Event: Angelinvestment, part one

This professional event is specifically designed to introduce current and prospective investors to the basics of angel investing. With the help of experienced angel investors, including the "Angel Investor of the Year 2024" of the European Business Angel Network, participants will learn to set their own strategy and goals when it comes to investing in companies.

IceBAN - Icelandic angel investors is a newly founded non-profit organization for angel investors with the noble goal of promoting the activity of angel investments in Iceland. Among them, we want to increase the number of investors who are interested in investing at this basic level in business financing and get in touch with promising companies and exciting opportunities through IceBAN.

At the professional event, you will get to know angel investments in a fun and informative way and form your personal strategy and goals in angel investments. The aim of the event is also for you to meet other investors and strengthen your network as well as to hear how organizations like IceBAN can support your investment journey.

The following foreign and domestic experts will share knowledge and experience and give you an insight into the environment of angel investments in Iceland as well as abroad.

Jesper Jarlbæk - chairman of DanBAN and "Business Angel of the year 2024 - EBAN"

Ragnheiði H. Magnúsdóttir - founder of Nordic Ignite, angel investor, consultant and co-director of IceBAN

Jón Ingi Bergsteinsson - founder and chairman of IceBAN, technology entrepreneur and angel investor

Rita Anson - secretary general at NorBAN and angel investor

Svava Björk Ólafsdóttir - founder and managing director of IceBAN, expert in innovation and founder of RATA

AGENDA

8.30-9.00: Registration and coffee

9.00-9.10: IceBAN welcomes guests

9.10-10.00: Angel investments: the concept, the process and the Icelandic ecosystem

Jón Ingi and Svava Björk, IceBAN - Icelandic angel investors

10.00-10.15: Break

10.15-11.30: An angel investor is created: how do you set your strategy and goals? Lecture in English with Jesper Jarlbæk, DanBAN's chairman and "Business Angel of the year 2024" at EBAN

11.30-12.15: Lunch and speed dating

12:15-13:30: Workshop: shaping and updating your strategy as an angel investor

13.30-13.45: Break

13.45-14.45: Panel discussion with angels from NorBAN, DanBAN and IceBAN: how do you navigate the environment and what can we learn from the other Nordic countries?

Jón Ingi moderates the discussion with Jesper Jarlbæk (DanBAN), Rita Anson (NorBAN) and Ragnheiði Magnúsdóttir (Nordic Ignite & IceBAN)

14.45-16.00: Stories from angels and entrepreneurs: why are angel investments so important?

Four secret guests share experiences from the environment

15.45-16.00: Greetings from IceBAN, thank you for today

16:00 - 17:30: Networking, refreshments and cocktails

Location:

The event will be held in Sykursalur in Gróska, on Wednesday, October 23.

Tickets are sold at Tix.is

We encourage participants to check whether they are entitled to reimbursement from the vocational training fund at their union.