ENTREPRENEURS TRACK @WWW2015, May 19 – 20

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Startup companies are playing an amazing role in industry and research. To achieve their disruptive goals, startups leverage research results as well as they inspire new research directions. The Entrepreneurs Track brings together the main actors of the ecosystem that connects researchers, investors, startups, and industries.

On May 19, David Rose (NY Angels) will take us behind the scenes and show us the startup world from the perspective of an active early stage investor. Leading accelerators will present their acceleration programs to launch startups and discuss the evolution of their role in the startup ecosystem. Startups and academic spinoffs will pitch their technologies and their business models. Ronen Feldman (Hebrew University) will present his Big Data Mining journey as researcher and entrepreneur. The ODINE incubator will present their acceleration program, which supports open data startups with €100,000 in equity-free funding.

On May 20, Bill Coughran (Sequoia) will trace emerging directions to innovate the Web. Yossi Matias (Google) will illustrate Google’s experiences to promote and support innovation and entrepreneurship among universities. Uri Levine (founder of Waze) will describe his entrepreneurial journey and will give us keys for successful startup.

HIGHLIGHTS Tuesday, May 19, 9.30-17.30 - PLENARY ROOM 9.45 - 10.30 Keynote speech: Angel Investing: Behind the Scenes

David Rose (NY Angels)

12.00 - 12.30 Invited Talk: Big Data Mining. A 18 years Journey in the Israeli

High-Tech

Ronen Feldman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

14.00 - 15.00 Panel: Accelerators and Incubators

(Techstarts, TerraVentures, Nana Bianca, Digital Magics)

16.45 - 17.30 Invited Talk: Fostering entrepreneurship with open data: the

ODINE incubator

Elena Simperl (University of Southampton)Richard Stirling (Open Data Institute)

Wednesday, May 20, 11.20-16.20 - PLENARY ROOM

Joint WWW/Entrepreneurs Track session (opened to all WWW and ET attendees)

11.20 - 12.10 Keynote speech: A darkening Web?

Bill Coughran (Sequoia, Founder’s Coach and Partner)

12.10 - 13.00 Panel: Angels and VCs

(Sequoia, NY Angels, StageOne Ventures, LVentures)

14.30 - 15.10 Keynote speech: Google launchpad

Yossi Matias (Google Tel-Aviv)

15.25 - 16.10 Keynote speech: Entrepreneurs’ passion and the waze journey

and some keys for successful startup

Uri Levine (Feex)