The theme of this year's Summit is Changing the Game: a discussion on alternative investment trends, industry challenges and new opportunities for international venture capital in the post financial crisis climate. Set in an interactive and deal-making environment, the conference brings together 300 thought leaders, financiers, entrepreneurs and MBA students from over 60 countries. The Summit...
[read more] The theme of this year's Summit is Changing the Game: a discussion on alternative investment trends, industry challenges and new opportunities for international venture capital in the post financial crisis climate. Set in an interactive and deal-making environment, the conference brings together 300 thought leaders, financiers, entrepreneurs and MBA students from over 60 countries. The Summit offers ample networking opportunities for our guests over breaks, lunch and a hosted cocktail after party. (Free shuttle and admission for Summit attendees)
Hear about international venture capital trends from global experts
Connect with leading venture capitalists, angels and entrepreneurs
Share insights, experience and opportunities
Keynote Speakers:
Guy Kawasaki
is the co-founder of Alltop.com, an “online magazine rack” of popular topics on the web, and a founding partner at Garage Technology Ventures. Previously, he was the chief evangelist of Apple. Kawasaki is the author of ten books including Enchantment, Reality Check, The Art of the Start, Rules for Revolutionaries, How to Drive Your Competition Crazy, Selling the Dream, and The Macintosh Way. Kawasaki has a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from UCLA as well as an honorary doctorate from Babson College.
Naval Ravikant
is an entrepreneur and angel investor, a co-author of Venture Hacks, and a co-maintainer of AngelList. Previously he was a co-founder at Genoa Corp (acquired by Finisar), Epinions.com (IPO via Shopping.com), and Vast.com (largest white-label classifieds marketplace). He has also advised Bix.com, iPivot, and XFire, among others, and invested in many companies, including Twitter, FourSquare, DocVerse (sold to Google), Mixer Labs (sold to Twitter), Jambool (Social Gold), SnapLogic, PlanCast, Stack Overflow, Heyzap, and Disqus.
Panels:
Venture Capital: Shifting Paradigms, Opportunities, and Challenges
Turmoil in the financial markets created obvious challenges for generating investor returns. The past few years also saw the proliferation of early-stage investments and evolving alternative exit options. What do these changes mean for the limited partners and how will they affect deal flows between VC's of different stages?
Our panelists will share their thoughts on the changing investment landscape, discuss the relative success of new investment models and explore strategies for capitalizing on the new opportunities.
Sharon Weinbar
Managing Director
Scale Ventures
Panelist
Rebecca Lynn
Partner
Morgenthaler
Panelist
Rudy Garza
Founder, GP
G51
Panelist
Gautam Barua
Co-Founder
Aclaria Capital
Panelist
Sajjad Masud
Co-Chair
Harvard Angels
Moderator
The emergence of social ventures
Social ventures leverage the capital markets to solve social problems and provide sustainable social benefits. Given the current emphasis on philanthropy and the social good, how do social capitalists view investment returns, time to exit and the net effect on the bottom line?
Our panelists will review the challenges involved in weighing financial and social returns, share commercial philanthropy success stories, and reflect on the future of market-based solutions to social problems.
Wes Selke
Investment Manager
Good Capital
Panelist
Patrick Gleeson
CEO
Meyer Family Entprs.
Panelist
John Goldstein
Managing Director
Imprint Capital
Panelist
Drew Clark
Partner
IBM Venture Capital
Panelist
Susan Lucas-Conwell
CEO of SD Forum
Moderator
Delivering the goods
The venture capital markets made a roaring comeback in 2010 with 2,799 deals attracting $26.2 billion investment (11% increase from 2009), although median deal size for 2010 dropped to $4.4 million (from $5 million in 2009).
Our panelists will debate the strategy's they deploy to support their portfolio companies while delivering expected returns to their investors. They will examine methods of managing their portfolio companies, discuss the influence of the recent crisis on their approach, and explore innovative approaches to building successful companies.
Paul Bragiel
Partner
IO Ventures
Panelist
Ann Winblad
Managing Director
Hummer Winblad
Panelist
Andrew Lee
Principal
Battery Ventures
Panelist
Dave McClure
Founding Partner
500 Startups
Panelist
Chris Redlitz
Founder
Kick Labs
Moderator
International deal flow and going global
Europe and Israel have developed local venture capital markets while emerging markets are seeing an increase in the scale of investments. Armed with knowledge and experience in international finance, human resources and capital markets, these globe-trotting VC's have first hand knowledge in taking a company global.
This panel will look at the venture capital industry from a regional and global perspective and attempting to discover what having an international edge means to investors and entrepreneurs.
Richard Irving
Co-Founder
Pond Ventures
Panelist
NIcholas El Baze
Partner
Partech Ventures
Panelist
Don Butler
Managing Director
Thomvest
Panelist
Don Wood
Managing Director
DFJ
Panelist
Jean Batman
Founder Legal Venture Counsel
Moderator
Partners/ Sponsors
summit tickets can be redeemed for 1 full day co-working pass at Rocket-Space
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