Join Europe’s Exciting Startup Festival ViennaUP 2023 to Explore Tech, Innovation, Investment, & More

ViennaUP is a decentralized, community-driven festival in the heart of Europe, shining a light on what the future of technology holds. The festival is curated by the Vienna Business Agency and brings you a selection of the most exciting events from the ViennaUP community. This year, together with several contributing partners, ViennaUP 2023 offers a unique interconnected experience for startups, investors, tech enthusiasts, creatives, and visionaries.

Why Should Startup Founders be a Part of ViennaUP 2023?

• You will find investors and make the right contacts. Among other investor-oriented events, “Let them Pitch” will allow startups & SMEs to pitch in front of investors, who then ask questions, and if convinced, will invest directly!
• Drink coffee with successful founders and investors — check out the “Coffee House Sessions”. Moreover, in “Founder & Investor Talk”, skilled founders and investors share their careers, experiences, and lessons learned and provide their expert know-how on key topics.
• You get to “Discover New Tech” and learn more to grow through “Skill up & Scale Up” events (explore the events in detail below).
• A special attraction for female entrepreneurs — “Find Your Female Co-Founder” or learn “How Women Shape the Future (SHETech)”.
• Unleash your creativity with “Creative Days Vienna 2023” — bringing together creative minds from around the world. ViennaUP invites leading curators, researchers, artists, technologists, and cultural experts to explore how technology is shaping the future of cultural experiences, sparking new opportunities in the process.
• Get to know Vienna, the world’s most livable city — and an unexpectedly great place to start up. Check these out:
  • 6 unexpected reasons your startup belongs in Vienna
  • Vienna named world’s most liveable city in 2022

Explore the Exciting Themes of ViennaUP 2023

From Technology to Beyond

In a variety of settings, the ViennaUP community tackles topics such as smart cities, digital humanism, impact-driven entrepreneurship, creative industries, gender equality, and sustainability. Meet people from different backgrounds, learn from best practice examples across diverse industries, and talk to forward-thinkers about what will matter in the future.

From Now to Future

Across several formats, ViennaUP creates opportunities to connect with incredible speakers from the innovation space and facilitate intimate setups for exchange on relevant future topics. How do you imagine the world will look 50 years from now? Join the conversation at ViennaUP 2023!

From Vienna to Global

With a series of startup- and innovation-related events, ViennaUP bridges the gap between Vienna and the rest of the world. Be ready for dozens of exciting opportunities and inspiring talks, make authentic connections with participants from across the globe, and experience the charm of Vienna first-hand.

Customize Your ViennaUP Experience – Make Your Own Adventure!

ViennaUP is not one event but many. The incredible program partners are hosting a vast array of events at snazzy locations around town, and there is a lot happening — so, what should you attend?

This is a choose-your-own-adventure experience, and you can attend anything you like. But to help you get started, the diverse program of partner-hosted events and activities has been streamlined into curated experiences.

On the ViennaUP’23 program page, you will find a drop-down filter that lets you toggle between tracks. Let’s quickly explore the tags & see what they mean for you:

• Invest Brilliantly — ViennaUP welcomes all angels, VCs, corporates, incubators, accelerators, banks, and private magic-makers. Listen to exciting pitches, exchange ideas, and network with peers from Austria and the world.
• Find Investors — If you are a founder or startup representative, pitch your ideas, join networking events, sign up for one-to-one matchmaking sessions, and get to know Vienna better in the process.
• Skill Up & Scale Up — Are you looking for skills training, job coaching, mentorship, or acceleration and incubation programs? Meet experts and hear from super successful founders about the ups, downs, ins, and outs of growth.
• Discover New Tech — ViennaUP is calling all nerds, geeks, and other tech freaks looking for inspiring ideas, innovative concepts, useful software solutions, and even exciting jobs!
• Impact the Future — If you are a startup, corporate, investor, policy maker, or non-profit in the business of making the world better, this is for you. This is the track for long-term, people-, planet-, profit-friendly solutions and game-changing ideas.
• Experience Culture & Tech — This is the track for creative businesses and industries, makers, museums, and more. Follow the path down the street where art, business, and technology meet.

So, what are you waiting for? Make the most of your ViennaUP and find the events that are the best fit for you! Click here to access all the program information & plan your visit to ViennaUP 2023 today!

Do you have a great idea and want to get more involved? Reach out to the ViennaUP team via hello@viennaup.com.

 

 

 

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