Structure of the organisation

Head of the organization

The head of the organization is William Stevens, who is also the founder and CEO of Europe Unlimited/ Tech Tour.

Business Development

The Business development team develops relations with targeted accounts. Their main activities are writing proposals to governments, making presentations and have meetings with potential clients. Furthermore they are responsible for the sponsorship and partnership deals. They join the advisory board for specific events and they support the content management team especially for program development.

This team has one major purpose and that is finding parties that would like to sponsor/ help organizing events. In some cases the events will return year after year, in that scenario the Business development team aims at improving the relations with those accounts.

Project management

The project management team is responsible for the overall lead of the event. Their tasks include planning the logistics (venue, transport, travel etc.), defining the program (including speakers), joining the advisory board, organizing the venture academy and preparing the conference material (binder, press-packs and promotional material). The mentioned tasks all support the most important and time-consuming task of project management: recruit the targeted amount of attending investors and presenting companies. The activities of those mainly consist out of locating and communicating the relevant target groups. These objectives are mainly realised by mass mailing and the department tries to follow up on those emails with telephone calls. Furthermore they also contact incubators, clusters use social media campaigns to reach their groups.

IT team

The IT team is responsible for the website of the company, the database and the online community. The online community is fairly new and has been launched a bit over a year ago. There is a lot of work to keep this project going. Besides that this team helps the other teams out with all technical related problems.

European Commission Projects:

EUN  is active in several commission projects. Some of them are very similar to their core activity which is organizing events. Examples of these are EMMinvest and Rockit. These projects contain a group of entrepreneurs that are in a 2 year track with several pitches for investors. Others, like Speedup Europe, Finodex and FI-Adopt, are accelerators. Accelerators  are programmes that take place a certain period of time and that should prepare starting companies to enter the commercial market. In most cases this includes a package of services like for example:

-	Funding

-	Investment opportunities

-	Networking opportunities with SME’s

-	General coaching

-	Technical support