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Program

Day I - Monday, October 20, 2008

We will be discussing start-up case studies from around the world with presentations from the entrepreneurs themselves, along with a series of keynote and panel discussions.

8:00am - 9:00am Registration and Breakfast

9:00am - 9:30am Welcome and introduction by Saeed Amidi, Plug and Play Tech Center and Mateu Hernandez, Barcelona Activa

9:30am - 10:30pm Case Study: Google

10:30am - 12:00pm Case Studies: Business Objects, Metacafe, MySQL, Zoosk, Echovox

12:00pm - 1:00pm Lunch and Networking

1:00pm - 2:00pm Panel Discussion: Fostering a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship

Moderator: Brian Noguchi, Former President, Stanford BASES
Panel:
     Brewster McCracken, Mayor Pro-Tem, City of Austin
     Jose Pacheco, Program Manager, MIT Entrepreneurship Center
     Andrew Singer, Director, Technology Entrepreneur Center , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
     Lou Tornatzky, Area Chair and Professor of Industrial Technology , Cal Poly
     Parameshwar P. Iyer, Principal Research Scientist, Indian Institute of Science
     Jon Sandelin, Senior Associate Emeritus, Stanford Office of Technology Licensing

2:00pm - 2:30pm Tour of Plug and Play Tech Center

2:30pm - 2:45pm Case Study: Aprius

2:45pm - 3:30pm Panel Discussion: Best Pratices for start-up incubators and technology centers

Moderator: Shuly Galili, Executive Director, California Israel Chamber of Commerce
Panel:
     Mateu Hernandez, Executive Director, Barcelona Activa
     David Cohen, Founder & Executive Director, Techstars
     Tommaso Minola, Coordinator, Acceleratore d'Impresa, Politecnico di Milano
     Tapio Koivu, Executive Vice President Ventures, VTT (Technical Research Centre of Finland)
     Mark Lieberman, Assistant Professor - Clinical Entrepreneurship Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, University of Southern California
     Alessandro Zago, Director of Venture Technology, Siemens Technology-To-Business Center

3:30pm - 4:00pm Networking break

4:00pm - 5:00pm Panel Discussion: Bridging the funding gap, the role of angels and VCs

Moderator: Ram Srivasan, Wellington Partners
Panel:
     Mike Hodges, ATA Ventures
     Deepak Kamra, Canaan Partners
     Kamran Elahian, Global Catalyst
     Micah Siegel, C2C Ventures
     Laurie Lumenti Garty, Silicon Valley Bank
     Gerd Goette, Managing Partner, Siemens Venture Capital

5:00pm - 5:15pm Keynote: Omid Kordestani, SVP, Global Sales & Business Development, Google

5:15pm - 7:00pm Cocktail Reception

Day II - Tuesday, October 21, 2008

We will break out for group discussions and gather back to discuss lessons learned and to exchange best practices and ideas.

8:00am - 9:00am Registration and Breakfast

9:00am - 9:15am Presentation: John Bautista, Partner, Orrick

9:15am - 10:15am Panel Discussion– Completing the Eco-System: Corporate Partners

Moderator: Kayvan Baroumand, COO, Plug and Play Tech Center
Panel:
     Todd Rumberger, Attorney, Greenberg Traurig
     John Bautista, Partner, Orrick
     Tom Bondi, Principal – Emerging Business Services Group, Berger Lewis
     Shai Goldman, Director of Venture Exchange, Silicon Valley Bank

10:15am - 10:30am Presentation: Yuji Ide, President, Japanese University Network in the Bay Area (JUNBA)

10:30am - 12:00am Panel Discussion – Completing the Eco-System: Technology Partners

Moderator:
Panel:
     Anand Iyer, Evangelist, Microsoft
     Mike Folgner, Head, Yahoo! Brickhouse
     Ana Pinczuk, VP of Engineering, Cisco Systems
     Hans van Rietschote, Senior Director, Technology Scouting Group, Symantec Corporation
     Georges Nahon, CEO, Orange Labs San Francisco
     Sun Microsystems

12:00pm - 1:30pm Lunch and Networking

1:30pm - 2:00pm Keynote: Dan'l Lewin, VP Strategic & Emerging Business Development, Microsoft
Launch of International EXPO

2:00pm - 3:00pm "Extreme Pitching" (2 mins per start-up)

3:00pm - 3:30pm Start-Up Demos & Exhibition

3:30pm - 4:00pm Keynote speech by Tim Draper, Founder and Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson

4:00pm - 5:00pm Start-up presentations to VC panel

Panel:
     Tim Draper, Founder & Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
     Lucio Lanza, Managing Director, Lanza techVentures
     Dan Rosensweig, Operating Principal, Quadrangle Group
     Mike Orsak, General Partner, Worldview Technology Partners
     Dafina Toncheva, Vice President, Venrock
     Steve Harrick, General Partner, Institutional Venture Partners
     Jonathan Teo, Vice President, Benchmark Capital
     Rebecca Lynn, Principal, Morgenthaler Ventures
     Sean Dempsey, Partner, Merus Capital
     Han J. Kim, Co-Founder & General Partner, Altos Ventures
     Norwest Venture Partners

5:00pm - 5:15pm Closing Keynote: Ron Conway, Baseline Ventures

5:15pm - 7:00pm Cocktail Reception

A selected group of international start-ups will get the chance to demonstrate their products as well as pitch to invited guests plus angel investors and VCs.