Matthaus Krzykowski jotting down thoughts. Jon von Tetzchner, founder of Opera Software and Vivaldi.Ī young mr.
Stefan Vandegehuchte + Sven Marievoet + Kris Hoet Interviews by the legendary Vincent Everts.įuturist Gerd Leonhard on stage where he belongs. Second from the left is the unstoppable Bart Becks. How many investor panels has Mike Butcher moderated in his lifetime?īlogging on the floor where the plugs are located. The up-and-coming-then Reshma Sohoni, who had just set up Seedcamp.Īnd Eline Talboom, breaking ground in Belgium still, backing female entrepreneurs. On the right, Pieterjan 'PJ' Bouten who went on to start one of the biggest tech scale-ups Belgium has ever seen ( Showpad). On the left: Leen Segers, once upon a time COO of. These days, he's battling disinformation. The gentleman on the left is Andrej Nabergoj, who went on to run the incredibly successful Outfit7 company and is now investing in Silicon Valley.Ī young Maarten Schenk hard at work. In 2008, he was on a panel featuring legendary tech PR queen Colette Ballou as the moderator, and mister Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten (back then the guy from a startup called Fleck rather than the TNW empire). This stylishly scarfed gentleman? Rodrigo Sepúlveda Schulz, still investing and enjoying wine. Speaking of veteran investors, remember Neuhaus Partners? Paul Jozefak (on the left) has since been walking down the entrepreneurial path. Who's this guy? Why it's veteran European tech investor Max Niederhofer (back then at Atlas Venture, now going Heartcore).
Is that a young "Mike Butcher from TechCrunch" hosting Forrester Research's Rebecca Jennings on stage? Let's take a stroll down memory lane shall we (and potentially embarrass some people while we're at it)? I'm so delighted he's agreed to join us a decade later for the opening of the Summit!īut the real treasure, my friends, is hiding over on Flickr. Here's Saul klein, at Index Ventures back then, asking the question: 'Can Europe Compete? A VC Perspective'. There's some coverage on Venturebeat and ArcticStartup and other places that lingers around the Web, and there's even still a video library - including old startup pitches - from the third and last Plugg I organised up on Vimeo! I recall The Next Web live-blogging the first Plugg held in Hotel Le Plaza in Brussels alongside my employer-at-the-time TechCrunch. The website was but the domain name is no longer mine - it still has some content from past times but it's also plugging Bitcoin Cash fyi. In 2008, the first Plugg was organised while I was grinding in my first year as a full-time staff writer at TechCrunch, itself still young in those days.ĭon't ask me where the name came from (I think Digg was having a moment and I wanted people to be 'plugged in' or something something?). But I wouldn't have it, so I set out to organise an event with exclusively European speakers, startups, sponsors etc. In hindsight, that was only partly true, and also completely normal - the European tech industry was nowhere near where it is today or even five years ago. I remember feeling unsatisfied with the big conferences in Europe at the time, particularly Le Web in Paris, which were fantastic events but were incredibly US-focused in my mind. With only two weeks to go until our first Summit (get your tickets pronto etc.) I started thinking about 15 years ago when I got the crazy idea in my head to organise a conference about.
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