Schedule
Startup Iceland 2016 – Startup Communities 2.0 – Scaling and Return on Communities
Sun
May 29th
18:00 – 20:00
Bala Kamallakharan and Mikko Jarvilehto
Teqhire Sponsored Startup Iceland/Ultrahack Online Hackathon Launch at Bryggjan Brugghús
Mon
May 30th
Master of Ceremonies – Jón Jósep Snæbjörnsson (Jónsi)
08:00 – 08:30
Registration and Networking
Badge pickup, registration, walk-ins (Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Center)
08:30 – 08:35
Bala Kamallakharan
Welcome to Startup Iceland 2016
08:35 – 08:45
President of Iceland – His Excellency Olafur Ragnar Grimsson
Opening speech
08:45 – 08:55
US Ambassador of Iceland Robert C. Barber
The Ambassador will present our guests from the US
Scaling and New Markets
09:00 – 09:15
Hjalmar Gislason, VP of Data at Qlik
From scaling a startup to scaling a product for a listed company
09:15 – 09:30
Xiaochen Tian, CEO TravelShift and co-founder Guide to Iceland
How can you attract the Chinese Customer and open the Asian Market
09:30 – 09:45
Jessie VanderVeen, CMO, Head of Legal at Tempo
Scaling Intrapreneurship Internationally from Iceland, story of how Tempo grew from a small project team to a company with more than 75 employees in multiple countries. The talk will address some of the challenges as a scaling company in Iceland, and some of the lessons learned
09:45 – 09:50
Startup Pitch 1
Startups will do their 90 sec pitch
09:50 – 10:20
Coffee Break/Networking
Technology the X factor to Scaling
10:20 – 10:35
Scott Caruso, Founder Pure Color
How to disrupt the Paint industry
10:35 – 10:50
Jud Valeski, CTO Techstar
Data and Technology
10:50 – 11:05
Magnus Bjornsson, Oracle
Tale of Two Startups; Entry and Exit – Magnus will share his experience starting his own company (Aet) and then the end of Endeca as a startup when Oracle acquired it.
11:05 – 11:10
Startup Pitch 2
Startups will do their 90 sec pitch
Scaling in Iceland
11:10 – 11:25
Gudrun Hafsteinsdottir, CEO Kjörís and Chairman of the Federation of Industries, Iceland
Story of Kjöris
11:25 – 11:40
Brandur (Brassi) Karlsson
Frumbjörg – Responding to your environment
11:40 – 11:45
Startup Pitch 3
Startups will do their 90 sec pitch
11:45 – 13:00
Lunch
13:00 – 13:15
Þorvarður Sveinsson
How the Vodafone Platform can help you scale your business
13:15 – 13:30
Ragnheiður H. Magnúsdóttir
Marel’s venture in ecommerce
Global Startup and Entrepreneurship Movement
13:30 – 13:50
Ingrid Vanderveldt
Empowering a Billion Women
13:50 – 14:15
Fireside chat with Mark Solon and Jenny Fielding
Impact of Techstars and accelerators around the globe
14:15 – 14:40
Founders Panel
Founders perspective on Scaling and Funding
14:40 – 15:05
Investor Panel
Funding for Scaling – Discussion on How, What and Why
15:05
Einar Gunnar Gudmundsson/Salome Gudmundsdottir
Startup Reykjavik 2016 Team Announcement
Mikko Järvilehto – Executive Producer Ultrahack
Ultrack and Startup Iceland
Bala Kamallakharan
Closing Speech
20:00 – 22:30
Startup Iceland Invite only Dinner
Dinner Hosted by NSA Ventures
Tue
May 31th
09:00 – 12:00
Startup Iceland mentoring sessions with our distinguished speakers
Mentoring Day at Reykjavik University
18:30
Nordic Startup Awards – Welcome Drinks
Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Center – Norduljos