Why?University venture people are always looking for funding for their startups. So we decided to bring the world’s best corporate and other venturing leaders together from our established Houston conference, with a unique Global University Venturing Summit at the same time to encourage networking between the two communities while retaining a specialist focus on the issues and challenges that affect both industries.
Who will be there?Heads of university venturing, startup, entrepreneurship and tech transfer from the America’s biggest and most important states, from California and Texas, to Massachusetts and Alaska, will meet their international peers from Tsinghua, China, Oxford, UK, Kyoto, Japan, Melbourne, Australia, Stellenbosch, South Africa, Chalmers, Sweden, and points between. They will share best practices and solutions to common issues they have faced, from problems of valleys of death, to finding management and funding for their best student and faculty spin-outs and startups.
What will be happening?The Global University Venturing Summit is the new home for NCET2’s best practices conference and the partnership provides a best practices platform for NCET2's university startup creation, development and funding programs to work with more than 2,000 corporate venture groups, with about $200bn of venture assets under management.
Highlights of the two-day program include keynotes from Stanford and University of Texas System and the facilitated introductions (speed-dating) and networking with corporates, including Intel Capital, Chevron, Evonik, Johnson & Johnson and Accenture, angels, VCs, and key university venturing thought leaders. Take a look at the full 2 day Agenda below.
Introduced by Thierry Heles, Global University VenturingSetting up an in-house university venture fund and balance sheet investing and attracting external venture investors - James Golubieski, President, NJ Health Foundation, Foundation Venture Capital Group - Kirsten Leute, Senior Vice President of University Relations, Osage University Partners - Nicola Broughton, Investment Director, Head of Universities, Mercia Technologies - Bob Hisrich PhD, Thunderbird Angels/Kent State University13:00-14:00