#TechBBQ

[robpegoraro]

Weekly output: unicorn founder insights, Lightning's last stand at Apple, Polestar transparency

ZADAR, Croatia–My countries-visited list now has a new entry, and it’s one I arguably should have visited already. I flew to Croatia from Copenhagen Saturday after attending (and speaking at) the TechBBQ conference so that I could then emcee one of the stages at the messaging-services firm Infobip’s Shift conference here (with Infobip covering flights and lodging). It’s an opportunity I would…

[edwestwickers]

Ed Westwick no evento TechBBQ em Copenhagen na Dinamarca, 11.09.24

[vicislifeinbinary]

Tak til Deloitte (her med Malene Fagerberg og mig selv) og My Law Story (med Dr. Sabba Mirza) for at gå sammen om at skabe ‘Women in Law & Tech’-netværket og konferencen i år ⚖️🤖 Sabbas fede juridiske netværksevner så jeg på jurastudiet og Deloittes fremragende tech-orienterede side så jeg på min arbejdsplads – jeg er glad for at vi kunne slå hovederne sammen og skabe noget nyt. Vi håber at vi har inspireret flere kvinder til at gå ind i tech og IT samt bryde tabuer i typisk mandsdominerede brancher ✊🏻🗣 Det var fedt at møde jer alle – tak til alle, der har hjulpet med at få netværket til at ske og fortsætter med at støtte kvinder inden for jura og teknologi. Aftenens talere og paneldeltagere: Dr. Sabba Mirza, Dir. My Law Story Stine Bosse, erhvervskvinde Kay Michelsen, Head of Programme TechBBQ  Laura Borum, advokatfuldmægtig hos Plesner  Victoria Sobocki, Risk Advisory Consultant Deloitte Hayel Celik-Graversen, LEGAL MASTER ADVISOR  Malene Fagerberg, Partner Deloitte  Friha Akhtar, Partner IFCR - Institut For Cyber Risk // Thanks to Deloitte (here with Malene Fagerberg and myself) and My Law Story (with Dr. Sabba Mirza) for coming together to create the 'Women in Law & Tech' network and conference this year ⚖️🤖 Sabba’s cool legal networking skills I saw at law school and Deloitte’s excellent tech-oriented side I saw at my workplace – I'm happy we could put our heads together and create something new. We hope that we have inspired more women to enter tech and IT and break taboos in typically male-dominated industries ✊🏻🗣 It was great meeting you all – thank you to everyone who helped make the network happen and continue to support women in law and technology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . #event #konference #netværk #MyLawStory #Deloitte #WomeninLawandTech #WomeninLaw #WomeninTech #DeloitteDenmark #jurist #advokat #job #karriere #jura #legaltech #techlaw #fremtidensjurist #futureoflaw #advokatbranchen #diversitet #arbejdskultur #worklifebalance #SabbaMirza #StineBosse #KayMichelsen #LauraBorum #VictoriaSobocki #HayelCelikGraversen #MaleneFagerberg #FrihaAkhtar @mylawstorydk @deloittedenmark @deloitte (at Deloitte) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqBmk-psYob/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[sentiiot]

Senti are specialists in individual and customised IoT business solutions. Senti powers the entire process from IoT devices to data collection in our open IoT cloud platform, to the design of usable decision support dashboards and digital display solutions and mobile apps. We Sense, Think and Act on Your data. All-in-one service enablement platform, to help you grow your business through building strong and engaging customer service relationships Today we showcase our technology at @techbbqdk and you’re welcome to pay us a visit. #iot #data #iotplatform #businessautomation #servitization #customerservice #techbbq #senti @cbroberg (at Lokomotivværkstedet) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cier4XDrtzN/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[cbroberg]

Senti are specialists in individual and customised IoT business solutions. Senti powers the entire process from IoT devices to data collection in our open IoT cloud platform, to the design of usable decision support dashboards and digital display solutions and mobile apps. We Sense, Think and Act on Your data. All-in-one service enablement platform, to help you grow your business through building strong and engaging customer service relationships Today we showcase our technology at @techbbqdk and you’re welcome to pay us a visit. #iot #data #iotplatform #businessautomation #servitization #customerservice #techbbq #senti @sentiiot (at Lokomotivværkstedet) https://www.instagram.com/p/CiersuuMqwXxWIihOqoHhplgKHrSleXHxY3KVk0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[shenzhenblog]

The Biggest Startup & Innovation Summit of Scandinavia Is Coming To China | TECHBBQ

The Biggest Startup & Innovation Summit of Scandinavia Is Coming To China | TECHBBQ

The Biggest Startup & Innovation Summit of Scandinavia Is Coming To China 14 November 2019

From Denmark, The Nordic To China

The First Ever TechBBQ Event is Coming to Shenzhen!

When: 14th Nov 2019 Where: Trouble Maker Huaqiangbei

-3 Stages -30 Speakers, Investors, -10 Workshops

StartUp Booth, Investor Booth, Fulfillment Booth, NetWorking, BBQ Buffet and Craft Beer are Waiting For…

[daredo]

It warms the heart of an old community builder to see the danish startup community united in one place 😍 ⁣ The past days has been filled with panels, smiles and reconnecting with old friends. I’ve been on four panels and learnt something on every one of them. ⁣ ⁣ We owe TechBBQ a huge thanks for the enormous tasks of putting on a great show to give us all an excuse to meet up⁣ 🙏 ⁣ #community #helpingeachother #reconnect #oldfriends #mytribe #startups #copenhagen #techbbq #thecreatorscommunity #learning #entrepreneur (at Copenhagen) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2oCz-ghP0_/?igshid=1cg1jfmut2a9j

[daijifukuda]

TechBBQ Digital 2020

Resilience: @TechBBQ Digital on Sept 17-18. An incredible lineup of 60+ speakers include Akamai CEO and co-founder Tom Leighton on “Cybersecurity – why it matters more than you know”. Learn how to protect your business.

TechBBQ Digital 2020

Resilience: @TechBBQ Digital on Sept 17-18. An incredible lineup of 60+ speakers include Akamai CEO and co-founder Tom Leighton on “Cybersecurity – why it matters more than you know”. Learn how to protect your business.

Akamai Dynamic Signal

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How to grow smart. Lessons on inner and outer growth from TechBBQ conference via /r/business

How to grow smart. Lessons on inner and outer growth from TechBBQ conference https://ift.tt/2ndzsR8 Submitted September 27, 2019 at 04:45PM by DOOKteam via reddit https://ift.tt/2nbj8Aw

[akkuposts-blog]

Really good roundtable conversation about...

Did you miss Akamai CEO Tom Leighton at Tech BBQ? Take a look at his visit:

Really good roundtable conversation about...

Really good roundtable conversation about #cybersecurity yesterday at #TechBBQ, the largest tech summit in Scandinavia… where @Akamai Enterprise Security Architect Xavier Daspre and Solutions Engineer Jonas Hogue presented on “Designing for API Doomsday”

Akamai Dynamic Signal

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[robpegoraro]

Self-driving cars will be nice at some point, but self-driving trains are great now

Traveling to Copenhagen has further radicalized me about cycling as transportation--but also about the virtues of driverless subways.

COPENHAGEN Returning here a year after my overdue introduction to this delightful corner of Europe allowed me to remedy the most egregious oversight of last September’s trip: I remembered to rent a bike to get across town. But the TechBBQ conference once again having me here as a speaker also let me enjoy a less obvious transportation attraction of Copenhagen: the city’s driverless Metro…

[edwestwickers]

Ed Westwick no evento TechBBQ em Copenhagen na Dinamarca, 11.09.24

[sentiiot]

Senti er taget til @techbbqdk for at tiltrække flere spændende partnere til vores åbne IoT data og service platform. Vi har endda taget ti eksisterende partnere med for at vise Senti alsidige møde at understøtte partnere i egne IoT økosystemer. Vi er heldige med at både IoTrace fra Aalborg og Airplant fra Aarhus kunne være med begge dage 👏🏻🏆 #techbbq #techbbq2021 #iot #iotplatform #opensource #dataolatform (her: Øksnehallen) https://www.instagram.com/p/CT4Axhssp4U/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Despite High Taxes and Wages, Denmark's Entrepreneurial Spirit Is Strong

Denmark has arrived late to the startup party, and still lags behind well-established entrepreneurial communities such as Stockholm and Silicon Valley. That said, I've seen massive improvement in the eight years since I co-founded Queue-it, a virtual waiting room SaaS solution, in Copenhagen. Starting up now would have been easier on many levels. When business people think about Denmark, they often hesitate to start a company of their own in a country infamous for its high taxes and high wages. Despite this somewhat negative image, however, the entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well. Denmark's entrepreneurial ecosystem was ranked sixth-best globally in 2017 by the Global Entrepreneurship Development Institute. Between 2014-2016, we saw 360 percent growth in the number of Danish small businesses. Month after month in 2018 has seen headlines of record-breaking employment levels. To tweak the famous Hamlet line, "something is blossoming in the state of Denmark." So, let's talk about the two elephants in the room -- high wages and high taxes -- and how the Danish entrepreneurial ecosystem has adapted to them. I believe strongly that a strong collaboration across Danish government, investors, startup communities and enterprise companies has been instrumental in boosting entrepreneurship in Denmark. This is a takeaway that could potentially be an inspiration to other growing startup communities.

Why wages don't worry us

High wages are a cornerstone in the Danish economy, so entrepreneurs and other businesses realize that productivity is key. Denmark's economy is the fifth-most productive in the world, while also boasting the second-fewest actual hours worked. Some Danish companies are even experimenting with a 30-hour work week. To achieve this productivity, task prioritization and resource management are central. As an example, our team actively welcomes the talents of student helpers and interns. We leverage their latest business knowledge from the academic world and the flexibility they provide to our resource management. They gain relevant work experience, and in the case of EU students, qualify for government student stipends above and beyond their work compensation. Overall this creates a good dynamic for the Danish community and injects talent into the startup stream from the get-go.

Don't miss the forest for the taxes.

Yes, taxes in Denmark are high. The Heritage Foundation's economic freedom index ranks the Danish tax burden as "repressed," which ranks us as the twelfth-most free economy worldwide. But, as entrepreneurs we aim at seeing the bigger picture. The taxes pay for universal healthcare, which means I don't also need to play benefit-manager or contribute toward plan premiums, as in, say, the U.S. Tax revenues also support free higher education, which has helped to make Denmark's workforce one of the most highly educated in the world and which contributes to Denmark's seventh-best rank in talent competitiveness. All Danish full-time students enjoy not only a free university price tag, but also receive a monthly student stipend (more than €800 in 2018). The Danish startup scene is blooming with young founders. Instead of leaving the security of a well-paying job, many will leverage the safety of the student stipend to get a head start on founding their companies while they are still students.

How stakeholder alignment is the key

Regardless of the state of taxes or wages in your country, you may be inspired by Denmark's recent entrepreneurial progress. In my opinion, the most important driver has been the cohesion of Danish government, investors, startup organizations and enterprises in the Danish entrepreneurial scene. The government is eager to reduce bureaucratic barriers. Entrepreneurs can establish their companies online and receive free support from government organizations, such as the tax authorities, in setting everything up correctly. As a more innovative example, the government has created an online forum for businesses to report burdensome regulations or inefficient processes. The government is then required to follow up on the proposals or clarify why it will neglect to do so. As a SaaS co-founder, I know how crucial early stage funding is. My co-founders and I experienced how difficult it was to obtain funding eight years ago when we started Queue-it. Since then, investment opportunities have expanded nicely, with more than 500 entities on the Danish scene, from crowdfunding sources to angel investor networks to seed and venture capital funds. Grassroots startup communities and initiatives have been critical to kick-start this process, led by key organizations like Copenhagen For the Win (#CPHFTW), TechBBQ, and WomenInTech.dk, providing meaningful forums for meeting other entrepreneurs and community players outside of an investment context. We can now talk openly about both successes and failures, something that's not possible in the typical "pitch the investor" gatherings. And established enterprises have joined the movement, too. They are investigating and investing in the entrepreneurial community like never before. Our own Copenhagen office is located together with 30 other startups inside the headquarters of a publicly traded insurance multinational that has established a vibrant 300-seat coworking space for startups.

There's a bright future ahead.

Denmark's entrepreneurial environment isn't perfect. Tax schemes could be more business friendly, especially for personal investments in companies, and we still tend to let our government innovation funds compete with private money. Immigration policy could be smoother in allowing work permits for needed foreign talent. Each country's entrepreneurial ecosystem is unique. But, I think Denmark's recent progress should be reason for optimism. Most importantly, I've outlined how successful stakeholder alignment here has been a key driver. The entrepreneurial spirit in Denmark has definitely transformed positively in the past decade. I'm excited to see where the next 10 years will take us. Read the full article

[techbikers]

TechBikers 450km Copenhagen to Berlin 2017: The night before

It’s the night before our longest ever TechBikers’ cycling challenge. At 450km, the TechBikers Copenhagen to Berlin cycling challenge to raise money for Room to Read is 130km longer than our Paris to London ride back in June. We’ve also set ourselves the additional challenge of covering the extra distance in the same number of days. 
What can we say? It sounded like a good idea at the time! Despite the nerves, we’re excited to get going.  You can probably tell from our flat lays above that we finally gave up trying to keep up with the weather forecasts - torrential rain? side winds? hot and sunny? cloudy and cold? - and decided to cover all bases. Pretty much the only thing we haven’t packed is Bertie, the King Charles Cavalier! 

As for where we are the night before, some of us live and work in Copenhagen, some of us arrived a few hours ago and the remaining TechBikers are travelling overnight or leaving super early in the morning in order to arrive in time. 
We can’t wait to be reunited with our wheels in Copenhagen – the first official Bike City in the World. It’s going to be an awesome first for us to ride as a group through some of the city’s 390km+ designated cycling lanes before we hit the rest of the 450km route to Berlin. This cycling challenge from Copenhagen to Berlin has already set a new record for individual TechBikers’ fundraising. Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen is currently sitting at the top of the leaderboard thanks to over $20k in donations! 

Some firsts from other rides are also inspiring us when it comes to our Copenhagen to Berlin fundraising. Rumour has it that Orsola De Marco may have started a TechBikers tradition. She was the first person to cycle part of the 320km from Paris to London in heels this summer but one TechBiker is tipped to follow her example if they hit their personal fundraising target of £1k. We’ll keep you updated... If you haven’t yet managed to, there’s still time to donate. You don’t have to know a TechBiker personally, just click here and pick at random. We are super grateful to our family, friends and people we’ve never even met: every €, £ and $ donated makes a huge difference to children around the world who otherwise wouldn’t have the chance to learn to read.

Thanks also to our sponsors Danske Bank, Rising North, TechBBQ, Mapillary, Balderton Capital and Factory Berlin for covering costs so that every donation can go direct to Room to Read. We’ll be back tomorrow with an update from Day 1 but for now, it’s back to the carb loading...