- This year’s How To Web Conference will traditionally take place in Bucharest this October
- The roster of speakers will be amended by celebrated book authors
- As usual, the Conference will be complemented by Spotlight competition for startups and topical side events
On October 2-3rd, Bucharest’s Face Convention Center will once again open its doors to founders, investors, executive, tech talent, – altogether over 3,000 attendees of 2024’s How to Web Conference. This will include representatives of 500+ startups, 200+ investors, and more than 100 top-tier international speakers.
The How to Web Conference 2024 brings forth the season’s must-attend event for every player in the tech startup / VC investments ecosystem. The impressive lineup of tier-one speakers, unique networking possibilities opportunities, and – of course – the thrilling Spotlight competition for startups make up the conference’s two days nobody wants to miss.
Speakers and Agenda
This year’s Conference will offer a whole four stages of insights and action:
- Build & Grow Stage: Gain insights from industry leaders on product development, growth marketing, venture capital, and more.
- Community Stage: Hear real-world success stories from founders, investors, and business leaders.
- Q&A Stage: Engage directly with renowned speakers through interactive sessions.
- Startup Stage: Discover groundbreaking ideas from CEE’s most promising startups during their hot pitches.
The Conference’s 2024 speakers and panelists include:
- Cristobal Alonso, Global CEO at Startup Wise Guys
- Vlad Andriescu, Editor-in-Chief at Start-up.ro
- Eva Arh, Partner at 3VC
- Jess Bartos, Principal at Salesforce Ventures
- Ivan Brezak Brkan, Director of Developer Content at Infobip
- Horia Coman, Head of Romania Engineering at Stripe
- Dan Mihai Dinu, Engineering Manager at Bolt
- Radu Georgescu, Chairman of the Advisory Board at SeedBlink
- Elena Ghiniță, Startup Community Editor at The Recursive
- Staffan Helgesson, General Partner at Creandum
- Marius Istrate, Chairman of the Board at TechAngels Romania
- Iqbal Javaid, Head of CX Solution Engineering EMEA at Zoom
- Srdjan Kovacevic, Co-Founder and CEO at Orqa
- Karol Lasota, Principal at Inovo.vc
- Tom McSorley, General Counsel at NATO DIANA
- Dan Mihăescu, Founding Partner at GapMinder Venture Partners
- Elisabeta Moraru, Country Director at Google România
- Fonz Morris, Lead Product Designer – Global Conversion & Monetization at Netflix
- Borys Musielak, General Partner at SMOK Ventures
- Dan Oros, CEO at Creatopy
- Vojta Roček, General Partner at Presto Ventures
- Nico Schoenenberger, Early Stage Investor at 10x Founders
- Sasha Vidiborskiy, Partner at Atomico
- Paulina Wardęga, Co-Founder and Heroify
- Monica Zara, Head of Conference at How to Web
- and many more. Find the complete list of speakers here.
The covered topics will include:
- Dualtech: How Tech Safeguards Democracy
- Essential Steps to Finding Product Market Fit
- Fundraising in 2024: What VCs are Looking for
- Greenhouse and FoodTech advancements of 2024
- How Not to Do User Research
- The Hype of AI in Customer Experience
- The Opportunity of CEE in 2024-25
- Privacy-Led Marketing
- Real-Life Microservices
- Scaling from CEE to the US
- Storytelling Strategies for Tech Innovations
- Succeeding as a First-Time Founder in 2024-25
- and more. See the complete agenda here.
In addition to industry leaders, the roster of speakers will include such celebrated authors like
- Andy Budd, who recently launched The Growth Equation
- April Dunford, author of Obviously Awesome and Sales Pitch
- Sander Hoogendoorn, author of This is Agile
- Matt LeMay, author of Product Management in Practice
- and Cristobal Alonso and Stoyan Yankov with PERFORM in Times of Crisis
They will share mind-bending insights that can facilitate significant shortcuts in the audience’s career paths and enrich their entrepreneurial experiences.
As usual, How to Web Side Events will amend the main conference and contribute to the empowerment of tech communities across the region. Topics include vc and angel investment, community building, technology transfer, optimizing user journeys, and many more in between, for even more networking and knowledge-sharing.
Investors will have the chance to enjoy Venture in CEE, the Conference’s exclusive pre-event, where the latest global and local investment trends get analyzed and debated.
For Startups
One of the biggest traditional attractions of How to Web Conference is its startup competition for startups, Spotlight. The competition offers an investment prize of EUR 350K. Startups get to showcase themselves before such notable investors as…:
… who eagerly anticipate the next big breakthrough in the region. 40 finalist startups were selected from over 300 applicants.
In a Nutshell:
- Where: Face Convention Center, Bucharest, Romania
- When: October 2-3, 2023
- Tickets here
- Early Bird Price until September 13th: EUR 229-559
Kostiantyn is a freelance writer from Crimea but based in Lviv. He loves writing about IT and high tech because those topics are always upbeat and he’s an inherent optimist!
