• A two-day conference for the top global and US university venturing and tech transfer leaders for $800
  
  
• Including the unique Global University Venturing (GUV) Powerlist 100 awards at a gala summit and meeting of its Leadership Society

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.

• The joy of term sheets. How to achieve your financial and strategic objectives via the term sheet. Led and moderated by Neil Foster, Baker Botts 
• Combining CVC with strategic technology deployment. What are the best models for driving the adoption of portfolio business technology by the parent company? Led and moderated by Kirk Coburn, Investment Director, Shell Ventures, and Kash Siddiqui, Accenture Ventures
• Pushing the Boundaries – Produced Water Challenges. Led and moderated by Gautam Phanse, Technology Manager - Water & Emerging Materials at Chevron Technology Ventures 
• The unusual suspects – who are the new CVCs on the energy & mobility bloc and can they replace the incumbents? Led and moderated by Kaloyan Andonov, GCV