.kizoo.com) helps young start-up teams grow. They provide seed and early stage financing of up to € 1 Mio in the first round with a focus on SaaS, Internet & Mobile Services and Social Applications. Matthias has been part of the senior management team of Kizoo and the predecessor WEB.DE since the IPO of the AG in 2000. He has a long-standing experience in the investment sector and his comprehensive knowledge of typical features of successful business models on the Internet. He also is CEO of the Karlsruhe based High-Tech-Entrepreneur Network Cyberforum e.V. With 1000+ members it is one of the leading IT-related networks in Europe.
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					<img class="speaker" src="assets/images/speaker/peter-hornik.jpg" alt="Peter Hornik"/><a href="#peter-hornik" name="peter-hornik"><strong>Peter Hornik</strong></a><br/>During his studies of economics Peter Hornik already discovered his enthusiasm for entrepreneurship and creating new businesses. Consequently, he founded his first company epos24 GmbH, a panEuropean service provider for data base solutions for car dealers, where he was managing director from 2001 to 2008. In 2006 Peter did his first angel investment and in 2008 he established the Switzerland-based cap-z-partners GmbH as a holding company for more angel investments. Since then Peter Hornik supports young founders with seed investments and advisory services. In 2012 he founded together with Klemens Gaida and Ralf Lauterbach 1stMOVER, an incubator and seedfund with focus on mobile services & solutions. Located in Düsseldorf 1stMOVER offers a wide range of services for entrepreneurs in addition to traditional seed investments.
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					<img class="speaker" src="assets/images/speaker/stephan-jacquemot.jpg" alt="Stephan Jacquemot"/><a href="#astephan-jacquemot" name="stephan-jacquemot"><strong>Stephan Jacquemot</strong></a><br/>At Microsoft Stephan Jacquemot is member of the global Emerging Business Team and responsible for collaborating with the startup scene in Germany. He is responsible for the BizSpark program, that allows startups to use Microsoft software and services at no costs. Technology-wise he evangelizes Windows 8, the cloud computing platform Windows Azure and Windows Phone among innovative IT startups. Before joining Microsoft in early 2010, Stephan Jacquemot keenly focused on entrepreneurship and innovation management for many years. His recent adventure just brought him back from Bahrain where he helped to set up an investment and consulting firm that is designed to foster the flow of capital from the Middle East to German high-tech start-ups. Prior to that, Stephan Jacquemot was responsible for technology marketing for several years at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. He was primarily involved in promoting satellite navigation projects related to Galileo on the one hand and the latest developments in the field of robotics and mechatronics on the other hand.
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					<img class="speaker" src="assets/images/speaker/alexander-jansen.jpg" alt="Alexander Jansen"/><a href="#alexander-jansen" name="alexander-jansen"><strong>Alexander Jansen</strong></a><br/>Alex is a consultant, serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Business Visuals. Business Visuals was founded in the beginning of April 2013 and provides printed materials for workshops - covering the most common tools for Design Thinking, Lean Startup, and Business Modelling. Business Visuals is his 9th Startup. In his role as a consultant he helps his clients to be more creative, innovative or simply productive in their business models, new products or day to day business by bringing together interdisciplinary, intercultural teams to work on the problem at hand and guide them through agile processes and projects. He holds a MSc. in computer science and music from TU München. He also teaches innovation management for BA students at SRH Hochschule Berlin.
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					<img class="speaker" src="assets/images/speaker/david-jetel.jpg" alt="David Jetel"/><a href="#david-jetel" name="david-jetel"><strong>David Jetel</strong></a><br/>David Jetel has a business degree and is an active entrepreneur since 2002.He is responsible for the ICT-Portfolio of Sirius Venture Partners and expert  for market- and technological issues. Currently he manages some portfolio-companies in the area of e-commerce, webtv and convienence foods as a member of the advisory boards.
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					<img class="speaker" src="assets/images/speaker/manuel-koelmann.jpg" alt="Manuel Koelmann"/><a href="#manuel-koelmann" name="manuel-koelmann"><strong>Manuel Koelmann</strong></a><br/>Manuel Koelman is a dutch entrepreneur living in Cologne. He has founded several companies and recently sold his last one. He is chairman of the European Pirate Summit, Cologne’s praised entrepreneurship conference. Manuel blogs and is passionate about entrepreneurship, lean startup and productivity. He is mentor at Seedcamp, Startup Weekend and other events.
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					<img class="speaker" src="assets/images/speaker/ulf-kunze.jpg" alt="Ulf Kunze"/><a href="#ulf-kunze"name="ulf-kunze"><strong>Ulf Kunze</strong></a><br/>Ulf Kunze is in charge of strategy, innovation and business development for You Is Now and is partner of GoodKarma VC, primarily specializing in consultancy and investments on internet and mobile.  Ulf has been at the forefront of digital and mobile media for more than a decade, consistently active in entre-/ intrapreneurial roles and as investor in the ICT industry.
					In 1999 he founded neopoly AG, a massive multiplayer game studio for international media companies. Simultaneously, Ulf helped create iWorld Group plc, the first incubator for mobile business and later restructured and co-funded iModel ltd. as an aggregator for mobile personalisation. He then joined Versign Inc. as Head of Strategy, overseeing the M&A with Fox Mobile. Before founding GoodKarma in 2010 he headed the digital business of RTL Disney. Amongst his other roles, Ulf is an advisor and juror for entrepeneurial programs like start2grow, NUK, Founder Institute, Zeppelin University, European Venture Summit and the FMER.
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					<img class="speaker" src="assets/images/speaker/karl-heinz-land.jpg" alt="Karl-Heinz Land"/><a href="#karl-heinz-land" name="karl-heinz-land"><strong>Karl-Heinz Land</strong></a><br/>Karl-Heinz Land, Digital Darwinist and Evangelist, founder of neuland; provides consultancy services concerning the Digital Vision & Transformation. Key topics: Social Media, Mobile, Big Data, Analytics and e-Commerce. He is a digital visionary who has received multiple business awards and was voted a “Technology Pioneer“ in 2006 by the World Economic Forum in Davos (WEF) and Time Magazin. For over 25 years, Karl-Heinz Land has worked as Senior Executive, General Manager, CEO, Executive Vice President EMEA in worldwide leading technology enterprises – amongst others Oracle, BusinessObjects, Microstrategy, VoiceObjects.
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					<img class="speaker" src="assets/images/speaker/stefan-lemper.jpg" alt="Stefan Lemper"/><a href="#stefan-lemper" name="karl-heinz-land"><strong>Stefan Lemper</strong></a><br/>Stefan Lemper is head of YOU IS NOW Munich, the incubator of the Scout24-Group, which one of the leading operators of online-marketplaces in Europe. After he started his career in consulting he was actively involved in the start-up scene since 2000 as employee, co-founder and managing director of various start-ups. Furthermore he was partner and director of a leading venture capital company, where he was in charge of the investment activities in the areas of internet, software and media.
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					<img class="speaker" src="assets/images/speaker/matthias-luebken.jpg" alt="Matthias Lübken"/><a href="#matthias-luebken" name="matthias-luebken"><strong>Matthias Lübken</strong></a><br/>Matthias Lübken is the director of software development at <a href="http://adcloud.com">Adcloud</a> in Cologne. Matthias has longtime experience with different aspects of software development. Currently he focuses on organising product development efforts and the collaboration with other departments. More information at <a href="http://luebken.com/about">luebken.com/about</a>.
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					<img class="speaker" src="assets/images/speaker/carl-o-matic.jpg" alt="Carl-o-Matic"/><a href="#carl-o-matic" name="carl-o-matic"><strong>Carl-o-Matic</strong></a><br/>Carlo Matic (formerly known as Carlo Blatz) is since 1995 an experienced manager and entrepreneur with more than 70 employees. He founded the digital agency <a href="http://www.interactive-pioneers.de/">Interactive Pioneers</a> (formerly known as Powerflasher), is cofounder and CTO of <a href="http://supr.com">Supreme NewMedia (supr.com)</a> and supports as business angel different startups. As a passionate networker he has excellent contacts in online businesses, is a proud referrer of <a href="http://hackfwd.com">HackFWD</a> and speaks frequently at international conferences. The serial book author, has grown his expertise, in addition to his technical insights, to the fields of eCommerce, user experience and online marketing. The perfect man to explain to you <em>Why Geeks Are Better Founders</em>
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					<img class="speaker" src="assets/images/speaker/johannes-nuenning.jpg" alt="Johannes Nünning"/><a href="#johannes-nuenning" name="johannes-nuenning"><strong>Johannes Nünning</strong></a><br/>Johannes is a VP Business Strategy at Deutsche Telekom. He founded UQBATE in 2011, which is an internal Incubation Program to explore innovative business opportunities and launch new core businesses. UQBATE empowers passionate intrapreneurs to make their ideas come true. UQBATE's internal startups are open to external partners, geeky developers and designers to act as co-founders. Currently UQBATE applys the StartupWeekend NEXT approach to the corporate world.
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					<img class="speaker" src="assets/images/speaker/gerald-schoenbucher.jpg" alt="Gerald Schönbucher"/><a href="#gerald-schoenbucher" name="gerald-schoenbucher"><strong>Gerald Schönbucher</strong></a> is co-founder and CEO of <a href="http://www.hitmeister.de/">Hitmeister</a>, one of Germany’s leading multi-category internet marketplaces with a monthly revenue of several million Euros. He is a well-connected expert and speaker in ecommerce related topics. Gerald has more than eight years of strategic and hands-on ecommerce experience. Gerald is also an active business angel in several consumer internet companies. Gerald holds a graduate business degree and a PhD in Entrepreneurship, both from WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management. He took graduate business classes at the University of Michigan Stephen M. Ross School of Business and at Sorbonne University. Before launching Hitmeister he has gained experience at Deutsche Bank, BMW, Unilever and Jamster!
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					<img class="speaker" src="assets/images/speaker/felix-staeritz.jpg" alt="Felix Stäritz"/><a href="#felix-staeritz" name="felix-staeritz"><strong>Felix Stäritz</strong></a> Excelling in complex and and high pressure environments, a doer and achiever, serial entrepreneur from age 16 onwards, previous management consultant for boutique and top consultancies in high-tech and telecommunications, a speaker and visionary. Co-Founder and CEO of <a href="http://kochabo.de">KochAbo</a>, having set up the leading e-food concept in 5 countries within 12 months. Business angel and advisor to start ups.
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					<img class="speaker" src="assets/images/speaker/tim-schumacher.jpg" alt="Tim Schumacher"/><a href="#tim-schumacher" name="tim-schumacher"><strong>Tim Schumacher</strong></a><br/> is the Co-Founder and former long-term CEO of <a href="http://sedo.com">Sedo.com</a> (currently € 130 M in Revenue and 350 employees). He’s now involved as a Business Angel in various start-ups, among it <a href="http://www.aklamio.com/">Aklamio</a>, <a href="https://stuffle.it/">Stuffle</a>, <a href="http://www.enbreeze.com/">Enbreeze</a> and <a href="http://www.netzwelt.de/">Netzwelt</a>, and also building his next company.
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					<img class="speaker" src="assets/images/speaker/felix-staeritz.jpg" alt="Felix Stäritz"/><a href="#felix-staeritz" name="felix-staeritz"><strong>Felix Stäritz</strong></a> Excelling in complex and and high pressure environments, a doer and achiever, serial entrepreneur from age 16 onwards, previous management consultant for boutique and top consultancies in high-tech and telecommunications, a speaker and visionary. Co-Founder and CEO of <a href="http://kochabo.de">KochAbo</a>, having set up the leading e-food concept in 5 countries within 12 months. Business angel and advisor to start ups.
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					<img class="speaker" src="assets/images/speaker/wencke-schwarz.jpg" alt="Wencke Schwarz"/><a href="#wencke-schwarz" name="wencke-schwarz"><strong>Wencke Schwarz</strong></a><br/>Wencke "Wes" Schwarz >>>Menschen im Fokus<<< is an expert for human factors, customer orientation and Design Thinking. As a passionate psychologist, coach and consultant, she supports people by developing their talents, communicate better and work effectively in collaborative teams. Wencke loves to help people to get to know themselves better, think out of the box and develop creative and customer orientated ideas and solutions. Due to her heart for founders and start-ups, she work as a speaker at deGUT and the BPW Berlin and coaches new entrepreneurs in NRW and Berlin. In her freetime Wencke likes having good conversations, travelling, good food, beachvolleyball and Borussia Dortmund.
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					<img class="speaker" src="assets/images/speaker/tobias-schiwek.jpg" alt="Tobias Schiwek"/><a href="#tobias-schiwek" name="tobias-schiwek"><strong>Tobias Schiwek</strong></a><br/>Tobias is founder of <a href="http://endore.me">endore.me</a>, a platform supported by notable investors helping artists to manage and monetize their fan base. Coding and launching some lousy projects at the age of 16, <a href="http://simfy.de">simfy</a> was the first serious web startup he joined during his time at university. Millions of customers (and venture capital) later he founded a family and his new company. He holds a master’s degree in Business Economics and Political Science from the universities of Mannheim and Milan, Italy. Before he was bitten by the startup bug, Tobias worked in journalism and strategic management consulting. He’s a passionate fan of football (Kaiserslautern, sorry) and a passionate father of a son.
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					<img class="speaker" src="assets/images/speaker/christian-solmecke.jpg" alt="Christian Solmecke"/><a href="#christian-solmecke" name="christian-solmecke"><strong>Christian Solmecke</strong></a><br/>Christian Solmecke (39) is a partner at the law firm WILDE BEUGER SOLMECKE(Cologne). He is the author of numerous legal publications in the area of internet and IT law. He is also an associate lecturer for social media law at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences. His YouTube channel, where he presents complex legal issues in short video clips in a user-friendly way, has over 22,000 fans.
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					<img class="speaker" src="assets/images/speaker/tobias-zumbuelt.jpg" alt="Tobias Zumbült"/><a href="#tobias-zumbuelt" name="tobias-zumbuelt"><strong>Tobias Zumbült</strong></a><br/>Tobias is experienced in Finance and Onlinemarketing. He helped to build up the Online Music Platform tape.tv. After founding his own Video-Platform Tobi is now co-founder and CFO of Tollabox.de. One of the fastest growing subscription commerce startups in Germany.
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					<img class="speaker" src="assets/images/speaker/gerrit-schumann.jpg" alt="Gerrit Schumann"/><a href="#gerrit-schumann" name="gerrit-schumann"><strong>Gerrit Schumann</strong></a><br/>Gerrit is a serial entrepreneur with a passion for driving disruptive business models in the digital world. In 1996, as an early Internet pioneer, he started the global payment and e-commerce company element 5, enabling software developers around the world to switch to direct-to-consumer distribution on the Internet. Since 2007, as co-founder and CEO of simfy he has been focussing on the music industry, driving the massive paradigm shift from product ownership to a flat rate access model via music streaming. Gerrit is also an active business angel, invested in several startup software and Internet companies.
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					<img class="speaker" src="assets/images/speaker/marc-sieberger.jpg" alt="Marc Sieberger"/><a href="#marc-sieberger" name="marc-sieberger"><strong>Marc Sieberger</strong></a><br/>Founder & COO/CFO Doo. As entrepreneur and investor Marc knows both sides of the table. In his role as co-founder of e42 Marc enjoys working with dedicated, visionary founders to create innovative products and disruptive business models. e42 has seed funded and coached companies like 6Wunderkinder, kaufDA, myTaxi and Robot Media. Prior to e42, Marc led ip.labs as COO & CFO from a startup to an established worldwide leading photo service software provider and its acquisition by FUJIFILM Corp. In 2011 he co-founded doo and set off on his next mission - reinvent the way we work with documents and information. Marc is a frequent speaker at international tech events. He's talking about <em>"Business model design in the app-economy"</em>.
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					<img class="speaker" src="assets/images/speaker/kai-thierhoff.jpg" alt="Kai Thierhoff"/><a href="#kai-thierhoff" name="oliver-thylmann"><strong>Kai Thierhoff</strong></a><br/>Kai is founder and owner of Thierhoff Consulting. He studied business administration at the University of Cologne and received a doctorate in entrepreneurial studies from European Business School ebs. He started working in strategy consulting at companies and has founded and co-founded several companies. He has been in the Startup Scene for more than 25 years with special expertise in Tech, Media, Tourism, and Digital Media. More recently, Kai has also been appointed Professor at RFH University in Cologne, teaching entrepreneurship. Kai has organized and hosted several Startup and Digital Media Conferences in Cologne.
				</p>

				<p class="speaker">
				  <img class="speaker" src="assets/images/speaker/oliver-thylmann.jpg" alt="Oliver Thylmann"/><a href="#oliver-thylmann" name="oliver-thylmann"><strong>Oliver Thylmann</strong></a><br/>Husband, father of 2 kids, Developer Whisperer and First Adopter, Oliver has founded companies since university times, doing system administration, running statistics services, spamming search engines, bidding CPC on GoTo and running the biggest BeOS News Site. Then he built the technology behind what is today Ligatus as an Intrapreneur before finishing his MBA and founding <a href="https://ormigo.com/">Ormigo</a> together with Henning Lange in 2005. Selling Ormigo to a yellow pages company in 2010, both started <a href="http://adcloud.com/">Adcloud</a> in 2008, selling it to DPDHL in 2011 and continuing to run the company until March of this year. After a few Angel Investments in the past two years, Henning and Oliver are at it again, working on their <a href="http://d27y.com">next big idea</a>.
				</p>
				<p class="speaker">
					<img class="speaker" src="assets/images/speaker/nils-zuendorf.jpg" alt="Nils Zündorf"/><a href="#nils-zuendorf" name="nils-zuendorf"><strong>Nils Zündorf</strong></a><br/>Nils is mentor of several startups and founder of <a title=Gruenderkey href="http://gruenderkey.de" target="_blank">gruenderkey.de</a> - an exclusive club for founders. <em>One of the biggest issues of Startups is miscommunication of tech and biz people. This festival should bring them closer together!</em> <strong>Finding CTOs and other technical talent– avoiding the most common misconceptions </strong> - The majority of startups focus on technical innovation, or are at least based on a scaleable and complex technical infrastructure. The high competition for excellent hackers and a multitalented CTO often results in a never ending hiring process. Learn how to attract these talents without high paychecks or a safe future. What are the pains and gains of people with technical backgrounds? Nils Zündorf will talk about the most common pitfalls and explain with practical examples and guerrilla marketing techniques how to solve them.
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				<h3><a href="#startup-breakfast" name="startup-breakfast">Startup Breakfast</a></h3>
				<p>Launched in September 2012, the StartUp Breakfast ist one of the most open and inviting business events in Cologne. About 100 founders meet monthly in different locations, networking over good coffee and snacks. There is no set agenda, but reliably super interesting conversations are happening and often continue after the event.</p>
				<p>Your ticket includes an invitation to the Startup Breakfast on Wednesday. Enjoy a tasty croissant and a hot drink in a laid-back atmosphere before starting off a long day at the conference. Connect and chat with Cologne's startup scene. We are looking forward to meeting you there.</p>

				<img src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/pn6mz5xrnt3ob5m/2013-06-08_at_6.49.30_PM_2x.png" title="Startup Breakfast" alt="Startup Breakfast"/>

				<h3><a href="#Lightning talks" name="Lightning talks">Lightning Talks</a></h3>
				<p>Short talks by the attendees. Only a limited number of open slots, free choice of subject. Time is limited to five minutes.</p>

				<h3><a href="#biz-talks" name="biz-talks">Biz Talks &amp; Panel Discussions</a></h3>

        <p>Short talks, discussing best practices featuring select
        startups and entrepreneurs. Meet &amp; greet with self-made
        entrepreneurs in an intimate atmosphere afterwards.</p>

				<h3><a href="#business-model-talks" name="business-model-talks">Business-Model Talks</a></h3>

        <p>Discussion and presentation of innovative and successful
        business ideas and models behind projects featured in the tracks
        of the event. Discover and discuss the business models behind
        „Quadcopters“, „Anykeys“ and „3D-Printing“. What kind business
        idea can be successful in NRW/Germany?</p>

				<ul>
					<li>Evaluation and development of business models in pre-seed</li>
				</ul>

				<h3><a href="#finanec-talks" name="finance-talks">Finance Talks</a></h3>

        <p>Discussions and presentations of advantages, disadvantages
        and risks of various forms of financing. Where lies the future
        of financing? Why Exits? Bootstrapping vs. Investors vs. public
        funds. Alternative forms of financing like cooperations or crowd
        funding. How to minimize risks and what are low-risk business
        models?</p>

				<h3><a href="#technical-talent-talks" name="technical-talent-talks">Technical-Talents Talks</a></h3>
				<ul>
					<li>Finding CTO’s and other technical talent – avoiding the most common misconceptions</li>
					<li>Why hackers are the better founders.</li>
					<li>There’s no ‘I’ in ‘Team’ - Every startup / founder depends on Biz AND Tech</li>
					<li>Who needs (German) hackers anyway?! The case for offshore development.</li>
				</ul>
				<h3><a href="#dates-and-pitches-talks" name="dates-and-pitches-talks">Startup, Money and CTO Pitching</a></h3>
				<ul>
                	<li><h4>You need money for your big vision?</h4>
                    Join our pitching competion and get the chance to present your startup in front business angles and VC's. <a href="/vc-pitching.html" target="_blank">More information and the application form</a>
					<li><h4>You search a CTO or other technical talents?</h4> Present your project, idea or startup to over 200 developers and find your co-founder or next employees. <a href="/cto-pitching.html" target="_blank">More information and the application form</a></li>
				</ul>
				<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/techcocktail/3298237622/" title="TECH cocktail Chicago 10 by TechCocktail, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3430/3298237622_80b36fcc89_b.jpg" width="906" alt="TECH cocktail Chicago 10"></a>
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				<h2><a href="#web-de-cologne" name="web-de-cologne">Web de Cologne</a></h2>
				<p>
					<strong>What:</strong> Meetup, Professionals, Finance, Business, Talks<br/>
					<strong>Date:</strong> June 20rd<br/>
					<strong>Time:</strong> 3 PM - 8 PM<br/>
					<strong>Entrance:</strong> 50 EUR (WdC members free)
				</p>
				<p>At the Web de Cologne event on June 20, 2013 VCs and entrepreneurs from Cologne and NRW will discuss <em>“Sustainable Entrepreneurship vs. Exit Driven Growth“</em></p>
				<p>Afterwards, Web de Cologne invites all attendees to join the networking party on the roof terrace of Thyssen Stiftung.</p>
				<h3>Speakers</h3>
				<p class="speaker">
					<img class="speaker" src="assets/images/speaker/daniel-attallah.jpg" alt="Daniel Attallah"/><a href="#daniel-attallah" name="daniel-attalah"><strong>Daniel Attallah</strong></a><br/>Founder &amp; CEO Pixum. Born in 1963, Daniel looks back on a successful management career spanning over 20 years, with focus on marketing and sales in various B2B and B2C high-tech companies. In 2000, he founded Pixum. For over 7 years now, his main focus has been on internet marketing. As Pixum's managing director, he is responsible for marketing, business development, investor relations, finances and personnel.	<em>A CEO's main task is interacting &amp; I'm from Cologne - so Interactive Cologne is literally my event.</em>
				</p>
				<p class="speaker">
					<img class="speaker" src="assets/images/speaker/christian-blume.jpg" alt="Christian Blume"/><a href="#christian-blume" name="christian-blume"><strong>Christian Blume</strong></a><br/>Christian Blume is a founding member and the CEO of <a href="http://www.cleverbridge.com/">cleverbridge</a>. In 2005, he co-founded cleverbridge as a bootstrapped company and has played an integral role in growing the organization to become a leading e-commerce provider for the software industry. Today, cleverbridge is a global organization with over 240 employees with offices in Cologne, Germany, Chicago & San Francisco, USA and Tokyo, Japan. As a seasoned executive with a background in marketing, business development and product management, Christian has more than a decade of experience in managing and evolving start-ups to global companies. He is responsible for strategy development at cleverbridge, always looking for the next opportunity to grow the business.
				</p>
				<p class="speaker">
					<img class="speaker" src="assets/images/speaker/joerg-binnenbruecker.jpg" alt="Jörg Binnenbruecker"/><a href="#joerg-binnenbruecker_wdc" name="joerg-binnenbruecker_wdc"><strong>Jörg Binnenbrücker</strong></a><br/>Jörg earned a degree in law and economics from the University of Bonn and is a licensed lawyer. He was a senior investment manager at High-Tech Gründerfonds investing in early-stage companies from the ICT sector. Prior to that, he worked as a manager for PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Jörg successfully led the investment business of M. DuMont Schauberg as founding partner and CEO, thereby significantly contributing to the development of digital strategy at the publishing house. At the end of 2012 he founded the Multi- Corporate Fund Capnamic Ventures which he leads as managing partner.<br />An active business angel and entrepreneur himself Jörg is constantly striving to improve the conditions for startups and strengthen the entrepreneurial spirit in our society. Being an expert within early stage investments he was awarded the title „Investor of the Decade“  by the German magazine Gründerszene in 2011.
				</p>
				<p class="speaker">
					<img class="speaker" src="assets/images/speaker/lorenz-graef.jpg" alt="Dr. Lorenz Gräf"/><a href="#lorenz-graef" name="lorenz-graef"><strong>Dr. Lorenz Gräf</strong></a><br/>Dr. Lorenz Graef is the founder of the internet company Globalpark. As an entrepreneur he leads his business to success and establishes it as an international renowned company. In fall 2011 he left the company and concentrated his interests in the Familie Graef Holding GmbH (FGH). In November 2012 Dr. Lorenz Graef founded STARTPLATZ, a Cologne based hub for entrepreneurs in the Rhineland area. With STARTPLATZ he wants to accelerate high potential startups and lead them to success. Since 1988 he does research in the field of social science informatics and online market research. He is an expert for online based interaction and communication as well as author of different articles and textbooks. Further Dr.Lorenz Graef is co-founder oft he DGOF e.V. (German association of online-research) and was member of the board from 1997 until 2004. By founding this holding he develops his own projects and supports ambitious startups with capital and his expertise. <em>As founder of the accelarator STARTPLATZ our aim is to bring founders and developers together and establish the start-up culture in Cologne. I am glad to join the Interactive Cologne and get in touch with the crowd.</em>
				</p>
				<p class="speaker">
					<img class="speaker" src="assets/images/speaker/joachim-vranken.jpg" alt="Joahim Vranken"/><a href="#joachim-vranken" name="joachim-vranken"><strong>Joachim Vranken</strong></a><br/>Joachim Vranken is the founding CEO of kalaydo since 2006 and has held different management positions in the media industry for more than 25 years. He is spokesman of Web de Cologne an association of leading internet companies in the metropolitan areas of Cologne. He is involved in Interactive Cologne from the first moment.
				</p>
				<p class="speaker">
					<img class="speaker" src="assets/images/speaker/nadia-zaboura.jpg" alt="Nadia Zaboura"/><a href="#nadia-zaboura" name="nadia-zaboura"><strong>Nadia Zaboura</strong></a><br/>Nadia Zaboura is communication scientist, author ("The Empathic Brain") and moderator. She advises business and politics on the topics of digital strategy, innovation and regional development at the intersection of media, creativity and technology. Since July 2012, she works as "Consultant for digital innovation, internationalization & entrepreneurship" for cluster management CREATIVE.NRW, a project of BOROS GmbH. In this role, she facilitates and fosters the creative industries in Germany´s largest state. Previously, Nadia Zaboura consulted the media industry, politics and public administration at MEDIEN.NRW, newly established development agency. Selection of projects: "ADVANCE - International Web & Startup Conference" and study "Future of Advertising". Prior to that, she worked as project manager at innovation agency, MFG, for three years, spearheading an award-winning podcast on future ICT and networking Europe´s most innovative regions as manager of EU project, "CReATE". Apart from her business activities, Nadia Zaboura is deeply embedded within the digital avant-garde, e.g. as chairwoman of the jury at Germany´s "Grimme Online Award 2013", as founder of performance art project ZEE, (Zaboura Eichstaedt Experience), photography project "enscape" and presenter of TV format "Hyperland".
				</p>
				<p class="speaker">
					<img class="speaker" src="assets/images/speaker/marco-zingler.jpg" alt="Marco Zingler"/><a href="#marco-zingler" name="marco-zingler"><strong>Marco Zingler</strong></a><br/>Since 2001, Marco Zingler is Managing Director at denkwerk. For more than 14 years, he has worked in the multimedia industry. The studied historian and political scientist was Managing Director of oneview, one of Germany's first Social Networks, from 1999 to 2003 With partners, Marco Zingler founded WEBTRAVEL GmbH in 2004 and leaded the company until 2008. Since 2006, Marco Zingler is the spokesman for the Fachgruppe Agenturen within the BVDW e.V, a member of the general board and since 2009 member of the expert council in the organisation. In 2009, Marco Zingler was appointed to the governmental Media Advisory Board of North Rhine-Westphalia.
				</p>
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				<h3>About Web de Cologne</h3>
				<p>Web de Cologne e.V. is a Cologne-based initiative of companies of the internet economy. Since mid-2009, its members meet regularly on networking events to discuss topics of the digital and online industry, intensify existing contacts and forge new ones. Since May 2012, the initiative is an association to represent the interests of the internet economy. Web de Cologne has the goal to connect and promote the internet economy in the Cologne area.</p>
				<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/52165156@N05/6760048935/" title="10. Web de Cologne am 24.Januar 2012, IHK zu Köln by denkwerk_agentur, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7001/6760048935_a3f4c37d98_o.jpg" width="906px" alt="10. Web de Cologne am 24.Januar 2012, IHK zu Köln"></a>
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			<div class="content">
				<h2><a href="#c-n-b" name="c-n-b">C'n'B</a></h2>
				<p>
					<strong>What:</strong> Conference, Creativity, Business<br/>
					<strong>Date:</strong> June 20th - June 21st<br/>
					<strong>Time:</strong> 9 AM - 8 PM<br/>
					<strong>Entrance:</strong> 80 EUR
				</p>
				<p>C'n'B – Creativity &amp; Business Convention is a forum where decision-makers, thinkers and generators from the creative industries’ entertainment sectors meet. The two-day event invites experienced experts and startups, company founders and dedicated freelancers, creative people and business pros, university graduates and students, to discuss future formats for production, financing and exploitation, new life and business models, new trends and visions. C'n'B offers creative people a home and an action platform - instead of passive consumption, our agenda involves active participation, and creative interaction.</p>
				<p>More information: <a href="http://www.c-o-pop.de/cnb-convention/news/">c-o-pop.de/cnb-convention/news</a></p>
				<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51764640@N05/5883737865/" title="CnB 2011 by cnbconvention, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5238/5883737865_a4b7c1583e_b.jpg" width="906" alt="CnB 2011"></a>
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			<div class="content">
				<h2><a href="#hgnc" name="hgnc">HGNC Finanzierungstag</a></h2>
				<p>
				  <strong>What:</strong> Conference, Biz, Finance<br/>
				  <strong>Date:</strong> June 17th<br/>
				  <strong>Time:</strong> 5 PM - 9 PM<br/>
				  <strong>Where:</strong> University of Cologne, "Neues Seminargebäude" (building 106)</br/>
				  <strong>Entrance:</strong> free
				</p>
				<p>Startups have the opportunity to learn more about the range of VC companies, angel investor networks, funding institutions and banks at the “Finanzierungstag” at the University of Cologne on July, 17th 2013.
				  The investors introduce themselves and "their" topic in a 5-minute short presentation. Afterwards, founders and investors have the opportunity to network and continue their conversations in smaller groups. Founders looking for funding will get an opportunity to present their business models.</p>
				<p>
				  More information: <a href="http://bit.ly/hgnc-finance">bit.ly/hgnc-finance</a> &amp; <a href="http://www.facebook.com/hgnc.de">facebook.com/hgnc.de</a>
				</p>
			</div>
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