Menlo Park, CA, USA - Nestled amid 16 pristine acres in Silicon Valley, Rosewood Sand Hill melds the rich heritage of relaxed California Ranch architecture with fragrant gardens and stunning Bay Area views of the Santa Cruz Mountains. The hotel appeals to an array of guest experiences with resort-like amenities, lush courtyard gardens and local charm. Whether relaxing in the largest guestrooms on the peninsula, indulging at Sense spa or delighting in the freshest of fare at the Michelin-starred restaurant, Madera, guests enjoy unparalleled attention to detail and service. Photo courtesy Rosewood Sand Hill

Menlo Park, Silicon Valley, CA, USA

The 10th Annual Global Technology Symposium "Entrepreneurship and the Global World" will be held March 27-29, 2013 at the exquisite Rosewood Sand Hill.

Just 35 miles south of San Francisco and 14 miles north of San Jose, Rosewood Sand Hill's scenic Bay Area location at the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains is steps away from Stanford University and the gateway to Silicon Valley. Situated on 16 acres of gardens and courtyards, the hotel reflects the culture, innate charm and natural beauty of the area. Photo courtesy Rosewood Sand Hill

Just 35 miles south of San Francisco and 14 miles north of San Jose, Rosewood Sand Hill's scenic Bay Area location at the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains is steps away from Stanford University and the gateway to Silicon Valley.


About GTS


The Global Technology Symposium is the leading investment conference on venture capital, technology, and entrepreneurship in emerging markets.

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Each year since 2004, the Symposium has brought more than 300 selected opinion leaders in business, finance, technology, and policymaking to Silicon Valley, where they share insights into the opportunities and challenges of globalization.

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The Symposium is honored to count many of Silicon Valley's most legendary names among its alumni. Speakers in previous years include:

- Venture capitalists such as Brook Byers, Patricia Cloherty, Reid Dennis, Tim Draper, Pitch Johnson, Dick Kramlich, Kate Mitchell, Don Valentine, and Ann Winblad;

- Corporate leaders such as former Intel chairman and CEO Craig Barrett, former HP CEO Carly Fiorina, former VMware CEO Diane Greene, BP Capital founder T. Boone Pickens;

- Policymakers such as White House CTO Aneesh Chopra, former U.S. senator Gary Hart, former Secretary of Defense William Perry, former Secretary of State George Shultz, and Russian Minister of Education and Science Andrei Fursenko; and

- Management and technology gurus such as Vint Cerf, Esther Dyson, and Geoffrey Moore.

The tenth annual Symposium will take place on March 27-29, 2013.

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Symposium Agenda


The 10th Annual Global Technology Symposium "Entrepreneurship and the Global World" will be held March 27-29, 2013 at the exquisite Rosewood Sand Hill.

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*All locations are within the Rosewood Sand Hill, unless noted otherwise.

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DAY 1 — Wednesday, March 27, 2013


9:00am – 10:00am
Opening Remarks
Opening Keynote: Design Thinking – The Link between Play and Innovation
- Brendan Boyle, Partner, IDEO

10:00am – 11:00am
Fireside Chat: The Strategy for Growth
- Alexandra Johnson, Managing Director, DFJ-VTB Aurora (moderator)
- Igor Agamirzian, CEO and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Russian Venture Company
- Dixon Doll, Co-founder and General Partner, DCM

11:00am – 11:30pm
Coffee Break

11:30am – 12:30pm
Panel I: Space – The Next Frontier
- Steve Jurvetson, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson (moderator)
- Mikhail Kokorich, Founder and CEO, Dauria Aerospace
- George Whitesides, CEO and President, Virgin Galactic

12:30pm – 1:45pm
Lunch Chat: From Dorm Room to Board Room
- Tim Draper, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson (moderator)
- Aaron Levie, Co-founder & CEO, Box

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2:00pm – 3:00pm
Panel II: When a Minnow Swallows a Whale
- Claudia Fan Munce, VP, MD IBM Venture Group (moderator)
- Michael Descheneaux, CFO, Silicon Valley Bank
- Deborah Hopkins, Chairman of Venture Capital Initiatives and Chief Innovation Officer, Citi
- George Hoyem, Partner, In-Q-Tel
- Harshul Sanghi, Managing Partner, American Express Ventures

3:00pm – 4:00pm
Panel III: Nine Lives of Social Media
- Mark Milian, Tech Writer, Bloomberg (moderator)
- Nick Grudin, Strategic Partnership Development, Facebook
- Jules Maltz, General Partner, IVP
- Emil Michael, Chief Operating Officer, Klout
- Matt Van Horn, VP of Business Development, Path
- Kevin Weil, Director of Product for Revenue, Twitter

4:00pm – 4:20pm
A Special Announcement by Bloomberg
Coffee Break

4:20pm – 5:00pm
Special Presentation: Spotlight on Kazakhstan
- Asset. O. Issekeshev, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and New Technologies of the Republic of Kazakhstan

5:00pm – 6:00pm
A Wall Street Journal interview: Technology, Entrepreneurship and Ninja Innovation in the Global World
- Don Clark, Assistant News Editor, The Wall Street Journal (moderator)
- Gary Shapiro, President and CEO, Consumer Electronics Association

6:00pm – 6:15pm
Book Signing

6:00pm – 8:00pm
Welcome Reception
Poolside

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DAY 2 — Thursday, March 28, 2013


7:30am – 9:00am
Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00am – 10:30am
Panel IV: Frontiers of Innovation: Where to Go Next
- Lorraine Hariton, Special Representative for Commercial and Business Affairs, State Department (moderator)
- P.K. Agarwal, CEO, TiE Global
- Trung Dung, Co-founder and General Director, Viet Phu Payment Services
- Julian Kyula, Co-founder and CEO, MoDe
- Gustavo Lemos, Co-founder and CEO, IDXP
- Faisal Sohail, General Partner, CMEA Capital

10:30am – 10:45am
Coffee Break

10:45am – 11:45pm
Global Partnerships: MIT – Skolkovo Tech Initiative
- Dr. Charles L. Cooney, Robert T. Haslam (1911) Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, and Faculty Director of the Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation, MIT
- Ilia Dubinsky, Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Skoltech
- José Estabil, Director of Entrepreneurship and Innovation for MIT Skoltech Initiative, MIT
- Dmitry Godovsky, Head of Conductive Polymers Group at the Institute of Elemento-Organic Synthesis, Russian Academy of Science
- Victor Krivchenko, Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University

11:45pm – 1:00pm
Lunch Keynote: What Entrepreneurs Should Learn From Professional Athletes
- Pitch Johnson, Founding Partner, Asset Management Company (moderator)
- Anne Cribbs, Olympian, CEO, Bay Area Sports Organizing Committee
- Tasha Schwikert, Olympian, Broadcast Journalist, Wasserman Media Group

1:00pm – 2:00pm
Fireside Chat: New Horizons
- Lizette Chapman, Tech Reporter, DJ VentureWire (moderator)
- Scott Weiss, Partner, Andreessen Horowitz

2:00pm – 2:15pm
Coffee Break

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2:15pm – 3:15pm
Presentation: Next Generation Systems – Real World Implications of IBM Watson
- Mark Gorenberg, Managing Director, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners (moderator)
- Manoj Saxena, General Manager, IBM Watson Solutions

3:15pm – 4:15pm
Panel V: East vs. West Coast VCs
- Axel Tillmann, CEO, RVC-USA (moderator)
- David Aronoff, General Partner, Flybridge Capital Partners
- Maha Ibrahim, General Partner, Caanan Venture Partners
- Sean Marsh, Co-founder and General Partner, Point Judith Capital
- Rob Theis, Managing Director, Scale Venture Partners

4:15pm – 4:30pm
Coffee Break

4:30pm – 6:00pm
Reverse Pitch Panel: Why Should Your Start-Up Take Our Money?
- Trip Adler, Co-founder and CEO, Scribd
- Neil Chheda, Co-founder and General Partner, Romulus Capital
- Li Jiang, Associate, GSV Asset Management
- Daniel Kimerling, Co-founder and General Partner, Deciens Capital
- Alexander Mittal, Co-founder and CEO, FundersClub
- Patrick Riley, Founder and CEO, Ark
- Mike Rothenberg, Angel Investor, Rothenberg Ventures
- Andrew Roberts, CEO, Ephox

6:00pm – 6:30pm
Buses Depart for Stanford Faculty Club

6:30pm – 9:00pm
Cocktail Reception and Dinner
Keynote Presentation: Lessons Not Learned
Stanford Faculty Club
- Jerry Weissman, Founder and President, Power Presentations

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DAY 3 — Friday, March 29, 2013


8:00am – 9:00am
Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00am – 11:00am
Global Innovator Competition

Judges:
- Stewart Alsop, Partner, Alsop Louie Partners
- Dave McClure, Founding Partner, 500 Startups
- Ullas Naik, Streamlined Ventures
- Pejman Nozad, Founding General Partner, Amizad Partners
- Bill Tai, Partner, Charles River Ventures

11:00am – 12:00pm
Panel VI: Secrets of Top 100 Dealmakers
- Leena Rao, Senior Editor, TechCrunch (moderator)
- David Hornik, Partner, August Capital
- Scott Sandell, General Partner, NEA
- James Slavet, Partner, Greylock Partners
- George Zachary, Partner, Charles River Ventures

12:00pm – 1:45pm
Luncheon: “Future History Makers”
- John Hollar, President and CEO, Computer History Museum (moderator)
- Robert Johnson, CTO, Interana; former Director of Engineering, Facebook
- Jessica Scorpio, Co-founder and Director of Marketing, Getaround

2:00pm – 3:00pm
Discussion: From the Deans – Incubating Global Leadership
- Don Dixon, Co-founder and Sr. Managing Director, Trident Capital (moderator)
- Richard K. Lyons, Bank of America Dean, Haas School of Business
- Garth Saloner, Philip H. Knight Professor and Dean, Stanford Graduate School of Business

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3:00pm – 4:30pm
Panel VII: Russia’s Technological Innovation – A True Value Investment
- Oleg Fomichev, State Secretary - Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation (moderator)
- Igor Agamirzian, CEO and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Russian Venture Company
- Dmitry Akhanov, President and CEO, Rusnano USA
- Alexandra Johnson, Managing Director, DFJ-VTB Aurora
- Edward Kanalosh, Investment Director, Skolkovo Foundation
- Jason Pontin, Editor in Chief and Publisher, MIT Technology Review

4:30pm – 5:30pm
Roundtable: Innovation Without Borders
- Alexei Sitnikov, Vice-President of Operations and Development, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (moderator)
- Ekaterina Bulycheva, Deputy CEO and Head of Infrastructure and Development Strategy Department, Moscow Innovation Development Centre
- Alexander Lupachev, Director, Russia Partners
- Dmitry Peskov, Director of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives, ASI
- Mark Shmulevich, Deputy Minister of Telecommunications, Russian Federation
- Pekka Viljakainen, Advisor to the President of Skolkovo, Skolkovo Foundation
- David Yang, Founder and Chairman of the Board, ABBYY

5:30pm – 6:00pm
Closing Remarks

6:00pm – 7:30pm
Reception


Source: The 10th Annual Global Technology Symposium

http://www.globaltechsymposium.com/agenda.html  



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