Google for Entrepreneurs Krakow Summary_Q1 2014 - Invitation to edit
Paulina Mazurek (Google Docs)
Q1 2014 was busy for Google for Entrepreneurs Krakow!
We’ve started some new programs and hosted foreign initiatives in our space, with almost 50 events for over 1600 people.
Like every quarter we were strong both on entrepreneurship and technology events. Want to learn more? Please read on!
Entrepreneurship
January
We had a pleasure to host Mini SeedCamp event in GEK on January 16th. The event was organized by the Seedcamp Team, together with Google for Entrepreneurs Krakow, Innovation Nest, Satus and Hive53.
There were 10 high quality startups presenting.
Congratulations to Spark that was invited to join Seedcamp event in London!
Became regular event hosted in GEK. We’ve hosted 3 groups of almost 50 students each in Q1 only and given the numbers of schools interested in visiting us, the new goal is to have the program on the bi-weekly basis. Congratulations to Ania Borowiec and everyone involved!
February
One of our investors strongly supporting local startups community, Richard Lucas, got inspired by Sharon Vosmek’s talk at the Stanford University. This is how Inspired by Astia started. So far there were several events related to Astia, such as Power up your Team or Open your Mind to Astia and there are more to come!
See yourself:
Inspired by Astia video
Open your Mind to Astia video
Coming soon:
Bringing Astia to Poland event in GEK space, May 15th, where together with Sharon we’ll learn more about Astia organization and values and brainstorm on how to support women led/co-led startups in Poland better.
ASPIRE conference and Seeding Diversity to promote Innovation workshops, May 15th, where we’ll host managers from corporations in the region and work on some diversity issues, trying to get corporations more involved in local startup community as well as to increase diversity in their organizations.
March/April
As the third city worldwide, together with Mamo Pracuj we’ve launched Campus for Moms Krakow! We had over 100 applications for 15 places, there are a lot of Google as well as external specialists and role models who agreed to share their knowledge and experience. Attending moms are incredibly motivated and active and the atmosphere is unique. See yourself:
fot. Marcin Śliwa
fot. Marcin Śliwa
See more!
Thank you to Joasia, Agnieszka and Paulina from Mamo Pracuj and all our volunteers!
Youth in Leadership conference & workshops
We supported the Flying Mind Foundation in Youth in Leadership Conference arrangements by hosting the workshops and the conference in Google Krakow office as well as preparing Leadership Skills workshop and having Wojciech Burkot speaking about real leadership. There were almost 300 applications for 16 places for the workshops and over 450 applications for 120 places for the conference.
Congratulations to Joasia and Maciej!
Brought to us by Geek Girls Carrots, 3 days event for entrepreneurs (developers, sellers, marketers, designers) having ideas within particular area presented upfront by the organizers. Entrepreneurs have the opportunity to build the prototype, get high level mentoring and meet potential investors. The first Startup Sprint was all about Youth!
fot. Piotr Mleczko fot. Piotr Mleczko
fot. Piotr Mleczko
Technology
We hosted great variety of technology meetups with Google Developers Group (GDG) Kraków being the most active. GDG organized events about Chrome extensions, Web Analytics and Android.
fot. Wojciech Mardyła
Other technology groups added significant value to the local community by organizing workshops and presentations for game developers (Unity Meetup Group), designers (CHI Południe), web-developers (JS and PHP focused events), entry-level women developers (Rails Girls) and even security enthusiasts (OWASP meetup)
fot. CHI Południe
GEK statistics for Q1 2014:
- 49 events
- 1625 people attended various events in GEK
- over 17 various initiatives so far
Useful links:
Google-for-entr...@googlegroups.com
Stay tuned!
Paula & Dawid
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