Seaman Chips: "From seaweed to sales success"
The founder of Seaman Chips, Heine Max, has achieved great success with his seaweed-based crisps and chips, which in two years has gone from a newly started brand to being sold in more than 10,000 stores today. Hear Heine talk about his personal journey from local fishmonger to being the probably biggest sales success on the seaweed front.
Duration: 25 minutes
Date: Sunday, March 27 from 11:00 - 11:25
StartUpAward
Fell the thrill, when 9 entrepreneurs pitch their business concept and idea to a panel of judges, among others TV-personality Mia Wagner.
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Duration: 1,5 hour
Date: Sunday, March 27 from 13:00 - 14:30
Mia Wagner: "Life as a lioness in primetime"
Mia Wagner is a trained lawyer and conflict mediator and started her career as a defense lawyer and later as partner in Wagner Advokater. In 2017, she became CEO of the family group Freeway, which is owned by her father and brother and is headquartered in Viborg. In the autumn of 2020, Mia left Freeway and today she is co-founder and director of the company Nordic Female Founders, which she co-founded with co-founder Anne Stampe Olesen in November 2020. Nordic Female Founders works to create equality and growth among female entrepreneurs in Denmark.
Mia is known from the TV show "Drangons' Den", where she is a part of the investor panel as the only female investor. This lecture is based on Mia's participation in "Drangons' Den" and her own entrepreneurial journey. It will also focus on the challenges connected with a life as an entrepreneur, and how we can make an effort to create a solid foundation for the Danish entrepreneurs.
Duration: 25 minutes
Date: Sunday, March 27 from 15:30 - 15:55
Maja Füchsel: "Højhuset - from iconic folk high school to Denmark's first Culture Hotel"
For 46 years, an iconic 14-storey high-rise building in Birk near Herning served as a public high school. Maja Füchsel, director of Højhuset, talks about the transformation of the former high school into a modern and different cultural meeting place.
In addition to a restaurant, 90 hotel rooms and concert hall, "Højhuset" will house its own mini farm, active artists and cultural figures, who will all give hotel guests a different feel.
Højhuset will be Denmark's first Culture hotel, and in this lecture you can hear what challenges and opportunities the team behind the project has encountered along the way, and what drives them.
Duration: 25 minutes
Date: Monday, March 28 from 11.00 - 11.25
Louise Byg Kongsholm: "The biggest trends that you need to know about"
Knowing the key trends can be crucial for you to succeed. If you are not clear on which values and trends, your consumers are occupied with, it is hard for you to send the right message to them.But if you hit the spot with time spirit and trends, there is no limit to how far you can go. But which trends are most important? And which ones reflect the time spirit, values, attitude and actions of today? Get a hands on and commercial presentation of the most important trends from trend researcher Louise Byg Kongsholm, owner of PEJ group - scandinavian trend institute.
Duration: 25 minutes
Date: Monday, March 28 from 13:00 - 13:25
COOP crowdfunding: you decide, what we eat!
Hear Nicolai Jæpelt, responsible for COOP Crowdfounding, explain about Coop Crowdfounding's work to create better food for everyone. The concept is to make it easier to succeed for those who work with food and easier for the consumers to invest in. In short: The companies, we invest in today, will decide which food we will eat in the future.
Duration: 25 minutter
Date: Monday, March 28 from 14:00 - 14:25
Mia Maja Hansson: "Food entrepreneurship on the Copenhagen food scene"
Serial Entrepreneur, Food Pirate, Director and Teacher Mia Maja Hansson helps food entrepreneurs to take on tomorrow's food scene. As the founder of Kitchen Collectiv and CPH Food Space, she has with her management philosophy contributed to more than 600 food entrepreneurs taking the step and establishing their own business.
Hear Mia Maja talk about the trends that right now define how food entrepreneurs succeed from idea to market on the Copenhagen food scene.
Duration: 25 minutes
Date: Monday, March 28 from 15.00-15.25
Samer Matarieh: "Love Butler – From idea to businessconcept"
Co-founder Samer Matarieh tells about his entrepreneurial journey with the company Love Butler, which has gone from being a dessert booth in a food mecca, to a unique Butler concept.
Duration: 25 minutter
Date: Tuesday, Marts 29 from 11.00-11.25
Rockstart and Raahandel: "Rockstart, Raahandel and the new food companies"
In this lecture you can meet Solveig Felbo from Råhandel, an online marketplace for small food producers, and Mark Durno from the investing firm Rockstart Agrifood. Last year, Rockstart invested in Raahandel and has since played an active role in their impressive growth journey. Together, Solveig and Mark go on stage to talk about the 6 month accelerator course seen from both the investor and startup side.
Note: The lecture is in English.
Duration: 25 minutes
Date: Tuesday, March 23 from 13:00 - 13:25
Cecilie Lind: The Protein Kitchen
2 hours of sleep, +40,000 steps a day and DKK 0 in the bank account ... But the will and the burning desire to create something that could make a difference and contribute positively to people's lives and health!
The Protein Kitchen was created out of a heartfelt vision and a desire to make a difference and to make it easier and more accessible to live a good and healthy life. This is how the first visions started at home in Cecilie's own kitchen 10 years ago. The entrepreneurial journey from a loving vision, to an established food business with natural, nutritious meals and snacks in convenience and retail, has far from been easy.
Get the story behind The Protein Kitchen for better or worse, and be introduced to how to keep getting up when the challenges hit - most recently Covid-19. Get an insight into how Cecilie has built her brand up against all odds.
Duration: 25 minutter
Date: Tuesday 29 March, 15.00-15.25
