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
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