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Welcome to SVC2C!

This event brings superb, inspiring entrepreneurs and investors to Cambridge, and I know that our students will, in turn, inspire them.

SVC2C celebrates and explores the symbiotic relationship between universities and the private sec-tor – especially the “relationship of ideas” that links academia with the sort of high-tech, knowled-ge-intensive enterprises that form the clusters of companies in Silicon Valley and Cambridge. The 2010 programme has a parallel aim, too: to discuss where the drivers of economic recovery may be found.

These are momentous questions, and particularly so for a university like Cambridge. The University’s mission is to con-tribute to society, and so we do, and brilliantly – but just as universities impact society, so society impacts universities, and we are impelled to respond to the challenges around us. The risk, in my view, of straitened times is too narrow a focus on the purely economic. Creating jobs and prosperity will always be important, but the knowledge industries we are interested in have an opportunity, and I would argue a responsibility, to look beyond that, to consider the effect our activities have on society, local and global. Our shared responsibility is no small one, because the challenges faced by our planet and our citizens are very great indeed.

I am delighted to support the 2010 SVC2C programme, which is properly practical and pragmatic, while at the same time ambitious and inspirational. I hope, and confidently expect, that conversations begun here will change lives.

L K BorysiewiczVice-Chancellor of the

University of Cambridge

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Welcome delegates,

We would like to extend a warm welcome to you. The Silicon Valley comes to Cambridge series of events is intended to inspire students and alumni to consider starting or joining an entrepreneurial business at some point after graduation and to foster relationships between the leading entrepreneu-rs, angels and investors and scientists from both clusters where ideas and businesses are born. Some of you will know that this is the third time the conference has taken place in Cambridge, London and Oxford, the first time this happened was in 2007, which received such rave reviews, we felt we had to offer the programme again and again. You will see from the detailed agenda that the panelists featured are just like all of us – men & women, young & old, inspirational & dogged, methodical & lucky. We hope that attending this programme will offer you insight into the personal and professional aspects of the ‘startup’ journey. We want to help you see how easy it can be to start up or join an entrepreneurial company, and to appreciate how rewarding it can be at a personal and emotional (rather than strictly financial) level. We think you will be struck by two things – firstly, how our Silicon Valley guests have embedded entrepreneurship into their careers in a variety of ways – sometimes as the entrepreneur, sometimes as the acquirer and sometimes as the investor, and secondly, we think you will be struck by the fact that they would all do it again driven by the knowledge that their projects may make our world a better place.

We would like to salute NESTA, BT, Google, Linkedin, Taylor Wessing, Open-First, Growthpoint, DFJ Esprit, Jefferies, Datpresenter and Huddle who have all contributed finances and resources help us bring you these events. We also would like to salute the enormous contribution our partners, CUE, CUTEC, BLN, Cambridge MBA Ventures, CfEL and Cambridge Judge Business School have put huge time and effort into making this happen. I am delighted to say plans and processes are now in place to make this happen every year in the future, as an innovative undertaking by students supported by alumni and the university. We also salute the entrepreneurs (from both sides of the pond) who have contributed to this vision, who share our ambi-tion for change and who appreciate the vital role they can play as alumni to help universities contribute to their ecosystem and thus foster innovation and entrepreneurship.

We hope that our efforts make at least a small contribution to encourage you in some way to make the next step in your career a more entrepreneurial one.

Warm Regards,

Sherry CoutuCo-Chairman

Reid HoffmanCo-Chairman

Welcome from Jonathan Kestenbaum,

We’ve seen an important and welcome shift in recent weeks in the UK government’s approach to economic growth. At its heart is an emerging understanding that what really matters to growth is a small minority of ambitious, entrepreneurial, innovative companies.

NESTA’s research, “The vital 6 percent”, shows that over the past decade, the six per cent of UK bu-sinesses that grew fastest were responsible for 54 per cent of net job creation. What’s more, these businesses are disproportionately likely to be innovative, and across the UK, innovative businesses grew on average at twice the rate of less innovative ones.

The “vital six per cent” includes both small and large businesses, and includes companies from every sector. Coupled with further analysis that the UK can only achieve healthy economic growth and job creation by boosting its high tech capabilities and innovation across the economy, we are glaring at an obvious conclusion: The innovation that many tech companies embody, and the enterprise that is essential to ambitious small businesses will be critical in steering our economy towards sustainable growth.

That’s why we are delighted to once again host Silicon Valley Comes to the UK. The programme doesn’t just create a dialogue between entrepreneurs, investors, academics, students and policymakers – it creates a platform to translate our vision of growth into a reality.

I would like to express our grateful appreciation to the entrepreneurs from the Valley for coming on this programme they are amongst the most important pioneers of today’s disruptive consumer internet and green technologies. In giving us their valuable time they force us to think differently about the challenges ahead. I particularly want to pay tribute to Reid Hoffman the inspiration behind the programme and a great friend of NESTA and the UK. I also want to thank Sherry Coutu, our Trustee who works tirelessly to make this programme possible. Grateful thanks also go to our co-host, the University of Cambridge and our sponsoring partners: Taylor Wessing, Open-First, Growthpoint Technology Partners, Jefferies, DFJ Esprit, British Telecom, Google and Linkedin, datpresenter, huddle, BLN.

Our partners understand better than anyone that now is the time to focus on growth. Working together will ensure that the UK can be the home to a far greater number of innovative, high growth businesses.

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Jonathan KestenbaumChief Executive, NESTA

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Contents

Sponsors

About Us

Programme

Panel: Entrepreneurs, Universities and the Economy

Masterclasses

Surgeries

Keynote Speeches

Company Showcase & CEO Mentoring

SVC2C Company of the year

Speakers

Co-chairs

SVC2C Executive Committee

Supporters / Advisors

Partners

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Silicon Valley comes to Cambridge (SVC2C) is an annual programme hosted at the University of Cambridge which this year welcomes more than 25 pioneers of the most disruptive consumer internet and green technologies.

The entrepreneurs will meet their UK and European counterparts to look at collaborating on business ventures. They will lead classes at the University examining cutting-edge technologies and business models, and they will meet with policymakers to look at how to expand the UK’s innovation capacity.

The SVC2C is supported by a number of businesses and has grown into an eagerly anticipated event, with thousands of students and entrepreneurs benefiting from the collective expertise of the group.

The not for profit programme is organised by the co-Chairs Sherry Coutu (serial entrepreneur and investor), and Reid Hoffman (executive chairman and a co-founder of LinkedIn), and by an Executive Committee of various Cambridge student clubs and other Partnering Organisations.

About Us

Picture by NigelL1 at flickr

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Programme

Thursday, November 18

5:30 - 7:30 pm

Friday, November 19

8:30 - 12:30 pm

1:15 - 4:30 pm

10:10 - 3:45 pm

5:30 - 7:30 pm

Saturday, November 20

10:00 - 12:00 pm

1:00 pm

Babbage Lecture Theatre, Cambridge

Judge Business School, Cambridge

Judge Business School, Cambridge

Judge Business School, Cambridge

Peterhouse, Cambridge

Hauser Forum, Cambridge

Hauser Forum, Cambridge

Panel: Entrepreneurs, Universities and the Economy

Morning Masterclasses

Afternoon Masterclasses

Surgeries

Keynote Speeches

Exhibition of Europe's "hottest" startups and SVC2C competition

Competition awards ceremony

Venues

Babbage Lecture Theatre - University New Museum Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3RSJudge Business School - University of Cambridge, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1AG Peterhouse - Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1RD Hauser Forum Entrepreneurship Centre - 3 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge CB3 0GT

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In his recent “pro-enterprise” speech, David Cameron, Prime Minister, United Kingdom, outlined his vision for turning the years ahead into the most entrepreneurial and dynamic in the history of the UK. His plan to build a new economic dynamism in order to create growth relies heavily on innovation and start ups alongside collaboration between univer-sities and businesses. So, if we are to look to entrepreneurs and universities in order to drive economic growth, where do we start and who leads by example?

In another recent speech, the Vice Chancellor of Cambridge, Sir Leszek Borysiewicz outlined how transformative solu-tions to really difficult problems come from great universities like Cambridge putting, the multidisciplinary brains of the university at the disposal of industry.

With opening remarks being delivered by the Vice Chancellor on the University, we ask our panelists to outline what they believe will best improve the economies we operate in and we ask them to talk about upcoming “disruptive” technologies that will drive our economies. We conclude the evening with the audience voting on what they believe will be the most groundbreaking technologies that will frame our future...

Opening remarks: Leszek Borysiewicz, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge

Panel: Entrepreneurs, Universities and the Economy

Reid Hoffman, Partner, Greylock

Megan Smith, Google and MIT

Hermann Hauser, Amadeus Capital Parners

Nick Beim, Matrix Partners, Endeavor

Michael Liebreich, CEO, Bloomberg New Energy Finance

Rob Wylie, Founding Partner, Wheb Partners

Gavin Patterson, CEO, BT Retail

Joi Ito, CEO, Creative Commons

Thursday, November 18, 5:30 - 7:30

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The intention of the masterclasses is to inspire current students to consider starting or joining an entrepreneurial busi-ness at some point after graduation.

At the 2010 forum, the movers and shakers from Silicon Valley will share their views about the new and innovative business models they see as the most disruptive across the ‘Green’ and the ‘Consumer Internet’ sectors. Attendees are encouraged to actively participate and will depart having thoroughly examined the latest in cutting-edge disruptive business models and renewed networking ties with colleagues who are leading the most disruptive entrepreneurial companies in the world.

Masterclasses

Picture by NigelL1 at flickr

Friday, November 19

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Lecture Theatre 2

Welcome by Sherry Coutu (SVC2C)

Keynote 2, Mike Schroepfer (Facebook)

Keynote 4, Daniel Yates (CEO OPOWER)

Panel 2 - Incubators - Do they work, are they a good thing or a bad thing?

Moderator: Sherry Coutu (SVC2C) * John Lilly (Mozilla) * Mike Schroepfer (Facebook) * Joi Ito (Creative Commons) * Marc Tarpenning (Tesla) * Elizabeth Varley (TechHub) * Julie Hanna (Kiva)

Panel 4 - When is it right to abandon your current Effort? What scorecard should you use and how should you track progress? Monitoring, measuring and monitising...

Moderator: Sherry Coutu (SVC2C) * Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn) * Julie Hanna (Kiva) * Daniel Yates (OPOWER) * Jose Ferreira (Knewton) * Sheila Marcelo (Care.com)

Keynote 6 - Annette Finsterbusch (Applied Ventures)

Lecture Theatre 1

Welcome by Reid Hoffmann (LinkedIn)

Keynote 1, Megan Smith (Google)

Keynote 3, Jose Ferreira, (Knewton)

Panel 1 - The Key things that venture capitals and investors are looking for in a start up today and why?

Moderator: Simon Cook (DFJ Espirit) * Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn) * Nick Beim (Matrix) * David Hornik (August Capital) * Daniel Yates (OPOWER) * Annette Finsterbusch (Applied Ventures)

Panel 3 - How to endure: Startups are not for the weak-hearted... What are the differences between founding a startup and joining a startup? How do you know you are ready for a starup? Hear from people who have done both!

Moderator: David Rowan (Wired) * Adam Nash (LinkedIn) * Mike Schroepfer (Facebook) * David Helliwell (Pulse Energy) * Piraye Yurttas (Celmatix) * Megan Smith (Google) * Hans-Peter Brondmo (Nokia)

Keynote 5 - John Lilly (Mozilla)

Morning Masterclasses

REGISTRATION

LUNCH BREAK

8:30 - 9:00

9:00

9:05 - 9:40

9:40 - 10:00

10:10 - 11:00

11:00 - 12:00

12:10 - 12:30

12:00 - 1:30

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1:15 - 1:30

1:30 - 2:15

2:15 - 2:40

2:45 - 3:45

4:00 - 4:30

4.30 - 5.30

Lecture Theatre 2

Panel 6 - Green Technologies - funding to IPOGreen Innovation and Entrepreneurship. How to commercialise green technologies from funding to market launch to trade-sale / IPO

Moderator: Bruce Huber (Jefferies) * Daniel Yates (OPOWER) * Annette Finsterbusch (Applied Ventures) * David Helliwell (Pulse Energy) * Kerry Haley (Strategic Project Solutions) * Marc Tarpenning (Tesla Motors)

Keynote 2 - Sheila Marcelo (Care.com)

Panel 8 - Ten commandments for entrepre-neurs: its not about you, its about the team... and other nuggets

Moderator: Milo Yiannopoulos (Telegraph) * John Lilly (Mozilla) * Nancy Lublin (Do Something) * Adam Nash (LinkedIn) * Hans-Peter Brondmo (Nokia) * Joi Ito (Creative Commons)

Keynote 10 - David Helliwell (Pulse energy)

Lecture Theatre 1

Panel 5 - Cloud, Saas, Mobile are creating oppo-runtities - where are they?

Moderator: David Rowan (Wired) * Adam Nash (LinkedIn) * Laurie Yoler (GrowthPoint Technology) * Joi Ito (Creative Commons) * Hand-Peter Brondmo (Nokia)

Keynote 7 - Nancy Lublin (Do Something)

Panel 7 - TIWIK: Things I Wish I Knew before I started: Hear from the innovators from Educa-tion, Recruitment, Charity, Search, Healthcare & Power Industries.

Moderator: David Rowan (Wired) * Julia Hanna (Kiva) * Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn) * Megan Smith (Google) * Piraye Yuttas (Celmatix) * Daniel Yates (OPOWER) * Jose Ferreira (Knewton)

Keynote 9 - Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn)

Afternoon Masterclasses

REGISTRATION

NETWORKING

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The Silicon Valley experts will provide mentorship sessions for early stage companies and entrepreneurs. Four ‘surgery’ sessions will run in parallel with the Masterclasses throughout the day, and are open to entrepreneurs who have raised less than GBP 250,000 in capital.

Participants are encouraged to discuss the challenges that face their businesses, raise specific questions and seek gui-dance from the mentors.

Surgeries

Schedule

10:10 - 11am

11:00 - 12am

1:30 - 2:15pm

2:45 - 3:45pm

Patch Work - Optimizing available resources

Neurosurgery - Understanding Financing

Outpatients - Sustaining Business Growth

Emergency Room - Anything goes, it's an emergency.

Friday, November 19

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On Friday evening, three iconic Serial Entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley and three iconic Serial Entrepreneurs from Cambridge hold a series of Keynotes addressing the following question:

“If my company is massively successful, what will the world look like in a few years time?”

These Keynote lectures are for students, alumni and the Cambridge Community. The intention is to hear from leading serial entrepreneurs who have created and funded today’s most groundbreaking “disruptive” technologies. What is around the corner for us?

You may have thought that they would be satisfied with their achievements to date..... but you ain’t seen nothing yet...

Moderator: Sherry Coutu (SVC2C)

The Speakers:

Keynote Speeches

Billy Boyle, Co-founder, Owlstone Inc

Chris Lowe, University of Cambridge

Daniel Yates, CEO and Founder, OPOWER

Megan Smith, Vice President, New Business Development, and General Manager, Google.org

Mike Lynch, Founder and CEO, Autonomy

Reid Hoffman, Executive Chairman and a co-founder, LinkedIn

Friday, November 19, 5:30 - 7:30

Part of what our Silicon Valley guests want to do when they are here is to meet with the most promising companyfounders and entrepreneurs in Europe. So we put together a showcase and mentoring sessions so that they can do that.

Participants are encouraged to discuss the challenges that face their businesses, raise specific questions and seek gui-dance from the Silicon Valley Serial entrepreneurs and investors. It is hoped that all that participate in these sessionswill be more successful than they otherwise would have been and also that they would have made some valuablecontacts. .

SVC2C is running a competition for the CEOs who are attending any of the SVC2UK workshops.

The company with the most compelling business proposition will be voted the “SVC2C Company Of The Year” by our panel of successful Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. Prizes include airfares to Silicon Valley and introductions to local key people, who will help the winner to explore the potential of their business in the US.

The Pitches will be moderated by TechCrunch Mike Butcher, our judges are the following:

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Company Showcase & CEO Mentoring

SVC2C Company of the Year

Reid Hoffman, Partner, Greylock

Hans-Peter Brondmo, Director of Social Experience Group, Nokia

David Hornik, Managing Partner, August Capital

Nick Beim, General Partner, Matrix Partners

Joi Ito, Board of Digital Garage & CEO, Creative Commons

John Lilly, CEO Mozilla, Greylock

Saturday, November 20, 10:00 - 12:00

Saturday, November 20, 1:00 pm

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Speakers

Adam Nash, Vice President, Search, Platform & Mobile Products, LinkedIn

Annette Finsterbusch, Senior Director and Partner, Applied Ventures

Billy Boyle, Co-founder, Owlstone Inc.

Bruce Huber, Managing Director, Jefferies

Chris Lowe, University of Cambridge

Daniel Yates, CEO and Founder, OPOWER

Search & Platform Products at LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional network. Before LinkedIn, he held a variety of strategic and technical ro-les at eBay, Atlas Venture, Preview Systems, and Apple.

Annette Finsterbusch is a senior director for Applied Ventures in the Cor-porate Business Development group of Applied Materials since 2004, responsible for identifying, recommending and managing venture capital investments. She is also a Kauffman Fellow.

Owlstone, a company developing a complete chemical detection system on a chip with the ability to rapidly monitor a broad range of chemicals at very low quantities with high confidence.

Bruce Huber is Head of European Technology Investment Banking for Je-fferies Group and a Managing Director of Jefferies Broadview. Mr. Huber has advised on over 100 M&A and capital markets transactions, and spe-cializes in working with clients in infrastructure technology sectors, in-cluding semiconductor, communication, security, infrastructure software and increasingly in clean technologies.

As an academic-entrepreneur, Chris achieves the perfect balance bet-ween running one of the leading departments at the University of Cam-bridge while spinning out a steady flow of successful biotech companies and delivering pragmatic solutions to the problems facing bioscience companies around the world.

OPOWER, an 85-person Smart Grid and Energy Efficiency software com-pany. As the CEO, Dan is responsible for the vision, strategy, and lea-dership of OPOWER. In 2009, Dan was named a “Tech Titan” by Was-hingtonian magazine and was a finalist for the Ernst and Young 2009 Entrepreneur of the Year award.

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David Helliwell, Co-Founder, Pulse Energy

David Hornik, General Partner, August Capital

David Rowan, Editor, Wired UK

Elizabeth Varley, CEO, techhub.com

Gavin Patterson, Chief executive, BT Retail

Hans Peter Brondmo, Director of Social Experience Group, Nokia

Pulse Energy is led by its co-founder, David Helliwell, whose career has spanned 3 continents and has been focused on the energy sector since 1994.

For more than a decade, David Hornik has worked with technology star-tups throughout the software sector. In 2000, David joined August Capi-tal to invest broadly in information technology companies, with a focus on enterprise application and infrastructure software, as well as consu-mer facing software and services.

David Rowan is editor of Wired UK, which won 2009 Launch of the Year at the British Society of Magazine Editors Awards. He has edited The Guardian’s websites, written tech and trend-watching columns for The Times, made TV films for Channel 4 News, and produced features for The Telegraph Magazine, Sunday Times Magazine, The Observer and el-sewhere

Elizabeth is a communicator and entrepreneur with a background in edi-torial, marketing and events aimed at the technology and new media sector. She is a former head of marketing for small business advice site Smarta.com, and has run communities and events for the tech sector in the UK since 2001.

Gavin joined BT in 2004 as managing director of BT Retail’s consumer division. In this role he has been responsible for all services to BT’s 15 mi-llion residential customers. Under his leadership BT has become the UK’s number one broadband provider with more than 4.7 million customers.

Hans Peter is a successful serial entrepreneur and executive who has spent his career at the intersection of technology innovation and em-powering consumers. He has invented several novel software applica-tions and services and built businesses that help people better commu-nicate and connect.

Speakers

Hermann Hauser, Amadeus Capital Partners

John Lilly, Venture Partner, Greylock Partners

Joi Ito, CEO, Creative Commons LinkedIn

Jose Ferreira,Founder, Knewton in 2008.

Julie Hanna, Farris, Kiva LinkedIn

Kerry Haley, Vice President, Power and Process at Stra-tegic Project Solutions LinkedIn

Laurie Yoler, Managing Director, GrowthPoint Technology Partners

Hermann co-founded Amadeus Capital Partners in 1997.In his long and successful history as an entrepreneur and venture capitalist, he has foun-ded or co-founded companies in a wide range of technology sectors. The-se include Acorn Computers, Active Book Company, Virata, Net Products, NetChannel, and Cambridge Network Limited.

John is a Venture Partner at Greylock Partners, where he invests in early stage technology companies. He is also the chief executive officer of Mo-zilla, where he is responsible for guiding the product and organizational development efforts for the global organization behind the Firefox web browser.

Joichi Ito is the CEO of Creative Commons. He is a co-founder and board member of Digital Garage JSD:4819. Ito was named by BusinessWeek as one of the 25 Most Influential People on the Web in 2008.

Jose Ferreira founded Knewton in 2008. Previously, Jose served as an exe-cutive at Kaplan, where he led a company-wide re-engineering effort ca-lled “Project Footprint” that created the modern Kaplan course.

Julie Hanna is Chair of the Board at Kiva, the world’s first peer-peer mi-cro-lending website, Board Member at Socialtext, a leading Enterprise 2.0 social networking platform, Advisory Board Chair at Actuate Corporation (Nasdaq: ACTU) and former advisor to Web 2.0 start-up Plum

In her role as Vice President, Power and Process at Strategic Project Solu-tions, Ms. Haley is responsible for all strategic relationships and program development in the Power and Process sectors, assisting owners in the effective delivery of complex and critical construction projects.

As Managing Director at GrowthPoint Technology Partners, Ms. Yoler helps entrepreneurs to build strategic alliances, complete M&A transactions and raise capital.

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Marc Tarpenning is currently advising several startup companies and looking at other opportunities in the areas of sustainable transportation, energy storage, alternative power generation and related information systems.

Megan oversees teams that manage early-stage partnerships, explo-rations and technology licensing. She also leads the Google.org team, guiding strategy and developing new partnerships and internal projects with Google’s engineering and product teams.

Bloomberg New Energy Finance, the leading independent provider of information and research to investors in clean energy and the carbon markets. Michael serves as a Member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Alternative Energies, Advisory Board Member for the Energy and Climate Change working group for the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI).

Mike is responsible for harnessing the engineering organization’s culture of speed, creativity and exploration to build products, services and in-frastructure that support the company users, developers and partners around the world.

Milo Yiannopoulos writes for the Telegraph on technology and culture, specialising in privacy, piracy and the UK start-up scene.

Nancy Lublin is the CEO and Chief Old Person of DoSomething.org’s, that supports and awards grant money to young people who want to make a difference.

Nick has invested primarily in Internet and software companies. Nick joi-ned Matrix in 2001 after working in the high tech investment banking group at Goldman Sachs & Co. and the technology and media group at McKinsey & Co.

Marc Tarpenning, Co-founder, Tesla Motors, Inc and NuvoMedia, Inc LinkedIn

Megan Smith, Vice President, New Business Development, and General Manager, Google.org

Michael Liebreich, Chief Executive, Bloomberg New Energy Finance

Mike Schroepfer, Vice President, Engineering at Facebook

Milo Yiannopoulos, Writer, Telegraph

Nancy Lublin, CEO & Chief Old Person, DoSomething.org

Nick Beim, Partner, Matrix

Speakers

Dr. Piraye Yurttas is the Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Celmatix, Inc., an early stage biotechnology company based in New York City and backed by Angel funding from Silicon Valley. Celmatix is developing the world’s first non-invasive, genetics-based diagnostic for assessing female egg quality and female infertility.

Reid Hoffman is Executive Chairman and a co-founder of LinkedIn. Prior to LinkedIn, Reid was Executive Vice President of PayPal. In addition to LinkedIn, Reid serves on the Board of Directors for SixApart, Kiva.org, and Mozilla Corporation.

Rob Wylie has focused on the clean technology investment area for over 20 years and is a Founder Partner of WHEB Ventures, the UK’s first clean-tech VC fund. He has been an active participant on numerous Industry, UK Government and University cleantech advisory boards.

CEO of Care.com, a leading expert on providing families with care planning advice. Sheila has served as an executive at several successful internet companies including: Upromise.com, an online service helping families save money for college; and TheLadders.com, an online service helping people find jobs.

Sherry Coutu is a former CEO and angel investor who now serves on the boards of companies, charities and universities. She has angel inves-tments in more than 35 companies and holds investments in 2 venture capital firms.

Simon has been involved with the UK venture capital industry since 1995. Previously Simon was a partner with Elderstreet Investments and a Direc-tor at 3i in Cambridge.

Ted Shelton, CEO, Open-First. Open-First is a consulting firm based in Palo Alto and London working with clients ranging such as Alcatel-Lucent, Ge-neral Motors, and ThomsonReuters on innovation and market ecosystem projects.

Piraye Yurttas, Co-founder and CSO, Celmatix, Inc.

Reid Hoffman,Executive Chairman and a co-founder, LinkedIn

Rob Wylie,Founder Partner, WHEB Ventures

Sheila Marcelo,CEO, Care.com

Sherry Coutu, Nesta & Cambridge University

Simon Cook,CEO, DFJ Esprit

Ted Shelton, CEO, Open-First LinkedIn

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Sherry Coutu, Nesta & Cambridge University

Reid Hoffman, Executive Chairman and Co-founder of LinkedIn

Co-Chairs

Sherry Coutu is a former CEO and angel investor who now serves on the boards of companies, charities and universities. She loves working with great entrepreneurs to solve problems that matter and specialises in consumer in-ternet, information services and clean energy. She has angel investments in more than 35 companies and holds investments in 2 venture capital firms. She serves on the Advisory Boards of Linkedin.com and Zoopla.com. Addi-tionally, she helped found the Prince’s Trust Business Technology Leadership Group, is a member of the venture board of Cancer Research UK, a Trustee of NESTA, a member of the University of Cambridge Finance Committee and of the Syndicates of Cambridge Assessment and Cambridge University Press, and a member of the Harvard Business School European Advisory Council. As an entrepreneur, Sherry was founder of two businesses in the financial ser-vices industry. Sherry has an MBA from Harvard, an MSc (with distinction) from the London School of Economics, and a BA (Hons with distinction) from the University of British Columbia, Canada

Reid Hoffman is Executive Chairman and a co-founder of LinkedIn. Prior to LinkedIn, Reid was Executive Vice President of PayPal where he was in charge of all business relationships: business development, corporate development, international, government relations, and banking/payments infrastructure.

During his tenure at PayPal, Reid was instrumental to the acquisition by eBay and was responsible for partnerships with Intuit, Visa, MasterCard and Wells Fargo. Reid also has held management roles in significant technology compa-nies, including Fujitsu Software Corporation and Apple. In addition to Linke-dIn, Reid serves on the Board of Directors for SixApart, Kiva.org, and Mozilla Corporation. Reid graduated with distinction from Stanford University with a BS in Symbolic Systems and from Oxford University with a Master’s degree in philosophy and a Marshall scholarship.

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PhD in the Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy. Chairman of Cambridge University Technology & Enterprise Club (CUTEC).

Head of Product Development in TriStart and co-founder of Meta Al-ternative. PhD at Judge Business School, Cambridge.

Vice-President of Cambridge University Entrepreneurs (CUE), PhD Computer Science at the University of Cambridge.

Personal Assistant to Dr Shai Vyakarnam at the Centre for Entrepre-neurial Learning, Cambridge Judge Business School.

Project Manager for the Silicon Valley Comes To Cambridgeconference 2010. Graduate of the Cambridge MBA at the Judge Busi-ness School, Founder of manybeans.com and carbonmissions.com

Graduate of the Cambridge MBA at Judge Business School and former project manager for the Silicon Valley comes to Cambridge conference in 2009.

Graduate at the Computer Lab, University of Cambridge. Alumni of Cambridge University Technology and Enterprise Club (CUTEC).

Director of Development for the Cambridge University Technology and Enterprise Club (CUTEC) and member of the i-Teams Steering Committee.

President of Cambridge University Entrepreneurs (CUE), PhD Pharma-cology at the University of Cambridge.

President of Cambridge University Technology & EnterpriseClub (CUTEC). PhD student in Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

Andrew Marin

Lyudmila Lugovskaya

Matko Botincan

Nicky Reynolds

Nils Frers

Priscilla Li

Robert Hoff

Sebastian Schoefer

Shen Wei

Vivian Chan

SVC2C Executive Committee

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Alan Barrell,Entrepreneur in Residence, Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning

David Cleevely,Founding Director at Centre for Science and Policy, University of Cambridge.

Neil Davidson,Chairman at the Cambridge Network and joint CEO, Red Gate Software Ltd.

Sandra Dawson,Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.

Hermann Hauser,Director at Amadeus Capital Partners.

Spencer Hyman,Experienced Entrepeneur and Director, former COO of Lastfm.

Jonathan Kestenbaum,Chief Executive of the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts.

Jack Lang,Serial entrepreneur and business angel.

Simon Levene,Board member at Knewton, Partner at Accel Partners .

Priscilla Li,Chair of Cambridge MBA Ventures.

Ann Mather,Director on the Board of the Central European Media Enterprises group at Google.

Martin Rees,President of the Royal Society and also Master of Trinity College, and Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge.

Alex van Someren,Serial IT entrepreneur, Mentor & Investor.

Shai Vyakarnam,Director at the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning, University of Cambridge.

Teri Willey, Chief Executive at Cambridge Enterprise.

Laurie Yoler,Investment Banker, Investor and Independent Director of information technology and energy technology com-panies. Managing Director at GrowthPoint Technology Partners

Supporters / Advisors

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Partners

CUTEC - The Cambridge University Technology and Enterprise Club`s mission is to enhance the entrepreneurial spirit amongst academics and students. We facilita-te interaction between industry experts and students, thereby providing students with exposure to the wider business and fundraising communities. Investors and the industries that support them in turn gain access to the vibrant research and entrepreneurial communities at the University of Cambridge.

Cambridge MBA Ventures - Is guided under the principle that people are the most essential element for success. Their mission is to create and nurture a robust net-work where Cambridge affiliates with a passion for Entrepreneurship can share the experience of their own ventures.

Cambridge University Entrepreneurs - CU Entrepreneurs are a key part of the University’s ecosystem for supporting and accelerating entrepreneurship and in-novation. Since 1999 we have awarded over £500k in prize money to more than 40 start-ups and have seen many of them develop into successful companies. These companies have contributed greatly to the local region and beyond, producing over 110 full time jobs. Collectively, CUE alumni companies have gone on to secure over £33 million pounds of investment.

The Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (CfEL)- Is part of Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge. The Centre collaborates with over 300 experienced entrepreneurs, innovators and other practitioners to provide relevant, credible and practical training. Around 40 courses, events and programmes in entrepre-neurship are run each year and attended by 2000 + students and delegates. These include the flagship programmes Enterprise Tuesday, Ignite, Enterprisers and the Advanced Diploma in Entrepreneurship.

Following are the partnering organisations that have contributed resources and volunteers to help bring this event together.

NESTA is the UK’s foremost independent expert on how innovation can solve some of the country’s major economic and social challenges. Its work is enabled by anendowment, funded by the National Lottery, and it operates at no cost to the government or taxpayer. NESTA is a world leader in its field and carries out its work through a blend of experimental programmes, analytical research and in-vestment in early-stage companies.

Springboard is a 13 week seed accelerator programme based in Cambridge aimedat early stage digital businesses. The bootcamp approach will combine investment capital with intensive mentoring and coaching from experienced entrepreneurs. At the end of the programme, teams will present their proposition to Venture Capitalists and Angel Investors at an Investor Day. Springboard is heavily mode-lled on the US programmes - Y Combinator and TechStars. Springboard has been formed by a diverse group of Angel Investors and will operate in association with Cambridge Angels. The programme is based at ideaSpace in Cambridge University and is open to anyone.

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