11:00DAY 1, 13TH OF JUNE 2019

OPENING KEYNOTE: GET READY FOR THE FUTURE!

Bucharest Robots

3-5CU

Stage Host

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Cavaleria

George Buhnici

Stage Host and Founder

11:20DAY 1, 13TH OF JUNE 2019

SPECIAL KEYNOTE: UiPath's Vision on Automation - The Future of Work is Already Here

UiPath

Sonia Pintea

Global Partner Development Director

11:45DAY 1, 13TH OF JUNE 2019

SESSION 1: HOW AI, ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION WILL TRANSFORM THE DIGITAL ECONOMY

Google

Dan Oros

Head of Marketing Romania

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Ms. AI

Nancy Nemes

Founder

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Criteo

Romain Lerallut

Engineering Director

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Thales Alenia Space

Catalin Alexandru Zamfir

Software Architect

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Information Services Group (ISG)

Wayne Butterfield

Director Cognitive Automation &Innovation

13:45DAY 1, 13TH OF JUNE 2019

SPECIAL KEYNOTE: Investigating IoT Crime: CyberSecurity in the age of digital

FBI

Dean Kinsman

Supervisory Special Agent

14:15DAY 1, 13TH OF JUNE 2019

SESSION 2: BIG DATA, CONSUMER PROFILING and THE LATEST TRENDS IN PERFORMANCE MARKETING and eCOMMERCE

Taboola

Marc Thomas

Managing Director - UK & Emerging Markets

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Pay U

Marius Costin

Country Manager

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iCrossing UK

Alex Douglas - Mann

Senior SEO Director

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Mediacom

Oliver Gertz

Programmatic Lead Global Clients

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Salesforce

Robbie Kearns

EMEA Regional VP Marketing

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ForestView

Kostas Kampakis

Managing Director

16:30DAY 1, 13TH OF JUNE 2019

SPECIAL KEYNOTES: MEET THE EXPERTS OF DISRUPTION AND DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION - UNCONVENTIONAL IDEAS

Amazonienii

Alex Huditan

Founder

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Sleeknote

Mogens Moller

CEO & Co-Founder

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CONVERSIONISTA

John Ekman

Founder & CEO

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Pollfish

John Papadakis

Founder

19:30DAY 1, 13TH OF JUNE 2019

NETWORKING & FUN: Drinks, Live DJ's by RedBull and Networking @ The UPGRADE 100 Summer Playground

11:00DAY 2, 14TH OF JUNE 2019

UPGRADE 100 Startups: Opening Debate

Host:

start-up.ro

Octavian Palade

Events & Content Strategist

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Guests:

Gecad Investments

Radu Georgescu

Founder

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Credo Ventures

Ondrej Bartos

General Partner

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GapMinder

Dan Mihaescu

Founding Partner

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OTB Ventures

Krzysztof Palucki

Associate

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Endeavor Greece

Panagiotis Karampinis

Managing Director

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Mozaik

Vlad Busila

Managing Partner

11:30DAY 2, 14TH OF JUNE 2019

SESSION 1: MEET THE GROWTH HACKERS - HOW TO GROW FAST AT A GLOBAL SCALE

PR Hacker

Ben Kaplan

Founder

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Recruitee

Ferdinand Goetzen

Chief Growth Officer

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GrowthRocks

Theodore Moulos

CEO & Founder

Adrian Vlasiu

Country Manager Romania

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Spherik Accelerator

Cristina Juc

Project Manager & Stage Host

13:15DAY 2, 14TH OF JUNE 2019

SPECIAL MOMENT: UIPATH - FROM 100 MILLION TO 7 BILLION USD IN 2 YEARS

Discover the mind blowing story behind the fastest growing enterprise software company in history: how to take over the world from Bucharest, Romania

UiPath

Razvan Atim

Business Development Manager

13:30DAY 2, 14TH OF JUNE 2019

DEBATE and Q&A: CORPORATIONS vs STARTUPS - WHAT A BIG COMPANY CAN OFFER TO A STARTUP?

Host:

Gecad Ventures

Bogdan Iordache

Partner

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Guests:

Orange Romania

Monica Obogeanu

Startup Programs Manager

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BCR

Ionut Stanimir

Director of Marketing & Communication

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InnoEnergy CE

Lukasz Skarka

Investment Manager

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AIESEC

Konstantinos Iliopoulos

President

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Carrefour

Catalin Samara

COO

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MOLGROUP

Zsolt Winkler

Head of Innovation Hub

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Oracle Startup Ecosystem - EMEA

Monica Bratu

Program Manager

14:15DAY 2, 14TH OF JUNE 2019

SESSION 2: CASE STUDIES by ORANGE Fab - HOW TO GAIN TIME AND SPEED WORKING WITH A BIG COMPANY?

Orange Romania

Monica Obogeanu

Startup Programs Manager

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KFactory

Vlad Cazan

Co-Founder

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CBNAgro.tech

Bogdan Nourescu

Co-Founder

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uRADMonitor

Radu Motisan

Founder

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Orange Foundation

Adina Rosca

Digital education expert @ Digitaliada

16:15DAY 2, 14TH OF JUNE 2019

DEBATE and Q&A: THE INVESTORS' AGORA - MEET YOUR FUTURE PARTNERS

Host:

FintechOS

Sergiu Negut

Co-Founder & Board Director

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Guests:

Endeavor Greece

Panagiotis Karampinis

Managing Director

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0 Day Capital

Dragos Stanescu

CEO

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Flashpoint Venture Capital

Marton Medveczky

VC

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Journey Partners

Brian Marrinan

Managing Partener

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Velocity.Partners VC

Dimitris Kalavros-Gousiou

Co-Founder & General Partner

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Abilito Capital

Mihai Sfintescu

Managing Director

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TechAngels

Malin-Iulian Stefanescu

Presedinte

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GapMinder

Cosmin Ochisor

Partner

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V7 Capital

Iulian Circiumaru

Partner

17:30DAY 2, 14TH OF JUNE 2019

DEMO DAY BATCH #3: Techcelerator

185 CEE startups applied, 26 pitched in front of a jury in Selection final phase and the best teams made it to Techcelerator Batch#3. Come to see the next Romanian gazelles and unicorns pitching their ideas to get investments from GapMinder Venture Partners and make their products known to the world!

Techcelerator

Cristina Țoncu

Program Director

19:00DAY 2, 14TH OF JUNE 2019

THE UPGRADE 100 ELEVATOR PITCH

100 floors and 200 seconds to win the chance for a 50k EUR investment from GapMinder. Up to 15 startups will showcase live-on-stage. Our jury will decide who THE UPGRADE 100 ELEVATOR WINNER is - but also the public vote will matter for the PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD.

Jury:

20:30DAY 2, 14TH OF JUNE 2019

STANDUP COMEDY NIGHT with Jeff Leach on UPGRADE Stage 1

Our famous Chief Entertainment Officer to draw the festival's conclusions in his own way...

Upgrade 100

Jeff Leach

Chief Entertainment Officer

21:30DAY 2, 14TH OF JUNE 2019

FAREWELL DRINKS AND NETWORKING in The UPGRADE 100 Summer Playground