Startup Events in Poland

Part of Poland Tech Week 2026 · Warsaw, 26-30 October. Go-to-Market for AI-First Startups An evening with Michał Kułakowski (Wonderful) // Lech Kaniuk (Kepta Legal) // Maciej Szott (GOTOSMITH) hosted at Imaguru Startup Hub. Who is it for? Founders of AI-first and AI-native startups, where AI is the core of the product Investors and VCs backing AI-first companies What you get? Two 30-minute keynotes: Michał Kułakowski (GTM Poland, Wonderful: one of the fastest-growing AI-first B2B companies in the world, valued at 10 bln USD) and Lech Kaniuk (Kepta Legal) on how to start as an AI-first company A 120-minute hands-on workshop on how go-to-market changes for AI-first and AI-native companies A room full of founders and investors from the Polish and European AI scene Agenda 14:00-14:30 Welcome Coffee & Networking 14:30-15:00 KEYNOTE 1 (30 min): Michał Kułakowski - GTM Poland, Wonderful 15:00-15:30 KEYNOTE 2 (30 min): Lech Kaniuk - Kepta Legal 15:30-17:30 WORKSHOP (120 min): hands-on session on go-to-market for AI-first startups Who is behind it? GoToSmith is a go-to-market partner for startups in the region, including Wonderful and Kepta Legal. Since 2026 we've worked hands-on with 8 AI-first companies on their go-to-market. Hosted by Maciej Szott, CEO of GoToSmith, entrepreneur at Luxon & Zeme, investor and mentor. Co-founded and scaled two companies (74x and 124x in 7 years) and built 5 B2B tech startups. Venue: Imaguru Startup Hub, Twarda 14/16, Warsaw. Part of Poland Tech Week 2026 -> https://polandtechweek.com See the full Poland Tech Week calendar -> https://luma.com/polandtechweek

Poland Tech Week kicks off at Google for Startups Campus in Warsaw. It’s the opening night of a week-long celebration of the founders, investors, and builders shaping Polish tech. 18:00 Doors Open 18:45 Welcome Then the evening runs as three sharp panels 19:00 Built in Poland, Scaled Globally - capital, talent or ambition: what’s really holding back Europe’s growth stage? Sophie Neuber-Kicińska (Lightrock), Sylwester Janik (Cogito), Bartłomiej Samsonowicz (PFR Ventures), Karol Szubstarski (OTB Ventures) and Bartosz Lipnicki (Endeavor Poland). 19:30 The Future of Robotics Paweł Budzianowski (CEO, Lute), Lukas Ziegler (Robotics Evangelist), Michał Kozicki (Co-founder, Bones) and Kacper Nowicki (CEO, Nomagic). 20:00 Private Capital & Defense Resilience - how can we do better? J.R. Smith (Evolution Equity) and Aleksander Dobrzyniecki (Balnord), moderated by Lt. Gen. (Res.) Tomasz Piotrowski. 20:20-21:45 networking, bites and drinks! Entry is free, but places are limited, and the guest list is curated, so be quick! Explore the full week at luma.com/polandtechweek. Made possible by Evolution Equity, PFR Ventures, Balnord, ffVC, Project A, dealme, Notion and HubSpot for Startups.

Join us for "Wiki+Ctrl+Delete: Wikipedia – The Internet Encyclopedia Under Attack", part of Poland Tech Week 2026. While millions trust Wikipedia as their primary source of information, maintaining the world's largest encyclopedia is a highly complex challenge. Behind the scenes, the platform actively pushes back against coordinated disinformation, automated bots, and AI-generated content, as well as major AI-scraping attacks. Far from a simple digital library, Wikipedia is an active space where accuracy and objective truth require constant moderation and technological defense. Join us during Poland Tech Week for an event that will expose the mechanics of these attacks and show how open knowledge defends itself against collapse. We will analyze the most notorious case studies from the frontlines of edit wars, look into the tools guarding the platform and discuss whether truth still stands a chance in the AI era. Reserve your spot and discover what crisis management looks like in the Last Good Place on the Internet. Who is this for? Cybersecurity professionals and tech enthusiasts. Founders, developers, and AI researchers. Journalists, fact-checkers, and content creators. Anyone curious about who really controls the information we read online See the full Poland Tech Week calendar -> https://luma.com/polandtechweek

Thinking about applying to Y Combinator? Hear it straight from founders who’ve been through it. As part of Poland Tech Week 2026, Smok Ventures is hosting an event with founders of Authologic, Alokai, Golf, Quickchat and Skymerse, all of whom went through YC. They’ll share an honest look at the whole journey: how they approached the application and interview, what the batch was actually like, what value they got out of it, and whether it was worth it for their company. What to expect: Panel discussion with ex-YC founders Open Q&A, so bring your questions Networking with fellow founders and the Smok Ventures team Food and drinks provided Who it’s for: startup founders considering applying to YC, or anyone curious what the world’s most prestigious accelerator looks like from the inside. About the host: Smok Ventures is the #1 CEE-based fund by number of investments in YC companies with CEE founders, having backed 8 of them so far. We know the YC path well, and we’re here to help more founders from the region take it. Spots are limited. Register to secure yours. See the full Poland Tech Week calendar.

Part of Poland Tech Week 2026 · Warsaw, 26-30 October. Organized by the Heart, Innovations Hub Foundation, and 360 Warsaw. Building or planning a deep tech startup and wondering what's next: an incubator, mentoring, or maybe venture building? Build Deep is a night for founders standing at that crossroads and for the people who have already found their way through it. Join us on October 28th at The Heart's HQ. Founders from Poland and abroad, building companies in healthcare, defence & dual use, space, energy and other deep tech fields, will share the real story: what worked, what didn't, and what they'd do differently. The Heart and the Innovations Hub Foundation will open the doors to venture building and show who it's a good fit for. You'll also meet companies from The Heart's portfolio and hear how venture building helped them go from lab to launch, and from launch to scale. Got a deep tech project you believe in? Apply to pitch when you register. 3 selected teams will take the stage for 5 minutes each and get feedback on the spot. Deadline to register with the presentation link is Thursday, Oct 22nd, 23:59 CET, inclusive. Only successful applicant will be solicited for presentation arrangements. The selection process will be competitive, and we do not guarantee selection. Finally, the best part: conversations with founders who get it, over food and drinks, with Warsaw lit up below. Plus direct access to venture builders, experts and partners who can help take your startup to the next level. Organized by The Heart, Innovations Hub Foundation and 360 Warsaw as part of Poland Tech Week. See the full Poland Tech Week calendar -> https://luma.com/polandtechweek

Part of Poland Tech Week 2026 · Warsaw, 26-30 October. Join Delta FDE for a panel discussion on Forward Deployed Engineering, bringing together different perspectives on a role that combines software engineering, product thinking, and close customer collaboration. We’ll explore what this work looks like in practice, where the model delivers value, and what it takes to do it well. Our panelists: Łukasz Jakubowski @Delta Kuba Abramczyk @ElevenLabs Michał Rokita @Wonderful Patryk Lewczuk @Open Mercato Michał Pierzchała @Callstack Whether you’re an engineer curious about the FDE career path, a technical founder, or a leader considering this model for your team, come for a conversation about building closer to the customer. October 28 · 17:30–19:30 CET · Warsaw · WeWork Mennica Tower Hosted by Delta FDE as part of Poland Tech Week 2026. See the full Poland Tech Week calendar -> https://luma.com/polandtechweek

Engineering says refactoring takes 8 weeks, period. Product says the launch date is non-negotiable. Sales already promised a custom client feature for Q4... When cross-team deadlocks hit a wall, leadership inevitably gets dragged in to play referee. If your team's execution velocity is systematically hijacked by priority wars, you don't have a comms problem — you have an execution framework failure. Stepping in to make the final call feels like a quick fix, but it creates a dangerous trap: it rewards political maneuvering, kills team autonomy, and turns leadership into the ultimate operational bottleneck. Join Inês Boska (Founder & ex-Lead PM) for a 45-minute tactical masterclass at Poland Tech Week 2026. Learn how scale-up leaders retire themselves as referees and build frameworks that force cross-functional teams to resolve roadmap deadlocks autonomously. What you'll learn A plug & play script to drain emotional hostility and defensive posture before touching the roadmap How to reframe positional arguing ("you vs. me") into collaborative problem-solving ("us vs. the constraint") How to eliminate unilateral escalations to leadership so teams can no longer escalate a dispute without bringing pre-analyzed options with trade-offs. Who it's for This session is built for leaders in scaling tech companies (30–250 headcount): VPs & Directors of Engineering / Product: Looking to protect technical standards or delivery momentum without clashing with commercial priorities or burning cross-functional trust. Founders & COOs: Exhausted from refereeing internal disputes and wanting 10+ hours of executive bandwidth back every week. Senior Engineering Managers & Lead PMs: Seeking the high-leverage negotiation tools needed to navigate cross-departmental friction and drive alignment. 📍 Imaguru Tech Hub, Warsaw 📆 
28th October 2026, 18.00 🎟️ Registration upon approval (spots limited) About the speaker Inês Boska is the founder of Druga Strona, an executive consultancy that helps sca

Part of Poland Tech Week 2026 · Warsaw, 26-30 October. Pitch Me Baby⚡ is a recurring event for founders and startups looking for feedback on their pitches. Originally from Warsaw, the event is organized in the main cities in Poland, CEE, Germany, Singapore and Portugal. Wherever we are, you can be sure to meet startup founders, mentors and advisors, VC funds and Business Angels. We will select a maximum of 8 teams to pitch this night. Each team will have 5 minutes to pitch (sharp!), followed by immediate feedback from our audience (mentors, investors, general attendees). Every registration is vetted against your profile to ensure it aligns with our event, your LinkedIn profile, and whether you have previously unsubscribed from our mailing list. If you want to be accepted, please add as much information as possible to help us verify your profile (i.e., no LinkedIn profile will decrease your chance of confirming your ticket, or the fact that you previously unsubscribed from our mailing lists will definitely result in rejecting your registration). 18:00 We open the door 18:35 Pitching session starts 19.50 Networking over drinks and pizza 21.30 The end The Strategic Partner for Pitch Me baby Season 2025/2026 is PKO Bank Polski S.A. running a corporate acceleration program Let's Fintech. The 2026 Partner is Benchy.it, providing all the founders that pitch at this event a 3-month access to the benchy.it platform. Our Media Partner is WAW List, a curated newsletter. Never miss a tech or startup event in Warsaw. One curated email, in English, every Monday. About Pitch Me Baby is running 'Pitch Me, Baby, One More Time ⚡' networking events for founders, investors and mentors. We focus on improving founders pitching skills through honest and straightforward feedback delivered instantly. Every event is free to attend and attracts ~100 participants on average (on site), with at least 60-75% showup rate vis a vis registrations (50% founders, 19% investors, 30% service provider

Founders and VCs at the same table, for once without a term sheet. MOC x THL host a relaxed poker evening for the Warsaw tech scene. Beginners welcome—we’ll teach you the rules. Only 40 spots available. First come, first served.

Build Grok Bots. Show them off 🤌 Evening Grok Bot meetup in Warsaw during Poland Tech Week. Thank you to Smok Ventures for hosting us! Grab credits, build your own Grok Bot by SpaceXAI, then show the room what it does. Pizza, builders, live show & tell. 📅 Schedule 17:30 — Doors open, pizza & networking 18:00 — Grok Bot intro (10 min) + QR code for credits 18:10 — Build your Grok Bot (networking continues) 20:15 — Show & tell: 2–3 Grok Bots built tonight, 3 min each 21:00 — Close (may run later) 📍 Venue: Kolektyw3, Koszykowa 54, 00-675 Warszawa 📅 Date: Thursday, 29 October 2026 🚀 What You'll Do Get credits that work for Grok Bot by SpaceXAI Build a Grok Bot, an agent with its own persistent computer, terminal, files and MCP support Demo it live in 3 minutes, or just come to see what others build Meet Warsaw's builders, founders and investors during Poland Tech Week (26–30 Oct) Bring a laptop and charger. 🤝 People behind Hosts: Francisco Terpolilli, EU Ambassador, SpaceXAI Kornel Dubieniecki, Ambassador, SpaceXAI (Poland) Partners: Smok Ventures Kolektyw3 Part of Poland Tech Week, 26–30 October, Maciej Wojciechowski Community Ben Lang, SpaceXAI See the full Poland Tech Week calendar.

Part of Poland Tech Week 2026 · Warsaw, 26-30 October AI made building software cheap. So who wins when everyone can build? Our bet: the companies that know how to get customers. This time we're bringing together people who build GTM with AI every day: GTM engineers from the Clay community, outbound operators and teams running AI agents on top of the CRM. Real workflows, no theory. 🎤 Speakers Brian Woloszczak Co-founder @ Peakout · Clay Community Lead Leszek Lammel AI GTM Operations · Runner-up, Clay Cup 2026 Jānis Plūme CEO @Outbound Pros Alfredo Moya Raventós Strategic Partnerships & GTM @ CloudTalk Krzysztof Pawlak Co-founder @ GTM Tech Week Artur Wala Co-founder @ GTM Tech Week Rad Debmkowski Attribute Global Ventures Damian Goral Founder & CEO, Dealme 🗓️ Agenda 9:00–12:00 Workshop by @ GTM Tech Week Workshop by GTM Tech Week (gtm-week.com), led by Krzysztof Pawlak. Learn how to polish your positioning, generate demand and close deals. More info coming soon. Krzysztof Pawlak Artur Wala 12:00 - 12:45 ☕️ @ Dealme Team Doors open, registration & coffee 12:45 - 13:15 Agents on top of the CRM Damian Góral @ Dealme 13:15 - 13:45 GTM Engineering 101: What It Is and Why It Matters Now Artur Wala @ GTM Tech Week 13:45 - 14:30 ☕️ Coffe break 14:30 - 15:00 GTM Engineering, Unfiltered: How I Actually Run It Leszek Lammel @ Leszek Lammel Advisory 15:00 - 15:30 From GTM Startegy to Agentic Websites Brian Woloszczak @ Peakout 15:30 - 16:00 How to send 1M emails per month Jānis Plūme, Outbound Pros 16:00 - 16:45 ☕️ Networking 16:45 - 17:15 The role that calling and Voice Agents take part on a GTM, integrating your SaaS into calling Alfredo Moya Raventós, CloudTalk 17:15 - 17:45 Building, Funding and Scaling Startups in the AI Era Rad Dembkowski, Attribute Global Ventures 17:45 - 18:15 ☕️ Networking 18:15 - 19:00 Panel: Who survives the SaaS apocalypse? moderated by Damian Góral 🎯 What we'll cover → How AI agents change the way sales teams use their CRM → What GTM engineering lo

This October, we’re bringing the START Warsaw hackathon back as part of Poland Tech Week 2026. Builders, founders, designers and engineers will work on challenges from companies with real problems to solve. The goal is simple: build a working prototype and show what it can do. Come with a team of 3–4 or apply solo and meet your teammates here. You’ll spend most of the time building, testing and preparing a demo. Bring a laptop, a charger, and something you want to prove. Our first two case partners are Reactive AI and Bending Spoons. Reactive AI is rethinking how AI models work, building a new architecture with memory at its core so AI can learn from interactions instead of starting fresh every time. Their track challenges teams to push the boundaries of AI benchmarking and rethink how we measure what AI can actually do. Bending Spoons, the technology company behind products such as WeTransfer and Evernote, has just opened an office in Warsaw. They’re joining with a challenge of their own for teams to tackle. The full briefs for both partners will follow. Like last time, OpenAI will be joining us as a technology partner, more details coming soon. ElevenLabs joins as a tool partner, offering participants one month of Creator access, plus Pro prizes for the overall winning team and Scale prizes for the best project built with ElevenLabs. Access and redemption instructions will be shared with accepted participants. Prelint joins as a tool partner as well. Prelint is an AI reviewer that checks every pull request against what your team actually decided to build. It flags the moment the code drifts from the plan and surfaces the decisions your AI agents made without telling you. Each team gets $250 in credits to use during the hackathon, with $2,000 in credits for the winning team. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. We’ll email selected applicants with next steps. Each teammate must apply separately. 30–31 October, Warsaw. Venue and exact hours to follow. Abou

Jak będzie wyglądać przyszłość polskiego FinTechu? Czy Polska ma szansę stać się europejskim liderem innowacji finansowych? Jakie technologie zmieniają sposób, w jaki płacimy, inwestujemy i korzystamy z usług finansowych? Już 3 listopada 2026 r. zapraszamy do CIC Warsaw na #16 Przegląd Technologiczny „FinTech City – przyszłość finansów i płatności”, organizowany przez Miasto Stołeczne Warszawa w ramach Warsaw Finance Week 2026. Wydarzenie połączy przedstawicieli sektora finansowego, firm technologicznych, startupów, inwestorów i instytucji publicznych, aby wspólnie przyjrzeć się innowacjom kształtującym przyszłość finansów oraz potencjałowi polskiego ekosystemu FinTech. Co w programie? Panel dyskusyjny: „Made in Poland, Built for Europe – przyszłość polskiego FinTechu” Porozmawiamy o tym, jak budować i skalować polskie technologie finansowe na rynkach międzynarodowych, jakie szanse stwarzają AI i nowe modele płatności oraz czego potrzebuje polski ekosystem, aby tworzyć kolejnych europejskich liderów FinTech. Moderacja: Katarzyna Jedlińska – ekspertka rynku FinTech Paneliści: Konrad Ozdowy – PKO Bank Polski / Let's FinTech Adam Bartkiewicz – Digital Ocean Ventures Michał Szymański – BLIK Łukasz Łyczko – PwC Polska Piotr Kędra – PFR Ventures Prezentacje innowacyjnych rozwiązań FinTech Poznamy wybrane firmy i technologie odpowiadające na wyzwania współczesnego sektora finansowego – od sztucznej inteligencji i automatyzacji po nowoczesne płatności, bezpieczeństwo i cyfrowe usługi finansowe. Networking i nowe możliwości współpracy Spotkaj przedstawicieli banków, fintechów, inwestorów, startupów i instytucji wspierających innowacje. To przestrzeń do wymiany doświadczeń, nawiązywania kontaktów i budowania nowych partnerstw. Agenda 09:00-09:30 – Rejestracja i poranna kawa 09:30-09:40 – Oficjalne otwarcie 09:40-09:55 – Keynote speech 10:00-10:45 – Panel dyskusyjny „Made in Poland, Built for Europe – przyszłość polskiego FinTechu” 10:45-11:15 – Przerwa kawowa 11:15-12:45 – Pr

The AI universe keeps expanding. Let’s explore what’s next 👽 Ū HUB is back with our second AI Shift meetup of the year! Join us at Google for Startups Campus Warsaw to explore how AI is changing engineering, what actually works in production, and when AI should make decisions instead of generating more stuff. We’re bringing together 14 speakers from Google, Dropbox, Viktor, Revolut, PandaDoc, EPAM Systems, and beyond for an day of hands-on workshops, talks, panel discussions and networking. 🎤 Keynotes 1. AI Is fast, but that doesn't mean the job is finished. Engineering the work that comes after AI output. Karol Harabasz, Poland Site Lead at Dropbox 2. A special guest from Google Speaker and keynote details coming soon. Stay tuned 👀 💬 Panel discussions 1. From LLMs to AI Agents: What Actually Works in Production? Bartosz Cytrowski / Senior Software Engineer at Dropbox (moderator) Yauhen Ivashkevich / Agent Platform Engineer at Viktor.com Uladzislau Darhevich / Applied AI Engineer at Revolut Gleb Berjoskin / ML Solutions Architect at Nebius Eugene Kalinouski / Backend Software Engineer at PandaDoc 2. Jevons Paradox: When AI Should Decide, Not Generate George Kachanouski / AI Architect at UNOWA (moderator) Rammi Dgham / Founding Product Engineer at Boski Sergii Alekseev / Founder at Worklayer Yauhen Klimovich / Engineering Manager at Zendesk Sergei Lavrinenko / AI Solutions Consultant at EPAM Systems 🛠 Workshops 1. How to Run 10 Agents in Parallel and Not Go Crazy Valiantsin Zavadski / CTO at Alsetta, Co-founder of Goman.ai One AI coding agent makes you faster. Ten make you a team lead – but only if you know how to keep them from stepping on each other.In this hands-on, two-and-a-half-hour workshop, you’ll learn to write clear specs, run agents in parallel, get them to test their own work, and review and merge the results without losing your mind. Who it’s for: Software developers who already use AI coding tools and want to go beyond one agent at a time. 2. From

European Design Portfolio Night X Warsaw Emerging Designers: Present your portfolio, polished or still a draft. Get expert feedback in relaxed, seated groups. Our Review Leads will share feedback on a project of your choice. Win a fully funded trip to Paris in February 2027 + Framer Pro (1y license) + Mobbin Pro (1y license) + Certificate: Zenith Award (Portfolio of the Night) Ignite Award (One to Watch) Presenters who share their portfolio ahead of the event will be featured on Softerflow's LinkedIn (optional, Europe-based). Senior Designers: Mentor presenters, get inspired by talks, network with Europe's design community. Lightning Talks Theme: Should Every Designer Become a Builder? November 26 at Imaguru Startup HUB. Free. Registration required. Organized by Softerflow (The European Designer Exchange Program) & Imaguru Startup HUB softerflow.com imaguru.co Our expert Review Leads: Moments from our Berlin Portfolio Night: