February 29

Cambridge UK v Silicon Valley - Tea with Hermann Hauser

In Session Seven we present Hermann Hauser, a serial tech entrepreneur who is today considered one of the 'grandfathers' of venture capital in his adopted country, the United Kingdom. Located one hour by train north of London, the Cambridge technology cluster is Europe's closest analogue to Silicon Valley, and is home to not only Amadeus Capital, but also to ARM, Autonomy (HP) and numerous other tech and biotech enterprises, many of which have been spun out from Cambridge University laboratories. How did the Cambridge tech cluster happen? How is it similar and different from Silicon Valley? Where is it headed today? Our afternoon tea with Hermann will explore these and many other aspects of 'The Cambridge Phenomenon' which is poorly understood in Silicon Valley. We depart here from our usual two-speaker format to present one of Europe's most distinguished venture capitalists and entrepreneurs in order to do a 'deep dive' into this extremely important topic.

Learn more »

March 7

From Comets to Startups - Building Europe's SpaceTech Entrepreneurship Ecosystem

In our final Session Eight we present three founders from the European Space Agency (ESA) business incubator network across Europe, which is operated by ESA's Technology Transfer Programme office in Noordwijk (NL). These startups employ space-derived technologies to solve major challenges for European and global enterprises and consumers in medical imaging, secure data storage and family management. Our fourth speaker, Frank Salzgeber, leads ESA's efforts in SpaceTech startup acceleration, scaling and venture finance. His work at ESA is today at the cutting edge - globally - of public sector space-related technology transfer and commercialization.

Learn more »

Schedule 2016 - Year Eight

Ukraine & Russia - 2015

European Tech Media

Poland & Austria - 2015

UK & Croatia - 2014

Angry Birds & Prezi - 2013

European Market Entry