| 7:30am |
Registration (continental breakfast available) |
| 8:30am |
Welcome Remarks:
Duane Roth - CEO, CONNECT
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| 8:45am |
Opening Keynote:
Senator George J. Mitchell
Impact of Innovation on Solving Global Issues
In his distinguished career, DLA Piper’s Chairman Emeritus George J. Mitchell
served as U.S. Senate Majority Leader, brokered the historic Good Friday
Agreement as U.S. Special Envoy for Northern Ireland, and served as U.S.
Special Envoy for Middle East Peace.
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| 9:15am |
Session 1: State of Innovation - national initiatives to stimulate regional innovation clusters
Leaders from government and private and public research institutes will share their respective strategies for stimulating the health of the innovation economy, including national initiatives to stimulate regional innovation clusters. While the global economy has made growth and prosperity challenging everywhere, there are
geographic regions that are making great strides despite the obstacles. This session will share the lessons learned and available resources on which to capitalize.
Moderator: David Fransen - Consul General of Canada
Panelists:
Richard C. Atkinson, Ph.D. - Former president and regent, University of California, former chancellor, UC San Diego; former director, National Science Foundation
Peter Cowhey, Ph.D., Dean and Qualcomm Professor of Communications and Technology Policy at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, UC San Diego
Graham Harrison - CEO, SETsquared Partnership (UK)
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10:30am |
Circulate Communicate Collaborate |
| 11:00am |
Session 2: The Role of Policy in Innovation
This session will look in-depth at specifically targeted national and statelevel
programs that are intended to stimulate regional innovation clusters,
and at the anticipated changes and opportunities that have the potential to
impact innovation and business growth, as well as the power of innovation
to influence policy. In particular the panel will discuss intellectual property,
research & development funding, regulations and tax incentives.
Moderator: Peter Cowhey, Ph.D., Dean and Qualcomm Professor of Communications and Technology Policy at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, UC San Diego
Panelists:
Joel Ayala - Director, California Governor's Office of Economic Development
Philip LIM Feng - CEO, Exploit Technologies Pte Ltd. (Agency for Science Technology And Research, Technology Transfer Office, Singapore)
Timothy Tardibono, Esq. - Vice President, Public Policy and Chief Counsel, CONNECT
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| 12:00pm |
Lunch with Keynote: Suren Dutia - Senior Fellow of the Kauffman Foundation
The Key to Economic Transformation: Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
As a core American value, entrepreneurship is critical to the country’s long
term success and it’s time to step up our nation’s game. Mr. Dutia will discuss
the way grassroots, entrepreneur-led initiatives can serve as a rallying point
to bring all the elements of a vibrant entrepreneurial community together to
transform entire economies. |
| 1:15pm |
Short Break |
| 1:30pm |
Qualcomm Ventures: Financing Options for Early Stage Start ups
Nagraj Kashyap - Vice President, Qualcomm Ventures
In his role at Qualcomm, Nagraj Kashyap serves as the global head of the
group and oversees the Company’s strategic investments in wireless-industry
ventures. In addition, he provides direction and guidance to the Qualcomm
Innovation Network team and oversees business development activities for
R&D programs such as Augmented Reality, Indoor Positioning and Personal
Area Networking.
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| 1:45pm |
Session 3: New Financing Models for Early Stage Development (Part 1) - Two Concurrent Sessions
1A - Technology
1B - Life Sciences
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1:45pm
(1A) |
Session 3: New Financing Models (Part 1A)
Technology corporations nurturing early stage innovation
Three major technology corporations will take you behind the scenes as they share their unique models and venture funds for engaging early stage innovation as well as describe the role they play in the regional and global innovation ecosystems.
Moderator: Sean Barr - Vice President, San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation, former lead developer, LEAP!
Panelists:
Zac Backlin- Member, EMC Ventures
Daniel Docter - Sr. Investment Manager, INTEL Capital
Michael Harries, Ph.D. - Sr. Director, Chief Technologist, Citrix Startup Accelerator
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1:45pm
(1B)
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Session 3: New Financing Models (Part 1B)
Life Science corporations nurturing early stage innovation
Three major pharma corporations will discuss their respective innovation objectives and how they collaborate with other life science companies and the broader community toward building a more sustainable innovation model.
Moderator: Jeff Baglio - Partner, DLA Piper
Panelists:
Alex Fayne - Chief Operations Officer, Pfizer's Centers for Therapeutic Innovation
Diego Miralles, M.D. - Head, Janssen Healthcare Innovation, Johnson & Johnson
James M. Schaeffer, Ph.D. - Executive Director, Worldwide Licensing and External Research-West Coast, Merck Research Laboratories (invited)
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| 3:00pm |
Circulate Communicate Collaborate |
| 3:30pm |
Session 4: New Financing Models (Part 2) -
Seed, angel and venture capital
New financial business models are helping advance discoveries through product definition and are creating new ways to align incentives and human capital. Among the models to be discussed in this session are the distributed partnering model, academic partnerships, government backed ventures, and various private venture backed models.
Moderator: Mike Krenn - Founder, DLA Piper Venture Pipeline
Panelists:
Stephen Flaim, Ph.D. - President, San Diego Tech Coast Angels; Vice Chairman, Tech Coast Angels
Scott Hilleboe- Managing Director, Steamboat Ventures
Andrew Senyei, M.D. – Managing Director, Enterprise Partners |
| 5:00pm |
Break and assemble for transportation to La Jolla Playhouse |
| 5:30pm |
Innovation Night at La Jolla Playhouse
Network and enjoy the ground breaking rock opera, Jesus Christ Superstar, with 450 leading San Diego life sciences, clean-tech, high tech and communication innovators at the annual Innovation Night at the La Jolla Playhouse, a Tony Award-winning professional non-profit theatre that has sent 18 productions to Broadway.
(Ticket price included in your conference fee.) |
| 9:00pm |
Return transportation to Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines |
| 8:00am |
Continental breakfast |
| 8:30am |
Opening Remarks:
Duane Roth - CEO, CONNECT |
| 8:45am |
Session 5: Role of Academic Research Institutions in the Innovation Ecosystem (funding, technology transfer, academic incubators, and proof of concept centers)
It is not easy translating and transferring new discoveries from the academic lab to the market, especially if there is no strong financial incentive. In this session, you will learn how these challenges are being creatively overcome at some of the largest and finest research institutions in the world, and about the unique collaborations that are making it happen.
Moderator: Paul Laikind, Ph.D. - Senior Vice President, Business Development and Chief Business Officer, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute
Panelists:
Stephen Desiderio, M.D., Ph.D. - Director, Institute for Basic Biomedical Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
David Hoekzema - Director, Advanced Technology Partnerships Initiative (ATPI), SAIC-Frederick, Inc.
Karen Kerr - Sr. Director, New Ventures and Alliances, USC Stevens Institute for Innovation
Rosibel Ochoa, Ph.D. - Executive Director, William J. von Liebig Center, UC San Diego
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| 10:00am |
An Interview with Dr. Irwin Jacobs - Board member and co-founder, Qualcomm, Inc.; Chair of the Board of Trustees, Salk Institute; Chair of the National Academy of Engineering
Interviewer: Mary Walshok, Ph.D. -
Associate Vice Chancellor for Public Programs and Dean of Extension, UC San Diego; co-author of Closing America's Job Gap Title: Sustaining Human Capital in Innovation Economies
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| 10:30am |
Circulate Communicate Collaborate |
| 11:00am |
Session 6 - Commercial Innovation Platforms Building RICs
Translational research centers, business accelerators, commercial incubators
Geographic concentrations of organizations that do business with each other are quickly becoming a successful framework for economic development and global competitiveness. This session will showcase three notable commercial RICs, highly successful in their respective regions, but with different missions, funding sources, and structure.
Moderator: Mark Skinner, Vice President and Director, Regional Innovation Acceleration Network (RIAN)
Panelists:
David Johnson - President and CEO, BioCrossroads
Duane Roth - CEO, CONNECT
Mario Thomas, Ph.D. - Senior Vice President, Ontario Centres for Excellence; Founding Chairman, International Commercialization Alliance (ICA)
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| 12:30pm |
Lunch with Keynote -
Matt Erskine -
U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Chief Operating Officer for Economic Development
Update on the U.S. EDA's Activities to Stimulate Regional Innovation
Prior to his appoint to the Department of Commerce in September 2011,
Matt Erskine was Senior Vice President at the Greater Washington Board of
Trade and Executive Director of the Greater Washington Initiative, a privatepublic
regional economic development effort that has helped to position the
Washington region as a premier business destination. |
| 1:15pm |
Short Break |
| 1:30pm |
Session 7 - Educational Programming to Build Entrepreneurial Capacity
This panel will showcase Larta Institute, a leading “innovation hub” based in
the U.S. and three CONNECT RICs including the different programming that best
serves each region. Programs in business creation, venture capital, education,
recognition, policy and convergence clusters will be discussed.
Moderator: Rohit Shukla - CEO, Larta Institute
Panelists:
Karl Malmström - CEO, CONNECT Väst (Sweden)
Francisco Manrique - CEO, CONNECT Bogotá
Camille Saltman - President, CONNECT
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| 3:00pm |
Circulate Communicate Collaborate |
| 3:30pm |
Session 8 - Emerging Models of Innovation Acceleration
In a recent Business Week article it was estimated that there are at least 110 business accelerators in the U.S., each with its niche and model for success. Early stage seed incubators, accelerators and entrepreneurial challenge funds such as Y Combinator, TechStars and 500 Start ups are quickly taking root. In this session, find out what a winning commercial business model looks like and how it operates in terms of funding sources, strategic fit for the region, supply of mentors and deal flow for the applicants.
Moderator: Greg Horowitt, Co-Founder, Global CONNECT, Founding Partner & Managing Director, T2 Venture Capital
Panelists:
Karin Jacob, Ph.D. - Head, Bio-M
Rhett Morris - Director, Center for High Impact Entrepreneurship (CHIE)
Melinda Richter - Founder & CEO, Prescience International |
| 5:00pm |
Break and short walk to the Fairway Pavilion for reception with keynote |
| 5:30pm |
Keynote presentation and reception sponsored by the Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences (IBBS), Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Introduction by: Dr. Ivor Royston, Founding managing partner, Forward Ventures
Keynote: Dr. Carol Greider, Nobel Prize winner, IBBS, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Learn about Dr. Greider’s groundbreaking work into the mysteries of telomeres,
the caps at the ends of our chromosomes, as well as how it has led to the
exciting plans for the planned Center for Telomere and Age-Related Disease, a
new center being developed at the Johns Hopkins Biotech Park. Johns Hopkins
Biotech Park is a unique collaboration of both physical space and scientific
development. Located next to the campus of the Johns Hopkins School of
Medicine, the Park unites nine basic science departments which have fostered
a new way of doing science, along with non-profits including Howard Hughes
Medical Institute and the Lieber Institute, and space for nine emerging life
science technology companies.
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| 7:00pm |
Reception concludes; dinner on your own. |
| 8:00am |
Continental Breakfast and International Round Robin Session
Do you have an interest in funding models and opportunities in other
countries? Our international Summit guests have agreed to talk one-on-one
with you about how innovation is managed, funded, and commercialized in
their particular corner of the world. Come prepared with your questions and
business cards to this breakfast networking session. Tables will be hosted by
a leading representative from a foreign country who will be available to speak
with you for 5-7 minutes. Once the bell rings everyone moves to another table
for a new opportunity to connect. |
| 8:45am |
Financial Engineering for Innovation Clusters
Jose-Maria (Chema) Fernandez - Researcher/Author, Laboratory for Financial Engineering, MIT Sloan
Financial engineering can provide new solutions to fund clusters of innovative
projects. This presentation introduces a new model designed at MIT Sloan’s
Laboratory for Financial Engineering to finance the development of a pool of
preclinical and clinical drugs.
MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering (LFE) is an MIT research center created as a partnership between academia and industry. The Laboratory and resulting research exist to tackle the challenging, complex problems of the day. Fernandez’s financial research focuses on the design of new models and
vehicles to finance scientific research for innovation, including the development
of social investment capital.
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| 9:15am |
What Did You Learn? Wrap up Session
What are your takeaways? Are you going to make any changes to your
financial model, strategy, process or marketing? With all attendees
participating in this discussion, this will be one of the most valuable sessions
of the Summit.
Facilitator - Duane Roth - CEO, CONNECT
Panelists:
Greg Horowitt - Co-Founder, Global CONNECT, Founding Partner & Managing Director, T2 Venture Capital
Mary Walshok, Ph.D. - Associate Vice Chancellor for Public Programs, Dean of Extension Division and Professor of Sociology at the University of California San Diego
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| 10:15am |
CONNECT's Most Innovative New Products (MIP) showcase and event
CONNECT’s largest and most prestigious event, the Most Innovative New Product “MIP” Awards are to San Diego's technology industry what the Academy Awards™ are to Hollywood. In its 24th year, this high profile event attracts more than 800 of San Diego’s top business leaders, researchers and capital providers. Of the 140+ companies that vie to be the most innovative new product of the year, 24 make it through the rigorous judging process and only eight walk up to the podium to receive this prestigious honor. On December 9, 2011 find out which innovations will be the next to make a worldwide impact!
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| 2:00pm |
MIP Concludes
Global CONNECT Summit Concludes |
