PROFIS Final Event

An international startup competition and investor forum will be held on Dec 2nd & 3rd in Budapest by Bay Zoltán Nonprofit Kft and its partners. Invited to the competition are the most promising South East Europe (SEE) region startups as the forum is the closing event of the EU SEE program supported PROFIS (Promotion of Financing Innovation in South-East Europe) project, whose aim is the further development of the SEE region early-funding opportunites for startups.

The investor forum will include the presentation of the competition winners, the best startup idea as selected by the competition jury panel made up of investment and innovation experts. Both events are open to the public. Participation is free of charge but registration is necessary. If you would like to attend one or both events please register.

Parking is possible at the car park under Ó utca 43., referring to Medosz Hotel as they have a discount.

About the program:

2nd December:

14.00 –

Registration

14:00-17:00

SEE Innovation Competition - Final

3rd December:

9:30– 10:00

Registration

10:00-10:20

Opening: Mr. Endre Spaller, president, National Innovation Office, Hungary (invited speaker)

10:20-10:45

The PROFIS project: an initiative for the promotion of Financing Innovation in South-East Europe Katalin Kurucz, BZN

10:45-11:10

Key issues of early stage financing in South East Europe. Results of a cross-country analysis. Report tabling by Tibor Dőry, SZE

11:10-11:25

Questions and answers General discussion on the report and overall results of PROFIS

11:25-11:40

Coffee break

11:40-12:45

Round table with the winners of the South-East European Innovation Competition regarding financing and development of innovation

12:45- 13:30

Lunch

13:15- 13:50

Press conference Selected project representatives and guests, SIC winners

13:50-14:15

The experiences of the national & international innovation competitions Ms Kristina Ober, Technology Park Ljubljana

14:15-14:40

A web-based tool to enhance investment into Innovation Mr. Peter Linhardt, Inova, Slovakia

14:40-15:00

About the European Unitary Patent Dr. József Tálas, Managing partner Sár and Partners Attorneys at Law (invited speaker)

15:00-15:30

Venture capital investments in South East Europe Mr. Török József, Széchenyi Tőkealap-kezelő Zrt. (Invited speaker)

15.30-16.00

Wrap up & Final questions and answers

About PROFIS:

PROFIS aims at developing new capacities and capabilities in the SEE region to facilitate early stage funding of innovative projects of both individual inventors and spin-off or start-up companies. New services will be developed, introduced and tested at non-profit intermediary organisations which are active in the field of innovation promotion at regional level.

More can be found at - http://www.profisproject.eu/