The Falling Walls Lab Luxembourg is a pitch competition for young innovators. The Lab is a platform for academics, entrepreneurs and professionals from all disciplines, providing them the opportunity to present their “wall breaking” idea to a broad audience and a distinguished jury from academia and business.
The Falling Walls Lab Luxembourg is hosted by the University of Luxembourg Incubator, proud to announce as keynote speaker: Nick Ogden, Founder Director of Clear.Bank® . Clear.Bank® is the first clearing bank in the UK in over 250 years. A serial entrepreneur, active since the pioneering days of FinTech, Nick Ogden will share his experience on “What does it take to build a unicorn?”. Everyone interested is free to join for the keynote speech, without prior registration.
The participation to Falling Walls Lab Luxembourg 2019 as speaker requires application through: https://falling-walls.com/lab/apply2019?location=18
Deadline for applications: 16th May 2019
Questions concerning the event? The team of the University of Luxembourg Incubator is glad to answer them: incubator@uni.lu
Everyone interested in watching the pitches is welcome to attend. No registration required in this case.
What’s in for the Falling Walls Lab Luxembourg 2019 winners?
- 1st Prize: 1500€ sponsored by the FNR plus
- Qualification for the Falling Walls Lab Finale in Berlin on 8th November 2019
- Participation to the prestigious Falling Walls Conference on 9th November 2019
- 2nd Prize: 1000€ sponsored by Technoport
- 3rd Prize: 500€ sponsored by the University of Luxembourg
- Audience Prize: 1000€ sponsored by the University of Luxembourg
And that’s not all – there will be an exciting prize for the best venture or startup being presented at Falling Walls Lab Luxembourg 2019:
EY Impact Venture Prize:
- 1 year free access to EY Finance Navigator
- personalised coaching from EYnovation team
Last but not least, the winning venture has the chance to get nominated by the University of Luxembourg for the Falling Walls Venture.
Falling Walls Venture is a competition both for start-ups and universities (research institutes). Every start-up needs to be endorsed by a nominating institution to be able to compete for the distinction « Falling Walls Science Start-Up of the Year » in Berlin.