SVOD 2006. Agenda

16 November 2006

 

7:45AM – 8:30AM

Registration & Breakfast

8:30AM – 9:00AM

Opening Ceremony

8:30AM – 6:00PM

Companies’ EXPO

 

Seminars

9:00AM – 10:30AM

Global Trends in Technology Market: the Role of Silicon Valley

Moderator: Leon Shklar, Executive Vice President of Technology, Reuters

  • Information Technologies: What is Hot and What is Not (Ed Kozel, CEO of Skyrider, Inc., Board Member, Yahoo!, Inc., Network Appliances, Reuters)
  • Life Sciences: Risks and Rewards (Beth Seidenberg, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers)
  • Advanced Materials and Clean Technology: Long-term Investment Perspectives (Ira Ehrenpreis, General Partner, Technology Partners)
  • Information Security: The Emerging Paradigms (Hans van Rietschote, Senior Director of the Technology Scouting Group, Symantec Corporation)

10:30AM – 10:45AM

Networking break

10:45AM – 11:30AM

Principles of Entrepreneurial Finance and Start-Up Exit Strategies (Peter Loukianoff, Partner, Alloy Ventures)

11:30AM – 12:15PM

Entering Markets: Developing Value Propositions & Acquiring First Customers

Moderator: Chuck DeVita, Partner, Growth Process Group

  • Allen Blue, Co-Founder and VP Product Strategy, LinkedIn

12:15PM – 2:10PM

Luncheon Panel Discussion: Russia: Opportunities for Venture Capital Discoverers


Moderator: Alexander Galitsky, Venture Partner,Russian Technologies Venture Fund

Panelists:

  • Yuri Ammosov, Senior Policy Officer, Venture Capital Development, Ministry of Economic Development and Trade
  • Oleg Byakhov, Head of Strategy for Building Information Society Department, Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunications
  • Shlomo Caine, Managing Director of Strategic Investments, Intel Capital, Central and Eastern Europe, Russia & Israel

2:10PM – 2:30PM

Success Story: SPIRIT DSP – Andrew Sviridenko, Founder & CEO, Spirit

2:30PM – 6:00PM

Companies’ presentations; Business plan competition

6:00PM – 7:00PM

Cocktail Reception

7:00PM – 10:00PM

Opening Dinner Reception


Keynote Address:
John Morgridge, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Cisco Systems

Introduction: Pitch Johnson, Founding Partner, Asset Management Company

 

Networking

 

17 November 2006

 

8:00AM - 9:00AM

Breakfast

8:30AM – 6:00PM

Companies’ EXPO

 

Seminars

9:00AM – 9:45AM

Entrepreneurship: Building and Funding a Technology Venture

  • Dan Avida, General Partner, Opus Capital; Co-Founder, Former President & CEO, Decru, Inc.
  • Sergey Plotkin, Co-Founder, Decru, Inc.; Venture Partner, Opus Capital; Associate Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University

9:45AM – 10:30AM

Venture Capital Investment Process and Value Added (Pitch Johnson, Founding Partner, Asset Management Company)

10:30AM – 10:45AM

Networking break

10:45 AM – 11:30AM

Acquisition Bound Company (Gene Linetsky, Founder & CEO, CBMS Networks, Inc.)

11:30AM –12:15PM

The Role of a Venture Capitalist: The Entrepreneur’s Perspective (Kirk Dunn, CEO, PowerFile)

12:15PM – 2:00PM

Luncheon Keynote Address: Investing in Russia and Ukraine: Is the Risk Worth It?

Tim Draper, Founder & Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson

Panel Discussion: Ukraine: Opportunities for Venture Capital Discoverers

Moderator: Serhiy Loboyko, Managing Director, TechInvest

Panelists:

  • Lydia Mazzie, Senior Program Manager, International Engineering Operations, Google, Inc.

2:00PM – 6:00PM

Companies’ presentations; Business plan competition

7:00PM – 11:00PM

Closing Dinner Reception:
AmBAR Golden Lock Award Ceremony

Panel Discussion: Venture Capital: Local Business with Global Impact

 

Moderator: Tom Byers, Professor, Faculty Director, Stanford Technology Ventures Program

 

  • Jake Seid, General Partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners
  • Rob Theis, General Partner, Doll Capital Management

     

Networking