The Non-Equity Incubator in Budapest

Founder and owner of Wow Media Ltd which creates training and workshops in communication, creativity and collaboration using its unique “talk-ware” system. David has worked with schools and universities across Europe, TED and TEDx speakers, and companies, globally, from startups to larger corporations bringing them a wide range of original and creative solutions. He brought his methods to Silicon Valley in 2012 and for 5 years was Team Project Coach at Singularity University’s Global Solutions Program.

Tamás is a digital growth strategist and previously ceo to high growth startups. He has been working with the likes of 500 Startups, Seedcamp and SVC2UK.

Can is Co-Founder and Board Member of AustrianStartups, Austria’s largest independent non-profit platform for innovative entrepreneurship. He worked in three Tech Startups in various roles: as first employee at payolution (online payment), as Chief Marketing Officer at hitbox (live video streaming) and as Head of Partnerships at wikifolio (social trading), which ranked #1 among Austria’s Top 100 startups in 2017 and was among the Top 10 in Deloitte’s Technology Fast500 for EMEA. He is one of the members at startup300, which started as business angel network that invested in dozens of startups and now also consists of an early stage fund as well as a large co-working space and offers corporate consulting. Can is additionally active as mentor and moderator since 2010, incl. being a show host at Pioneers since the first event. As former chairman of Austria’s largest debating club and Austrian champion in debating, he is also helping startups to tell their stories and create or improve their pitches.

UX Researcher at Digital Natives and Nostromo.io

Anita is an empathetic UX researcher and LEAN consultant, a committed advocate of user centered design. She is a senior professional with 20+ years of experience in marketing communication, trade marketing, sales, UX research & UX design. Core member of the UX award winning Nostromo.io, co-owner and member of the design team at Digital Natives.

Emese (ZUANGO) is a multipotentialite, an entrepreneurial spirit with freelance, start-up and business owner experience, marketing, sales and people management background, offering trainings, business-, and life coaching as an ICF Certified Associate Coach (ACC).

Csongor has been working with startups for the past 5+ years and launched multiple projects aiming to improve the local tech ecosystem in Budapest. Previously he started Mosaik, one of the most well-known tech hubs in Budapest and worked for accelerators such as Design Terminal and iCatapult. Currently, he is working on a new project that will come out of hiding soon..

Ferenc is a UX Designer with 5 years experience doing wireframing, prototyping, designing. He is a co-owner and member of the design team at Digital Natives – a successful creative agency - since 2014.​

Bence is the lead consultant of agile consultant company Agilab. He is an advocate for value driven systems, organization designs and product innovations. He is known as guitar player and music startup founder as well.
Prior to working as a full time coach, Bence spent years building software in a variety of domains: digital audio, telecom, financial, human resources, education, social networking and media.

Lucas is one of the founders of Digital Natives, which is among the biggest Ruby developer agencies of the CE region. He was involved in many Hungarian startups, such as Mixgar or Taxilike and now he is leading the CESA winner Nostromo.io. He is a LEAN product development expert, with the mission to increase the number of successful startups in the region.

Judit is the newest member of Sparklab. Before joining as an Innovation Manager she co-founded EXQUIS Business & Technology Solutions and created preventive risk management & early warning solutions that improve financial and health awareness. Judit has 10 years of freelancing experience, where she acted as a solution manager in 250+ successful projects. As an idealist champion and project campaigner Judit is enthusiastic about working together with creative minds and to redesign services of today & tomorrow by merging traditional values with technology-driven innovations.

Steve is Entrepreneur in Residence at NN Insurance Hungary, in charge of fostering innovation within the company as head of the Sparklab program. Steve has 6 years experience with startups as a startup founder and mentor for many events including Pioneers Festival, WebSummit and The World Bank Investment Readiness Program, among many others.