Special event "Startup’s Guide to Success in Central and Eastern Europe" at NVIDIA GTC

The Data Phoenix team invites you to get the startup´s guide to success in CEE . Join us online for a special event on March 23rd at 15:00 CET.

Topic: ” Startup’s Guide to Success in Central and Eastern Europe”
Speakers:
- Piotr Byrski, Co-Founder and CEO , Molecule.one
- Dominik Andrzejczuk, Managing Partner of Atmos Ventures, CEO & Founder of The Quantum Data Center Corporation, Atmos Ventures
- Liron Friend-Saadon, Developer Relations Manager, NVIDIA
- Troy Estes, Developer Community Manager, NVIDIA
Language: English
Participation: free

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS AND TOPIC

Building a successful AI startup in Central/Eastern Europe (CEE) means overcoming unique barriers such as brain drain, international funding, and market experience. Despite these challenges, this region continues to generate monumental success with several "unicorns," hundreds of thousands of skilled developers, and dozens of lucrative acquisitions. How can startups repeat the success of others? How can AI change regional trends to benefit founders and developers alike? We've assembled industry experts to answer those questions and more. Dominik Andrzejczuk will speak about why CEE is poised to be the next major technology hub, what investors look for in new and disruptive startups, a future with quantum computing, and more. Liron Friend-Saadon will cover tips and tricks to build common enterprise AI use cases, free resources NVIDIA can provide to help build AI solutions, and more.

Piotr Byrski
Co-Founder and CEO, Molecule.one
Piotr Byrski is the Co-Founder and CEO of Molecule.one -- a biotech company that uses AI to predict chemical reactions. For his achievements, Piotr has been recognized as a two-time alumnus of the Polish edition of Forbes 30 under 30. He holds an MD from Medical University of Warsaw, along with a double BSc in chemistry and math from University of Warsaw.

Dominik Andrzejczuk
Managing Partner of Atmos Ventures, CEO & Founder of The Quantum Data Center Corporation, Atmos Ventures
Dominik spent most of his career in Palo Alto, California, where he founded his FinTech startup Nooch in 2010. He spent his first four years in Palo Alto as a product lead, and then joined the venture capital firm Morado Ventures in 2014. Morado is a deep-tech, early-stage venture fund founded by former Yahoo executives Ash Patel and Mark Marquez. One of the founders of Yahoo!, Jerry Yang, was its largest LP. Morado Ventures was also an early investor in Rigetti Quantum Computing—one of the first venture deals in a gate-based quantum computing hardware company. Dominik has been involved in the quantum computing industry since its early days, and has seen the challenges and successes of this nascent field first-hand. In 2018, he left California to found his own venture fund, Atmos Ventures, in Warsaw, Poland. Since then, Dominik has invested in fault-tolerant quantum computing startups Oxford Ionics and ORCA Computing, and in error mitigation startup BEIT. After committing the entirety of the capital in Atmos in early 2022, he's back to entrepreneurship to pursue his lifelong passion of quantum computing. Dominik is an avid Ironman triathlete, competing in several races annually, and is also a big promoter of Poland and its massive potential to become a global tech hub. He lives in Warsaw full time.

Liron Friend-Saadon
Developer Relations Manager, NVIDIA
Liron Friend-Saadon leads Developer Relations at NVIDIA CEE & Israel regions. In this role, Liron works with AI developers across many industries helping to educate, onboard and implement Nvidia platforms that accelerate and optimize both AI development (training) and implementations (inferencing) in many different types of environments.

Troy Estes
Developer Community Manager, NVIDIA
Troy Estes is a developer community manager at NVIDIA. Before he joined the Developer Chapters team, Troy worked on product marketing for the edge computing business unit and marketing campaigns in the autonomous vehicles business unit and the NVIDIA GRID product group.