The third annual Global University Venturing event will run alongside its sister publication’s Global Corporate Venturing Symposium, on June 3rd, 2015. After last year’s GUV Summit posed the question of how to enhance innovation through collaboration, the result is Global University Venturing: Fusion (GUV: Fusion). Taking place at the Grange Hotel St Paul’s in London, in sight of the world famous St Paul’s Cathedral, delegates will participate in discussions, analysis, and the sharing of best practice on and off stage, while also getting the rare opportunity to network with a truly eclectic mix of international professionals from across the entire innovation ecosystem. This double header event will play host to world-leading university innovation representatives, corporates, corporate venture capitalists and other investors, start-up owners and incubators, government bodies, and other members of the university venturing ecosystem as they discuss how to nurture, support, and invest in an idea, take it to IPO and beyond.
7:45 am | Registration Opens
Register for your name badge and event guide, and enjoy coffee and pastries. 8:25 am | Toby Lewis & Gregg Bayes-Brown
The editors of Global Corporate Venturing and Global University Venturing discuss the collaboration between their titles and top insights from the Early-Stage Report.
8:30 am | Open Innovation
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, Partner, PwC 9:10 am | GUV: Fusion Keynote by Professor David Gann CBE
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 | Incubating Entrepreneurship
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 Ronald Spangler, Senior Industrial Liaison Officer, MIT MODERATOR: Anthony Boccanfuso, President, The University Industry Demonstration Partnership (UIDP)
10:10 am | Oxbridge Debate: To Venture Or Not To Venture?
University venture funds are increasingly common in today’s ecosystem. But are they a step in the right direction, or an ineffective hindrance? The hotly debated subject comes to the stage direct from the pages of Global University Venturing. SPEAKERS:
Tom Hockaday, Managing Director, Isis Innovation
Tony Raven, CEO, Cambridge Enterprise, University of Cambridge MODERATOR: Malcolm Skingle, Director Academic Liaison, GSK
10:40 am | GUV: Fusion Keynote by Eugeny Kuznetsov
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.
KEYNOTE:
Eugeny Kuznetsov, Deputy CEO, RVC
11:00 am | Networking Coffee Break
11:30 am | Panel: Investing In the Early Stage
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 | GUV: Fusion Fireside Chat on Developing Universities As Customers As Well As Investors In A Startup
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 | Panel: XIN Center In an unprecedented collaboration, China’s Tsinghua University and Israel’s Tel Aviv University combined forces last year to form the Xin Centre. With focus on providing a platform for global technological innovation and cultivating entrepreneurs with international perspective. PANELLISTS: Shelley Harrison, 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
1:00 pm | Networking Lunch
2:00 pm | GUV: Fusion & GCV Symposium: How Asia Is Using Corporate Venturing to Push Ahead in Innovation 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 | GUV: Fusion Keynote by Lita Nelsen 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 dominance.
Lita Nelsen, Director, Technology Licensing, MIT
2:30 pm | GCV Symposium Pitch Sessions From the Giants of Tomorrow, Round I 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.
3:40 pm | Networking Coffee Break
4:00 pm | GCV Symposium Pitch Sessions From the Giants of Tomorrow, Round II
5:00 pm | Networking Drinks Reception.
University innovation leaders, investors and corporate representatives have the opportunity to network informally, during the networking drinks reception, complete with live music. Band to be confirmed
7:00 pm | Global Government Venturing: Fusion Conference Closes
Company Type**
Ticket Type***
*VAT is added to all registration tickets and optional items at 20% of your total amount during the check-out process.
**Please note that we reserve the right to verify your company type to ensure accurate ticket pricing.
***Single Tickets provide entry to this event for one delegate; Group Tickets provide entry to this event for 3 delegates. Cancellation & Refund Policy
a. Up to 12 weeks before the event date a 20% cancellation fee will be applicable b. Up to 8 weeks before the event date a 40% cancellation fee will be applicable c. Up to 4 weeks before the event date a 50% cancellation fee will be applicable d. Less than 4 weeks before the event date the full fee will be applicable e: No Show the full fee will be applicable 10. A request that the participant’s confirmed booking is transferred to a colleague may be made by giving written notice to Mawsonia Ltd. Mawsonia Ltd reserves the right to accept or deny a request for such a transfer. An administration fee of £50 GBP will be applicable. 11. Participants wishing to cancel a complimentary (free of charge) registration must do so in writing via email, in order for the cancellation to be deemed valid it must be acknowledged by Mawsonia Ltd. Applicable cancellation fees are outlined as follows
Up to 2 weeks before the date of the event £100 + VAT
12. Mawsonia Ltd reserves the right to cancel a participant’s place at any time and for whatever reason (including without limitation cancellation of the Event) on repayment of the Registration Fee, or whatever proportion of the Registration Fee it has actually received; and this repayment shall be in full and final settlement of any claims against Mawsonia Ltd by the participant relating to his/her place at the Event.
Global University Venturing | Copyright © 2015 Mawsonia Ltd. All rights reserved. GUV Subscriptions | About Us