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Location: Berlin, Germany

Berlin Web Week 2016

The Berlin Web Week is a one-week festival on current trends in the digital industry. It pools numerous events around the topics internet, digital industries, technologies and digital media – and turns Berlin into an international gathering place of the digital world. In 2016, the Berlin Web Week will take place from the 7th to 17th June for the 9th time.

It includes international conventions, trade shows, pitches, hackathons, matchmaking dinners, parties, and meet-ups.

The Berlin Web Week is a gathering place for key decision-makers, users and personalities from the world of internet: entrepreneurs, founders, technology enthusiasts, bloggers, web activists, hackers, developers, inventors, designers, media representatives, marketing agencies, start-ups, medium-sized enterprises and global players as well as investors, incubators and sponsors.

The Berlin Web Week has grown to become the largest festival of the digital scene in Europe and has set a new record in 2015 with 30 events and more than 20,000 visitors from around the globe.

The events during the Berlin Web Week 2016 include:

• SILICON ALLEE MONTHLY MEET UP
  It’s an ideal event for everyone working in tech, whether you are established in Berlin or a new arrival in town. Guests are encouraged to share their stories and discover what’s happening in Europe’s burgeoning tech capital!

• ZALANDO ONLINE MARKETING CAMP
  The 2nd ‘Zalando Online Marketing Camp’ is an ‘unconference’. There are neither given topics, nor is there a differentiation between speakers and audience. Participants either host a session themselves or actively take part in them. The idea for the day is: “No spectators, just participants!”. This kind of concept is totally different from typical business events (and therefore more fun).

• ST. OBERHOLZ MEETS BRAZILIAN STARTUPS
  St. Oberholz is a well-known hub for the vivid entrepreneurial scene in Berlin. During the Berlin Web Week six Brazilian startups from the berlim.co-program will be hosted. These six startups won a pitch competition in Brazil against nearly 400 other startups to come to Berlin.

• IOT TECH EXPO CENTRAL EUROPE
  There will be 5 dedicated conference tracks covering Smart Cities, Connected Living, Developing & IoT Technologies, Connected Industry and Data & Security, in addition to a free exhibition.

• SMAU | ITALY RESTARTS UP IN BERLIN: MEET THE INNOVATION MADE IN ITALY
  Smau is the leading event series dedicated to innovation in Italy. The goal of the event in Berlin is to create a bridge between the Italian startups ecosystem and the Berlin Hub. Investors will meet with Italian Startups coming from the Italian most renown sectors like Agrifood, Fashion, Design, FinTech, and IOT.

• OMFINCON 2016
  Germany’s unique Online Marketing Finance Conference with pioneering lectures around the topic of Online Marketing including several networking opportunities is entering into its second round. The contents are aimed primarily at decision-makers, opinion leaders and experienced Online Marketing Managers who want to learn and train in “Financial Advertising”.

• HEUREKA CONFERENCE
  HEUREKA began as one of Berlin’s first founders’ conferences and has since become one of the most important conferences in the startup scene, drawing hundreds of founders who want to bring their business to the next level.

• GROWTH HACKING WITH MERCHANDISING
  Online Merchandising is a lot more than just earning money from selling products. It evolved into an effective growth hacking strategy. Merchandising is understood as a rich and robust toolset of sophisticated sales and marketing knowledge to promote their ideas in such a way that it literally impresses fans, followers and customers.

• EUROPEAN VENTURE MARKET
  The 24th European Venture Market presents 15 innovative international startups in its “Hub” Berlin. Topics: CYBER, Big Data, FINTECH, Connectivity & Media –based on e-commerce, SaaS, and Cloud. At the EVM Startups have the opportunity to meet the right international investors.

• CONNEXPO TOOLS
  The extensive and practical conference program shows how to make processes in customer relations, in a team and in management fit for the digital world of work.

• K5 BERLIN
  What moves Berlin and the future of retail? E-commerce entrepreneurs and industry experts will provide first-hand insights on current market developments, growth hacks, and innovation opportunities. Valuable ideas & information are obtained through keynote sessions, Q&A sessions, and expert panels.

• K5 HOME & LIVING
  The K5 Home & Living Conference is based on the proven concept of the K5 – with keynote sessions, experience sharing, and first-hand market insights.

• FEMPRENEUR SUMMIT
  The Conference is offering a variety of keynotes & panels by female entrepreneurs, business experts & coaches, who will give some insight into their work and start-up life.
• NOAH CONFERENCE 2016
  NOAH Conference presents a unique discussion platform for CEOs and founders from established champions and disruptive challengers across a number of key industry verticals.

• CZECH INNOVATION FESTIVAL
  CIF is the Czech Republic’s showcase in the field of science, research, and innovation. It focuses on innovations in the range of ICT, the internet, mobile apps, digitalisation and industry 4.0.
• BERLIN WEB WEEK PARTY AT FACTORY BERLIN
  The factory is the place to be to meet and mingle with the startup scene, medium sized enterprises, and global players, media representatives and investors. Join Factory for a night filled with awesome music, cool drinks, delicious food, networking & good vibes in the heart of Berlin
• STARTUP EUROPE SUMMIT
  Startup Europe Summit is the place where the world’s top policy makers, startup founders, venture capitalists and corporate execs come together over two days for Europe’s foremost policy meets technology conference

• FIRSTSCREEN CONFERENCE
  FirstScreen is the first conference entirely dedicated to mobile performance advertising and advertising technology. It will cover the most pressing challenges facing mobile performance advertisers today as well as the opportunities brought about by the latest advancements in advertising technology.
• ROUNDTABLE FOR STARTUPS
  It will discuss the topic „Boone and bane of disruptive success – how can startups achieve sustainable acceptance?“

• BERLIN OPEN DATA DAY
  Open Data is born by the idea of making data publicly available and usable – current topics, trends, developments, and needs will be discussed at the conference. The aim of the event is to encourage interested administrative staff to publish data and to convince programmers and active community members to use the published data, to make further data available and to show the potential hidden in open data.

• DROIDCON BERLIN 2016
  The conference offers an exciting high-quality program on the latest topics of the mobile operating system Android.

The goal of the individual events is to make Europe’s digital scene more visible, to shape and to advance it.

The digital capital Berlin sends out groundbreaking technological and creative impulses every year. As a joint platform, the Berlin Web Week also brings the internet scene of the capital under one umbrella in order to position Berlin as an important location for new web trends and digital technologies both nationally and internationally.

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