Five speakers, five minutes each, then time to talk. Across Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, IABC EMENA is building a professional network around what happens when communicators stop presenting and start comparing notes.
From Porsche's pilot projects to a new accelerator in Cyprus, Plug and Play sells access to the people who can put startup technology to work. The revealing number is how much makes it beyond the demo.
Its founders learned industry from the assembly line and the deal room. Now the firm is testing whether operational fluency can turn overlooked B2B manufacturers into stronger, more valuable businesses.
talent.io was a European recruitment marketplace that flipped traditional headhunting: pre-screened software engineers and tech freelancers were surfaced to companies, who then applied to candidates. Founded in Paris in 2015 by Amit Aharoni, Jonathan Azoulay and Nicolas Meunier, it scaled to ten European cities and 2,000+ employer clients before being acquired by Davidson Consulting out of judicial reorganization in March 2025.