Summary of the Pitching event – last event in EWA programme 2022 in Latvia
The goal of the EWA Demo Day event and Pitching event was to provide the Mentees with an opportunity to present their startups to a wider audience, interest investors in their business idea and make new valuable connections for the future.
The Demo Day was implemented as part of the Baltic Sustainability Forum, attended by 400 business and sustainability focused attendees from across the Baltics. EWA participants had the opportunity to pitch their ideas to an audience of 400 people on the main stage. Additionally, a separate EWA side-event was hosted in parallel at the same venue, with more content and networking elements for a more targeted audience of EWA participants, mentors, lecturers, and interested community attendees.
Baltic Sustainability Awards offered valuable content also on sustainable and innovative business, and the event was held in English. The EWA side event was held in Latvian. And, most important part, the event closed with the announcement of two winners of EWA 2022.
Brief description of the event
On November 30, the EWA program participants took part in the Baltic Sustainability Forum & Awards event. More info and agenda here: https://www.balticsustainabilityawards.eu/forum
The event had a full day of forum content about sustainability and innovations in the business world. During the forum, EWA participants took the main stage of the event to pitch their business ideas to all 400+ Baltic Sustainability Awards guests. In 3 minutes each, they shared the cause behind their startups, challenges, and their solutions. Some of the participants chose to pitch in English, while others did so in Latvian.
After the pitches, which happened on the main stage in Splendid Palace, Riga, all the mentees, mentors and their guests gathered in another hall to celebrate their success in a closer circle and listen to inspiring keynotes and valuable panel discussion in the local language. The mentees went through an extensive pitching training onsite before the event, which was very valuable and helped them deliver high quality content.
Winners
After presenting business ideas by all 10 program participants, two winners were selected through evaluation. The second prize and 5,000 euros went to Ieva Krola and the first prize and 10,000 euros went to Julia Danilina.
Learnings and knowledge gathered
The mentors who joined a panel discussion shared valuable insight of being a business owner, looking for mentors on the way to success; as well the keynote speakers with their stories motivated participants to keep challenging themselves and continuing working on their startups. The participants met valuable new connections at the event and gathered high visibility for their ideas at the target audience.
Keynote speakers involved
- “Innovation as a continuous process that ensures the development of the company” Enno Ence, founder and CEO of Milzu!;
- “Experience story - from an idea to a valuable product on the market” Anda Penka, co-founder and CEO of Fermentful;
-Paneldiscussion: The role of mentors in the growth of entrepreneurs. A conversation with the mentors of the Empowering Women in Agrifood program, moderated by Lota Plezere, product manager in Printify, joined by Enno Ence, founder and manager of Milzu! and Lāsma Bekina, manager of “Rītausma”
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