Venture Day Minsk goes global! For a reason... To discover and connect thousands of talented Belarusians around the globe.
You will be surprised how many talented Belarusians are making change globally as tech entrepreneurs, investors and tech professionals.
A Belarusian building a tech unicorn, a Belarusian investing in ClubHouse, a Belarusian working for Google, a Belarusian building the best US company for employees, a Belarusian changing the global VC ecosystem, Belarusians from Belarus, Europe, America, Australia, Asia - all this is real and all of them are at one platform called VDM Goes Global.
Belarus is not simply a territory,
it is a community of like minded people wherever they are based aspiring to build a true startup nation, advanced digital society which shares values of freedom, entrepreneurial ambition and mutual support.
Investor at founders.ai, Founder and CEO @ Narrative BI
Sergey Osipov
Head of The Agency of Wargaming
Mikita Mikado
CEO of PandaDoc
Alexandra Lamachanka
Senior Marketing Technology Specialist at Depop
Violetta Chekan
VC Investor at 200M fund and Social Innovation Fund
Yury Melnichek
Partner/Co-Founder
Bulba Ventures
Ihar Mahaniok
Engineering Leader
at WeWork
Daria Reutovich
Operations Director
@ Rockstar
Ihar Mahaniok
Engineering Leader
at WeWork
Ihar Mahaniok
Engineering Leader
at WeWork
Agenda
Agenda
Full Agenda
Inspiring people
Current Needs
Future
Youtube
Deal room
Clubhouse
Killer Feature:
You may organize rooms on your own and invite everybody from the Venture Day Minsk community.
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Welcome Speech
11:00-11:05
Opening Keynote
11:05-11:30
Official Opening
Inspiring People
A Story of Prominent Belarusians from Australia
11:30-11:50
A Story of Prominent Belarusians from S.Korea
11:50-12:10
Interview with Keynote Speaker
12:10-12:40
Rework, let's be connected. What Investors Look For Right Now
12:40-13:10
Future
Inspiring People
A Story of Prominent Belarusians from Spain
13:10-13:30
A Story of Prominent Belarusians from Portugal
13:30-13:50
Current Needs
What is the Future of the Travel Industry?
13:50-14:10
Inspiring People
A Story of Prominent Belarusians from Cyprus
14:10-14:30
A Story of Prominent Belarusians from Israel
14:30-14:50
Current Needs
Startups and Civil Society
14:50-15:10
Inspiring People
A Story of Prominent Belarusians from the Netherlands
15:10-15:30
A Story of Prominent Belarusians from the UK
15:30-15:50
Current Needs
Immersion into new markets - insights from Belarusians living abroad
15:50-16:30
Inspiring People
A Story of Prominent Belarusians from the US
16:30-16:50
A Story of Prominent Belarusians from the Latin America
16:50-17:10
Closing Remarks
17:10-17:20
Closing Remarks
Pitch Session with Investors. Open MIC at Clubhouse. Afterparty
20:00-22:00
Topics
TOPICS
Inspiring People
Stories of Prominent Belarusians around the world
Belarusians investing globally
Belarusians working for top global tech companies (case of Google)
Current Needs
Immersion into new markets - insights from Belarusians living abroad
Current global trends in tech startups and VC
Startups and civil society
The Future
Best practices for new Belarus startups ecosystem
New potential from new Belarus
Global resources from Belarusians tech talent abroad
Why Venture Day Minsk?
ATTENDEES
STARTUPS
COUNTRIES
INVESTORS
Connect the Local Community to Resources around the Globe
Get Inspired By Role Models, Support and Encourage
Each Other
3000+
250+
25+
100+
Expand Your Network of International VCs
Stay Together as a Community
Share Knowledge and Tools
Learn Best International Practices for New Belarusian Ecosystem
Venture Day Minsk is the right Conference for expanding your network. Even if it is organized online it provides you with a great opportunity to make connections with the right people. The Conference will be organized at
Deal Room platform
. That means you can surf through all the registered profiles, pick up any person and connect him / her right away. We are here to give you a piece of advice how to make it more productive:
(a) prepare your short and attractive intro in 2 sentences which you will pitch starting a meeting / room
(b) prepare 1-2 specific questions to the person you connect to in order to show that you have a specific interest to a particular person
(c) resume your conversation for both of you
(d) ask how it is convenient for a contact person to continue communication. Let him/her select the most suitable source.
Pitch Session with Investors at Clubhouse
INVESTORS
Venture Day Minsk Conference opens an opportunity to network with international investors at Clubhouse (Imaguru Club). You don't need to prepare slides, get selected or follow the rules of any pitch competition. Let's break the rules! No competition, no judging, no limitations - feel free to approach our investors with 90sec pitch in the manner you get confident, ask the questions you would like to ask.
We encourage knowledge and opinion sharing. We give everybody an opportunity to get a feedback on every pitch whatever stage your startup is.
TechMinsk Spring Batch 2021 Startups will kick off Open MIC with Investors.
Join us at Clubhouse 8PM if you are a startup or investor. Invite your friends and cofounders.
And of course we open the opportunity for afterparty. We invite everybody to join Venture Day Minsk Afterparty at Clubhouse. We will start with Investors' Open MIC we mentioned above.
When all the questions are asked and all startups are pitched we invite to start a new journey. We have prepared a specific tool for you to make an afterparty fancy and valuable at the same time.
We invite you to join this journey. What do you need for that? - Get prepared. Please download our guide and let us know whether you are on.
If you are not ready to get involved into a journey just join as a listener.
"I'm excited to be at #VentureDayMinsk in well... yeah, Minsk! A ton of talented people here, (& it's home of MSQRD, later acquired by Facebook)"
Mike Butcher
TechCrunch
"The conference made a huge impression on me - I would have never imagined the Belarusian ecosystem to be so robust and lively. Thank you for inviting me to take a glimpse into the future"
Ken Singer
UC Berkeley
"It was a very intense week. We made a pitch at Venture Day Minsk, met amazing teams and even received a compliment from Editor-at-large of TechCrunch, Mike Butcher. We are ready for new challenges!"
Roopor
Startup (Kiev)
"Mr. Ken Singer's speech was incredibly useful. The lineup of Startups was outstanding: those guys surprised me with their high level of competence & lots of teams had already released projects"
Uladzimir Bernat
IBA
Reviews
"I'm excited to be at #VentureDayMinsk in well... yeah, Minsk! A ton of talented people here, (& it's home of MSQRD, later acquired by Facebook)"
Mike Butcher
TechCrunch
"The conference made a huge impression on me - I would have never imagined the Belarusian ecosystem to be so robust and lively. Thank you for inviting me to take a glimpse into the future"
Ken Singer
UC Berkeley
"It was a very intense week. We made a pitch at Venture Day Minsk, met amazing teams and even received a compliment from Editor-at-large of TechCrunch, Mike Butcher. We are ready for new challenges!"
Roopor
Startup (Kiev)
"Mr. Ken Singer's speech was incredibly useful. The lineup of Startups was outstanding: those guys surprised me with their high level of competence & lots of teams had already released projects"