Techfugees Summit 2017
Techfugees Summit 2017: From refugees to Techfugees: how a generation of tech savvy entrepreneurs, engineers, corporates are stepping in to build solutions for and with refugees.
On 25th-26th October, nearly two years since its inception, Techfugees Summit is gathering the global community of technologists, investors, refugee engineers, NGOs, and wider humanitarian technologies in Paris, France. The Techfugees Global Summit is a two-day event hosted at the biggest startups campus in the world, Station F, in Paris.
Tickets
Tickes will grant you
- Access to all content on the Master Stage
- Access to our networking app to organise meetings collect all info about the attendees before and after the event
- ability to sign up early to informal workshops with refugees, innovators and engineers working on tech solutions.
- Access to the pitches of tech for refugees startups and organisation across the world
- Refreshments, drinks and food will be provided on site
- Networking opportunities in the main area with the main actors of the eco system: social entrepreneurs, gov officials, representatives of the biggest NGOs, refugee entrepreneurs & engineers, humanitarian experts, tech experts on blockchain, big data, VR, chatbots, platforms.
Discounts
The tickets are on early bird preferential tarrifs until the 25th of September and we have provided community and media partners with discounts. You can find our partners on the event website.
Inclusion
Paid tickets enables us to sponsor refugees' access to the event for free.
While we are doing our best to be inclusive and think that access to the event comes for free for refugees, we are mindful that our prices might still come at a certain costs for some other attendees on a budget. If you have any queries regarding purchasing a ticket, please contact petra@techfugees.com
We want you to have the best possible networking experience at Techfugees Summit 2017, which is why we’ve partnered with Swapcard.
Swapcard is a networking app that helps you discover who is attending the event and target the people you want to meet and network with before, during and after. Once you register for Techfugees Summit 2017, you will receive an email from Swapcard with your credentials to access your profile and the attendees' list.
Agenda
Wednesday 25 October 2017
The departure & Journey - Main Stage
13:30 Registration
14:30 Introduction to the Summit
14:50 Keynote - The Exodus
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Main Stage - 15.10 Panel - Mobile Phones & Connectivity as a lifeline.
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Open Stage - 15:10 - 16.10 Pitches
15:40 Panel - The power of Social media & Smartphones to keep in touch
16:10 Coffee Break
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Main Stage - 16:40 Demos + Panel - Information & Translation on the go.
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Creative Space - 16:40 - 18.10 Workshop: Human Centered Design by MIT.
17:10 Fireside Chat - Refugee Women: the unaddressed issue.
17:40 Presentation - Rethinking Refugee camp and informal settlement.
18:00 Fireside Chat - Open Data for a fact based debate on immigration
18:20 Networking Drinks @Station F
19:00 End of Day I
Thursday 26 October
The Arrival - Main Stage
08:30 Registration
09:15 Introduction to Day II. What Techfugees does. We coordinate. We translate.
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Junior Stage - 9:25-10:30 - Workshop. Access to employment for refugees.
09:45 Panel - Blockchain for refugees.
10:30 Coffee Break
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Main Stage - 11:00 Panel - Humanitarian Accelerators.
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Junior Stage - 11:00 - 13:00 Pitches
11.45 Panel - The Eco-system of refugee Tech.
12:35 Presentation. Virtual Reality.
12:55 Lunch
The settlement – Main Stage
14:00 Pitches from some of the best tech startups for refugee organisations
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Main Stage - 14:40 Panel - Tech Entrepreneurship for Refugees & the displaced in the middle East.
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Junior Stage - 14:40-16:10 Workshop BlockChain for refugees.
15:20 Panel - Coding schools for refugees and the displaced.
16:00 Coffee Break
16:30 Panel - Impact investment & Funding tech innovation for refugees.
17:10 Keynote - What is next for the refugees in Greece?
17:30 End of Day II
Speakers
Hassan Akkad, Film Maker, Exodus
Ahmad Al Hanandeh, CEO, ZAIN Jordan
Rania Ali, Documentary: ‘Escape from Syria: Rania's Odyssey’
Alexandra Amouyel, Executive Director, Solve
Gabo Arora, Founder and Creative Director, LightShed
Ahmad Sufian Bayram, MEA Regional Manager at Techstars & Co-Managing Director at Jusoor
Catherina Ballout, Chief Operating Officer, MIT Enterprise Forum Pan Arab
Robert Barr, Founder & CEO, Jobs4refugees
Rodney Boot, Co-Founder, Tikktalk
Guillaume Bregeras, Journalist in charge of startups, Les Echos
Mike Butcher, Chairman of Techfugees, Editor at Large, TechCrunch
Jenny Casswel, Disaster Response Programme, GSMA
Megan Clement, Managing Editor, Women & Girls, News Deeply
Hila Cohen, International Business Development Lead, United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)
Jay Corless, Senior Advisor, innovation and entrepreneurship, United Nations Foundation
Gijs Corstens, Founder, HackYourFuture
Kivanc Cubukcu, Principal, Kois Invest
Mayel de Borniol, Independent volunteer
Niall Dennehy, Chief Operations Officer, Aid:Tech
Marwan Elfitesse, Startup Relations Director, Station F
Ida Faldbakken, Partner, Nordic Impact
Josephine Goube, CEO, Techfugees
Vanessa Grellet, Executive Director Strategy, Enterprise & Social Impact, Consensys
Hanieh Hadizadeh, Board member, Action Emploi Refugiés
Fatema Hammami, Technical mentor, RBK (rebootkamp)
Anders Hammer, Director and Producer of the documentary ”Escape from Syria, Rania’s Odyssey”
Tom Hayton, Global Creative Director, Techfugees
Vaughn Hester, Community Partnerships, Facebook
Benjamin Hounsell, Director of Strategy & Head of Implementation Research, Samuel Hall East Africa
Antoine Jouteau, CEO, leboncoin (Schibsted Media Group)
Angelina Lamy, Accenture Foundation General Delegate
Mathieu Lefevre, Co-founder of More in Common & Director of More In Common France
Axelle Lemaire, Former Innovation Minister in the French Government
Bertier Luyt, Managing Director, Techstar
Ben Mason, betterplace lab
Louisa Mesnard, Cofounder, Citron & Textfugees
Myriam Mwizerwa, Resettlement and Integration, The United Nations Migration Agency (IOM)
Michael Neuman, Director of studies, Crash / Médecins sans Frontières
Tharald Nustad, Founder, Nordic Impact
Marko Oroz, Managing Director, Refugee Open Ware
Aziza Osman, Jusoor Board member, Jusoor
George Papandreou, Former PM of Greece
John Ralston Saul, Essayist & Novelist. Co-Chair at Institute for Canadian Citizenship
Anna Robson, CEO & Co-Founder, Refugee Talent
Raphaël Sarkar, Software Developer & Student at 'Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers'
Elizabeth Schaeffer Brown, Co-founder, Uncommon Union & Partner Moreno Ocampo
Celine Schmitt, Senior Public Information Officer, Spokesperson, Haut Commissariat des Nations Unies pour les réfugiés (HCR)
Zahra Shah, Program Manager at Iraq, Re-Coded
Ben Siegel, Impact Policy Manager, Consensys
Samira Sohail, Host of Samira Stalks podcast
Tobias Stone, Advisory Board Techfugees
Aurélien Taché, Member of the National Assembly
Nina Tammisto, Digital Strategist, MONI
Ionna Theodorou, Founder, Campfire Innovation
Mike Zuckerman, Founder, [Freespace]
Questions
General Enquiries: Roberta Lifonso roberta@techfugees.com
Media Enquiries ONLY: Joanna Kirk joanna@techfugees.com
Sponsorship Enquiries ONLY: Petra Johansson petra@techfugees.com
For stands Enquiries ONLY: Anne Sophie do anneso@techfugees.com
For group bookings or for a 1-day pass: Petra Johansson petra@techfugees.com
About Techfugees
Started as a gathering of tech leaders led by Mike Butcher (Editor-at-large of TechCrunch) in September 2015 in London, Techfugees has transformed into a global platform where innovators on the ground, tech companies executives and policy makers connect and coordinate new innovative projects.
Through more than 35+ hackathons, meetups and conferences in 25 countries across the globe, Techfugees community is composed of 15,000+ individuals, thinkers, doers, business executives, artists, politicians, and civil society leaders who together are disrupting the refugee aid space.
Previous speakers at Techfugees conferences and meet ups worldwide:
Techfugees events have welcomed the speaking participation and performances from individuals like the former Prime Minister of Greece, George Papandreou, former US UN Ambassador Samantha Powell, Founder of MLove and co-founder of the Cisco Refugee bus, Harald Nedhardt, Founder of refugee code school Redi School in Berlin Anne Kjaer Riechert, African blogger and founder of Africa Gathering, Mariemme Jamme, and Jaz O’Hara, blogger and writer reporting on refugees in camps.