On the March the 6th, Spherik Accelerator, in collaboration with Cluj Startups, have organized the event Trends and Trendsetters in Deep Tech, Entrepreneurship and Policies. It has addressed future trends in tech and their possible outcomes for private, public, and social actors.

The event was a part of Startup Europe Week, the largest multi-event for startups. At its third edition, #SEW 2018 counts more than 300 events in over 50 countries from Europe, Africa, The Middle East and Latin America happening this week, March 5-9. The main goal of this campaign is to engage stakeholders such as policy makers, representatives of central and local authorities with businessmen and entrepreneurs into a dialogue to harness all the potential of innovation opportunities.

Emil Boc – Mayor of Cluj-Napoca, Oana Bizgan – member of the Romanian Parliament, and Bogdan Ceobanu –
Policy Officer in the Startups and innovation unit of the European Commission, have had a conversation about the major national and local bottlenecks in advancing an inclusive and sound development, and have invited the business, tech & research partners to join the challenge of putting Romania on the innovation map by capitalizing on its strengths and addressing its major weaknesses. Leading by example, Cluj-Napoca sets the trend in public sector innovation with the first virtual public servant, Antonia.

Deep Technologies, the mixed reality of machine learning, robotics, blockchain, quantum computing are poised to disrupt every industry. With its enabling power and its demonstrated potential to catalyze change, deep tech will reshape the way we perceive and address certain issues within our societies, opening new business and development opportunities. These were the topics addressed in the second panel by: Radu Ionicioiu – Senior Researcher at Horia Hulubei National Institute for R&D in Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH) and Head of the Romanian Quantum Network, Dan Calinescu – CEO at Fluid Trends (Open Source Blockchain Tech Education Platform), Cosmin Curticapean – CEO at iFactor (peer-to-peer lending for SMEs), Adela Muresan – Big Data Developer at VE Interactive and Mircea Vadan – Founder at Cluj Startups.

The panels were moderated by Diana Rusu – Executive Director at Spherik Accelerator and Paul Brie – Head of R&D at Evozon. Leveraging the new title of Startup Ambassador in Romania received by Spherik Accelerator, the event aimed at engaging Romania in the pan-european conversation about the Digital Europe – Building a Pan-European Ecosystem for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the strategy at the heart of our region’s competitiveness in the context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

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Spherik Accelerator is an NGO founded in 2013 by the Liberty Technology Park, Banca Transilvania, The Technical University of Cluj-Napoca and the Babes-Bolyai University with the mission to connect startups with strategic resources. For the last two years, Spherik has been awarded the Best Accelerator And Incubation Program in Romania title, by the Central European Startup Awards.
Spherik stands at the intersection between Tech, Education and Investment and reunites a community of like-minded people: tech enthusiasts, entrepreneurs & intrapreneurs, corporates, investors and also universities, that have joined their efforts to boost the regional startup ecosystem.

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