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17.00 |
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Registration |
19.30 |
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Welcome Reception
At the conference venue: Clarion Hotel |
09.00 |
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Welcome Address
Helmut Schühsler, Managing Partner, TVM Capital GmbH and EVCA
Chairman 2007-2008 |
09.15 |
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Opening Remarks
Patrick Sheehan, Partner, Environmental Technologies Fund and EVCA Venture Capital Platform Chairman |
09.30 |
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Keynote Address: Technology Venture Capital in 2007: Where do
we stand?
• Performance, transactions and trends - a global market overview
• Positioning European venture in an increasingly global market
• The story behind the numbers
Conference Chairman - Day 1:
Paul Deninger, Vice-Chairman, Jefferies & Company, Inc. and Chairman, Jefferies Broadview Presentation (1.17mb, PDF) |
10.15 |
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Networking and Refreshment Break
Sponsored by: ACT Venture Capital Limited |
11.00 |
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Keynote Address: Long-term in Vision, but Relentlessly Impatient in Follow-up - The Investor AB Way of Building Businesses
• Building businesses ranging from blue chip to high-tech expansion stage
• Combining financial and industrial expertise for value creation
Börje Ekholm, President and CEO, Investor AB Presentation (2.69mb, PDF) |
11.30 |
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The Effects of Globalisation on the Venture Capital Model
• Globalisation: one size does not fit all
• Review of best practices to the successful sourcing, selection, and
building of exiting portfolio companies in an increasingly flat world
Moderator:
Sergey Sheshuryak, Partner, Adams Street Partners Ltd
Panellists:
John Denniston, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Paul Harvey, Partner, Atlantic Bridge Ventures and
EVCA Venture Capital Forum Working Group Co-Chairman
Philippe Méré, General Partner, Banexi Ventures Partners
Kurt Müller, Partner, Target Partners |
12.15 |
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Lunch |
13.45 |
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Keynote Address: Venture Capital and the Public Equity Markets
• Risk versus uncertainty in venture capital
• The stock market as a source of liquidity
• The evolution of the venture capital ecology
• Status assessment: Europe versus the US and Asia
William H. Janeway, Senior Adviser, Warburg Pincus and
Research Associate, Centre for Financial Analysis and Policy, University of
Cambridge |
14.30 |
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Panel Session: Beyond Exits
Moderator:
Paul Harvey, Partner, Atlantic Bridge Ventures and
EVCA Venture Capital Forum Working Group Co-Chairman
Panel Members:
Paul Deninger, Vice-Chairman, Jefferies & Company, Inc. and Chairman, Jefferies Broadview
Brian Griffiths, Managing Director, Credit Suisse
Paul-Noël Guély, Co-Founding Partner, Arma Partners LLP
Jean Tardy-Joubert, Managing Director, Merrill Lynch |
15.15 |
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Networking and Refreshment Break
Sponsored by: ACT Venture Capital Limited |
16.15 |
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De-risking Research - Best Practices in Venture Capital - Corporate Collaboration
• Outsourcing R&D to venture capital-backed biotech and delivering on
promises
• Partnerships, acquisitions, licensing: the end of fully integrated
companies?
• Are large pharmaceutical companies helping to de-risk the venture
capital
business model?
Jan Lundberg, Executive Vice-President and Head of Global Discovery, AstraZeneca AB Presentation (2.07mb, PDF) |
16.45 |
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Change of Room |
17.00 |
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Parallel Tracks:*
• Track 1: R&D and the Life Sciences: Beyond Established Business Models
Moderator:
Björn Odlander, Partner, HealthCap
Panel Members:
Bernard Daugeras, General Partner, Auriga Partners
Maxine Gowen, Former Senior Vice President, External Drug Discovery, GlaxoSmithKline
Jan Lundberg, Executive Vice-President and Head of Global Discovery, AstraZeneca AB
Martin Nicklasson, CEO, Biovitrum
Thomas Schall, President and CEO, ChemoCentryx, Inc.
• Track 2: Information and Communication Technologies: What Next?
Moderator:
Kaj-Erik Relander, General Partner, Accel Partners
Panel Members:
Graham O'Keeffe, Partner, Atlas Venture
Mark Levine, Managing Director, Core Capital Partners
Sven-Christer Nilsson, Former CEO and President, Ericsson
Andy Tsao, Senior Vice-President, SVB Europe Advisors Limited
• Track 3: Clean Tech: Perspectives and Prospects
Moderator:
Patrick Sheehan, Partner, Environmental Technologies Fund and EVCA Venture Capital Platform Chairman
Panel Members:
Uwe Albrecht, Managing Partner, Siemens Venture Capital
John Denniston, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Per Ericsson, Former CEO, GE Nordic and Baltic States and Senior Advisor, Environmental Technologies Fund
Rob Wylie, Partner, WHEB Ventures LLP
* All 3 parallel tracks start at 17.00 |
17.45 |
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End of Sessions |
19.30 |
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Transport to Stockholm City Hall |
20.00 |
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Cocktail and Dinner
At the Stockholm City Hall - one of Sweden's most prestigious buildings
where the Nobel Prize banquet takes place every year. |
09.00 |
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Welcome Address
Conference Chairman - Day 2:
James McNaught-Davis, Managing Partner, WHEB Ventures and EVCA Venture Capital Forum Working Group Co-Chairman |
09.15 |
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Assessing the Impact of the Globalisation of the Venture Capital Industry on the Asset Allocation of Investors
• With increasingly globalised portfolio companies, do local and regional
allocation targets make sense for limited partners?
• Are limited partners moving towards one global venture capital allocation
pool?
• What is the impact of this on the European venture capital industry?
Panel Members:
Catherine Crockett, Founder and General Partner,
Grove Street Advisors
Joost Holleman, Principal, AlpInvest Partners NV and
EVCA Venture Capital Committee Member
Vincenzo Narciso, Head of Private Equity, Union Bancaire Privee |
10.00 |
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Building Successful Technology in Europe:
A Serially Successful CEO’s Perspective
• Reaching US-style return on investment through capital efficiency and
early
sales traction
• NordNav - the university spin-out that will end in a billion phones
Speaker:
Mattias Åström, Serial Entrepreneur former and CEO, NordNav Technologies
AB Presentation (5.05mb, PDF) |
10.45 |
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Networking and Refreshment Break
Sponsored by: ACT Venture Capital Limited |
11.45 |
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Keynote Address
Miles Hilton-Barber, Adventurer |
12.30 |
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Closing Remarks and Conclusions
Patrick Sheehan, Partner, Environmental Technologies Fund and EVCA Venture Capital Platform Chairman |
12.45 |
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Lunch |
14.00 |
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Social Programme in Stockholm (optional)
Stockholm city tour, with a special focus on design and architecture
with a visit to the world’s first “ice bar” and a networking dinner at 20.00.
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