Puja Abbassi

Puja Abbassi is the Vice President of Product at Giant Swarm, a cloud infrastructure startup based in Cologne, and a researcher at University of Cologne, where he is working on topics like entrepreneurship, venture capital, and diversity as well as supply chain and cyber security - always at the border of academics and practice. He has taught classes on social media, electronic business, and entrepreneurship in and outside of university. Starting out as a developer for a startup in 2004, he has worked in and mentored various startups and intrapreneurial teams in Germany, China, and Iran since. Deeply involved in local and international startup ecosystems, he organizes and speaks at events like StartupWeekend, European Pirate Summit, NEXT, and Leancamp. Currently he's a mentor at Chinaccelerator and AvaTech Accelerator. Furthermore, I'm an external expert to the European Commission on matters innovation and entrepreneurship and a Global Governance Futures (Bosch) Alumn. Specialties: Kubernetes, Docker, Microservices, Social Network Analysis, Network Science, Data Science, Startups, Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital, Cyber Security, Supply Chain Management, Supply Chain Security, Supply Chain Risk Management, Chinese Language and Culture