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Agenda
Registration and Networking
Introduction by Conference Chair
Conference Chair- Richard Waters, West Coast Editor, Financial Times
Panel Discussion: Financing innovative start-ups and growth companies
What do continuing low returns in the venture capital business means for start-ups? What is the outlook for valuations? How can over-valuations be avoided in the aftermath of the Facebook IPO? What are the realities of private secondary markets?
Speaker(s)- Stephen Evans, Director, Silver Lake
- Rebecca Lynn, Partner, Morgenthaler Ventures
- Danny Rimer, Partner, Index Ventures
- Richard Waters, West Coast Editor, Financial Times
Keynote Interview: The rise of mobile
Speaker(s)- Tim Westergren, Founder and Chief Strategy Officer, Pandora
- Chris Nuttall, Technology Correspondent, Financial Times
Networking Break
Keynote Interview: Building the next enterprise tech industry
Speaker(s)- Aaron Levie, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Box
- Richard Waters, West Coast Editor, Financial Times
Panel Discussion: Early-stage financing
How can high potential start-up businesses be identified? Angels, SuperAngels, VCs, and the Crowd: What alternatives exist in early-stage financing and what are the opportunities and challenges of each funding platform? What role do incubators and academic research institutions have to play in commercialising innovation?
Speaker(s)- Bernhard Blaettel, Director of Project Mobility Services, BMW
- George Foster, Konosuke Masushita Professor of Management, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
- Naval Ravikant, Co-author of Venture Hacks, and Co-maintainer, AngelList
- Aydin Senkut, Founder and Managing Director, Felicis Ventures
- Richard Waters, West Coast Editor, Financial Times
Industry Innovation Trends I: The Evolution of the Cloud - A best practice case study
Speaker(s)- Eric Kutcher, Director, McKinsey and Company
- Richard Waters, West Coast Editor, Financial Times
Lunch
Special Global Insights I: Opportunities in China
Speaker(s)- Richard Lim, Managing Director, GSR Ventures
- Richard Waters, West Coast Editor, Financial Times
Panel Discussion: Private vs public capital
Challenges and opportunities of financing a business through the growth stage - when is the right time to exit?
Speaker(s)- Stephen Harrick, General Partner, Institutional Venture Partners (IVP)
- Mario Kranjac, Managing Partner, Kranjac Manuali & Viskovic LLP
- Victoria Ransom, Founder and CEO, Wildfire - a division of Google
- Ajay Royan, Co-Founder and Managing General Partner, Mithril Capital Management
- Richard Waters, West Coast Editor, Financial Times
Special Global Insights II: Opportunities in Brazil
Speaker(s)- Mathias Schilling, Co-founder and Managing Partner, e.ventures
- Richard Waters, West Coast Editor, Financial Times
Networking Break
Industry Innovation Trends II: Emerging mobile and digital innovations in commerce
Digital innovations and mobile advances are transforming business and social environments. What investment opportunities and challenges are next generation devices and technologies creating? How can mobile and digital innovations feed into the business?
Speaker(s)- Harshul Sanghi, Managing Partner, of American Express Ventures, Enterprise Growth, American Express
- Richard Waters, West Coast Editor, Financial Times
Keynote Interview: Navigating the IPO market
Speaker(s)- Pete Flint, Co-Founder and CEO, Trulia
- April Dembosky, San Francisco Correspondent, Financial Times
Chair's closing remarks
Conference Chair- Richard Waters, West Coast Editor, Financial Times
- Peter DeMarzo, Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Mizhuho Financial Group Professor, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Networking drinks reception
