Success stories Ivan Klimek is the co-founder and CEO/CTO of Excalibur, a tool which kills the need for passwords by turning your mobile phone into your universal authentication token in the digital age. After winning the Young Innovator Competition at ITU Telecom World 2012 in Dubai, Excalibur has had a string of successes, winning the StartupAwards.sk 2012, gaining a place at Telefonica Wayra Academy in Prague, reaching the finals of the Rice Business Plan Competition 2013, winning the Telekom Innovation Contest 2013 held by Deutsche Telekom Group, coming second in the Intel Business Challenge Europe and progressing further in the Intel Global Challenge at UC Berkeley held in October 2013. Excalibur’s nationwide pilot launch will be in Poland in December 2013. Parallel to this, we will be launching our password manager product globally to prepare the ground for rapid expansion following the success of the Poland pilot. Ivan Klimek Excalibur www.xclbr.com xclbr@xclbr.com 26 InnovationSpace: Young Innovators