How Silicon Valley can take startups to the next level

Our ambitions are high: This event will be the inspirational event of the year in the Danish Startup scene. The theme: Go global.. now!

Let's see what we've got:

As our headline guest Mikkel Svane (@mikkelsvane) joins us for an informal fireside chat. In case you don't know Mikkel is making waves in Silicon Valley as co-founder and CEO of Zendesk. They are riding high on the excitement around Enterprise 2.0 and have raised a staggering $85.000.000 from the A-list of Silicon Valley venture capitalists. Mikkel will share his experience from what has been one hell of a ride these past years.

The SCALEit program has already given 50+ exciting Danish startups a life altering introduction to the Silicon Valley ecosystem. Søren Therkelsen (@sorenrt), co-founder of SCALEit and long time pirate is now recruiting the best Danish entrepreneurs for SCALEit Ignite, a one week bootcamp taking place in Silicon Valley from December 2-6, 2013.

Henrik Bennetsen (@henrikbennetsen) is director of Health IT at Innovation Center Denmark Silicon Valley and part of the SCALEit team. Grounded in his own experience with founding startups in both Denmark and San Francisco Henrik will give a talk entitled Why Silicon Valley works for entrepreneurs.

Last but by no means least: 3 brave startups who just won a tough pitch-training day (hint: This could be you!) will give you their freshly honed startup pitch to thunderous applause!!

16:30 - 17:00 Registration and networking

17:00 - 17:05 Welcome, and thx

17:05 - 17:45 Mikkel Svane fireside chat

17:45 - 18:15 Go to the next level with SCALEit Ignite

18:15 - 18:30 Quick word from our sponsors and partners

18:30 - 19:00 Why Silicon Valley works for entrepreneurs

19:00 - 19:30 The 3 winners from Pitch Denmark

19:30 - ?? Networking & drinks with other awesome entrepreneurs

This event is proudly organized by Silicon Vikings, Connect Denmark and SCALEit.

Venue:

We're happy to announce the venue will be at Copenhagen School of Entrepreneurship, Porcelænshaven 26!

Drinks sponsor: Elance

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