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Drum rolls! One of the largest accelerators in the world. One of the first investors in Google, PayPal and Dropbox.
Please welcome the Managing Director of Plug and Play Tech Center Austria! Renée Wagner

Renee is a California Girl however she moved to Austria at the young age of 9 in 1994. She has spent her professional life optimising organisations both in the aviation sector as well as the public sector. In her Honerary role as an Ambassador for Integration in Austria she has always been very active in helping others get acclimated in Austria and Austrians get acclimated in other settings. Now as the Managing Director for Plug and Play Austria she will focus on bringing the Plug and Play Tech Center solutions to Austria as well es helping the local talent gain access to their global network and scale via the offered programs which are free for startups. Renee is a big believer in thinking big and has never shied away from daunting projects whether it was initiating SOPs for the EU Council Presidency, Managing a private aviation station in Moscow at the young age of 24 or being a mother or 2 and a wife. Currently she is also working on a committee with governmental officials to lend support in attracting more international business to Austria and this is already bearing the first fruit at the AirportCity Space as of May 2020. Her goal is to turn Austria into a "best practice country" via delivering good solutions to the corporates so they may implement nationwide rollouts.

Plug and Play has recently joined the Austrian ecosystem and, together with AirportCity Space Vienna, managed by Joubin Pour and Udo C. Leser, will form one of the strongest and most central tech hubs in Europe. Located directly at Flughafen Wien - Vienna Airport!

Plug and Play Tech Center is the most active investor in Angel and Seed globally 3rd year in a row and runs the biggest Open Innovation Platform with over +300 Corporate Partners world wide and 16 vertical focus areas. Plug and Play is the only company in the world that can boast having Coca-Cola, Pepsi and Red Bull on the same platform or Daimler AG, Porsche and Hyundai pushing the automotive industry with over 25 other platform partners. On the investor end of things Plug and Play Tech Center has made over +1000 investments since being established in 2006 and now hosts 8 Unicorns in its Portfolio as while a quite a few success stories.

We are honored to present a Unicorn Maker on stage.