Regulars at our Hive53 meetups may have met Piotr Wilam at previous gatherings, where he has sat on the judging panel for our pitching sessions. We're grateful for his support (he even tweeted how nicely Piotr and Ela run the show! Seconded!) and we are delighted to welcome him as our guest speaker just before he takes off to Silicon Valley where he'll be introducing Polish startups to American VCs. 
The meetup will take place at Drukarnia Jazz Club (Nadwiślańska 1) starting at 6PM on Monday 5th March.

Piotr Wilam is currently CEO and leading investor at Innovation Nest, the seed and venture fund for global Internet projects that have their base in Poland. He is perhaps best known to many of us as co-founder and first president of Poland's largest Internet portal - www.onet.pl. In addition to these distinguished achievements, he founded Pascal Publishing (which grew to the market leader in travel guides, with more than 50% market share) as well as the digital publishing startup, Optimus Pascal Multimedia, which became Poland's leading educational software publisher.

Perhaps his background as both a philosopher and a mathematician has given him the uncanny ability to succeed in so many different fields? Let us know you're coming by clicking "I'm Attending" on our Facebook event page and see you there!

The rules for pitching are:
- max 60 seconds
- no slides
- in English

Right, so the freezing cold period is hopefully behind us and it’s time for the busy bees to get out a little, defrost our wings and start working on the next Swarm. We’re planning to have one in March and we’ll let you know the details as soon as we have them sorted out.

In the meantime we have a nice treat for you. Uki Lucas - Founder and CEO of CyberWalkAbout.com will be visiting Krakow next week. You’ll find more about him below. Together with Daniel Bara they are looking to create links between Polish startups and American investors in Chicago. Uki graciously agreed to meet us for some drinks and chat on Monday the 20th of February. 
So let us know you’re coming by clicking ‘I’m attending’ on the event page and join us there to discuss the startup and investor ecosystem in Chicago, mobile technologies and many other topics. We’re getting together around 6pm in 'u Louisa' pub - Market Square 13.

Uki D. Lucas is a technology entrepreneur, public speaker, book author and community organizer. He is the Founder & CEO of CyberWalkAbout.com and the leader of Chicago Android and Chicago GTUG communities. He organizes conferences, events and workshops for over 500 participating Chicago developers. Uki is an Android developer himself and has been speaking and teaching on topics related to Google technology, Android platform and Social Media on numerous occasions.