Google opens Warsaw Campus – CHIP

The future development of Europe is a business and innovation. The opening of the Warsaw Campus Google is another step towards supporting Polish and the region in these areas. Campus Warsaw will be a new space for entrepreneurs, whereby gain knowledge, will establish international contacts and will create a company that might change the world – says Matt Brittin, Google’s chief executive for Europe.

The aim of the Warsaw Campus is to create a space that integrates community of startups from the region of Central and Eastern Europe. We want to offer entrepreneurs a place where they can realize their dreams. Creating a startup requires hard work, but also the access of knowledge, global experience and exchange of ideas and cooperation with other companies. Warsaw Campus pursues all these objectives and provides excellent conditions for work, so we hope that it will spur innovation entire region – says Rafał Plutecki, head of the Warsaw Campus. – Campus Warsaw does not aim to invest in startups and create a place that gives Polish and regional entrepreneurs as the best chance for development. Most will be glad when campus contribute to the creation of new jobs, as has happened in the case already opened campuses.

Space campus in Warsaw

Campus Warsaw is located in the center of Prague Connoisseur Ząbkowska Street in Warsaw. 1600 m ² space divided into three floors. The heart of the place is located on the ground floor of the Campus Cafe run by well-known Warsaw cafe Emesen. Right next entrepreneurs have access to the events and the training room, where every day will be organized for members of the community free meetings, such as training, mentoring sessions, workshops and lectures inspirational speakers. On the ground floor it is also a zone of Innovation Nest, Polish partner campus in Warsaw. The first and second floor of the building is the home of another partner campus in Warsaw – TechHub, which leads coworkingową space and creates an international community of startups.

Campus Warsaw also has its place in the network, available at campus.co/warsaw. To join the community of Warsaw campus, just sign up – membership is free and gives you access to the campus cafeteria, the possibility admission to all events organized for the community and access to a network of campuses around the world. The site will also take place provisions for educational programs, and everyone will be able to submit proposals to organize their own events.

Partners campus in Warsaw

campuses around the world cooperate very closely with top organizations startupowymi. Currently Campus Warsaw has two partners, which will create and support a community of startups: Polish Innovation Nest and the international TechHub.

Innovation Nest is derived from Krakow venture capital fund, which will lead the program accelerator “Growth!” and meetings for startups at an early stage of development, provide access to the best mentors and provide financial support for seed. Innovation Nest was founded in 2010. By experienced entrepreneurs Peter Wilam and Mark Kapturkiewicz who now share their experience with the campus community.

We hope that cooperation with Campus Warsaw will enable us to create new and interesting offer for startups from not only Polish, as well as Central and Eastern Europe. It is for us an important project in which together we want to create a European knowledge-sharing hub – says Peter Wilam, managing partner of Innovation Nest.

TechHub is a global community bringing together entrepreneurs in the technology industry. For the first time will visit the Polish under the Warsaw Campus, where it will be located its headquarters. The organization is working with Google for many years in such centers as campuses in London and Madrid. Maybe poszczyć extensive experience in supporting a variety of community and the creative work worldwide. TechHub aims to help Polish entrepreneurs to expand into global markets, which is possible through its branch offices in seven major cities around the world. In his Warsaw office TechHub Polish startupom offer a variety of packages tailored to the needs of Member States the technology industry and the Warsaw Campus will provide entrepreneurs occasional or regular place of work, along with access to many events opening up new possibilities. An example can be TechHubTuesday Demo Nights – a virtual meeting of businessmen from London, Madrid, Bangalore and Warsaw, during which they will present their innovative products. TechHub Warsaw will occupy the first and second floor of the building Campus Warsaw, while membership in this community is for startups key to the offices of organizations located in London, Swansea, Riga, Bucharest, Madrid and Bangalore.

– The foundation TechHub activity is to create a community and an atmosphere of cooperation between different people. That is why our offer is willingly chosen by new, young companies, for whom the opportunity to develop a network of contacts and contact with global perspectives of thinking are a great added value. We provide entrepreneurs with access to a variety of services, both recruitment advice and training in new technologies or financial advice. The idea campuses proved to be look no further among others in London. We are pleased that we can move our past experience on the Polish ground and be involved in the future of Polish start-ups – said Elizabeth Varley, CEO of TechHub.

Programs campus in Warsaw

Businesses find on campus diversified range of training programs and events – from meetings mentoring, during which experts will share their knowledge, the demo days, where entrepreneurs will have the opportunity to present their products.

In the first month of operations Warsaw Campus will be held a few programs organized by Google, m.in.

• Mentoring @ Campus – copiątkowe Mentoring sessions, or meetings of 1: 1 for entrepreneurs and startups with experts Google. Each week a different topic will be: from designing the user interface, the regulations valid for the activities of companies, the discussion of product development.

 

• Campus Exchange – intensive weekly program created to support entrepreneurs from Central and Eastern Europe in global business.

 

• Women’s Breakfast at Campus – monthly meetings for women working in technology, where you can share experiences and get to know other members of the community.

 

• VC Office Hours presented by the Campus – representatives of leading VC funds of Polish and Europe will be on duty and meet with the campus community. Already in the first week of campus activities and Speedup Innovation Nest Group in Poznan they will be met with startupami. On the other hand Seedcamp, a seed fund from London, will hold a meeting of familiarization and duty to share their experiences with mentoring and raising funds.

 
• Google Developer Relations Launchpad – a weekly program that provides developers access to technology, events, online resources, knowledge and community -wszystkiego what is needed to run and scaling your application.

 

The list of events will also feature meetings organized by the community, for example.

• Demo Nights – the international event #TechHubTuesday Demo Night created by the global TechHub community technology startups. It’s a great opportunity for founders and entrepreneurs to their startups and products to present the international community.

 
• Spin – the two-day workshop organized by the Innovation Next, destined for future and existing entrepreneurs at various stages of development: both those with a business idea who want to fine-tune it and make a decision about starting your startup and entrepreneurs in the early or later stages of development who wish to explore new opportunities for expansion. Teams participating in the workshop have the opportunity to refine their business models, receive valuable advice from mentors and to improve its offer.

 
• Growth – accelerator Innovation Nest – it lasting three weeks sessions that are designed to help startupom to increase revenues and learn the art of fundraising by working with experienced VC and mentors. Under the program, selected teams will be invited to visit Silicon Valley and demo days will be held in Warsaw Campus and Campus London.

 

A list of all programs can be found on the website campus.co/warsaw.

campuses in the world

In addition to the Warsaw campus in the world still operating centers in Madrid, London, Tel Aviv and Seoul. Soon also opens the Campus of São Paulo. Four campuses are operating so far a total of over 70 thousand. members contributed to the creation of more than 4.6 thousand. jobs and companies in their associated gained over 215 million dollars of funding. All campuses are created by Google for Entrepreneurs, the Google team, which aims to promote entrepreneurship.

For more information about Campus Warsaw can be found at https://www.campus.co/warsaw, as well as profiles Warsaw campus on Facebook, Twitter and Instagramie. The opening of the Warsaw campus is covered by the Honorary Patronage of the President of the Polish Republic Andrzej Duda.