In the upcoming Angel Capital Association Webinar Series, the discussion is on how Blockchain technology, and relatedly, cryptocurrency, continue to gain market momentum as many identify blockchain as the next wave of technology disruption. An early investor in bitcoin and cofounder of Hong Kong-based blockchain venture fund Kenetic, ACA is excited to welcome Jehan Chu to share his insights into the market. As an industry thought leader, Jehan will discuss industry trends he is closely watching and how seed stage companies are approaching market disruption. Speakers: Jehan Chu

The Startup Pitch is powered by Depo Ventures, a Startup Investment Platform that manages Angel Fund, Angel Network, and provides capital advisory services.  AGENDA: 5:05 - welcoming and quick intro about Depo Ventures 5:15 - 10 startups, 5 min pitch, 1 question 6:10 - investors discussion 6:30 - end The companies that will present are at seed stage and are based all over Europe.

Latitude59 is the cosy spring gathering for people serious about startups, investing, and the future of governance. The event is the place to be for various networking opportunities, in-depth discussions with top international players, several pitching rounds for both startups as well as investors, and an overall chance to get together and reflect on the crazy strenuous months behind us and forge new plans for the future. The winner of the Latitude59 pitching competition will receive a grand prize of up to 200K EUR investment supported by EBAN member EstBAN.

The workshop will take place on the 27th of August at 14:00PM CET, online. How can serverless help your startup to deliver faster and at scale? In this workshop, you learn about the spectrum of serverless services in the AWS cloud. You will get hands-on and use these services to create a new unicorn from scratch. This experience will help you to leverage the serverless thinking to deliver faster and at scale. This is an online deep dive workshop (Level 300-400). It is intended for developers and DevOps engineers who want to learn about the serverless spectrum on the AWS Cloud. Prepare to participate by having your own laptop ready. AWS Accounts will be provided by AWS as part of this event. Agenda: 10:00AM-10:15AM Welcome & Introduction 10:15AM-10:45AM Wild Rydes: Build a full-stack serverless ride-sharing app with Lambda 10:45AM-12:00PM Lab: Serverless Web Application 12:00PM-1:00PM Lunch 1:00PM-2:00PM Lab: Serverless Image Processing 2:00PM–3:00PM Lab: CI/CD For Serverless Applications 3:00PM–3:15PM Wrap up and Next Steps

This event will take place on the 27th of August at 14:00PM CET, online. Machine learning techniques are being applied to every industry, leveraging an increasing amount of data and ever faster compute. But that doesn’t mean machine learning techniques are a perfect fit for every situation (yet). So how can a startup harness machine learning for its own set of unique problems and solutions, and does it require a warehouse filled with PhDs to pull it off? In this session you’ll learn about the tools that make machine learning available to a wider set of people and problems and how it can be applied. You’ll understand where machine learning is a perfect fit to drive your business, and where it has further to go. Finally, in what new directions machine learning’s most advanced practitioners are taking it now. This event is perfect for aspiring and existing startup business leaders, technical founders, and developers who want to learn more about entrepreneurship, startups, AI and Machine Learning. Agenda: 14:00PM - 14:40PM AI/ML Session 14:40PM - 15:00PM Live Q&A For more information on the event and to register:

Join AWS every Thursday at 2PM for an hour-long, weekly recap of what’s new with AWS, technical or business deep dives, demonstrations, a live Q&A in which they will answer your AWS-related technical and business questions, and a LOT of banter. In addition, every weekly stream will feature a unique theme or focus designed to help you build your AWS development knowledge. If you have questions about your implementation or just want to learn something new, then this livestream is for you! Tune in every week – same time, same channel. Key Takeaways: Learn about the latest AWS news and developments Receive tips on getting started with AWS technologies Get all your technical and business questions answered Help build the agenda They would love to hear what you’d like to see on the agenda. Just send an e-mail at aws-marketing-benelux-replies@amazon.com How to start 1. Register Now and receive the link in your confirmation email 2. Check the schedule below for topic of the week 3. Send your questions at aws-marketing-benelux-replies@amazon.com 4. Join live on Twitch every Thursday 2pm

In this online workshop, that will take place on the 2nd of September 2020 at 17:00PM CET, online, you will learn how to cost optimize and scale the architecture of your startup - especially after completing the Activate program. The workshop will focus on discussing Container and Serverless infrastructures and showcase AWS services and best practices relevant for startups. This event is perfect for startups running on AWS that are about to graduate or already graduated from the Activate program and want to learn more about scaling their architecture and optimizing costs. Webinar Agenda: Welcome and intro Why AWS loves startups Cost Optimization Scalable Architecture: Serverless and Container Live Q&A For more information and to register:

This event will take place online on the 3rd of September 2020 at 9.15AM CET. Running containers in the Amazon Web Services Cloud allows you to build robust, scalable applications and services. Join AWS for a deep dive into running containers using Kubernetes, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), and AWS Fargate. Throughout this half day event, Amazon's container experts will host live demonstrations and hands-on labs covering what you need to know to get started, accelerate, and build scalable architectures using containers in the cloud. This event is great for Development Managers and Development responsible staff, Architecture Managers and Architecture responsible staff, DevOps and IT Managers who are interested in learning Container strategies through Modern Application Development in AWS and adopting them inside their companies. Agenda: 9:15AM–9:30AM Have yourself a coffee 9:30AM–10:30AM Accelerate your business with Containers: how do containers fit into modern application development strategies 10:30AM–11:15AM Building with Fargate and Kubernetes on AWS (L200-300) 11:15AM–11:45AM Virtual Coffee Break 11:45PM–12:15PM CI/CD with AWS Container Services 12:15PM–12:45PM Customer use case 12:45PM–1:00PM Wrap-up For more information and to register:

Join AWS every Thursday at 2PM for an hour-long, weekly recap of what’s new with AWS, technical or business deep dives, demonstrations, a live Q&A in which they will answer your AWS-related technical and business questions, and a LOT of banter. In addition, every weekly stream will feature a unique theme or focus designed to help you build your AWS development knowledge. If you have questions about your implementation or just want to learn something new, then this livestream is for you! Tune in every week – same time, same channel. Key Takeaways: Learn about the latest AWS news and developments Receive tips on getting started with AWS technologies Get all your technical and business questions answered Help build the agenda They would love to hear what you’d like to see on the agenda. Just send an e-mail at aws-marketing-benelux-replies@amazon.com How to start 1. Register Now and receive the link in your confirmation email 2. Check the schedule below for topic of the week 3. Send your questions at aws-marketing-benelux-replies@amazon.com 4. Join live on Twitch every Thursday 2pm