Regular Pass
Two days of inspiring content, over 40 international speakers, side workshops, networking areas and great food
€199
VAT Excl.
Team Pass
Same benefits, reduced price. Bring three or more colleagues and get an additional discount.
Starting at €159 per person
VAT excl.
Executive Pass
Get full access to VIP dinner and designated speakers’ lounge at the conference
€500
VAT Excl.
What’s covered by your ticket?
- Unique Content and visionary Keynotes
- Exciting interviews and fireside chats
- In-depth Workshops
- Potential partnerships with investors and prominent entrepreneurs
- Networking with leading digital transformers and innovative minds
- First-class catering, great coffee and drinks all day long
- DigiTALK Afterparty & afterhours cocktails
Startup Competition
DigitalK conference will host again this year its start up competition. The best startups will present to leading European
venture capital funds and tech journalists. The final shortlist will pitch on the main conference stage and compete for a 10,000
Euro cash prize (no strings attached) and a Special Angel Award of 10,000 Euro (convertible note) by CEO Angel Club.
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Speakers 2019
Investors 2019
"DIGITAL|K is special. It’s one of those rare events where everyone feels like friends. Whether you’re a startup, work in enterprise businesses, you’re an investor, everyone is there to help one another. I left inspired and hope to come back again!"
Brian Solis, Digital Anthropologist, Futurist, Best-Selling Author
"From the outside it might look like it's 'just' a gathering for tech enthusiasts, while in reality they’re singlehandedly opening up the Balkan region for outside players to invest, share, information-enable the local ecosystem, and give access to networks and resources."
Ton Van 't Noordende, CEO, 01Ventures
"The conference was the perfect size with very high production value and quality content. This one is definitely going on my annual priority list."
Ben Larson, General Partner, Backplane Capital
Full Schedule
Main Hall
09:00 – 09:45 Registration and Networking Coffee
09:50 – 10:00 Opening
10:00 – 10:20 Track: Innovation, Entrepreneurship, InvestmentInnovation and How to Inspire It Jeff Hoffman, Entrepreneur
10:20 – 10:40 Track: Digital Strategy and TransformationUnderstand Your Customers as People: A Call for Holistic Person-Centric Research Approach in Business
Alex Genov, Head of Customer Research, Zappos
10:40 – 11:00 Track: Digital Strategy and TransformationNavigating with a Digital Map: Discover Your Innovation PathJeremiah Owyang, Founder and CEO, Catalyst Companies
11:00 – 11:20 Track: Digital Strategy and TransformationData-Driven Content Development at Condé Nast
Stephanie Fried, Executive Vice President of Marketing, Research and Analytics, Conde Nast
Interviewer: Robin Wauters, Founder, Tech.eu
11:20 – 11:40Track: Digital Strategy and TransformationMaster the Digital Trends to Become Market Leader Axel Szymanski, DXC Technology's Chief Technology Officer for Strategic Initiatives
11:40 – 12:00 Track: Digital Strategy and TransformationAre We There Yet? How Brands are Surviving the New Paradigm of Retail in This Overwhelming Influx of Technology Trends David Shing, Digital Prophet, Verizon Media
12:00 – 13:00Lunch Break
13:00 -13:20 Track: Digital Branding and StorytellingThe Purpose Paradox: How Brands Live Their Values Without Co-Opting Culture David Armano, Global Strategy Director, Edelman
13:20 - 13:40 Track: Digital Branding and StorytellingMean More By Doing Less: The Power of Digital Transformation
Stephanie Peterson, Vice President Digital Planning and Activation, Adidas
13:40 - 14:00Track: Digital Branding and StorytellingCommunicating Transformation - "Advertising" in a Rapidly Changing World Tobin Nageotte, Technology Director, 72andSunny Amsterdam
14:00 - 14:15 Track: Digital Branding and StorytellingAutomated Content: How Artificial Intelligence Impacts Content Throughout the Organization
Rebecca Lieb, Analyst & Founding Partner, Kaleido Insights
14:15 – 14:30 Track: Digital Branding and StorytellingThe Future of Branding - Why Content Creation Is a Must For Any Company Jimmy Naraine, Entrepreneur, Adventurer, Co-founder, GrowthMasters.me
14:30 – 14:45 Track: Social MediaBuilding Community Around Music Jeffrey Smith, Co-Founder and CEO, Smule
Interviewer: Paul Papadimitriou, Digital Futurist, Intelligencr
14:45 – 14:55 Track: Digital Branding and StorytellingBuilding Amazing Teams for the Financial Times in Sofia Niko Vijayaratnam, Director of Product, Financial Times
14:55 – 15:25Coffee break
15:25 – 15:35Track: Digital Branding and StorytellingThe Changing Face of Influence in a Social Media Age Oliver Lewis, Managing Director & Founder, The Fifth
Interviewer: Matteo Penzo, Executive Director, Technology at frog
15:35 – 15:55 Track: LeadershipListening, Learning and Leadership Shobhana Ahluwalia, Head of Information Technology, Uber
15:55 - 16:15 Track: LeadershipTeamwork in the Enterprise: Past, “Agile” Present and FutureJoachim Fuchs, Solution Engineer, Atlassian
16:15 – 16:30 Track: LeadershipFailure: The Foundation for Success
Vesko Kolev, Vice President, Product, Developer Tooling, Progress
16:30 – 16:50 Track: AI and Deep TechAI and The Future of WorkIgor Ilic, Senior Data Scientist, Microsoft
16:50 – 17:10Track: AI and Deep TechAI, Mobile and the Digital Evolution of TravelJoost Ouwerkerk, Co-founder and CTO, Hopper
17:10– 17:30Track: BlockchainBuilding The Trust Layer Of The Internet: What Does It Take Nigel Clark, Senior Vice President of Partners and Industries, Hedera Hashgraph
17:30 – 17:45 Track: Innovation, Entrepreneurship, InvestmentThe 2020 Pitch Christoph Sollich, The Pitch Doctor
18:00Cocktail
Second Hall
11:00 - 12:00Learn How to Develop Chatbots Using IBM Watson AssistantAco Vidovic, Ecosystem Advocacy Group Leader, IBM Central & Eastern Europe
Summary:In this session you will learn basics on how you can develop a chatbot using IBM Watson Assistant tool. The presentation will be followed by a live demo in which we will build a simple chatbot of your choice together.
14:00 - 14.45Startup Competition Moderator: Christoph Sollich, The Pitch Doctor
14:45 - 15:00 What You Wanted to Ask to VC, But Never Did/Dared to Ask
Moderator: Ieva Upeniece, Head of Partnerships, Baltic Sandbox
15:00 - 15:45Startup CompetitionModerator: Christoph Sollich, The Pitch Doctor
16:00 - 17:00 Psychological Insights to Engage, Influence & Gain Trust with Your Audience
Peter Hopwood, Global Speaker Coach, Founder of Hopwood Communications
Summary: A compact speaking and non-verbal skills masterclass to create more impact. Takeaway psychological insights to sound, engage, influence and deliver as a professional – someone who wants to communicate well both in front of a crowd and – on camera. Valuable practical voice, presence and body language techniques to boost credibility, influence and speak more confidently. Ultimately - gain more trust with your audience.
Main Hall
09:00 - 9:45 Networking Coffee
9:45 – 10:15Track: BlockchainThe Future of Programmable Money (followed by Q&A session)
Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Author. Coder. Entrepreneur
10:15 – 10:30 Track: BlockchainThe Convergence Stack: Crypto Assets + Blockchain + IoT + AIJamie Burke, Founder and CEO, Outlier Ventures
10:30 – 10:50 Track: BlockchainInvestment Challenges in Blockchain Technology Saeed Hareb Al Darmaki, Managing Director, Alphabit Digital Currency Fund
Jamie Burke, Founder and CEO, Outlier Ventures
Nikola Stojanow, Chief business development officer, Aeternity
Lyuben Belov, Founding Partner, LAUNCHub Ventures
Moderator: Tone Vays, Content Creator, Derivatives Trader & Consultant
10:50 – 11:05 Track: BlockchainScaling Cryptocurrencies via Offchain ProtocolsPatrick McCorry, Assistant Professor at King's College London/Chief Scientist at PISA Research
Interviewer: Michael Nye, Content Creator and Educator, Evolvement
11:05 – 11:20Track: BlockchainPutting Blockchain to WorkChris Chabot, Director of Developer Relations at R3
11:20 – 11:40Track: BlockchainBlockchain’s Adoption Challenge Is a Human Problem, Not Technical Maja Vujinovic, Founder and CEO, OGroup
Interviewer: Ton Van't Noordende, Deeptech Investor, 01ventures
11:40 – 11:55Track: BlockchainSecurity Token Offerings: Tokenized Securities and the Future of Investment Ethan Pierse, Director, CryptoAssets Institute
11:55 - 12:10Track: BlockchainBanking in a Tokenized World Antoni Trenchev, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Nexo
12:10 – 13:00 Lunch break
13:00 – 13:15Track: FintechBanking for Mobile People
Lauri Haav, Head of International Expansion, Monese Ltd.
Interviewer: Stanislav Ivanov, Founding Partner, Tera Ventures
13:15 – 13:30Track: Innovation, Entrepreneurship, InvestmentFrom Space Software Design to VC InvestmentsAlexander "Sasha" Galitsky, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Almaz Capital
Interviewer: Adeo Ressi, Founder and CEO, Founder Institut
13:30 - 13:45Track: Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Investment Bulgaria: A Scaling Tech HubDarren Staufer, Sales and Business Development, Dealroom.co
13:45- 14:00 Track: Innovation, Entrepreneurship, InvestmentFrom the Oscar Towards the Next Big Tech Success Story in BulgariaPeter Mitev, Co-Founder and CEO, Chaos Group
Interviewer: Mike Butcher, Editor-at-Large, TechCrunch
14:00 - 14:20Track: Innovation, Entrepreneurship, InvestmentCEE Unicorns Perspectives - It is Happening Guillaume Fournier, Investor, Credo Ventures
Apostolos Apostolakis, Co-founder, VentureFriends
Hristo Stoyanov, Regional Mandate Manager, EIF
Moderator: Sebastien Toupy, The Startup Guy at The Next Web
14:20 - 14:35Track: Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Investment Sales for Startups: Lessons from Silicon ValleyMarvin Liao, Partner and Head of SF Accelerator, 500 Startups
14:35 - 14:50 Track: Innovation, Entrepreneurship, InvestmentTrends in Crowdfunding-Based Fundraising
Pascal Condamine, Project Evangelist Europe, IndieGogo
14:50 - 15:10Track: Innovation, Entrepreneurship, InvestmentFinding Your Purpose Through EntrepreneurshipAdeo Ressi, Founder and CEO, Founder Institute
15:10 - 15:35Coffee Break
15:35 - 15:50Track: Innovation, Entrepreneurship, InvestmentThe Growth Path of the Local Startup EcosystemKamen Slavov, Head of Financial Instruments, Fund of Funds
Interviewer: Zlatolina Mukova, General Partner, NEVEQ
15:50 - 16:05Track: AI and Deep techPractical AI, the Way That AI is Improving Our Lives in Very Unimaginable, Yet Seamless Ways Troy Malone, Vice President of Global Production, All Turtles
16:05 - 16:20Track: AI and Deep tech Innovation for Next Level Home Security
Alex Pachikov, Founder and CEO, Sunflower Labs
Interviewer: Stewart Rogers, Venturebeat
16:20 - 16:40Track: Innovation, Entrepreneurship, InvestmentThe London VC Scene Volker Hirsch, Partner, Amadeus Capital
Mira Mihaylova, Principal, Piton Capital
Hussein Kanji, Founding Partner, Hoxton Ventures
Dr. Ilian Iliev, Managing Director of EMV Capital
Moderator: Mike Butcher, Editor-at-Large, TechCrunch
16:40 - 17:10Startup Competition: Final Pitch and Winners Announced
Second Hall
9:45 - 10:45 Inbound PR: 8 Steps to Running a Successful CampaignIliyana Stareva, Global Partner Program Manager, HubSpot
Summary: Inbound PR is the handbook that can transform your agency’s business. Content is the name of the game now, and PR agencies must be able to prove their worth or risk being swept under with obsolete methods. Inbound PR provides critical guidance for PR growth in the digital era, complete with a practical framework for stimulating that growth.
11:00 - 12:00 Women in Entrepreneurship: What Changed After #MetooNina Nikolic, Co-founder, Startup Macedonia
Alexandra Hadzhiyska, Global Marketing Manager, PayU
Milena Nikolova, Director of Knowledge and Education, ATTA
Elina Zheleva, Managing Partner and Director, LaunchLabs Sofia
Mirela Yordanova, Community Engagement Manager, Google for Startups
Moderator: Max Gurvits, Entrepreneur and Investor
Introduction to Bitcoin and Open Blockchain13:00 - 14:00Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Author. Coder. Entrepreneur
15:00 - 16:00 Better Visibility, Predictability and Collaboration with Agile Solutions. Equip Your Enterprise with AgileCraft & Jira
Joachim Fuchs, Solution Engineer, Atlassian
Summary: For modern businesses visibility and predictability are key for success and to stay ahead of the competition. To achieve that, especially with agile development, you need to scale your business initiatives with execution. And also scaling teams to next level is essential. AgileCraft and Jira will support that approach with ease.
Target Audience: Project Manager, PMOs, Business Leader
Take Aways: How to close the gap between strategy and execution; How to scale agility for your portfolio and your teams
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SOFIA EVENT CENTER
1407 Sofia, Bulgaria
Address: Cherni Vrah Blvd 100,
Paradise Center, Floor 3
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