The Innovation Connection - The 2014 Science|Business Summit

09:00 - Opening welcome by Christian Thomsen, President, TU Berlin

09:05 - Introduction, Richard L. Hudson, CEO & Editor, Science|Business

09:10 - Video interview with Jose Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission

09:15 -The secret to fostering global champions - four breakthrough ideas 

Moderator: Richard L. Hudson, CEO and Editor, Science|Business

• Ramon A. Wyss, Vice President International Affairs, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
• Frank Salzgeber, Head of Technology Transfer Programme Office, European Space Agency
• Raymond Hegarty, Managing Director, Intellectual Ventures International Licensing
• Javier Gimeno, Professor of Strategy, INSEAD 

10:00 - Can European VC survive? What's gone wrong and how to fix it

Flash report form a Science|Business Innovation Board study underway at Aalto University 

• Will Cardwell, Senior Lecturer and Adviser on Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital, Aalto University 

10:15 - Overcoming the funding crisis - new ways to finance innovation

Moderator: Gail Edmondson, Editorial Director, Science|Business

• Anne Glover, Chief Executive and Co-founder Amadeus Capital Partners; Chairman, EVCA VC Platform Council
• Gunnar Muent, Director, Innovation and Competitiveness, European Investment Bank 
• Candace Johnson, President, European Business Angels Network (EBAN)
• Mmboneni Muofhe, Deputy Director General: Technology Innovation, Department of Science and Technology, Republic of South Africa 

11:00 - Coffee break 

11:30 - Meet the Innovation Awards finalists - Innovators' elevator-pitches

• Stephan Jacquemot, Principal, Microsoft Ventures
• Jonathan Wareham, Dean of Faculty & Research, ESADE

12:30 - Lunch 

14:00 - Germany's innovation machine takes on Silicon Valley 

• Detlef Dauke, Head of Innovation, IT and Communications Policy, German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy

14:10 - Disruptive innovation - How can Europe spark more of it?

Moderator: Gail Edmondson, Editorial Director, Science|Business

• Frank Brown, Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer, General Atlantic
• Hannu Kauppinen, Vice President, Head of Nokia Labs
• Howard W. Fogt, Partner and Antitrust Lawyer, Foley & Lardner LLP

15:00 - Teaching innovation: A masterclass

Moderator: Peter Wrobel, Co-Founder, Science|Business

• Tuula Teeri, President, Aalto University 
• Johan Einar Hustad, Pro-Rector for Innovation, NTNU
• Giovanni Azzone, Rector, Politecnico di Milano
• Simon Hepworth, Director of Enterprise, Imperial College London 

15:45 - Coffee break 

16:15 Foresight 2030 results - innovation megatrends that will transform society and economy

Summary of a private debate held on October 6th, by Richard Flaye, Chairman of the Board, Science|Business and Daria Golebiowska-Tataj, Founder & CEO, Tataj Innovations and former Member the Governing Board of the European Institute for Innovation and Technology (EIT). 

16:15 - 17:45 - Braingain as Innovation Strategy - Learning from the US (Private session) 

Moderator: Manuel Hartung, Managing Director, TEMPUS CORPORATE

• Sabine Jung, Managing Director, German Scholars Organisation e. V
• Christian Glockner, Head of Sequencing Department, Blackfield AG
• Kilian Guse, CEO and Co-Founder, GeneQuine Biotherapeutics
• Philipp Schmalzle, Entrepreneurial Scientist, Google
• Andreas Schmidt, CEO and Co-Founder, Ayoxx