Speakers

Marina Cantafio is a Social Media Manager, Freelancer & Founder of the Blog www.lovefoodish.com.
Her passion for food, storytelling, and networking is her personal superpower.  Marina creates content for several food brands, restaurants & hotels in Switzerland and the world. Her blog has up to 2200 visitors a month and features food & travel stories she experiences while traveling the world. Besides her own blog, she supports various customers in the areas of finances, lifestyle, and healthcare with social media strategy and content creation.

Previously in EDP, he was the Head of Marketing Projects in EDP’s Customer Relations and Marketing, the Director of Smarthome Marketing and Sales, the Director of Energy Services Marketing and the Director of Distributed Generation, all of these in EDP Comercial, EDP’s retail company in Portugal.

Before that Jose Lobato Duarte worked 13 years in management consultancy companies, developing projects in areas such as new business development, market entry strategy, global and commercial strategy, new product and distribution network development and deployment and organizational design, in countries like Portugal, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Brazil, Nigeria and Angola.

Working for Quentic as Technical Coach with the goal to support the code quality.

Preparing and running trainings for our developers with the focus on software-design.

Supporting and coaching our dev-teams, encouraging them to write tests, doing TDD and work in pair- or mob-programing.

Searching for blockers regarding the code quality and trying to solve them or initiate solutions.

Initiating changes on the system level, if processes has to be adapted.

Matt Ward is a serial entrepreneur, Venturelab startup advisor & business consultant for strategy & growth and an ex-angel investor and VC/tech podcaster.

He helps founders and businesses change the world for the better with experienced growth, strategy, marketing, and fundraising tactics to reach larger audiences, increase revenues, improve business models & processes, and make a bigger impact with their efforts.

By bringing years of experience (and painful lessons learned) building & exiting companies, helping others do the same and working in and around the startup/venture ecosystem, Matt helps companies (from scrappy upstarts to the Fortune 500) take their business to the next level.

If you’re building something meaningful in the world and your business needs a proven combination of multi-industry experience, futurist perspective and outside-the-box thinking to help strategically scaling your company, consider working with Matt.

Founder of KAPSLY, the first service investment marketplace with the mission to help founders to build their startups with hands-on support from professional service agencies.

Organiser of the Swiss Startups Club, one of the biggest event and networking platforms for startups in Switzerland.

Claudius holds a degree in Law from the University of St.Gallen (HSG) and has been active in the Swiss coworking and startup scenes since 2012. His passion is the combination of entrepreneurship and creativity, be it with creative industry startups, or his own art platform artagenda.com. He founded the CreativeSpace coworking spaces in 2014, which are now present in Zurich and St.Gallen. Claudius has also been co-founder of Coworking Switzerland, the Swiss coworking federation, of which he is acting as Co-President since 2020. He develops and moderates events and support services for startups and freelancers.