Speakers

Paulina is a Program Manager at Kickstart Innovation, one of Europe’s largest zero equity, multi-corporate ecosystem innovation platforms that run a scale-up program for later-stage startups with a goal to accelerate deep tech innovation. She is involved in two particular verticals – smart cities, and finance & insurance. Previously, she was working in Vienna for almost 5 years as a Program Manager of Startup Live, leading this early-stage acceleration program, one of the biggest entrepreneurial communities worldwide. Her mission is to help entrepreneurs to succeed and build startup communities around the programs. Paulina is not only organizing events but also moderating startup competitions. She co-organized the first Tech Jobs Fair in Vienna in 2019. It is her pleasure to be back as the event’s moderator at TJF Zurich.

All chaotic things are interesting to me. That’s why I chose a career in the most chaotic field there is: Cyber Security Incident Response.

Founder of Silentus, an anti-procrastination app for workers and students, optimizing homeworking to help them regain 500hrs per year on average and set boundaries between work hours and personal time (maximize time and energy levels).

Awarded Rotterdam School of Management’s “’I WILL’ Journey Award’ in April 2022 for a (volunteers) recycling initiative in Chiclayo, Peru. Currently 20+ households signed up to change their habits towards waste management.

As entrepreneur demonstrated ability to develop and translate ideas into products that improves people’s lives, and build (remote) teams capable of executing clear roadmaps.

Drive execution through finding resources (tech/people/financial) to deliver on-time, in-full, using network/learning/DIY. Able to create something big and tangible from limited resources by being creative and strict prioritization.

Building on 15+ years of experience in Finance and Operations in Global Multinationals including KraftHeinz, TomTom, PwC, Vopak.

Belief that education and technology are the main levers to close skills and inequalities in society. Avid reader (fiction and non-fiction).

Graduate from INSEAD (Executive Master in Finance) and Rotterdam School of Management (MBA).

Lavinia Osbourne is an established agent for change in blockchain, and an entrepreneur at the vanguard of NFT development and futurist for the emergent metaverse. Through her work as Founder of WiBT she has won and been nominated for accolades such as the National Diversity Award for Community Organisation and Best Diversity Resource/Initiative Award; whilst as an individual she is one of Wirex’s Rising Women in Crypto 2021, a TechWomen100 winner 2020, a 2021 LinkedIn Top Voice in Tech & Innovation, and Cog X Gender Leadership Winner 2022.

Combining her passionate belief in blockchain’s egalitarian ideals with a commitment to utilising her knowledge, connections and entrepreneurial spirit to bring opportunity for all, Lavinia works tirelessly to break down barriers by raising underrepresented voices.

Hi! I am Maria, recruiter at Trunkrs, where I recently started. I am a recruiter focused mostly on tech roles but I take care of the recruitment of many areas in the company together with my colleague Annalies, whom will also join me in this fair.

We are looking forward to this day and hope to get the most of it!

Head of Marketing in a fast-growing and innovative ed-tech/fintech specializing in improving financial literacy, and also a co-founder at one exciting ed-tech project. I possess strong expertise in user acquisition in various channels, building up marketing strategies focusing on brand awareness, engaging with prospects, and creating strong relationships with users as well achieving the goals of stakeholders. Thanks to 5 years of being involved in startups and business marketing initiatives and a previous experience in business management, I am leading businesses to meet their needs and build up a strong brand presence that would distribute the values of the company and create loyalty to the brands and their products across different channels.

Why Digital Marketing? I have been involved in creating and promoting the product from the first career step and marketing has a major role in the successful launch. Being data-driven with solid analytical skills and creativity made my shift to Digital Marketing extremely smooth. Simply speaking, I have always dreamt to make every enterprise financially successful with a myriad (army) of happy and loyal customers. And I have always been into technology and innovation.

Being part of FONGIT program made the journey of Money Masters easy and opened a lot of doors. We have been assisted from day one with training our pitching skills and connecting with industry leaders, overall facilitating an already challenging startup life.