GCV Corporate Accelerator Unconference
23 May 2016
09:00 to 17:00
Venue: Rainmaking Loft, International House, 1 St Katharine's Way, London E1W 1UN
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*Tickets are only available to those that have registered for the GCV Symposium on 24-25 May, or by specific invitation. There is no additional cost to attend the GCV Corporate Accelerator Unconference, but attendance will only be permitted with a booked ticket.
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Agenda
09:00 – 09:20 Coffee and networking
09:20 – 09:45 Introduction by GCV Analytics accelerator research coordinator, Elena Zemlyanskaya
Data presentation by Toby Lewis, GCV Analytics, and John McIntyre, Kauffman Fellows
GCV Analytics will present early findings of a research project we have been conducting alongside Kauffman Fellows into the rapidly growing world of corporate accelerators. Best practices in this new discipline are still forming and we can reveal unique early data to understand this hot field. John McIntyre, formerly the founder of the Citrix Startup Accelerator, will talk to his insights as a practitioner and the extensive interviews he has conducted with corporate accelerator peers around the globe.
09:45 – 10:10 Fireside chat with Cassandra Harris, Venturespring and IBM, moderated by Tim Lafferty, Chief Operating Officer, Global Corporate Venturing.
Venturespring discusses its new method of partnering with corporates.
10:10 – 10:30 Liberty Mawhood, L Marks
A UK pioneer of corporate accelerator talks about how it works with multiple corporates like Top Shop and John Lewis on their acceleration efforts, and what it has learnt with such partners.
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 11:30 Creating value for global partners
Startup Bootcamp's Andy Shannon discusses with key partners of the group's corporate partner programme how to deliver value for large corporations as an accelerator, and what challenges there are in connecting early stage entrepreneurs with multinational organisations.
11:30 – 12:00 Spotlight on a new corporate accelerator programme
Interview with Bruce Dines, Liberty Global Ventures, and Ryan Kuder, Techstars
Bruce Dines, a corporate venturing veteran, talks about the multi-corporate programme he has put together with Techstars and Virgin Media, with the Techstars coordinator leading the programme, Ryan Kuder.
12:00 – 12:30 Panel: From acceleration to implementation. Delivering business value from corporate-startup collaboration
Moderator: Tomasz Rudolf, CEO, D-RAFT Panel: Jeremy Basset, Unilever Foundry, Simona Bielli, Nesta, Zack Weisfeld, Microsoft Ventures
D-RAFT will moderate a panel about delivering business value through corporate-startup partnerships. How can corporate engagement in the startup ecosystem deliver tangible results?
12:30 – 13:00 Keynote – Henry Lane Fox, CEO, Founders Factory
Henry Lane Fox talks to how Founders Factory has been teaming up with corporations globally to help them understand the changes in global technology entrepreneurship.
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 – 14:20 Keynote speech by Zack Weisfeld, Microsoft Accelerators
An architect of one of the world’s biggest accelerator operations started by a global corporation, explains how the programme has developed, and what it is looking to achieve through its accelerator efforts.
From 14:00 until 17:00 Unconference coordinator Trevor Owens, Javelin. Owens, author of the Lean Enterprise book, will lead attendees through a one day workshop, using his signature unconference format to stimulate intellectual curiosity about the fascinating and little understood world of corporate accelerators.
Workshop based roundtables led by:
1. Startupbootcamp
2. GCV/Kauffman Fellows
3. D-RAFT
4. Lean Enterprise