Global Technology Symposium Silicon Valley

Symposium Agenda

 

The 10th Annual Global Technology Symposium "Entrepreneurship and the Global World" will be held March 27-29, 2013 at the exquisite Rosewood Sand Hill. Please sign up for GTS Updates to be included in announcements about the 2013 Agenda.

*All locations are within the Rosewood Sand Hill, unless noted otherwise.

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DAY 1 — Wednesday, March 27, 2013

9:00am – 10:00am
Opening Remarks
Opening Keynote: Design Thinking – The Link between Play and Innovation

• Brendan Boyle, Partner, IDEO

10:00am – 11:00am
Fireside Chat: The Strategy for Growth

• Alexandra Johnson, Managing Director, DFJ-VTB Aurora (moderator)
• Igor Agamirzian, CEO and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Russian Venture Company
• Dixon Doll, Co-founder and General Partner, DCM

11:00am – 11:30pm
Coffee Break

11:30am – 12:30pm
Panel I: Space – The Next Frontier

• Steve Jurvetson, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson (moderator)
• Mikhail Kokorich, Founder and CEO, Dauria Aerospace
• George Whitesides, CEO and President, Virgin Galactic

12:30pm – 1:45pm
Lunch Chat: From Dorm Room to Board Room

• Tim Draper, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson (moderator)
• Aaron Levie, Co-founder & CEO, Box
  

2:00pm – 3:00pm
Panel II:  When a Minnow Swallows a Whale

• Claudia Fan Munce, VP, MD IBM Venture Group (moderator)
• Michael Descheneaux, CFO, Silicon Valley Bank
• Deborah Hopkins, Chairman of Venture Capital Initiatives and Chief Innovation Officer, Citi
• George Hoyem, Partner, In-Q-Tel
• Harshul Sanghi, Managing Partner, American Express Ventures

3:00pm – 4:00pm
Panel III: Nine Lives of Social Media

• Mark Milian, Tech Writer, Bloomberg (moderator)
• Nick Grudin, Strategic Partnership Development, Facebook
• Jules Maltz, General Partner, IVP
• Emil Michael, Chief Operating Officer, Klout
• Matt Van Horn, VP of Business Development, Path
• Kevin Weil, Director of Product for Revenue, Twitter

4:00pm – 4:20pm
A Special Announcement by Bloomberg
Coffee Break

4:20pm – 5:00pm
Special Presentation: Spotlight on Kazakhstan

• Dick Kramlich, Chairman and Co-Founder, NEA (moderator)
• Asset. O. Issekeshev, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and New Technologies of the Republic of Kazakhstan

5:00pm – 6:00pm
A Wall Street Journal interview: Technology, Entrepreneurship and Ninja Innovation in the Global World

• Don Clark, Assistant News Editor, The Wall Street Journal (moderator)
• Gary Shapiro, President and CEO, Consumer Electronics Association

6:00pm – 6:15pm
Book Signing

6:00pm – 8:00pm
Welcome Reception
Poolside

DAY 2 — Thursday, March 28, 2013

7:30am – 9:00am
Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00am – 10:30am
Panel IV: Frontiers of Innovation: Where to Go Next

• Lorraine Hariton, Special Representative for Commercial and Business Affairs, State Department (moderator)
• Trung Dung, Co-founder and General Director, Viet Phu Payment Services
• Julian Kyula, Co-founder and CEO, MoDe
• Gustavo Lemos, Co-founder and CEO, IDXP
• Faisal Sohail, General Partner, CMEA Capital

10:30am – 10:45am
Coffee Break

10:45am – 11:45pm
Global Partnerships: MIT – Skolkovo Tech Initiative

• Dr. Charles L. Cooney, Robert T. Haslam (1911) Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, and Faculty Director of the Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation, MIT
• Ilia Dubinsky, Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Skoltech
• José Estabil, Director of Entrepreneurship and Innovation for MIT Skoltech Initiative, MIT
• Dmitry Godovsky, Head of Conductive Polymers Group at the Institute of Elemento-Organic Synthesis, Russian Academy of Science
• Victor Krivchenko, Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University

11:45pm – 1:00pm
Lunch Keynote: What Entrepreneurs Should Learn From Professional Athletes

• Pitch Johnson, Founding Partner, Asset Management Company (moderator)
• Anne Cribbs, Olympian, CEO, Bay Area Sports Organizing Committee 
• Tasha Schwikert, Olympian, Broadcast Journalist, Wasserman Media Group

1:00pm – 2:00pm
Fireside Chat: New Horizons

• Lizette Chapman, Tech Reporter, DJ VentureWire (moderator)
• Scott Weiss, Partner, Andreessen Horowitz

2:00pm – 2:15pm
Coffee Break

2:15pm – 3:15pm

Presentation: Next Generation Systems – Real World Implications of IBM Watson

• Mark Gorenberg, Managing Director, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners (moderator)
• Manoj Saxena, General Manager, IBM Watson Solutions

3:15pm – 4:15pm
Panel V: East vs. West Coast VCs

• Axel Tillmann, CEO, RVC-USA (moderator)
• David Aronoff, General Partner, Flybridge Capital Partners
• Maha Ibrahim, General Partner, Caanan Venture Partners
• Sean Marsh, Co-founder and General Partner, Point Judith Capital
• Rob Theis, Managing Director, Scale Venture Partners

4:15pm – 4:30pm
Coffee Break

4:30pm – 6:00pm
Reverse Pitch Panel: Why Should Your Start-Up Take Our Money?

• Trip Adler, Co-founder and CEO, Scribd
• Neil Chheda, Co-founder and General Partner, Romulus Capital
• Li Jiang, Associate, GSV Asset Management
• Daniel Kimerling, Co-founder and General Partner, Deciens Capital
• Jack Leeney, Portfolio Manager, Telefónica Ventures
• Alexander Mittal, Co-founder and CEO, FundersClub
• Patrick Riley, Founder and CEO, Ark
• Mike Rothenberg, Angel Investor, Rothenberg Ventures
• Andrew Roberts, CEO, Ephox

6:00pm – 6:30pm
Buses Depart for Stanford Faculty Club

6:30pm – 9:00pm
Cocktail Reception and Dinner
Keynote Presentation: Lessons Not Learned
Stanford Faculty Club

• Jerry Weissman, Founder and President, Power Presentations
  

 

DAY 3 — Friday, March 29, 2013

8:00am – 9:00am
Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00am – 11:00am
Global Innovator Competition

Judges:

• Stewart Alsop, Partner, Alsop Louie Partners
• Dave McClure, Founding Partner, 500 Startups
• Ullas Naik, Streamlined Ventures
• Pejman Nozad, Founding General Partner, Amizad Partners
• Bill Tai, Partner, Charles River Ventures

11:00am – 12:00pm
Panel VI: Secrets of Top 100 Dealmakers

• Leena Rao, Senior Editor, TechCrunch (moderator)
• David Hornik, Partner, August Capital
• Scott Sandell, General Partner, NEA
• James Slavet, Partner, Greylock Partners
• George Zachary, Partner, Charles River Ventures

12:00pm – 1:45pm
Luncheon: “Future History Makers”

• John Hollar, President and CEO, Computer History Museum (moderator)
• Robert Johnson, CTO, Interana; former Director of Engineering, Facebook
• Jessica Scorpio, Co-founder and Director of Marketing, Getaround

2:00pm – 3:00pm
Discussion: From the Deans – Incubating Global Leadership

• Don Dixon, Co-founder and Sr. Managing Director, Trident Capital (moderator)
• Richard K. Lyons, Bank of America Dean, Haas School of Business
• Garth Saloner, Philip H. Knight Professor and Dean, Stanford Graduate School of Business

3:00pm – 4:30pm
Panel VII: Russia’s Technological Innovation – A True Value Investment

• Oleg Fomichev, State Secretary - Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation (moderator)
• Igor Agamirzian, CEO and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Russian Venture Company
• Dmitry Akhanov, President and CEO, Rusnano USA
• Alexandra Johnson, Managing Director, DFJ-VTB Aurora
• Edward Kanalosh, Investment Director, Skolkovo Foundation
• Jason Pontin, Editor in Chief and Publisher, MIT Technology Review

4:30pm – 5:30pm
Roundtable: Innovation Without Borders

• Alexei Sitnikov, Vice-President of Operations and Development, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (moderator)
• Ekaterina Bulycheva, Deputy CEO and Head of Infrastructure and Development Strategy Department, Moscow Innovation Development Centre
• Alexander Lupachev, Director, Russia Partners
• Dmitry Peskov, Director of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives, ASI
• Mark Shmulevich, Deputy Minister of Telecommunications, Russian Federation
• Pekka Viljakainen, Advisor to the President of Skolkovo, Skolkovo Foundation
• David Yang, Founder and Chairman of the Board, ABBYY

5:30pm – 6:00pm
Closing Remarks

6:00pm – 7:30pm
Reception

 

 

*Schedule subject to change.