Meet the speakers: Manuel Tanger

Head of Innovation, Beta-i

Manuel is a physicist and interested in all the things related to Science and Technology. He holds an Msc in Technological Physics from IST in Lisbon and the University of Utrecht and has lived in 8 different countries. Manuel worked previously at Mercer Human Resources as a consultant, at Danone in Italy where he was Strategic Planner and Brand Manager and at Qbian as European Marekting Manager. Soon after, he co-founded Beta-i and he is currently a PhD candidate at ISCTE on Complex Systems.

Meet the speakers: Liz Fleming

VP International, Spain Startup

Flying the flag for the South Summit connecting top talent in Southern Europe & Latam to the global investment community. Irish in Madrid. Kauffman Fellow.

Meet the speakers: Nicholas Zylberglajt

Co-Founder and Vice-President, European Young Innovators Forum (EYIF)

Nicholas is the Co-Founder of the European Young Innovators Forum, the leading foundation for Youth Innovation in Europe. He believes Europe has a strong potential in its Youth. What’s is lacking is a clear leadership to actually change things, connect young entrepreneurs and innovators and build a pan-European startup ecosystem where companies will be able to grow and scale. This is what he tries to do with EYIF.

Besides EYIF, Nicholas is currently working on a start-up project and am involved in other initiatives such as the Euromentors Association for Digital Entrepreneurs. In the past, he worked as a French diplomat then as political and digital media advisor at the European Parliament.

Meet the speakers: Alex Hoye

Co-founder & CEO, The Faction Collective

Alex’s experience has generated expertise generated in the trenches from entrepreneurship, brand development, operations, marketing, retail and internet from institutional to early stages across the globe. With co-founder Tony McWilliam, Alex is building Faction Skis + Apparel into a disruptive global leader in snowsports and lifestyle. He also likes collaborating with and building communities. Alex co-founded co-working space Runway East. He also chairs a thriving group of active founders and ecosystem supporters driving change in the new industrial revolution called ICE.

Previously Alex was CEO of PE-backed Latitude Digital Marketing, one of Europe’s largest digital marketing firms with thousands of clients in Germany, the UK, the US and the Middle East. Alex drove the turn-around and sale of Latitude before returning to Faction.
Since 2008 Alex is an angel investor in technology and retail-based projects (Skimlinks, Grabble, Conversocial, BraveNewTalent, UserVoice, OrderSwift, RentMineOnline (sold), Brainient, Seedcamp, MyBuilder, Togethera, Woo). In 1999, he co-founded GoIndustry plc which he and the team took it public in London where it was valued at over $100M.
Obtaining his BA from Stanford and MBA from Harvard, ever the entrepreneur, he co-founded the wine club at both. Alex enjoys skiing, kite surfing and running.

Meet the speakers: Ricardo Marvão

Co-Founder, Beta-i

Ricardo Marvão is the Product Deputy at Lisbon Challenge & Co-Founder of Beta-i. Ricardo co-founded and was the CEO of Evolve Space Solutions, one of the first Portuguese startups providing software products and services for the major European space agencies and companies, that was later acquired by Novabase (the biggest Portuguese IT company, in PSI-20 Index). Ricardo was Manager for the Aerospace department at Novabase until early 2013.

Ricardo worked several years for the European Space Agency in Earth Observation & Scientific missions in Germany and later for Inmarsat in London, a major satellite telecommunications company, besides working in Boston with MIT-Portugal. He has an Aerospace MBA from the Toulouse Business School.

Meet the speakers: Nuno Sebastião

CEO, Feedzai

Nuno Sebastião is a co-founder and CEO of Feedzai, a machine learning platform for anti-fraud. Previously, Nuno led the development of the European Space Agency Satellite Simulation Infrastructure, contributing to the history-making Rosetta comet chaser space probe. Today, Nuno and his top team of data scientist and aerospace engineers at Feedzai are keeping commerce safe for the mightiest financial services companies on earth.

Nuno was also the founder and president of Oristeba, a space consulting company and a consultant with Andersen Consulting. He holds a Masters of Computer Science and an MBA from London Business School.

Meet the speakers: Felix Petersen

Founder, Future Sailor

Felix Petersen is a serial entrepreneur and investor from Berlin, Germany. He’s founded and sold two companies: Plazes, a pioneering Geo-spacial company (sold to Nokia in 2008) and Amen an opinion sharing app (sold to Tape.tv in 2013). He´s been a motor for the Berlin startup and tech scene since it’s humble beginnings and has been credited widely for helping to put Berlin on the map.

He wrote the first cheque to Soundcloud and continues to be an active angel and advisor to companies like Auxy, Readmill (exited to DropBox), Dataminr and Retention Grid. Petersen has had numerous appearances in publications like Wired, the New York Times and many others as well as being a frequent speaker.