Reflect Fest 2024 | Reflect Festival | 29 May 2024 | Kolla Culture Factory, Franklin Roosevelt 45, Limassol 3013, Cyprus

The largest tech & entrepreneurship event for startups, investors and decision-makers connecting Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Stories, discussions, duels, interviews, and fun interactive sessions on everything an entrepreneur needs. Tailored for founders and investors.

Straightforward, impactful case studies and deep dives into technology shaping our tomorrow. What’s hype and what’s not? We’ll look at AI, edtech, blockchain, cybersecurity, healthtech, deeptech, and much more.

Why you should attend:
• Learning & brainstorming
• 4 main stages
• Interactive expo
• Roundtable discussions
• Workshops
• Startup competition
• Reflect Festival 2023
• Networking & dealmaking
• Networking lounges
• Lunches & side events
• Private meetings
• Chillout zones
• Matchmaking
• Reflect Festival 2023
• Summer & beaches
• Parties & fun meetups
• Historical city & seaside promenade
• Delicious Cypriot food
• Lively nightlife

2024 Speakers

Elizabeth Yin
Co-founder, General Partner, Hustle Fund

Tony Jamous
CEO, co-founder, Oyster

Zach Coelius
Founder, Coelius Capital

Mary Cristine
Integrative Nutrition, Gut Specialist

Omar Hagrass
Co-Founder, CEO, Trella

Apostolos Apostolakis
Founding Partner, VentureFriends

Ioannis Michaloudis
Visual Artist, Researcher, Academic, creator of the Coperni Air Swipe bag

Alakh Pandey
Founder, CEO, Physics Wallah

Jason Ball
VC, Ball Ventures, angel investor

Victoria Hernandez Valcarcel
Board of Directors Member, EIC Fund

Idriss Al Rifai
Founder, CEO, flow48

Vaibhav Kapoor
Co-founder, Pristyn Care

Andreas Ioannou
VC, CommerzVentures

Hannah Kromminga
Founder, CEO, GIFTD, Co-founder, Greentech Alliance

Fedor Balashko
Head of Sales for Apps, Fintech, TikTok

Mergim Cahani
Founder, CEO, Gjirafa

Pedro Vieira
Partner, 500 Global

Robin Wauters
Founder, Tech.eu

Ugne Buraciene
Group CEO, payabl.

Valentinos Polykarpou
General Manager, Wargaming, Chairman, TechIsland

Kostas Kontogiannis
Chief Financial Officer, Skroutz

Bono van Nijnatten
General Manager, Payments, ASOS

Bindi Karia
Venture Partner, Molten Ventures

Philippos Soseilos
CEO, Chairman, PwC Cyprus

Ricardo Gorski
YouTuber, Founder, Tax.One

Alexis Majos
Principal, Speedinvest

Eli Zhabevska
Principal, South Central Ventures

Ralph Hinsche
Senior Business Development Manager, NVIDIA

Dana Sydorenko
Founder, CEO, GameTree

Dmitriy Novakovskiy
Head of Customer Engineering, Google Cloud

Pascal Murasira
Founding Partner, Africa Cities Fund

Abdo Mhanna
Operations Manager, KSA Expansion

Rikke Birkegaard Stær
CEO, Coinify

Tatiana Ondrejkova
Founder, CEO, pelicantravel.com, angel investor

Adam Bonnifield
Entrepreneur, Expert in AI

Theodoros Loukaidis
Director General, Cyprus Research & Innovation Foundation

Alexis Pantazis
Co-Founder, Executive Director, Hellas Direct

Alexey Sidorov
Investment Director, Flashpoint VC

Adam Ridgway
Founder, CEO, ONE MOTO

Simos Simillides
Commercial Director, Pafilia

Ahmad Yousry
Co-Founder, CEO, Rabbit

André Moeller
Global Payments Professional, Elli - A Brand of the Volkswagen Group

Elena Pantazi
Partner, Northzone

Jonathan Green
Managing Director, Chief Technology Officer, Arcadia Funds, LLC

Ahmed Sheikha
Co-Founder, Chief Business Officer, Brimore

Ertan Can
Partner, Multiple Capital

Linda Plano
Managing Director, Plano & Simple

Alexander Vaselek
Founder, CEO, CIMEDO

Alex Kudos
CMO, Social Discovery Group

Alex Loizou
CEO, Trouva

Anargyros Kaninis
Angel Investor, Mentor, Founder, Gigaroxx

Constantinos Kombos
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Cyprus

Alexa Shkuratova
DFC Cyprus Leader, Island School student

Nikolas P. Mastroyiannopoulos
Founding Managing Partner, W11 Ventures

Nawwaf Alhmaidan
Director, Patient Safety Department, Prince Mohammed bin Abdulaziz Hospital

Alexander Jahn
Managing Partner, Reflect Festival

Alexander Shkuratov
Founder, Island Private School

Mohammed Al Rasbi
Founder, GP, R&D Capital & Labs

Dusan Zabrodsky
Partner, Rockaway Capital

Elena Emelyanova
Senior Payments and Fraud Manager, Wargaming

Waddah Albassam
CMO, Alphaiota, Founder, SmartHealth Medical Company

David Höhl
Partner, Interface Capital

Jonathan Labin
Advisor, Angel Investor, Board Member (Ex META, Unifonic, Paramount)

Elias Neocleous
Managing Partner, Elias Neocleous & Co LLC.

Numan Numan
Founder, General Partner, 212

Roula Bachtalia
Director, egg-enter.grow.go

Nicodemos Damianou
Deputy Minister of Research, Innovation and Digital Policy, Republic of Cyprus

George Karantonis
Partner, Metavallon VC

Tomas Obrtac
Partner, Kaya VC

Mikkel Sørensen
Founding Director, DTU Skylab Innovation Hub (DE), Co-founder, Stormglas, active investor.

Yassaman Omidbakhsh
Founder, Co-CEO, eyerim

Andreas Panayi
Co-Founder, Kinisis Ventures, KV Fund Investment Advisory Committee

Mike Fischer
Business Consultant, Professor, USC Games

Andreas Papadopoulos
Head, Commercial Banking, Hellenic Bank

Sara Enan
VC, Principal, VentureSouq

Harris C. Georgiades
Chairman, Foreign and European Affairs Committee, Cyprus Parliament

Julius Georgiou
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Cyprus

Elias Pitsavos
Head, Klarna Greece

Michal Smida
Entrepreneur, Ex-Founder, Twisto

Teodor Antonio Georgiev
Head of Storytelling Studio, Chief Communications Officer, The Recursive

Wafa Obaidat
CEO, Founder, Playbook

Artem Nikulshin
Investment Director, The Alternative

Paul Blackborrow
Angel Investor, former CEO, Co-Chairman, Energetiq Technology, Inc

Michel Kovac
Venture capitalist, McWin

Kim Wang
Associate Professor, Suffolk University Business Sawyer School

Markos Zachariadis
Professor in Financial Technology (FinTech) and Economics of Innovation, University of Manchester

Michael Economou
Founder, Exyde, former co-founder, Foody

Matej Říha
Managing Director, Venture to Future Fund

Marie-Therese Fam
Investment consultant, IC member, Five 35 Ventures

George Georghiou
Founding Member, PHAETHON, Professor, University of Cyprus

Stavrinos Kyriakou
Startups, ISV Strategy Lead, Microsoft Southeast Europe.

Petr Koblic
CEO, Chairman, Prague Stock Exchange

Rania Lamprou
Co-Founder, CEO, Simpler.

Demetrios Zoppos
Executive Chairman, Klevio, Co-founder, Onefinestay, Angel Investor

Mike Charalambous
CEO, Threedium

Maria Markidou Georgiadou
Managing Director, Cyprus Seeds

Yiannis Misirlis
Imperio Group, Chairman

Mathilda Nathan
Co-founder, CEO, BORRN

Sean Forward
UK CEO, payabl.

Sergey Arkhangelskiy
Engineer, Entrepreneur, Founder, ex-CEO, Wanna

Chris Christou
Associate Professor, University of Nicosia

George Karanatsidis
Business Operations Associate, Skroutz

Maria Terzi
Co-Founder, CEO, Malloc

Ignacio Monereo
Partner, Boost Capital Partners

Monica Polemitis
Founder, CEO, Hybrid ConsulTech, Board Member, Research and Innovation Foundation

Tata Maytesyan
Growth, Product Strategy Advisor, Sololearn, Picsart, Spaarkd AG

Karel Zheng
Investor, Kaya VC

Aristos Damianou
Member of the Parliament, Republic of Cyprus, Chair of Interior Affairs Committee

Jenda Tovarys
Head of Growth, Better Stack

Vladimír Macko
CTO, co-founder, Covariate

Dimitris Litsikakis
Director, Profile Software

Dr. Stephanos Ioannou
Neurophysiologist, Founder, Limassol Psychological Wellbeing Centre

Pavol Gurican
Founder, CEO, ksebe

Tanya Romanyukha
General Manager, TechIsland

Felix Efren Gonzalez Reyes
Fraud Analyst, Bolt

Mo Ali Yusuf
CEO, Fuze, Co-Chair, Digital Assets, MENA Fintech Association

Meirav Harel
Global expert in web3, FinTech, blockchain

Roman Laus
Founder, CEO, Mewery

Margarita Chli
Professor in Robotic Vision, Director of Vision for Robotics Lab, University of Cyprus, ETH Zurich

Panos Siozos
CEO, LearnWorlds

Aristos Doxiadis
Partner, Big Pi Ventures, Partner, JEREMIE Openfund II

Terezia Mihalovic Lukacova
Founder, CEO, DASATO

Kirill Lisitsyn
Co-founder, CEO, Torus

Johan Widenberg Claesson
Chief Technology Officer, Zimpler

Antigoni Komodiki
CEO, Junior Achievement Cyprus

Diana Verkhoturova
Founder, CEO, Anymaster

Marina Stavrou
Post-Doctoral fellow, Neuroscience department, The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics (CING)

Angelo Dalli
Chief Scientist, CTO, UMNAI

Wes Henstock
Founder, Strategist, Confid3ntial

Eva Sommer
Founder, CEO, Fermify

Vasilis Zoupas
Co-founder, CEO, Woli

Olga Loktionova
PR Director, CAPSBOLD Creative Marketing Agency

Dmytro Kornilov
Co-founder, CEO, FFFACE.ME

Tony Jacobs
Founder, CEO, Magnet

Sengul Enginsoy
Marketing Manager, StartupBlink

Fabian Cabeza
Associate, Elias Neocleous & Co LLC

Elena Grigorian
CEO, MY.GAMES

Dora Trachana
Partner, CEO, Uni.Fund VC

Christiana Erotokritou
Member of the Parliament, Republic of Cyprus, Chairwoman, Financial and Budget Parliamentary Committee

Hélène Alexi Ioannides
Empowerment, Wellness, Leadership Coach, ENY

Thekla Paschali
CTO, payabl.

Mihkel Vitsur
Co-Founder, Chairman, Klarpay AG

Eli David Rokah
CEO, StartupBlink

Serena Sebastiani
Senior Director in Financial Services Advisory, PwC Middle East, Consulting Virtual Assets Leader

Jekaterina Govina
Co-founder, Amlyze, Partner, Response Legal

Martynas Bieliauskas
Co-Founder, CEO, Klarpay AG

Michael Ioannides
Visa Country Manager, Cyprus

Apostolos Koumarinos
Founder, theSPEAKERS, Public Speaking Champion

Jonathan Arler
General Manager, payabl.

Oleg Stefanets
Chief Risk Officer, payabl.

Tanya Schereisin
Co-founder, CEO, Zing Coach

Peter Maslik
Co-founder, COO, Investown

Mohamed Elzalabany
CEO, Cofounder, Dailymealz, Venture Builder, Investor

Merima Mahmutovic
Senior Manager, PwC, Executive Board Member, EWPN

Sharon Chen
Strategy, Global Emerging Technology, EY

Simon Rovder
CTO, co-founder, Powerful Medical

Igor Skachkov
Chief Product Officer, payabl.

Esfira Zakas
Head of Marketing, payabl.

Victor Lamburt
CTO, Simple

Elena Prohaskova
Managing Director, Jetbrains Limited in Cyprus

Lukas Janousek
Serial Entrepreneur, Co-founder, Co-CEO, FreewayCamper, Campiri

Jan Davidek
Partner, Purple Ventures

Milan Kovacic
CEO, Cosmic Latte

Niki Nikolaou
Director, Contentworks Agency

Dusan Duffek
Partner, Zero One Hundred, Co-founder, Reflect Festival, serial entrepreneur

Stylianos Lambrou
Co-founder, CEO, Heart Group, Co-founder, Reflect Festival, Co-founder, Techisland

George Georgiadis
Angel Investor in Impact Tech

Justin Lane
Co-Founder, CEO, CulturePulse

Max Verteletskyi
CEO, Co-founder, Spaceti

George Chalkiadakis
CEO, My-Buddy.AI

Emilios Charalambous
Associate, Elias Neocleous & Co LLC

Alexis Andreou
Director, Pascal Private School

Eddy Nassar
Professional MC, 7 Seas Manager

Elina Mantrali
Counsel, Financial Services, Digital Assets, Sanctions, Data Protection, Harneys

David Wallace
Founder, Journalist, Podcaster, Clean Water Activist

Sophia Paraskeva
Marketing & Communications Manager, Cybarco Development

Michalis Poullis
Business coach, Reflect Festival host

Andreas Michaelides
Investment Director, Innoport VC

Stavriana Nathanail
CMO, Digital Tree

Ross Pitman
Director, Business & Communications, GRS Global Recruitment Solutions

Costas Constantinides
General Facilitator, Lighthouse Primary School

Michael Tyrimos
Founder, Managing Director, Capacitor Partners

Ivan Sysoev
Business Unit Chief AI Officer, Quadcode

Marios Kyriakou
Co Founder, CEO, Darefore

Ivan Trancik
CEO, Founder, SuperScale

Michal Csonga
Partner, Zero One Hundred

Georgina Matamoros
JCI Vice President, Founder, Et Voilà!

Oksana Baykova
Product Marketer, CAPSBOLD

Niki Ioannou-Chandriotou
Head of Sales, Customer Care, Marketing & Communication, Cyta Business

George Georgiou
CEO, Krypto Security

Denis Lukyanov
Product Marketing Lead, CAPSBOLD

Petronela Halamova
Communication Expert, Head of Marketing, DASATO

Marek Zamecnik
CEO, Vestberry

Eugenia Herodotou
CEO, EnergyIntel Services Ltd

Maria Rapoport
Marketing and Parents Relationship Director, Leadership Coordinator, The Island Private School

Michael Ströck
Founding Partner, Allocator One

Christos Gkartzonikas
Project Manager, Transport Modeler, MobyX

2024 Partners

PLATINUM PARTNERS:
• Payabl
• Exness

GOLD PARTNERS:
• PwC
• Cyta Business
• Caps Bold
• Research & Innovation Foundation

SILVER PARTNERS:
• Social Discovery Group
• Pafilia
• Elias Neocleous & Co LLC
• Imperio

BRONZE PARTNERS:
• Energy Intel
• Hellenic Bank
• Cybarco
• FlexCar
• Skroutz
• Krypto
• Scaffolding Solutions

COUNTRY PARTNERS:
• Embassy of the Slovak Republic in Nicosia
• Republic of Cyprus
• High Commission of India

ECOSYSTEM PARTNERS:
• Cyprus Seeds
• Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry
• DPIIT
• Tech Island
• JCI

TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS:
• ASBIS
• Google
• Cloudflare

COMMUNITY PARTNERS:
• Startup Blink
• Hugge
• Soho
• European Women in VC
• Startup Factory
• Techstars
• Socialtech Lab
• Campus Cowork
• Matador
• Ace On
• Astrolabs
• Endeavor
• Junior Achievement Cyprus
• Ariscy
• Startup Greece
• Impact Hub Athens
• Czech Startups