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Upcoming Events

Thursday, July 13

Summer Startup Party with a Surprise Guest

Party

Startup Grind is hosting the annual Summer Startup Party. Food, drinks, cool music and great people to meet. In addition, we'll also be highlighting the city's best startups. Come and join the fun! If you would like book a table to showcase your startup and have any question, feel free to contact our London team.

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Wednesday, August 23

Brian Dove, CTO at SkyScanner

Fireside Chat

Bryan Dove is Chief Technology Officer at Skyscanner. His role includes leading and growing Skyscanner’s engineering teams of over 400 people at an accelerated scale across ten global offices. Previously, Bryan held multiple roles at Microsoft and was the Head of Data Engineering at Skype where he founded and led a globally distributed team to build Skype's real-time big data architecture.

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Past Events

Startup Grind Conference

How to grow your startup: Reshma Sohoni, Founder & CEO of Seedcamp

Gerard Grech (CEO at Tech City UK)

Jeff Lynn & Jeff Kelisky (Seedrs)

Reggie Bradford (ORACLE, EX-VITRUE, EX-WEBMD)

Alexander Zacke (Auctionata)

Andy Shannon (Startupbootcamp)

Scott Harrison (charity: water)

Kristo Käärmann and Thorold Barker (TransferWise & WSJ)

Summer Party with Ophelia Brown and Mike Butcher (LocalGlobe & TechCrunch)

Nick Hungerford (Founder of Nutmeg)

None (None)

Eileen Burbidge, Passion Capital (with Sarah Wood, Suranga Chandratillake & Harry Briggs)

Juraj Vaculik, CEO & Co-Founder (Aeromobil.com)

Brian Rose (London Real)

John Harthorne (Founder & CEO of MassChallenge)

Jean Oelwang (President of Virgin Unite)

Jenny Tooth (CEO, UK Business Angels Association)

Matt Barrie (Founder/CEO of Freelancer.com)

Sarah Wood (Unruly)

Paddy Cosgrave (Web Summit)

Mike Butcher (TechCrunch)

M. Jacobsen, E. Jones (Dirty Dancing, Enterp Nation)

Andrej Kiska (President of Slovakia)

Divinia Knowles (Mind Candy)

Brent Hoberman (LastMinute.com / Made.com)

Brent Hoberman (LastMinute.com - LIVE streaming)

Guy Kawasaki (Canva/Ex-Apple)

David Buttress (Just Eat CEO)

Ben Medlock (SwiftKey)

Sarah Drinkwater (Google)

Jon Bradford (Techstars)

Alastair Stewart (Etc Venues)

Vernon Hill II. (Metrobank)

Mike McGee (Framestore)

Pankaj Chaddah (Zomato)

Renaud Visage, Kevin and Julia Hartz (Eventbrite)

Jacqueline Gold (Ann Summers)

Richard Reed (Innocent Drinks)

Richard Moross (MOO)

Caprice Bourret (By Caprice)

Michal Stencl (Sygic)

Bernhard Niesner (Busuu)

Giles Palmer (Brandwatch)

Russell Hall (Hailo)

Team

Marian Gazdik

London Director

MD, Europe at Startup Grind. Founder of BrainTrust, a think-tank helping top tech CEOs scale globally. Advisory board member at T-Mobile Czech Republic and Telekom Slovakia, mentor at Virgin Startup. Founder of Bhere.TV, a platform that brings business leaders live online. Ex-Orange, ex-Reebok. Marian was featured in New Europe 100 (organised by Financial Times, Google, Respublica and Visegrad Fund), the list of outstanding challengers who are leading world class innovation from Central and Eastern Europe.

Tim Elder

London Co-Director

London Co-director at Startup Grind. Co-founder & CEO of Fromigo, changing how people explore new cities. As a Product Manager, I delivered products to global markets with Google, Skype, and Rolls-Royce Aerospace. Make sure to talk to me about travel, digital products, hardware products, UX, and interesting metrics.

Petar Savic

London Co-director

Tech Entrepreneur turned investor with a key interest in project management within an Digital Media and Internet environment, bridging the gap between technical (hacker), creative (hipster) and commercial (hustler) requirements. A highly motivated and multi-skilled professional with excellent interpersonal and presenting skills, possessing a range of transferable skills and experiences gained through extensive management of various projects and start-ups. Highly creative, productive and organised team member with strong leadership, with a proven record of achieving targets and goals. A quick learner who can absorb new ideas and can communicate clearly and effectively with work colleagues, clients and major partners. Bringing multitasking to the next level with ability to bring high results even under highest pressure.

From the Blog

Qualtrics Founders: Brothers Who Stick Together & Build a Million Dollar Business

Stacy Belinsky • 2016-08-11T12:30:00+00:00

Why did Qualtrics co-founder and COO Jared Smith make the fundamental mistake of going into business with his family? At the Startup Grind Europe 2016 Conference, Smith stated that family is a benefit for their founding team. “The benefit of being brothers is since we were little kids we could beat on each other and have the hardest arguments, then still be buddies 10 minutes later.”

Prezi CTO Halacsy: Silicon Valley is a Good School But Lacks Extra Sense of Purpose

Michele Price • 2016-08-10T20:22:25+00:00

Whether you’re at a startup hub like Silicon Valley or a small community overseas, building a successful startup is challenging. Launching a product requires much more than just finding smart people, hustling, and inventing something new. You need a team who can help you solve the hardest problems and advice you.

Media Round Up: Startup Grind Europe 2016 News from Around the Web

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Michael Gasiorek • 2016-07-15T07:00:00+00:00

Startup Grind's first ever European conference was, in your words, "really inspiring," full of "amazing connections," and, by the account of one LivingSocial cofounder, surprising: "Every time I see Startup Grind," he said, "it seems to be getting bigger and bigger. The speakers and the quality somehow seems to go up and up. How the F--- do you do it?" As Derek would say, "great team = great results," and you can see some of the dedicated people behind the event above. We'll definitely be coming back next year - but if you can't wait that long, join our next Europe conference in London this year!