Your Newsletter for Updates on the Entrepreneurial Community and great opportunities from the BGI Network! Building Global Innovators Announces the 6 winner Startups for the Smart Energy Challenge
Building Global Innovators has completed the selection process culminating to six disruptive technology startups. The event will allow the startups to pitch, engage and receive feedback from industry decision makers and thought leaders in this event. The competition finalists are the following: Building Global Innovators announces the i-Danha Food Lab Annual Event BGI is happy to announce that BGI and Idanha City Hall will organize the i-Danha Food Lab Annual Event, from the 10 th to the 12 th of November in Idanha-a-Nova. Right after the world’s biggest tech conference – Web Summit, BGI will bring together investors, corporates, startups, entrepreneurs and political stakeholders together, and take them on a unique adventure. During these 3 days you will get to discuss a range of topics related with AgriTech, FooTech and CleanTech. The plan is for you to leave Lisbon on a historical train with us, alongside the beautiful Tagus River, deep forests and mountains heading to Idanha municipality. The train will have the theme “Dream Green... or Go Gome”. The event will be open to the public and you can find the agenda in detail and register. Register Hack The Planet 2017: The best engineering hackathon is coming to the universities Hack the Planet is an initiative with five hackathons in Portugal. The initiative comes from BGI's partnership with EIT Climate-Kic Portugal Hub whose main mission is to create sustainable growth through mitigation and adaptation to climate change. Who can apply? All students of engineering universities in Portugal can apply for one of these institutions when will happen the hackathon. Universidade de Coimbra ; Universidade da Beira Interior ; UL-FCUL ; Universidade Nova de Lisboa - FCT ; Instituto Superior Técnico What ’s the prize? The best idea wins a money prize to 500€. How can you apply? You will find the application form here: http://hacktheplanet.tech/Candidatura.html Learn More Entrepreneurs Leaders Retreat: for exceptional entrepreneurs, visionaries and people 'who make it happen' This is an opportunity to bring together a group of people that have been proven to overcome various challenges. The initiative includes experts in their respective areas, founders of startups, entrepreneurs from different backgrounds who know the difficulties inherent to success, who have encountered obstacles but also ways of exceeding those obstacles. You will have the opportunity to join a small group of individuals just like you. Are you interested? Building Global Innovators is a partner of Entrepreneurs Leaders Retreat, so we have a 20% discount for you ! Apply Eco.Constroi: The circular economy workshop The Instituto Politécnico de Leiria is holding the 'ECO.CONSTROI' workshop on the 20th of October. The event will consist of discussions on the importance of accelerating the circular economy, with some university projects and business models in this area. Learn more Global Startup Challenge 2017: FinTech This is an initiave to empower innovations startups across the globe through the platform Edge196. The challenge runs across 26 global clusters (196 countries) where our objetive is to identify startups that have the potential to become the next unicorn in the world. Apply FuelSave: the startup that will save more than 3 million liters of fuel BGI is happy to announce that FuelSave in the next months the group RNM and Luís Simões will start using Fuel Save. The app will adapt to the characteristics of each vehicle, road or situation. Pavnext at WebSummit by Startup League Pavnext was 1 of 5 portuguese startups selected by Startup League to be present at WebSummit 2017. Pavnext is working with local governments of Portuguese cities to bring the concept to implementation. © BGI, 2017, [email protected] This newsletter is sent to you because you are a customer or subscriber of geral@bgi. Unsubscribe
