StartupBus Europe

Conceive, build and launch startups from scratch while crossing Europe with a team of strangers in 72 hours. Destination? Pirate Summit in Cologne, ticket included.

Equal parts hackathon, road trip and global community, StartupBus is an annual competition designed to empower the tech community – challenging top tier talent to hop on a bus and conceive, build and launch a startup in 72 hours. If it sounds a little crazy, it’s because it is.

The European competition will take place from 2nd - 7th September and will feature buses from 5 countries and 100 buspreneurs who will converge in Cologne for Pirate Summit where the finalists will get a chance to pitch in front of investors and our judging panels featuring Lars Rasmussen (the founder of Google Maps).

The French bus will start from Paris and visit not only France but also Switzerland, Luxembourg, Belgium and Germany and the best projets will be offered incubation at EuraTechnologies. It departs from Paris on Friday 1 September at 7:15 am.

StartupBus France is sponsored by Nokia & Fabernovel Innovate.

Program

Thursday 01 SEPTEMBER 2016

19:00 Kickoff party at FaberNovel Innovate headquarters, Paris (France).

Friday 02 SEPTEMBER 2016

08:30 Kickoff breakfast at Nokia headquarters, Paris-Saclay (France).

16:30 Workshop with Lunabee, Chambéry (France).

20:00 Pitch session at Seedspace, Genève (Switzerland).

Saturday 03 SEPTEMBER 2016

12:00 Workshop at Google, Zurich (Switzerland - to be confirmed).

19:30 Pitch session at Nyuko, Luxembourg City (Luxembourg).

Sunday 04 SEPTEMBER 2016

12:00 Workshop at EuraTechnologies, Lille (France).

22:30 Pitch session at Corda Incubateur, Hasselt (Belgique).

Monday 05 SEPTEMBER 2016

Semi-finals at Corda Incubateur, Hasselt (Germany).

Tuesday 06 SEPTEMBER 2016

Finals at Pirate Summit, Cologne (Germany).

Wednesday 07 SEPTEMBER 2016

Time for networking at Pirate Summit, Cologne (Germany).

Mentors

Frank Zhi Huang (tech mercenary), Marco Geresia (web, graphic & motion designer) and Louis Hénault (data scientist).

More information:

http://europe.startupbus.com/