Programme

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Thursday, 27 September 2012 - Park Plaza Riverbank Hotel, London, UK

08:30 Delegate Registration & Welcome Coffee in Foyer of Ballroom
09:00 Welcome by Heinrich Adami, Pictet Investment Company and Sven Lingjaerde, European Tech Tour Association, Chairman
09:10 State of the Industry - Keynote Speech by Paul Harvey, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Head of Technology Investment Banking Europe who has been involved in over 16 billion dollars of Technology Financing over the years.

Disruptive Technologies Stream - The Next Big Thing

A look at grapheme's role in making devices more efficient, the use of nanotech to control materials, printable electronics, material design and engineering synthetic versions of critical materials, such as rare earth and the convergence of hardware and content.
09:30 Panel Moderated by Jennifer Schenker, Informilo, Editor in Chief.
Confirmed Speakers include:

Tim Harper, Cientifica
Erik Jorgensen, Investment Director, Intel Capital
Alain Tiquet, Group Director, Business Development, NVidia

10:00 4 Company Pitches:
Crocus Technology, Jacques Noels, Co-Founder
Haydale, Ray Gibbs, CTO
Layar, Quintin Schevernels, CEO
Project Origins (EPFL), Pedro Pinto

11:00 Coffee Break in Thames Suite

Finance 2.0 Stream - How Technology is Disrupting Banking & the Future of Money

Data banking: can the financial services industry bringing bank grade identity, privacy and security to the exchange of digital data? How are digital currencies changing the future of money? How can the financial services industry reap big benefits from big data?. How can banks monetize their customers' digital slipstreams? What is new in mobile money?
11:30 Panel Moderated by Jennifer L. Schenker, Informilo, Editor in Chief.
Speakers to include:

Thomas Fakhouri, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Senior Vice President Technology Innovation Portfolio, EMEA
Jurgen Ingels, Co-Founder, Clear2Pay
Tino Kam, The Royal Bank of Scotland
Sean Park, Founder, Anthemis
Kosta Peric, Head of Innovation, SWIFT

12:00 4 Company Pitches:

Funding Options, Conrad Ford, Managing Director
OpenGamma, Kirk Wylie, CEO
SynerScope, Jan-Kees Buenen, CEO
The Currency Cloud, Mike Laven, CEO

13:00 Lunch in Thames Suite
13:50 Handling the Result of Success Speech by Olivier Capt, Pictet

Web & Mobility Stream - The Platforms of the Future

14:10 Panel Moderated by Jennifer Schenker, Informilo, Editor in Chief.
Confirmed Speakers include:

Christian Craggs, European Investment Manager, Telefonica Ventures
Philip von Bieberstein, Senior Manager Business Development, Google
Curt Gunsenheimer, Partner, Iris Capital - a Orange/Publicis Fund
Bindi Karia, VC/Emerging Business Lead, Microsoft UK
Laura Merling, Senior Vice President Application Enablement, Platform & Strategy, Alcatel-Lucent

14:40 4 Company Pitches

Metlwater, Niklas de Besche, Executive Director
MyThings, Shachar Radin Shomrat, VP Marketing
QuBit, Graham Cooke, Founder & Managing Director
Shutl, Tom Allason, CEO

15:40 Coffee Break in Thames Suite

Sustainability/Cleantech Stream - Smart Cities: Solving Environmental, Communication & Efficiency Challenges

What sorts of technologies will be needed to make the cities of the future more efficient and eco-friendly?
16:20 Panel Moderated by Jennifer Schenker, Informilo, Editor in Chief.
Confirmed Speakers include:

Jean-Marc Bally, Managing Partner, Aster Capital
Marie-Anne Brodschii, VP Innovation, Veolia
Benoit Charpentier, Senior VP Investments, Total
Tore Land, Director ecomagination, GE International
Kumar Neeraj, Business Development Manager for CO2, Shell

16:50 4 Company Pitches

Lucibel, Frederic Granotier, CEO
Paradox Engineering, Gianni Minetti, CEO
Whitewater Technologies, Dovev Lewinsohn, CEO

17:35 Presentation of Global BSN, Linus Lundberg
18:00 End of presentations
19:00 Investor AllStars Awards - 10th Annual Gala Dinner organised by GP Bullhound & GrowthBusiness.co.uk (separate registration or package see below link)

Join us for the tenth annual Investor AllStars, Europe's leading investors event. We are bringing together the leading lights of Europe's venture capital and private equity communities, celebrating great investments, lucrative exits, the financing of entrepreneurship and all-round professional excellence. With plenty of new features like live tweets, interactive voting, gaming tournament, more opportunities for networking before and during the event, this is not an event you should miss.

Venue

The Tech Tour Solutions 2012 was held at the:
Park Plaza Riverbank Hotel
18 Albert Embankment
London, SE1 7TJ, UK