Agenda*
| Saturday & Sunday - 11 & 12 June 2005 | |
| 13h00 - 17h00 | Early Arrivals Registration The Melia Hotel |
| Monday - 13 June 2005 | |
| 17h00 - 19h30 | Registration Open The Melia Hotel |
| 18h30 | Transportation to City Hall from Conference Hotels |
| 19h30 - 21h00 | Innovate!Europe Welcome Reception Zaragoza City Hall |
| 21h00 | Dinner on Your Own Attendees are free to explore Zaragoza and dine a restaurants of their choosing. |
| Tuesday - 14 June 2005 | |
| Innovate!Europe will take place at the Auditorio Palacio de Congresos Zaragoza | |
| 09h00 - 19h30 | Registration Open Auditorio Foyer |
| 09h00 - 10h00 | Continental Breakfast Auditorio Foyer |
| 10h00 - 12h15 | General Session Sala Luis Galve |
| Welcome to Innovate!Europe 2005 Chris SHIPLEY - Executive Producer, Innovate!Europe The Honorable Juan-Alberto BELLOCH, Mayor of Zaragoza The Honorable Marcelino IGLESIAS, President of the Government of Aragón |
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| Why Innovate!Europe? Chris SHIPLEY - Executive Producer, Innovate!Europe |
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| This intimate working symposium marks a turning point in Europe’s Technology
Innovation Ecosystem, as investors, executives, entrepreneurs, media, tech company executives, public administrators, and service providers actively engage with one another for the purpose of creating a more vibrant information economy that functions effectively for the benefit of all the actors in the ecosystem.
Over the next two days, we will embark on a critical examination of the business, education, policy and cultural challenges that must be addressed if the European technology economy is going to prosper. Inspired by thoughtful keynotes and roundtable discussions, Innovate!Europe will generate an ambitious working document to guide the New European Technology Innovation Ecosystem. |
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| Setting the Framework: A Realist's Assessment of the European Technology Innovation Ecosystem Sven LINGJAERDE - Vision Capital & Euro Tech Tour Association DOWNLOAD SLIDES |
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| Sven Lingjaerde has been at the vanguard of private investment capital for more than 20 years, a unique vantage point from which to chart the development of the European Technology Innovation Ecosystem. From that perspective, Lingjaerde has catalogs well the challenges that are limiting the growth of technology entrepreneurship and the technology economy throughout Europe. Despite what he sees as major hurdles, he remains optimistic about the European technology economy and it is in that spirit. | |
| Working Capital: Empowering Europe's Investment Community Moderator: Jeff CLAVIER, SoftTech Venture Consulting Panelists: Marc GOLDBERG, Occam Capital Philippe COLLOMBEL, Partech International Niko VON HEUTZ, Add Partners |
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| Professional investors provide working capital, along with the experience, support, insight, guidance, and contacts to help small companies grow. Relative to the venture industry in North America, however, investment capital in Europe is still a nascent business. Venture investing must come of age quickly in order to foster a healthy environment in which great innovation can be rapidly and effectively commercialized. How are institutional investors developing better practices to embrace and manage risk? And what do these investors need from entrepreneurs, early adopters, policy makers and others in order to best play their role in the Innovation Ecosystem? | |
| Product Spotlight: Total-Immersion | |
| 12h15 - 12h45 | Coffee Break and Innovator!Showcase Open Auditorio Foyer |
| 12h45 - 14h00 | General Session Sala Luis Galve |
| 3 Questions: MICROSOFT Presenter: Simon BROWN, Microsoft EMEA Q & A: José CERVERA DOWNLOAD SLIDES |
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Innovate!Europe is shaped around three key questions:
As the world’s largest software company, Microsoft can serve as an accelerator of dynamic market change. How does Microsoft view its role as a global innovation accelerator? How does Microsoft partner with other actors to create market value for themselves and for others? |
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3 Questions: The European Technology Innovation Ecosystem |
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| Innovate!Europe is a collaborative process of discovery and agenda setting, culminating in a ground-breaking white paper, Innovate!Europe Agenda for the New European Technology Innovation Ecosystem, to be delivered to the business leaders, press, and policy makers throughout Europe. In this interactive session, John PATRICK will lead the delegates in an open discussion of the key questions. This collective input will shape the perspectives and recommendations in the post-conference white paper, and are your opportunity to make your mark on the Innovation Ecosystem. |
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| 14h00 - 15h30 | Lunch Sala Multiusos |
| 15h30 - 18h00 | Showcase Company Breakout Presentations Innovator!Showcase Open Auditorio Foyer |
| 18h00 - 18h15 | Coffee Break Auditorio Foyer |
| 18h15 - 19h15 | General Session Sala Luis Galve |
| Product Spotlight: Eleksen | |
| Achieving Escape Velocity: Growth and Exit Strategies Moderator: Joshua JAFFE, The Deal Panelists: Fred DESTIN, Atlas Venture Loic LE MEUR, Six Apart |
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| Any healthy business ecosystem requires viable and established avenues for financial liquidity for investors and founders. This requirement has created a significant hurdle in the European Technology Innovation Ecosystem. These entrepreneurs have executed successful exits and we will examine their experiences to understand what the Innovation Ecosystem can model and replicate in these examples. | |
| 19h15 - 20h00 | Innovator!Showcase Open Auditorio Foyer |
| 21h00 - 23h00 | Dinner NH Gran Hotel |
| 23h00 | Late Night El Novo |
| Wednesday - 15 June 2005 | |
| 08h00 - 19h30 : | Registration Open Auditorio Foyer |
| 08h00 - 09h00 | Continental Breakfast Auditorio Foyer |
| 09h00 - 11h00 | General Session Sala Luis Galve |
| Welcome to Day 2 Chris SHIPLEY - Executive Producer, Innovate!Europe |
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| 3 Questions: MySQL AB Presenter: Mårten MICKOS, MySQL AB Q & A: Mike SIGAL, Guidewire Group DOWNLOAD SLIDES |
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| Mårten MICKOS is a serial entrepreneur who has built fast-growing startups in the challenging European ecosystem. At MySQL he is using a new business model to take on some of the technology industry’s most venerable competitors. From this experience as entrepreneur, CEO, and competitor, Mårten had a unique perspective on the what is – and what is not – working in the European Innovation Ecosystem. And, he has a few ideas about what needs to happen to create ah more vibrant and competitive pan-European ecosystem. | |
| Product Spotlight: DartFish | |
| Global From the Start: Taking on World Markets Moderator: Philip GALLAGHER, CeBIT News Media Network Panelists: Jacques BONIFAY, Transatel Koen BOUWERS, The Software Factory Joan LLORACH, Interactora |
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| It takes a very different design, strategy, and team to win an auto race on an open highway course from that required to win on lap track. The same is true for startup companies moving from local markets to global ones. In this session, we hear from entrepreneurs who have built their businesses with global aspirations from the very beginning. | |
| Product Spotlight: 23 People | |
| 11h00 - 11h45 | Coffee Break Auditorio Foyer |
| 11h00 - 14h00 | Showcase Company Breakout Presentations Innovator!Showcase Open |
| 14h00 - 15h30 | Lunch Sala Multiusos |
| 15h30 - 18h00 | General Session Sala Luis Galve |
| Market Driven Product Development Moderator: TBA Panelists: Barrie HADFIELD, Workshare JP RANGASWAMI, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein Bruno UZZAN, Total-Immersion |
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| European researchers and programmers create some of the most advanced technologies in the world. But lacking a common practice of product management and market development, many of these technologies and products never find a market or grow a substantial customer base. In this session, successful entrepreneurs will share their best practices in building products that the markets want to buy, and we’ll hear from early-adopter customers who are the early market for new products and who are willing to take a risk on early-stage companies in order to get competitive advantage. | |
| Product Spotlight: Agnitio | |
| Developing a Culture of Risk Moderator: Alberto HADDAD, Melcion Panelists: Olivier DE MONTETY, Montety, Féral et Cie Nicolas GAUME, Lagardère |
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| Even as Europe embraces technology entrepreneurship as an avenue for rapid economic development, accepting risk remains a high hurdle for many in the European Technology Innovation Ecosystem. Yet maintaining a culture of conservatism may be a greater risk than accepting it as a necessary component of technology startup business. In this panel, we hear from entrepreneurs who have embraced risk, learned from failures, pushed through difficult odds, and have become better entrepreneurs – and better risks – as a result. | |
| The Wisdom of Crowds Chris SHIPLEY - Executive Producer, Innovate!Europe |
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| What we have heard, what we have learned, what’s remains unsaid. Chris Shipley will summaries the conference and suggest next steps for an Innovation Ecosystem that is, indeed, on the move. | |
| Innovator!Showcase Open Auditorio Foyer |
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| 19h30 - 21h30 | Closing Reception and Innovate!Honors Awards Ceremony Palacio de la Aljaferia |
| * Please note that times and topics listed are subject to change. Check back regularly for updates, and please visit the Speakers page for a preview of conference presenters. | |
