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Upcoming Events

Feb 15 – Feb 16, 2012
Astia CEO Summit

The first annual Astia CEO Summit is an opportunity to have laser-like focus on your success and what it means for you, as a CEO, to lead your company to that success. Discussion will be around global business trends, leadership in high growth businesses, growing a business to exit and creating successes along the way.
Speaker: Claudia Munce, Managing Director, IBM Venture Capital Group and VP of Corporate Strategy
Topic: The corporate view point on venture investing, partnering and merger/acquisition
Location: Kansas City, MO

Feb 25, 2012
USF China Innovation and Sustainability Conference

This China Innovation Conference will seek to explore current developments in innovation policy in China and their application in the field of sustainable development. The aim of the conference is not only to understand developments within China, but to also encourage a mutual learning process for the community at large.
Speaker: Jane Xu, Ph.D., Distinguished Engineer, Member IBM Academy of Technology, IT and Wireless Convergence, IBM Watson Research
Location: University of San Francisoco – San Francisco, CA

May 24, 2012
Sustainable Silicon Valley's annual WEST Summit

Bringing together thought leaders, entrepreneurs and decision makers from business, government, utilities and NGOs to collaborate and inspire action on issues critical to Silicon Valley at the 3rd Annual WEST Summit.
Speaker: Drew Clark, Director of Strategy, IBM Venture Capital Group
Topic: Rapid-fire/ Pecha Kucha Style presentations
Location: Santa Clara, CA

Previous Events

Jan 30 – Feb 2, 2012
IBM SmartCamp Global Finals 2011

SmartCamp is an exclusive global event bringing together entrepreneurs, investors and experienced mentors who want to build a Smarter Planet. The finals brings together the 2011 winners from regional events held around the world, for three days of master classes, mentoring and networking. SmartCamp provides selected startups access to world-class advisors plus a direct route to seed and venture capital.
Location: San Francisco, CA

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