International Conference "IDCEE 2011: Investor Day Central and Eastern Europe 2011. Internet Technologies & Innovations" will take place on October 25-26, 2011 in Kiev, Ukraine. This year the Conference will be held at the exhibition hall "ACCO International". More than 2,000 participants from Central and Eastern Europe, United States and Canada are expected to attend the event.

The main goal of IDCEE 2011 is to bring together ideas and insights of leading experts and start-up entrepreneurs with expertise and experience of investors and business-angels, as well as organization of keynote speaker presentations, panel discussions, startup competition, and meetings with prominent world experts.

The Conference is one of its kind in Ukraine and has become a must-attend annual event for leaders and innovators in the sphere of web-related technologies throughout Central and Eastern Europe.

The information partners and sponsors of IDCEE are the leading world internet media, which cover high technology field, such as TechCrunch Europe, TheNextWeb, Mashable, Thefunded.com etc.

In 2011, the participants of IDCEE will have the opportunity to listen to such prominent speakers as Esther Dyson (some of her past direct IT investments include Flickr, Del.icio.us, BrightMail, Medstory and Orbitz), Jan Bomholt (co-founder of BrainsToVentures AG), Loïc Le Meur (founder of social software application Seesmic and European Internet conference LeWeb), David Waroquier (the representative of Mangrove fund) and these are not nearly all the speakers, who will share their wisdom with the attendees of IDCEE 2011.

Representatives of the leading global funds, including top venture funds from Europe (Mangrove), Switzerland (B-t-v (BrainsToVentures)), Russia (ABRT), USA (Intel Capital), and Ukraine (TA Venture) have confirmed their participation in the conference.

IDCEE 2011 will consist of two parts. During the first day of the conference the selected start-ups from the CEE region will not only pitch their projects to investors, but will also participate in the start-up competition, where the winners will get cash awards. Only investors and experts will be eligible to attend the expo on this day. The second day (forum) will be dedicated to keynote speeches by the outstanding experts and visionaries, as well as to panel discussions on hot topics. Also, the most successful start-ups of the expo will make presentations of their start-ups.

Within the framework of the IDCEE 2010 more than 300 representatives of investment funds, individual investors, experts, business-angels from Ukraine, Russia, Central and Eastern Europe, US and Canada attended the conference.

More than 150 entrepreneurs from 12 countries of Central and Eastern Europe, selected by the expert committee, had the opportunity to present their start-ups within the framework of the conference.

Global venture capital funds such as DFJ and Mangrove supported the conference. All funds, which participated in the IDCEE 2010, have $15 bn. under management. More than 1,000 participants attended the conference during the 2nd day.

Within the framework of IDCEE 2010 three most investment-attractive start-ups were chosen. The winners shared a prize pool of EUR 10 000, of which EUR 6, 000 got the company from Russia - Zingaya. Second place and EUR 3, 000 was granted to the company from Ukraine - Thick Buttons. And the third place won the company from Czech Republic - Lurista, which received EUR 1, 000.

IDCEE 2010 became the platform, where investors and entrepreneurs met in order not only to raise investment and to make their dreams come true, but also to benefit millions of people.

You can now register to attend the IDCEE 2011.

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Conference speakers: Ester Dyson

• EDventure Holdings

Ester Dyson is not only the chairman of EDventure Holdings, but also is on the board of Medstory, Meetup Inc., Eventful.com, Boxbe, Voxiva and Yandex. Her IT investments have included Flickr and del.icio.us (both sold to Yahoo!), and Medstory (sold to Microsoft), as well as new Icon Aircraft, Space Adventures (programs for space tourists) and XCOR Aerospace.

• Jan Bomholt

BrainsToVentures

Jan Bomholt is co-founder of BrainsToVentures AG (b-to-v) and he has built up its activities continuously since 2000. At present, b-to-v is invested in about forty companies. Investments vary between EUR 500k and 3m per deal.

• Loïc Le Meur

LeWeb

Loïc Le Meur is the founder of social software application Seesmic and European Internet conference LeWeb. Loic is the founder and CEO of Seesmic, a software company that makes one of the most popular Twitter and Facebook social software application. Recently, Business Week Magazine named Loic one of The 25 Most Influential People on the Web.

• David Waroquier

Mangrove Capital Partners

David Waroquier is the Principal at Mangrove Capital Partners. He is involved in both the enterprise and internet consumer businesses. Prior to Mangrove, Mr. Waroquier held various management positions at Ernst & Young and Andersen Business Consulting, where he was in charge of the Supply Chain & Digital Markets business lines. Mangrove Capital Partners "Mangrove" provided venture capital for such Russian companies KupiVIP, Kupibonus и Drimmi.

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The Conference is co-organized by TA Venture VC fund (www.taventure.com) and GrowthUp Incubator (www.growthup.com).