Vincent DUCREY is co-founder and CEO of HUB Institute - Digital Think Tank. Vincent’s expertise stems from his 15 year career in all areas of innovation, marketing, communications: as entrepreneur, as digital strategy consultant and as a digital communication adviser for the French Government. His governmental and business experiences extend to missions in Brazil, Russia, Africa, the Middle East, USA and Europe.

At NextBerlin, Vincent from HUB Institute, Kumardev Chatterjee from EYIF and Björn Willemsens from Deloitte will participate in the launch of the Europioneers competition wich reward European Web Entrepreneurs. Over 1 200 nominations and 5600 votes involving 27 European countries have been registered for the first 2013 edition. The objectives of the award are to identify and recognise successful European web initiatives to promote the role web entrepreneurs play in European society and to encourage and inspire potential entrepreneurs.