IdeaLab! is Europe’s premier student-led startup conference designed to connect young founders with top-tier investors and startup-interested students with forward-thinking companies.
Get inspired by the most successful entrepreneurs, innovators and investors from all around the world.
Get to know students, founders as well as Europe's top VCs while grabbing some refreshments.
Work together with the best known companies from all over the world to get inspired and learn their practices.
Pitch your Idea! to top level VCs at our main stage and win 10.000€ in cash and many more prices.
Networking Boat, Dinner, After party:
We will ensure that you have an awesome time!
(Founder & CEO)
Frank is a European business angel, serial founder, investor and TV personality. Since 1994, Frank has founded seven technology companies and his products have reached more than 200 million consumers in over 60 countries.
As of 2010, Frank has invested in a growing number of startups, such as Lilium Aviation, Wunderlist (acquired by Microsoft) or mytaxi (acquired by Daimler AG). He is also a founding member of early-stage-focused venture capital firm Freigeist (formerly e42). Since 2014 Frank also serves as a judge and investor on the famous TV show "Die Höhle der Löwen" - the German equivalent of "Shark Tank".
Co-Founder & CEO
Meet Julian Stiefel, Co-Founder and CEO of Tourlane, the planning and booking service for customized, exclusive multi-day trips. Tourlane has raised $81 Million in funding in just over 13 months from high-class investors Sequoia Capital,Spark Capital, DN Capital and HV Holtzbrinck Ventures and already employs more than 250 people. Tourlane redefines the way people experience travel with a focus on making planning and booking exclusive multi-day trips easy and affordable for travellers. With everything from the flights to the accommodation to all on-site activities being taken care of, users have the opportunity to arrange tailor-made travel packages with their personal travel expert completely free of charge.
Founder & CEO
Naren is Founder & CEO of Omio, which was previously known as GoEuro. Omio is a website and app for travel by train, bus and flight, where you can search, compare and book tickets based on what’s important for you - whether that’s price, duration or mode. Omio has an average 27 million monthly users and employs more than 300 people, including about 200 developers. Based in Berlin, the company has received almost $300 million funding from renowned investors including Battery Ventures, Goldman Sachs, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Kinnevik AB.
Group Director EMEA & DACH
Kai Herzberger is Group Director DACH + EMEA (Commerce, Transformational Retail, Travel, Finance & Fashion) at Facebook. He has been working for Facebook since 2014. Together with his team, he creates solutions that help companies achieve their performance goals on the network.Before joining Facebook, Kai worked for several well-known companies such as Amazon BuyVIP, AOL, and Google DailyDeal.
Check in if you haven’t done so already, grab a good breakfast to kickstart you day and enjoy the first speeches. Students will be in for a treat: 3 Hours of SpeedDating! with top corporates will give you the opportunity to 1-up your career. Feeling hungry again? Just grab a delicious lunch from one of our awesome food-trucks.
Pick your poison: fascinating speeches or challenging workshops - something is sure to match your taste. Our legendary PitchBattle! lets start-ups battle for a 11.000 cash , Amazon Web Services Credits reward and a McKinsey workshop. Your vote counts! Who is going to take home the big prize? Vote now on your phones.
After a long day of speeches & workshops, we’ll make sure that networking won’t come short. Enjoy a delicious 3 course menu, network with likeminded professionals and kickstart the night! Once you are stuffed and satisfied, the night is just about to start! We’ll put you on our legendary CherryCruise! Party while floating down the river Rhine and enjoy a spectacular end to an awesome day!
Keeping in mind that it might have gotten a little late yesterday, we’ll start the day slowly. Get a stomach-friendly breakfast and listen to interesting speeches.
If you’re a start-up looking for an investor, this is your time to shine: 3 hours of investor/start-up SpeedDating! will give you more business opportunities than you could imagine.
Since breakfast might not have been the most important meal of the day, we’ll make sure there’s enough lunch to get you satisfied. There’s plenty time to network or participate in a workshop without worrying about missing out on a speech. The closing remarks will take place in H001 after which we’ll proceed to the dinner.
After getting dinner, there is obviously only one way left to end this awesome conference: the legendary IdeaLab! AfterParty! brought to you by Sumup. Good music, good people and an awesome atmosphere - what else could one wish for?
Last year’s conference featured an inspiring atmosphere among hundreds of engaged students, founders and investors. Thanks to an amazing speaker line-up, exciting workshops as well as numerous networking opportunities, there wasn’t a single boring minute. Watch the video and convince yourself!
Last year’s conference featured an inspiring atmosphere among hundreds of engaged students, founders and investors. Thanks to an amazing speaker line-up, exciting workshops as well as numerous networking opportunities, there wasn’t a single boring minute. Watch the video and see for yourself!
