I am really happy and excited to announce Jón Jónsson will be the Master of Ceremonies and host of the Startup Iceland 2015. I am so happy to have met Jón and spoke for a long time and I am just inspired talking to him. If you don’t know Jón here is a small excerpt from Wikipedia:

Jonsson has been a performer since the age of 10. He is a native of Iceland He started music in his local music…

We are inviting all startups to apply to participate in the Startup Iceland Pitching competition. Well, we are not promising that you will get funded but the room is going to be full of investors, journalists and prominent VCs, you will get a chance to tell the story of your startup before an audience. We are only picking 12 startups, so you need to applyand the final 12 will be announced a week…

It gives me great pleasure to share the news that some of the Startup Founders from Iceland who started their companies after the Financial Collapse of 2008 and have successfully transformed themselves and their startups into impactful companies will participate in a panel discussion in Startup Iceland this year. The founders are

Hilmar Gunnarsson

Helga Waage – Founder of Mobilitus and Promogogo

The idea of connecting different startup communities has been at the core of Startup Iceland Conference. I am happy to announce that Jaakko Salminen from Finland will be a speaker and mentor in Startup Iceland 2015. He is a Coach at Startup Sauna, Chairman of the Finnish Business Angels Networkand has the scars to be a very effective mentor and coach. I think Finland has a great startup community…