Software house Founders summit



16 October 2025

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16 October 2025

Budapest, Hungary

Pullman Budapest

The Agenda

Speaker

Topic

Time


Registration & Opening Keynote

09:30 AM

Barend Smet
How Thaumatec became 'The HealthTech Software House'
  • Why we chose healthcare as a niche
  • How to decide on an industry niche as a software house
  • Challenges of picking an industry niche
  • Benefits of having an industry specialization
  • Holding group setup (IoT Cloud Services & Software House)
  • Dutch sales - Polish delivery

10:00 AM

Cell
Tea & Coffee Break

11:00 AM

Łukasz Kosman
Choosing 'Flutter' as our niche at LeanCode
  • Why we picked a tech separator and not industry niche
  • Benefits and challenges of having a tech niche
  • Why Flutter?
  • Why we focus on enterprise
  • Content, thought leadership and events for the Flutter community
  • Power of open-source to generate leads
  • Inbound lead generation engine
  • How we became the official Flutter Software Consultancy

11:10 AM

Jan Kartusek
What’s Actually Working in Outbound for Software Agencies in 2025
  • Reposition or die
  • Types of outbound campaigns that work for software houses
  • Why most outbound campaigns fail for dev agencies (and how to fix it) 

12:00 AM



Lunch Break

12:30 PM

Ferenc Fekete
Finding our niche in SaaS at VeryCreatives
  • Transitioning VeryCreatives from a generic software house to a specific product development company with clear ICPs and a niche market
  • Finding our niche: non tech SaaS Founder in need of MVP
  • Defining our offering for the niche: Pre-packaged solutions on the website
  • How our niche helps us with lead generation - inbound & outbound

01:30 PM

Michael Rusko
How to build a growth strategy for your software house
  • How to define a long-term vision for your software house
  • Top mistakes to avoid when thinking of expansion abroad and hiring sales
  • How to identify market opportunities
  • How to build a high-performing sales team
  • How to develop sales process from scratch
  • How to craft sustainable business models aligned with evolving market demands

02:10 PM

Adam Stosio
Financial management in the software house industry (EBURY Polish report)
  • Findings from survey among 100 software houses of all sizes
  • First of this kind report in the CEE region 

02:40 PM

Tea & Coffee Break

03:05 PM

Edita Angyalova


The Roadmap to Freedom: Build a productized software house
  • Avoid customization overload
  • Productize your services to scale
  • Outsourcing yourself as a founder from the business
  • Fix your fluctuating projects to fix cash flow

03:15 PM

Cell

Finding your niche in custom SW development (Panel)

  • Tech stack, service offering, persona, industry
  • Buyers perspective on specialized SW houses
  • M&A - valuations for niched agencies vs generalists
  • How to prepare your SW house for an exit?

04:00 PM

Cell

Closing Remarks

04:45 PM

Cell

Networking Dinner

06:30 PM

€997 - full price

Event access

Lunch

Networking dinner

Private networking group

Our Speakers

Barend Smet

President & Co-Founder 

Thaumatec Tech group

Ferenc

Fekete

CO-FOUNDER

VERYCREATIVEs


Łukasz

 Kosman 

Cofounder & Managing Partner

LEANCODE

Michael

 Rusko 

Partner

Touch4IT


Barend is a Dutch entrepreneur who runs a Polish healthtech software house Thaumatec applying  IoT and AI to create solutions for companies that help improve people’s health in the broadest sense. 

Ferenc runs VeryCreatives, a software house from Budapest that helps non-technical founders build and scale ideas into exit-ready powerful SaaS products.



Łukasz is a serial entrepreneur with several startup exits. He runs LeanCode, a Polish Flutter Software Studio that has experience in large-scale app development for banking and enterprise clients.


Michael is a growth-focused entrepreneur and partner at Slovak software house Touch4IT. He successfully exited two software houses, leading their growth from early-stage concepts to acquisition.

Jan

Kartusek

Managing Director

In Sales academy

Edita Angyalova

Founder

TERZOS & Ex CEO ASseco solutions

Adam

Stosio

SR Head of Sales 

EBURY Partners

Jan runs a stellar team of consultants and lead generation experts that help software houses with growth. 

Edita is transforming digital services into scalable products that can be sold more easily, with better profitability.

Adam is transferring multi year banking experience in FX Risk Management into the software house industry.

Here’s What Founders Are Saying About The Last Event

Michael Korman

Founder AT

Touch4it

The quality of presentations and the engaged audience made it exceptionally enjoyable. 

Robert Strzelecki

CEO at

TENDERHUT GROUP

Thank you for invitation! Excellent work.



Davor Tarandek

CEO at

TRIA

Another fantastic event, congrats! See you again next year.



Barend

Smet

President at

Thaumatec Techgroup

Refreshing to engage in honest conversations about the challenges faced by Software Houses.


Antonio Peric-Mazar

CEO AT

Locastic

No one was trying to sell, impress anyone or act like they have all the answers figured out. Worth the trip.



Mihai-Daniel Popa

COO at

dotNear-Odeen

Great energy at the summit! Eastern European nearshore providers exchanging ideas, experiences, and laughs in a relaxed setting.

Igor Vrdoljak

CO-Founder at

NETGEN

The combination of learning, networking and an opportunity to openly exchange ideas with fellow founders facing similar challenges, made it a full win for me.


Libor Suchy

CEO AT

Argo22

Thanks for the opportunity to step out of my "bubble" and learn how things are going for other software agency founders and where the industry seems to be heading. 

Matt Warcholinski

Co-Founder AT

Brainhub

Great event :) Really enjoyed it.


Mykola Saraniuk

CEO at

RED CHAMELEON

I'm coming back with new ideas, contacts and motivation.

Rich Bundock

GROUP CEO -COHAESUS 

CTO -HEADCHANNEL

Such a great inaugural event. Well organised. Thank you!



Ivan Siniak

Founder & CEO at

EVOCODE

It was an incredible opportunity to tackle common challenges, and discuss solutions to drive our industry forward.

Jakub Dvorak

Co-Founder AT 

BePositive 

A lot of information was given here, which we immediately implemented in our software house.



Mario Juric

Co-Founder at Upheave technologies

I don't know of any other industry where leaders will openly share knowledge and support each other. 


Pawel Nienartowicz

CEO at

ADHDEV

I had a great time at the Founders Summit. Many ideas that we can easily test ourselves.

Balasz Slezak

Founder & CEO at

WOZIFY

It's always great to learn from titans of the industry and exchange ideas and best practices with people who are in the same boat :)


Pullman Budapest Hotel

Located in the heart of the city center the 5 star Pullman Budapest offers modern comfort for its guests.  The summit will be organized on the top floor in a rooftop event space.


What Sets This Event Apart

This one-day event is tailored for founders of software houses in Central and Eastern Europe that offer custom software and digital product development services.

We only have one rule: No fluff.

Networking Dinner & Afterparty

Only For 40 Founders!

Pricing

€997 - full price

Event access

Lunch

Networking dinner

Private networking group

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Countries Represented



Who is this event for?

This is the 4th edition of our Software House Founders Summit series around the world. Most of the attendees are founders who run digital product development or software development companies in Central and Eastern Europe.

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