EIB Innovative Enterprise 2018 | Innovative Enterprise Week Sofia 2018 | 14 June 2018 | Sofia Tech Park, 111, Tsarigradsko Shose Blvd.

The Innovative Enterprise Week Sofia 2018 raises awareness for the financial instruments, facilities and accompanying measures launched, especially under Horizon 2020 to enhance access to finance for research and innovation.

The event brings together more than 300 key stakeholders including policy-makers, financial intermediaries and representatives of the research, innovation and/or business community in order to discuss the opportunities and further needs of financial instruments fostering research and innovation.

This year, particular focus will be put on enhancing interactions between the financial instruments in place to help innovative firms access finance more easily. These include:

InnovFin – EU Finance for Innovators
COSME’s financial instruments
European Structural and Investment Funds
European Fund for Strategic Investments
European Innovation Council
Other instruments at regional, national and local level
The EIB Group will be represented by European Investment Bank Vice-President Vazil Hudak, European Investment Fund Deputy Chief Executive Roger Havenith. Our staff will be there as well to answer questions. Come and meet them at the EIB Group stand!

2018 Speakers:

Benjamin Angel
Director, Treasury and Financial Operations

Luigi Amati
Chairman of Business

Simon Barners
Director of Advisory

Sasha Bezuhanova
Founder and Chairperson

Michael Brandkamp
General Manager of the high-Tech Grunderfonds

Martin Bruncko
Founder and Managing Partner,Steam Capital

Marco Cantamessa
Professor at the Department of Management and production Engineering

Monika Morali-Majkut
Chairman of the Investment Committee

Antonio Carbone
Project Manager in Horizon

Vladimir DAnailov
CEO of Sofia investment Agency

Vasco de Oliveria Janerio
EIT Strategy, impact Analysis and Evaluation Officer

Tomislav Donchev
Deputy prime Minister of the republic of Bulgaria

Evgeni Evgeniev
Delegate of Bulgaria to the European Strategy Forum

Anne Glover
Chief Executive and Co-Founder at Amadeus Capital Partners

Julien Guerrier
Director at the Executive Agency For small and Medium-sized Enterprices

Christian Dubarry
Head of European Affairs

Shiva Dustdar
Head of Division, Innovation Finance Advisory

Javier Echarri
CEO of the European Business & Innovation Centres Network

Yordanka Fandakova
Mayor Sofia Municipality

Christian Frey
Head of Business and Innovation

Svetoslava Georgieva
Executive Director and member of the Management Board of the fund Manager

Hermann Hauser
Chair of the group of the independent High-Level Group

Roger Havenith
Deputy Chief Executive, European investment Fund

Vazil Hudak
Vice-President of the European Investment Bank

Kostadin Kostadinov
Advisor to the Minister of Education and Science

Christoph Kuhn
Director of the Mandate Management Department, European investment Bank

Gorazd Lampic
Co-Founder and CEO of Elaphe Propulsion technologies Ltd.

Laura MacDonald
General Manager at ASTP-Proton

Jean-David Malo
Director, Open Innovation and open Science, European Commision

JAmes Mawson
Founder and Editor-in-chief at Global Corporate Venturing

Carlos Moedas
European Commisioner for research, Science and Innovation

Stephan Morais
Managing General Partner at Indico Capital

Stephane Ouaki
Head of Unit, Open Innovation and open Science, DG RTD

Jean-Eric Paquet
Director-General of DG Research and Innovation

Oleg Petkov
Deputy Minister for the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union

Mathias Rauch
Head of Department "European Research Area"

Raycho Raychev
Founder and CEO of EnduroSat

Julian Revalski
President of the Bulgarian Academy of sciences

Marcel Roy
Secretary-General of the European Association of Public Banks

Milena Stoycheva
CEO of Junior Achievement Bulgaria

Vassil Terziev
Partner at Eleven Ventures

Krasimir Valchev
Minister of education and Science of the republic of Bulgaria

Helmut Von Glasenapp
Secretary-General of the European Long-Term Investors Association

Milen Vrabevski
Owner and CEO of Comac Medical Ltd.

Branislav Vujovic
President of the New Frontier Group