On the 25th of October 2011 I went to Kiev to visit the International Conference “Investor Day Central and Eastern Europe 2011: Internet Technologies & Innovations” (IDCEE 2011) . The main goal of IDCEE 2011 was to bring together ideas and insights of leading experts and start-up entrepreneurs with expertise and experience of investors and business-angels, as well as organization of keynote speaker presentations, panel discussions, startup competition, and meetings with prominent world experts. Among the speakers were such famous people as Esther Dyson, one of the leading angel investor,entrepreneur, a member of the board of directors of Medstory, Meetup Inc., Eventful.com, Boxbe, Voxiva and Yandex, and LeWeb’s founder.

Bas was asked to participate in the third panel of the conference together with David Waroquier, the Principal at Mangrove Capital Partners, Yegor Anchishkin, GVMachines’ founder, Teodoro D’Ambrosio, an Italian-Swiss IT entrepreneur and Oskar Hartmann, CEO of KupiVip (the online Russian shopping club which recently attracted $55m investment).

There were many innovational projects, but the projects that attracted my attention most are kitapps and endorphin. I wish IDCEE and its organizers further development and innovational ideas.