Emerging Founders: Think Global. S03E01 - Startup Meets Corporates

📅 Emerging Founders: Startup Meets Corporates

Date: 14.10.2025

Location: Google Hub rondo Ignacego Daszyńskiego 2C, 00-843 Warszawa (NOT Google Campus)
Language: English

🕘 Morning: Arrival & Inspiration

9:30 - 10:00
☕ Coffee & Registration
Informal networking, light breakfast. First connections start here.

10:00 - 10:05
🎤 Welcome & Introduction
Opening words from Emerging Founders and Partners. Overview of the day and goals.

🛠️ Late Morning to Early Afternoon: Hands-on Workshops

10:05 - 11:00 Workshop 1: Radek Buszan (Iteo, ex. Dell) : building B2B sales engine (more sales)

11:00-12.00 🚀 Workshop 2: Mac Ossowski (GetResponse): Accelerating GTM strategy with AI: dos and dont's for smart revenue growth

12:00 - 13:00
🥗 Lunch Break & Networking

13:00-14.00 🔍 Workshop 3: Baiba Rozenberg (MBH Bank Hungary): Ants & Elephants: Making Bank-Fintech Partnership Work 

14.00- 15.00 Workshop 4: Magdalena Pośnik, Enes Turgut,BNP Paribas: BRACE YOURSELF - banking is coming - who and how can benefit from the coperation between a startup and a corporation? 

15:00 - 16:30 🗣️ Roundtables: Meet the Corporates (coffee and snacks served). Confirmed participants: BNP Paribas, Google, ZAIKS, Luxmed, PwC, MBH, PZPN

Small-group discussions with corporate representatives. Each corporate representative hosts a table and founders are free to roam and join different tables to discuss challenges and opportunities to work with given corporates

16:30 - 17:30

☕ Coffee Break / networking

🌇 Evening: Real Talk

17:30 - 18:00
🚪 Doors Open for Open Mic & Pitch Night
Arrivals for the open session. Corporates, investors, and ecosystem guests.

18:00 - 18:05
📣 Challenge Recap & Jury Introduction
Quick summary of the corporate challenges and intro of jury (corporates + B2B investor).
Announcement of the pitching startups. Apply to pitch here: 

Confirmed participants: BNP Paribas, Google, ZAIKS, Luxmed, PwC, MBH, PZPN

18:10 - 18:45

🎤 Open Mic Pitching: 5 Startup Presentations
Each startup:
→ 4 minutes pitch
→ 2 minutes Q&A

List of pitching startups will be announced at the event.

Jury selected startups in advance based on fit with submitted corporate challenges.

18:45 - 19:30
💬 Panel: What Makes Startup x Corporate Collaboration Work?
Founders + Corporate reps + B2B-focused investor.
Talking honestly about what works, what doesn't, and what to avoid.

Host: Jacek Ratajczak, Emerging Founders / Zonifero 

Speakers:

Maryla Wojcieszek, Huge Thing

Adam Żaczek, 1Security;

Magda Kwoska, PwC

Daniel Świerczewski, CTO, ZAIKs

Moderator-guided with room for quick audience QA.

19:30 - 20:00
📢 Keynote: Jan Sikora. 27m PLN Lesson: When Corporate Collaboration Fails

🍷 Closing

20:00- 21:00+ 🤝 Networking & Drinks