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There are only a few weeks to go until this year’s Technology Ventures Conference (TVC, http://tvc2011.cutec.org) which will address the importance of the Ideas Economy and its impact on high-tech clusters.
The conference will be held on 9th June 2011 at the Cambridge Union Society and we are delighted to have an impressive range of speakers confirmed, including the CEO of Virgin Galactic (George Whitesides), Global Business Development at P&G (Mike Addison) and the BBC Technology Correspondent (Rory Cellan-Jones). A full line up of speakers is listed below. The TVC has recently been featured in the Business Weekly news. (http://www.businessweekly.co.uk/hi-tech/11717-cambridge-s...)
In addition, there will be a:
• Cambridge Diamond Exhibition - which includes well-established companies such as ARM, MedImmune, Redgate, Plastic Logic
• Technology start-up showcase & competition - an exhibition of technology start-ups, where selected finalists will get the opportunity to pitch to an Investors' Panel.
• Ideas Economy Workshops - Healthcare workshop organised by GSK, Open Innovation by Mozilla and Cleantech by Shell Springboard. (For further details see the article on TVC workshops)
• An interactive smart phone application along with on-line streaming, which will enhance interactions and networking for the pre and post conference.
Registration is now open. Please register at: http://tvc2011.eventbrite.com/
We look forward to seeing you there!
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CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:
George Whitesides (CEO of Virgin Galactic)
Dick Powell (Co-founder of Seymourpowell)
Pamela Hartigan (Director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship in Oxford)
Roland Harwood (Co-Founder and Networks Partner at 100%Open)
Ted Shelton (CEO of Open-First)
Mike Addison (Global Business Development, Procter and Gamble)
Peter Boyd (COO, Carbon War Room)
Walter De Brouwer (CEO, One Laptop Per Child Europe)
Darren Westlake (DIrector, Crowdcube)
Mikkel Vestergaard Frandsen (CEO, Vestergaard Frandsen)
Vinay Gupta and Tom Wright (Founders, Whipcar)
MODERATORS:
David Rowan (Editor, WIRED magazine)
Rory Cellan-Jones (Technology Correspondent, BBC)
WORKSHOPS:
Shell Springboard (Cleantech)
Mozilla (Open Innovation)
Healthcare (GSK)