Venture Day 2021
VENTURE DAY 2021
Live at last!
At last we can meet again! We are so excited to announce this years setup of Venture Day. A day dedicated to innovation, entrepreneurship and knowledge. See you on november 25th!
Sara Wallin
CEO Chalmers Ventures
FOURTH EDITION OF
Venture day
Venture day is our annual entrepreneurship event, hosted at Veras Gräsmatta at the heart of Chalmers E-village. The schedule this year far exceeds those of previous, with more keynotes, investor meetings, panel discussions and workshops. Make sure to register today and join us for this fantastic day!
VENTURE DAY 2021
Program
08:30 - 09:30
Nasdaq morning
Event open for public
- Bell ringing live from Chalmers E-village
- Panel talk
- Breakfast mingle and networking
10:00 - 11:45
Professional Sales Network
Event for portfolio companies to VINK-incubators
- Keynote: Henrik Larsson Broman
- Sales workshop // Peer-2-Peer
11:30 - 16:30
Investment track
Event for portfolio companies
- Networking lunch & mingle
- Keynote: Investment trends
- Panel discussion: Impact & deeptech
- Reversed pitches by VCs
- 1:1 meetings: investors and startups
16:30 - 18:00
Acceleration pitch
Event open for public
16:30 mingle & snacks
17:00 Chalmers Ventures Acceleration Pitch Competition
- 50 000 kr cash prize!
08:30 - 09:30
Nasdaq morning
Open for public
Come join us for a breakfast seminar with Nasdaq. Breakfast mingle, bell ringing ceremony live from Chalmers E-village and expert panel discussion. In collaboration with Nasdaq, Minesto and Chalmers E-village.
08:30
Networking breakfast & mingle
09:00
Nasdaq bell ringing ceremony
09:05
Panel discussion
"IPOs and taking a startup to the stockmarket"
Expert panel
Helena Ribbefors
Moderator / Head of Legal at Chalmers Ventures
Dr Martin Edlund
CEO at Minesto
Niklas Holmgren
Managing Director Global Listings at Nasdaq
Håkan Krook
Fund Manager Chalmers Ventures
10:00 - 11:30
Professional Sales Network
Open for portfolio companies to VINK-incubators
Portfolio companies of any VINK-incubator (see incubators to the right) are invited to join for a Sales Keynote with Martin Larsson Broman and a subsequent Sales Workshop with Charlotte Emlind Vahul and Johan Sköld
10:00 - 10:45
Sales Keynote
Super trends: how you secure your sales and marketing for the future
Henrik Larsson Broman
Trend analyst & Sales Expert
Henrik is a trend analyst, sales expert and author of the book ”Super trends - how you secure your sales and marketing for the future”. With over 1 000 lectures given, he is one of Sweden’s most hired lecturers in sales, growth, entrepreneurship and the future trends. Named one of Sweden’s best speakers in 2018 and 2019.
The customer list includes ABB, Adobe, Canon, Coca-Cola, DHL, Dustin, Ericsson, Länsförsäkringar, Microsoft, PostNord, Salesforce, SCA, Scania, SEB, Swedbank, Telenor and Telia.
10:45 - 11:30
Sales workshop: How to evolve future sales
After the keynote we'll arrange a special peer-2-peer workshop. During this time you will be matched with other attending companies in small groups and together share how to evolve future sales. Facilitators of the workshop are Charlotte Emlind Vahul and Johan Sköld.
Charlotte Emlind Vahul
Head of Business Coaching at Chalmers Ventures
Johan Sköld
Entrepreneur in residence at Chalmers Ventures
11:30 - 16:30
Investment track
Open for portfolio companies
Take the chance to network with investors and/or aspiring entrepreneurs, listen to keynotes, book investor meetings and listen to exciting panel discussions.
In collaboration with #GreenUps network.
11:30 - 12:30
Networking lunch
Startups & investors
Grab a lunchbox, mingle, talk and connect. A great way to open doors and get some facetime.
12:30 - 12:45
Keynote:
Impact investment trends
Fabian Erici
Investment Manager at Norrsken VC
12:45 - 13:05
Panel discussion
Deeptech investments: Will 2022 be the year?
Sara Wallin
CEO at Chalmers Ventures / MODERATOR
Nicklas Bergman
Investor at EIC Fund
Matti Zemack
Investment Director at Industrifonden
13:05 - 13:15
Keynote discussion
Future investments Where to invest?
Lena Apler
Angel investor at Dragon Invest
Sara Wallin
CEO at Chalmers Ventures / MODERATOR
13:15 - 14:15
VC Reverse pitches
We flipped the sides and will let some Venture Capital firms pitch to entrepreneurs, for a change.
Pitching VC's:
Norrsken VC, Almi Greentech Fund & Industrifonden.
Pitching VCs
Anna Ljungdahl
Investment Director and Head of Sustainability Industrifonden
Fabian Erici
Investment Manager at Norrsken VC
Stefan Söderling
Fund Manager & CEO Almi Invest Greentech Fund
Question panel
Sofia Kocher
Business Coach at Chalmers Ventures
Sofie Allert
CEO & co-founder Swedish Algae Factory
Milton Lönnroth
CEO & co-founder at Atley Solutions
Johanna Nissén Karlsson
CEO & co-founder Vividye
14:30 - 16:30
Networking time
Investors and startups
Time for meetings and networking over coffe and snacks in the E-village lobby.
Additional 1:1 slots for some investors and startups to meet and connect. Schedule possibilities will be emailed to participants a few weeks before the event. In collaboration with GreenUps network.
Presenting
Attending investors
16:30 - 18:00
Acceleration pitch
Open for public
Welcome to one of Gothenburgs greatest pitch competitions! This is the newest of our great startups. A great variety of ideas and research are presented to an expert panel.
16:30 Mingle & Snacks
17:00-18:00 Pitches
Live Jury
Annica Karlsson
Innovation Venture Manager at Inter IKEA
Katarina Brud
Director at MobilityXlab
Johan Felix
Director Strategic Collaborations at Chalmers Industriteknik
Christopher Jacklin
Co-founder at Lucero Bio / Acceleration Pitch Winner of 2020