Founder, Avalon Ventures
Co-Founder and Chairman, AutoHarvest
Director, UCSD Division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology
President, Rockefeller University
Chair, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University
Founding Managing Partner, Forward Ventures
Partner at Ignition Partners
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| 1:00 – 2:00 |
Registration and Networking | |
| 2:00 – 2:10 |
Introduction and Welcome Bob Buderi, Xconomy Jack Lasersohn, NVCA |
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| 2:10 – 2:25 |
Opening Keynote Bob Metcalfe, Inventor of Ethernet, Founder 3Com, Professor of Innovation, University of Texas at Austin, and Polaris Venture Partners |
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| 2:26 – 2:38 | Best Venture Practices Applied to a New Passion Henry McCance, Greylock Partners |
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| 2:38 – 2:50 | Fulfillment 2.0: The Kiva Systems Story Mick Mountz, Kiva Systems Ajay Agarwal, Bain Capital Ventures |
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| 2:50 – 3:15 | Panel: New Frontiers of Venture Ed Roberts, MIT Sloan School of Management (moderator) Bryan Roberts, Venrock Theresia Gouw Ranzetta, Accel Partners Noubar Afeyan, Flagship Ventures Jason Mendelson, Foundry Group |
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| 3:15 – 3:35 | Networking Break | |
| 3:35 – 3:42 | Screening: More than Money Documentary Film Excerpt Featuring Don Valentine, Sequoia Ventures; Tom Perkins, Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers; and Arthur Rock |
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| 3:42 – 3:54 | The Skype Story Howard Hartenbaum, August Capital |
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| 3:54 – 4:06 |
New View of Venture Story Scott Kupor, Andreessen Horowitz |
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| 4:06 – 4:18 | Building Biotechs: A Story of a Great VC-Entrepreneur Partnership Robert Langer, MIT Terry McGuire, Polaris Venture Partners |
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| 4:18 – 4:20 |
A word about the reception John Durant, MIT Museum |
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| 4:20 – 4:45 | Panel: International Venture Capital Bill Sahlman, Harvard Business School (moderator) Peter Brooke, Advent International Linda Rottenberg, Endeavor Global Tim Draper, Draper Fisher Jurvetson |
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| 4:45 – 5:00 | Walk to MIT Museum | |
| 5:00 – 6:30 |
Networking Reception at the MIT 150th Anniversary Exhibition MIT Museum |
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