armann kojic - apon & iceland ecosystem - stanford engineering - jan 4 2016
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European Entrepreneurship and innovation Armann Kojic / [email protected] Stanford Engineering / January 4th 2016
• Former VP of marketing at deCODE genetics (Nasdaq:DCGN) aquired by Amgen for $415M
• Formerly at McCann Erickson heading national campaigns for CocaCola, Icelandair & Microsoft
• Took part in StartX Mentor Labs at Stanford which brought me to Silicon Valley
• Icelandic entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Apon
THE PUSH TO GO MOBILE
The future of app development is about the user experience, integration of content from any source,
and visual design. With Apon you don't need design skills or programming knowledge.
INTELLIGENT APPS MADE EASY
“Now innovation and creativity move the world forward. Change in software, media, the arts, culture, technology or business can come from anywhere. No place is too small to be significant in this new world of opportunities.”
OLAFUR RAGNAR GRIMSSON President of Iceland June 26th, 2013
329 740HUMAN POPULATION
474 759SHEEP POPULATION
66 504NO OF COMPANIES
ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN ICELAND
83%VIEW ENTREPRENEURS
FAVOURABLY
$54M2014 TECHNOLOGY GRANTS
98%ELECTRICITY IS RENEWABLE
OF
TOURISTS VISIT THE COUNTRY
1M+
TECH HEALTHCARE MARINE ENERGYCREATIVE INDUSTRYPOPULAR STARTUP SECTORS INCLUDE:
GIVEN OUT TO STARTUPS
THE STARTUP ECOSYSTEMNOTABLE ICELANDIC COMPANIES AND STARTUPS
500 000+ACTIVE PLAYERS $1.2BNMARKET
VALUE $27M IN FUNDINGLED BY SEQUOIA
20M ACTIVE USERS / 100 M REGISTEREDNEW GAME TO SHIP WITH OCULUS RED DOT DESIGN AWARD WINNER
FINANCE & IT VIRTUAL REALITY DESIGN DRIVENGAMES & MOBILE
