Start Up!

The European Entrepreneurship Summit 21 FEBRUARY 2012

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WELCOME

Entrepreneurship is vital to Europe’s future. In years past, Europe led the world in this field - with such names as Siemens, Michelin, Olivetti, Nobel and Wellcome opening a door to new industries, technologies and wealth. Today, Europe continues to have a large and lively population of innovative entrepreneurs - but they need better financing, broader markets, and greater recognition. To help them, two awards programmes for start-up innovators are coming together in Brussels: The first start-up awards offered by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), and the fourth annual Academic Enterprise Awards (ACES) offered by the Science|Business Innovation Board. Together, the two programmes bring together 21 young entrepreneurs from across Europe, to compete for seven awards. Today’s Start-Up! The European Entrepreneurship Summit – jointly organised by the EIT and the Science|Business Innovation Board - will celebrate a new crop of innovators and focus on how to unlock Europe’s innovation potential and address the challenges faced by European entrepreneurs.

Alexander von Gabain

Richard L. Hudson

Chairman of the Governing Board European Institute of Innovation and Technology

President Science|Business Innovation Board AISBL

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AGENDA

9:00

Royal Academy of Sciences, 1 Rue Ducale – 1000 Brussels

Opening and Panel Discussion: Venturing in a storm: Can entrepreneurship and innovation kick-start the European economy? ■■ ■■ ■■ ■■

Alexander von Gabain, Chairman, EIT Governing Board Alfons Sauquet, Dean, ESADE Business School Maria da Graça Carvalho, Member of the European Parliament Anne Glover, Chief Scientific Adviser to President Barroso, European Commission

Moderator: Richard L. Hudson, CEO & Editor, Science|Business

10:00 Meet the ACES Finalists (ACES finalists’ elevator pitches) Alan Begg, Senior VP Technology and Development, SKF, and John Wood, Secretary General, Association of Commonwealth Universities, co-chair this session. Duane Schulthess, Commercial Director, Science|Business, has a gong.

11:00 Coffee Break

11:30 Think Biz – The EIT’s contribution to a more entrepreneurial Europe ■■ Alexander von Gabain, Chairman, EIT Governing Board ■■ José Manuel Leceta, Director, EIT

12:00 Meet the EIT Finalists (EIT finalists’ elevator pitches) Chaired by Daria Golebiowska -Tataj, Member, EIT Governing Board and Executive Committee Challenger: Kristo Ovaska, Founder, Startup Sauna

13:00 Lunch / Jury meeting (closed session)

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AGENDA

14:15 Breakout Sessions Room Albert II - Successful Entrepreneurs - Seemingly effortless? Tips for the would-be venturer ■■ ■■ ■■ ■■

Kristo Ovaska, Founder, Startup Sauna Ruud de Jonge, Director Technical Audience Evangelism & Startups, Microsoft Europe Diego Pavia, CEO, KIC InnoEnergy Wim Vanhaverbeke, Visiting professor “Open innovation”, ESADE and Vlerick Leuven Gent School of Mangement

Chaired by Duane Schulthess, Commercial Director, Science|Business

Room Roi Baudouin - It’s a small world: Making EU initiatives SME-friendly ■■ ■■ ■■ ■■

Willem Jonker, CEO, EIT ICT Labs Jacques Darcy, Head of Division, EIB/European Investment Fund Rouget F. Henschel, Partner, Foley & Lardner LLP George Lemonidis, Deputy Head of Unit of Financing Innovation and SMEs, DG ENTR, European Commission

Chaired by Richard Bergström, Director General, EFPIA

Room Albert I - Spinning out - Tech Transfer strategies ■■ ■■ ■■ ■■

Karen Maex, Vice-Rector Science, Engineering and Technology, KU Leuven Mary Ritter, CEO, Climate-KIC Gandert Van Raemdonck, Chief Technical Officer, Ephicas Marco Waas, Knowledge Valorisation Portfolio Holder,TU Delft

Chaired by Vasco de Oliveira Janeiro, Acting Head of KIC Operations, EIT

15:15 Coffee Break

15:45 Financing entrepreneurship It’s tough to finance innovation in Europe. Can we fix that? Featuring a study of how VCs and Corporate VCs in Europe work by Imperial College London, on behalf of the Science|Business Innovation Board ■■ ■■ ■■ ■■

Bill Magill, Associate Director of Science Entpreneurship, INSEAD Johan Bruneel, Assistant Professor, Imperial College Business School Ioannis A. Tsoukalas, Member of the European Parliament Axel Polack, General Partner, TVM Capital

Chaired by Edward Astle, Pro Rector Enterprise, Imperial College London

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AGENDA

16:30 The to-do list: How to encourage more innovation and entrepreneurship in Europe? ■■ Ludo Lauwers, SVP Research, Janssen Pharmaceutica ■■ Xavier Prats Monné, Deputy Director General, DG EAC, European Commission ■■ Robert Sorrell, VP Public Partnerships, BP Chaired by Anders Flodström, Vice Chairman, EIT Governing Board

17:15 Reception

18:00 ACES and EIT Awards Ceremony Androulla Vassiliou, European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth Master of Ceremonies: Pat Cox, President, European Movement ACES Ceremony Award Presenters: ■■ The Microsoft Award: John Vassallo, Vice President - EU Affairs, Microsoft Europe ■■ The Life Sciences Award: Ludo Lauwers, SVP Research, Janssen Pharmaceutica ■■ The Materials/Engineering Award: Alan Begg, Senior VP Technology and Development, SKF ■■ The Young Entrepreneur Award: Robert Sorrell, VP Public Partnerships, BP EIT Ceremony Awards Presenter: ■■ Androulla Vassiliou, European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth

19:00 Conference close

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GALA DINNER

19:00

(By Invitation of the Science|Business Innovation Board Only) Palais d’Egmont, 8 Place du Petit Sablon – 1000 Brussels

Reception

20:00 Gala Dinner Welcome by Benoît Cerexhe, Minister of Economy, Employment, Scientific Research and Foreign Trade, Brussels-Capital Region

22:00 Close

On 10 June 2008, meeting at INSEAD, the Science|Business Innovation Board agreed to launch the first panEuropean awards for academic enterprise – researchers who see starting companies and working with industry as an important part of their scientific or engineering careers. The purpose: to encourage enterprise in European academia. Now in its fourth year, the ACES awards programme has recognised the achievement of 54 outstanding individuals or start-up teams across Europe and countries affiliated with the European Commission’s Framework 7 research programme. Organisations representing 27 European universities and research institutes nominate entrepreneurs and assist in the selection process, and the Science|Business news service gathers open nominations from them and others, online. ACES GOLD SPONSOR

The ACES finalists join us in Brussels today. Like the EIT Awards finalists they join, the ACES receive some communications training, and make short elevator pitches to the Brussels audience. After the jury’s decision in its private meeting, 21 February, the winners will be announced at a ceremony and awards dinner that evening. The Science|Business Innovation Board AISBL is a not-for-profit scientific association created to improve the climate for innovation in Europe. The Board commissions original policy research, organises events, presents the ACES awards, and contributes in many other ways to the innovation agenda. Its members include the Science|Business media network, ESADE Business School, INSEAD, Imperial College London, Microsoft, BP and SKF.

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CONFERENCE SPEAKERS

Edward Astle

Alan Begg

Pro-Rector (Enterprise), Imperial College London

Senior Vice President, Group Technology Development & Quality, SKF

Edward Astle is currently Pro-Rector (Enterprise) at Imperial College London where he leads major international business development and project opportunities in the UK and internationally for the University. Edward was Executive Director of National Grid plc from 2001 to 2008, a Managing Director at the BICC group from 1997 to 1999 and an Executive and Regional Director at Cable & Wireless plc from 1989 to 1997. Previously he held senior business strategy positions in the UK and France.

Dr. Begg is Senior Vice President, SKF, Göteborg. He joined SKF in 2007 to lead Group Technology Development. He is responsible for the central technical facilities and laboratories around the world. He worked for BP for 12 years before he left in 1993 to be the Managing Director of T&N Technology, the central laboratories for the T&N Group (a £2Bn supplier to the automotive industry). In his 5 years with T&N Technology, he grew their sales revenue by 75%. In 1998, T&N were purchased by their US rival Federal- Mogul. Dr. Begg moved to Federal-Mogul headquarters, just north of Detroit in the USA as Vice President of Technology for the combined companies.

Richard Bergström

Johan Bruneel

Director General, European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA)

Assistant Professor in Entrepreneurship, Imperial College Business School

Richard Bergström has been the Director General of the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA) since April 2011. Previously he served for nine years as the Director-General of LIF, the Swedish Association of the Pharmaceutical Industry, following positions in Switzerland in regulatory affairs at the pharmaceutical companies Roche and Novartis. Mr Bergström has also been appointed by the Swedish Government to the Board of the Karolinska Institute. He is a pharmacist by training, receiving his MScPharm degree from the University of Uppsala, Sweden in 1988.

Johan is Assistant Professor in Entrepreneurship at Imperial College Business School and teaches on the Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Design programme. In his dissertation, he analysed the internationalisation of young, technology-based firms and the performance implications of going international. His research interests are focused on the value creation process of young, technologybased firms, studying how this translates into different types of growth paths. In particular, he is interested in how high-tech start-ups adjust their application/market combination to changing environments. His research has been published in journals such as Research Policy and Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, among others.

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CONFERENCE SPEAKERS

Maria da Graça Carvalho

Pat Cox

Member of the European Parliament

President, European Movement International

Maria da Graça Carvalho is a Member of the European Parliament in the PPE group since 2009 (member of the ITRE-Industry, Research and Energy Committee, substitute member of the Budgets Committee and member of the ACP-UE Joint Parliamentary Assembly). She was elected co- President of the Economic Development, Finance and Trade Committee of ACP-UE Joint Parliamentary Assembly. She has been Principal Adviser of President Barroso in the areas of Science, Higher Education, Innovation, Research Policy, Energy, Environment and Climate Change from 2006 to 2009. She is a Full Professor at Technical University of Lisbon and she has a 30 years research experience in the areas of energy, environment and climate change.

Pat Cox is President of the European Movement International, and Managing Partner of European Integration Solutions, a Washington DC - Brussels based transatlantic consulting firm. He served as President of the European Parliament from January 2002 until July 2004. During his Presidency he campaigned ceaselessly throughout Europe to promote the enlargement of the European Union. Pat Cox has received many awards and distinctions for his European leadership, including the Freedom of the city of Limerick, Honorary Doctorates from the National University of Ireland, Trinity College Dublin, the American College Dublin and the University of Limerick. Pat Cox is a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Crisis Group and of Friends of Europe and a Board member of the Smurfit Graduate Business School at University College Dublin and of the Foundation Board of University College Cork.

Jacques Darcy

Ruud de Jonge

Head of Division, EIB/ European Investment Fund

Director Technical Audience Evangelism & Startups – Western Europe, Microsoft

Jacques Darcy is Head of Division at the EIB/European Investment Fund, where he has spearheaded Venture Capital and Technology Transfer investments throughout Europe. Previously he was with Lazard (M&A). Sciences Po Paris (diplôme), M.A. McGill, MBA INSEAD.

Ruud started his career in IT in 1986 and worked in different Technical roles for Compaq and Symantec. Ruud joined Microsoft in 1992 as IT director and has moved across the Microsoft organization through different Technical, Sales and Marketing roles. Since 2005, Ruud is involved with Evangelism to Technical Audiences and since 2010 Ruud is responsible for Evangelism in Western Europe. In 2011 Ruud added the responsibility for Startups in Western Europe. Ruud is married, has 2 daughters and is a gadget-lover.

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CONFERENCE SPEAKERS

Vasco De Oliveira Janeiro

Anders Flodström

Head of Unit KIC Operations (Acting), EIT

Vice-Chairman, EIT Governing Board

Vasco joined the EIT in May 2010 as Senior KICs Project Officer and since September 2011 he’s Acting Head of KIC Operations. Prior to joining the EIT, he worked for nearly three years at the European Commission’s Agency for Competitiveness and Innovation and the Research Executive Agency as Project Manager. Before joining the EU institutions, Vasco worked for ten years in the energy field at technical, managerial and political levels, in particular for Eurelectric. Vasco managed a portfolio of projects of over EUR 200 Million. He has a MSc in Engineering and Industrial Management from the Technical University of Lisbon and an MA in International Politics from the Free University of Brussels. Vasco has been trained at the MIT, World Bank Institute and various European Universities.

Anders Flodström started his career in Palo Alto, USA, as a member of the research staff in Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. Since 1985, he is a professor in physics at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Sweden. Prof. Flodström has been the Secretary General of the Swedish Research Council for Engineering Sciences and President at Linköping University (LiU) and of the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm. He was appointed University Chancellor for Swedish universities in 2007. He is member of the Swedish Academy for the Engineering Sciences (IVA). He is a member of the advisory board of Karlsruhe Technical Institute (KIT) and a former Chairman of CLUSTER and Baltech a network of technical universities around the Baltic Sea.

Anne Glover

Rouget F. (Ric) Henschel

Chief Scientific Adviser to President Barroso, European Commission

Partner, Foley & Lardner LLP

Professor Anne Glover was Chief Scientific Adviser for Scotland from 2006-11 and from January 2012, Anne joined the European Commission as Chief Scientific Adviser to the President. Anne holds a Personal Chair of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland and her current research focuses on the development and application of whole cell biosensors for environmental monitoring and investigating how organisms respond to stress at a cellular level. She is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Society of Biology, Royal Society of Arts and the American Academy of Microbiology. Anne was recognised in March 2008 as a Woman of Outstanding Achievement in the UK and was awarded a CBE for services to Environmental Science in the Queen’s New Years Honours list 2009.

Dr. Rouget F. (Ric) Henschel is a partner with Foley & Lardner LLP. He is co-chair of Foley’s Life Sciences Industry Team and is also a member of Foley’s Chemical, Biotechnology & Pharmaceutical and IP Litigation practices. Dr. Henschel’s practice focuses on counseling clients in patent matters, representing clients before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), litigation, and licensing. Specifically, his practice includes validity and freedom-to-operate opinions, due diligence investigations, negotiating and interpreting patent licenses, procuring domestic and foreign patents, litigation in federal and state trial courts, and appeals before the USPTO Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Dr. Henschel served as law clerk to Judge R. Rader of the Federal Circuit.

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CONFERENCE SPEAKERS

Richard L. Hudson

Willem Jonker

CEO & Editor, Science|Business

CEO, EIT ICT Labs

Richard co-founded Science|Business in 2005 with Peter Wrobel and Malcolm Laws. He has been a leading science and technology journalist in Europe for more than 30 years. As managing editor of The Wall Street Journal Europe from 1997 to 2003, he helped lead a redesign of the title in 2000. He is a graduate of Harvard, and a former Knight Fellow at MIT. In 2004 he co-authored a book with Yale/ IBM “fractal” mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot: The (mis)Behavior of Markets: A fractal view of risk, ruin & reward. Basic Books 2004.

Prof. Dr. Willem Jonker, CEO of EIT ICT Labs since September 2010, is located in Eindhoven, Netherlands. He studied mathematics and computer science at Groningen University, worked at Delft University of Technology, received his PhD from the University of Utrecht, and is a part-time full professor in computer science at Twente University. Willem Jonker’s industrial experience covers telecommunications (KPN), IT (European Computer industry Research Centre, Munich) and consumer electronics (Philips). He held several positions as researcher, international project leader, department head, sector head, and account manager. In 2006 he was appointed Vice President Philips Research. Prof. Dr. Jonker has served European ICT research in various ways amongst others as project leader, reviewer, and advisor.

Ludo Lauwers

José Manuel Leceta

Senior Vice President, Beerse Site Management, Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceuticals

Director, EIT

Ludo Lauwers, M.D. is Senior Vice President, Beerse Site Management at Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceuticals and chairs the Beerse R&D Senior Leadership Team. He is Vice-Chairman of the Management Board of Janssen Pharmaceutica NV and Chairman of the Board of Janssen-Cilag International NV. Dr. Lauwers leads the Janssen Campus Office for Strategy and Growth focusing on establishing innovation networks, precompetitive collaborations and open innovation. Ludo was appointed Beerse Site Manager for J&J Pharmaceutical R&D in July 2000 and later in October 2001 Vice President, Global Head, Postmarketing Medical Evaluation. In 2004 he became Global Head of the drug safety and pharmacovigilance organization for J&J, Benefit Risk Management (BRM) and chair of the Safety Council.

José Manuel Leceta started his professional career working in the space industry in Finland in 1987, France, Spain and Japan, prior to joining the Spanish Innovation Agency (CDTI) in 1992 as part of the Spanish Delegation to the European Space Agency (ESA). In 1996, he became the Head of Department for Technologies and Space Programmes at CDTI and was nominated Chairman of ESA´s Ariane Launchers Programmes Board and Vice-Chairman of ESA´s Telecommunication Programme Board from 2000 to 2002. In 2004, he became CDTI Director and was responsible for the promotion and management of the Spanish participation in the EU R&D Framework Programmes and other international close-tomarket technology cooperation initiatives in Europe and beyond. José Manuel Leceta joined the EIT as its Director in July 2011.

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CONFERENCE SPEAKERS

Georgios Lemonidis

Karen Maex

Deputy Head of the Unit Financing Innovation and SMEs, DG Enterprise and Industry, European Commission

Vice Rector of Science, Engineering and Technology, KU Leuven

Georgios Lemonidis is an economist and since July 2011, Deputy Head of the Unit responsible for Financing Innovation and SMEs in DirectorateGeneral Enterprise and Industry, European Commission. In the Commission since 1981, he has previously worked in the areas of Common Agriculture Policy, Audiovisual Policy, External relations and Trade. In DG Enterprise and Industry since 1999, he has worked on economic analysis and competitiveness benchmarking in the context of the Lisbon and Europe 2020 strategies.

Karen Maex is Vice Rector of Science, Engineering and Technology at the KU Leuven and has responsibility for education in the Faculties of Science, Engineering Science, Bioscience Engineering and Engineering Technology, and for research of 14 research departments. She is a full professor at KU Leuven since 2003. From 1982 to 2005 she conducted research at IMEC. IMEC is a research centre for microelectronics and nano-electronics that collaborates worldwide with the major companies in this sector. She was a Fellow at IMEC from 2001 until 2006 and is currently a member of the IMEC Board of Directors. She has authored and co-authored more than 200 publications and numerous proceedings and holds several patents.In July 2008 she was appointed member of the Governing Board of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT).

Bill Magill

Kristo Ovaska

Associate Director of Science Entrepreneurship, INSEAD

Founder, Startup Sauna

Bill is the Associate Director of Science Entrepreneurship at INSEAD, where he also teaches courses in technology commercialization, fundraising, and private equity. As a partner in the Silicon Valley venture fund TeleSoft Partners, Bill has invested in photonics-enabled companies in the US, Europe and Israel. He has also been a senior equities analyst with Banc of America Securities and market analyst at RHK. Bill started his career building laser systems at TRW and later Livermore National Labs. He runs VentureScout, an advisory firm for crossAtlantic venture investing. Bill received an M.B.A. from San Francisco State University and a B.A. in economics from the University of California, Davis. He also has a degree as an associate of applied science in lasers and electro-optics from Texas State Technical Institute. Bill is a citizen of both the US and France.

In 2008 Ovaska co-founded the Aalto Entrepreneurship Society (Aaltoes), the largest, most active community for young entrepreneurs in the whole of Europe. His many initiatives have created a dynamic entrepreneurial hub on campus, connected the university to the international community of serial entrepreneurs, business angels and venture investors and provoked a rethinking of policies to support entrepreneurship in Finland. In 2010 he founded Startup Sauna, a non-profit seed accelerator that is designed to kick start the region by coaching the selected start-ups from Northern Europe and Russia. The aim is to increase the quality and volume of deal flow to attract investors and talent into the region. Kristo is now making sense of metrics and analytics at Metrify.

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CONFERENCE SPEAKERS

Diego Pavía

Axel Polack

CEO, KIC InnoEnergy

General Partner, TVM Capital GmH

Diego Pavía, born 1963, graduated as electrical engineer, with specialization in electronics and automation at the Polytechnic University of Madrid. Diego can look back on a long career at private companies. For example, between 1998 and 2002 Diego headed the Energy and Utilities Global Business Unit for SchlumbergerSema, with worldwide span and more than 600M$ of turnover. Between 2002 and 2010 Diego was CEO of Atos Origin, a leading international IT service provider, where he was responsible for Spain and South America, about 9000 employees, and an annual turnover of EUR 450 million. From 2006 to 2010, Diego also chaired the Spanish Consultancy Association (AEC), in which all leading IT enterprises in Spain are represented. In September 2010 Diego joined KIC InnoEnergy as CEO, a ppp with an industrial plan of 700M€ for the period 2011-2014.

Dr. Axel Polack joined TVM Capital in 2000, and is a General Partner for life sciences at TVM Capital GmbH, Munich. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Noxxon Pharma, Invendo Medical, Bluebird Bio and Probiodrug AG. His main scientific fields of expertise are molecular and viral oncology, oncogene activation, gene regulation and molecular immunology. He works intensively on the assessment of new investment opportunities in those areas, while also providing support to existing portfolio companies. Before joining TVM Capital, he was General Manager of Innovative Technologies Neuherberg GmbH (ITN – now known as Ascenion). Ascenion acts as a marketing partner to research institutions of the Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft, for example, GSF – National Research Center for Environment and Health GmbH, which licenses patents and fosters start-up companies.

Xavier Prats Monné

Mary A. Ritter

Deputy Director-General, DG Education and Culture, European Commission

CEO, Climate-KIC

Xavier Prats Monné is Deputy Director-General for education at the European Commission. He is responsible for the education aspects of the Europe 2020 strategy as well as for the Commission’s eduction programmes, and is the Commission observer at the European Institute for Innovation and Technology (EIT). From 2007 to 2010 he was Director for employment policy, and founding member of the Commission’s Impact Assessment Board. He previously served as Director of the European Social Fund, and in the Cabinets of the EC Vice-President for external relations and Commissioner for Regional policy.

Mary was appointed Pro-Rector for Postgraduate Affairs at Imperial College London in October 2004, and added the International portfolio in October 2005. She has been Pro Rector for International Affairs since 2007. She was Head of the Department of Immunology from 2004-2006, and from 1999 to February 2006 was Director of the Graduate School of Life Sciences and Medicine (GSLSM) at Imperial. In December 2010 she was asked to act as Interim CEO of ClimateKIC, and in April 2011 she accepted the invitation to take on the full substantive CEO role.

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CONFERENCE SPEAKERS

Alfons Sauquet

Duane Schulthess

Dean, ESADE Business School

Commercial Director

Alfons Sauquet Rovira has served as Dean of ESADE Business School since 2008. He is a Professor of Learning and Management at ESADE, Universitat Ramon Llull. He holds a Doctorate and a Master in Organizational Psychology from Columbia University, a Master in Business Administration (MBA) from ESADE and a Master in Social Psychology from Universitat de Barcelona. He is a founding member of the Institute of Innovation and Knowledge and has researched and published extensively on Learning and Innovation. He currently serves as Vice-Chair of the European Academy of Business in Society (EABIS) Board and serves on the Board of Directors of the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC). He has recently been elected a Member of the Governing Board of the EIT and serves on the Board of Creapolis, Creativity Park.

Duane is the Commercial Director of Science|Business. Previously he was head of corporate development for The Wall Street Journal, for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, where he developed a series of successful digital products. For 11 years, he was the Executive Director of the Minneapolis based not-for-profit ICE that combined ground-breaking technologies with music and performance. Duane was a fellowship student at the Royal Academy of Music in London, has a BA Magna Cum Laude from the University of the Pacific, and an MBA with Distinction from The Vlerick School of Management at KU Leuven where he has been a contributing member of the international steering committee.

Robert Sorrell

Daria Golebiowska-Tataj

Vice President Public Partnerships, BP

Member, EIT Governing Board and Executive Committee

Robert Sorrell is BP’s Vice President for Public Partnerships. He is responsible for managing BP’s European interests in public private technology partnerships as well as acting as BP’s technology policy advisor. Prior to this, in 2006 Robert was appointed as BP’s Vice President for Refining & Marketing Technology Strategy. In this role Robert was responsible for developing BP’s long term technology strategy across its global fuels, lubricants, refining and chemical business. Robert also managed BP’s global hydrogen transport business with operational responsibility for a global network of refueling sites. Robert oversees BP’s interests in the UK Energy Technology Institute and chairs the UK Technology Strategy Board’s Energy Generation and Supply Steering Group. He is on the Board of Breathing Buildings, a natural ventilation company, as a non-executive Director.

Since the launch of the EIT in 2008, Dr. GolebiowskaTataj has been a member of the EIT Executive Committee and led the development of the EIT’s innovative entrepreneurship agenda. Daria worked in investment banking and venture capital in media, telecom and ICT sectors. She held supervisory board positions in technology start-ups and was a founder and a managing partner of EMF Enterprise Management and Finance. In 2006 her activity as a social entrepreneur supporting women leaders was recognized by the US Department of State and Fortune Magazine. Currently, Dr. Golebiowska-Tataj pursues her academic interests as a professor and researcher at Warsaw University of Technology Business School and is an affiliate faculty member at the Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Michigan.

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CONFERENCE SPEAKERS

Ioannis Tsoukalas

Wim Vanhaverbeke

Member of the European Parliament

Professor of Strategy and Innovation, University of Hasselt (Belgium); Visiting Professor, ESADE (Spain) and Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School

Born and educated in Thessaloniki, Ioannis Tsoukalas obtained his PhD from the Aristotle University. He carried out postdoctoral research in the UK, France, Germany and USA, focusing on the field of solid state physics and technological materials. He has served as Vice-President of the Research Committee of the Aristotle University (1999-2004) and President of the International Relations Committee and of the Ethics Committee. He was the Secretary General for Research and Technology at the Hellenic Ministry of Development (2004-2008). From September 2008, he is Professor Emeritus at the Aristotle University. Currently he is a Member of the European Parliament and more specifically a member of the Industry, Research and Energy Committee.

Wim Vanhaverbeke is professor of Strategy and Innovation at the University of Hasselt (Belgium). He is also visiting professor at ESADE (Spain) and the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School. He published in international journals and serves on the editorial board of several international journals. He is co-editor with Henry Chesbrough and Joel West of Open Innovation: Researching a New Paradigm, a book about the research challenges related to Open Innovation. He is now working on several topics in open innovation: open innovation practices in SMEs, IP issues in open innovation, and the integration of open innovation and existing theories of the firm.

Gandert Van Raemdonck

John Vassallo

CTO, Ephicas bv

Vice President EU Affairs, Microsoft

Gandert Van Raemdonck graduated as an Aerospace Engineer from the Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands) in November 2006. His master thesis topic was “Design of an Aerodynamic Aid for a Tractor-Trailer Combination” and developed the SideWings, an aerodynamic drag reduction solution for the underside of the trailer. In 2008 he founded together with his brother Ephicas (www. ephics.eu) that develops and commercializes trailer aerodynamic. In December 2006 Gandert started his PhD-research on the aerodynamic flow behavior around bluff bodies like. His doctoral design “Design of Low Drag Bluff Road Vehicles” involves the development of several drag reduction techniques for trailers. Together with several partners from the transport sector he funded PART, Platform for Aerodynamic Road Transport (www.part20.eu).

John Vassallo is Microsoft Vice President EU Affairs as well as Associate General Counsel for the company. He leads Microsoft’s EU Corporate Affairs and Regulatory team. Vassallo is also Chair of AmCham EU, the organization in Brussels that represents 140 companies of US parentage at the European Institutions and EU governments. From 1993 to 1997 Vassallo was Ambassador of Malta to the European Union, NATO’s Partnership for Peace and Belgium, where he negotiated the timing of his country’s accession to the EU and NATO Partnership for Peace. He then became General Electric’s Senior Counsel & Director of the European Affairs Office, based in Brussels, a post he held until he joined Microsoft in 2008.

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CONFERENCE SPEAKERS

Androulla Vassiliou

Alexander von Gabain

European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth

Chairman, EIT Governing Board

Androulla Vassiliou is the European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth. Previously, she served as Commissioner for Health. Ms Vassiliou studied law and international affairs in London, practised law in Cyprus for 20 years and was twice elected to the Cypriot House of Representatives. She was active in the field of international affairs and human rights as a President of the UN Association of Cyprus from 1978 until 1992 and as President of the World Federation of UN Associations from 1991 until 1995. She also served as President of the Cyprus Federation of Business and Professional Women from 1996 until 2000, Vice-President of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform party (ELDR) and chair of the European Liberal Women’s Network (2001-2006). She also chaired the Board of Trustees of the Bank of Cyprus Oncology centre in Cyprus.

Alexander von Gabain obtained his Ph.D. in Genetics at the University of Heidelberg and held a postdoctorate position at the Stanford University. He was Professor at the University of Umeå and at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. He was Chair of Microbiology of the University of Vienna at the Campus Vienna Biocenter, Austria and helped to build the public private partnership of the Vienna Biocenter/IMP. He co- founded Intercell AG and led the company as CEO until it was successfully floated on the Vienna Stock Exchange in 2005. He was Member of the Executive Management Board and CSO of the Company. He has been serving the Company as strategic advisor and chair of the Scientific Advisory Board. He was appointed as member of the EIT’s Governing Board on 30 July 2008 and on 15 September 2011, he took up his position as the second EIT Governing Board Chairman.

Marco Waas

John Wood

Knowledge Valorisation Portfolio Holder, Delft University of Technology

Secretary-General, Association of Commonwealth Universities

Marco Waas is Knowledge Valorisation Portfolio Holder of the Delft University of Technology. Until January 2012 he was also the Dean of the faculty of Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering (3mE). As Portfolio Holder he is one of the major stimulators of entrepreneurship, innovation and knowledge valorisation at the TU Delft. He is one of the founders of YES!Delft, TU Delft’s successful technostarter incubator. In 2011 he was honoured for his valuable contribution by receiving the Achieve More award, category Academic Enabler, for making academic knowledge and research facilities available to SME businesses. As of 2009 he is member of the National Commission Valorisation; a commission established by the Dutch government aimed to develop a vision for valorisation and to help develop valorisation on a national level.

Professor John Wood is Secretary General of the Association of Commonwealth Universities. From 2001 to 2007 he served as a Chief Executive at the Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research and was a visiting professor at the University of Oxford, where he remains a fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. Professor Wood then joined Imperial College London where he still is a visiting professor. Professor Wood is a non‐executive director of a number of companies, including Bio‐Nano Consulting, is on the board of the Joint Information Services Committee (JISC), and chairs their Support for Research Committee. Professor Wood was a founder member of the European Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructures and became chair in 2004. He became the first chair of the European Research Area Board in 2008.