Terms and Conditions of Participation

Subject to change disclaimer

The terms, conditions, procedures, and fees in this document are subject to change without prior notice. Please direct any inquiries for clarification to Anna Machukh, am@idcee.eu.

1. Purpose

The objective of IDCEE is to bring together and disseminate the ideas and knowledge of the world’s best start-ups and innovators with expertise and abilities of world’s leading angel investors and venture capitalists, through a top-class conference and expo, a broad selection of participative sessions, panels and keynotes, matchmaking events.

2. Date and venue

Date: 28-29 October, 2010

Venue: Art Arsenal (’Mystetskiy Arsenal’), 28-30 Ivana Mazepy Street

At the moment we are working on the agenda, it will be availabe soon.

3. Registration

All participants should fill out and send the application form with the following information:

  • Company name
  • Country of residence
  • WWW
  • Name of the CEO
  • Contact phone number
  • E-mail
  • Company description up to 500 characters
  • In the attachment: Executive Summary, prepared as described in this tutorial http://svod.org/files/resources/exec_summary_tutorial.pdf
  • Whether the company wants to participate in the Expo? (Yes/No)

4. Participation fee

Participation fee depends on the level of involvement of the company in the IDCEE activities:

  • EUR 50 – basic registration fee paid by every participant
  • EUR 450 – paid by companies participating in the Contest/Expo

5. Prize fund

A half (50%) of the collected registration fees will form a Prize fund for the winners of the Contest.

The information about every company participating in IDCEE will be published in the Catalogue.

6. Contest

To participate in the Contest, companies should be registered (refer to #3 Registration). The deadline for application forms is October 1, 2010.

150 companies will be selected and admitted to the Contest. The list of the Contest participants will be announced by the Organizing Committee on October 10, 2010.

After a successful confirmation from the Organizing Committee the company should pay an extra fee (refer to #4 Participation fee).

All Contest participants will also be admitted to the Expo.

7. Exposition

All 150-200 companies participating in the Contest will participate in the Expo too.

The list of the Expo participants will be announced by the Organizing Committee on the day next to the deadline.To participate in the Expo, companies should be registered (refer to #3 Registration). The deadline is October 10, 2010. After a successful confirmation from the Organizing Committee the company should pay an extra fee (refer to #4 Participation fee).

8. Event flow

Expo participants are companies and accredited investors only. The press will be admitted to the Expo at 16:00.

Every investor fills out an Evaluation Sheet while communicating with the company. The Contest winners will be decided based on investors’ evaluation.

Winners from the Seed Stage category will share the Prize Fund in the following ratio:

  • 60% for the 1st place
  • 30% for the 2nd place
  • 10% for the 3rd place

At the Conference next day, every winner has an opportunity to make a presentation in the “10 = 7 + 3″ format, which means 7 minutes for the presentation and 3 minutes for questions and answers session.