Fit 4 Start Spring edition 2019: Pitching & Graduation Day

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Pitching day for start-ups participating in the 8th edition of the Fit 4 Start programme

Are you ready? It’s time for a day full of intense pitching, inspirational start-up ideas and innovative projects! The most promising applicants of the Fit 4 Start Spring 2019 call will pitch their start-up businesses and compete for a place on the programme. At the end of the day, the jury will select and announce the next 10 participants of the 8th edition of Fit 4 Start.

Graduation night of Fit 4 Start

The ICT and HealthTech start-ups of Fit 4 Start #7 went through four months of intensive coaching, and were challenged every day by lean start-up experts. Developing a MVP, carrying out a customer discovery and testing the market-fit of their product are just some of the lessons the start-ups learned during the acceleration programme. Successful start-ups will present their progress and receive their Fit 4 Start diploma. Come and celebrate with them and the Luxembourg start-up community!

Agenda

PITCHING DAY

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GRADUATION NIGHT

18:00 | Registration
18:30 | Welcome note – Étienne Schneider, Deputy Prime Minister
18:45 | Keynote speech – Polina Montano, Co-Founder & COO at Job Today
19:15 | Alumni testimonials – Kevin Muller, Co-founder & CEO at Passbolt / Tom Michels, Co-Founder & CEO at Salonkee
19:30 | Graduation ceremony
20:00 | Announcement of the selected candidates
20:30 | Networking cocktail

Venue

How to get there?

From the airport:

with the bus line 16 (bus stop Kirchberg, Poutty Stein) which takes 9 minutes.
with the taxi which takes 7 minutes.

From the Luxembourg city train station:

with the bus line 195 (bus stop Kirchberg, Poutty Stein) which takes 14 minutes.
with the taxi which takes 16 minutes.

Please note that taxis can be expensive in Luxembourg.
You can plan your bus trip and check the schedule on www.mobiliteit.lu.

Keynote speaker

Polina Frolova Montano is a co-founder and Head of Global PR and Brand Marketing at JOB TODAY, Europe’s leading mobile hiring app that helps businesses find staff in 24 hours.

Since launch in 2015, the company’s apps delivered over 100 million candidate applications.
The company has attracted over four hundred thousand businesses to the platform as well as VC funding from the world-class investors such as Accel.
Polina has succeeded where most have failed in reinventing of a 400 USD billion recruitment industry. As a co-founder of JOB TODAY, she’s been tenacious in uncovering customer needs and bringing a team together that created pioneering mobile recruitment products.

Polina holds a Masters degree in Entrepreneurship and Innovation from the University of Luxembourg and a Bachelor of Business Administration Degree from High Economical School of Amsterdam.

Polina speaks fluently Dutch, English, French, Russian ( her mother tongue), Spanish and Italian. As a serial entrepreneur, a working mother of two girls, a world-traveler fluent in six languages, Polina inspires so many people around her.

Polina is an accomplished and passionate public speaker and has represented her own story and that of JOB TODAY in TV interviews and at international events and conferences including WebSummit, NOAH Conference, Pioneer’s Festival, ICMA 2018, and more.

Accommodation close to the venue

Meliá Luxembourg

Novotel Luxembourg Kirchberg

Sofitel Luxembourg Europe

Testimonial

"As an impact investor looking for innovative solutions for worlds most pressing issues, the concept of a pitch event with those enthusiast candidates, combined with the high level network opportunity, is a nice way of getting dealflow, spotting trends and building connections"

Piet Colruyt