17 June at 14:00 PM CEST DLTs & Blockchain are as powerful as they are mysterious: knowledge of the technology often fails to reach interested parties, and its applications are largely unexplored. Join us on June 17th at 14:00 CEST with Edward Vali – General Partner at Accelerate Venture Partners – and Soulla Louca – Professor and Director of the Blockchain Initiative at the University of Nicosia – who will offer key insights about DLTs education and investing, and on how investors, innovators and businesses can achieve relevant know-how to tackle opportunities in the field. The webinar is organised as part of the DLT4All project.                 Speaker: Edward Vali General Partner at Accelerate Venture Partners Edward Vali is general partner at Accelerate Venture Partners, a boutique venture investment and advisory specialized in technology investments - is a blockchain expert, cryptocurrency enthusiast, and a venture investor. He is one of the early adopters of digitalized assets supporting and utilizing technologies for decentralized economies. Edward has also been a part time associate professor of accounting and finance at Copenhagen Business School for several years. His research and teaching focused predominantly on capital market studies. Edward has been a contributor to the European Commission’s PRISM project on Intellectual Capital in venture-backed investments. He is currently engaged with advising several blockchain projects, ranging from payment and exchange to distributed general artificial intelligence.     Speaker: Soulla Louca Soulla Louca is one of the first academics to get involved in blockchain technologies (2014) when she assumed the responsibility of the Blockchain Initiative at the University of Nicosia. The Blockchain Initiative has designed and developed the first MSc worldwide in Digital Currency, the technology for publishing academic certificates on the blockchain and organized several events including Decentralized 2017. She is a professor in the Management & MIS Department as well as the Director of the Blockchain Initiative at the University of Nicosia.  

The Climate-KIC Investor Marketplace has launched the #Dealstream series where investors from all over the world can tune in to see the latest startups featured on the Investor Marketplace platform. The initiative presents some of the sharpest minds and teams with the lastest cleantech investment opportunities from across Climate-KIC's pan-European community of entrepreneurs. The next episode in the series will take place on the 17th of June at 15:00. EBAN members are invited to join the stream at the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WP0dK2ZM_U. The first episode of Deal stream featured 5 teams from Imperial College London and can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1GhFS5Hnm8&t=133s. Read more about the 5 teams in the marketplace here: https://www.climate-kic.org/marketplace/find-startups/?event=dealstreamuk

18 June at 15:00 PM CEST The European Green Deal is the Union’s new growth strategy for the next decade, aiming to create new businesses and jobs, and to trigger more investment. It is designed to build a European market which will allow Europe to become the first climate-neutral continent by 2050. It is fundamental that reaching this goal will not exclude anyone, guaranteeing a socially fair and just transition for all. During this webinar we will hear how the European Union wants to guide the transition towards climate-neutrality while safeguarding social inclusion, and which financial mechanisms will encourage this. Moreover, we will uncover which role the investors for impact can play in the Just Transition. Finally, we will learn why and how the European Green Deal, which puts both people and planet at its core, should also be the European long-term answer to the ongoing Corona crisis.

Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud services arm of Amazon, works with startups globally to help them launch and scale. Through EBAN's partnership with the AWS Activate program, startups in our community are eligible for $10,000 in AWS Promotional Credit, along with all other benefits of the program. During this webinar, Startup Mentor Anna C Mallon will be introducing the AWS Activate program and how to claim all the perks that your startup is entitled to. Anna will share how to claim the free credits and get support for Go-To-Market, Co-Marketing and more. Solutions Architect and former founder, Anton Popovine, will then do a technical on-boarding session during which he will share ideas and inspiration on scalable startup infrastructures and how best to leverage the free credits for AWS technologies - spanning computing and storage all the way to security, compliance, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and app development.       Speaker: Anton Popovine Startup Solutions Architect for Amazon Web Services Anton Popovine works as a Startup Solutions Architect for Amazon Web Services. Having had experience both being a Founder & CTO and working as a software engineer for larger companies, he is now helping startups to build awesome products in the cloud..