Keynote Speakers
Founder, Chairman & CEO at Vanderveldt Global Investments & EBW2020
Managing Partner Techstars
Managing Director Techstars
CEO Pure Color
CEO TravelShift and co-founder Guide to Iceland
Sr. Director of Development at Oracle Corp
CMO at Tempo
Business Manager, Marel
Thorvaldur Sveinsson
Executive Director of Strategy, Vodafone Iceland
Hjalmar Gislason
VP of Data at Qlik
CTO at Techstars
Stefán Baxter
Founders Panel
Andrew Carmody
Investor Panel
Arnar Laufdal Ólafsson
Founders Panel
Kolbrún Hrafnkelsdóttir
Founders Panel
Svana Gunnarsdóttir
Investor Panel
Eggert Claessen
Managing Partner
What is Startup Iceland?
Our agenda is to build an antifragile entrepreneurial ecosystem through best practice tools, resources and advice for Iceland.
How do we build sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystems?
We are sure every country, city and town is asking this question given the devastation the financial crisis of 2008 has left on the world economies. History has shown that founders and entrepreneurs are builders and creators of valuable resources for their communities. Small entrepreneurial companies create more productive jobs than large companies, and productive jobs are the economic engine of every society.
With that background we asked ourselves, are there best practices, methods and learning strategies that we could apply in our community here in Iceland?
Mark Solon
Managing Partner Techstars
Who make this happen?
