You are warmly invited to our pitch-night and networking event, co-hosted by Rutech and BCS Entrepreneurs, at BCS Covent Garden.

We are bringing another international tech delegation to London to prove the fact that #LondonIsOpen. This time it's Portugal. Get a chance to meet Portuguese startups from Startup Porto Accelerator.

Northern city of Portugal, Porto is known as the home for industrial companies and the greatest producer of technology and science knowledge at University of Porto. Startup Porto Accelerator is powered by the leading national entrepreneurs network - ANJE that has offices across the whole country.

Presenters:

Hosted by Alina Bezuglova, Founder of Rutech and Shakeeb Niazi FBCS CITP FIOEE - Chair - BCS Entrepreneurs

Suzana Alipio, Director at ANJE (National Association of Young Entreprneurs in Portugal)

Betty Encinales, Co-founder & MD at Unbox-it

Helena Kleist, COO and Digital Strategist at IdeooHub

Oliver Woolley, Co-founder and CEO at Envestors Private Investor Network

Rui Boavista Marques, Economic and Commercial Counsellor at the Embassy of Portugal in the UK

Startup Pitches:

Infinite Foundry is a 3D digital twin cloud platform for industrial product development and predictive maintenance

DataSibyl is a SAAS analytics platform to learn and understand the user behaviour for churn prediction using machine learning technology

Lumer is a smart device that disrupts disposable lighter market by introducing world's first smartphone lighter

EmotAI is an invaluable part of gamers trainings to reach their full potential and achieve their goals. We help them increase their focus, critical thinking skills and emotional intelligence

We will have guests from Trade and Investment agency at the Embassy of Portugal in the UK attending the event as well.

Agenda:

18:00 Doors open
18:15 Welcome
18:30 Discussion panel
19:00 Pitch presentaitons
19:45 Drinks & networking

Supported by:

BCS - The Chartered Insititute of IT fosters links between experts from industry, academia and business to promote new thinking, education and knowledge sharing. It collaborates with government, industry and relevant bodies to establish good working practices, codes of conduct, skills frameworks and common standards. Through continuing professional development and a series of respected IT qualifications, the Institute seeks to promote professional practice tuned to the demands of business.
The email address you use to signup to this event will be added to the BCS Entrepreneurs Group mailing list which is used to advertise the group's future events.

TLA Russia is a London-based network that connects Russian tech advocates across the world. We aim to build a bridge between two tech ecosystems, Russia and the UK, and raise awareness of the hidden tech gems in Russia.