A quiet week in Copenhagen, but Helsingborg and Elsinore make up for it with the first ever truly Oresund based event: Oresund Startup Weekend, 54 hours of innovation and education on the high seas. Don’t miss out!
Copenhagen
Thursday October 23rd
ITU Innovators – Startup Stories
3:30 pm – 5:30 pm, @ Design Lab, IT University of Copenhagen
Visti Kløft, an ITU Innovators Alumni who recently left Tradeshift to co-found Timebird, will narrate his Startup Story.
Meet your Technical Co-Founder
6:30 pm – 9.30 pm @ Drivr HQ, Jagtvej 111B
10 founders have 1 minute and 30 seconds to pitch to a crowd of rare and extremely popular technical skilled persons.
Friday October 24th
Silicon Drinkabout
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm, location tbd
Kick it after a long week with like-minded spirits!
Friday – Saturday, October 24th-26th
Oresund Startup Weekend
3:30 pm – 10:00 pm, @ sea – between Helsingør and Helsingborg
For once, an Øresund event that actually takes place in the Öresund! You never knew how far you could get in 54-hours before Startup Weekend. The famous startup event will take place on a ship sailing between Denmark and Sweden, in which 120 people will join to turn a dozen or so ideas that they come up with into startups. Price is between €50-70
Malmö
Monday October 20th
AW Seminar Scaling globally with payments
4:00 pm – 6:30 pm, @ Foo Café, Stora Varvsgatan 6a
Klas Bäck, GM International and Payment Strategy at Braintree, will lead “a conversation about the future of payments and going global”. Braintree supplies Airbnb, Fab, LivingSocial, OpenTable and Uber with payment solutions, so he probably knows a thing or two on the subject.
Nerds Talk Finance
7.00 pm – 10.00 pm, @ Saltimporten
#MalmoStartups and Braintree invites to a dinner and discussion on how technology changes the future of finance with some of the finest fintech entrepreneurs of Øresund.
Tuesday October 21st
Malmö Droid Asynchronous execution in Android
4:30 pm – 7:00 pm, @ Foo Café, Stora Varvsgatan 6a
Anders Göransson, author of “Efficient Android Threading”, will lead a discussion on “the must-know-things of Androids Linux thread handling and the pros, cons and pitfalls of the asynchronous mechanisms”. Anders will focus on “improving application responsiveness and how to choose the best technique for background task execution.” Go get your geek on, people.
Thursday October 23rd
Seminar with Anders Frankel (Petra)
8:30 am – 10:00 am, @Minc I Sverige AB, Anckargripsgatan 3
Anders Frankel, serial entrepreneur and founder of Apsis will fill you in on how he built Apsis without external funding and share his thoughts as how companies in different phases may use marketing automation.
Friday October 24th
CreativeMornings Letter Boy talks about Crossover
7:00 am – 8:00 am, @ Foo Café, Stora Varvsgatan 6a
Peter Liedberg aka Letter Boy, is an art director and graphic designer. He will lead this month’s edition of the breakfast lecture series for the creative community.
Google Glass, Oculus Rift and Wearables – An Overview
9:00 am – 10:00 am, @ Minc I Sverige AB, Anckargripsgatan 3
This session will examine Google Glass, Oculus Rift and Moto 360 and discuss different uses. There will be plenty of time to test all three devices.
Helsingborg
Tuesday October 21st
Guerilla Office #guerillaoffice (ENG/SWE)
8:00 am – 5:00 pm, @ Mindpark, Bredgatan 11
Show up. Work. It’s that simple.
OpenLab – Come and create stuff!
5:00 pm – 8:00 pm, @ Creativelab, Mindpark, Bredgatan 11
No registration needed, just turn up and make something cool.
LUCK-konceptet i Startups (SWE/ENG)
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm, @ CreativeLab Bredgatan 11
A presentation on the LUCK concept which has quickly swept through Sweden.
Have we missed anything? Let us know!
