The Impactory

Date/Time
Date(s) - 05/11/2013
6:00 pm - 9:30 pm

Location
The Impactory

Category(ies)

• External Events

Practice makes perfect! Before getting into a full weekend of start-up creation, join the warm up session the next 5th of November from 18:00 to 21:00.

This workshop will be dedicated to two topics conditioning a successful Startup Weekend.

Idea generation activity:

This practical exercise will provide future participants with an overview of idea generation as well as idea management before and during the Startup Weekend. Crucial elements such as personal and group idea exploration dynamics, idea expression techniques and problem statement definition will be addressed. The core objective of this warm-up session is to generate a do-tank so that each participant can personally reflect and capitalize on the better means to express and manage ideas for an optimal Startup Weekend experience.

Idea pitching training:

The output of the idea generation workshop will be used for the 2nd warm up exercise, the emblematic activity of the startup weekend: idea pitching. Through the pitch rehearsal exercise, participants will fine tune the means and ways to express their start-up intentions in one minute. The process of idea voting that occurs during the Startup Weekend will also be illustrated. The general learning outcome of this final warm-up session is that all participants fully master the event process and crucial phases.

The warm up sessions will be hosted by the Impactory in central Luxembourg (29, Bd Grande-Duchesse Charlotte, L-1331 Luxembourg). Participants are the most welcome to register asap for us to customize the best warm-up experience fitting the number of participants.

The warm-up session agenda:
18:00-18:30 Registration & Welcome
18:30-19:00 Introduction to SUW
19:00-19:30 Get to know each other
19:30-20:30 Idea generation session
20:30-21:00 Idea Pitching
21:00 Q&A & Get together dinner.

Dinner logistic: Please note that participants may bring their own food for dinner and we will also arrange bulk-orders of pizzas and sushis (cash payment at the reception desk).

This Luxembourg Startup weekend warm-up is sponsored by Gencreo, winner of the last startup weekend in May 2013. Gencreo is now an operational start-up which was nurtured on the last Startup weekend warm-up.