What if the next breakthrough tech company is born at your institution? If you work in tech transfer, research, or innovation, you won’t want to miss the Tech Transfer Meetup, an exclusive event at PODIM 2025.

This gathering brings together deep tech investors, researchers, startup founders, and innovation leaders from across Europe—with one shared goal: to accelerate the transfer of cutting-edge research into real-world ventures.

📅 WHEN? May 12–14, 2025
📍 WHERE? Maribor, Slovenia
🔗 MORE INFO: https://podim.org

Program highlights

Talks, panels, and discussions on topics such as commercializing research, funding deep tech innovation, bridging academia and business.

Confirmed speakers include:

• Uli Grabenwarter, European Investment Fund (Luxembourg)

• PJ Mistry, Unilever Foundry (Netherlands)

• Pedro Costa, Beta-i (Portugal)

• Snježana Miliša, ex. Bugatti Rimac (Croatia)

• Roland Waldner, ex-PHILIPS (Austria)

• Christian Kumar, Capital Kinetics (UK)

• Angela Ivanova, LAM'ON® Compostable Films (Bulgaria)

• Miguel García González, Sploro (Spain)

• Nina Dremelj, Vesna Deeptech Fund (Slovenia)

• Naoki Kamimaeda, Global Brain (UK)

• Michael Stucky, DeepTech Alliance & Serpentine Ventures (Switzerland)

• Jerneja Lončar, Good Tech Ventures (Slovenia)

...and many more.
 

What to expect

• Focused discussions on bridging the academic and business worlds

• Practical approaches to tech and IP transfer

• Direct networking with investors, startups, and key stakeholders

• Inspiration from those who’ve made it—and those looking to collaborate with you

Why it matters

In regions where research too often stays locked behind lab doors, PODIM is the gateway to breakthrough—a place to find partners, pilot projects, funding, and paths to real-world impact.This isn’t just another meetup—it's a strategic gathering for those determined to turn science into startups.

Special offer for research institutions

Get your ticket for just €195 (regular price: €490).

👉 Secure your spot here

The event is organized in collaboration with SPIRIT Slovenia and the national contact point for the EIC, with a shared mission to foster European innovation and support breakthrough technologies.

Join us and co-create the future of deep tech—where ideas turn into real entrepreneurial stories.