On Might 7-8, 2026, the EU-Startups Summit returns to sunny Malta, bringing collectively round 2,500 founders, buyers, and startup ecosystem leaders for 2 days of networking, inspiration, and knowledge-sharing.
Constructing a startup could be thrilling, nevertheless it additionally comes with intense strain. Lengthy hours, uncertainty, fixed decision-making, and the calls for of main a workforce can take an actual toll on founders and workers alike. As conversations round wellbeing change into extra central to sustainable firm constructing, psychological well being is not one thing startups can afford to disregard. In our panel “Psychological Well being Ideas for Entrepreneurs and Startup Groups Below Stress”, we’ll discover how founders and groups can higher recognise stress, construct more healthy habits, and create extra supportive working environments.
The dialogue will take a look at the realities of psychological well being in fast-paced startup environments, the challenges entrepreneurs and groups face beneath strain, and sensible methods to assist resilience, stability, and long-term well-being whereas constructing and scaling an organization.
Irene Anggreeni: TEDx speaker, management coach, and mental fitness coach. Irene teaches leaders to construct high-performing groups that ship sturdy outcomes with out burnout. Primarily based within the Netherlands, she brings a trauma-informed method to management growth and works with founders, managers, and executives on psychological security, emotional resilience, communication, and sustainable efficiency. With a background spanning engineering, design analysis, behavioural change, and training, she helps leaders in strengthening each well-being and workforce effectiveness.
Karen Tierney: Former Co-founder and CPO of SilverCloud Health, Karen has performed a key function in constructing one of many best-known digital psychological well being platforms in Europe. Primarily based in Eire, she has helped form the corporate’s product, content material, and design technique since its early days, contributing to the event of digital instruments that assist psychological well-being and enhance entry to evidence-based psychological care.
Magda Mazloum: Founding father of Brighter Life Psychology, Magda is a psychotraumatologist and psychological well being counsellor centered on serving to people and groups construct resilience, forestall burnout, and enhance psychological wellbeing. Drawing on her background in medical psychology and trauma-informed work, she helps folks in managing stress, nervousness, self-criticism, and office strain, whereas additionally bringing a robust curiosity in how psychological well being could be higher understood and supported inside skilled environments.
Matthew Bartolo: Psychotherapist, psychological health coach, and administration marketing consultant, Matthew Bartolo is understood for his work on the intersection of psychological well being, management, and organisational wellbeing. Primarily based in Malta, he’s the founding father of Willingness Malta, a multidisciplinary clinic offering holistic assist for psychological well being, household remedy, and wellness, and he additionally works with leaders and organisations to construct resilience, strengthen office tradition, and assist sustainable efficiency beneath strain.
In case you are all for constructing more healthy groups and studying how founders can higher handle the pressures that include startup life, this panel will provide helpful insights into one of the vital essential however usually neglected facets of entrepreneurship. Don’t miss the chance and secure your ticket today! Be part of us on the EU-Startups Summit 2026 for 2 days of studying, networking, and inspiration.
OUR EVENT SPONSORS
Malta Enterprise is Malta’s financial growth company, facilitating financial progress, funding, and innovation by providing a spread of assist providers for native and international enterprises establishing a productive presence in Malta. As a key participant in Malta’s financial panorama, it contributes to the nation’s prosperity by attracting investments, supporting companies, and driving innovation, thereby reinforcing Malta’s place as a lovely vacation spot for entrepreneurs and buyers alike. Malta Enterprise actively cultivates a vibrant startup ecosystem, enjoying a pivotal function in fostering a conducive setting for startups and providing tailor-made assist and incentives to empower rising companies.
M. Demajo Group is a number one enterprise participant in Malta, with a profitable historical past spanning 115 years. The Group’s progress and diversification have resulted in a large protection of enterprise sectors by way of a dedication to long-term outcomes. M. Demajo Group’s workforce is 500 sturdy and their varied actions have been developed by way of natural progress, acquisitions, partnerships, and startups. Its sturdy monetary scenario and moral requirements, its enterprise fame, and its famend monitor document as a enterprise accomplice are all key components in its continued growth.
The IONOS Cloud Start-up Program supplies younger corporations with as much as €100,000 in cloud credit for as much as 5 years after their founding. Begin-ups profit from a sovereign IT infrastructure “Made in Germany,” providing 100% GDPR compliance and full authorized certainty. IONOS Cloud ensures technological freedom with out vendor lock-in. Lengthy-term assist can be ensured: unique reductions after the primary yr allow a seamless transition into the IONOS Cloud ISV Accomplice Program. On this approach, digital sovereignty turns into a strategic aggressive benefit from founding to scaling
