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Tuesday, June 2, 2015
Wednesday, June 3, 2015
Thursday, June 4, 2015
Tuesday, June 2, 2015
7:45 AM - 8:30 AM
Registration Opens
Register for your name badge and event guide, and enjoy coffee and pastries.
8:30 AM - 8:45 AM
Welcome & Industry Update
Jim Mawson, editor-in-chief of Global Corporate Venturing, addresses the key trends our three publications are seeing across the venturing ecosystem.
SPEAKER:
James Mawson
, Editor in Chief, Global Corporate Venturing
8:45 AM - 9:05 AM
GCV Symposium - Buying Into Barbarians, Speed Freaks & Magicians:
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
9:05 AM - 9:40 AM
GCV Symposium - The Tipping Point for Corporate Venturing
In the past five years, the number of corporate venturing units has doubled globally to 1200 worldwide. This heavyweight panel addresses how corporations ensure the current excitement around venturing, leads to investment in start-ups becoming a permanent key part of corporate strategy.
SPEAKERS:
George Coyle
, Manager, Investments, Technology Ventures, ConocoPhillips Company
Bo Ilsoe
, Managing Partner, Nokia Growth Partners
Jon Lauckner
, CTO and Vice President Global Research & Development, GM; President, GM Ventures
Ralf Schnell
, CEO, Siemens Venture Capital
MODERATOR:
Toby Lewis
, Global Corporate Venturing
9:40 AM - 10:15 AM
GCV Symposium - Globalisation & Venture Capital
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
10:15 AM - 10:40 AM
Networking Coffee Break
10:40 AM - 11:15 AM
GCV Symposium - How Corporates Should Interact With Venture Firms
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
11:15 AM - 11:50 AM
GCV Symposium - Sector in the News: The Future of Ag-Tech
At last year’s symposium specialist venture capital firm, Bioenterprise Capital predicted agricultural technology venture investing was set to boom following the sale of Climate Corporation to Monsanto. As the sector continues to make headlines with deals from firms including Intel Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, we will discuss how the convergence of technologies has, and will continue to create new investment opportunities in agriculture, food and water.
SPEAKERS:
Philippe Herve
, Independent Consultant,
former Vice President of Innovation and Research at Bayer
Dave Smardon
, Managing Partner, Bioenterprise Capital
Robert A. Woods
, CEO and Chairman, Targeted Growth Inc.
MODERATOR:
Suren G. Dutia
, Senior Fellow, Kauffman Foundation
11:50 AM - 12:20 PM
GCV Symposium - Collaboration Within the Corporation
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)
12:20 PM - 12:40 PM
GCV Symposium - Transforming the standing of Women in Venture and Tech
The venture capital and high growth start-up worlds still remain largely men’s worlds and the panel discusses how women can play a bigger role. This is an issue that Global Corporate Venturing cares passionately about and we are actively campaigning for more of the high profile positions in venture capital and technology to be taken by women.
SPEAKERS:
Lisa Lambert
, Executive Director, Upward
Eileen Tanghal
, VP, New Business Exploration, New Business Ventures, ARM
MODERATOR:
Tracy Isacke
, Head of Corporate Venture Relationship Group, Silicon Valley Bank
12:40 PM - 1:00 PM
GCV Symposium - Keynote Address: Hermann Hauser
SPEAKER:
Hermann Hauser
, Co-Founder, Amadeus Capital Partners
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Networking Lunch
2:00 PM - 2:20 PM
GCV Symposium - Compensation
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
2:00 PM - 2:55 PM
GCV Symposium Break-out: New Fusions in Advanced Materials Innovation and Corporate Venture Capital
Tom Whitehouse of the London Environmental Investment Forum chairs an advanced materials break-out session, discussing the latest trends in the sector. This follows up from Whitehouse's popular thought leadership papers and round-tables that he runs in partnership with
Global Corporate Venturing
.
SPEAKERs:
Nuno Carvalho
, Head, Bekaert Venturing
Graham Howes
, Technology Manager, BP Ventures and International Centre for Advanced Materials
Andrew Haughian
, Partner, Pangaea Ventures
Tom Whitehouse, Founder & Chairman, LEIF
2:20 PM - 2:55 PM
GCV Symposium - Early-Stage Panel
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
2:55 PM - 3:20 PM
Networking Coffee Break
3:20 PM - 4:05 PM
GCV Symposium - Unpanels With 16 Streams Discussing Various Topics
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.
3:21 PM - 4:05 PM
GCV Symposium - Unpanels With 16 Streams Discussing Various Topics
6. Everything you always wanted to know about tax and CVC, but were afraid to ask
Steve Smith
, Head of Private Business Tax Team, PwC
A discussion of the hot topic tax issues that corporate venturing executives should be aware of.
7. Understanding the language of the entrepreneur
Davorin Kuchan
, CEO, Sparkling Logic
Sara Murray
, CEO, Buddi
Two entrepreneurs help corporates understand the way entrepreneurs think. A discussion focused on why the cultures can sometimes speak a different language and how to translate.
8. How do corporations monetise innovation?
Michael Fox
, Venture Mentor, MIT
Having worked with multiple corporations to crack how they can effectively monetise innovation through venturing and wider open innovation, Fox leads a discussion on how corporates can do this effectively.
9. Forging effective links between corporates and start-ups
Bindi Karia
, Vice-President, SVB
Increasing corporate innovation through partnering with start-ups is one of the main goals of corporate venturing. Bindi Karia, from SVB, talks about how best to achieve this.
10. How do you tackle emerging markets?
Boris Battistini
, VC Associate, Metellus
Martin Haemmig
, Adj. Professor, CeTIM
One of the hottest topics in venture capital in recent years has been the increasing role that emerging markets play in venturing. Academic Martin Haemmig and Boris Battistini,discuss the latest trends in emerging markets corporate venturing that they are seeing, using unique data insights that they have gathered.
3:22 PM - 4:05 PM
GCV Symposium - Unpanels With 16 Streams Discussing Various Topics
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.
4:05 PM - 4:25 PM
GCV Symposium - Fireside Chat With McLaren's Geoff McGrath
McLaren has been given significant resources to ramp up its corporate venturing activities. McLaren’s corporate venturing head Geoff McGrath explains to Andrew Gaule what the plans are.
SPEAKER:
Geoff McGrath
, Vice President, McLaren Applied Technologies
MODERATOR:
Andrew Gaule
, Global Corporate Venturing Academy
4:15 PM - 5:00 PM
GCV Symposium Break-out: Impact investing in the spotlight
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
4:25 PM - 5:05 PM
GCV Symposium - Emerging Models of Venturing
As corporate venturing increasingly becomes mainstream, leading players are innovating on the business model of venturing — exploring and testing new ways of connecting corporate venture capital, innovation partnering, and incubation as part of a more holistic approach to driving new innovation. Corporate venturing is no longer thought of as merely about investing; new models and approaches are emerging, as are new ways of connecting venturing with the innovation agenda of the firm. This panel will explore emerging models & approaches, and implications on the future.
SPEAKER:
Phil Giesler
, Group Head Strategic Science and Technology, British American Tobacco
George Ugras
, General Partner and Advisor, Frost Data Capital
Wal Van Lierop
, Co-founder & CEO, Chrysalix EVC
Roy Williamson
, Partner, Castrol Innoventures
MODERATOR:
Scott Bowman
, Partner, Clareo Partners
5:05 PM - 5:25 PM
GCV Symposium - Minimum Viable Product and the New Way of Working
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
5:25 PM - 5:45 PM
GCV Symposium - Using Venture Capital to Transform Innovation
The chief technology officer of Motorola Solutions talks through the corporation’s approach to innovation and how it uses strategic venture capital investment to bring outside innovation into the company.
SPEAKER:
Paul Steinberg
, CTO, Motorola Solutions
5:45 PM - 6:10 PM
GCV Symposium - Fireside chat with Arvind Sodhani, President, Intel Capital
SPEAKER:
Arvind Sodhani
, President, Intel Capital
MODERATOR:
Claudia Fan Munce
, Managing Director, IBM Venture Capital
6:15 PM - 7:30 PM
GCV Symposium - Networking Drinks Reception
7:30 PM - 11:00 PM
GCV Awards & Gala Dinner
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
Wednesday, June 3, 2015
7:45 AM - 8:30 AM
Registration Opens - GCV Symposium and GUV: Fusion
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.
8:25 AM - 8:30 AM
GCV Symposium and GUV: Fusion: Introduction
Wren Main Stage (Level -2)
Editors of Global Corporate Venturing and Global University Venturing discuss the collaboration between their titles and top insights from the Early-Stage Report.
SPEAKERS:
Gregg Bayes-Brown
, Editor, Global University Venturing
Toby Lewis
, Editor, Global Corporate Venturing
8:30 AM - 9:05 AM
GCV Symposium and GUV: Fusion - Open Innovation
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
9:05 AM - 9:35 AM
GCV Symposium: Keynote - How to Prepare for the Innovation Journey
Wren Main Stage (Level -2)
The former chief executive of 3M examines how corporations can look to create the right culture to stay at the top of their innovation game. Buckley reflects on the innovation journey and how corporations can remain innovative, looking at the successes they can have and the mistakes they can make. He also provides insights into his own thinking when 3M was creating its venturing unit.
INTRODUCED BY:
Stefan Gabriel
, Business Angel, Vermögensverwaltung Gabriel GmbH
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Sir George Buckley
, Former CEO, 3M
9:10 AM - 9:35 AM
GUV: Fusion - Keynote by Professor David Gann CBE
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
9:35 AM - 10:00 AM
GCV Symposium - Open Science & Commercial Opportunities
Wren Main Stage (Level -2)
Markus Nordberg talks about the relationship between open science, open innovation and commercial opportunities in terms of investment risk taking. He will highlight some of the first experiences gained in a set of innovation experiments currently carried out at CERN, the European organisation for nuclear research as part of its examination of the frontiers of the structure of the universe.
INTRODUCED BY:
John Wood
, Secretary General, Association of Commonwealth Universities
SPEAKER:
Markus Nordberg
, Head of Resources Development, CERN
9:35 AM - 10:10 AM
GUV: Fusion - Incubating Entrepreneurship
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)
10:00 AM - 10:20 AM
GCV Symposium - A Look at the Entrepreneurial-CVC Partnership
Wren Main Stage (Level -2)
The attempt to achieve a successful entrepreneurial and corporate venturing relationship is examined by a senior RWE Innogy Ventures executive and its portfolio company Kiwigrid’s chief executive. They examine the advantages and the pitfalls of corporates working with start-ups.
SPEAKERS:
Carsten Bether
, CEO, Kiwigrid
Frank Starrmann
, Managing Director, Innogy Venture Capital
MODERATOR:
Toby Lewis
, Editor, Global Corporate Venturing
10:10 AM - 10:40 AM
GUV: Fusion’s Oxbridge Debate: To Venture Or Not To Venture?
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
10:20 AM - 10:40 AM
GCV Symposium - Convergence Across the Sectors: Health and IT
Wren Main Stage (Level -2)
Convergence between sectors is the topic most on the corporate venturing industry’s lips these day. Qualcomm Ventures and Novartis, which have partnered on dRx Capital, discuss the thinking behind their cross-sector collaboration and how they are trying to combine the different but converging worlds of information technology and pharmaceuticals.
SPEAKERS:
Jack Young
, Senior Director, Qualcomm Ventures
Marc Ceulemans
, Head of Strategic Venture Capital Fund - Pharma Equities, Novartis Pharma
MODERATOR:
Marc Sluijs
, President, Health Tech Summit
10:40 AM - 11:00 AM
GCV Symposium - Innovating in Retail Venturing
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
10:40 AM - 11:00 AM
GUV: Fusion - Keynote by Eugeny Kuznetsov
Pepys Suite (Level -1)
Eugeny Kuznetsov discusses how Russia has been developing its innovation and venture capital ecosystem and supporting its universities’corporate liaison and idea commercialisation in an era of tightening budgets and strategic planning.
SPEAKER:
Eugeny Kuznetsov
, Deputy CEO, Russian Venture Company
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Networking Coffee Break
11:30 AM - 12:05 PM
GCV Symposium - Corporate Venturing Best Practices Panel
Wren Main Stage (Level -2)
Global Corporate Venturing has made supporting best practices in the corporate venturing world a key focus in recent years, with our GCV Academy joint venture alongside Andrew Gaule and our publication of the World of Corporate Venturing. The panel discusses the main points to bear in mind.
SPEAKERS:
Tony Askew
, General Partner, Reed Elsevier Ventures
Neil Foster
, Partner, Baker Botts
Mark Muth
, Director, PwC
Jonathan Tudor
, Venture Director, Castrol Innoventures
MODERATOR
:
Andrew Gaule
, GCV Academy
11:30 AM - 12:05 PM
GUV: Fusion Panel: Investing In the Early Stage
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
12:05 PM - 12:25 PM
GCV Symposium – Fireside Chat: Global innovation in financial services and digital commerce
Wren Main Stage (Level -2)
American Express Ventures is eyeing Europe to continue expanding its investments outside the US. Harshul Sanghi, the head of American Express' corporate venturing group, shares his reasons for wanting to invest in the continent, and reveals the trends and innovation that Amex Ventures is seeing in financial services and digital commerce across the world.
SPEAKER:
Harshul Sanghi
, Managing Partner, American Express Ventures
MODERATOR:
Mark Radcliffe
, Partner, DLA Piper
12:05 PM - 12:30 PM
GUV: Fusion Fireside Chat on Developing Universities As Customers As Well As Investors In A Startup
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
12:25 PM - 12:45 PM
GCV Symposium - Mixing Corporate Venturing and M&A
Wren Main Stage (Level -2)
Merck Global Health and Innovation (Merck GHI) Fund has designed a strategy allowing it to blend minority investments with an ability to acquire companies. Merck GHI has told the symposium before about how it will use this ability to create new divisions for Merck. Taranto shares the stage with Donalto Tramuto, founder and CEO of international for one of its first acquisitions, Physicians Interactive, to shed light on how the strategy is working in practice.
SPEAKERS:
Donato Tramuto
, Physicians Interactive
Bill Taranto
, President, Merck GHI Fund
MODERATOR:
Heidi Mason
, Managing Partner, Bell Mason Group
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM
GUV: Fusion - Panel: XIN Center
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
12:45 PM - 1:05 PM
GCV Symposium - Keynote: The Globalisation of Innovation
Wren Main Stage (Level -2)
As the UK and Ireland head of technology company Cisco, and as the chair of Innovate UK, the UK’s innovation agency, Phil Smith has a unique perspective on how the globalisation of technology is dealt with by one of the world’s biggest companies and one its biggest economies. Smith talks to what trends he is seeing, and how the US, UK and other global technology hubs are becoming increasingly inter-linked.
SPEAKER:
Phil Smith
, Chief Executive of UK & Ireland, Cisco
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Networking Lunch
2:00 PM - 2:10 PM
GUV: Fusion and GCV Symposium: How Asia is Using Corporate Venturing to Push Ahead in Innovation
Wren Main Stage (Level -2)
In recent years Asia has stormed forward in corporate venturing investment, taking a third of market share in activity. One of the foremost academics in venture capital in emerging markets reviews the data and explains why this is happening.
SPEAKER:
Martin Haemmig
, Adjunct Professor, CeTIM
2:10 PM - 2:30 PM
GUV: Fusion and GCV Symposium Keynote by Lita Nelsen (Main stage)
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
2:30 PM - 3:40 PM
Pitch Sessions From the Giants of Tomorrow - Consumer Track
Dickens 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.
PITCHING COMPANIES:
Beautiful Destinations Limited/Inc
Daredevil Project
Fourth State Medicine
Hassle
I Love Icecream Limited
Localz Europe Ltd
Manything Ltd
MCADO Systems Ltd
Move Guides
Onefinestay
OpenStageIt
SofarSounds
Skignz
Thusfresh Inc
YoYo
2:30 PM - 3:40 PM
Pitch Sessions From the Giants of Tomorrow - Enterprise Track
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
3:40 PM - 4:00 PM
Networking Coffee Break
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Pitch Sessions From the Giants of Tomorrow - Enterprise Track cont'd
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
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Pitch Sessions From the Giants of Tomorrow - Industrial Tech/Internet of Things/Life Sciences
Dickens 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:
Anvil Semiconductors
BeamLabs
BleepBleeps
Buddi
Clear Returns
Formisimo
Hinge Health
Industrial Phycology
Intelligent Energy
OpenSignal
Screendragon
Sky Medical Technology
Tech will save us
Anvil Semiconductors
BeamLabs
BleepBleeps
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Networking Drinks Reception - Sky Bar (The Grange St Paul's)
Sky Bar (Level 7)
Sponsored by:
Helsinki Business Hub
Lean Enterprise
Startupbootcamp
7:00 PM
The GCV Symposium and GUV: Fusion Events Close
Thursday, June 4, 2015
GCV & GUV Annual Golf Tournament
Join us for an informal day of golf on
Thursday June 4
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, 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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