On September 3, at 15:00, in Akhaltsikhe, the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center of Caucasus University, with the initiative and support of the Georgian Innovation and Technology Agency (GITA), will hold the final event of the Samtskhe-Javakheti pre-acceleration program, the Demo Day, at Samtskhe-Javakheti State University.

The main goal of the pre-accelerator is to assist startups and entrepreneurs living in the Samtskhe-Javakheti region in the development of their own business ideas, starting from the idea and product, and ending with the presentation of a 25,000 GEL regional grant project to GITA.

Active representatives of the startup ecosystem participated in the program as trainers, sharing their knowledge and experience with the participants through 7 weeks of intensive training.

Pre-acceleration program trainers:

Irakli Svanidze - Manager of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center of Caucasus University, guest lecturer at CU

Sandro Kandelaki - co-founder of Student Hunt

Nikoloz Gogochuri - co-founder and CEO of VRex

Giorgi Razmadze - co-founder and executive director of Awork

As part of the demo day, the startups participating in the program will present their ideas to industry experts, the jury and the audience.

At the end of the event, the jury members will evaluate the teams and choose 2 startups.

Jury members:

Ana Maisuradze - Project Manager of the Georgia’s Innovation and Technology Agency.

Gabriel Meliva - co-founder of Printomato, startup mentor.

Aleksandre Tsintsadze - founder of Kovzy.com.

Attendance at the event is free for everyone.