Pirate Summit 2017 | Pirate Summit | 6 September 2017 | Cologne, Germany

Europe’s Craziest Startup Conference

Pirate Summit brings together the movers and shakers of the digital world. We’re Europe’s largest invitation-only conference for early-stage startups, investors and corporate executives. The Pirate Summit represents true grassroots entrepreneurship: authentic, crazy & real.

Pirate Summit is Europe’s largest invitation-/application-only conference for early-stage startups, investors and corporate executives. The Pirate Summit represents true grassroots entrepreneurship: authentic, crazy, and real. But what exactly is it, that makes Pirate Summit so special?

• 1,200+ Handpicked Attendees From More Than 60 Countries
For the 7th time in a row, Pirate Summit gathers movers and shakers of the digital sector from all over the world in Cologne (Germany). Every single attendee is carefully picked and selected to ensure a perfect crowd to create meaningful connections.

• Our House Rules
Our motivation, which is consistent to the vision that shaped the very first Pirate Summit in 2011, was and is to always organize conferences that we as founders would love to attend ourselves. Therefore, we have established some house rules which are indispensable to us for a successful conference.

• The Unique Location
Pirate Summit is not a “normal” conference – it is an event you never attended before. And to ensure the extraordinary, it takes place in one of Cologne’s most unique locations: Odonien – a scrapyard turned into an outdoor art gallery. It is the perfect pirate location and offers enough space for robots, fire, networking, and fun.

• The Variety Of Networking Formats
At Pirate Summit it’s all about meaningful connections. Through various formats and activities we’ll ensure your personal networking experience. Connecting the most bright people of the startup ecosystem has always been our goal, whether it be through dedicated 1on1 sessions, a speed dating or mentoring sessions for startups.

2017 SPEAKERS

Gemma Milne
Sciene: disrupt

Jan Alberti
bmp Ventures

Martin Wild
MediaMarktSaturn

Moritz Grotthuss
Gestigon

Till Faida
Adblock Plus/Eyeo

Eric Pfarl
SearchInk

Friedrich A. Neuman
Makers.do

Elise Quevedo
SMGE

Ekaterina Matveeva
Amolingua

Olaf Koch
METRO

Artem Kuchukov
KEWAZO

Julian Hosp
TenX

Jennifer Kanyamibwa
Slack

Malte Goesche
Facebook

Ferdinand Goetzten
Growth Tribe

Nikolas Samios
COOPERATIVA Venture Group

Jörg Rheinboldt
Axel Springer Plug & Play

Marc Lamik
Zalando

Itxaso Del Palacio
Microsoft Ventures

Jevgenijs Kazanins
Twino

Daniel Schneider
Oetker Digital Factory

Jurgen Appelo
Happy Melly

Péter Szántó
SpringTab

Larissa Kyrion
VIRE

Epi Ludvik Nekaj
Crowdsourcing Week

Tim Panton
|pipe|

Adah Parris
The Friday Club

Julian Teicke
wefox

Paulina Sygulska
Granttree

Viktor Becher
GETSURANCE

Holger G. Weiss
German Autolabs

Craig Corbett
Publicize

Sia Houchangnia
Seedcamp

Nicole Schepanek
Aureus

Marie-Helene Ametsreiter
Speedinvest

Gillian Davis
First Time Leader

Alexander Guy
Alkemics

Holger Seim
Blinkist

Louis Papaemmanuel
European Young Innovators Forum

Daria Saharova
Vito One

Ange Royall-Kahin
WATTx

Jonathan T. Mall
Neuro-Flash

Tina Klüwer
Parlamind

Christopher Steinau
Northzone

Dean Johnson
Brandwidth

Daniel Keiper-Knorr
Speedinvest

Fabian Dittrich
Helpando

Steven Boylan
TIME:RIFT:TOURS

Thomas Bachem
Code University

Fabian Westerheide
Asgard

Gen Ashley
Women Who Code

Ruud Hendriks
Startupbootcamp

Tim Bibow
Stilnest

Andrei Brasoveanu
Accel Partners

Stephan Wirries
VENTECH

Anitta Krishan
trivago

Martin Fröhlich
Deutsche Bahn

Olivier Kennedy
Enigma

David Mozes
Seedrs

Robin Wauters
tech.eu

Sarah Gill
Founders

Victor Thoma
ERGO

Colin Hanna
Balderton Capital

Gil Dibner
AngelList syndicate

Community Partner
• City of Cologne

Sailing Master
• KPMG
• Smart Start

Master Gunner
• Google
• T-System
• Medien Netzwerk NRW
• LexRock
• Canon

FirstMates
• Deutsche Bank
• Capnamic Venture
• Zephis
• Sipgate
• Wiredcard

Sailors
• EIT Digital
• Trivago
• IHK
• Insurlab Germany
• Flyer Alarm
• lexoffice
• High-Tech Grunderfonds
• NRW.Invest Germany
• Pirate Skills
• Hub:Raum
• Coparion