Below is our Agenda for the 3rd December 2021 UPPSTART ONLINE happening virtually again this year after our huge success from last year! We’ll be running 20+ content tracks with tons of amazing speakers and investors from across the world. Keep checking back here for new sessions and you can follow us on Facebook or Twitter for updates. All times are in Central European Time (CET)
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Introduction to UPPSTART ONLINE 2021
The official kick off for UPPSTART 2021 with a rundown of the days activities by founder & CEO Jason Dainter
Live Virtual Breathing Session with Hale
Take part in a live breathing class to kick off your UPPSTART experience with Hale’s co-founders.
Random Networking
Get paired up with someone randomly at UPPSTART in speed networking style.
Metaverse Networking
Enter our metaverse Uppstart.World and in the Networking Space you will find a dedicated Networking Room all day to meet other attendees in a unique 2D form.
Drop In Breathwork Coaching at Hale Center
Our resident breathing gurus at Hale will be present all day in a specially designed 2D interactive breathing area, Hale Center, found in UPPSTART.World in the Startup Showcase area.
Workshop: How To Do PR Like a Silicon Valley Unicorn
A workshop from a silicon valley PR guru that would normally cost you 1000 USD per hour teaching you how to do PR like the big boys and girls.
Learn the Ins and Outs of PR in this interactive workshop
UPPSTART.World Startup Showcase
Come and meet a load of exciting startups, hear what they are doing and speak to their founding teams. Takes place in a unique interactive 2D experience in the UPPSTART.World Startup Showcase.
What VCs REALLY Mean When They Say No! – And What To Do About It
Has a VC ever told you no? Be honest! In this fun fireside VCs will share some of the candid truths behind what that rejection really meant, and how you can handle it in the best way.
Increasing Profits by Investing In The Planet
A fireside discussion with Nathan and Sacha emphasizing how the promotion of eco-friendly practices in your company can positively impact your revenues, not just the planet.
Transferring Financial Risk from Creator to Distributor
Uncover more about the battle musicians face against large labels for a fairer pay share from Epidemic Sound Chief of Music Niklas Brantberg.
Using Neurofeedback to Boost Your Startup’s Productivity
Mendi Founder Moha Bensofia covers how real time neurofeedback could be a valuable tool for startup founders.
Q&A & Speaker Hangout
Come and hang out with all of our world class speakers in a fun interactive in-browser 2D metaverse called UPPSTART.World! Perfect for Q&A’s or to build a truly world class network in just 1 day!
The Millennial Disruption to Fintech is Here To Stay
Learn about the impact the FinTech revolution has made on investing and how this has affected startups.
Achieve More By Working Less
Learn the productivity hacks and routines of top 1% performers for a more satisfying work/life balance.
How is Technology Making Fashion More Sustainable
How is technology impacting the future of the fashion industry? Our expert panelists have a lot to say about this, and will share learnings and insights into the opportunities ahead for entrepreneurs in this space.
How Should You Think About Branding as a Startup
Why is branding so important for startups? What can be gained from authentic branding? And how do we do it without breaking the bank?!
Digital Finance for the Next Billion
Underdeveloped countries such as Mozambique, Zambia and Uganda represent the next billion users for many companies. Learn about how the digital finance sector is disrupting these markets.
Impact Startup Showcase: Prime Computer
Showcase from CEO of Prime Computer, a fast-growing hardware company that produces mini-pcs and servers that helps companies to improve Sustainable Development Goals.
Creating a B2B Saas Pricing Model That Works
90% of B2B companies don’t know how to price themselves. Uncover the art of getting this right for your startup.
When The Food Supply Chain Goes Blockchain
How can the blockchain turn the global food supply chain on its head? And what opportunities does this provide?
How To Form a Kick Ass Founding Team
Forming a strong founding team can be the make or break to your startup. Hear from an experienced entrepreneur and investor on how to approach this.
Impact Startup Showcase: War on Cancer
A short pitch from War on Cancer founder Fabian Bolin, including his inspiring life story, and how the impactful startup came about.
How Larger Institutions Manage Their Digital Assets
Christopher May, Founder @ Series A funded startup Finoa covers the often undocumented about process behind how larger organisations go about handling their digital assets.
Dealing with the Highs and Lows of Startup Life – Is It For Me?
How to cope with the demands that emerge with becoming a founder and how keep your own well-being in mind whilst riding the roller-coaster of startup of running a startup.
Uppsala Startup Showcase: MG Sustainable Engineering
Hear a short punchy showcase talk from Uppsala Startup MG Sustainable Engineering.
Never Hustle! Taking It Down A Notch To Sell Your Solution
Hustle! Hustle! Hustle! We hear this a lot in startup world, but Dennis Birkolzer from SpinLab is here to tell you why this may not be a silver bullet, and what to do instead.
Workshop: Raising Funding For Your Startup in 4 Steps
Navin Thukkaram, with $3 billion in exits under his belt, will guide you through how to raise funding in this interactive workshop format.
Creating The Young Programmers of Tomorrow
Exciting and inspiring young girls about programming is an important mission. In this fireside you can hear how several startup founders are taking action on this, and what you can do to help.
A Framework to Scale Across Series A to C
Learn the ins and outs of how to scale startup funding with someone who’s been there and done that!
How To Blow Away VCs at Seed Stage
A question every seed stage startup founder raising money needs to know, how do you blow away VCs and subsequently get funded. With and epic panelists from Forbes, XY and Spintop Ventures.
Uppsala Startup Showcase: BrightAct
A showcase pitch on about the interesting and impactful work BrightAct does to fight against domestic violence globally.
Don’t Build Yet Another Social App! – Building Things For Those In Need
Is building the next instagram-like app the most important challenge we humans need to solve? Germán has some thoughts on that (spoiler: the answer is no). How can we truly make social impact, without having to use advanced technologies? Join Germán Bencci to find out more.
Building a Real Life Star Trek Food Replicator
Join us to learn more about the revolution of 3D food printing, what impact it has on the environment, and the exciting future that’s ahead for FoodTech!
How Does Your Startup Become Truly Data-Driven?
What does it mean to be a data-driven startup? And how can you become one?
Uppsala Startup Showcase: Tvinn
Hear more about the work Tvinn are doing to improve sustainability in a range of solutions.
Workshop: The Scaling School: A Co-Creation Workshop
A practical workshop on how to scale as a startup. Helpful for anyone looking to scale, or those currently scaling.
Uppsala Startup Showcase: Housecar
Listen to this short punchy showcase pitch by the Founder and CEO of Housecar, and how they are bringing the joy of motorhomes back to all travelers.
How and Why Supermarkets are Embracing Startups
Find out how startups can leverage big supermarkets with this rare insight from ICA’s innovation arm ICAx.
Workshop: Turning Your Vision Into a Business
An interactive workshop in our 2D world UPPSTART.world for new or soon to be entrepreneurs, solopreneurs or intrepreneurs on going from vision/idea to company.
Unexpected Ways AI Can Solve Tough Problems
AI is a term thrown around a lot these days, but how can it solve tough problems. How can it think creatively? Jarno Kartela will explain exactly that.
How Can We Accelerate Autonomous Mobility in Europe
Learn more about the main driving forces behind the growth of autonomous mobility in Europe and what this means for start-ups in the coming years.
The Future Is Fraudulent – And What To Do About It
Uncover how you can protect yourself as Fraud grows more advanced. Learn how developers, programmers, and consumers can always stay one step ahead.
How to Get Journalists To Actually Publish Your News!
Discover all the best ways to get your news in front of the world’s best journalists and published for their audiences!
Creative Blockchain Applications to Solve Real World Problems: Carbon Emissions Removal
How we can leverage blockchain technology to revolutionize Carbon Emissions Removal.
The Secret Sauce for Funded FoodTech Startups
A fireside chat on opportunities in the food tech space through the eyes of a VC very active in FoodTech.
Putting the Patient First with User-Centered Design
A unique perspective on how user-centered design, and putting patients at the forefront of healthcare decision-making, could be disruptive to the industry.
The Best Ways To Boost Your Ecommerce Conversion Rates
A practical pragmatic keynote on how to boost e-commerce conversions with lessons learned from top brands.
Ritual Design: Crafting Meaningful Experiences
Ritual design is about being intentful in crafting meaningful experiences.
A great ritual is embedded with meaning going beyond, a routine, a checklist, or a habit.
Stockholm Business Alliance Showcase: Gokind
A brief pitch from Gokind, the banking app who makes it easy and affordable to live more sustainably.
Founder Stories: Tahero Nori (The Buddy Company)
See Tahero’s entrepreneurial journey on how he has built up The Buddy Company to become a company with over 100,000 customers across Europe.
Investing in Sustainable Impact (Private Focus Group)
This private focus group / think tank led by Uppsala City gathers together thought leaders within the impact investing space for a private discussion around the wider topic. A public Q&A follows directly after.
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Wolfgang Lehmacher
Executive Advisor
Wolfgang Lehmacher
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Lennaert Jonkers
Venture Partner
Social Impact Capital
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Ann Molin
Founder
Hack for Earth Foundation
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Åsa Minoz
Innovation Strategist
Viable Cities
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Örjan Jansson
Global Climate Innovations
WWF
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Stina Lantz
Program Manager
Ignite Sweden
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Laura Hartman
Chief Sustainability Officer
City of Uppsala
So You Want To Learn to Code? Here’s How To Go About It
An interactive workshop explaining what it takes to go from beginner to coder. A great session for founders interested in learning about how to start programming.
Stockholm Business Alliance Showcase: Nano Textile
Hear a short punchy pitch from Nano Textile CEO on how they fulfill their mission of helping nano textile companies while still remaining sustainable.
How Scaling Startups Attract Talent
Recruiting talent for you startup is hard. Jessica Stark is here to teach you how to make it easier.
The Jobs To Be Done (JTBD) Approach to Customer Needs
Learn about the JTBD framework to help you better satisfy your customer’s needs as a startup.
Stockholm Business Alliance Showcase: Hollbium
A short 10-minute showcase pitch from Hollbium who creates hydroponic micro-farms in workplaces!
The Secret to Growth is Understanding Your Customer Journeys
Learn how mapping out your customer’s journey and understanding it can lead to tremendous growth from Funneyltics CEO Mikael Dia.
Leveraging Deep Relationships to Drive Large Scale Organizational Change
How deep relationships are large industrial organisations can be leveraged to drive change.
How Big Pharma Can Benefit from Small Startups
Discover why pharmaceutical companies will miss out if they are not engaging with smaller tech start-ups and how they are already doing this.
Workshop: Discovering Who Your Customers Are
An interactive workshop summarizing the techniques you need to truly understand your customer in today’s market with an emphasis on carrying out lean launches of your startups!
The Future is Food
Technology has been disrupting all industries in recent years and the food industry is no exception. This panel will uncover some of the things happening in foodtech and what the future holds for the space.
Founder Stories: Camilla Lundin & Vendela Lilliestråle (Qalora Capital & Business & Dreams)
Camilla and Vendella, the duo behind Business and Dreams and Qalora Capital will be sharing their experiences and founder stories.
Workshop: Creating a VR Game for Beginners
The A-Z of what you need to know to create a VR game for beginners.
Stockholm Business Alliance Showcase: Refurbly
Hear the story of the work Refurbly are doing to improve sustainability in the mobile phone industry.
Workshop: Building Generative Digital Art
Get a true understanding of what it takes to build Generative Digital Art in the modern climate.
Investing in Sustainable Impact
This focus group / think tank on Investing in Sustainable Impact, led by Uppsala and Stockholm city will open up to all attendees during this session to hear leanings from the previous private session, and give a chance for an open Q&A.
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Wolfgang Lehmacher
Executive Advisor
Wolfgang Lehmacher
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Lennaert Jonkers
Venture Partner
Social Impact Capital
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Ann Molin
Founder
Hack for Earth Foundation
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Åsa Minoz
Innovation Strategist
Viable Cities
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Örjan Jansson
Global Climate Innovations
WWF
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Stina Lantz
Program Manager
Ignite Sweden
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Laura Hartman
Chief Sustainability Officer
City of Uppsala
Using SEO to Grow A Startup From Scratch
SEO is a quick, cost-efficient way to improve the performance of your marketing. Learn from a growth guru on how to do this.
Why Your Startup Needs a Brand Identity
What actually is a brand? What are most startups doing wrong, and how can they get their brand right from the very first day?
Stockholm Business Alliance Showcase: Hempster Sweden
Hear a short pitch from Hempster Sweden and how they create impact through hemp-based dairy product innovations.
How The #NewWork Trend is Disrupting EdTech
Ever heard of #NewWork? Find out more about the trend and the impact it’s having on EdTech.
The First 5 Million: How To Leverage Community To Scale
Hear the awesome story of how Saasha Celestial-One scaled Olio from 0 to 5 million users in a very short space of time, and practical insights on how you can do the same by leveraging a community.
Big Company Recruiting on a Startup Budget
What do the big players in tech know about recruitment that smaller startups don’t? Here you will find out.
Building XR Ecosystems in East Africa
Hear the story of how a government-funded incubator space in East Africa for XR tech arose after just a simple tweet about the movement was sent.
Founder Stories: Martina Klingvall (Telness)
Hear the story of Martina Klingvall , co-founder and CEO of Telness who was been disrupting the B2B telco space.
The Future of Farming is In The Air
The vertical farming industry is a fast growing space within the FoodTech movement. Learn about its future.
Stockholm Business Alliance Showcase: Green Assets Wallet
A short 10-minute showcase pitch from Green Assets Wallets who creates blockchain powered green asset wallets.
Creating the Best Destination for Impact Investing and Startups
Hear about how Stockholm Business Alliance thinks about creating an ecosystem to attract the most ambitious impact founders and investors from all the world.
The Character of a Brand
Renown speaker and CEO of design company Sylvain, Alain Sylvain will be talking about how brands are characterized today and how it might be time for a new approach.
5 Ways to Design Emotion in EdTech
How can you design your EdTech products to be more emotional? And what benefits does this bring?
Generation Tik Tok: What You Need To Know
Tik Tok guru Amélie Ebongué explains what you need to know about using this hugely popular social network as a marketing tool for younger audiences.
Why Bitcoin is Greener Than You Might Think
A hot topic! Is Bitcoin bad for the environment? Our expert panel will provide some insights into how it may be greener than you might have heard.
How Far Are We From A Hyperreal Metaverse (And What The Heck Is It!)
Mike Butcher (Editor at Large @ Techcrunch) interviews the founder of Metaphysics.ai (who famously created the Tom Cruise Deep Fake) and Ilya Gelfenbeyn of Inworld AI, talking about the future of the metaverse and how close we are to “hyper-reality”.
Founder Stories: Louise Fritjofsson (Martie)
Serial entrepreneur Louise Fritjofsson is back with a new exciting impact startup, “Martie”. Tune in to hear about her entrepreneurial journey and path that led her to this new company.
Lessons from 13 Unicorns on How To Create Billion Dollar Ventures for Good
Forbes contributor (and 30 under 30) Diana Tsai, after having interviewed 13 billion dollar impact unicorns, is here to share learnings on what it takes and how you can follow in their footsteps.
The Rise of Intelligent Learning Platforms
What are the most important aspects of intelligent learning platforms? And how does the future of E-Learning look?
Data Portraits: Turning Data into Design
What is a data portrait? And why does it matter?
Lessons Learned from Turning Chile into A Startup Hotspot
Learn about Rocio’s contribution to the industry 4.0 revolution in Chile and how she helped to make Chile a startup hotspot in this session.
Sales is About the Mindset and Accepting a Lot of NOs
Jan Ameri CEO at ArcticStartup talks about turning a no into a yes, and how he did exactly that with celebrity investor Gary Vaynerchuk
PitchUP 2021
Our annual pitching competition is back! 10 startups (5 early stage) will do 2 minute fast-paced pitches and by live audience vote a winner will be selected at the end!
How to Make VR That Changes The World
Best practices for creating impactful virtual reality experiences.
How To Get More Signups Without More Marketing
Getting more people who are eager to sign up for your product or service is tough but without marketing? Almost impossible. But listen in to hear why Georgiana thinks that isn’t always the case.
Is Education a Market Worth Chasing?
What opportunities are there in education that technology adoption has created?
Blending the Physical and Digital Worlds
Tina Touli (who has worked with tech giants such as Adobe, Dell, HP & Dropbox) discusses the important transition between the digital and physical worlds, and why it matters in Design.
Pub Quiz
By popular request, our virtual pub quiz format is back at our after events! With a tech startup theme and prizes to be won, the fastest answer wins!
Virtual Wine Tasting!
A live virtual wine tasting with a sprinkling of comedy with our top sommelier Laurie Foster. Takes place in our virtual UPPSTART.World experience (purchase wines ahead for full experience!)
Late Night Hangout
After a packed day of activities, we’ll be leaving our 2D UPPSTART.World platform open all night for you to mingle away until the early hours. Enjoy!
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