Upcoming Events
1 Oct – 3 Oct 2009
West Coast Green
West Coast Green is the largest conference on green innovation for the built environment.
On October 1st-3rd at the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco 14,000 thought leaders and forward thinkers will convene to engage in dynamic, big-picture, systems-thinking to reinvent business, laugh, make connections, affect policy, and create meaningful and lasting positive change.
Speaker: Drew Clark, Director of Strategy, IBM Venture Capital Group
Topic: The Smart Grid meets Smart Building
Location: San Francisco, CA
6 Oct – 9 Oct 2009
RedHerring: ETRE 2009
ETRE 09 provides an invaluable forum for business leaders to discover innovative technologies, secure funding, establish new alliances, solidify existing partnerships and exchange insights. Over 600 leaders from 40 countries are expected at ETRE 09, from October 6-9, in beautiful Paris, France.
Speaker: Deborah Magid, Director of Software Strategy, IBM Venture Capital Group
Topic: Mobile: New Business Models & Placing Bets on Cloud Computing's Evolution
Location: Paris, France
14 Oct 2009
Conquering the Platform Revolution: Harnessing Disruptive Technology & Creating New Markets and Applications
A new tidal wave of emerging technologies is gathering strength and preparing to roll ashore, transforming technology and internet enterprise. Going forward, every business will need to learn how to identify and leverage disruptive technologies and applications to enhance their value proposition and sustain competitive advantage. Since the VC industry has been able to define business models that support advancements in innovation, how will they crack the code of building a revenue business around today's disruptive technologies?
Speaker Name: Matthew Denesuk, Partner, IBM Venture Capital Group
Topic: Silicon Valley speaks on the new web & platform revolution
Location: Menlo Park, CA
28 Oct 2009
Capitalizing on Corporate Venture Capital and Strategic Investors
How can start-ups and venture capital investors that co-invest with strategic investors better manage their relationships with strategic investors and partners? VC Taskforce's Corporate Venture Capital special interest group has formed a panel of some of the leading corporate VCs to address some of these issues and provide some advice to start-up companies and venture capital investors.
Speaker: Claudia Fan Munce,
Location: Palo Alto, CA
Presentations from previous events
23 June 2009
VC Partnering Symposium – London
- IBM Software: Building a Smarter Planet (1.5MB)
Steve Mills, Senior VP & Group Executive, IBM Software
- Solutions for a Smarter Planet (1.4MB)
John Soyring, VP, IBM Solutions & Software
- IBM in the Telecommunications Industry: New Business Models to compete in an interconnected World (3.9MB)
Mario Cavestany, Director of Telecommunications & Media Industries, IBM Southwest Europe