Webinar was a great success!
More than 80 researchers attended the webinar, with Milan and Alexander giving exciting talks about academic and investor perspective to the Lean Startup philosophy in context of scientific discovery process. PhD pitch was made by Mladen Popović, research associate at the University of Niš, doctoral student in Linguistics, in the fields of Psycholinguistics and Multimodality. Mladen presented the initiative of the team of PhD students who is working on Eye Tracking Technology and its application in the field of UI/UX design, advertisement and content optimization.
Check out the recording of the webinar here. Find slides from the webinar here and here.
Integrated lean scientific startup method
The webinar will take place on Thursday, November 9th, 12:00 CET. The link will be shared with registered participants two days before the webinar.
You will learn about build-measure-learn loop, value and growth hypotheses, Minimum Viable Products and pivoting for scientific startups, with examples from different industries. You will find out about the birds’ eye view to a lean science, from the investor perspective.
A part of the webinar will be a simulation of the pitch. If you are interested to do it, think of one or more outcomes of your PhD work (past or ongoing) as MVP and describe it shortly in the registration form. One or two proposers will be invited to pitch it to the investor in 7 minutes and find out about the idea's strengths and weaknesses, blind spots and opportunities to improve.
Meet our speakers
Alexander Pisemskiy is a renowned technological entrepreneur, cybersecurity expert, tech investor, and advisor with over 17 years of experience in the field. His journey began as a student when he co-founded Group-IB, a company dedicated to developing advanced technologies to counter global cybercrime and equip businesses with sophisticated cyber threat intelligence. Under his leadership, Group-IB grew into a regional leader in the cybersecurity space, leading to a successful exit in 2012.
Following his success with Group-IB, Alexander applied his technological prowess and vision to counter financial crimes using cyber forensics and data analytics as the head of Forensic Technology at PwC. After he left PwC in 2014, he co-founded Kalita Partners and CSI Group, two international consulting groups that assist global corporations, investors, and lawyers during complex situations involving cyber issues, disputes, corporate transactions, compliance, and regulatory investigations across the UK, US, Europe, and MENA regions.
Since 2011, Alexander has been an active investor in both public and private markets. Over the years, he has managed successful investments and exits as a Limited Partner to funds and as an angel investor to companies worldwide, predominantly in the technology sector. He is a partner at PRYTEK investment holdings, a firm with over USD 0.5B under management.
Currently, Alexander serves as the co-founder and CEO of Zenpulsar, a London based AI company that aims to revolutionize the use of social media data for investment decision-making and risk management of market manipulations through social media. He is responsible for defining the company's strategy and leading its operations.
Meet our speakers
Milan is associate professor and leading researcher (R4), currently working at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Niš. He has published more than 80 papers and took chair and editor roles in renown journals and competitive scientific conferences, in the fields of Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Information Systems, semantic interoperability, and other topics, with more than 800 citations. He is having a truly international research career, with active membership in science advisory bodies (such as IFIP and IFAC committees and groups), scientific committees of the respected international conferences and with long and rich experience in participation in and assessment of projects in Horizon 2020/Europe programs.
In last 5 years, Milan took a leading role in establishment of the EURAXESS Startup Hub, the most recent and already proven successful multi-country effort to strengthen the potential for developing the scientific entrepreneurship careers, targeted at academic researchers. His commitment to turning engineering science into a deep tech innovation has been confirmed in taking up the mentoring role for AI startups supported by the Raising Starts pre-seed program since 2020, in organizing tech startup summer schools and in enriching the university master program curriculum with startup entrepreneurship course.