Start-Up Championships

The Start-Up Championships take place on the 9th of October and are designed to give a platform to the hottest start-ups and learn how they plan to disrupt the marketplace. Each start-up will have a 5-10-minute pitch followed by Q&A from a panel of expert judges. At the end of the competition, the judges will choose a winner.

Schedule

10:20: Opening from Bjoern Schaettgen
10:25: Panel Discussion with the judges
Moderator: Bjoern Schaettgen, Chief Growth Officer, Match-Maker Ventures
Judges: Lisa Schwab, Director of Strategic Engagement, CableLabs
Jon Carter, Home - Partnerships & Scouting Lead, Deutsche Telekom
Francois Jezequel, Director of Business Development, Orange Fab France Accelerator

11:00: Start-up Championships begin
Start-ups formed 2022-2024
11:00: Farid Benbadis, CEO & Co-founder, Hopcast
11:15: Muhammed Ornek, Co-founder, ForestGuard
11:30: Katya Voronina, Co-founder & Co-CEO, ChatNCharge
11:45: Karl Frankenser, CEO, METAVSHN
12:00: Jawad Maaloum, CEO & Co-founder, MLNetworks
12:15: Nader Labib, CEO & co-founder, Lyrasense
12:30: Andreas Franke, CEO & Founder, Telgea
12:45: Break
13:30: Start-ups formed 2020-2021
13:30: Teodor Genov, Sales & Business Development, MYX AD Software
13:45: Luke Barlow, CEO, Netduma
14:00: Emmanuel Audousset, CRO & Co-founder, LatenceTech
Marc Soulacroup, Business Development Director, LatenceTech
14:15: Alin Rosca, CEO & Co-founder, RepsMate
14:30: Tuan Phan-Quang, Head of Customer Success, LabLabee
14:45: Carlos Oba, CEO & Founder, Dots for Inc.
15:00: David Cortes, CEO & Co-founder, AI-vidence
15:15: Paul Patras, CEO & Co-founder, Net AI
15:30: Akram Abouseif, CTO & Co-Founder, MIMOPT Technology
15:45: Competition End
15:55: Winners Announced

10th October join us on the headliners stage at 09:45 to meet the winners!

Key information

The winners will receive a booth at Network X 2025 in Paris and trophy presentation on the Network X Headliners stage on the 10th.
Provide an innovative solution or technology to telcos
16 Start-Ups
Panel of judges from Incubators and Operators.
Must be new to the Network X Start-Up Championships
Launched since 01/01/2020

Katya VoroninaCo-founder & Co-CEO at ChatNChargeSpeaker

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