European Startups in Miami: Panel Night (US GTM & AI)
Ten European startups are spending a week in Miami to build a US network.
On Thursday night, Nov 12, we’re hosting a panel night with US GTM and AI experts and our co-host EVO at The LAB Miami. After a keynote, startup founders share the stage with speakers from private equity, EY, MIT, applied science, and more. Afterwards, meet the speakers and the startups over snacks and drinks. The founders are looking for US investors, customers, fellow founders and partners. If that’s you, join us.
Part of the first edition of Pitches and Palms (Nov 9–17), the Miami accelerator week for European founders. Full details on pitchesandpalms.com
Agenda
18:00 Uhr:Doors Open
18:30 Uhr: Welcome by Christofer Burger is the German Consul General in Miami
18:45 Uhr: Keynote & Panel
19:45 Uhr: Networking
Welcome: Christofer Burger is the German Consul General in Miami, serving as the official representative of the Federal Republic of Germany for Florida, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands via the German Consulate General Miami. Mr. Burger assumed his current office in Miami in 2023, after serving as Spokesperson for the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin.
Keynote Speaker: Dragana Linfield (EY, MIT): Gen AI & Transformation Leader and MIT Lecturer. Her career spans Vodafone, Telefónica, Etisalat and Liberty Latin America, where she has delivered technology transformations, complex M&A integrations and enterprise-scale modernization programs. At EY she advises Fortune 500 clients on rearchitecting core infrastructure, adopting agile operating models, and transforming legacy environments into modular, cloud-native platforms. At MIT, she guides decision makers through the agentic AI for organizational transformation executive program.
Panelists:
Joakim Dal (partner, Bullhound Capital): Bullhound Capital is a leading venture capital investor focused on Europe and the US. Joakim has 18+ years backing founders in Europe and America, including Klarna, Spotify and Revolut. Joakim is from Sweden and moved to Miami this January.
Bobby Goodlatte (partner, Form Capital; CEO, Sunflower): Miami-based angel investor in startups such as Coinbase, Linear and over 200 more.
Thomas Render (partner, Quadriga Capital, ex-Rothschild): Quadriga Capital is a leading European private equity investor in mid-sized companies. Thomas has been part of the Quadriga Capital team since 2015 and leads the Tech-Enabled Services sector group. Before that he spent several years in investment banking at Rothschild.
Delphine Mico-Umutesi (founder, CarnetClair AI Systems): CarnetClair AI Systems is an AI engineering consultancy that helps businesses design, build and improve reliable AI applications. Delphine holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics and brings 13 years of post-PhD experience, including roles at Microsoft, Intel and a Google Cloud Premier Partner.
Sakis Athanasios Tabakis (CEO, SteerSuite): SteerSuite is building on-demand agentic staff for business processes: model-agnostic, in the cloud & on-prem. Sakis is a finance and digital transformation veteran with 16+ years of experience in CFO functions, and a startup mentor at Startup Village Jülich.
Visiting Startups:
BOORGEN (Construction Tech)
PEAK (Sports Tech)
PredictMe (HealthTech)
DyeMera Biosciences (Biotech)
Cosa Group (Advanced Materials)
Weydem (Fan Platform)
Sublush (Consumer)
Rheono (Cybersecurity)
JennyHires (AI Recruiter)
EASE (Logistics Robotics)
Powered by: SteerSuite
Program hosts: Julian Andreas Rosen & Sakis Athanasios Tabakis (SteerSuite), Stephanie Weyer & Isabel Maria Jeworski (Marketing Mavens)
Event co-host: EVO VC & Startup Community
Home base: The LAB Miami