Cool tech events worth attending

There’s a lot of cool events currently held in Bratislava, Vienna and other AT, SK cities. Today, I would like to point out a few of them that might be of interest for entrepreneurs and startup enthusiasts.

Startupcamp.sk events

These events are dedicated to provide a place for networking, startup pitches, and investor meetups and to educate the community by inviting speakers with presentations that it might have interest in. Local Startupcamp meetups are currently organized:

• monthly in Bratislava (by Radovan Grezo and Matej Ftacnik) – 100 – 200 attendees
• monthly in Kosice (Marek Kuzma) – about 40 attendees
• bimonthly in Piestany (Zuzana Urbanova) – roughly 20 attendees
• proposal to host in Zilina (Frantisek Milec)

For more information, videos, posts and info regarding startupcamp, go to startupcamp.sk

STARTeurope.at events

STARTeurope is an entrepreneurial organization based in Vienna. They organise startup events called STARTup Live. The list of STARTup Live events held:

• STARTup Live Vienna (27.5-29.5.2011) – there is still time to register. STARTeurope has asked me to be one of the mentors for the participating startups! It’s a huge privilege and responsibility to be a mentor at an event like this and I am really grateful for this opportunity. More info here.
• STARTup Week Vienna (03.10-07.10.2011) – one of the biggest Startup oriented events in Central Europe. A week full of valuable information, great speakers and helpful mentors. www.startupweek2011.at

Barcamp.sk events

Barcamp is an international network of user-generated open conferences on which the attendees become speakers. It is a meeting of people that was created from the need for sharing and for learning in an open environment. The main goal of these conferences are not only presentations and demos but mainly the discussions and the cooperation on the speaker with the audience. The next barcamp will be:

• Barcamp Zilina (28.5.2011) – it’s going to be filled with exceptional speakers and great people, so be sure to come and see. I believe there is still some free space and there are buses beeing organized from Bratislava and Kosice for free for the participants. More info at www.barcamp.sk

Other events

There are also other conferences and events organized (e.g. TEDx, OpenCoffee, Forwarders.sk, EnglishCoffee, Rubyslava, CloudCoffee and some “professional” conferences from exponet.cz or itapa.sk) but today I wanted to introduce to you my personal favorite ones that are useful and beneficial for startups. If I have forgotten about some events, let me know in the comments.