Early Arrivals Registration

Palafox Hotel 

17h00 - 19h30

Registration

19h00 - 21h00

Innovate!Europe Welcome Reception

21h00

Delegates are invited to make their own dinner plans

8h00 - 19h30

Registration

8h00 - 9h00

Continental Breakfast & Innovate!Showcase

Chris Shipley, Executive Producer, Innovate!Europe; Co-founder & Global Research Director, Guidewire Group

Miguel Latasa, Director General, Informática El Corte Inglés

Alberto Larraz, Minister of Science, Technology and University, Aragon Government

Francisco Ros, Secretary of State, Ministry of Industry, Spain

Juan Alberto Belloch, Mayor of Zaragoza

Chris Shipley, Executive Producer

Innovate!Europe 2005, a landmark conference, outlined the challenges and threats to the commercialization  of technology innovation throughout Europe.  In the 12 months that have followed that conference, have Europe's entrepreneurs and investors changed?  What new threats, opportunities, and challenges face Europe's entrepreneurial technology companies as they move toward 2007?

Chris Shipley, Executive Producer

Technology innovation is a global phenomenon and even while centers of innovation, such as Silicon Valley, Cambridge, or Sophia Antipolis, continue to thrive, new models of company building are bypassing these areas and finding great talent and early success in curious corners of the world.   Indeed, these new models of company building, if successful, bring great advantage to Europe's entrepreneurs.

Niclas Bergström, Founder & CEO, ReadSpeaker

Cedric Maloux, Founder & CEO, AllPeers

Gary Stewart, Founder, Goa Internet Services

Ulf Dahlsten, Director, Emerging Technologies and Infastructures, in conversation with Philip Gallagher, Research Director, EMEA, Guidewire Group

The European Commission has set ambitious goals to spur the growth of Information Society. The proposals, policies, and targets set by the EC are spurring innovation with mixed results. Can innovation be mandated through public initiatives? What programs work best? And how can entrepreneurs capitalise on these efforts.

Chris Shipley, Executive Producer

Guidewire Group maps innovative technology startups across the globe to identify the hot spots of emerging markets.  Chris presents the map of European startups and introduces the Innovators at Innovate!Europe 2006, and gives you a first introduction to several of our Innovator Showcase companies.

11h15 - 12h15

Loic Le Meur, Executive Vice President & General Manager EMEA, Six Apart

Social media - blogs, syndication, user-generated content, social networks and online community - are upsetting the publish-consume model of mainstream media and cannibalizing advertising revenue on which these old-line businesses depend.  Individuals are creating communities of influence that are surpassing traditional marketing outlets in their reach and impact on individual and even business buyers.   

Presenting Companies: 

13h30 - 15h30

Lunch Buffet

Moderator: Chris Shipley, Executive Producer

Very large companies feed on the innovation of smaller technology startups in order to survive.   Small new companies need strong initial partners and customers to grow.  It's a mutually beneficial dance.  But how do these dance partners find one another and how do very small companies best engage with the giants of the industry?

Mike Carr, Director of Research and Venturing, BT

Sherry Roberts. Head of Partner Business Development, Symbian Ltd.

David Rowe, Emerging Business Team, Microsoft EMEA

At Innovate!Europe 2005, many speakers agreed that European developers must embrace open platforms and standards in order to create products that compete in a world-wide market.  Europe's entrepreneurs are not only embracing open standards, they are creating platforms and protocols that spur exciting new innovations and implementations. 

Otodio Limited (United Kingdom)

Warp Networks (Spain)

SemaWorx (Germany)

Moderator: Michael Arrington, Founder & Editor, TechCrunch Networks

The so-called Web 2.0 movement forces a new style of software development, global marketing, and customer reach. The Silicon Valley ecosystem supports a Web 2.0 “build and flip” model that enables new companies to focus on features rather than deep business models.  Without that concentrated Innovation Ecosystem, European companies must think differently about their Web 2.0 efforts.  Still, Web 2.0 is disruptive to traditional entrepreneurial endeavours and to venture investment.

Philippe Collombel, General Partner, Europe, Partech International

Fred Destin, Partner, Atlas Venture

Judy Gibbons, Partner, Accel Partners 

Tariq Krim, CEO, Netvibes 

18h00 - 19h00

Innovator!Showcase, Coffee and Networking

8h00 - 19h30

Registration

8h00 - 9h00

Continental Breakfast

Chris Shipley, Executive Producer

Content is no longer the province of corporate media giants.  Consumers are making and sharing their own rich media content, spurring new sites and services that host and spur this creativity.  As these sites take root, they will ultimately serve to democratize traditional media businesses.

Video Publishing on Demand & Television  (France)

KEWEGO  (France)

Moderator: Philip Gallagher, Research Director, EMEA, Guidewire Group

To the casual observer, Europe's Innovation Ecosystem is short on early-stage investors who provide first capital to early ventures.  That's changing with new models and recent successes in angel financing to bolster the case for early-stage risk capital.

Sherry Coutu, Chairman, Porpoise Ventures  

Steve Schlenker, Managing Partner & Chief Investment Officer, DN Capital 

Mark Tluszcz, Managing Partner, Mangrove Capital Partners   

Brian O'Malley, Senior Advisor - High Potential Start-up Division, Enterprise Ireland   

Conventional wisdom around the globe is that Europe's technology innovation and adoption lags that of the U.S.   Guidewire Group would argue that this stubborn thought is no longer true, and in certain markets, especially mobile content and services, Europe's innovators can teach a lot to the Americans.

CLICMOBILE (France) 

NAVX (France)

Digislide (Australia)

Mobease (France)

11h00 - 11h30

Coffee Break and Innovator!Showcase

Moderator: Mark Veverka, West Coast Editor, Barron's

In a Web 2.0 world, technology startups - software companies, particularly - require a relatively small capital investment to make a rapid drive to market and value creation. These fast-growth companies are attractive targets for stock-rich Internet companies who can quickly adopt and adapt new technologies and help them find a very big audience.

Isabela Aguilera, Managing Director, Google Spain and Portugal

Gil Penchina, Vice President & General Manager, eBay Europe

Javier Zapatero, General Manager, Yahoo! Iberia

Moderator: Nicolas Rose Partner, XAnge

One of Europe's unique leadership advantages is in the development of technologies to support business intelligence and processing, often to the benefit of commerce, both online and off.  Guidewire Group continues to discover innovative companies throughout Europe who are pushing the state-of-the art in business intelligence, visualisation, and commerce.

SeeWhy Software (United Kingdom)

Iokio (United Kingdom)

VirtuOz (France)

Abaque (France)

Web 2.0 applications, social software, and always-on connectivity leave consumers and companies vulnerable to security attacks, identity theft, and other forms of fraud.  There is no less than a global effort to protect individuals from computer-based attacks.  As consolidation and growth come to the security market, Guidewire Group expects to see strong global players emerge from some unexpected corners.

Panda Software International (Spain) 

PAGOA Limited (United Kingdom)

13h30 - 16h00

Innovator!Showcase

13h30 - 15h30

Lunch Buffet

Moderator: Niklas Zennström, CEO & Co-Founder, Skype

It is easy to lose sight of the future among the skyrocketing success in the present.  Skype's acquisition by eBay has inspired a generation and will forever change attitudes about European entrepreneurship.  But the Skype Story is just getting started.  Founder Zennström has ambitious plans to make Skype the leading VoIP platform.

Product presentations by Guidewire Group Innovator Companies leading the state-of-the-art in voice and video communications.

Rebtel Networks (Sweden)

EQO Communications (Canada)

Chris Shipley, Executive Producer

Chris Shipley, Executive Producer, Innovate!Europe, Co-Founder & Global Research Director, Guidewire Group

Mike Sigal, Co-Founder & CEO, Guidewire Group