entrepreneurship, Events

Facilitating the world’s largest Startup Weekend Event – In Tehran, Iran!

5x simultaneous Startup Weekends at 5x universities in Tehran, Iran - The world's LARGEST Startup Weekend event!

5x simultaneous Startup Weekends at 5x universities in Tehran, Iran – The world’s LARGEST Startup Weekend event!

I was super humbled and excited to be invited to facilitate the largest of five SIMULTANEOUS Startup Weekends in Tehran, Iran this week at the Shahid Beheshti University. (Read more on the EPIC world record on the UP Global blog).

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And what an incredible weekend (well, in Iran it was technically in the week as Startup Weekends are not held on weekends here for religious reasons) it was!

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Events, pitching

Moderating the Startup Competition at The Web Summit in Dublin

MC'ing @ Dublin Web Summit 2015

MC’ing @ Dublin Web Summit 2015

I recently had the honor and privilege to be invited to moderate (MC) the startup competition at The Web Summit in Dublin. I had a blast.

“Web Summit is a technology-industry conference held in Dublin, Ireland since 2010. The topic of the conference is centered on internet technology and attendees range from Fortune 500 companies to the world’s most exciting tech companies. This contains a a mix of CEOs and founders of tech start ups together with a range of people from across the global technology industry, as well as related industries.” – from Wikipedia

Forbes describes the events as “the best technology conferences on the planet” and CNN call them “the hottest events in tech”. For me and others, it’s one of the best opportunities this side of the Atlantic to catch up with old friends in the startup scene from around the world and make new ones.

Do you want to book me too? Shoot me an email at [email protected] and let’s talk.

Had a lot of fun MC-ing the #websummit startup pitches this morning. :) Do you have a #pitch fave?

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