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13 June 2023
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
BOWI Network Ecosystem: Enabling Interregional Collaboration Benefits for SMEs

13th of June 

08:30-09:00 Registration/coffee

09:00-09.10 Welcome by Bianca Muntean, Executive Manager at Transilvania IT Cluster

09:10-09:30 Keynote speech by Cristian Otgon, Chief of department, Smart specialization, North West Regional Development Agency (Romania)

09:30-10:00 BOWI project presentation. Achievements and lessons learned by Sander van der Molen, Partner at CIVITTA

10:00-11:30 Forging interregional collaboration - panel discussion led by Maurits Butter, Senior Orchestrating expert at TNO

Panelists:

  • Aiga Armeja, Latvian IT Cluster, EDIH
  • Bianca Muntean, Transilvania IT Cluster
  • Cristian Otgon, North West Regional Development Agency
  • Julio Rodrigo, AMBIT Cluster
  • Kristina Karanikolova, TNO

11:30-12:00 Coffee break

12:00-12:30 SMEs experiments success stories, led by Harri Kuusela, Principal Scientist at VTT

Panelists:

  • Razvan Sima, RF Meters
  • Wojciech Rudnicki, Transmission Dynamics Poland

12:30-13:00 Presentation on funding opportunities by Irina Frigioiu, Project Manager at FundingBox

13:00-14:30 Lunch break

14:30-15:45 Pitching competition led by Dumitru Petreus, Technical Expert at Transilvania IT Cluster

15:45-16:00 Award ceremony and event wrap-up

16:00-18:00 Networking & Matchmaking session 

18:00-20:00 Dinner at hotel’s restaurant


Registration
Closed since 13 June 2023
Location Radisson Blu Hotel (1, Aleea Stadionului Street, Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
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Participants
Romania 52
Serbia 6
Ukraine 3
Finland 3
Lithuania 3
Latvia 2
Estonia 2
Poland 2
Germany 2
Spain 2
Netherlands 2
Bulgaria 2
Denmark 1
Greece 1
Austria 1
Hungary 1
Norway 1
United Kingdom 1
France 1
Czech Republic 1
Total 89
Participants
Company 44
Cluster 15
DIH 13
Other 9
University 5
Public Authority 1
Total 87