Happy New Year to one and all! It’s time to open your bright, shiny 2012 diaries and make a note of the first Hive meeting of the year - Wednesday 18th January at 6PM at Aquarius Restaurant - on Vistula river, right next to Wawel Castle.

This promises to be a truly buzzing meetup, with our speaker, Jaromir Działo fresh from recent success in Silicon Valley. Jaromir is one of the founders of semantic text summarizing service Topicmarks, a startup that rapidly attracted seed investment from the likes of Mint founder, Aaron Patzer, as well as rave reviews on TechCrunch and Mashable. Winner of Seedcamp, and runaway winner of the 2011 Founder Showcase, Topicmarks was acquired in December 2011 by social discovery leader Tagged. Jaromir’s career includes multiple startup successes, co-authorship of a patent, as well as involvement in more than 100 different web services - read more about him on our speakers’ page.

The format of the evening will be as before:
18:00 Welcome drink
18:15 Interview and Q&A with Jaromir
19:00 Pitch session (register at pitches@joinhive.com)
19:15 Announcements
19:30 Networking

The rules for pitching are:
- max 60 seconds
- no slides
- in English
Each of those pitching will receive instant feedback and will have a chance to win tickets to Startup Weekend Krakow. It's a great opportunity to practice, get feedback and get noticed. The pitch session and prizes are sponsored once again by BrightBerries.

Fundacja Nowe Technologie and Kevin Greene of anotherfriend.com are also sponsoring the event and supporting our startup community.

Let us know you're coming by clicking "I'm Attending" on our Facebook event page, get your beeesiness cards ready and see you January 18th!