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The digital transformation festival of Eastern Europe. 

iCEE fest first started as a team back in 2009 as RoNewMedia – a local event held in Bucharest, Romania -, that later evolved and became a regional festival as iCEE.fest (2012) and, starting 2019, UPGRADE 100.

MY-GATEWAY team will be there with startups from Romania (of course!), Slovenia and Czech Republic. During the 2 days of the event we'll be organising the third and last Access2Finance conference.

Conference on accessing finance in Slovenia. Two days full of interesting speakers who will give us an overview of what programmes are available to accelerate your startup and scaleup. 

We are connecting 1000+ brilliant startups, investors, corpos and other stakeholders with global minds and leaders and serving as an effective platform for investing in the most promising startups from the region.

Are you looking for appropriate subsidies, financial and other SME instruments as a funding option to open your horizons?Then come to our Access 2 finance workshop which is organized as a side event of Startup World Cup & Summit in Prague by CzechInvest within MY-GATEWAY project. Highly welcomed are all promising start-ups, innovative SMEs and "funding suppliers" as banks, investors and other relevant stakeholders.

Please, register here: https://goo.gl/5acM5r

Please, note that the programme is subject to change, and will be updated continuously up to the workshop.

On April 4-5, 2019, Serbia will be hosting the second Western Balkans Digital Summit (#DSWB) in Belgrade, at the Palace of Serbia.

The Summit will bring together representatives of governments, businesses, regional organizations, CSOs, academic community and the youth, with the aim of setting up a digital platform for the exchange of ideas and proposals.

Krisztina Toth, Europa Media, and Sara Lerota, Spark Accelerator, will be there to discuss a new set of policy recommendations to improve the Western Balkan entrepreneurial situation.

We'll be at Startup Olé with a delegation of 19 startups from the CEE countries. 10 startups have been given the possibility to pitch at the event. Come and meet them if you're there!

Get inspired by technology leaders. Learn about European funding opportunities directly from Brussels, including programs to support startups (Startup Europe, European Innovation Council, Digital Innovation Hubs, EIT Digital). Learn how you can change the tech game.