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Identifying the Disruptors and Industries of Tomorrow

Futurist Rohit Talwar sketches out the dramatic landscape that is shaping corporate venturing. Talwar explores the way fast-growing start-ups and extreme technological transformation are fuelling the rapid growth of corporate venturing during the last five years.

SPEAKER:
Rohit Talwar, Futurist, Fast Future

One of the areas where corporate venturing has led the way has been in globalisation. Leaders in the field discuss the topic.

SPEAKERS:
Claudia Fan Munce, Managing Director, IBM Venture Capital
Matthew Koertge, Managing Director, Telstra Ventures
Charles Searle, Chief Executive, MIH Internet Listed Assets, Naspers
Anderson Thees, MD & co-founder, Redpoint e.ventures

MODERATOR:
Ray Haarstick, CEO, Relevant Equity Systems

Corporate venturing is often aided by partnership with pure financial investors. This panel looks at how corporations should interact with venture firms both as investors and alongside them in syndicates.

SPEAKERS:
Nicolas Chaudron, Partner, Idinvest Partners
Antoine Garrigues, Managing Partner, Iris Capital
Rimas Kapeskas, Managing Director, UPS Strategic Enterprise Fund
Robert Linck, CFO, Shell Technology Ventures

MODERATOR: Dermot Hill, Director, Intramezzo

David Eyton and Issam Dairanieh talk about the relationship the BP Ventures programme has with BP, and how it has evolved. They will reveal their thinking in developing the unit’s strategy since it was set up seven years ago.

SPEAKERS:
Issam Dairanieh, Managing Director, BP Ventures
David Eyton, Group Head of Technology, BP

MODERATOR: Tom Whitehouse, Founder & Chairman, LEIF (London Environmental Investment Forum)

SPEAKER:
Hermann Hauser, Co-Founder, Amadeus Capital Partners

Interview on the latest trends in compensation, Jody Thelander talks through the latest research into corporate venturing compensation, which she will publish shortly before the Symposium.

Thelander-CVI2 2015 CVC Compensation Survey

INTRODUCED BY: Heidi Mason, Managing Partner, Bell Mason Group

SPEAKER:
Jody Thelander, Chief Executive, J Thelander Consulting

MODERATOR:
Megan Muir, Partner, DLA Piper

SPEAKERS:
Peter Cowley, Entrepreneur & Angel Investor, Martlet
John Mcintyre, Managing Director, Citrix Start-up Accelerator
Andy Shannon, Head of Global Operations, Start-up Bootcamp
Zack Weisfeld, General Manager, Microsoft Ventures

MODERATOR:
Karma Samdup, Partner, MJ Hudson

This is your chance to join the debate and create thought-leadership. Pick a round table, moderated by an expert.


Master of Ceremonies: Paul Morris, Director, Corporate VC, UKTI

1. Making spin-outs work
Brian Kolonick, General Manager, Innovation Alliances, Cleveland Clinic Innovations
Spinning out a corporation’s technology can be a unique venturing strategy, which creates value from under-utilised assets of corporations.

2. Corporate venturers and internal business units: friends or foes?
Dominique Megret, Head, Swisscom Ventures
Creating a strong working relationship between the corporate venturing unit and internal business units is critical for success. This is often challenging. This unpanel discusses how to build and maintain the best relations.

3. How can a relatively small Corporate VC team cover major markets
Fabien Mondini, Senior Investment Manager, SABIC Ventures
Corporate venturing teams often have a tricky task of having to cover global activity relating to start-up innovation, while having limited resources. How do you best do this?

4. How do you measure success in corporate venturing?
Jonathan Pulitzer, Senior Director, GE Ventures
One of the key challenges is accurately measuring what you are achieving in corporate venturing. This unpanel will discuss your options for this.

5. How can corporate VCs interact most effectively with independent VC funds?
Gina Domanig, Managing Partner, Emerald Technology Ventures
A fundamental part of a corporate venturing strategy is to be able to interact in a sophisticated manner with the venture capital industry. A venture capital expert with corporate limited partners leads the discussion.

11. Impact investing: why and how should corporates do it?
Amanda Feldman, Director, Volans
Charmian Love, Co-Founder, Volans
This unpanel discusses how corporates should be thinking about impact investing.

12. Deal terms: the good, the bad and the ugly
Megan Muir, Partner, DLA Piper
Join Megam Muir to discuss the major trends she is seeing in corporate venturing and deal law.

13. How do you quickly develop competence within your VC unit?
Erik Sebusch, Private Markets Investment Consultant, Mercer
How do you bring your unit quickly up to speed to be able to fend competently in the venture capital ecosystem? This is often easier said than done. An expert with a CVC, VC and LP experience debates how the wider ecosystem will interpret your attempts.

14. External communications for corporate VCs and innovators
Tom Whitehouse, Founder, LEIF
Dos and don’ts on how to communicate externally so that you see the best investment opportunities and enhance your reputation.

15. Achieving excellence through the right incentives
Heidi Mason, Managing Partner, Bell Mason Group
Mason discusses how you need to develop the right pay incentives to secure the correct teams, and how corporates have to carefully balance their company cultures with the norms that prevail in the venture capital industry.

16. Creating a Silicon Valley strategy for international corporates
Rodrigo Sanchez Servitje, Managing Partner, Bridge 37 Ventures
As venture capital becomes more global, how international companies establish a Silicon Valley strategy is of utmost importance. An executive from a venture firm specialising in providing corporates access to the Valley leads a discussion.

Volans chairs a discussion of the latest trends in impact investing including the rise of B corporations. Charmian Love, Volans, will escort attendees to her unpanel to the room where this is taking place.

SPEAKER:
Amanda Feldman, Director, Volans
Charmian Love, Co-Founder & Director, Volans

Start-ups are embracing agile development, lean startup and user-led design to transform the way that software applications are designed and built. In the new world the user is king, the CEO is just along for the ride, and Minimum Viable Product trumps those endless planning sessions. Or does it? Anthony Rose (6Tribes, Co-founder of Beamly, ex-head of BBC iPlayer, previously CTO at YouView and Kazaa) explains the new way that software products are created, and the opportunity and challenges that creates for investors.

SPEAKER:
Anthony Rose, Entrepreneur, 6Tribes

SPEAKER:
Arvind Sodhani, President, Intel Capital

MODERATOR:
Claudia Fan Munce, Managing Director, IBM Venture Capital

The first GCV event ran in 2010, but in the short time since then the Global Corporate Venturing Awards have fast become the industry celebratory event of the year, embracing and rewarding the great and the good from around the globe.

Sponsored by American Express Ventures

GUV: Fusion delegates: register for your name badge and event guide, and enjoy coffee and pastries with delegates for the GCV Symposium.

This second day of the Global Corporate Venturing Symposium sees the Global University Venturing: Fusion stream start at 9.10 am upstairs (level-1) in the Pepys Room, while corporate venturing insights are shared on the main stage (level-2) ahead of the Silicon Valley Bank-sponsored pitches by some of the world’s fastest-growing and most scaleable start-ups.

Wren Main Stage (Level -2)

A look at how open innovation is developed with various leaders in the field from both corporate and university backgrounds.

SPEAKER:
Timothy Barnes, Director UCL Enterprise Operations, UCL
Dyan Finkhousen, Director of Open Innovation & Advanced Manufacturing, GE
Jacqueline LeSage Krause, Managing Director, Strategic Corporate Ventures, MunichRe / Hartford Steam Boiler Ventures
Robert Rosenberg, Adjunct Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship, Chicago Booth

MODERATOR:
John Riggs, Senior Managing Director, Strategy & Innovation, PwC

Pepys Suite (Level -1)

Professor David Gann CBE, Vice-President of Development and Innovation at Imperial College London, provides an overview of innovation at the university, and offers a glimpse into its future.

KEYNOTE:
Professor David Gann CBE, Vice President of Development & Innovation, Imperial College London

Pepys Suite (Level -1)

As highlighted by UBI Index’s ranking of incubators, universities can be a tremendous source of entrepreneurs but often the best startups receive crucial support even at the earliest stages with corporate partnerships and investment.

SPEAKERS:
Ali Amin, CEO, UBI Index
Roger Ashby, Executive Chairman, Sugru
Simon Bond, Innovation Director, SETsquared Partnership
Ron Spangler, Senior Industrial Liaison Officer, MIT

MODERATOR:
Anthony Boccanfuso, President, The University Industry Demonstration Partnership (UIDP)

Pepys Suite (Level -1)

University venture funds are increasingly common in today’s ecosystem. After 800 years of academic innovation behind them, the two oldest universities bring this hotly debated subject comes to the stage direct from the pages of Global University Venturing.

SPEAKERS:
Tom Hockaday, Managing Director, Isis Innovation on behalf of Oxford University
Tony Raven, CEO, Cambridge Enterprise, University of Cambridge

MODERATOR:
Malcolm Skingle, Director Academic Liaison, GSK

Wren Main Stage (Level -2)

Stuart Marks, partner at John Lewis' JLab among other corporate venturing partnerships, and Simon Russell, John Lewis, discuss how they have looked to innovate in early stage venturing in the retail sector.

SPEAKER:
Stuart Marks, Chairman, L Marks Limited
Simon Russell, Director Retail Operations Development, John Lewis

MODERATOR:
Gerald Brady, Head of UK Relationship Banking, Silicon Valley Bank

Pepys Suite (Level -1)

Often deemed a risky investment, leaders in the backing of university innovations discuss what they look for in an ideal investment, describe how their models work, and share both the successes and failures they've worked through.

SPEAKERS:
Victor Christou, Senior Investment Director, Cambridge Innovation Capital
Enrico D'Angelo, Finance Director, Parkwalk Advisors
Kelsey Lynn Skinner, Director, Technology Ventures, Imperial Innovations
Rodrigo Sanchez Servitje, Managing Partner, Bridge 37 Ventures for Singularity University Labs Seed Fund

MODERATOR:
Brian Park, Legal Counsel, Royal Philips

Pepys Suite (Level -1)

Just Yoyo has developed from a corporate accelerator and base at Imperial College, London, to a payments system able to work in other institutions and the main shopping centres. Backed by corporate and university venturing units as well as angels that have recently raised US venture money, Yoyo is part of a new generation of well-connected entrepreneurs with great promise.

SPEAKERS:
Michael Rolph, Co-Founder, JustYoyo
Abby Barton, Head of Business Development, Wayra

MODERATOR:
James Mawson, Editor-in-chief, Global University Venturing

Pepys Suite (Level -1)

In an unprecedented collaboration, China’s Tsinghua University and Israel’s Tel Aviv University combined forces last year to form the XIN Center. With focus on providing a platform for global technological innovation and cultivating entrepreneurs with international perspective.

SPEAKERS:
Shelley A. Harrison, Sr. Advisor Coller Capital & Science/Technology Board, XIN Center
Yi Jiang, Ph.D., PE, General Manager, XIN Center-Tsinghua University, China
Yuval Kupitz, General Manager, XIN Center-Tel Aviv University, Israel

MODERATOR:
Gregg Bayes-Brown, Editor, Global University Venturing

Wren Main Stage (Level -2)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, home to GUV’s top-ranked tech transfer office, has had a long and illustrious history as a world leader in innovation. But how have they achieved it? The unit’s director, Lita Nelsen, details MIT’s leadership.

KEYNOTE:
Lita Nelsen, Director, Technology Licensing, MIT

Wren Main Stage (Level -2)

A group of 60 top-quality entrepreneurs hand-picked by our sponsor, Silicon Valley Bank, pitch to the Global Corporate Venturing audience. We will hear high-energy three-minute presentations from companies in the following four sector groupings: Enterprise; Consumer; Industrial and Hardware; and Medtech and Life Sciences. Witness the billion-dollar companies of tomorrow interacting with the giants of today.


Brandwatch
CAPP
Carvue Ltd
Certivox
Cloud Trade
Contego
Darktrace
Digital Bridges
Digital Shadows
FeatureSpace
GeoSpock
Hotdocs
Hubble (formerly Spacious)
Intent HQ
IOVOX

Wren Main Stage (Level -2)

Top-quality entrepreneurs hand-picked by our sponsor, Silicon Valley Bank, continue their pitches to the Global Corporate Venturing audience.

PITCHING COMPANIES:
Market Invoice
Onfido Ltd
PixelPin
POWA Technologies
Reward Technology
Rockley Photonics
RPD International
Senient
Speechmatics
Superawesome TV
Transversal
truRating Inc
Voyage Control
Wandera
Zerolight
Unique Secure

Sky Bar (Level 7)

Sponsored by:
Helsinki Business Hub
Lean Enterprise
Startupbootcamp

Join us for an informal day of golf on Thursday June 4^th, and unwind with fellow attendees from the conference as you play 18 holes and network at Foxhills' Longcross Course in Surrey.

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Places are limited so be sure to book early to avoid disappointment.