Final Conference Program:
Day 2 – Tuesday, 12 July 2011

Technology paradigm transitions, that characterize an Age, are typically recognized after the fact, and are then seen as having been inevitable. Other predicted transitions, like the 1930’s prediction of ubiquitous personal airplanes are viewed as idiosyncratic curiosities, while the long-expected picture-phone, has appeared in a new guise with skype. Will the currently heralded “green transition” of renewables usher in a new age or will “King Coal” reassert primacy in a new guise as China and Newcastle, alike, pursue “clean coal.” Our speakers today will address the issues of transition: what, if anything, is mandated by technological development; what tools do we have for predicting technological futures that are embedded in social and cultural relations; where is the political will to insure that feasible and sustainable technological futures are realized?

Chair: Prof. Henry Etzkowitz, Senior Researcher, H-STAR Institute, StanfordUniversity

Keynote speaker: Carlota Perez, Professor of Technology and Development at the Technological University of Tallinn, Estonia, Visiting Senior Fellow at London School of Economics, Visiting Scholar at the Faculty of Economics, Cambridge University, U.K. and Honorary Professor at SPRU, School of Business, Management and Economics, University of Sussex, U.K.
“The direction of innovation after the financial collapse: ICT for green growth and global development”

Speakers:

• Marina Gorbis, Executive Director of the Institute for the Future, Palo Alto.
  Social Production: New Model for Innovation and Value Creation
• Mark Jacobson, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University
  “Powering the World for all Purposes With Wind, Water, and Sunlight”

Chair: Martha Russell, Senior Researcher, Human Sciences Technology Advanced Research Institute (H-STAR), Innovation Ecosystems Network, Associate Director, Media X at Stanford University

Keynote speaker: Annalee Saxenian, Professor and Dean at the University of California Berkeley School of Information and Professor in Berkeley´s Department of City and Regional Planning.
The globalization of the Silicon Valley ecosystem

Speakers:

• John Butler, Director, IC² Institute, University of Texas at Austin, Centennial Professor in Entrepreneurship and Small Businesses, Herb Kelleher Chair in Entrepreneurship, The University of Texas at Austin
  “Development of University-Based Entrepreneurship Ecosystems. Global Perspectives on Technology Transfer and Commercialization in Building Innovative Ecosystems”
• Charles Hayes, President and CEO of North Carolina Research Triangle Regional Partnership
  “Strategic Planning History and Future of the Research Triangle Region”

14.00-14.30 “Innovation Think-Tank” After-lunch Talk Series (1)

Constantin Malik, Malik Management, St. Gallen, Switzerland
“Managing the Triple Helix Consensus Space. New cybernetic tools for clustering”

Chair: Marina Ranga, Senior Researcher, H-STAR Institute, Stanford University

Speakers:

• Sue Rosser, Provost, San Francisco State University
  “50:50 by 2020: Can we close the gender gap in patenting?”
• Shannon Gilmartin, Director, SKG Analysis; Research Scientist, Anita Borg Institute and Consulting Professor of Engineering, Stanford University
  “Anita Bort top company for technical women award: methods, issues and trends”
• Connie Smallwood, Vice-President of Innovation and University Program, CA Technologies
• Michelle Baker, Founder of Umbanet Inc. and Picture Patents LLC, President of Intellinet, Inc.
  “Social entrepreneuring for parity: strong forces, few resources”

Entrepreneurship and the entrepreneur-investor relationship has changed visibly in Silicon Valley over the past 20 years. Today’s generation of Web 2.0 founders face a very different market, talent and funding landscape in comparison to enterprise software, semiconductor, Internet and medical device start-ups back in 1995, and bring a whole new set of expectations and skills with them. Over the past two years, the divergence in deal flow between “lean start-ups” and more traditional start-ups has grown dramatically. On the investor side we are also seeing a new breed of “lean VCs” emerge that are closer to the entrepreneur in mindset, and that invest smaller sums in very large numbers of deals, anticipating high failure rates. This panel of industry veterans and new players will explore differences in entrepreneurship and investing across the generations, the impact of the Start-up Genome Project on firm success rates, and how new models of incubators and accelerators are shaping the entrepreneurial ecosystem landscape here in Silicon Valley and around the globe.

Chair: Burton Lee, Lecturer in European Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Stanford School of Engineering, and Managing Director of Innovarium Ventures

Speakers:
- Ann Winblad, Co-founder and Managing Director, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
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- William Draper, Managing Director of Draper Richards L.P and Draper International, Co-Chairman of The Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation.
- Norman Winarsky, Vice President, SRI Ventures
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- Bjoern Herrmann, Partner & Founder, blackbox
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- Kayvan Baroumand, Founder and CEO, Global Tech Venture
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