Webit in Search of Volunteers for the Program This Year
The WEBIT.Festival Europe 2017 team will let a group of young and ambitious volunteers to join them behind the scenes at the prestigious festival to be held this year on April 25-26, 2017 in Sofia Tech Park. A total of 200 volunteers will be selected, and they will be required to be active, responsible and outgoing individuals with interest in the subject of the festival, namely global digital transformations. Their responsibilities will include organization during the event, reception of delegates and speakers, VIP guests’ assistants, exhibitor and startup halls assistants, media corner assistants, photography assistants.
The young people will have the exclusive opportunity to meet in person global leaders and innovators changing the world with their products, services and causes, and to draw on their experience and ideas. The volunteers will be busy either one full day or half day of each of the two days. The WEBIT.Festival Europe 2017 team will also need a few volunteers on the day before the festival. The rest of the time the volunteers will be able to enjoy the event as visitors, as they will receive a one day full access ticket. A complete description of the requirements and the application form can be found on the website of the festival.
The motto of the festival this year is re:Inventing Europe’s Future. Visitors will have the chance to choose between 12 parallel conferences. The topics are mobility, financial technology, healthcare technology, digital policy, smart cities, artificial intelligence, virtual reality.
Bulgaria is among the five destinations in the world along with Istanbul, Dubai, Singapore and Delhi, where this influential global event for the future, entrepreneurship, investment and technologies that change the world, takes place annually. Among the already confirmed speakers in Sofia are names like “Flying man” David Mayman – the first jet pack (reactive backpack) pilot in the world, Gareth Williams, Founder of the sold for GBP 1.7 bln Skyscanner, Fara Warner, Global Editorial Director of Wall Street Journal Custom Studios, Jason Jercinovic, Global Director and President of Havas Worldwide, Chris Clarke, Chief Creative Officer of DigitasLBi, Bruce Rogers, Chief Insights Officer at Forbes, Jonas Jacobi, Vice President of Cloud and Mobile Strategy at IBM, Cristian Citu, Senior Director of Group Digital Strategy at DHL and many others. We are also looking forward to the competition for entrepreneurs and startups – Founders Games, for which 2 000 startups apply to have the opportunity to present their projects live to investors during Webit.
In 2016 Webit.Festival attracted in Sofia visitors from 82 countries, 253 speakers, 186 accredited journalists from around the globe. In media and social networks the event resulted in over 30 000 tweets, more than 1 000 articles and thousands of posted videos, photos and comments.
