Results 2013

The 10 finalists - selected from either local business lounges or the online competition - showcased their idea to a jury of experts, investors and other conference delegates. They had a chance to pitch their idea and make new contacts at networking events held throughout the two days.

 

Following a very successful event at FutureEverything, Apps for Europe are now happy to announce the winners of the International Business Lounge 2014.
Jury prize: BikeCityGuide

This app was created by two former bike couriers; it guides cyclists on bike friendly routes with less traffic for a safe and easy bike ride, point to point routing is available offline. The app also recommends tours connecting points of interest in the city. There are already packages for more than thirty European cities and new cities are constantly being added. There is a voting page online, which encourages users to vote for the next city they want the app to cover.

Audience prize: Nostalgeo

An app which combines contemporary street views with old postcards in order to create street views of the past. As well as using existing open data it will get people from all over Europe to put their old postcards online. Users will be able to create walks based on shared old maps and postcard stories. Nostalgeo was created by Nazka Mapps.

Huge congratulations to both teams and all the other finalists for taking part.

 

The expert jury members who judged our 10 finalists at the International Business Lounge at FutureEverything 2014 were:

Chair

Frank Kresin (Waag Society)

Frank Kresin is Research Director for Waag Society, institute for Arts, Science and Technology, based in Amsterdam. His background is in Artificial Intelligence and film making, and his interest is in developing technology for societal goals. He was involved at the start of many innovation programmes, amongst them Apps for Europe, City SDK, CineGrid Amsterdam and Code 4 Europe. Frank has spoken, written and lectured on Open Innovation, Open Data & Open Design, Users-as-Designers, Living Labs and Fablabs. He is a regular moderator at the PICNIC Festival, as well as at design and innovation workshops in the Netherlands and abroad.

Panel

Lily Ash Sakula (Partner, Bethnal Green Ventures)

Lily Ash Sakula is a partner at Bethnal Green Ventures, an accelerator for early stage technology ventures solving social and environmental problems. She has spent the last five years working closely with social startups, previously at Impact Hubs and The Young Foundation.

Paul Maltby (Director of Open Data and Government Innovation at Cabinet Office, London)

Paul is Director of the Government Innovation Group and of the Open Data and Transparency Team in the Cabinet Office, which works to release government data that can be freely accessed by citizens and businesses to help drive the next generation of data-led economic growth, strengthen government accountability and improve public services. Prior to this Paul was seconded to Leicestershire County Council where he worked on schools reform and a programme for commissioning services across different local public bodies. He has been Director of Strategy in the Home Office and began his time in government in the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit.

Gary Stewart (Director of Wayra, Spain)

Gary Stewart is the Director of Wayra Spain (Telefonica’s start-up accelerator, with full-time academies in both Barcelona and Madrid).  He is also an associate professor and the entrepreneur-in-residence at IE Business School, and was previously the managing director of the Venture Lab at IE Business School. In 2006, Gary founded nuroa.es (a property search engine operational in 12 countries) with his business partner, Oriol Blasco. To date, nuroa has raised more than €3 million in financing. Prior to founding nuroa, Gary worked as a corporate lawyer specialized in mergers and acquisitions and securities law at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in London and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Barcelona and Madrid, and as a summer litigation association at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York, Washington DC and Los Angeles. After law school, Gary also clerked for Chief Judge Harry T. Edwards of the DC Circuit Court of Appeals. Gary graduated magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Yale University, and received his juris doctor (JD) from Yale Law School, where he was co-Executive Editor of (and was published in) The Yale Law Journal. Gary has been interviewed and written about his views on entrepreneurship in such publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, The Marker, Globes, and China Business News, etc. He’s also been selected by OnlineMBA.com as one of the “50 Business Professors You Should Follow on Twitter”.

Miquel Costa (President, Keiretsu Forum, Spain)

Miquel Costa  has a degree in Business Administration and MBA from ESADE, IESE PADE (University of Navarra). He has over 25 years experience in executive management of companies, as General Manager or Director or Chief Executive Officer. Currently he is President and CEO of  KEIRETSU FORUM SPAIN with chapters in Barcelona, Madrid and San Sebastián. KEIRETSU FORUM is the largest network of private investors in the world with 29 chapters in 3 continents. Miquel Costa is Co-Founder and President of SMEs Capital forum, is Member of the Board of Directors of several companies in various sectors  from the Internet industry to electric mobility and related services. Co-Founder and Chief Edap2007, SL Investments, has invested in several start-ups and growing businesses.

We will be looking for a similar mix of skills and experience in next year's judging panel.